“One summer can change everything…”
Anonymous asked:
What’s a popular/critically acclaimed tv show that you couldn’t get into or think is wildly overrated?
Maniac initial (in?)take
I didn’t know this show was going to be so analog and I am very aesthetically into it. Every single interior I lose my goddamn mind. Either it’s Annie’s room with the warm colors and her blocky tan computer and the fucking, those hole-punched edges of computer paper you’d have to rip off? Or it’s Owen’s parents’ place good GOD it transcended brassy rich tackiness to a point outside reality. Or it’s this pharma-tech facility! The pink directional lighting! Big thick cables of white wires! Concrete grey plus also rainbows!
It is very much like 80s Legion I gotta say. The way Legion looked like the late 60s but was also way beyond our own technology. It’s that but it looks like the late 80s, and again everything is way beyond our own technology. Also that it’s concerned with the mind-bendy depiction of mental health/treatment. A male and female lead, but you care most about the mysterious funky brunette who doesn’t seem to give a shit and has the most quotable….Look. Energy. Everything.
Those introductory videos also, big Oliver Bird campy genre riff vibes.
I have watched two episode so far. I was NOT going to post about this show because a) casualness aspirations, b) I’m trying to scale down my screen time to let my eyes heal (also, y’know in general, probably a good thing), but. Here I am typing things up later anyway. Anyway! I’ve always liked Emma Stone, I think she’s really good engaging actor and she’s got great comedic instincts and can give off this impression of a certain clicking sharpness in her mind combined with these wide tender patches. And Jonah Hill is so out of his league oh my god! Why did you do this! He’s never actually been that great an actor qua acting, what he’s good at is creative projects—it makes sense that he’s now moving to directing and producing. But they CAST him, in a dynamic role! What happened here! Don’t cast Jonah Hill in your thing, he needs do his things! He can’t do this!
But I chose to watch this show because right now I wanted to watch something with problems. I wanted to watch something that’s like, a B/B+. I wanted fun-having, good-looking production values, I wanted weird choices that maybe don’t always work but they’re makin’ them, and above all I wanted that ~prestige pulp~ thing, the thing that relaxes me about those shows that are at a DNA level maybe half music video, where I can take a break from getting that emotionally invested in much that’s going on and can instead just watch it as TV, as a thing with a production team, whom I can ask for the tenth time around a spoonful of ice cream “lol why did you cast Jonah Hill!”
I’m having exactly the time I wanted so far.
platoapproved replied to your post “Letterkenny is so good you fool. Ur missin out”
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strangeassortment replied to your post “Letterkenny is so good you fool. Ur missin out”
I liked Letterkenny (it is a humor I think of as “smart-stupid”), but I don’t think it’s a Tarra Show.
THE CREW APPROVES
of me not watching Letterkenny
(I am interested in this “smart-stupid” humor concept, is this also where you would put like, Fight of the Conchords..? Exemplar me!)
Honestly I tend to have a pretty good spidey-sense of what I’m probably gonna like and what I’m probably gonna not, so I don’t misfire that often. Generally speaking when I watch a show I get really dedicated to it, which can last weeks to months (and months and months), in which that’s ALL I’m watching, save perhaps downing something short and binge-able in it’s entirety as if it’s a long-ass movie. All of which means, there just aren’t a lot of shows I couldn’t get into, in large part because there aren’t a lot of shows I’ve even SEEN, so certainly can’t judge whether they’re overrated.
I promise I’m not trying to deny you the SALTY TAKES you so clearly want, I just don’t know if I have them! Feel free to send me the names of popular/critically acclaimed shows you’re hoping to see get put on blast and I’ll be happy to tell you why I haven’t watched them! (Because I definitely haven’t, I watch like five shows a year.)
So, is this about as drunk as you were?
I was way more drunk. I don’t even remember how drunk I was.
So UPDATE I watched Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. Turns out this priest situation is in the currently airing (in Britain, unavailable to me yet) season 2, which JUST MEANS I have MORE FLEABAG AHEAD, which is a very good thing. (Also have learned there is a specific priest she has in mind and he’s played by Andrew Scott and Andrew Scott as a too-hot priest is one of the most magical pieces of casting I’ve ever fucking heard of, bravo Phoebe, brilliant work.)
Also: BRAVO PHOEBE, BRILLIANT WORK. A rowdy, hilarious, forlorn, grieving, mean mess of a woman on horny tragicomic misadventures through London, yeah hell yeah. When I started Fleabag I did not know that she would talk to us throughout through the fourth wall, Ferris Bueller-style, but almost that vibe combined with the more brief style of characters in The Office? And that this isn’t just a gimmick, it’s half the brilliance of her performance?? Of course then I thought, with that kind of stylization, and the extremely quick cuts in and out of title cards and whatnot, that this would be not exactly a series of sketches, but kinda a series of sketches. It was not! There was a hell of a lot of plot with a hell of a lot of emotional weight to it and holy fuck! I wept! Multiple times! You’ve got a character who chats in little asides at the camera and then it reaches a point where she can’t even bear to look at you, oh hey! Hey hey that’s amazing!
I also love: adult sister relationships, Olivia Colman, when characters go on a Silent Retreat (wonderful device always), when several characters don’t actually have names?, like genuinely it took me until talking about this show with a friend today to realize that Marwood-style (excellent reference if it is) she is never named on camera (so we all just call her Fleabag), and TV series that are just six half-hour episodes long.
Fleabag! A yes.