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thewayneLoved that ending!
For those who haven't seen it, it's sort of a hard R-rated version of Bill Murray'sCaddyshackGroundhog Day, updated. Nadia leaves her 36th birthday party with a stranger for sex, sees her cat Oatmeal that's been missing for three days, runs across the street to get it, gets hit by a car and is killed.
Finds herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier. Rinse, repeat. Always finding herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier after she dies, it's her game savepoint or something.
The trailer is amazing and makes it look a lot more amusing than I found it - it's a very dark program of eight approx. half hour episodes, so it's a fast binge, Russet and I did it in two nights though I'd previously seen the first one or two episodes shortly after it released to check it out before roping her in.
One thing that I really did not like about the show: I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NEW YORK CITY! I realize that not all New Yorkers are like Nadia. But I'm just tired of so many movies and TV shows being set there. I've been in and through something like 80% of the continental USA states and there's so much more to this country than NYC! My sincere apologies to people who live or have lived there.
But the production values! Man, the continuity people must have been going insane with this production, not to mention the costumers! This one definitely deserves some award nods when the next awards season come along. And a great rocking sound track! And some great dialog! "You carry so much guilt around with you, you should have been a Jew!" says the born into but non-practicing Jew. Another fantastic line that I won't say as we think it's revelatory. I would have loved to have been working on that production as a video historian!
It's going to be interesting to see what they do with the second season!
The show was created by Natasha Lyon, who plays Nadia (also in Orange is the New Black), and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping With Other People), and Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation, SNL). The three of them are also executive producers, so they're maintaining firm control.
It's good stuff. Very foul language, strong adult topics, and some pretty sudden and violent deaths. And recommended if you have Netflix. I might buy this when it comes out if it has a lot of good bonus material. Not my normal cup of tea, but still, we enjoyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Doll_(TV_series)
For those who haven't seen it, it's sort of a hard R-rated version of Bill Murray's
Finds herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier. Rinse, repeat. Always finding herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier after she dies, it's her game savepoint or something.
The trailer is amazing and makes it look a lot more amusing than I found it - it's a very dark program of eight approx. half hour episodes, so it's a fast binge, Russet and I did it in two nights though I'd previously seen the first one or two episodes shortly after it released to check it out before roping her in.
One thing that I really did not like about the show: I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NEW YORK CITY! I realize that not all New Yorkers are like Nadia. But I'm just tired of so many movies and TV shows being set there. I've been in and through something like 80% of the continental USA states and there's so much more to this country than NYC! My sincere apologies to people who live or have lived there.
But the production values! Man, the continuity people must have been going insane with this production, not to mention the costumers! This one definitely deserves some award nods when the next awards season come along. And a great rocking sound track! And some great dialog! "You carry so much guilt around with you, you should have been a Jew!" says the born into but non-practicing Jew. Another fantastic line that I won't say as we think it's revelatory. I would have loved to have been working on that production as a video historian!
It's going to be interesting to see what they do with the second season!
The show was created by Natasha Lyon, who plays Nadia (also in Orange is the New Black), and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping With Other People), and Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation, SNL). The three of them are also executive producers, so they're maintaining firm control.
It's good stuff. Very foul language, strong adult topics, and some pretty sudden and violent deaths. And recommended if you have Netflix. I might buy this when it comes out if it has a lot of good bonus material. Not my normal cup of tea, but still, we enjoyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Doll_(TV_series)
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Date: 2019-03-21 10:44 am (UTC)I know what you mean by being tired of NYC. Actually, a few days ago I realized that I am sick and tired of the US. Sorry. But, you know... there are so many countries in the world, so many cultures... I've been rererewatching my favorite series in the last month, because I really need comfort watching right now, but I can't stand to watch anything American anymore. (This is why I like Star Trek, by the way. Although mainly American, it does try to show the many facets* the are and can be. -- *facets of what exactly?.. I'm having trouble defining the answer.)
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Date: 2019-03-21 04:56 pm (UTC)I understand where you're coming from. There's reasons why I'd like to live in Europe, but Chile is much more likely since my wife is an astronomer. It started before our current Beloved Leader assumed office, and assumed (out of ignorance) so many other things, but yes, I'd really rather not be living in this country as I get older.
Tonight I'm going to be watching Dad's Army and Doc Martin, we just finished watching season 3 of Pie in the Sky (#4 is arriving very soon and I'm ordering the final series, #5, first of the month), all three big British hits. We're also watching Babylon Berlin, I have a special liking of TV set in Berlin after spending a week there and just really enjoying myself. I need to find out if there's TV set in modern or even old Dresden....
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Date: 2019-03-21 09:38 pm (UTC)Apropos Doc Martin (whom I tried once and didn't really succeed), do you know "Saving Grace"? It's a film, where "Doc Martin" comes from, and it's hilarious! I believe, I've seen it around five times already.
Apropos living in Europe, do you know Jonathan Carroll? He's an American writer, who lives in Vienna. I don't know, if you'd like his books (I'm just not sure I know your taste in books), but he also blogs, and I find it very refreshing to read him from time to time.
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Date: 2019-03-21 09:42 pm (UTC)It's not just Trump, it's the failure to reform the medical system and the continuing efforts to destroy Social Security and Medicare. I'm also sick of the violence and political polarization. I just feel a need for great change.
I am familiar with Saving Grace, haven't found a copy yet. Looks like a lot of fun! The Doc Martin movies are VERY different from the TV show, to me Clunes looks very much like what I think Monty Python's Graham Chapman would have looked like had he lived to be a bit older.
Not familiar with Carroll, I'll have to look him up.
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Date: 2019-03-21 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-21 11:16 pm (UTC)There were two. Both were filmed in the same location as the series and he plays Doctor Martin, but a very different character. I have a boxed set of the first four or six seasons, and they were included as extras.