I’ve watched the trailer of that. Is it good?
Yes, it is, very good.
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Only halfway through the first episode. Holy shit. This is compelling and utterly terrifying. David Tennant is fucking amazing and deeply disturbing. And Daniel Mays who plays the lead detective is fantastic at conveying the horror of having to deal with a confessed serial killer.
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Nobody who has seen the first season of Jessica Jones will be surprised by that…
Speaking of David Tennant: you have all seen Staged, right? Easily the best thing to come out of the pandemic restrictions as a creative tool
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Someone upthread suggested Criminal, the four miniseries set made in the UK, Spain, France, and Germany. Tennant there in the UK episodes, too.
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Thanks - I hadn’t heard of it but a quick google-fu it looks great. And makes me think “how did I miss this?”
Just getting started watching it, but interesting so far…
WOW, finished the first part and it is really good. Anxious for the next.
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Just watched Oktoberfest 1900. Nice little miniseries, will be released on Netflix as Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood. Set design and camera filters make it feel like a Franz von Stuck painting come to life*, lots of intense shadows and opulence everywhere. Also interesting the amount of attention paid to costumes, props, and so on.
Editing to add that this hits a sweet spot for me, as Munich has been my home town for the past 10 years. Nice to see some of the city’s history dramatised that doesn’t involve Nazis or King Ludwig II.
*critics have also compared it to a Caravaggio painting due to the opulence.
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Whoever wrote that IMDB blurb doesn’t understand that there is no “local Oktoberfest” only “the Oktoberfest”.
Or Franz-Josef Strauss or the Olympics, I guess.
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I saw the trailer for that while watching the Tour. I will definitely get that now, thanks!
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Or as the Münchner call it, die Wies’n. And no, I still have no Lederhosen. I am one of the remaining Lederhosenverweigerer.
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Well as a Franconian I cannot possibly condone Lederhosen anyway.
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Just started in on this. It is completely bonkers:
Don’t watch it if you like biography or historical drama, because it isn’t remotely one of those.
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Watching a classic show, Kung Fu. It has obvious problems - first and foremost, casting a white dude to play the lead role. But I am struck by how many great roles the show had for Asian American actors. The focus on the Shaolin Monks are a bit orientalist (the mysterious east tropes and all that), but the show actually did a fair amount of interrogating anti-Asian sentiment in the post-Civil War years in the American west, which was probably pretty ground breaking for it’s time.
Still. Carradine is fine, but the show would have been a million times better if Bruce Lee had been cast as Caine.
Oh! And they are rebooting the series on the CW with Olivia Liang as the lead, set in modern day San Francisco:
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I describe this show as a Game of Thrones-Drunk History-Iannucci mashup. Loved it.
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So I just watched the trailer for this and found it absolutely infuriating.
It’s set in Munich. In 1900. Among brewers…and everyone is speaking in a theatre school high German accent!
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Yep, it’s such a good show. It really honestly surprised me. Episode 9 really left me scratching my head as to what’s really going on.
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I would have called it “Boutiquenbayrisch”, as full-on Münchner dialect would have been hard to understand. In Munich itself the dialect is pretty much dead, a lot of old speakers have moved out. The nearby town of Starnberg was actually complaining that their dialect was being drowned out by all of the Münchner that moved out there!
But really, the story is did get me to look into what the Oktoberfest really was like back then, for example: https://oktoberfest-guide.com/magazine/oktoberfest-beer-blood-how-historically-accurate-is-it/
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I feel like I am have the broad strokes of the mysteries understood but of course the writers could always write in an unexpected pivot.
Spoilerish talk below:
Random thoughts (forgive the inevitable spelling and grammar errors): Begin rambling…
- The entity on Kepler seems to be behind all of the supernatural elements such as visions and voices. The entities influence is able to reach off planet but it is unclear if it can reach earth. Unclear if there might be more than one entity with differing goals.
- The android’s design was found encoded in the mythraic scripture and the humans do not fully grasps all of the details but understood enough to build androids without knowing their full capabilities. It is unclear the origins of the scripture. I guess this has something to do with why the leader was so emphatic that atheists could never re-program the androids.
- #2 makes it likely that Sol exists and is not just a human invention. It is unclear if Sol and the Kepler entity are the same or similar.
- If Sol and the entity are the same then we get a pretty complete narrative. The entity contacts humanity and gives them the Mythraic scriptures which include the plans to build androids. Possibly Campion prime was influenced by the entity to capture and modify mother not just in her mothering behaviors but also to make a babies and sent her to Kepler. The entity seems constrained by it’s lack of a corporeal form. Perhaps the vision mother had in the card shows the past of the Entity? It is unclear what process/ceremony is happening: birth, death, imprisonment. It is throwing up liquid like the android blood so they may have a similar biology. I get the feeling all of this has been a long play for the entity to escape some type of planet scale prison.
- The shrouded figure looks like the figures in mothers dream. There are various theories on if they are birthing/creating the creature, or worshiping it, or jailing / killing it. Since it seems determined to show Mother the information on the cards and that Paul who hears the Entity voice and who destroys the cards. I’m guessing the masked figure is opposed to the Entity. Maybe the last of a race of jailers meant to contain the entity?
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Well I’ll throw in my two cents on this.
I think it’s clear the Kepler entity and Sol are connected. Especially if this universe’s timeline wrt Earth history didn’t diverge in the course of Christianity and Islam dominating the planet as it does today. I suspect we’ll get more backstory revolving around the rise/rebirth of Mithraism on Earth. I suspect it started as a small group of people having the same hallucination as we see with people on Kepler-22b and then as more people started to have the dream the entity on Kepler-22b was able to spread its influence across the world which results in the extinction of other religions on Earth. And possibly this maybe explains why Mary doesn’t have any sort of hallucinations herself (same with the other Mithraic people because it could be genetic). So if they do show what I expect is the sudden appearance of Mithraism then I suspect this will explain the entity and the events so far.
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