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CorsiHockeyLeague · 04-28-2019, 11:54 PM

I wasn't totally sure what to think after season 1, but I don't care if it does take another two plus years, I'm in. I need more of this. It's unique.

One of the things I respect about what Batmanglij and Marling have done is that there is no taking the easy road. There are some things that, out of context, sound utterly silly about this show. Even in context, you kind of have to be the sort of person who is open to a certain degree of suspension of disbelief. The way most shows now would deal with the epic or the strange is to wink at the audience - allow us to maintain our cynicism by reassuring us that this is all ironic and that the show is in on it, and you're allowed to enjoy the bizarre because "we're not taking ourselves too seriously". Nope - this show does take itself seriously, and doesn't apologize. There's no punches pulled and therefore no stage slap. That's art, not entertainment.

I think the show is polarizing for a number of reasons. There are obviously people who the show is not for because they just don't like anything "weird" or challenging in their TV. There are people who the show isn't for because they can't process abstractions. There are, on the other side, people who are suspicious of anything that might be artistically pretentious and reject anything that could be interpreted that way as a sort of defense mechanism against seeming pretentious themselves. In other words, this is a total niche. Twin Peaks is the only thing I can compare it to in TV. In movies, it kind of reminds me of Aronofsky's "Fountain".

Anyway, if I was a billionaire, I'd find out what a season of this costs and just pay them to make season 3. It's not the greatest TV show out there, or anything close - far too haphazard - but stuff like this needs to get made. You know... if there was any other stuff like this.

04-28-2019, 11:54 PM	#3293
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	I wasn't totally sure what to think after season 1, but I don't care if it does take another two plus years, I'm in. I need more of this. It's unique. One of the things I respect about what Batmanglij and Marling have done is that there is no taking the easy road. There are some things that, out of context, sound utterly silly about this show. Even in context, you kind of have to be the sort of person who is open to a certain degree of suspension of disbelief. The way most shows now would deal with the epic or the strange is to wink at the audience - allow us to maintain our cynicism by reassuring us that this is all ironic and that the show is in on it, and you're allowed to enjoy the bizarre because "we're not taking ourselves too seriously". Nope - this show does take itself seriously, and doesn't apologize. There's no punches pulled and therefore no stage slap. That's art, not entertainment. I think the show is polarizing for a number of reasons. There are obviously people who the show is not for because they just don't like anything "weird" or challenging in their TV. There are people who the show isn't for because they can't process abstractions. There are, on the other side, people who are suspicious of anything that might be artistically pretentious and reject anything that could be interpreted that way as a sort of defense mechanism against seeming pretentious themselves. In other words, this is a total niche. Twin Peaks is the only thing I can compare it to in TV. In movies, it kind of reminds me of Aronofsky's "Fountain". Anyway, if I was a billionaire, I'd find out what a season of this costs and just pay them to make season 3. It's not the greatest TV show out there, or anything close - far too haphazard - but stuff like this needs to get made. You know... if there was any other stuff like this. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 04-28-2019 at 11:57 PM.