Kim’s Convenience is very fun. I am even getting feels.
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Watching Carnival Row, finally. It’s okay, I guess if you watched Penny Dreadful, it would scratch the same itch. The problem is that it’s so visually dark, it’s hard to see much of anything in night scenes.
I listened to the audiobook prequel, first. I can’t see Tourmaline on screen without hearing the reader say “Tore-ma-lean la-roooooooo” and it’s annoying af.
Watched Omniscient on Netflix. It has creative overlap with 3% and plays off similar themes of the flaws in technological utopias. I’m not sure why it is so, but the protagonist is heavily styled after Amelie. It was a slow burn at first, and it shares similar weaknesses/plotting with 3%. I enjoyed it & am looking forward to its next season.
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I watched a show called Get Even because my cousin’s kid was in it. It’s a teen drama about a group of girls that get even with bullies. Except it’s not.
The show is a modern day thriller about this group that get caught up in a murder investigation after trying to do their “beat the bullies shtick” and having realistic consequences coming out. It took turns I was not expecting. A medium show, not super amazing but much better than I thought it would be.
The weirdest thing about it though is the portrayal of the UK. It looks like the UK on the surface but the characters seem to say american words or have unusual attitudes to stuff that felt strange to me.
Ads for this were everywhere. what’s the selling point of it in your opinion?
Know something that just occurred to me apropos of me planning to settle in and watch season 4 of The Good Place?
The Good Place Spoilers
At the end of Season 3 there’s the big reveal that nobody has gone to the good place in like ~500 years which is timed to line up with the early beginnings of capitalism (through serfdom and mercantilism).
There’s still uncontacted people in the world though. Presumably they’re mostly immune from the world of unintended consequences. I feel like they’d still be going to the good place. I doubt this is ever addressed in the show and I can’t come up with a way to do so. But I guess I just feel clever for having thought of that and wanted to share.
This looks pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=97&v=1htuNZp82Ck&feature=emb_logo
Also, I’ve been slowly making my way through Get Shorty on Netflix. The TV series is inspired by the Elmore Leonard novel, but not a straight up adaptation of it. Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano are excellent and this show has a real Coen Brothers vibe to it. If Fargo had a baby with Entourage, it would be Get Shorty.
Fun art that became a fun TTRPG is now going to be a fun series. I’m kind of excited.
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It’s a good thought, but it’s doubtful.
Good place spoilers
With the way the points system is structured, namely that 1)You don’t have to be aware of the rules to lose points, and 2)the amount of absurd penalties for unknowable things, and the fact that you get points lost for unknowable and unpredictable(without omniscience, anyway) knock-on effects suggests that even they wouldn’t be getting in, despite their complete disconnection from modern life. The “Best person in the world” who is living a subsistence-level life of absurd self-sacrifice and utter disconnection from the world - remember, he guessed how the system works 92% accurately, and lives his life according to his best knowlege of those rules to an absurd degree - still doesn’t have enough points to get in, despite having the highest points total of any human in existence under the new system. When they say nobody, they mean nobody
CBS All Access has now taken control of my life.
I’m skipping around watching lots of Star Trek, most series.
I don’t think you’re going to like 2 Ugly 2 Delicious.
Oh no. Is it more famous people being unbearable?
Not as much as BLAD, but some. It didn’t have much of what I liked in the original.
Maybe Dave Chang is playing a part for the show. But in the first season he was Mr. “yeah I like Domino’s pizza, and cheap tacos are really good, so what?” And in this season he almost plays the other role. Like now he’s super on the haute cuisine train.
Also a quarter of the people they interviewed had a title like “Head Chef - Momofuku Antwerp” or something. They just work for Dave.
I started watching the Netflix show Peaky Blinders. I watched about 3 episodes during one of my many quarantine days, and I quite liked it. I liked the depiction of Birmingham in 1919. I liked the talk of the IRA and the Communists.
After about 3 episodes, I took a break and just looked at the show. I didn’t realize it was 5 seasons long.
What story could it possibly be telling that it requires so much time? They spent the first episode really building up this plot and I was sorta excited to see what happens with the maguffin but now knowing that when we find out what happens with the maguffin the show doesn’t end. It’s really soured me to it.
It’s a show about a family/gang and a period of history. As one plot starts to resolve, the tendrils of another weave through more lives and new plots take root. Season 1 is great but it’s by far not the most interesting work the show has to offer.
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I can highly recommend Peaky Blinders as a serialized narrative. Cillian Murphy is great as the lead and the rest of the cast has some great actors and actresses as well. Honestly season 1 is the most boring in terms of plotting and character drama vs what is to come. If you are enjoying it so far keep watching, it only improves.
Maybe I’m being too restrictive, or perhaps I’m too pretentious, but generally I like when my media sets out to tell a story and then tells it.
I am enjoying it well enough and I’ll probably at least watch through the end of season 1. I mean, there’s not a whole lot else to do lately. I can only reclean the apartment so many times.
I do like when a story has a set ending. A lot of TV does not. And it shows.
But if PB was only the first season in many ways it would still have been a pretty good short series. I’m 99% sure they originally planned the season to stand alone.
But they also clearly created an interesting enough world and cast and production team that they felt there was more to explore in this setting. And they even stepped up the game based on the popularity of the first season, bringing in more interesting actors, etc. This is not uncommon in TV I imagine.
Put it this way, each season definitely stands more or less alone as a story, basically a long movie. Definitely see through the end of season 1. It’s a good story. If you find afterwards that you would be up for a sequel, then those have been made. If you aren’t curious as to see the next story, then that’s fair.
But some of those stories are really entertaining.
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Adult Swim had their usual April Fool programming stunt tonight. They aired a bunch of premieres for new shows and seasons far ahead of time, and I came across a new episode of The Shivering Truth.
How have I not seen this until now? This might be Adult Swim’s most underrated series of all time. It’s the most amazing and bizarre stream-of-consciousness surrealist show I’ve ever seen.
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