The whole thing is a roller-coaster of mostly struggle with moments of humanity but that ending sequence is one of the most hopeful and positive and heart warming things i’ve seen in many a year (though the birthday message Ayumu receives did just about end me). I’ve never really got on with this flat, loose style of animation but it does work here and i got the impression some of it was rotoscoped but probably not.
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I watched the first ep of the Equalizer with Queen Latifah.
It was decent.
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The impeachment trial!
Where y’all at?
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I’m avoiding it for my own health.
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So I know I’m on the record earlier in this thread as being fine with Infinity Train only being the one-off season that it was, but I think the creators have done a fabulous job of writing more stories about this wild place without really shaving off any of the mystery about it, and I’m super hype that they’re getting a fourth season.
I heartily recommend all three of the current seasons. They’re well worth your time, and only 10 15-minute episodes each, so it’s not a massive time commitment.
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So, apparently there will be competing films about Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential run now?
One with Danai Gurira:
And one with Regina King:
It is LONG past due that we get some Shirley Chisholm love on screen. I still have not seen Ms. America, but I heard that Uzo Aduba did a fantastic job playing her (I think she got an emmy?):
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They have to get the energy/intensity right. It was almost like electrical crackling in the air when she was in a room.
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I bet!
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This is basically a live-action Invader Zim
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You beat me to it; I was just coming to post about that show. I dig it so far.
Except “Harry” isn’t a total tryhard who always fails, and he’s ‘going native’ a lot faster than Zim ever did.
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Weirdly I know tons about that shows production because I listen to Alice Weatherlund’s podcast but I haven’t seen any of it yet. Is it any good? The premise and trailer were promising.
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Dix Pour Cent / Call My Agent on Netflix - great dramedy, très amusant!
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Is it just me or is American Gods an incomprehensible mess this season? Not that it didn’t always seem kind of aimless and ad hoc, but wow, wtf.
Okay… this sounds amazing…
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I love how people have been adapting the works of H.P. Lovecraft, who was notoriously racist, into antiracist stories of Black empowerment.
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One hopes he’s spinning in his grave, the racist asshole.
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Oops! Meant to put my comment about Behind Her Eyes here:
I finished it last night, and the big twist made a hard turn into trope territory. It looks like it was written by a person who really doesn’t understand why the denouement would be doomed to fail. People, their cultures, and their relationships are complex and take years to develop.
Creating a main character of a different race and showing no relationships with people of a similar background except a child and an ex isn’t enough. I cannot help thinking of the many plot points that would have changed if they’d been flipped. When Louise broke into the house, both times I expected someone to call the police before she got inside.* Would the switch be expected to work if Louise had been from India or China? Maybe it was the drugs that led a white guy from Glasgow to believe he could carry this off in the long term. I would’ve felt better to see that emphasized, along with more missteps to show Rob he was going to have to try again with someone new.
I would love to see another limited series where the world teaches Rob a few lessons. First, he’d find out the hard way that a Black woman with money is still a Black woman. Second, he’d learn that people from minority cultures tend to know far more about the majority than members of the majority realize - but that the reverse is rarely true. Finally, he’d learn that finding a new victim using his current guise would be a lot more difficult than his first two experiences.
*A Black woman, obviously & noisily breaking into a big house in a nice neighborhood, and nobody noticed? 
Since this was set in the UK, I thought she’d wind up in jail. If it has been in the US, the expected outcome would’ve been much worse.
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