The Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell miniseries is pretty good. We watched it probably ten years ago and then I read the book probably five years ago and now we just watched the show again. Makes me wish there were more shows or books like this.
Spontaneously had the thought of curling up with a DVD boxed set of Six Feet Under and a DVD-equipped all-in-one Mac to send me back to a very specific sliver of time between Grade 11 and college.
Iāve also been wanting to rewatch Six Feet Under.
I watched the entire show on illegal streaming sites back in 2009, I think, but when I was halfway through the final season, it got wiped from all those sites and so I never saw the end of the show.
The audiobook read by Simon Prebble is great. Iāve listened to it 3 times already. It used to be my go to sleep book. But I stopped relying on audiobooks sinceā¦
Iām watching the walking dead for the first time.
Lots of this is giving me resident evil 2 memories like the bus in the first couple episodes and this lover boy in the facility.
I finally got around to watching season four of Atlanta. It was pretty great, I knew it would be whenever I got to it. Iām a bit wistful. Itās as surprising as ever, never thought a show about the inner city would feature multiple episodes that make me feel nostalgic for the country life. Iāll miss having a show that Iāll never know what to expect from it, other than whatever it is Iām completely down for it. That might be a kind of experience Iāll never get again, but Iām glad that it was an experience.
Thatās the one with Glenn Close as the departmental captain, thereās the whole thing with the community leader who moonlights as a brutal drug dealer, and thereās a multi-episode arc about how virtuous it is to brutalize criminals because of how they killed cops, someone says āCarl & Scoobyā every 10 minutes at least for like a quarter of the back of the season. Tons of weird unnecessary callbacks to past episodes throughout the season and spreading plotlines super thin or they unspool in weird directions. Aceveda gets a sex worker to do r*peplay with him and his character is written in la way I found disappointing and kind of a waste of where he seemed to be going, I didnāt peg him for a weird petty ratfuck.
It was a big enough of a dip in narrative coherence that I looked up if this season was being produced during the writerās strike lol. But I think it was maybe just Post 9/11 America Syndrome, seems like it was concentrating like mercury going up the food chain and concentrating into Season 4 of The Shield. Seriously just every ten minutes someone is saying āthose were the guys who killed Carl & Scooby!!ā or āwe need justiceā¦ for Carl & Scoobyā or āwhen Carl & Scooby arenāt in the scene anymore because they died, the other characters should be asking, where are Carl & Scoobyās killers?ā
Throughout Season 4 it also seemed like every problem had the same solution. Ok thereās a big criminal we need to catch. Alright, ok, weāll go terrorize some Californian small business owner, or bust into someoneās house, without a warrant. Ok so we have detained a small criminal now. Looks like the small criminal wonāt give up the big criminal. Well how about we either a) circumstantially find some crime theyāve committed b) blackmail or extort or threaten them. Great, now theyāre immediately giving up their superior with little to no resistance. I mean I know thatās really the playbook for real dirty cops but it became breakneck and formulaic as Season 4 hurtled out of control. I actually watch police procedurals partially to seeā¦ the procedureā¦ you know?
oh yeahhhhh. i agree, thereās a drop off with glenn close and feels like the show is struggling to change gears. it picks back up again in a big way with seasons 5 and 6 imo.
Yeah Iām not not going to keep watching it but it got sloppy in Season 4 for sure. Kinda like, the writerās room was getting tired of their own schtick sorta.
Iām still entertained though, and itās good to hear it picks back up.