Anybody have thoughts on Lord and Miller’s Afterparty?
Wife and I tried it and could not get into it. IIRC it wasn’t terrible, just not very good/interesting. IMO.
Finished up Black Bird. Dark and disturbing, but worth the time spent. Tremendous job by Paul Walter Hauser in the villain role.
Anyone like Amazon’s Patriot?
Friend with decent taste in cinema just recommended it
it’s outrageously good. maybe the best thing on prime
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Just when I think The Leftovers is spiraling depressingly out of control, they have a cool naked submarine episode
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Sounds explosive (implosive?).
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Stop what you’re doing and fire it up.
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Possibly
Never seen it, but it would be very difficult to overtake Fleabag for this crown.
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I liked Maisel better than Fleabag.
The English has to be up there as well. Old west with Emily Blunt hasn’t gotten the love it deserves
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I’ve had this in my queue for a long time but always skip over it
We watched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul with my son over the last year, and we would often talk about the show afterwards or between episodes and such.
During our BB watch he told us he didnt really like Skyler, that she seemed like such a buzzkill and was harping on him for just trying to protect and care for his family. I told him that was perfectly normal and explained the concept of protagonist sympathy, that because we are experiencing everything from Walt’s perspective its natural to agree with him and fall into his ideas of how and why everything is happening. I said if he ever went back to watch it again to try to focus his attention on putting himself into other character’s points of view and think about how he would react to the same situations from the eyes of the other characters.
He came up to me this week because he and his girlfriend are watching it together (his 2nd, her first) and said “Walt is a real dick to Skyler. She is justified in pretty much everything she does throughout the series”
Shows how good the show is, even non-misogynists can look at Sklyer as a villain on a first watch. Once you get past the Walt blinders, it becomes almost a completely different show. You can see his monstrousness early, and it never really leaves after that.
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If you give the first episode a shot, you won’t know where it’s going in terms of storyline but it will be enough to give you an idea of its tone and scope to decide if you want to stick with it.
I run the risk of overselling it, but it’s not going out on a limb to point out that it’s beautifully shot (read somewhere that Spain doubled for the old west), the performance by the guy who plays Eli Whipp is intoxicating, and the villains are quite a thing. It also looks like it was done to be a pure miniseries. It’s a complete story with an actual ending, and currently no plans for another season.
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Wow that’s a great story too!!
Gotta be some other fun movies and TV shows like that, like The Graduate or Spanglish.
Im gonna do it with the Sopranos eventually. I already think Tony is a supreme asshole, but he is such an audience surrogate its hard to root entirely against him, even though we 100% should. The scene where he terrorizes Melfi in her office I think we are supposed to see his anger as correct and righteous, but from her POV, a psycho she knows has murdered people now has her in his clutches. It has to be terrifying for her.
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As an only one-time watcher who did frequently get behind Tony since he was the POV character, I cannot imagine how someone could view Tony sympathetically in that scene. There were times when he would just go full unsympathetic heel for a scene or sequence, and that was the one of the standout examples of it.
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Im sure there are plenty who think that Melfi was overreaching, probing too deeply, and insulting his mother.
I dont take that line, but I could see Chase having those as possible outs for the viewer.
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