It is fantastic - absolutely wonderful. It revels in and plays with it’s historical inaccuracy. It wanders more and more away from history but remains incredibly entertaining. The performances are all fantastic and I cannot wait for the (already confirmed) third season.
Along the same lines “Dickinson” on AppleTV is another historically inaccurate comedy with a strong woman as the protagonist (and Wiz Khalifa) that is also a delight
I’m now waiting for the next Boba Fett post so I can go OH MY GOD IT’S A RINGWORLD! SQUEE!
Life after the end of the world is apparently an endless hippie party, specifically the Oregon Shakespeare Festival version
This fictional pandemic awkwardly turned out to coincide with the real one, but fortunately they don’t dwell on the details
Not to be confused with Station 19
Yep, that was one of our lockdown shows, very pleasant. Of course we decided we wanted to visit but disappointed to hear it’s apparently a touristy hell. Which I guess shouldn’t be surprising.
Loved it, I describe it as Drunk History crossed with Game of Thrones by way of Iannucci. Huzzah! For weeks after watching it was hard not to throw glasses across the room when finished with a beverage.
Has anyone watched this?
So that happened. 
I didn’t know it all gets quite a bit Lovecraftian in places. 
Look at it as Marxist theory!
As represented by the two characters? Which is which though? The film seems to be loaded with themes that you could spend a long time unpacking and then there is some astonishing imagery…
deliberately reliving one of the most dismal navigational disasters in seafaring history
Season 2, yay!
Not sure what the mysterious competition is about, but the linked article says that the end of this season (and the series) is really the beginning. Of what? Not sure! They just say WW2 and beyond.
It’s Black History Month everyone… here are some possible docs or shows to watch…
Gerald Durrell’s books about the experience are also wonderful.
Having said that, the final episode had some moments of real warmth and, dare i say, hope.
This is a nice review of a show a lot of people don’t even know exists. It really is funny in a Midwestern way:
Giri/Haji was both delightful and frustrating. The first half I would rank among the best television ever made. Not a single second wasted, well written, beautifully shot and well acted. The second half starts to introduce more “oh c’mon” moments and the taughtness slowly unravels, the underlying themes feel less and less rewarding as it gets too explicit and starts to sound pop-philosophical; there’s a voiceover at the beginning of every episode that takes the unfortunate step of becoming too explanatory, lest anyone want to figure something out for themselves (which is further exacerbated in an extended interpretive dance). I mean, you titled your show “Duty/Shame”, I think you can let us figure out what it’s about on our own.
Sigh…2022 is not off to a great start.
