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Cobra Kai: Ace Degenerate (2018)
Enjoyable unambitious light entertainment!
Do you need bad taste to get through the show? - Clearly!
Is it trashy, and completely unpretentious? - For sure!
Is it a cheap production ? - By every standard; - comes close to some Carpenter movies ( "They live", et al)
But, tell me, is it better than the original? - By miles!
- The simple twist, to make the angry and unlikeable prototypical anti-hero the hero, in company with the dry, yet not all-too subtle, humour, really saves it.
Mr. Robot: eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme (2016)
Just drop in
To thank Sam Esmail for the rather direct citation of my all-time movie favorite Brazil throughout the final sequence of this episode: The camera pans from Malek's focus on the basketball field ( his "perceived reality" /POV) to the two chimneys (used as limiting fix points, standing for a "shared common view" of the narrator and his sometimes willing accomplice, the viewer) and further to the (limitless) blue ("vanilla") sky, while using an "objectivizing" wide/distance shot in the progress. This is great cinematography, and also an hommage to the final "dome scene" of the movie. And, to clarify matters, a little but quite discernible variation of the accords of the movie's theme ( " Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June..." ) is played. - Well worth it (in the opinion of a true fan boy of the movie), as (to my mind) Brazil was also about the first movie that really antecipated, even apart from the obvious "virtual reality/second life/alternative facts" topic, or the permanent "War on Terror", the contemporary information society with e.g. Alexa (just take a glance at Lowry's home ;) ) and data krakens like e.g. Google ( "Ministery of Information" / "Central Services" ) . - So: Thumbs UP! ;)
Fargo: The Law of Inevitability (2017)
Hell is empty, all the devils are here!
To me the emotionally most intense episode from all three seasons, with a focus on my two favorite heroes of this season: Both hard shell, soft core Stuhlbarg and horse-stealing Winstead do an amazing job, and the tension watching the unravelling horrors is truly jaw-dropping. The strongest scene for me is Sy's psychic collapse (hence the caption) before his wife; while close second is Thewlis at the staircase, as combination between name- and faceless "It"/ viral "Mr. Smith" / classic Mephistopheles/ and totalitarian "Emperor" , in company with the iconic teddy-bear, pushing "Anakin Skywalker" /"Faust" Emmit under the christmas tree further to the dark side. But, these are just two examples of a truly outstanding episode that also includes a return of an old acquaintance...