tv report!
May. 19th, 2024 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherPretty frustrated about my health right now but luckily there are plenty of things to watch.
American Fiction. Recent movie about a writer who is tired of being pigeonholed as a Black writer. He journeys home to deal with some family emergencies. While there he furiously writes a joke pulpy urban novel that turns out to be a hit.
Loved this. It was dryly funny and smart. What a delight. Features Sterling K. Brown playing a newly-out gay man.
Maid. Netflix limited series about a young woman, Alex, trying to escape domestic violence, along with her young daughter, Maddy. She finds work as a maid which takes her to some interesting homes and gives her material for her creative writing.
This was very sensitively told, very serious, very affecting. I liked it a lot but at times it was pretty heavy. Alex's mother is mentally ill. Alex doesn't have anyone she can really trust. The ups and downs were Dickensian. Alex as a character is wonderful; she's a survivor and is very compassionate towards other survivors. She is sensitive and is endlessly patient with her child.
I'm not sure about the race politics in casting and producing this-- Alex and her family are white, and surely most maids are not-- but this is also inspired by a true story. I do wonder if the reason her story got told at all is due to whiteness; it's also true that there are white people living in these situations. There are people of color around her.
Bodkin, on Netflix, a dramedy and murder mystery, 1 short season.
2 podcasters and an investigative journalist travel to a small Irish town to investigate a cold case. This was ridiculous and fun, with a lot of characters and twists that were hard to keep track of. Will Forte plays the main podcaster and he's very funny as a naive and friendly American. The investigative journalist is a mean Irish lesbian. The third companion is the podcast researcher, a young woman who was maybe a bit underdeveloped as a character but ultimately is very competent.
There were a couple of violent moments that were unnecessary and the story was over-complicated, but overall I liked this. I especially liked getting a mystery story that was not pro-cop! Indeed it was anti-cop!
American Fiction. Recent movie about a writer who is tired of being pigeonholed as a Black writer. He journeys home to deal with some family emergencies. While there he furiously writes a joke pulpy urban novel that turns out to be a hit.
Loved this. It was dryly funny and smart. What a delight. Features Sterling K. Brown playing a newly-out gay man.
Maid. Netflix limited series about a young woman, Alex, trying to escape domestic violence, along with her young daughter, Maddy. She finds work as a maid which takes her to some interesting homes and gives her material for her creative writing.
This was very sensitively told, very serious, very affecting. I liked it a lot but at times it was pretty heavy. Alex's mother is mentally ill. Alex doesn't have anyone she can really trust. The ups and downs were Dickensian. Alex as a character is wonderful; she's a survivor and is very compassionate towards other survivors. She is sensitive and is endlessly patient with her child.
I'm not sure about the race politics in casting and producing this-- Alex and her family are white, and surely most maids are not-- but this is also inspired by a true story. I do wonder if the reason her story got told at all is due to whiteness; it's also true that there are white people living in these situations. There are people of color around her.
Bodkin, on Netflix, a dramedy and murder mystery, 1 short season.
2 podcasters and an investigative journalist travel to a small Irish town to investigate a cold case. This was ridiculous and fun, with a lot of characters and twists that were hard to keep track of. Will Forte plays the main podcaster and he's very funny as a naive and friendly American. The investigative journalist is a mean Irish lesbian. The third companion is the podcast researcher, a young woman who was maybe a bit underdeveloped as a character but ultimately is very competent.
There were a couple of violent moments that were unnecessary and the story was over-complicated, but overall I liked this. I especially liked getting a mystery story that was not pro-cop! Indeed it was anti-cop!
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