I thought Joe Wright had decent success with Darkest Hour in between Pan and The Woman in the Window. I guess it's just the more mainstream stuff that he's weak at?
One thing I thought when watching The Woman in the Window tonight was how wrong this and The Girl on the Train have been at recapturing the magic of Rear Window. Hitchcock didn't have a miserable, unreliable narrator at the center of his story. Jimmy Stewart brought his genuine goodness to the protagonist role and we never doubt him. Even Disturbia was smart enough to give us a protagonist that was charming in his own way. Well, depending on if you liked Shia LaBeouf's schtick at the time. These newer films are a slog because you can't trust anything going on. Anyway, it was fine. Didn't hate it, but I'll never watch it again.
As for season two's, the big ones are The Office and Parks and Rec. It's amazing what changing the characters after getting to know the actors strengths can do in between seasons. Especially when season one is essentially a six-episode pilot. On the drama side, The Americans was one that I thought leveled up quite a bit with its second season.
Halt and Catch Fire grew by leaps and bounds with its second season. The first was serviceable but a familiar arc. It only showed flashes of what it would become for the rest of its run in the last episode or two.
We have Comedy Central in the uk but it’s no good as it only gets half the product it produces in the states somehow. Anyway I pulled the trigger and laid down the money to watch Review with Forest McNeil finally and it is the funniest thing I have seen in years.
Drew, will you be descending into the time suck that will surly be Mass Effect Legendary Edition? My copy for my Xbox One X came today, I loaded up all three games, and I just finished the prologue mission for ME. I wish I could say it was like riding a bike, but it's been so long since I've played that I forgot so much, plus, I think besides fully remastering the games they made the first game more in line with the next two, so there were some things that were different. Hope to get my muscle memory back on this one pretty quickly, because the first ME was one of my favorite games ever. Engrossing story, great music, and a fantastic voice cast make for a really fun run-n-gun RPG that BioWare used to do really well.
Also, about Joe Wright, while I know Dunkirk got most of the press, Darkest Hour was an amazing film that Joe Wright filmed, so he hasn't had two stinkers in a row. He's had great film, all-time great film, great film, stinker, great film, and I guess stinker. He's hitting .667, which is a good place to be, sports metaphor wise.
Having always been a big fan of Cronenberg's early work, the Crimes of the Future news is really exciting. If it's anywhere close to Twin Peaks: The Return I won't be disappointed. That trailer for the Green Knight looked interesting too. I had no idea this movie was coming out. It has a different vibe to it than more recent films based on myths, almost Excalibur-ish, that seems promising.
I'm very much looking forward to Crimes of the Future and waiting impatiently for Star Trek Discovery S04 and hoping his character once again delights me to no end.
I thought Joe Wright had decent success with Darkest Hour in between Pan and The Woman in the Window. I guess it's just the more mainstream stuff that he's weak at?
One thing I thought when watching The Woman in the Window tonight was how wrong this and The Girl on the Train have been at recapturing the magic of Rear Window. Hitchcock didn't have a miserable, unreliable narrator at the center of his story. Jimmy Stewart brought his genuine goodness to the protagonist role and we never doubt him. Even Disturbia was smart enough to give us a protagonist that was charming in his own way. Well, depending on if you liked Shia LaBeouf's schtick at the time. These newer films are a slog because you can't trust anything going on. Anyway, it was fine. Didn't hate it, but I'll never watch it again.
As for season two's, the big ones are The Office and Parks and Rec. It's amazing what changing the characters after getting to know the actors strengths can do in between seasons. Especially when season one is essentially a six-episode pilot. On the drama side, The Americans was one that I thought leveled up quite a bit with its second season.
"Are there shows you guys found yourself really falling for once they reached a second season?"
BlackAdder's second season ("series" if you wish to be properly British) is really when it found its legs.
Halt and Catch Fire grew by leaps and bounds with its second season. The first was serviceable but a familiar arc. It only showed flashes of what it would become for the rest of its run in the last episode or two.
We have Comedy Central in the uk but it’s no good as it only gets half the product it produces in the states somehow. Anyway I pulled the trigger and laid down the money to watch Review with Forest McNeil finally and it is the funniest thing I have seen in years.
Drew, will you be descending into the time suck that will surly be Mass Effect Legendary Edition? My copy for my Xbox One X came today, I loaded up all three games, and I just finished the prologue mission for ME. I wish I could say it was like riding a bike, but it's been so long since I've played that I forgot so much, plus, I think besides fully remastering the games they made the first game more in line with the next two, so there were some things that were different. Hope to get my muscle memory back on this one pretty quickly, because the first ME was one of my favorite games ever. Engrossing story, great music, and a fantastic voice cast make for a really fun run-n-gun RPG that BioWare used to do really well.
Also, about Joe Wright, while I know Dunkirk got most of the press, Darkest Hour was an amazing film that Joe Wright filmed, so he hasn't had two stinkers in a row. He's had great film, all-time great film, great film, stinker, great film, and I guess stinker. He's hitting .667, which is a good place to be, sports metaphor wise.
Having always been a big fan of Cronenberg's early work, the Crimes of the Future news is really exciting. If it's anywhere close to Twin Peaks: The Return I won't be disappointed. That trailer for the Green Knight looked interesting too. I had no idea this movie was coming out. It has a different vibe to it than more recent films based on myths, almost Excalibur-ish, that seems promising.
I'm very much looking forward to Crimes of the Future and waiting impatiently for Star Trek Discovery S04 and hoping his character once again delights me to no end.