That’s going to be a lot of people’s responses, yeah. But further, their complaints have to do with aesthetics, and that’s 1) subjective and 2) not going to hold much sway with the mass audience.
The tack I’d like to see taken (which also admittedly will hold little sway with the mass audience) is, if one is concerned by the extent to which billionaires can influence and warp the public discourse, what about a multi-billion dollar movie franchise?
Megalopolis had better be fucking brilliant.
No… still waiting for book 2, but I think she’s publishing something else soon, just not more Strange & Norrell.
This is beautiful.
Sometimes we can observe a one-to-one correspondence between The Orville and Star Trek: TNG
I’m going to have to watch “In Theory” again
Be that as it may, I continue to look forward to season 2.
Prime Video - Undone
Really like it. Binged it in one sitting. The rotoscoping is fluid and transcendent (For those who disliked A Scanner Darkly for it’s rotoscoping, to me it felt entirely different). The characters were real
It had damn well better have a season two or else the ending kinda makes me cranky
No, really. To end on “is she schizophrenic or does she posses these wonderful powers” while the bright white fills the screen to end. GAH!
I will say my suspension of disbelief was broken when Alma comes back from drinking with her sister, gets in bed with her boyfriend and leaves her bra on. I’m not looking from some rotoscoped tits, I just think it would have been just as effective to do the old remove the bra and leave the shirt on and maintain both modesty and believably
Just finished season one over here.
It is, indeed, marvellous.
Has Season 3 dropped yet? I love it.
i am not sure, but i don’t think so.
“In Theory” is probably the best episode about Data’s personal life, and paradoxically both the only one where he displays a sense of humor and also the only one where his quirks are not played for laughs.
“A Happy Refrain” is much more silly, and also more angry and dramatic, and yet the characters end up together at the end instead of breaking up. I don’t know how much of that is society changing and how much is just different people making different choices in a similar circumstance.
Finished watching the first season of March Comes in Like a Lion on Netflix. It is in the sweet spot of anime of being sad and hopeful at the same time. The protagonist is an introverted young adult chess master who has withdrawn from life. With the encouragement of three sisters, they draw him back in. All emotional turmoil is illustrated deeply on the screen. As it progresses, you can learn about domestic Japanese culture. Episodes are good to watch before going to bed.
Low budget vampire apocalypse, like if The Strain was somebody’s film school project
I’m finally watching Dark S2 (gearing up to cancel Netflix). In the time since S1 I’ve been studying Dutch. So now instead of every tenth word, I understand every seventh word of German. Fortunately the subtitles seem good, which is better than I can say about a lot of French subtitles.
I like how the story is still expanding, as opposed to the “awkward second season” which often happens with shows like this.
I binged it too fast. I thought I’d only gotten part way through and went to finish it and saw I had finished it.
I’m looking forward to the last season.
I’m trying out Jack Ryan (starting out with the second season, since they seem to be mostly self-contained).
I am still on the first episode and have yelled at the TV, “are you fucking kidding me???” four times already. CIA field operatives discussing their work plainly in a busy market square over drinks. Letting a total stranger they’ve been flirting with walk them to their hotel room.
And a diplomatic convoy just lost their military escort (possibly in purpose, to be fair). The day before a US Senator insulted the president of the country they’re in to his face.
I don’t know if I can stay with this.
I thought the first season was amusingly bonkers. Still, Jack Ryan is Tom Clancy’s Mary Sue, and Clancy was a conservative blowhard, so…
I could see it being amusingly bonkers if one was in the right mood, for sure. I think I’m giving up for now.
Good call. I foolishly watched the first series and still feel the guilt of giving the blatant jingoism my eyeballs.
As to what I have just watched…
The end of the F***ing World and I really liked it. Interesting. A couple of episodes had some implied animal killing which I understand was “needed” for the plot, but if that’s a deal breaker, don’t watch.
I would have passed on it, but Netflix kept telling me season two drops on Tuesday, so I watched last night while hiding in my hotel room.
