Obviously some dramatic license but that is broadly how it went down. It’s still playing out all over America today.
I saw a video yesterday of a cop demanding ID and a bunch of things from a couple of black teenagers (I think). The guy filming owner the cops. Quoting laws and regulations and how they had no right to be doing what they were doing. I wouldn’t know what the law is here in Australia and these kids in the US certainly don’t know… anyway… I’ll save that for the US politics thread.
There was a show on Viceland - 3 parts - just finished last night - I think called Life on Death Row - covering a few different cases in the states, mostly Texas I think. The third one covered people interning for something like the Innocence Project.
I still don’t know what to think of capital punishment. In some cases, I think it’s justified but it had better be cast-iron evidence, and preferably not some pollie trumpeting law and order and executing minorities predominantly and/or indigent whites.
I wouldn’t have any difficulty with Adrian Bayly or James Gargasoulas copping the needle.
I don’t know whether my lack of religious knowledge is resulting in me missing jokes watching good omens. It kind of reminds me of dirk gently in the way everything starts to fall together.
Hoping it gets better, bit clunky for mine. Never actually that fond of either writer, good concepts but a bit too fond of their own cleverness.
Have to plug Years and Years again. It’s very timely and gets better with each episode. Brits do encroaching dystopia better than anyone. Cuppa tea isn’t quite enough this time around.
If we’re plugging stuff again, from the zero feedback it appears that no-one took up my suggestion of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Set in late 50’s New York, a youngish Jewish mother (Rachel Brosnahan) gets dumped by her husband and takes up stand-up comedy.
It’s brilliantly portrayed and written, with Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Marin Hinkle (2.5 Men), Alex Borstein, it has no real nastiness, no superheroes, no dystopian themes, no gender identity issues.
Two series so far, another due later this year. It’s cleaned up at the SAG and Emmys the last couple of year.
Funnily, only one of the top stars is Jewish. There’s no shortage of Jewish actors in New York.
I watched the first couple of eps, partner ate up both seasons. Just not for me, nice production etc but the dialogue grates, sounds like somebody’s idea of what people used to talk and act like, especially Jewish Americans. Farking shat me actually. I suppose it’s meant to be exactly that, a bit of a fantasy, and Brosnahan is very good. Fun fact, which you probably already know, butch manager voices the mother from Family Guy.
We discussed Chernobyl in here yet? I’ve got one ep to go. At this stage I’m pretty comfortable calling it a masterpiece. It’s utterly ■■■■■■■ terrifying.
I don’t know if I’d agree with all the hype or carry on about it as many have*. It was good though.
Edit: *Maybe that’s because we were all over it when it happened, (21 Midnight Oil, Anti Nuclear protesting) and I’ve read books and countless articles & watched a heap of Doco’s on it, so already knew the story, …
I was 8, and while I remember it I certainly didn’t process it’s significance at the time and it isn’t something I’d studied at all since.
Watching this series has sent me scurrying all over the internet to read everything. It’s really gripped me, got under my skin and got me thinking in a way no show has in a very long time
The show does a brilliant job of capturing the terror of this invisible, omnipresent, horror that is radiation.
Just seen the trailer on my Xbox and being one of my favourite shows I’m wondering whether to go back and do a Deadwood marathon to get the most out of the movie.
Also after watching the trailer you just realise what an amazing cast that show had.
There’s never a bad time to do a Deadwood marathon, and the film is good, ties up a few things, manages to avoid being a fan service kind of deal. The guy behind it is too much the real thing to have let that happen.
