We started watching this show the first episode of this season. I liked the trio of middle aged women, the family from North Carolina, Tayme and Lisa. Goggins’ character was so fanciful in comparison. I have no idea why he’s in the ensemble.
After episode 2 or so, we realized this was going to be a bumpy ride and heard whispers that season 2 was actually good. We watched it and yeah, I have to concur.
Everything I’ve read BTS makes me think the showrunner is stupid. They lost the composer when the music is the most solid thing in the whole package. The plot was inspired by a dream he had or something dumb like that.
yes, what started as the most banal of subplots in the show turned out to be the best realized by the end. it’s complex and you kind of wonder whether the resolution is truly happy or not, but ultimately it feels real.
everything else mostly exists in this complete fantasy world.
My biggest takeaway from S3 is that Schwarzenegger Jr has real star power, an incredible collection of his father’s mannerisms in a more expressive package, and it makes his subplot the only one aside from Coon’s which ends on a sweet note that I buy (him looking at Rick and Chelsea wistfully, and then reading a book). I also had some fun with Isaacs looking like the most tormented family provider in the world and Posey’s accent but yeah, it all felt like hanging out with weird cartoon characters that the script doesn’t really know what to do with. Best experienced as something your partner is watching while you look at the screen every three minutes or so, really. I tried to make the spirituality angle work in my head from a few different angles and none of them are satisfying and considering they’re such a big thematic focus it’s like, what’s the point
yeah i think the thing that kept me watching is that there are elements of good stuff in each episode and the potential for something cool, but ultimately it feels like they wrote way too much material and then didn’t cut it down properly
for example, i just read that they wanted the rich-girl-buddhist daughter to lose her virginity to Belinda’s son in the last episode (remember the “are you a virgin?” plotline from like episode 1 or 2?)
and so there are all these traces of ideas throughout s3 that never go anywhere
a lot of TV is actually really good rn though – I’m concurrently watching Elsbeth, Shrinking, Common Side Effects, The Pitt, Bosch, and Gemstones, and looking forward to the new Rehearsal, Andor, the upcoming Jon Hamm thing… it’s just the new White Lotus that blew
the second season was getting grating enough but i stuck around for moltisanti. i like goggins ok but he’s no moltisanti. tapped out of this one as soon as i saw whatever the hell this bit is they’re doing with subtitles
Every white lotus season annoys me, feel I got the Fell For It award after the final episode when i almost held off watching the season at all. Consistently conservative in the incredibly dull way a lot of big tv dramas are; people dont change, strivers get punished unless they’re unashamedly immoral, wealthy people are dull & cruel & untouchable, and a dearth of imagination for any non-cynical resolution.
Anyways, to me, jason isaacs doing over the top benzoed out physical comedy where he has to laboriously stumble and slur as he tries to see how much of his family he has to kill was my favorite part. Goggins was wasted. Didn’t care about the kids. Posey was nice enough as comic relief but really didn’t have much to do. Surprised Fabian was the guy from Zone of Interest. Would probably have liked the blond gals plot if it didn’t end with the exact same cynical lack of change as everything else.
I watched the first episodes of both the Netflix Devil May Cry anime, as well as the new Shinichiro Watanabe adult swim show Lazarus.
They both had a lot of table setting. Amazingly, DMC somehow had even more shoe leather in the first episode than (the pretty high concept) Lazarus. Do we really need 20 minutes of the Vice President of the USA grilling some low level thug on the connections between the demon world and our world, and how they interact? They basically did more backstory in the first episode of the anime then they have done in the entire 5 mainline DMC games.
I always found it kind of charming how bizarre the world of DMC was and how little it was explored, so unfortunately it didn’t really work for me. I’ll probably check in for a few more episodes to see if things get going but I might drop this one.
Re: Lazarus, I was on board because of Watanabe but it was a pleasant surprise to find out during the opening credits that the action sequences were “designed” by Chad Stahelski. It definitely looks great. I’m looking forward to watching more.
last episode of the new season of daredevil i think
they really go balls out with the gore in this one and i have very mixed feelings about it. i mean, i struggle to find anything bad to say about a vigilante murdering cops, but it just seems kind of aesthetically unappealing to me
