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quester, I think most of the last half of your post should be whitefonted. Only a week out right now.
Favorite moment:
THAT WAS THE FUCKING BEST.
I did notice the drug connections, and I wonder if that will come up more in the future.
The only characters that I got a little tired of were
They were cute but yeah.
Fixed enough, I hope, P-C! I forgot it has only been a short while. I felt like I was the last person to watch!
omG. You guys. I was so totally focused on the characters that I 100% missed the drug company connection.
How dim am I?
Ohh. Interested to see what happens with that.
I've watched enough genre shows and read enough Chekov plays to know, if something keeps getting mentioned in passing it eventually will turn into Something!
On the one hand, I like that the characters are not connected except psychically and on the other hand I like wacky plot connections!
I've watched enough genre shows and read enough Chekov plays to know, if something keeps getting mentioned in passing it eventually will turn into Something!
Truth.
Thank goodness for Netflix. We've been watching The Fall, just finished the second season. And of course, have enjoyed Daredevil a lot, and are waiting as patiently as possible for its second season. And just recently we started watching Hinterland, set in atmospheric Wales.
Something all three series have in common is a slower pace. I've become accultured to fast-action, big explosions, quick pans and cuts, a lot of exposition got across by camera work instead of acting. On network shows there's a growing tendency to jump time, leaving gaps of uninteresting to jump to the next "event" in the exposition. My attention span works that way naturally anyway, but I've heard complaints about such shows being "hard to follow," and I can see why.
The three series I mentioned all seem deliberate and more real for taking time to breathe between explosions or crises. It gives a viewer time to breathe, to assimilate a change in facts, in circumstances for the characters. It may be less exciting for the constant edge of crisis the viewer is asked to surf, but it benefits from increased tension, slower build, and ultimately, more emotional bang when the heavy blow is delivered.
At least IMO. Other thoughts? Opinions?
Adding quickly--I caught the first two episodes of Friday Night Lights recently, and was struck anew with the filming style. The slow shots of driving--the booster signs for the players in the scraggly yards, the slow-moving trains on tracks across empty fields, that wide open sky above the school football field, and the weeds in the sidewalk around the rundown businesses. Such evocative images. They say a tremendous amount about the setting and the people who inhabit it before any of the characters ever say a word.
Hulu Plus is now just called Hulu: [link]
I just wolfed down episode 10 of Kimmy Schmidt, and oh it is so ridiculously enjoyable! I'd been watching an episode here and there whenever I had a Matilda-free waking moment, more because there was always more to like than not about it but not out of LOVE, but this episode tripped just about all my LOVE switches. I just want to watch it over and over and wrap it in a fuzzy blanket and snoodle it.