Once I heard it was based on a true story, and it was never solved, I lost interest in watching it.
Watched it all over this weekend with my partner. Certainly kept us guessing, entertained and inteigued, and very much a “binge-er”, but SPOILER
Summary
the ending, if it even deserves to be called that, left us fuming!! Why they made this when the case isn’t even solved, just leaves the audience frustrated as hell.
I think leaving the audience frustrated was the point. It allows you to relate to the characters.
Well it certainly worked if that was the case haha
Just watched the first two episodes this weekend. It’s based on a book of the same name I enjoyed by William Gibson. So far, it feels like they are at least hitting the beats that I recall from the book. My wife was lukewarm on it, but I really enjoyed the first two.
Finally finished all six seasons of Lucifer. Yes, it’s silly and camp and theologically dubious but it never really pretended to be more than it was, the characters were all generally engaging and we were thoroughly entertained. I regret nothing.
We binged all six episodes on Netflix of The Empress about Elisabeth of Austria and Franz Joseph. It’s beautifully shot and the usual “love amongst the halls of power in the midst of turbulent world events” storytelling that will have general audiences enthralled and historians tearing their hair out at the myriad inaccuracies and anachronisms.
Cowboy Bebop is worth a watch. Adaptation of a graphic novel.
I never read original, so I can’t judge how faithful the adaptation is, but it has the obvious signs of being a comic adaptation (heavy-handed exposition, over-detailed world-building, melodrama and in-jokes galore).
I expect that fans of the comic must be thrilled with it, but I found myself wishing they’d toned it down a notch, leaving something maybe like a Firefly. Still, I’ll watch another season if they make it.
Which Cowboy Bebop - the animated one, or the more recent live action one?
The manga was an adaptation of the anime (though the manga did start publishing a few months before the anime began to air).
Took me longer to finish than I thought. The writing and filming for se3 was a bit uneven, but I am sure COVID had something to do with that. There was no cliff hanger, they wrapped up the show which was disappointing, but I think they did a great job and it ended the way it should have.
Now I’ll have to find something else to fill this Irish Sitcom shaped hole in my life.
This is why I enjoyed (an enjoying so far) Hulu’s black comedy The Great about Catherine of Russia. From the tagline an occasionally true story in season 1 to an almost entirely untrue story in season 2 they’ve given themselves leeway to play fast and loose with history as a framing mechanism. Which I’m okay with in a satirical comedy.
That works far more for me than more serious fare that shits the bed. Like, say, the move Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett which purports to be a dramatic biopic, but makes me twitch uncomfortably with all the ahistorical foofaraw.
Yeah, it was entertaining enough to finish it, but riddled with gaping plot holes.
It’s far worse than you can even imagine. The commercials are Citizen Kane to the show being Plan 9.
Live action.
I liked the live action Bebop series but I don’t believe it got renewed, sadly.
Ah. News to me. Well, maybe that’s a mercy. I felt like the show fired all its barrels getting Season 1 over the finish line, so I didn’t expect much from Season 2. So maybe it’ll be another Firefly after all.
We are on episode five of season two of The Great. We liked season one a lot as a sort of quasi-historical screwball comedy. I was worried that season two wouldn’t be as good, but so far it’s better. Huzzah!
BTW, there is a thread.
Just finished The Patient. This was excellent throughout and I highly recommend it. There are Emmys waiting to be handed to both Steve Carrell and Domhnal Gleeson. Superb work by both of them.
Agreed.
But something weird has happened in the space-time continuum. How the heck did the kid from The Last Starfighter become the grey-haired father of the Patient?