TV and stuff

[olivermoss]

Things I am watching besides a male burlesque performer stream Guild Wars 2 PVP. (No joke, that's what open in my other tab)

* I'm rewatching Constantine. I've give my take on it before, but it was a while ago. Matt Ryan is amazing in the role. It's so tight to the source material. While such a close adaptation working as a TV is an impressive feat, I'd rather they updated a few things like some of the terms.

* I am trying to watch Our Flag Means Death. Gay pirates brought to us by Taiki Waititi. I am going to keep slowly watching it to see if it clicks with me. I love some Waititi stuff, but some I just don't vibe with. I loved What We Do In The Shadows, but can't make it through an episode of Wellington Paranormal. He's apparently a producer and actor on OFMD but not a writer?

I want to like it. Maybe if I keep with it.

* I am also listening to the Malevolent podcast. I am several episodes behind, though. I'll get caught up at a point. They use a very interesting device to deal a a podcast's need to describe surroundings. It's a horror podcast where the demon thing inside of the guy has control of his eyes. They share a body, so the demon has to guide the human.

* I've dropped Gilded Age. Characters just do bizarre things to further the plot. It feels like that one rich couple are the only real characters on the show.

* I have been watching Euphoria. In parts it's amazing but as a whole it's a mess. Zendaya's acting is powerful on the show. I may post about it as a point, and how it has a slash writer as one of the major characters. But, eh, not tonight.

* I've just barely started Queer Eye: Germany, but will watch it when I've got time.

Comments

[muccamukk]

I made exactly two minutes of Our Flag Means Death before deciding I could not with it. I don't do well with second hand embarrassment, which seems to be the captain's whole deal.

Gilded Age I made 20 minutes.

I might just be bad at tv?

[olivermoss]

Yeah, OFMD has a lot of 'painful social awkwardness is hilarious!' that British TV often has. Not they it's British, but it's that same vibe.

Noping out of Gilded Age saved you seeing a very awkward shoe scene.

Eh, some tv sucks and some tv isn't for everyone. I am seeing OFMD as a quickly rising fandom fave and I'd like to be in on the active fandoms, but I rarely vibe with the big faves.

[muccamukk]

I'm amazed that I managed to vibe with both Ted Lasso and We Are Lady Parts last year, though the former was an American comedy with a different vibe, and the latter I made myself sit through the awkward bits to get to the punk band team love.

At least it's not bloody Secession.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I am very happy I decided to rewatch Constantine and have that be my show for now. Then I can re-watch Leverage again.

But every time there is a new fandom rising fast I get hopeful it's for me, and gay pirates sounded promising.

[mistressofmuses]

My tumblr has blown up with Our Flag Means Death. I don't have HBOMax, so I don't have an easy way to watch it. It sounds like the kind of thing I'd like, but I also know how skewed the general tumblr impression of a show can be, haha.

Malevolent sounds interesting!

[olivermoss]

OFMD is very 'painful social awkwardness is hilarious' and like... putting very modern ideas about running a healthy work place put into a histoical canon = funny. I also have yet to encounter this amazing queerness helping re-establish pirate life as a very queer space.... and also with all the deliberate mixing of modern and historical I don't think I'd take them being gay as showing the reality of anything.

I got HBO for Matrix and then a few other things. I'll likely cancel soon. I think I kept it just for Euphoria.

[mistressofmuses]

See, that's very much what I mean with how tumblr can give very skewed impressions of a show, haha. While I already knew the show was a comedy, from having seen a couple blurbs about it before, the impression from tumblr gif sets and flailing has been about ~the feels~ and omg queer storytelling!! Not that those things can't exist within a comedy, by any means, but... I get the feeling that the whole vibe of the show is not that.
(Not all comedy does it for me, and "painful social awkwardness" isn't my favorite species of it.)

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I wanted to hang in there to see how the actual romance storyline hit but I think I am pretty settled on that this isnt for me. I am much happier rewatching Constantine and Leverage.

But if there is a rising fandom I always want to know about it and check it out. I don't want to miss out on a fandom I'd enjoy, and gay pirated sounded promising.

[mistressofmuses]

It sounds like episode 8 is where everyone got extra enthusiastic? Maybe? I'm gleaning that purely from the fact my tumblr is still going wild, lol.
I can't quite tell if it would be my kind of thing or not. Gay pirates IS extremely promising! But it seems like it might not be the kind of comedy I enjoy. If I end up getting an HBOMax subscription (which I've been considering due to a handful of different shows and movies I've seen recced), I'll probably try to give it a watch and see if I like it.