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I think the finale of Six Feet Under has changed my life or rather the way I have now started to live and experience it. What a beautiful and cathartic piece of television.
Whenever a television show ends people always talk about it being the end of an era but I don’t think I’ve ever felt like that more than with this show. Which is strange seeing as I only started it last Summer. I feel like a chapter of my own life, albeit not a very nice chapter, has concluded and I’ve entered a new phase even though I’m stealing with the same situations I was two weeks ago before finishing this show. Normally such a feeling would terrify me but I’m honestly excited to see where life takes me from here even if I’m still in the same place living the same life I am now in 12 months to 12 years time because it’s the experience of life itself that counts even if it doesn’t always go the way you want it to.
I’ll always remember the 6 months I spent with the Fishers.
I binged the whole show when I was 15 (about 15 years ago, back when you had to watch everything on DVD box sets) and it absolutely changed my life, or at the very least it started the snowball rolling into getting me as invested in television as I am now. The finale is stunning, but I think it was the first time I really engaged with something that had incredibly flawed but still lovable characters. I definitely feel like the finale changed how I felt about life and death. Claire is still probably my favourite TV character (unbelievably excited that Ambrose is joining Yellowjackets). I keep meaning to rewatch it but part of me is worried I won’t like it as much as I did when I was a kid.
It makes me really happy to see it having the same impact on someone else that it did on me. Sometimes I worry with hundreds of shows coming out every year that older classics or even just shows from a few years ago are going to get lost in the shuffle. I’ve been trying to go back and watch older stuff I might have missed but I find unlike say, film, finding critical analysis of older shows is pretty difficult. That got long winded but basically I’m saying that it’s really wonderful that a show like this is still finding an audience two decades later
ReplyCopy URLMammals on Amazon prime was a compelling watch, a solid turn for James Corden to ballance his other latest typecast roles, the ensemble is fine, shout out to Sally Hawkins who can never do wrong. There’s some things holding it back tho, writing is a bit cliche and it’s way too short to cover the topic it tries too with precision.
It’s ok.
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The HBO darlings everywhere (The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, Perry Mason, Somebody Somewhere, White House Plumbers, Love & Death);
The Apple gang (Bad Sisters, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Black Bird);
Poker Face, The Great, The Bear, Evil (especially Katja Herbers) and The Good Fight.Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me!
Just binged all 11 episodes of I Hate Suzie and wow, what an absolute triumph. I know Billie Piper is a big deal but I’d only seen her in Doctor Who before and I was just blown away. Obviously she’s an amazing actress but I just want to talk about the camera work. There were so many amazing “anxiety episodes” last year (The Bear’s Review, BCS’s Point and Shoot, Severance’s The We We Are) but the way I Hate Suzie spins the camera around and makes a celebrity’s downfall feel like a horror movie… Genuinely I feel more tense watching this than Hereditary. I also can’t get over the sound design, the way the soundtrack creeps up on you where you barely even notice it and drags you into Suzie’s chaotic world… I listed some anxiety episodes earlier but I Hate Suzie feels like an anxiety series.
Episode 8 felt like it could’ve been a perfect series finale but I’m amazed at how seamlessly Season 2 continued several plot threads that I thought were pretty well wrapped up. I’m honestly just so blown away, I watched the pilot back when it aired and rewatching it I was also just so blown away by how tightly shot and plotted that episode was, and Season 2 Episode 3 also managed that really tight camera work and plotting. The final minutes are going to stick with me for a long time
ReplyCopy URLMaking my way through Breeders s3 and this is one of the most underrated comedies out there. Martin Freeman is Emmy worthy here and so is the rest of the cast.
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The HBO darlings everywhere (The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, Perry Mason, Somebody Somewhere, White House Plumbers, Love & Death);
The Apple gang (Bad Sisters, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Black Bird);
Poker Face, The Great, The Bear, Evil (especially Katja Herbers) and The Good Fight.Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me!
did Matt Bomer not win the Emmy for this?
I know you meant the performance but it’s kinda hard to win when there’s 3 costars also nominated, these days it’s becoming more of a thing when it has consensus (Brett Goldstein, Jennifer Coolidge), but in 2014? Boy he couldn’t overtake the votesplit.
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The HBO darlings everywhere (The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, Perry Mason, Somebody Somewhere, White House Plumbers, Love & Death);
The Apple gang (Bad Sisters, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Black Bird);
Poker Face, The Great, The Bear, Evil (especially Katja Herbers) and The Good Fight.Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me!
I just watched The Normal Heart for the first time (I know I’m super late) and how did Matt Bomer not win the Emmy for this?? his performance was heartbreaking..
Because Martin Freeman had additional visibility (aside from Sherlock) due to Fargo that year and the category was under the tape system.
ReplyCopy URLI know you meant the performance but it’s kinda hard to win when there’s 3 costars also nominated, these days it’s becoming more of a thing when it has consensus (Brett Goldstein, Jennifer Coolidge), but in 2014? Boy he couldn’t overtake the votesplit.
Because Martin Freeman had additional visibility (aside from Sherlock) due to Fargo that year and the category was under the tape system.
I guess it’s just kind of shocking because his performance was very baity (which is perfect for the tape system) and he won the Globe and CC.. but yeah maybe being in 2 big shows that year helped Freeman.
ReplyCopy URLWatched the first two episodes of “Your Honor” S2. Bryan Cranston is as great as ever as Michael Desiato. He should have been Emmy-nominated for this role, but he’ll have no chance in the drama field if he couldn’t even make a less-competitive limited field. Stacked ensemble with Michael Stuhlbarg, Hope Davis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Amy Landecker, and Margo Martindale. This season has added Rosie Perez, who really feels like a scene-stealing type performance that could go anywhere. In lesser hands, it’s an obvious stock role/season heavy not worth mentioning. One thing this show does quite a bit is make some huge swings dramatically. Some of the plot twists last season were outrageous to the point of absurd, but it kept my attention, at least. There’s one early on here that’s so eye-rolling, I almost stopped watching. Way too long in S1 with ten episodes, and it looks like no lessons were learned on that front at another ten episodes. Might stick with it, or not, but a fine start regardless. The opener features an insane prison rodeo sequence, which is based on the real-life Angola Prison Rodeo at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Wild world we live in.
ReplyCopy URLHere’s everything:
The Addams Family — Season One
The Americans — Season Four
Atlanta — Season Four
Batman — Season One
Community — Season One
Gilmore Girls — Season Five
Girls5Eva — Season One
The Good Wife — Season One
House of Cards — Season Two
I Love Lucy — Season One
Mission: Impossible — Season One
Modern Family — Season Seven
The Office (U.K.) — Season One
Outlander — Season Four
Perry Mason — Season One
Pokemon: Sun & Moon — Season Two
This Is Us — Season Five
Yellowstone — Season One
I know this is an ungodly amount of television ☠️. It’s because I just got Paramount+ and Peacock subscriptions for my birthday (cuz I’m broke asl and could not afford it otherwise along with everything else I have lol) and because it’s just so hard to be well-seen. Ever since I’ve gotten into TV (the last year of Peak TV, 2018-19), I’ve just felt perpetually behind 😩
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