What if... Instead of taking years and years and hundreds of millions of dollars to make like six episodes of something... We just... Made television............
I never watched Severance because I'm not in the Apple ecosystem so I don't know much about it but from everything I do know about it via cultural osmosis, the mind boggles at how it could cost more than a couple million an ep.
I really loved Severance but i just have zero interest in a season 2. The issue with that kind of setting and idea is it just 100% will get less interesting and less compelling the more detail it goes into and the more it tries to explain
I can already tell theyll try to undo the very ending of season 1. I hope im wrong but so many shows like severance do this, their premise is cool or intriguing but has fundamentally unanswerable contradictions or questions that dont matter when youre in the thick of the central conceit, but as soon as the story runs out of road within that starting conceit, they either dont know where to go and try and shove it back in the bottle, or they start adding and expanding lore and detail and it just unravels
On the other foot im excited about a Silo season 2 and that has similar potential shortcomings, maybe because I think the world building is a little less abstract and trippy and more familiar scifi post apocalypse so it feels like theres places they can go without breaking my suspension of disbelief
fundamentally the only way Severance works going forward for me is if gets more trippy and more abstract and strange, not more clear and detailed.
I finished the last episode of the season of Shōgun and now I'm sad.
Show is real good.
Toranaga is a bastard of the highest order. He's playing 4D chess and everybody is a pawn, but he seems so sincere you kind of can't help but pull for him. The political subterfuge works better than something like House of the Dragon that exists in a fantasy vacuum where all the shitty things people do they do because somebody wrote it that way for shock value. Whereas Shōgun looks at the value of life and class and the bastard shit people do through the historical lens of feudal Japanese culture. Blackthrone kind of exists as the stand in for the audience to give voice to the idea that yeah, a lot of this is shitty and the way people are treated sucks, but also, right or wrong, you get that's just how it was done and you can see the - I hesitate to call it logic but - the logic behind it I guess?
Also, RIP my dude Yabushige. Man's had hella Toshirō Mifune swagger and I loved his character. Fuji-sama is now Best Character.
Also, speaking of Toshirō Mifune, I had no idea this Shōgun is a remake (reboot? Re-envisioning?) of a Paramount miniseries Shōgun from 1980 and Mifune played Toranaga in that one!
I finished the last episode of the season of Shōgun and now I'm sad.
Show is real good.
Toranaga is a bastard of the highest order. He's playing 4D chess and everybody is a pawn, but he seems so sincere you kind of can't help but pull for him. The political subterfuge works better than something like House of the Dragon that exists in a fantasy vacuum where all the shitty things people do they do because somebody wrote it that way for shock value. Whereas Shōgun looks at the value of life and class and the bastard shit people do through the historical lens of feudal Japanese culture. Blackthrone kind of exists as the stand in for the audience to give voice to the idea that yeah, a lot of this is shitty and the way people are treated sucks, but also, right or wrong, you get that's just how it was done and you can see the - I hesitate to call it logic but - the logic behind it I guess?
Also, RIP my dude Yabushige. Man's had hella Toshirō Mifune swagger and I loved his character. Fuji-sama is now Best Character.
Also, speaking of Toshirō Mifune, I had no idea this Shōgun is a remake (reboot? Re-envisioning?) of a Paramount miniseries Shōgun from 1980 and Mifune played Toranaga in that one!
Neat!
It's a new adaptation of a novel from the 70s, which the old miniseries was also based on
My understanding is that Shogun (the show) so far already covers the entirety of the book, so you're free of spoilers if you want to read it. Which of course makes me a bit nervous about season 2 but should be interesting to see what they do with it.
Slow Horses should be back sometime in this Fall too for season 4.
Very excited for the new season because, as I realized after rewatching both The Matrix and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula this month, it's basically going to be
It's Dracula vs. Agent Smith, AKA Keanu Reeves' greatest nemeses, squaring off against each other.
Hacksaw on
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I’m realizing maybe I have no idea what Euphoria is about?
EVIL
The Good Wife and then The Good Fight
Discovery and Strange New Worlds are both great.
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What if... Instead of taking years and years and hundreds of millions of dollars to make like six episodes of something... We just... Made television............
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Folks, this John Blackthorne fella? My heart, my mind, and my gut all tell me he might be a bit of an asshole.
More of an areshole imho
What is that money going towards
I have to presume embezzlement.
Like, it's got some heavy style, they're definitely paying their production designers, but there's nothing that feels like it should cost that much
It's one custom balloon Michael, how much could it cost? $100,000?
Which is very funny, because it's quite often a very quiet show.
I would describe him as, confidently confused.
I can already tell theyll try to undo the very ending of season 1. I hope im wrong but so many shows like severance do this, their premise is cool or intriguing but has fundamentally unanswerable contradictions or questions that dont matter when youre in the thick of the central conceit, but as soon as the story runs out of road within that starting conceit, they either dont know where to go and try and shove it back in the bottle, or they start adding and expanding lore and detail and it just unravels
On the other foot im excited about a Silo season 2 and that has similar potential shortcomings, maybe because I think the world building is a little less abstract and trippy and more familiar scifi post apocalypse so it feels like theres places they can go without breaking my suspension of disbelief
fundamentally the only way Severance works going forward for me is if gets more trippy and more abstract and strange, not more clear and detailed.
Show is real good.
Also, RIP my dude Yabushige. Man's had hella Toshirō Mifune swagger and I loved his character. Fuji-sama is now Best Character.
Also, speaking of Toshirō Mifune, I had no idea this Shōgun is a remake (reboot? Re-envisioning?) of a Paramount miniseries Shōgun from 1980 and Mifune played Toranaga in that one!
Neat!
I feel the actor is trying for this, but it feels more like he just wanders into the room looking very hungover.
Satans..... hints.....
It's a new adaptation of a novel from the 70s, which the old miniseries was also based on
You know what I mean! I want the immersion
I dunno where you’re gonna find enough pig’s blood for that kind of experience
Very excited for the new season because, as I realized after rewatching both The Matrix and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula this month, it's basically going to be
Pig farm
I work hard for my money!
he's a shit-slinging sailor, it can be both!
he's a british sailor
Rum, sodomy and the lash