2. "amazon, hulu, and then more of nothing" In response to Reply # 0
i haven't yet checked but knew amazon was putting ads in prime video, as if the annual subscription weren't good enough. it irks me they want to add a surcharge for the same ad-free experience it's been, as opposed to a new benefit. i hadn't watched prime originals thinking they weren't going anywhere, but under the circumstances, i finally watched...
Fleabag Swarm I'm a Virgo Sound of Metal One Night in Miami... Jean-Claude Van Johnson The Vast of Night (shoutout to stylez dainty, i think?) Forever Tales from the Loop
enjoyed 'em all. would've kept going, but i managed to open my birthday email from hulu this year and saw i had a free month, ad-free.
Devs Kid 90 Prey The Old Man Top of the Lake: China Girl
yep, i'd been waiting a while. again, i wish i had more time to watch, but i'll enjoy this and cancel, leaving just prime, now with ads.
i expect to do something i haven't done since the '90s: rewatch my favorites. no subscription fee, no danger of the original content being yanked, no hype machine. that and keep going to the movies.
Loved the first season even if most eps felt a little long. Second season hasn't hit as hard largely because of the expanded cast, the grueling hell sequences, how all the characters are scattered across the globe. Some of the Sam Raimi/Evil Dead fun of season 1 is lost as the story expands.
It's still fun though and I love that Paul Giamatti is more than game. Really glad a gory, goofy show like this exists.
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5. "Griselda (Netflix) this wasn't good" In response to Reply # 0
i'm a pretty big fan of Narcos and Griselda Blanco is one of the most interesting crime figures ever so this was a bummer.
you can't really hammer the point that in order to succeed in the game, she had to be far more fierce than the men, then undercut that point by sanitizing what an absolute sociopath she really was. Unlike the job they did with Escobar, she was far too sympathetic. girlboss single mom trying to make her way in the patriarchy of the drug biz who later got overly paranoid and went mad. alot of the murderous shit they show is watered down versions of things she did in real life, or show her feeling bad about it. The real Griselda was an unrepentant monster, at least according to every single person who ever knew her, except maybe her son. That's why all these other killers were terrified of her
also Vegara was kinda bad imo. it was hard to take her seriously.
6. "RE: Griselda (Netflix) this wasn't good" In response to Reply # 5
Yeah the show definitely downplayed how ruthless she was in real life. She didn’t look like Sofía Vegara either so you know they were going for a fantasy tale.
I do need to catch up on Narcos though for a more serious take on things.
8. "yeah I mean Narcos took alot of liberties too" In response to Reply # 6
but they didn't water down Pablo Escobar. They still managed to make him compelling to watch without trying to make people sympathize with him.
I guess the difference is they told Narcos more, or at least narrated, from law enforcement's perspective
They tried to have that angle as a thing here but it was kinda haf-assed, like it seemed to mostly be there to show a parallel dynamic of what an exceptional woman had to do to in succeed such a male dominated institution, compared to the mediocre grab-ass types she worked with. It's not a bad or false thing to show, just that the execution was ehhh.
19. "Right now, just rewatches/listens of Shameless and Game Of Thrones" In response to Reply # 0
I steamrolled Shameless until I neared the end of S8, then needed a break.
It’s quite the catharsis for me, but still needed a shift from relatively realistic misery and struggle toward a more fantastical brand that doesn’t hit quite so close to home.
Both hold up exceptionally well. I’m just at Blackwater on GOT, so I haven’t hot the doldrums just yet.
Between that, I’m running back through three audiobooks:
-Ghost In The Wires. Think Catch Me If You Can, but with one of the early GOAT hackers, Kevin Mitnick. RIP. This is a fun read with a littany of “holy shit” moments. Kevin was brilliant.
-Three Body Problem, getting ready for the Netflix show. It’s a bit more dry than I remember..
-The Remaining. I still wish this got the Walking Dead treatment. Someday, I suppose. But it’s a great zombie survival series.
-Sig-
“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"
-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.
21. "Been binging Columbo lately " In response to Reply # 0
Generally don’t watch cop shows, but goddamn if it isn’t one of the best. Peter Falk stumbling and bumbling his way to exposing the murderer every time never gets old. Hilarious that he’s constantly referencing his wife and we never meet her, but his dog makes an appearance every other episode.
26. "The Handmaiden (2016)" In response to Reply # 0
I'm a Park fan (Korean Night Dogg) so not sure why I missed this for so long
Park does an amazing job creating these self-contained, almost surreal worlds that seem entirely believable -- while orchestrating controlled chaos within
29. "Rewatching The Bureau/The Regime" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Mar-19-24 09:50 AM by navajo joe
I'm surprised they never tried to do an American remake of this. Could have been peak prestige TV and a good alternative to the usual action-based spy-fare we get.
As to the regime, it's such a weird series. It's seems to want to be satire but it's not really satirizing anything specific or saying all that much interesting. It's not nearly funny or incisive enough to be particularly memorable other than Winslet's and Riseborough's performances. The supporting players add almost nothing although Martha Plimpton shows up for an episode as a guest star. Imagine a toothless, tonally confused and not particularly funny Iannucci show.
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this was trippy, witty, and a lot of fun. explaining it as anything more than a "historical satire vampire movie" would not do justice to the layers of surreal that occur here. love how the kids are some of the most evil beings in the movie.
striking to watch and underrated in my estimation.
I'm not sure this deserves its own post. It's interesting and has a really strong premier episode. I'm a little scared about where its going. I was perfectly happy with this being a standard detective show with some unique stylistic flourishes.
Kirby showing up in anything is always a huge value-add. Put her in everything.
The greatest mystery here is why this show has episodes that are half the length of final season Ted Lasso episodes.
There's no reason a show like this should have 32 minute episodes including previous episode recaps and end credits.
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