I said earlier I was all for Carmy getting a love interest that wasn’t someone he worked with but dang the execution of it is really bad. She is just so one dimensional… Oooh show me your restaurant. Hang out w me… I love you even though you speak in cryptic riddles and are clearly five minutes from a nervous breakdown … I could fix you but I love you just the way you are for some reason… Your dysfunctional family is normal to me…
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I put on the first episode of 2020s The Stand and was pretty underwhelmed, especially considering how memorable the opening to the miniseries was. I still associate Don’t Fear the Reaper with The Stand like, almost 30 years later and I’ve only seen The Stand maybe 2 or 3 times over the course of that period. I’d put the first like, six and a half minutes of The Stand miniseries as one of the best/most effective openings to a TV show or a movie.
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yeah having finished the last episode, this really ruined it for me idk. i still liked so much about this season but everything about the way the character is written just grates so much. sad!
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Man, the last time I’ve seen The Stand must’ve been pre-my exposure to MonsterVision because I never realized Joe Bob Briggs was in The Stand. Playing a character named Joe Bob.
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obligated. to post about true detective season 2 at least once a year, taylor kitsch perfectly portrays closeted motorcycle cop paul woodrough, colin farrel is an extremely sexy piece of shit, everyone has women problems but in different ways…
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Oh yeah, we finished season 1.
So going into this show I only knew of it from pure osmosis. The impression I got was that 1. the show was some kind of heavily metaphorical magical realism thing and 2. a lot of people didn’t like the season finale. Given 1., I assumed that was because the end was some real out there gleaming the cube shit that settled nothing.
But now that I’ve seen it, the show is much more emotionally realistic and straightforward in general than I thought, and I assume that the criticism that people have of the finale is that it’s too pat and wrapped up. I thought it was of a piece with the rest of it, honestly. Matty + Woody forever.
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I thought the objection to the finale was how much of the dialogue was word-for-word plagiarized from some alan moore comic
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If true, this only shows the wisdom of the showrunners imo (though if they didn’t also credit then that is bad from a broader perspective obviously)
it’s some egotistical white guy who never made a tv show before, getting to be writer, exec producer and showrunner on his first project, of course he didn’t credit anyone he copy-pasted from, that’s not how mediocrities succeed in the world
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When are they just gonna make a From Hell show. Can’t believe they adapted Watchmen, the most comicy comic that ever comiced, instead of From Hell
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i did not know the 2001 film was based on a graphic novel but of course it was
i like how season 2 is set in a fictionalized city of industry in california — makes for a throughline of local governments structurally organized for evil
From Hell the movie seems like huge bullshit. Johnny Depp is like Sherlock Holmes with a psychic connection to Jack the Ripper or some shit. Maybe it’s hashish or opiate induced telepathy. The comic remains one of the best ever though.
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The comic is a classic but mostly for eddie campbell’s art, which can never be adapted
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i feel like it’s also moore’s best version of that thing he always does where historical and pop cultural stuff is made into the tip of some iceberg of occultism that is ultimately completely unfathomable
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I have to admit to loving it completely, if only because of that moment where Jack achieves or breaks into the leagues of being an out-of-time entity. It felt like a sublime moment and is something I admire as feat of writing and an totally earned moment of strangeness in that book.
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I have a bias against ripperology and true crime in general so alan moore’s ability to transplant some 70s true crime book into a beautifully illustrated comic didn’t hit me the way it did others
This is True Detective tho!
looks like mid hbo tv with a chatbot trained on ligotti quotes for a main character, so it is certainly nowhere near as transcendant as eddie campbell at the top of his game
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nobody talks about the true injustice of true detective season 1, which is that it takes place in 1995 Louisiana but everyone’s listening to east coast hip hop exclusively for some reason. new orleans was popping off so fucking hard at that time… why the fuck weren’t they listening to like, idk, TRU or any no limit stuff. Mystikal dropped his debut in 1995 ffs.
I remember when people praised the tracking shot scene because wow it’s so long and they’re listening to WU TANG CLAN?!?! so you know it was used because, like most plagiarists, nic pizzolatto doesn’t know what he’s talking about so he went with what draws the most attention instead. This fucking guy probably doesn’t know what bounce even is.
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