The Essex Serpent. there’s only two episodes out now, but i’m hooked. the cast is fantastic (Claire Daines! Tom Hiddleston!), the costumes are fantastic, the locales are breathtaking, and the performances are great. there’s a LOT going on besides the inevitable sexual tension between Daines’ science-based widow character and Hiddleston’s rural preacher.
@MarjaE
“The Joy of Sect” is the episode to which you were referring on another thread, am I correct?
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Yes.
Computer animation directed by a 70-year-old.
I love the music, it’s ever so warped. Like me!
Oh, I can’t wait to see it. If Mick Jagger can do it, these guys can too!
Hilarious!
Just like we like you!
Welcome back! Don’t be a stranger. (At least I try not to be any stranger than necessary . . . )
Currently watching the last seaon of Ozark and just saw the episode with the Killer Mike cameo where Ruth shoots Javi…
Life…
< Gesticulate Wildly >
Capitalism loves death.
Great as always! It’s kind of hilarious that this story is being made into a movie! Seems like it’ll be interesting.
Just wrapped up Ozark… Not sure how I feel about the ending. It was neatly wrapped up and made sense, but also… did they REALLY have to kill of Ruth…
But I thought she played the same role in Ozark that Jessie played in Breaking Bad, there to essentially be abused by the middle class money launderer for their own ends, when they think they are helping the less fortunate working class person. Nothing that either Walter or the Byrds did would have been possible without them using their working class counterparts. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think that these shows had a strong class dimension to them.
just finished S1 of Severence, however I thought its was 10eps, but ended up it was only 9eps, so the resolution I was expecting turned out to be a huge season end cliff hanger, and I’m totally pissed off.
Recent Discord watch party experiences:
Everything Everywhere All At Once: believe the hype, it is that good. It’s strange and beautiful and so full of heart. The acting is magnificent, and the message is very much needed… I don’t have the words, and I don’t want to spoil it either. Most highly recommended.
(I do recommend bringing kleenex. I saw it on what would have been my mother’s 73rd birthday, so it had me broken-down-crying at a certain point… still so good though, and I don’t regret seeing it one bit.)
Morbius: saw it last night, to see what all the fuss was about.
My best guess is, there’s so many jokes and memes about Morbing floating around right now because the movie is so very, very meh. I’d say bad, but that implies it has the possibility of being so-bad-its-good, and it’s not. It’s just MEH. One person in the watch party said it best-- “the movie doesn’t have a single original thought in its head.” Every element is recycled from other (better) films, every event is another utterly predictable step along the traditional Hero’s Journey/Origin Story path. The only person having any kind of fun here is Matt Smith, who chews every available inch of scenery with great relish, but it isn’t enough to save the flick. Most things happen because REASONS (though I can’t recommend that as a drinking game, because that would send even a hardened alcoholic into alcohol poisoning.) YMMV, but honestly, I like cheesy-bad vampire horror movies, and I couldn’t get into this at all… though watching it with a group where we were all mercilessly mocking it was a fun experience, so at least there was that. Meh.
I’ve seen quite a few films on this list…
Just saw Maurice last night. I thought it was very good, but not as great as the listmakers, because I didn’t buy that the final romance would work out. I mean, I more or less bought it as far as the film goes, but it didn’t strike me as that happy an ending because my thought was I’ll give it a month. I didn’t think they could overcome both the necessary clandestine nature of their relationship and their class differences. If there had been a longer courtship, maybe, but it didn’t feel like their relationship was built on enough.
More positively, while I haven’t yet seen the list’s The Watermelon Woman, I have seen a collection of director Cheryl Dunye’s short films and thought they were great.
