First Carole & Tuesday didn’t really grab me. It doesn’t look like the kind of thing I would typically go for either, except Cowboy Bebop.
Should I continue?
New Expanse soon. I’m very hype.
This season will be good from what I’ve seen and know of the general plot direction from the books. There’s room for them to fuck it up, because book 4 was not my favorite and so if they don’t fix any of the issues it might be a bad time, but there’s room for them to go next-level because book 4 had some epic high-concept shit; and they’ve already shown talent in previous seasons for fixing the sort of issues that I faulted book 4 for (lazily written antagonists with thin motivations being the chief issue)
And it, too, is the “space western” book in the series, so we’ll get to compare and contrast directly with the Star Wars’ take.
And then next season, season 5, which we know is already in development, is going into the best book in the series by a long shot. So finally after 4 seasons setting up the universe and stakes we’ll see the real shit.
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We’ve finally dug into Electric Dreams and it’s awesome.
If you like sci-fi short story anthologies, watch this. Superbly well executed, good pacing, lots of visual storytelling so far, and touching on important and relevant themes every time.
I can predict the plots because we’ve been inundated with these types of stories for decades now, but I don’t find it detracts at all. Rather, because I know where they’re going, I look for all the other nuances and commentaries baked into the storytelling.
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I’ve come to realize one of my favorite genres is “intense psychological conversations between well-dressed people.” Think Mindhunter or True Detective. For movies maybe Blade Runner 2049 or Inception or Predestination.
I call it People In Suits, Sitting In Rooms. PISSIR for short.
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It grabbed me so maybe give it a few more at 23 minutes a pop not a bad investment :-p
Slowly working my way through Prime Suspect. I have a major weakness for British police procedurals. While there are 7 seasons to the show, each season is only 2 episodes, with each episode being about 90 minutes.
Helen Mirren is absolutely amazing as DCI Jane Tennison. I love her character and how multidimensional Mirren plays her. While Tennison is portrayed at being an amazing investigator, she’s a very flawed person who is dealing with all kinds of problems. For a show that started in the early 1990s, it does an amazing job giving us a complex main character. It’s interesting seeing the show evolve through the years.
The show is literally a Who’s Who of great British actors with all kinds of people guest starring including:
Tom Wilkinson
Ralph Fiennes
Colin Salmon
Peter Capaldi
Mark Strong
Cieran Hinds
David Thewlis
Jonny Lee Miller
If I really disliked season 2 of Farscape, though did enjoy season 1 quite a bit. Should I give season 3 a shot or is it more of the same?
I don’t really remember Season 3 that clearly, but I know Season 4 starts getting weird.
The Netflix series Abstract is really good! It’s all about design and designers. So good, so enjoyable.
Except for episode 2 of season 2. Which is garbage. It focuses on Neri Oxman. And when I say “focuses” I don’t mean that it’s about her, but that the camera points at almost nothing else except her face. We see her walking through streets, but also gardens and sunsets and gah it’s all so beautiful and lovely on the eye.
But unlike the other episodes, where the designers seem to have done so much that it’s almost impossible to cram in footage of all their work except in quick montages, she doesn’t actually have anything to show off! There’s a frame with some silk worms, and some insect looking stuff to hang on a wall. But mostly it looks like stuff that would be rejected from a movie set.
And then, when the camera pans around her lab, everyone who works there is painfully beautiful and stylish. Really, if that had been a shot from a movie, I wouldn’t have believed they weren’t actors.
So watch all the other episodes except that one, and then if you want to be disappointed or angry, watch S02E02.
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So there’s this show called Harly Quinn
As far as I can tell it exists because DC has their own Netflix (very helpfully called DC Universe) and they need some exclusives to sell it. They’d be doing a good job, because it’s actually really cute.
Here:
https://twitter.com/waynespatrol/status/1200453893647478785
Anyway if ya can’t be asked to subscribe to yet another streaming service, I’ve got it on my plex and you can watch it there if ya want.
I just cancelled DC Unverise cause Apparently Doom Patrol the so far only good show i watched is also on HBO and Titans pissed me off (that season 2 finale was… suck…). I have a few days left so maybe I’ll check out Quinn but she’s never been my favorite character.
It’s only 2 half hour episodes thus far. Very little investment. It’s definitely not perfect but it’s got this juvenile charm that I really like. Also the charters swear and act like modern teenagers. It’s like if all batman villains were zoomers.
Well, with the CW’s Crisis even confirming that Titans is part of the same multi-verse as CW’s shows and that it has been destroyed in that event, maybe they’ll just not bring it back.
Expanse season 4 is LIVE on Amazon Prime globally (with some exceptions I’m sure)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07YL9WK1S
I’ll be in it for the next few hours.
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Cape stuff rarely does anything for me but I’ll definitely check that out.
Goddamn do I love the muppets (2015, tv).
To counter that:
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DC’s attempt at recuperating Harley as a feminist icon has been so bungled this doesn’t even surprise me
Also that poster isn’t wrong at all but their (ironic) unironic use of “goy” is not doing them any favors
I’ll be honest, I didn’t notice any antisemitism. (I obviously see it now, but only in hindsight) But I did notice the toxic masculinity inherent in saying that the fact that the kid hadn’t touched a woman meant he wasn’t man enough to do x. And yeah that bothered me.
None of the money stuff did, mostly because it’s the penguin. His entire villain shtick is being rich. He’s the rich villain. He’s basically the monopoly guy, his signature weapon is an umbrella/cane gun.
I kinda feel like Cobblepot is a character you have to wield carefully. He’s always had that nose and been super rich, but making him explicitly Jewish is a problem.
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