Contains spoilers through episode 5:
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I’ll keep this on my list. After all the discussion about the accent, I’m more worried about how scary they’re making the location. I was just in Easttown last week. It’s got nice towns and lots of scenic back roads that might start to seem like very creepy places… 
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Two episodes in but bloody hell, what a piece of work is man. It’s really stunningly shot, every scene like a painting and it was brought up previously in this thread but Jenkins knows how to find the beauty in such overwhelming oppression.
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I’m calling it now… Barry Jenkins is going to be one of the greatest film makers of his generation, if not the greatest. I haven’t seen this yet, but Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk are literally masterpieces.
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I agree with this having just finished it, there sure is a hell of a lot of digital violence but too often the stories just fall into the typical sci-fi tropes taking place in generic space war/blade runner settings. I was really taken with the last story though, that might be because it’s a Ballard adaptation but i found it quite moving.
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I really live for this stuff. It’s very much in the Bartender, Sweetness and Lightning mood. If you enjoy peaceful anime in which nothing much important happens making everything that happens really important, this is a good one for your list.
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The show is apparently set in an imaginary Easttown in Delaware County
Like, the writers and actors had to argue about what accent to use
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Wow, even as a transplant I wouldn’t think Chesco and Delco were that different!
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Where you watching that?
It’s on crunchyroll, anime planet,coughtorrentscough
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This is better than I remember from when it came out
not as good as the original but just the thing if you want to turn your brain off and chase monsters
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There’s this Netflix show called On My Block which feels like if Spike Lee and Judd Apatow fathered a Latinx child in South Central.
Kind of dark teen dramedy that manages to keep it light and the young cast are great at walking that razor’s edge.
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Have you seen
Not an anime but it has something of Rokuhoudou about it. The focus on the details of food, in this case sweet pancakes. Except really sad.
Something of Tsai Ming Liang too so lots of long takes and motionless miserable men. But Kawase has an elegiac eye for nature, rather than blasted crowded but empty, polluted, miserable, exposed concrete Asian cities.
Maybe it was all the Sakura that reminded me of Rokuhoudou (I watched a couple of episodes).
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Thanks! I will put that on my list.
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Wow. Just wow.
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Decided to watch some sci-fi this afternoon:
A three-person crew (I’ve mentioned my thoughts on crew size above), and two of them wouldn’t have passed the Star Trek Bridge Officer’s Test. 
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Edgar Wright’s new film looks very intriguing.
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Daniel Dae Kim has a role on the big screen now, though!
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