television i have watched
For weeks I've been meaning to post! Everything is pretty okay on my end, though still in that weird WFH limbo of sameness that I dislike the most from this pandemic. As much as I hated the Trump administration at least it gave me something to push against during this weird time, but now I am just like Tuesday what is Tuesday?
It's not even Tuesday, it's Thursday. What the hecking heck. The weeks are only separated by my horseback riding lessons on Saturdays -- I still work on Saturdays to take the edge off of the workload -- and the fact that I hibernate more than usual on Sundays lol.
Tonight I am going to go see Jungle Cruise and am excite about it. Never enough Dwayne the Rock Johnson in my opinion.
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All right. I've watched some TV recently.
Managed to inhale this show before it got yoinked off behind the peacock. Perhaps I should say consume this show? heheheh.
1) It was amusing to watch Hannibal play with his food for 3 seasons
2) It was like watching a beautiful but disturbing art show. A very cold art show, there was hardly any warmth in the series, not even where there appeared to be genuine affection.
3) Season 1 and 2 I understood. Season 3 however I would have preferred if it was just Bedelia visiting rare speciality shops dressed in ever more elaborate clothing and speaking italian. the rest I didn't need so much. 3a) eta: as I was rereading this I was trying to remember what happened in season 3 and then remembered the whole red dragon thing. Right. And the Mason Verger stuff. I still prefer seasons 1 and 2.
4) that is to say that my favorite aspect of the show was when they were actively hunting other sociopaths that weren't hannibal while hannibal pulled whatever strings he felt like. I wanted the twisted procedural show, but didn't get it for very long. oh well.
5) my favorite character was Beverly Katz, and then she died. :( They had to go and kill the only woman and the smartest on the team. Double :( :(. At least she had a cool dismemberment/death by hannibal but I confess I lost interest after that.
6) not to say that the homoerotic relationship between Will and Hannibal wasn't everything I expected and more! It was like oh for heaven's sake just have the sex and then eat the people that's what you want already!
7) Mads oozes some kind of specific sexual appeal that is unique onto him alone. I confess I kept thinking of the Bitch better have my money Rihanna video while watching the series, where he played the Bitch, and when he was asked about it in an interview he said something like, "of course, I am the Bitch." hahah. iconic, as the kids say.
8) it did make me want to reread thomas harris so maybe I'll get around to that on audiobooks
I bailed on Agents of Shield mid second season, for several reasons, but mostly because it didn't really fit with the MCU and it was making no sense to me. Also because it was making me hate Phil Coulson. Also they killed Trip. But, I kept seeing gifsets for it on tumblr and once it finished its run I thought I would give it a go again.
1) I guess I really like Marvel because I found it comforting to have something Marvel related to watch on a regular basis for a while. Not counting the Disney+ series since those are really just long movies broken up into parts.
2) It still made me hate Phil Coulson though, which I was okay with after a while
3) Once I decided that all of Agents of Shield happens in an alternate but parallel universe to the MCU it was very enjoyable actually!
4) I was much amused by the fact that for most of the earlier seasons, somewhere in the background the Avengers were doing their thing but with only the merest mention in the action of the tv show, and if I had more brain I would like write a meta essay on the whole we are the heroes of our own story aspect of this but eh.
5.) And then Agents of Shield just gave up entirely on the main MCU. They were like fuck it. Which I guess worked out better for them storytelling-wise but was hilarious for me because in the season where they blew up the planet and where in the future or whatever I was like ya'll not even going to mention the other avengers at all lol. FUNNY. I mean, presumably it all happened before Thanos arrived? I don't know they had a reference to Thanos and the events of Infinity War and then they never had the Snap. Which is fine by me. I guess the rest of the avengers just died. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6.) Anyway, it was entertaining for what it was, has it's own version of alternate dimensions and time travel, was entirely ridiculous, but had some good moments. Much prefer the main MCU.
I am only on the 3rd episode so far. I had to rewatch all of seasons 1-5 of Leverage proper before embarking on the reboot.
1) This dang show is so dang charming! I mean! I used to say "perfect show is perfect" when talking about Leverage, and I stand by that because what I meant by it is not that the show is actually perfect (it's not) but that there is literally no other show that handles character development like Leverage and for that it is perfect.
2) But, in actuality it's a funky low budget TV show, totally imperfect, but still managing to be better than a lot of other really expensive, high brow, fancy TV shows out there.
3) Only 3 eps in and I am totally charmed by Breanna. <3
4) Honestly did not think I would care for Noah Wiley who was always so so on anything I've ever seen him in before but dang it I like Harry Wilson a lot! WTF Leverage how do you do it???
5) I'm also liking the hand off from the older series written during the time of the 2008 economic downturn with the current era of sheer 2020 horror lol. The trade up of bad guys. the increased existence of bad stuff that is now legal. Breanna's line about growing up in this timeline and how there's now actual nazis.
6) I love how everyone looks. They look 8 years older! It's in their faces and their bodies and I love it.
7) It's such a pleasure having Hardison on my TV again even if it's just for a few episodes. I'm so happy to see Aldis prospering and getting movie parts and everything but I have yet to see him in a recent project where he gets to portray the range he is capable of that we see in Hardison. I miss seeing him acting. (though he was fantastic in Brian Banks and everyone should watch that. No, i'm serious. Go watch it).
8.) In my rewatch of the original Leverage, I found myself really gravitating toward Sophie a lot more than before. I'm fascinated by Sophie and by Gina Belman, and watching the subtlety of her performance. Sometimes Leverage is really broad humor. it's playing for the back seats, really almost a stage performance, and then sometimes it pulls it all the way in, into just quiet moments. All of the actors get their quiet scenes, but this time I was really pulled in by Sophie, and again now in watching Redemption, and seeing her quietly work through her grief, while then also playing these broad characters. Love it.
Okay that's enough yammering.
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I went to see Black Widow 3 times in the theaters and I don't regret it at all. It is now among my favorite MCU films, joining The Winter Soldier and Thor Ragnarok.
I also went to see The Green Knight which is a trip. I don't know what the heck I watched. It's beautiful though. And Dev Patel is so handsome in it. Stunning visual film. Dreamwidth Post |
It's not even Tuesday, it's Thursday. What the hecking heck. The weeks are only separated by my horseback riding lessons on Saturdays -- I still work on Saturdays to take the edge off of the workload -- and the fact that I hibernate more than usual on Sundays lol.
Tonight I am going to go see Jungle Cruise and am excite about it. Never enough Dwayne the Rock Johnson in my opinion.
~~~
All right. I've watched some TV recently.
Managed to inhale this show before it got yoinked off behind the peacock. Perhaps I should say consume this show? heheheh.
1) It was amusing to watch Hannibal play with his food for 3 seasons
2) It was like watching a beautiful but disturbing art show. A very cold art show, there was hardly any warmth in the series, not even where there appeared to be genuine affection.
3) Season 1 and 2 I understood. Season 3 however I would have preferred if it was just Bedelia visiting rare speciality shops dressed in ever more elaborate clothing and speaking italian. the rest I didn't need so much. 3a) eta: as I was rereading this I was trying to remember what happened in season 3 and then remembered the whole red dragon thing. Right. And the Mason Verger stuff. I still prefer seasons 1 and 2.
4) that is to say that my favorite aspect of the show was when they were actively hunting other sociopaths that weren't hannibal while hannibal pulled whatever strings he felt like. I wanted the twisted procedural show, but didn't get it for very long. oh well.
5) my favorite character was Beverly Katz, and then she died. :( They had to go and kill the only woman and the smartest on the team. Double :( :(. At least she had a cool dismemberment/death by hannibal but I confess I lost interest after that.
6) not to say that the homoerotic relationship between Will and Hannibal wasn't everything I expected and more! It was like oh for heaven's sake just have the sex and then eat the people that's what you want already!
7) Mads oozes some kind of specific sexual appeal that is unique onto him alone. I confess I kept thinking of the Bitch better have my money Rihanna video while watching the series, where he played the Bitch, and when he was asked about it in an interview he said something like, "of course, I am the Bitch." hahah. iconic, as the kids say.
8) it did make me want to reread thomas harris so maybe I'll get around to that on audiobooks
I bailed on Agents of Shield mid second season, for several reasons, but mostly because it didn't really fit with the MCU and it was making no sense to me. Also because it was making me hate Phil Coulson. Also they killed Trip. But, I kept seeing gifsets for it on tumblr and once it finished its run I thought I would give it a go again.
1) I guess I really like Marvel because I found it comforting to have something Marvel related to watch on a regular basis for a while. Not counting the Disney+ series since those are really just long movies broken up into parts.
2) It still made me hate Phil Coulson though, which I was okay with after a while
3) Once I decided that all of Agents of Shield happens in an alternate but parallel universe to the MCU it was very enjoyable actually!
4) I was much amused by the fact that for most of the earlier seasons, somewhere in the background the Avengers were doing their thing but with only the merest mention in the action of the tv show, and if I had more brain I would like write a meta essay on the whole we are the heroes of our own story aspect of this but eh.
5.) And then Agents of Shield just gave up entirely on the main MCU. They were like fuck it. Which I guess worked out better for them storytelling-wise but was hilarious for me because in the season where they blew up the planet and where in the future or whatever I was like ya'll not even going to mention the other avengers at all lol. FUNNY. I mean, presumably it all happened before Thanos arrived? I don't know they had a reference to Thanos and the events of Infinity War and then they never had the Snap. Which is fine by me. I guess the rest of the avengers just died. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6.) Anyway, it was entertaining for what it was, has it's own version of alternate dimensions and time travel, was entirely ridiculous, but had some good moments. Much prefer the main MCU.
I am only on the 3rd episode so far. I had to rewatch all of seasons 1-5 of Leverage proper before embarking on the reboot.
1) This dang show is so dang charming! I mean! I used to say "perfect show is perfect" when talking about Leverage, and I stand by that because what I meant by it is not that the show is actually perfect (it's not) but that there is literally no other show that handles character development like Leverage and for that it is perfect.
2) But, in actuality it's a funky low budget TV show, totally imperfect, but still managing to be better than a lot of other really expensive, high brow, fancy TV shows out there.
3) Only 3 eps in and I am totally charmed by Breanna. <3
4) Honestly did not think I would care for Noah Wiley who was always so so on anything I've ever seen him in before but dang it I like Harry Wilson a lot! WTF Leverage how do you do it???
5) I'm also liking the hand off from the older series written during the time of the 2008 economic downturn with the current era of sheer 2020 horror lol. The trade up of bad guys. the increased existence of bad stuff that is now legal. Breanna's line about growing up in this timeline and how there's now actual nazis.
6) I love how everyone looks. They look 8 years older! It's in their faces and their bodies and I love it.
7) It's such a pleasure having Hardison on my TV again even if it's just for a few episodes. I'm so happy to see Aldis prospering and getting movie parts and everything but I have yet to see him in a recent project where he gets to portray the range he is capable of that we see in Hardison. I miss seeing him acting. (though he was fantastic in Brian Banks and everyone should watch that. No, i'm serious. Go watch it).
8.) In my rewatch of the original Leverage, I found myself really gravitating toward Sophie a lot more than before. I'm fascinated by Sophie and by Gina Belman, and watching the subtlety of her performance. Sometimes Leverage is really broad humor. it's playing for the back seats, really almost a stage performance, and then sometimes it pulls it all the way in, into just quiet moments. All of the actors get their quiet scenes, but this time I was really pulled in by Sophie, and again now in watching Redemption, and seeing her quietly work through her grief, while then also playing these broad characters. Love it.
Okay that's enough yammering.
~~~
I went to see Black Widow 3 times in the theaters and I don't regret it at all. It is now among my favorite MCU films, joining The Winter Soldier and Thor Ragnarok.
I also went to see The Green Knight which is a trip. I don't know what the heck I watched. It's beautiful though. And Dev Patel is so handsome in it. Stunning visual film. Dreamwidth Post |