Tonight I made my BF watch an episode of the Timothy Hutton - Maury Chaykin A&E Nero Wolfe series. It was the second season’s third story, Die Like a Dog. We had to keep pausing so he could point out various ahem Wonderful Things he noticed - cars, buildings, interiors, decor, the clothes, wonderful shots…He also loved the doggo, of course, and everyone’s acting.
It was a great series that ended far too soon. The production values (and costs) were really high. It was gorgeous, and the scripts mostly stayed true to the books/stories. It was the best of the TV Wolfe incarnations.
Yes, I’ve read them all. There’s an entire yard of used Wolfe paperbacks in one of the bookcases. When yr after a ton of cheap books, ebay can be your friend.
Just finished Painkiller, about Richard Sackler and Purdue. Dark topic, well told. It’s a bit over the top, but then again it’s an over the top story of an asshole and a company of assholes selling opiates and killing at least a million people when the medical establishment should have known better, so maybe it needs over the top. Uzo Aduba and Mathew Broderick were really good.
We’re reaching the point in the strike where they’re announcing programming casualties. The Peripheral has now been canceled by Amazon, with more to come.
When you leave a group of teenagers unsupervised for too long, what do they decide to try? Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll? Of course not, the rebellious, hormone-filled kids will play with a cursed object and summon supernatural entities.
Things get ugly, but real ugly for the teenagers of “Talk to Me”, an Australian horror film. Good movie, reminded me a little of an American movie called “It Follows”.
The film shows several aspects of modern youth culture such as obnoxious Tik Tok challenges, pop divas, silly viral videos, endless online conversations, young people who do not let go of their cell phones for nothing etc. Maybe the kids will think it’s cool, but I think their parents will be scared of all this…
There was a moment when I was laughing in the cinema. How can hospitals in Australia be so messed up? Anyone walks into the wards at any time of the day, patients walk back and forth and nobody gives a damn. Even the worst hospitals in war zones shouldn’t be this shitty. I was laughing when I saw a desperate character looking for her injured brother and when in the background, the main actress kidnaps him in his wheelchair. It looked like a scene out of a Mel Brooks or Abrahams Brothers movie.
I’m a Virgo is described on Wikipedia as an absurdist comedy. It’s not exactly wrong because it’s about a 13 foot tall 19 year old Black man finding his place in the world after being raised in secret. Fish out of water and he is naturally incongruent with society. But there’s more to it. It’s a good enough description, though.
What strikes me the most after finishing it is that it ends (trust me, not a spoiler) with a strong, hard anti-capitalist screed while existing on Amazon’s Prime Video service. All streamers are capitalist, of course, but Amazon is even more so because it’s the service that sells you things and also has the X-Ray service that tells you the song playing during the scene you’re watching and how to buy it as well as who is in the scene and what other properties you can (pay to) see them in. Amazon paid to co-produce this series, and I don’t begrudge Boots Riley for using them as a soapbox and megaphone.
I have been meaning to re-up Prime for a month to watch this - loved “Sorry to Bother You” so much! So, I guess that the capitalists will still get their money…and hopefully a few people will have an awakening
Well, just in the last few days I binge-watched all of DaFuq!?Boom!'s Skibidi Toilet series on YouTube. It starts out pretty ridiculous (and stays ridiculous throughout), but after just a few episodes it takes a very dark – and much more interesting – turn.
The whole series (now 58 episodes) is only about 35 minutes in all. It’s hard to watch them all on DaFuq!?Boom!'s rather chaotic channel. There’s a helpful wiki. The last 10 episodes or so are just amazing. I love 54 and 57
… yet another psychic detective show, mostly notable because Lauren Lee Smith was in it
Seems like it would be interesting because p҉s҉y҉c҉h҉i҉c҉ ҉p҉o҉w҉e҉r҉s҉ right? but it ends up being a cheat for the writers, they can skip half the detective work because dude reads minds
So, I took the plunge. Interesting…immediately things start slotting into the wrinkles worn into my visual cortex by Hot Chip’s I Feel Better Video? Saga!? Portal. System Shock! And new, interesting visuals, making new wrinkles…
Then, almost exactly half way through, in Episode 39(?) the TV Men appeared. Accompanied, always, by Burning Bridges by Japan?!
Well…I kinda lost my mind.
I get it
It’s JUST vibes
ETA: If I could, I would change my heart on your OP to APPLAUSE
Arleen Sorkin created the amazingly iconic Harley Quinn voice, which helped lodge the character into our minds and question if she wasn’t a Batman character all along. Such an amazing talent, gone too soon. Another great big “fuck you” to cancer.
This made me think that that are, inevitability, some dudes in the Federation that are like “Well, say what you want about Cardassians, you have to admire their architecture and uniform designs”
There’s an entire yard of used Wolfe paperbacks in one of the bookcases. When yr after a ton of cheap books, ebay can be your friend.
