Terminal List getting a season 2 and a prequel around the Ben Edwards character.
Per sources, not official it doesn't look like.
Yay for season 2, 'meh' on the Kitsch show
Loved the second season of The Legend of Vox Machina. 
Also, the first two episodes of the second and final season of Carnival Row are out today!
I watched A Simple Favour after a movie reviewer I like raved about it. It feels like it might be a familiar plot but it’s a mystery that keeps evolving until you don’t quite know who’s doing what to whom. Fantastic performances as well.
Watched The Peripheral and liked it but it was hard to follow. Had to watch some explained videos to make sense of stuff.
The Consultant:
Was I supposed to be able to immediately deduce who Chrisoph Waltz's character was after the first episode?
Watched The Peripheral and liked it but it was hard to follow. Had to watch some explained videos to make sense of stuff.
I watched it and it was meh. The book is one of my favorite William Gibson novels so I picked that up for a re-read, and it's been long enough that I'd forgotten the detail of it which showed me how much they entirely sh*t the bed with the TV show compared to that brilliant-ass book.
Like it's barely the same story at all. Re-writes entire characters and omits literally the catalyzing event that drives the entire narrative and invents an entirely new Big Bad. Turns a sharp, focused book into a bullsh*t CGI action show.
My partner threw on Cyrano (2021), a movie musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Mind you, I'm a sap for big emotions and big musicals, and this flick goes in pretty hard on the sweeping drama in its music & choreography, so I'm already predisposed to enjoying it. Peter Dinklage's singing is on-key and in rhythm - maybe not the finest singer of our day, but if I can enjoy the highs and lows of Gerard Butler as The Phantom or Russel Crowe as Javert, I can make space in my heart for Peter Dinklage as Cyrano.
If you dig on musicals, give it a shot! Otherwise, maybe you can enjoy it as communal roasting fodder.
My partner threw on Cyrano (2021), a movie musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Mind you, I'm a sap for big emotions and big musicals, and this flick goes in pretty hard on the sweeping drama in its music & choreography, so I'm already predisposed to enjoying it. Peter Dinklage's singing is on-key and in rhythm - maybe not the finest singer of our day, but if I can enjoy the highs and lows of Gerard Butler as The Phantom or Russel Crowe as Javert, I can make space in my heart for Peter Dinklage as Cyrano.
If you dig on musicals, give it a shot! Otherwise, maybe you can enjoy it as communal roasting fodder.
I don't care for musicals and actively avoid them, but I watched the whole Game of Thrones series over the fall for the first time and loved Peter Dinklage, so when I saw he was starring in Cyrano I pushed play... not knowing it was a musical. And you know what? I absolutely adored it. So maybe check it out even if you don't like musicals.
I adore Peter Dinklage! Find Death at a Funeral if you haven't seen it.
I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
I tried quite a few times to get through The Peripheral but managed to get to where it got its hooks in, if perhaps not terribly deeply. I thought Chloë Grace Moretz was mesmerizing and really enjoyed most of the cast. I even found a way to power through the Pompously Bad People, which is a schtick I can’t stand.
The Big Ideas and the stuff grounded in the current day-ish, and knowing what I like about Gibson’s writing, make me really want to read that book. Even moreso if there’s enough difference between the show and book.
The Big Ideas and the stuff grounded in the current day-ish, and knowing what I like about Gibson’s writing, make me really want to read that book. Even moreso if there’s enough difference between the show and book.
Do it.
The show was a 5/10.
The book's a solid 9.5/10
Carnival Row is back. S1 was transcendently stupid and trashy, like bad steampunk fanfic written and filmed by 7th graders levels of stupid.
S2 seems to be ... better. Like, surprisingly and significantly better. It feels like a major change, and the show is now executing competently on most levels.
The Consultant also seems like fun, but I've only seen a couple of episodes so far. Waltz had some great line delivery in his "You are valued." speech to the workforce.
I feel like S2 of Carnival Row is remarkably worse... Not a fan at all.
I really like The Consultant. Christopher Waltz is terrific as the main bad guy. I haven't finished yet but I have a feeling that they wont give us all the answers to the questions brought up so if you need to have every little bit explained I would probably skip it. I found it intriguing and really good skewing of modern corporate work life.
I really like The Consultant. Christopher Waltz is terrific as the main bad guy. I haven't finished yet but I have a feeling that they wont give us all the answers to the questions brought up so if you need to have every little bit explained I would probably skip it. I found it intriguing and really good skewing of modern corporate work life.
The first time I saw Office Space, it did very little for me. I was around 20 and hadn't worked in an office environment.
A few years later I saw it again, after a few months of office work, and it was utterly brilliant.
Sounds like I should check this out, as well.
The Consultant is definitely not Office Space, but it's an interesting story! (On episode 3, thanks to your recommendation Frederik_S)
Got another recommendation. I started up Three Pines and its just absolutely excellent murder mystery series. Alfred Molina is stellar as the lead with strong, strong, actors working with him. I especially like that they have written a red thread storyline about the horrendous torture and mistreatment of the indigenous people that was recently uncovered in Canada. A fantastic series I am currently binging.
Oh that looks like a good one!
it's from a book and it was really good. the trailers look like they're trying to live up to it. so here's hoping!
Based on the book of the same name by Naomi Alderman, I can barely believe it's almost here! I remember when they announced the series years ago before the heights of the pandemic gummed up the production, so I'm excited to see it's already on the horizon.
Book character speculation/potential spoilers below:
So I can make out Roxy, Jos & Margot, Allie/Mother Eve, Moskalev, & Tunde, but does anyone recognize who the woman who gets hit by a car around the 1:00 mark & blasts lightning at some power lines around the end/the 2:18 mark could be?
EDIT: Also, do we think they're going to keep anything of the distant-future-novelization framing device? I'm wagering probably not, but it'd be curious to see - It establishes the end point of society's full reset at the very start, so how does the viewing experience change for first-time watchers with the end being potentially ambiguous?
Yes please.
Got another recommendation. I started up Three Pines and its just absolutely excellent murder mystery series. Alfred Molina is stellar as the lead with strong, strong, actors working with him. I especially like that they have written a red thread storyline about the horrendous torture and mistreatment of the indigenous people that was recently uncovered in Canada. A fantastic series I am currently binging.
I binged the first three stories and it is absolutely fantastic.
Carnival Row is back. S1 was transcendently stupid and trashy, like bad steampunk fanfic written and filmed by 7th graders levels of stupid.
S2 seems to be ... better. Like, surprisingly and significantly better. It feels like a major change, and the show is now executing competently on most levels.
I feel like S2 of Carnival Row is remarkably worse... Not a fan at all.
Having watched both seasons now, I'm mostly in ranalin's camp. S1 is very much bad steampunk fanfic. It's full of cliched tropes but does nothing interesting with them, it just has them to use them. S2 does do several things better, but unfortunately its writing isn't one of them. I rolled my eyes far more often and got what would have been emotional whiplash (if I still had any real emotional attachment to the characters left) a lot more during S2 than I did in S1, and they happened progressively more often the further into the season I got. Apparently there are two more episodes releasing soon to finish up the cliffhanger it ended on, but I don't hold high hopes for it redeeming S2. It's got some great themes and ideas, but the execution is just bad, frustratingly so at times. S1 was more like a trashy novel you know isn't good, but you still enjoy it anyways.
that opinion was after 2 episodes watched. I'm now current and my opinion is much worse... I think with the knowledge that this was going to be their last season they tried to cram in as much as they could and didn't care how it fit.
Yeah. Apparently they had four seasons worth of story planned out originally. It very much feels like once they learned they wouldn't get them, the tried to shove all of it into this season.
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