A Murder At The End of The World (Hulu) Elon Musk 2.0 invites the world’s top innovators and moguls to an exclusive bunker retreat in Iceland for a symposium on How To Make the World Better and then murders started happening. Despite the ridiculous premise it gets so much dumber. After many plot holes and nonsense after 5 episodes I only continue to watch in order to heckle it. My wife likes it for some reason, but I think it’s her completist nature that drives her.
Obituary (1 se. 6 ep, 2023 Hulu) Just finished this great Irish tongue-in-cheek murder mystery. It dragged a bit in the middle but I am glad I stuck with it. Light and fun with a macabre sense of humor. Recommended for all ages and will watch future seasons if it sticks around.
Florida Man (Netflix) - One episode in and it’s pretty good! Appears they took a page out of the Fargo or Ozark lay book: Distinct American Region + Criminal Weirdness = Situational High Jinks. Some tired tropes (does everyone have to have a criminal father and an ex detective?) but the recipe seems to work here.
Oh jeez, the latest episode we watched was the dumbest yet. So, our plucky protagonist Darby gets a mysterious message to meet at the pool at 10pm for info. Despite the fact that several people have been killed, and she herself has been threatened to stop looking into the murders or she will be killed too, in the dark deserted pool area she decides to jump in the water while waiting for the supposed informant to show. She sinks to the bottom and closes her eyes. The fact that someone closes the pool cover at the very end of the episode, sealing her underwater, is the least surprising plot development ever. I kind of hope her character drowns at the start of the next episode.
Wife: “Would you stop saying ‘fuck you’ every time New Musk talks?”
Me: “I can’t help it. He’s begging for it with every decision he thinks he gets to make for the other people there. He isn’t a General. He isn’t a Sea captain. No you cannot have my phone, Bitch. Me, I’m gone, left a day ago on the chopper I kept on the helipad cause I wouldn’t stay second one in this freaky dump if I was a MILLIONARE TECH MOGUL.”
The sad thing is, I like the basic premise. It has an “Agatha Christie for the 21st Century” vibe. It could be so much better with good writing. But the plot holes are large enough to walk a bunker-building bot through.
I do too, and if I am honest with myself there may be a piece that wants to see this back on the rails so I’ll get to enjoy a mystery. Until then Lampooning it is getting me by.
But for real, if New Musk turns out to be the killer I am telling everyone so they don’t have to suffer like I am.
We started this when it first aired. It started good but by episode five it was tough to watch. I think my issue was that they would not give the audience an answer. I think they were trying to keep us in suspense as to what was happening, same as the characters. It didn’t work for me. So, we quit.
When we found it that it had been renewed for s3 a few years ago, we thought maybe it gets better and started over. Watching them in a row was even worse. They go from thing to thing not questioning anything? As DrDeth said, why she is still doing it when her kids are targeted? Or why doesn’t she do something to protect them? Equally, the meta story with Leland needed to show the audience something.
I’m happy for everyone who likes it but it wasn’t great storytelling for me.
On another show, I watched the first episode of Breaking Bad and it was good. Good enough to get me to watch the second episode. The second episode was so bad to me that it turned me off the show. Maybe it will work for me now as it has been a while and all that is lingering is the feeling of not liking the second episode.
I watched the first episode of 1670 on Netflix. It’s The Office, except in a Polish fiefdom during the 17th Century. It’s well done and the English dubbing is first rate. But I think my enthusiasm for Michael Scott (or Jan Paweł Adamczewski) level cringe comedy isn’t what it was 15 years ago.
Fargo - We are all caught up and Season 5 continues to surprise. I keep thinking back to the scene with Roy smoking weed while his wife tries to initiate some nookie. That scene’s importance grows with every episode. It revealed history, mindset and objectives in a classic bizarre Fargo interaction.
Se 5 is getting bumped up in the rankings. It’s now:
Fantastic: Se 1 and 2
Great: Se 3
Quality: Se 5
Average: Se 4
What DrDeth said. If you liked the premise enough to try the show and it fell flat for you and yet still haven’t seen the film you’re doing a disservice to yourself.
Yeh I’ve seen the film and enjoyed it, shame they never made another. I stuck with S2 but the final couple of episodes were really not very good and felt very lazy. The wedding between Sisco and…see I’ve even forgotten her name (Mickey’s ex) was incredibly awkward. Those two actors do not work together.
I think the words you’re looking for is “Horribly miscast, uninteresting, and unnecessary.” They clearly had zero chemistry with each other and may have actively hated each other off-screen (speculation). I noted somewhere that the cameraman (or possibly the director) seemed to be obsessed with her legs. The lead actor is the least charismatic person I’ve seen in any series.