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Netflix just made the worst TV show of all time
It's like if you were forced to watch The Prisoner underwater—you're vaguely aware of a sci-fi conceit, but everything is blurry and you can't understand what anyone is saying because you're underwater.
It's like if you had to watch The Blue Lagoon—which already has a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes—completely out of order, while someone whispers non-sequiturs in your ear.
It's like if the cast of Love Island were told on day one of filming that they had 24 hours to make a TV show using only the props they had on them.
It's like if you ran the script of Robinson Crusoe through Google Translate into every language on Earth, converted it back to English, and then asked a high-school drama club to perform whatever was left without a single rehearsal.
Yeah, when I heard of the premise, I thought, "I've seen this - it's Lost, only worse." Now that I read some of the details, it's even way worse than I imagined it could be.
That reminds me, I still haven't watched S2 of The OA.
How does Neil LaBute even have a job in Hollywood after The Wicker Man?
I've finally gotten around to watching Fleabag, which has managed to redeem Andrew Scott for me. (I mean, it's not his fault how horribly Moriarty is written in Sherlock, but really, he's just awful.) I was actually delighted to find he can be charming and sweet.
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And HOT. Daaaaang.
Not done with S2 yet, but I'm close.
Oh shit, I'm officiating at friends' wedding in March, and I might have to use the last part of Hot Priest's "love feels like hope" sermon.
I was actually delighted to find he can be charming and sweet. And HOT. Daaaaang.
Right?? I found his Moriaty extremely off-putting and not very compelling, plus I thought his face looked kinda squirrel-y. But Scott in Fleabag was a whole another league. The thing that made him so attractive, I think, was that he listened -- really listened. That he listened *actively*, with all of his mind and heart and undivided attention that he was able to look past her self-defenses when nobody else in her life, even her family, was able to penetrate her walls.
Also: his adorable, irreverent sense of humour. Plus my not-so-dormant priest kink (stupid Catholic upbringing!)
That he listened *actively*, with all of his mind and heart and undivided attention that he was able to look past her self-defenses when nobody else in her life, even her family, was able to penetrate her walls.
He was the only one who caught her breaking the fourth wall! I died!
Plus my not-so-dormant priest kink (stupid Catholic upbringing!)
Hard same. (I will not admit how many times I rewound and watched the confessional scene.)
(I will not admit how many times I rewound and watched the confessional scene.)
While in the fresh thrall of the show, I *almost* caved and bought a refrigerator magnet that just said, KNEEL. Honestly, I'm not sure how they pulled off that power dynamic without it coming off as remotely skeevy, but such is the power of Phoebe W-B and her writing skill, I guess.
