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If I can find the time, there appears to be 3 mini-series worth binging in the upcoming month
Looming Tower - based on the Pulitzer Prize winning narrative of the intelligence failures between FBI and CIA leading up to 9/11 Flint Town - eyes on the street catalog of time spent in Flint MI with all it's present problems Perhaps most intriguing - Wild Wild Country - documentary retrospective, using archival footage and current interviews regarding the controversy of the Commune/Cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Oregon in the early 1980s. Hoping to find some definitive reviews before I get too deep into any particular one, just to find it doesn't live up to expectations. Starting Looming Tower tonight [first 3 eps up]. |
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Caught the first 3 of Looming Tower, and first 2 of Flint Town.
Looming Tower is a little sterile. Maybe I already know too much of the story they're telling. Maybe I'm distracted by the performers, so I can't get into the storytelling. Find myself mostly critiquing the product, the narrative decisions, the cinematic choices, more than experiencing it. Flint Town is both traditional and immediate. It's about what you'd expect from a documentary of a city in crisis that focuses on the beat cops and the political landscape. A lot of it is like a cinematic version of COPS crossed with Errol Morris, with voiceovers narrating over cinematically framed details such as a cop staring down the road as he drives to a scene, or with fly-on-the-wall footage of city councilmen or officers shooting the shit or preparing for session. It's immediacy is setup by covering the logistical preparations for the Clinton/Sanders Dem debate, as well as a searing bit with the officers on scene of a young teen shot randomly in the middle of a blizzard. It also centers on the change in administration in Flint, which brought on a new police chief, with all that entails. It will catch you choking up with sadness and desperation in some moments, and with optimism and redemption a moment later. |
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I finished Flint Town, very sad to see there are people so passionate about this town that been shit on for decades. Yet the greedy politicians are the ones keeping that place in the shitter. Some nights they only have 4 squad cars on the streets, that is insane for one of the top 10 crime ridden towns. |
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For no reason I can think of I started watching Hap and Leonard on Netflix today. About to finish season 1. So far a good show. I think season 3 starts tonight on Sundance.
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Bunch of early 80s boomer hippies radicalizing in Oregon. Should be a rush. |
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Legion (Season 2) premieres tonight. Can't wait
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Watched Season 4 of Bosch. I have to say again how much I like this show.
I'm not into police procedurals and I'm not a fan of Titus Welliver but this show is ****ing good. Both on the cop side and the Titus Welliver performance. It really got to me
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Anybody watch Bosch on Amazon? This one of the best written , most realistic cop shows I've ever seen. I just finished a binge of Season 4.
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![]() In other news, I had Troy: Fall of a City on while I was in the office. It isn't particularly good. The Theatrical one with Brad Pitt several years ago got lambasted because Pitt mailed it in. This is worse. They managed to make every character a sniveling ****. I think they were trying to make the characters struggle with the weight of their actions. It fell flat and was poorly acted overall. The action was bleh, except for a few cool things Achilles did (none of which were in the Hector fight BTW). I mean, yeah. Helen of Troy had magnificent cans, but I don't recommend this one. |
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