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Dark may be dark, but its journey is also a lot of fun
During series two of Dark I had, let’s call it, an episode. Who the fuck is that badly burnt fella that’s just appeared on the screen? And what’s he on about? Thankfully Dark’s moments of disorienting opacity are fleeting. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam and Eve, Back to the Future, Claudia, German, I want to believe, Jonas, kitsch fandoms, Meticulous, Mulder and Scully, Netflix, nuclear catastrophe, post-apocalyptic, pre-Covid perspective, Prometheus, Rust Cohle, Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Stranger Things, The Cave, The Lost Boys, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Threads, Time travel, TV, Winden
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Karma? Tiger King proves there’s no such thing
I’d imagine by now you’ll have either watched Tiger King or heard about it. It offers grotesque human and animal exploitation, murder plots, deceit, sabotage, confidence tricksters, mullets, vicious professional jealousy that’s obsessively creepy and pathological, an uncomfortable amount of … Continue reading
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Tagged abortive tattoo choices, Absolution, bad dental hygiene, Big Black Bubba, Carole Baskin, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Doc Antle, Exploitation, feral mutant humanoids, Garth Brooks pastiches, Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Lowe, Joe Exotic, Karma, Marilyn Monroe paper mask with the eyes cut, mullets, Reality TV, ringpiece, Tiger King
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Too Old To Die Young is boring, but worse yet, cynical
When’s the last time you watched something that surprised you? In a good or a bad way? For movies it would be The Skin I Live In. Deadwood was the last TV show, and that débuted nearly fifteen years ago. … Continue reading
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Yes, Godless is a comfortable watch
After playing too much Red Dead Redemption 2 and doing a marathon re-watching of Deadwood over the Christmas and New Year period, observing the frontier west’s predilection for nihilism, a specific mania often induced by solitude, remains enticing. Surely this … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880’s, 2020, Alice Fletcher, Brexit, Christopher Reeve, Coronavirus - was aint scared hoe, Crap camping, Deadwood, Frank Griffin, Frontier, Godless, Happy New Year y'all, Jeff Daniels, Kobe Bryant, La Belle, Modernity, Netflix, OLED TV, Roy Goode, SAS black-ops, Snowflakes
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How HBO’s Chernobyl successfully mixes dramatisation and science.
Representing a non-fiction period piece set in the Soviet Union with English dialogue seems ridiculous. In fact, it is. The question is whether the narrative and performance is capable of sufficiently wrestling your attention away from the elephant’s ginormous arse. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Shcherbyna, bromance, Chernobyl, Emma Watson, English dialogue, HBO, Hiroshima, Jared Harris, KGB, Moscow, Pete Tong, Radiation, self-styled champagne socialist millennial professional types earning 60k a year, Soviet Union, Stalinist, Stellan Skarsgard, TV, Twitter, Ulana Khomyuk is a composite, Valery Legasov
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