Gerhard Kubetschek. Entertainment centre ‘Kuba Komet’ with radio, TV-set, record player, tape player and eight loudspeakers, 1957. Made by Kuba-Imperial Rundfunk- und Fernsehwerk GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Via Quittenbaum
Upcoming TV series adaptations that have me thinkin:
The Name of the Rose, SundanceTV/AMC Networks, Italian-German co-pro but I believe performed in English
Catch-22, Hulu, dir. George Clooney
100 Years of Solitude, Netflix, Spanish-language original—thank god for Márquez’s sons for that one
the Tom Ripley series, no network yet but there’s a writer/director with HBO ties
Without trying to sound callous, I am an optimist, which of these do we think might really be good? Place your bets, I am.
pineapple-split replied to your post “Babylon Berlin, Second Pass: Episode 12 [S2, Ep 4]”
That’s SO TRUE about this show giving time for emotional falllout! I don’t think of it anymore because most TV has lowered my expectations. When you think of it, that’s kind of wild that BB with it’s insane s2 timeline is still out here accurately dealing with that, like? I never felt Charlotte’s grief over her mother was rushed, or Gereon’s constant emotional collapse, or even Bruno’s humanizing moments. They’ve just integrated this stuff into the story so seamlessly.
UH-HUH. What I think is so remarkable about Babylon Berlin is that nowhere along these rattling plots they have running everywhere did the characters get simplified. That should have been the first thing to go, focus on the action and paint the characters with broader strokes so we don’t have to keep checking in with their complicated souls and continuing to develop them. But Babylon Berlin did not do that, they kept the plots and the people, they damned the torpedos and said “Full EVERYTHING ahead!” It does mean that the latter half of the second season can make you feel like you’re being dragged through a river, but hell, whatever, I can swim, bruises will heal, and sometimes one gets tired of lakes.
I just had an AMAZING binge watching session with @wellntruly!!! 4.5 straight hours of talking and gasping and breathlessly theorizing Russian Doll. Before we started we talked about how every single think piece was like ‘I cannot explain it, you need to watch it RIGHT NOW’ and how weird it was that in our day of spoilers everywhere we knew… absolutely nothing about the show.
And yet, having watched it, I completely understand where all those people were coming from. I want to talk about it endlessly but I also… can’t? You need to go watch it, go now immediately.
Perhaps Tarra, with her deft touch for words and observations, could find the way to put all our feelings down on the page but I can’t. I can only marvel at how much I left the show not knowing, and yet felt perfectly emotionally satisfied when normally I always always want answers to every possible question. It was really a masterclass of a show.
go watch it immediately
♫ Gotta get up! Gotta get out! Gotta get home, before the mORRniiing cOmes! ♫
THIS RULED, this show this experience!!!
Russian Doll is about empathy and finding your way out of trauma and Natasha Lyonne’s hair. It is The Good Place by way of New York City Jews, Groundhog Day by way of Can You Ever Forgive Me? Special shout-out to the episode that tackled both suicide and the inheritance of the Holocaust in one episode of a 30 minute dark comedy! They can because it’s deft but not blithe, it feels. A funny, smart, occasionally wonderfully spooky-surreal morbid life-affirming loop that’ll get ya, I promise. And you can do it in four hours, with or without a friend.
Alright how’d I do? :D Combined with your words maybe we got something!
Hey still thinking about this, here’s some other things Russian Doll is about:
Adult Friendships
The process of therapy
Chicken
“I’m the void!”
That foggy dark orange light in New York at night in parks
Bodega cats
I just had an AMAZING binge watching session with @wellntruly!!! 4.5 straight hours of talking and gasping and breathlessly theorizing Russian Doll. Before we started we talked about how every single think piece was like ‘I cannot explain it, you need to watch it RIGHT NOW’ and how weird it was that in our day of spoilers everywhere we knew… absolutely nothing about the show.
And yet, having watched it, I completely understand where all those people were coming from. I want to talk about it endlessly but I also… can’t? You need to go watch it, go now immediately.
Perhaps Tarra, with her deft touch for words and observations, could find the way to put all our feelings down on the page but I can’t. I can only marvel at how much I left the show not knowing, and yet felt perfectly emotionally satisfied when normally I always always want answers to every possible question. It was really a masterclass of a show.
go watch it immediately
♫ Gotta get up! Gotta get out! Gotta get home, before the mORRniiing cOmes! ♫
THIS RULED, this show this experience!!!
Russian Doll is about empathy and finding your way out of trauma and Natasha Lyonne’s hair. It is The Good Place by way of New York City Jews, Groundhog Day by way of Can You Ever Forgive Me? Special shout-out to the episode that tackled both suicide and the inheritance of the Holocaust in one episode of a 30 minute dark comedy! They can because it’s deft but not blithe, it feels. A funny, smart, occasionally wonderfully spooky-surreal morbid life-affirming loop that’ll get ya, I promise. And you can do it in four hours, with or without a friend.
Alright how’d I do? :D Combined with your words maybe we got something!
tv shows rly like to play themselves by introducing the fact that there is a Mysterious Killer at large and we Dont Know Who They Could Be and then immediately spoiling it by putting shit like “Guest starring Andrew Robinson” on the screen :/
okay this one was fuckin funny though