It’s been driving us mad. We kept saying ‘let’s try it again’ and watching one more episode and then bitching about it hysterically for the rest of the evening. It could have been so much better! AAARGGHH!
Horrible waste of that actor (Dorothy Atkinson) as well. She was excellent in The Gold. She can do comic delivery with her eyes closed if you just *write her some goddamned comic lines*.
I also loved The Pale Blue Eye, which is at my upper bound for horror and turned out to be just my type of historical fiction / bonnet drama / general ambient spookiness (see also: Sleepy Hollow). I also thought our guy Dudley Dursley did an amazing job, once I got past that REALLY bad fake southern accent (it's not just him; a lot of actors do this badly and have been doing it badly since at least Gone With the Wind, but I wish they could come meet my elderly neighbors or at least bother to listen to some of the plentiful old WPA recordings or something). But it is my civic duty as a Richmonder living a stone's throw away from the Poe Museum (and as the Metropolitan's own personal pedant) to inform you that it's Edgar "Allan" Poe, not "Allen." 🤓
And even though Disney is very big in this household, I still haven't bothered to watch Coco because the one type of horror I *can't* watch is the type where musicians have to Follow Their Dreams and Just Play Guitar, Man, To the Ruin And Detriment of All Other Things. Because, you know, they're more important and sparkly than all the rest of you peasants who have to work for a living. And where if you disagree, you're not Supporting The Arts.
Gah! As someone who read every single short story and wrote a thesis on Poe for his undergraduate degree I really, REALLY should have caught that.
In defence of Coco (which possibly doesn't deserve it), they do at least subvert that trope and go somewhere a bit more wholesome with it (I wholly agree with you about that and someday am going to find some excuse to trot out my hobby horse and write about all the evils of the Lone Bohemian Genius and the All American Movie Hero - two manifestations of the same modernist, individualist spirit)
Thank you! Re: Coco, that's very good to hear, and I'll take your word for it. Re: Poe, it's an easy mistake to make! We've all done it. But should our local newspaper have done it, and in a headline no less? That actually happened a couple of weeks ago and the entire city was properly disgusted, though not surprised since I think the only people left in the newsroom are a handful of recent grads an some AI bots.
Yes you've hit the nail on the head with Ludwig.
It’s been driving us mad. We kept saying ‘let’s try it again’ and watching one more episode and then bitching about it hysterically for the rest of the evening. It could have been so much better! AAARGGHH!
"...Ma'am." YES WE GET THE JOKE MOVE ON.
Horrible waste of that actor (Dorothy Atkinson) as well. She was excellent in The Gold. She can do comic delivery with her eyes closed if you just *write her some goddamned comic lines*.
You're saying "You do know what I'm talking about, don't you?" ISN'T a comic line? 🙄
Thank you for another good Spotify playlist!
I also loved The Pale Blue Eye, which is at my upper bound for horror and turned out to be just my type of historical fiction / bonnet drama / general ambient spookiness (see also: Sleepy Hollow). I also thought our guy Dudley Dursley did an amazing job, once I got past that REALLY bad fake southern accent (it's not just him; a lot of actors do this badly and have been doing it badly since at least Gone With the Wind, but I wish they could come meet my elderly neighbors or at least bother to listen to some of the plentiful old WPA recordings or something). But it is my civic duty as a Richmonder living a stone's throw away from the Poe Museum (and as the Metropolitan's own personal pedant) to inform you that it's Edgar "Allan" Poe, not "Allen." 🤓
And even though Disney is very big in this household, I still haven't bothered to watch Coco because the one type of horror I *can't* watch is the type where musicians have to Follow Their Dreams and Just Play Guitar, Man, To the Ruin And Detriment of All Other Things. Because, you know, they're more important and sparkly than all the rest of you peasants who have to work for a living. And where if you disagree, you're not Supporting The Arts.
Gah! As someone who read every single short story and wrote a thesis on Poe for his undergraduate degree I really, REALLY should have caught that.
In defence of Coco (which possibly doesn't deserve it), they do at least subvert that trope and go somewhere a bit more wholesome with it (I wholly agree with you about that and someday am going to find some excuse to trot out my hobby horse and write about all the evils of the Lone Bohemian Genius and the All American Movie Hero - two manifestations of the same modernist, individualist spirit)
Thank you! Re: Coco, that's very good to hear, and I'll take your word for it. Re: Poe, it's an easy mistake to make! We've all done it. But should our local newspaper have done it, and in a headline no less? That actually happened a couple of weeks ago and the entire city was properly disgusted, though not surprised since I think the only people left in the newsroom are a handful of recent grads an some AI bots.