There is a government building where if you walk through the middle you’ll come out in a parallel universe, and the protagonist is an old guy locked in a battle of wits with his alternate self?
But no ghosts or werewolves or time travel or whatever.
Bojack Horseman, which took a lot to get me to watch enough of it to get to the real “what the fuck am I watching” moments that I treasure.
I was a fan of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson back during the Nulldrums. I loved the border-straddling, white-boy-realizing-there’s-a-much-bigger-world, surrealist swagger. This is similar with much more thought-per-moment.
This has an almost entire episode where Bojack is silent and everyone around him is yelling at him in Russo-Japanese and porpoise-squeaks. He saves a baby seahorse. That is all.
This year they just dumped it all at once. Already plowed through five episodes.
Vancouver sci-fi shows use the same actors over and over. “Who is that? Where did I see her before? I CAN’T REMEMBER [ hours later ] Oh yeah, she was Alec’s girlfriend on Continuum.”
Netflix should probably release one episode per week just so they won’t all blur together.
The emotional stories of the travelers and the lives of the people around them are great! The time travel… is appropriately dense and painfull magic bullshit. The AI tropes are eyerollingly conventional, the economics and class issues that are actually causing problems are not addressed at all.
After binging the new series I’m rewatching from the start. Like I said, the character stories are great, and apparently it’s not possible to get sci-fi without tone-deaf and ignorant ideas of technology, engineering, and social organization poisoning everything.
It’s an amazing show for sure. I’ve had many deep conversations with my shrink about it. It definitely takes a little while to really “get it” at first (beyond the stuff at the surface of course) but by S3 it’s some seriously must watch stuff. There’s some simply unforgettable episodes.