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Quote:Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who’ve “lived” together for hundreds of years. In Staten Island.
Quote:Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who’ve “lived” together for hundreds of years. In Staten Island.
I'll probably catch the film first.
I remember the movie. That's one show I want to check out, too.
Finally watched the last half of Catch-22. And something I'd really started to notice is the lack of Orr. He's a minor character, but a pivotal one. He's Yossarian's tentmate, and he keeps crashing his planes, and at points, he even suggests Yossarian fly with him. He disappears halfway through the novel after his plane is lost over the Mediterranean.
It turns out he survived, having crashed intentionally as practice for faking his own death and rowing to neutral Sweden. The constant exhortations of "fly with me" were his way of letting him in on the whole plan. In the novel, Yossarian resolves to join him (and, presumably, if he can escape the knives of Nately's Whore, he does). In the film, he does.
Orr barely appears in the series, and this crucial aspect of the character is gone entirely. And in the last episode, we see why. Yossarian doesn't escape. What happens is, after Snowden's death, Yossarian resolves to never wear a uniform again, so he spends the last half of the episode naked (and just for the record, Kit, the most we see is a silhouette of his scrotum in an earlier scene). And, despite this, he just gives up on trying to escape. He just does what they want him to do (even if it is in the nude), and the last scene is him piloting a plane and repeating "and release... and release... and release..." with a thousand yard stare.
I know I once chided a user here for assuming that Catch-22 would follow a sort of "triumph of the human spirit" mold, but George Clooney changing the ending so drastically and destroying any potential catharsis... I legitimately don't know if that works with the source material or not.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Thinking about getting into AMC's NOS4RA2. Haven't read the book.
Storylines revolving around missing children aren't generally something I'm too keen on watching, but I read a bit little about the novel and series and decided i might give a try.
Quote:https://www.amc.com/shows/nos4a2/exclusives/about
The supernatural horror series NOS4A2, based on Joe Hill's bestselling novel of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx's imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Manx finds his whole world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift.
As you might know, in addition to my usual nine or ten movies a week, I also check out a season of a TV series to binge from the local library. And inspired by a recent episode of Defunctland, I decided that I’m going to start watching Fraggle Rock. So far, I’ve just watched episode 1. It still holds up pretty well. Let’s see if the other 95 do.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I've gotten into the third season of PBS's Jamestown which manages todramatize the historical hijinks and fuckery of the Virginia Company pretty accurately. Didn't catch the first two seasons, but I've heard they're remarkably well-done also. Top-notch show, IMO.
(August 1, 2019 at 11:37 pm)Athene Wrote: I'm finding Season 2 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to be even darker and scarier than the first.
Very entertaining.
I especially enjoyed the church scene of her transcendence.
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