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American Godz, part 1

OH YES THAT’S RIGHT. ’Twas a tie, it’s a watch.

And if you were one of the people who voted for this one, I would love hearing why you’re keen on it, so that maybe I can light some enthusiasm of my own off your spark! As is I’m kinda just….well I like critiquing the book more than I like the book, and I’m finding this to be that same peculiar whole-is-less-than-its-parts un-gestalt, now with Fuller-Slade visuals.

Bryan Fuller is a perfect choice though, even while a surely frustrated one, because this property is partway to his heart’s true desire: an anthology show. If the cable networks of the world had the nerve (or probably if Neil Gaiman did) this would be a limited run series comprised just of the “Coming To America” vignettes, which is also what should have been published originally. Free the fragmented but most emotionally legible core of the American Gods concept!

But hey, when all’s said and done I have now Very much gotten to see that sweet man get dicked down by a Jinn, which is certainly worth something.

Blitzing through this on a week free Starz, so live-blogs of episodes 1-4 ahead!

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THE GOOD PLACE

I finally reached critical mass on people recommending this show to me—people including myself, I also thought me would like it—and WE WERE ALL RIGHT. I’ve watched THE WHOLE THING this past week, because half-hour comedies are something I can actually binge as the math is all different from hour-long dramas, and it doesn’t overwhelm me to watch like, six episodes in a row. Which I did. And would do right now if I could. I love this shoooowww!!!

It’s actually actually about Fate, AND how much Choices matter. And that you aren’t good in a vacuum, that’s meaningless: it’s community, it’s What We Owe To Each Other, it’s care and growth and ride-or-die joyous torturous love, fuck this show is so beautiful, I’m heart-eyes about it!

Also this is easily the FINEST comedic ensemble currently working in television. So many golden line deliveries, such hilarity such soul, the talent and balance on this show, oh my god I want to hug all of them at once in one big squeeze!!

Alrighty, scattered notes ahead, and consider this your *spoiler line*

Tarra Wellntruly Watches The Good Place, Seasons 1 and 2

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Stranger Things 2x01 and 2x02

Last October Christopher Lloyd was inexplicably in everything I watched. So I guess this year makes this sort of thing a seasonal tradition, as just a few minutes into Stranger Things The Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender was threateningly eating cheese puffs at my precious boys.

Other things I COMPLETELY FULL-TILT LOVED about the first two episodes of Stranger Things S2, under the break for spoilz:

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Twin Peaks: The Return, The Complete Notes

Well buddites, struggling to corral my Twin Peaks thoughts into things approaching tidiness or value, but I do have my watch notes? FOR WHAT THEY’RE WORTH. Only in the latter portion did I consider maybe sharing these someday, meaning a lot of this is just disjointed incomprehensible emotional reactions with long stretches where I made no comments at all. Or you know: Twin Peaks The Return.

Incidentally, post-finale I’m feeling pretty alright about this write-up I did after the first four episodes, although as I’m gathering is the case with this season, a lot of people are looking back now on a line from themselves or the show and thinking it has the shape of a key. Perhaps we think we see keys in David Lynch’s work the way we think we see images of human faces on the surfaces of other planets.

Anyway, even with sparse comments 18 episodes is a lot, but while this is long I can promise you it’s not dense. Honestly I think the average length of a line is around 10 words, and for instance, the first one:

Part One

hell I forgot how down I am for 28-year-old Kyle MacLaughlin. 10/10 would happily marry.