I hate TV...
but I love streaming services way too much. I should learn to torrent, but I am a) a wuss, and b) slightly technophobic wrt downloading stuff when it is punishable by... I dunno, fines and jail? I mean, probably not. I'm just chicken.
That said, I am contributing to the coffers of far too many streaming services. I refuse to list them. For right now, I will just say some things I have very much enjoyed watching, of late, and things I intend to watch, soon.
Kneecap -- brilliant, I loved it, I think I wrote about it here at some point. It doesn't actually belong in this entry, though, because I saw it with my sister in an actual movie theater.
Bodkin, which, apart from being out of the stable of Michelle-and-Barack-Obama's post presidential production company (that is SO WEIRD) (also, his attempt to be another David Attenborough with "Our Oceans" or whatever it is called, also on Netflix is just... no. His voice was okay for a presidential address. It is not suited to the majesty of narrating nature)... anyway, though, I enjoyed this mash-up of Only Murders in the Building, and Deadloch which could have been titled Only Murders in the Quaint Irish Village
Slow Horses -- hat tip to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sabotabby (hope that works right) -- I just finished season 1 of this Brit spy series about fuckups in a dead end has beens offshoot of M15. Loved it. Will start S2 pronto, even if it is (as is reputed) not quite as good?
Blitz I am a sucker for WWII homefront stories and movies, so I ignored all the highfaluting damned-with-faint-praise three out of five star reviews by e.g., the Guardian. So it wasn't an art film, sue Steve McQueen. Something I think was worth the price of admission (a bit of a silly thing to say, since I watched it with a free week long membership in Apple TV + or whatever it is) was that it did not deliberately cast race blind, as some shows and movies have (I'm looking at you Bridgerton though that show had a kind of half-assed alter-historical nonsensical rationale... and also, I don't MIND race blind casting at all...) but this was better because it was HISTORICALLY ACCURATE... if you'd looked at a census of 1931 or 1941 London, these were the people you would have seen, probably in exactly the proportions McQueen shows -- Indian families, Black Britons from the Empire, whether the Caribbean or Africa, etc. And yet, because actual films made in the 1940s by Ealing Studios or whatever, as well as more recent movies set in the 1940s ignore that history, seeing Indians and Black Britons (and mixed race Brits) in this movie is jarring and feels fucking refreshing. Also, I loved the kid and the Nigerian Air Raid Warden, and I liked Saoirse Ronan FINE -- fuck the Guardian's "pencil sketch of a role".
Obviously this is the film I just finished, since it's the one I have written the most about.
Next up (I mean, probably not TODAY, but soon):
Say Nothing -- series about the Price sisters, Brendan "The Dark" Hughes, and the murder of Jean McConville. My ex from Belfast has his critiques (mostly of the soft-pedalling of Brit handlers of Jean McConville, who was a tout and who had been caught with transmitting equipment and warned once, but then was pressured into starting up again by the Brits, even though her cover had been blown). Note: L. was not a Provie himself, but in what were called something like "the intellectual Republicans", e.g. a group then called People's Democracy.
Raanjhanna -- Bollywood recommended by co-worker, a Sikh Punjabi woman who is insanely gorgeous and has a full back tattoo that is amazing.
I Never Cry a Polish/Irish film about a young Polish woman who travels to Ireland to retrieve her father's body after an industrial accident.
when it finally starts, the next season of Strange New Worlds
ditto, the next season of Deadloch.
Also... Xmas movies. It's a Wonderful Life; A Christmas Carol (the Patrick Stewart version and maybe the Henry Winkler one); Spirited (don't judge me!); MAYBE Elf; and MAYBE Klaus.
ETA: Oh! And "A Huey Freeman Christmas" -- a Boondocks Xmas special! (Maybe the Charlie Brown Christmas Special too...)
That said, I am contributing to the coffers of far too many streaming services. I refuse to list them. For right now, I will just say some things I have very much enjoyed watching, of late, and things I intend to watch, soon.
Kneecap -- brilliant, I loved it, I think I wrote about it here at some point. It doesn't actually belong in this entry, though, because I saw it with my sister in an actual movie theater.
Bodkin, which, apart from being out of the stable of Michelle-and-Barack-Obama's post presidential production company (that is SO WEIRD) (also, his attempt to be another David Attenborough with "Our Oceans" or whatever it is called, also on Netflix is just... no. His voice was okay for a presidential address. It is not suited to the majesty of narrating nature)... anyway, though, I enjoyed this mash-up of Only Murders in the Building, and Deadloch which could have been titled Only Murders in the Quaint Irish Village
Slow Horses -- hat tip to
sabotabby (hope that works right) -- I just finished season 1 of this Brit spy series about fuckups in a dead end has beens offshoot of M15. Loved it. Will start S2 pronto, even if it is (as is reputed) not quite as good?Blitz I am a sucker for WWII homefront stories and movies, so I ignored all the highfaluting damned-with-faint-praise three out of five star reviews by e.g., the Guardian. So it wasn't an art film, sue Steve McQueen. Something I think was worth the price of admission (a bit of a silly thing to say, since I watched it with a free week long membership in Apple TV + or whatever it is) was that it did not deliberately cast race blind, as some shows and movies have (I'm looking at you Bridgerton though that show had a kind of half-assed alter-historical nonsensical rationale... and also, I don't MIND race blind casting at all...) but this was better because it was HISTORICALLY ACCURATE... if you'd looked at a census of 1931 or 1941 London, these were the people you would have seen, probably in exactly the proportions McQueen shows -- Indian families, Black Britons from the Empire, whether the Caribbean or Africa, etc. And yet, because actual films made in the 1940s by Ealing Studios or whatever, as well as more recent movies set in the 1940s ignore that history, seeing Indians and Black Britons (and mixed race Brits) in this movie is jarring and feels fucking refreshing. Also, I loved the kid and the Nigerian Air Raid Warden, and I liked Saoirse Ronan FINE -- fuck the Guardian's "pencil sketch of a role".
Obviously this is the film I just finished, since it's the one I have written the most about.
Next up (I mean, probably not TODAY, but soon):
Say Nothing -- series about the Price sisters, Brendan "The Dark" Hughes, and the murder of Jean McConville. My ex from Belfast has his critiques (mostly of the soft-pedalling of Brit handlers of Jean McConville, who was a tout and who had been caught with transmitting equipment and warned once, but then was pressured into starting up again by the Brits, even though her cover had been blown). Note: L. was not a Provie himself, but in what were called something like "the intellectual Republicans", e.g. a group then called People's Democracy.
Raanjhanna -- Bollywood recommended by co-worker, a Sikh Punjabi woman who is insanely gorgeous and has a full back tattoo that is amazing.
I Never Cry a Polish/Irish film about a young Polish woman who travels to Ireland to retrieve her father's body after an industrial accident.
when it finally starts, the next season of Strange New Worlds
ditto, the next season of Deadloch.
Also... Xmas movies. It's a Wonderful Life; A Christmas Carol (the Patrick Stewart version and maybe the Henry Winkler one); Spirited (don't judge me!); MAYBE Elf; and MAYBE Klaus.
ETA: Oh! And "A Huey Freeman Christmas" -- a Boondocks Xmas special! (Maybe the Charlie Brown Christmas Special too...)