That and this
Started but didn't finish: Once upon a time in Hollywood. Aber about an hour, I realised I didn't care about any of the characters despite being a soft touch for a well done "Hollywood on Hollywood" story, the fictional excerpts from the various Westerns, tv shows and movies alike, that Rick Dalton had been in just came across as self indulgent on Tarantino's part, and the aesthetic reconstruction of 1969's Hollywood plus the usual good soundtrack wasn't worth it. I'll pass.
Watched the first episode and immediately decided this was not for me: the cartoon series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Sorry. It's not the format - I mean, I loved The Clone Wars, which was also marketed primarly at a younger audience - it's the relentless slapstick-ness and way too much embarassment humor. I'm sticking to the non-animated Star Trek for now.
Listened to and actually liked: Six, the musical about Henry VIII's Queens, which maps each on a current day type of singer, stylistically, and does some both witty and empathic things with the two wives usually treated least well in fiction, Anne of Clevers and Katherine Howard in particular. Katherine Howard's song, All You Wanna Do is a fantastic example of that trickiest of feats to accomplish, a song where the singer starts out telling a very different story than the one she ends up telling, because she herself only realises/reveals while singing that the cheerful tale is actually a horror story. Terrific acting/singing, too. Here it is:
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Watched the first episode and immediately decided this was not for me: the cartoon series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Sorry. It's not the format - I mean, I loved The Clone Wars, which was also marketed primarly at a younger audience - it's the relentless slapstick-ness and way too much embarassment humor. I'm sticking to the non-animated Star Trek for now.
Listened to and actually liked: Six, the musical about Henry VIII's Queens, which maps each on a current day type of singer, stylistically, and does some both witty and empathic things with the two wives usually treated least well in fiction, Anne of Clevers and Katherine Howard in particular. Katherine Howard's song, All You Wanna Do is a fantastic example of that trickiest of feats to accomplish, a song where the singer starts out telling a very different story than the one she ends up telling, because she herself only realises/reveals while singing that the cheerful tale is actually a horror story. Terrific acting/singing, too. Here it is:
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