Free Guy: better than I expected it to be. Enjoyable family fair, the grandkids enjoyed it.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
Watched the first two episodes of "Reservation Dogs" on Hulu. The series is starting off strong. Lots of dark humor and sight gags.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
I finished The Serpent on Netflix with my wife. The whole series was just as good as the first episode. Great acting, solid writing, and well filmed. The story would seem poorly plotted if it wasn't just following real events, but it does, so instead it just comes across like the frustrating LE/diplomacy clusterfuck it was. The anachronic order is occasionally confusing, and sometimes seems unnecessary, but it works to push sympathy for Sobhraj's victims.
I'm just gonna say Charles Sobhraj's M.O. as a criminal was so repetitive that having a fictional crook do it in a script would lead to cries of "unrealistic." But that dude stuck to his preferred methods hard. Sooooo arrogant. Completely vile. No redeeming qualities at all.
The Dutch diplomat who became obsessed with Sobhraj shows that you don't need to be LE, or fictional, to have "McNulty syndrome," bad. My wife and I loved his Belgian accomplice, Paul, who tells him he's gonna destroy his own career at the very beginning, and repeatedly puts a .38 snub and a box of cartridges front of the Dutchman when he is offering a solution to their problems. Even in crowded restaurants.
Thanks to @Hot Sauce for reminding me that Mr. Robot existed. We just completed the final season, very belatedly, last week as well. Every bit the equal of The Sopranos, The Wire, and Breaking Bad, and probably the best cinematography of any of that illustrious group. Some elements of the conclusions of the big conflicts were a bit unsatisfying, IMO, but what worked more than made up for it. I would caution first-time viewers that it took my wife quite a while to come to that opinion, but now she wants to rewatch the whole series. We probably will soon.
I'm not done with it, but it's far past time I gave a shout-out to one of the best kid's shows of all time, the Australian Bluey. About a mischievous blue heeler, her sister Bingo, and her parents Bandit and Chili.
I could write an essay on this show. Kids love it, parents are often getting very different messages than the kids while watching along. It's damned realistic about child rearing, especially for a show with talking dogs.
It also combines humor with excellent moral lessons for kids. If I could set up a mass watching of anything for all of PF, it would be the Library episode of Bluey. The line that communicated the moral of the story made me burst out with peals of delighted and very surprised laughter. Harsh. I had to suppress a "holy shit" since I was watching it with elementary kids.
Also, you gotta love a kids show where the adults drink wine and dad pukes (off camera, just once) after eating a mass of hideous food Bluey and Bandit make for their parents.
It's a modern classic. Unfortunately, only viewable on Disney in the states.
One last thing I showed to some kids at work:
Too bad they haven't done live performances like this on kid's TV for awhile. Steve and the boys get going so hard they have trouble stopping.👍👍👍👍
REPETITION CREATES BELIEF
REPETITION BUILDS THE SEPARATE WORLDS WE LIVE AND DIE IN
NO EXCEPTIONS