I haven’t watched any of the Walking Dead stuff since Negan came on the scene. That, and the characters were just too stupid to continue living.
So today, just for the hell of it, I gave Daryl Dixon a try and found it to be not bad. Why all of the weapons are mostly 1700s blunderbusses is beyond me, but I can ignore it.
I was really expecting something to come of the calligrapher’s hard day, unclear how Doumbe knew that the room the body was dragged out of was the Yellow Oval Room, and just accepted that this reality has no forensics that can do things like identify fingerprints on a mug that contained Paraguay, for example.
Of course if it was funnier or more entertaining along the way I wouldn’t have cared.
Hmmm, the impression I got was that Manuelito is thinking not just “hey, another white van! what are the chances??” but rather, “hey, a white van that I could have sworn is the same one I saw but now with a different license plate? fishy”.
Maybe they should have spelled it out for us more unambiguously by showing her noticing an odd-shaped scratch on the bumper or something, and then seeing the same scratch on the van at Spenser’s place.
My sister got me watching the 1950s series of [The Invisible Man](The Invisible Man (1958 TV series) - Wikipedia, it’s surprisingly good fun, quick paced and the parts where people are getting shoved about by the man himself were well done.
Just binged it the other day. It’s pretty damn good - the third episode in particular is insanely well-acted and intense. But I imagine the subject matter might hit hard for some.
FWIW I started an open spoiler thread for this series as I would love to hear some of this crowd’s analysis and take on it. It definitely made me both think and feel a whole complicated mess of stuff.
I also just finished it, and posted my thoughts in the other thread. You know it’s a good show when it makes you ponder about it after seeing it, unlike so much of streaming junk that is instantly forgettable. (Or: it’s a good show when it gets its own thread here!)
We finally finished Paradise last night. You weren’t kidding about ep 7! That was a crackling good episode. The rest of it, though, felt like filler. A lot of flashing back and character development that was meant to be moving and profound I guess, but it felt derivative and boring. And slooow. Character development is all fine and good, but it should be in service to actual plot development.The last episode was a bit anticlimactic. The big whodunit reveal was kind of silly: it was the librarian all along! Seemed like the whole show could have been edited and tightened up into a decent 2 hour movie.
For anyone who watches the first ep or two, finds it vaguely interesting but slow, and thinks about bailing on the show, I’d recommend just skipping ahead to ep 7. You don’t miss much plot development, and what you do miss you should be able to pick up from context.
The two things that bugged me a little were that the paint in room 301 had already dried when Cupp scraped it off, even though it’d been applied only a few hours earlier, and that they had interviewed all these people in a few hours (between 21.00 and 4.00 if I have the time frame correct). Didn’t keep me from enjoying the show, though. It was produced and acted very well, and the plot, while intricate and slightly absurd, kept me amused.
Finished watching S1 of The White Lotus, was pretty underwhelming. The best thing about the show was the two college girls who spent the first 2, 3 episodes acting like a Greek chorus commenting on everything they were seeing… all to get ruined by them getting involved in the plot.
Watching S2 now, it’s more of the same, Inna wants to check out (yuck-yuck) at the end of this season.
I assume you’re referring to the very last scene, in which Xavier starts up a jumbo jet that’s been sitting around in a hanger for years, ready to fly out by himself into unknown apocalyptic conditions all the way from Colorado to Atlanta, with no idea whether he’ll even be able to land anywhere. Yeah, that was a realistic scenario.