20xx?
first watch on other blog
July 25, 2019
ordered Blu-ray, watch it all few weeks later.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
Black Spot season 1 (2017)
2019.07.16
Two episodes in and I'm interested but I'm having trouble getting attached to it.
It's hitting a lot of the right notes, bits of X-Files, Twin Peaks, deep back story to learn as you go along, tough but wounded protagonist, oozing with atmosphere, etc.
Definitely enough here to keep going. The subtitles are giving me a bit of a disconnect, but when there's no dialogue you realize you could probably watch this with subtitles off and it would still be interesting.
Another problem is this is the third supernatural mystery tv series I'm watching in a row. I'm mixing up elements of Stranger Things and Dark and now this show. I probably should have watched a documentary or something first. Maybe I'll do that and come back later.
Two episodes in and I'm interested but I'm having trouble getting attached to it.
It's hitting a lot of the right notes, bits of X-Files, Twin Peaks, deep back story to learn as you go along, tough but wounded protagonist, oozing with atmosphere, etc.
Definitely enough here to keep going. The subtitles are giving me a bit of a disconnect, but when there's no dialogue you realize you could probably watch this with subtitles off and it would still be interesting.
Another problem is this is the third supernatural mystery tv series I'm watching in a row. I'm mixing up elements of Stranger Things and Dark and now this show. I probably should have watched a documentary or something first. Maybe I'll do that and come back later.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Stranger Things season 3 (2019)
After struggling to get through the show Dark, Stranger Things is like going back to an earlier time where everything is simple and makes sense. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit to myself that a little mindless entertainment at the end of the day is more practical than something that requires a 4D flowchart to understand.
This show has always been flirting with the line between sci-fi and fantasy, but having a Russian base underneath the town mall is a bit of a declaration. Even more fantastical and immersion breaking is all the present day self-awareness set in the 1980s.
It's a show about 2010s stories and politics, with a thin 1980s coat of paint. Not a 1980s story with some 2010s sensibilities. It was good enough but its wearing thin. I kind of hope with this trajectory they don't make a fourth, but from what I hear the income would make it inevitable.
This show has always been flirting with the line between sci-fi and fantasy, but having a Russian base underneath the town mall is a bit of a declaration. Even more fantastical and immersion breaking is all the present day self-awareness set in the 1980s.
It's a show about 2010s stories and politics, with a thin 1980s coat of paint. Not a 1980s story with some 2010s sensibilities. It was good enough but its wearing thin. I kind of hope with this trajectory they don't make a fourth, but from what I hear the income would make it inevitable.
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