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Has anyone else taken a look at Alias Grace on Netflix?
Not yet. I was pretty fascinated by the book.
I spent the weekend binging Top of the Lake. Damn is it grim. Good, but grim. And I say that having recently watched Mary Kills People and S2 of Fargo.
I'm watching the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and I'm really enjoying it so far. The dialog is snappy, as expected, and the outfits are great. There's this dark teal dress that the lead's wearing right now, and I would love to have it (and the figure to wear it). So lovely.
I flipped a coin last night and watched Bright on Netflix instead, and I think Mrs Maisel would have made me much happier!
The ads have looked kind of interesting to me, but apparently Max Landis' douchedom reached critical mass this week and the director inflicted Suicide Squad on us last year, so I'm not feeling motivated to seek it out.
Christ, I didn't see that Max Landis crap. I thought he was just a shitty writer.
I didn't think Chronicle was half bad, but when someone's quotes make me think maybe Miles Teller didn't come off that badly in his Vanity Fair interview after all, I feel quite comfortable in taking a pass on their future work.
I am shocked, given Will Smith's insistence on winning projects (though the last two years have been a definite downward trend) that he took on Bright.
Hearing him talk about it on Graham Norton...saying that it's Training Day Meets LOTR, as if that was a good thing...made me wonder if he's made some bad financial choices lately.
2 episodes in and I can safely say Marvelous Mrs Maisel lives up to its name. It is delightful.
Just finished watching Bright and I thought it was okay. Definitely worse ways I could have spent my two hours and the elven assassins were kind of cool.
Most times, I find Black Mirror intriguing but too bleak to be pleasurable viewing experience. The fourth season just dropped on Netflix a week ago, and it contains not one, but two fantastic episodes one might cautiously qualify as... uplifting? One of them is the season opener, "USS Callister," and it's a fucking KNOCKOUT, with a gorgeous production design, and crackerjack actors. It takes a sly, lacerating look at certain archetype one encounters frequently in fannish space, and contains one of the most brilliant POV switch moment I've seen in any media a long while. It felt very Of The Times. All the thumbs up!
The second one, "Hang the DJ," is less ambitious but is a lovely, poignant look at technology and romance, featuring what is essentially an all powerful Tinder app. The two main actors have such a great chemistry. It's getting some "San Junipero" comparison - I don't think it's quite as good as that, but it's very well done indeed.
And now, I have the other 4 eps, which I understand are all varying degrees of depressing, and I'll see if I can amass up enough fortitude to give them a spin.