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Everybody should check out Hilda. Season 2 just came out and is fantastic. I’ve been watching it slowly with my daughters and we’ve all been enjoying it.

Higgledy wrote:

What an incredible surprise that show was. It looks like there are many, many graphic novels in the manga series.

Eh, the first half was a lot of fun, but it really took a nosedive after that. Maybe it would have made more sense if I'd read some of the manga (I'm not going to read the manga).

Norfair wrote:

Everybody should check out Hilda. Season 2 just came out and is fantastic. I’ve been watching it slowly with my daughters and we’ve all been enjoying it.

omg, Hilda. How good is the episode where Twig runs away? Me and the daughter were sobbing wrecks on the couch.

ComfortZone wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

What an incredible surprise that show was. It looks like there are many, many graphic novels in the manga series.

Eh, the first half was a lot of fun, but it really took a nosedive after that. Maybe it would have made more sense if I'd read some of the manga (I'm not going to read the manga).

The second half is weaker but I felt like they turned it round in the end. The last few moments had me excited for a second season.

Finished up Alice in Borderlands and I hope for a second series. If an English translation of the manga is accessible easily I might jump on that too, that would be my first non Junji Ito manga which probably says something about how much I enjoyed the programme.

Watched The Lovebirds and liked it. I didn't laugh out loud at anything but thought it was funny movie. It is one of those crazy night movies where a bunch of crazy things happen in one night.

bbk1980 wrote:

Finished up Alice in Borderlands and I hope for a second series. If an English translation of the manga is accessible easily I might jump on that too, that would be my first non Junji Ito manga which probably says something about how much I enjoyed the programme.

It has been renewed for one more season.

Loving Bridgerton. Very much like the Julia Quinn romances.

Watched Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and really liked it. Most of the movie is in one room. I just learned it was a stage play which explained the one room thing. I would pair this with Soul for Jazz overload.

It is written by August Wilson but my wife swears it is styled as a choreo-poem like For Color Girls by Ntozake Shange.

Soul is very trippy and not about Jazz at all ;P
Very much in the vein of Inside Out

MathGoddess wrote:

Loving Bridgerton. Very much like the Julia Quinn romances.

Never read Julia Quinn's novels, but I do love the series. And, holy sh*t, the Duke of Hastings is the hottest guy I've ever seen.

Edit: Just finished the series in 2 days. Not exactly a record for me, but close. Whoever designed the costumes deserves an Emmy, because they did an outstanding job.

Weirdly enough, my living room got very dusty during that last episode.

Dark Season 2 Episode 3

In this episode one thing really shocked me, Ulrich. I was shocked that two different people played middle aged Ulrich and old Ulrich. I actually thought they just put a old man's wig on him and called it a day.

Spoiler:

Kid Claudia gets a older boy to show her his penis. What in the world does this have to do with time travel?

Kid Helge returns 6 months later after getting put in the time travel chair. His mom is happy at first but then is freaked out about his silence. I think she wants to return him for another kid. Noah actually sets her straight he gets Helge to read the bible out loud. During all of this the mom is given Noah the I want to F you eyes.

95% of this episode is about Egon and his daughter. Egon turns out to be not so stupid. A couple of good daddy daughter moments i different time periods

On the Bridgertons...

Spoiler:

I don’t know which episode it was, but one of the steamy sex scenes could be argued to be a rape scene. It’s where the duchess so-and-so mounts her husband and forces him to cum inside of her. I’m undecided as to whether it’s a rape scene, but I’m leaning towards “no”. Mrs Rawk is insistent that it’s not. What do y’all think?

RawkGWJ wrote:

On the Bridgertons...

Spoiler:

I don’t know which episode it was, but one of the steamy sex scenes could be argued to be a rape scene. It’s where the duchess so-and-so mounts her husband and forces him to cum inside of her. I’m undecided as to whether it’s a rape scene, but I’m leaning towards “no”. Mrs Rawk is insistent that it’s not. What do y’all think?

Spoiler:

I don't think it is either. The Duke and the Duchess clearly wanted to have sex, despite the Duchess having an ulterior motive. The ejaculation part was clearly going to happen, inside or outside. We can probably debate whether it was about 'making love' instead of just 'having sex', but I don't think this was rape.

Bridgerton scene...and TW for it

Spoiler:

It’s in episode 6.
There has been a bit of discussion of this on Romanclandia Twitter (which has been an amazing place to lurk and read this past year!

A number of people were triggered with the scene in the book (which I’d forgotten since I read it when it came out), where Daphne intentionally waits until Simon is drunk to have sex with him. It’s more clearly a rape/betrayal of trust in the book. He says he wants her to stop and she doesn’t.

I thought that in the film version it was significantly less problematic and saw it more as an experimentation on her part because she had been so ignorant.

But that’s also just how insidious rape culture is.
My husband has started reading some romance with me. I’ve recommended good books but even there he noticed consent problems in books I didn’t see.

In the movie, Simon says stop. Daphne doesn’t stop when told. That’s rape.
No means no and stop means stop.

Watched the first two episodes of Sweet Home. OMG I love this show. South Korea has the best horror.

The monster designs are just *chefs kiss*

Also Lee Si-young :O *eyes emoji* *blush emoji*

As we say in the Belle Province, I will go to bed less of an idiot. Thanks!

Yeah this month I watched Sweet Home, The Uncanny Counter and The School Nurse Files.

pyxistyx wrote:

Watched the first two episodes of Sweet Home. OMG I love this show. South Korea has the best horror.

The monster designs are just *chefs kiss*

Also Lee Si-young :O *eyes emoji* *blush emoji*

I felt the characters for the most part are as cliché as can be. But I can't stop watching it just to see what monster they come up with next. The overall lore seems pretty interesting too.

So, I've seen the trailer for Bridgerton. It looks like Victorian Gossip GIrl.

I enjoyed Sweet Home but felt like they had different writers for the last couple of episodes. It could be they were trying to set up a season 2 but it was quite the change

Grenn wrote:

So, I've seen the trailer for Bridgerton. It looks like Victorian Gossip GIrl.

It’s Victorian Sex and the City.

My wife loved Bridgerton, but it was not my jam.

Completed Season 2 of Dark.

I had huge gap between two episodes but watched the last four episodes within two days. Even though the show did some super crazy things it got easier to follow

Red Devil, White Devil, and Blue Devil.

Spoiler:

I found it funny Claudia is named the white devil. Did they not meet Hannah. Hannah went back in time just to be a B to Ulrich.

Fry is his own grandfather. Dark: hold my beer.

Spoiler:

So Charlotte is Elisabeth's (the def girl) mother. Charlotte is also the daughter of Elisabeth. I suspect Charlotte or Elisabeth is from a completely different world. Noah is Charlotte's father. So he had a baby with his granddaughter that would later give birth to his daughter.

And you thought Martha and Jonas relationship was gross. Old Jonas wanting to bang young Martha was pretty gross. Good thing young Martha stopped that. I don't know what to think about Martha from a different world showing up after Dr. Evil Jonas kills young Martha. Also fun to note she has a fancy new time machine or world hopping machine.

A long time ago I thought the show made a mistake with a calendar but they didn't. This episodes clears up a potential plot hole. The funny thing is how they don't highlight this at all. I bet most people completely missed.

The music continues to be tops. Humble has a bundle with the soundtrack in it that I will probably pick up.

I keep meaning to start Dark but after watching the preview I don't think my wife wants to watch. So finding TV time on my own that isn't video game time is tough.

Maybe I'll try for during my lunch break while WFH this month.

Requoting this because it's so, so, so, so important, and we're not seeing enough discourse on the topic.

We enjoyed Midnight Sky.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

The music continues to be tops. Humble has a bundle with the soundtrack in it that I will probably pick up.

There is an episode of Song Exploder that talks about the opening theme from Dark, which I enjoyed listening to.

I totally need an Eagle Fang Karate patch to put on my gi for when I get back to BJJ after covid.