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I was annoyed when it was reported that Andor S2-5 was going to be compressed into just one season (there may be evidence of such back in this thread). Having watched it, I can see it was the right call. Stringing this out over what would be nearly a decade would’ve destroyed the vibe.
Also the right call: releasing it in bunches of three. The weakest set - by far - was the first three episodes. If that was strung out over three weeks, there would’ve been few viewers left by the end.
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This isn’t going to end well for him.
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Oh no. Oh no.
“But nuclear blasts are treatable now, honey…”
As you may have gathered from likes to posts that are now a few months old, I just finished Severance S2.
So good.
Hey Mr Drummond
Devour feculence.
A few more Severance thoughts:
Spoiler
When Helly said “I am her” I think she was trying to tell Mark S. that he should save Ms Casey because Helena would likely be the sole proprietor of her own body soon enough.
And I think that Gemma knows Mark S was the innie in the last scene. When she was in the corridor outside the fileroom doors she knew she was Gemma. And it appears she knew when she went thru a door there was severing. So she was watchng Mark’s innie running off with Helly and effectively kidnapping Mark. I think. Maybe.
I enjoyed Mr Milchik’s dance moves again this season. Worth the wait.
Any chance Ms Huang is a test tube child of Mark and Gemma?
Oh, hey. Mr Drummond. Bad bit of luck with that bolt gun.
The goat people seem like nice folk.
And someone above floated the idea that H could be pregnant. I like that theory. I kept wondering why Helena got down with Mark S in the tent. Maybe she wanted to get pregnant? Maybe the Kier in her that her creepy dad saw was literal?
Which leads to the question: why Mark? Why couldn’t Dylan or Helly complete the file? What is so special about him? Is he related to the Eagens?
Finally, I love Mark’s sister and I love what an insufferable dipshit her husband is.
Spoiler
On completing Cold Harbor, I think Mark S. was the only one to do it because the numbers represented the emotions of Gemma’s various innies and he was more in tune to that than anyone else.
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What a great show.
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“I need to check the perimeter” is the new “I have to return some videotapes”.
Those last three Andor episodes were written by Tom Bissell, an excellent writer of short stories I’d heard nothing from for some time.
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I hope you don’t hear from him for a while yet since he’s hopefully writing more Star Wars material.
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Color me intrigued.
The logo is awesome.
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I’m cool with this
You have my attention.
This is probably the tv show ive been most excited about ever. Hawley does great tv and everything about this looks first rate. So glad he got the chance to work with this franchise.
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The problem with the Alien franchise, is that you have the era of the first two movies and the black goo era of the prequels (I am assuming that no one wants to visit 3 or 4). If you go with the black goo era, you’re starting from a position of weakness because that’s all such convoluted nonsense.
Romulus tried to go old school, had a good premise for it, tucked itself neatly between the first two films, but fucked it up by being rushed (literally, it was minutes in real time for each element of the reproductive cycle) and was so clumsy with the call-backs that was almost parody.
Alien Earth is set two years before Alien, so it will be interesting to see how they pull that off.
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The music in Hawley’s shows, some of which he contributes, is always excellent. I really enjoyed Legion. That’s where I first discovered Radiohead’s The Daily Mail.
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Interesting to see Alex Lawther show up in another tent pole sci-fi TV series (he was in Andor and Black Mirror). Seems to have made a niche for himself.
I had to look him up because he seemed so familiar (watching Andor) but I had no idea where from; he played the young Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game”.
I’m not sure if Murderbot is actually any good. But the episodes are short and I’ve watched all of them.
I think it’s struggling to find its tone…or I’m struggling to find its tone. Can’t tell which.