watched the first episode of american gothic. this is a show i’ve never seen before, and know almost nothing about. i guess it never entered the greater conciousness like other spooky shows from the early 90s.
it’s intersting so far, the first episode sets up a whole bunch of mysteries. i got the dvd set for free years ago, so i guess it’ll be a part of my show rotation until i get bored of it or finish it
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realised since writing the last post that it’s an amazingly shameless twin peaks knock off, being a show about sinister goings-on in a rural american town that starts with the murder of a teenage girl
there’s enough differences to still make it worthwhile, of course. but surely people must have brought this up at the time? guess i’ll go check gogle groups sometime later tonight
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I watched both seasons of The White Lotus this week and really had a great time. Jennifer Coolidge is so fun to see. I absolutely love the way things end for her; there is something about her death that feels epic, sad, and affirming of who she was as a character. Her last line was “You can do this!” and, don’t you know, in that moment I think she really believed she could!! It would be fun to make a ranking of who are the worst people across both seasons. Number one would of course be Albie.
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not expecting great things but good for him and I will watch it!!!
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the bar so far for mel brooks movie shows is the blazing saddles show they only made for contractual reasons then never aired and the spaceballs cartoon which is maybe the worst thing to be broadcast so things are on an upward trend
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Excited to be a fan of Mel Brooks now and have something new from him to anticipate!
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He better be wearing a tux jacket with impact GOV on the back
some more american gothic talk, now i’m up to episode 4.
so i guess the formula is that every week, the sherriff approaches someone in the town, and reminds them of how he’s been so helpful to them in the past, so that they’ll help him in his schemes. he wants to become the legal guardian of caleb, the show’s protagonist. caleb is a little boy who’s family died in the first episode, and in the third he gains a new found family: a boarding house owned by a wise and mystical black woman, and also inhabited by his cousin who’s a crime reporter from the big city and a recovering alcoholic doctor from the big city.
anyway, the sherriff is also some kind of evil magic man, since episode three also has him gift a surgeon’s wife with a mirror that turns her into an always-horny narcissist.
hopefully my dvd set of dark angel season 1 will arrive soon, and also hopefully it’s as good as i remember from its original airing. i might be developing an addiction to cheap pre-owned boxsets of 90s genre shows (dark angel is 2000, but that’s close enough).
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Three episodes through Copenhagen Cowboy and things are really cookin’. It’s not quite as challenging to watch as Too Old To Die Young, but like that show, CC manages to nearly always be striking and uncanny.
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i watched episode 4 yesterday. enjoying it. feels like a bridge between only god forgives and too old to die young. which is a bit odd with the timing, but not in a bad way, it just feels smaller in a way i appreciate. i’d be really curious to see what a movie (ideally not streaming service funded) from him looks like at this point.
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watched a couple of episodes of dark angel. it’s a very enjoyable show, and looks amazing. the daytime scens have this look to the lighting, as if the sunlight’s coming in through a dirty window. i wonder how they did that, i don’t think the streets are an indoor set (i’ve recently been watching buffy the vampire slayer with friends and there’s a street that gets used a lot that’s an indoor set and it’s incredibly obvious).
the main character, max, sometimes likes to go and brood on top of the abandoned and derelict space needle. it doesn’t explain how she gets up there, she has a bunch of powers, but not flight.
i want to talk about the dvds themselves, too. in the case, there’s an actual stapled booklet detailing all of fox’s uk dvd releases in 2002, along with a checklist of already released titles. also, there’s scene selection on the discs, like you’d expect, but a surprise is that every scene of every episode has a title! they really put a lot of unnecessary effort into dvds in those early days, didn’t they?
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going to say as a copenhagen cowboy/too old to die young h8er that his new short film Touch Of Crude was actually rather sweet and worth checking out (he even prefaced it saying it was the best thing he’s ever done).
fascinated by the degree to which the quality of the writing in Billions plummeted in season 4… something about them getting a Corey Chase cameo the same year that they got Giamatti to start ranting at his adversaries in Italian and got Maggie Sif to explicitly compare herself to a Cassavetes heroine, like not as subtext but in the script… It’s like they got bored of their own show and decided to go fully Long Island with it but the network didn’t think to cancel them for some reason
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halfway through white lotus s02 i am disappointed to find myself slipping into hater mode 
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If you were ever a Bob’s Burgers fan but stopped watching BC it became kind of mediocre you should know the current season is a huge return to form. IMO at least. Almost every episode has been great so far. Probably still not enough to convince ppl who were never into it but it’s very good at being what it is lately.
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Irma Vep’s so delightful. Should I track down the 1996 movie?
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definitely imo – the show took a while to feel like it had anything to say to the movie, and I say that as someone who generally likes assayas
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The 1996 movie is so good! I just saw it last year.
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Les Vampires is also the best film(s) of the 1910s so check that out.
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