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BABYLON BERLIN - Ep 7 & 8 Notes

In a non-specific but because of the specifics way, watching this show feels like when I was watching the first season of Legion, or just a constant cascade of wOW THANKS for all my things!! It looks right, it feels right, it’s about The Topics. Babylon Berlin is like, precisely what I was gonna go to grad school about. THE INTERWAR PERIOD, shattered by the First World War, and how the ghosts kept pouring through the cracks, no matter how they tried to stuff them with drink and drugs and beaded dresses. And how the art got so weird, and morbid, and gay. And how for every social, political, medical step forward, another one baaack, until all you can do is dance with it, in spite of it, through it, trying to keep your sleep-deprived head above water. 

Anyway my screenshot volume is just ballooning, too many good faces!

Episode 7

ah Greta got the job maiding! for Jewish organ player police bureaucrat and his…very particular Catholic wife

AH YEAH SOMEONE’S DOING A WEIMAR TED TALK ON “WAR NEUROSES”

listen I do know how morbid it is to have a niche interest topic in….trauma responses to the First World War. I can’t really explain this.

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The Good Place - 3x07, 3x08

This show is my HAPPY place.

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BABYLON BERLIN - Ep 5 & 6 Notes

You know a TV show has written themselves a great pairing when the episode where they have the most time together so far is just LIT UP by it, and then when they spend the next episode apart, even with other highs, you feel a certain loss. Bring my skinny dancing fools together again. I love them.

Episode 5

oh my god this child is going to accidentally shoot his parents

I think I’ve figured out who Sveta looks like in drag: Robert Louis Stevenson

betrayed!

man that Kardakov is remarkably resilient, the man Will Not Be Killed

my GOD I hadn’t noticed the detailing on her sleeves….she’s like a goth tuxedo’ed matador

wait what did I tell you!!!! CANNOT BE KILLED

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BABYLON BERLIN - Ep 3 & 4 Notes

I used to have a more consistent Germany tag from back when this blog was founded in my High Interwar Period, are you ready it was: #ja darling

STILL FEEL IT

Babylon Berlin watch-notes: continue!

Episode 3

well we just saw Alexey all kinds of naked and scrambling

Russian anti-revolutionary has now arrived in tall black stockings under a long coat and yet ANOTHER incredible hat. Svetlana’s hat game is maybe even stronger than her double agent game, and that’s saying something.

wait is the train car just carrying gold? just hella gold? did she just want the gold??

mmm misty

took me a moment to realize that they can speak Russian without being understood by the Germans, HOWEVER, I’d wager any of us would still catch “Trotsky”

TERMAGANT, holy heck I’d never heard this one before! god I can’t catch it was that from the German or was this a choice??

I mean the credits tho. the credits though.

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BABYLON BERLIN - Ep 1 & 2 Notes

As foretold, I have started watching BABYLON BERLIN, Germany’s most expensive television show ever, in which a pocket-sized shellshocked Catholic Dale Cooper investigates a blackmail & pornography ring in Weimar Republic Berlin, hallefuckinlujah. Other featured characters include: a flapper girl burning the candle at both ends with like five freelance gigs variously aiding and breaking the law, and a Russian woman who performs slow baroque songs about dying in full suited drag, with moustache, while everyone in the dance club loses their minds. I’m losing my mind! This is my interwar period DREAMS.

N.b. If you join me in watching this (do it!), make sure you inform Netflix straight away that you would like the original German audio, as mine was about to give me English dubs and nein, danke. Oh also I say nein in my notes just, all the time. Very apologies.

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The Good Place - 3x05, 3x06

I liked these both SO. MUCH how have I not seen any stuff over here??? Forking heck this season is tacking into the wind and sailing with the new concept! Fly my biscuits!

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A Series of Unfortunate Events - S2: The Carnivorous Carnival

And that’s a wrap on the second season! Bright-eyed morbid sweet little show I love ya. God the last stretch of books are FANTASTIC I cannot wait for S3 👁️

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The Carnivorous Carnival: Part 1

ohhh my god look at everyone all young and spiffy and living it up at the VFD headquarters!! HOLD UP THIS IS NOW MY DREAM HALLOWEEN PARTY THEME OMG.

“a terrible night at a masked ball” — this will be the tagline on my invitations, written on heavy cream paper and arriving in your mailbox with an assortment of odd stamps

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A Series of Unfortunate Events - S2: The Hostile Hospital

Watch notes: continueth!

I’m still into The Hostile Hospital it’s really tumultuous 

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The Hostile Hospital: Part 1

Olaf looking down aisles — one side is Christmas stuff and the other Hanukkah

seriously this general store is so good

oh boy the volunteers. they are so Seventies yes.

OH my god. I love television.

no one on this show keeps it more real than the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender

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A Series of Unfortunate Events - S2: The Vile Village

I had a long Friday for both stressful and fun reasons so yes as you’ll be gathering I am just lounging watching most of ASOUE S2 tonight, *cheers*

This one’s very visibly set on a sound stage and then by the end everyone’s talking about the tradition of playmaking devices: good work team.

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The Vile Village: Part 1

“Before long they’ll find themselves bewildered and bedeviled in the town’s attractive if drafty town hall, desperate and despondent near this prominent but off-putting landmark known as Fowl Fountain.”

Shirley Jackson reference!! gold

the Jewish current through this series is deeply welcome & charming and also more prominent here than the books, which should really just be encouragement to art-makers that the more Jewish the better

WOOWW their town flag is…allusive

and Esme posing as a fascist Italian police officer, damn go in

oh my god—its Cactoid Jim

wow, he flung himself right off that bar..

Hector, sunshine 🧡

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A Series of Unfortunate Events - S2: The Ersatz Elevator

Watch notes ahoy! Pals this season is just as passionately and creatively adapted as the first, I’m loving it.

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The Ersatz Elevator: Part 1

incidentally, I finally got a new laptop and wow have they ever improved speaker technology in the last eight years. the Netflix *dloom-dloomp* is in STEREO just out of the computer.

“Curdled Farms Ice Cream” has exactly the sound of an ice cream company, that’s incredible

I adore city streets with big trees. I know these are excessively dark, but I still love it.

occurs to me that of course I’m still fine with it, because I like low light. I’m a Cardassian. or a bat. this building is kind of ideal.

hi Tony Hale!!!

“You’re adventurous! Just like your parents. I remember when we all went up to Mount Fraught, and did high impact birdwatching!”

so I want this glass cocktail shaker hopelessly