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Post by mllemass on Apr 18, 2024 15:12:47 GMT
I started watching this last night, and I’m in the middle of episode 4.
It’s becoming more and more disturbing, and I’m only half-way through. I’m wondering whether I’m going to keep watching it.
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 18, 2024 16:41:26 GMT
I started watching this last night, and I’m in the middle of episode 4. It’s becoming more and more disturbing, and I’m only half-way through. I’m wondering whether I’m going to keep watching it. I guessed it was going to get darker. I had to stop watching just in the first episode. I'll watch an episode a day.
I searched a little and someone was comparing it to I May Destroy You. It's a true story that happened to the actor (and writer).
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Post by mllemass on Apr 18, 2024 19:14:11 GMT
They are calling this a comedy, which is also disturbing. It’s not a comedy. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow and possibly continue the rest of episode 4.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 19, 2024 1:18:29 GMT
I’m in episode four, too. I didn’t have any problem finishing it but yeah, it’s a dark plot twist for the series. No that the first episodes were really a comedy! They definitely weren’t but they added another very dark layer to the story. It wasn’t a big surprise, tho. Because those trigger warnings at the beginning! I understand that they have good intentions but c’mon, they don’t work! It’s confirmed they don’t and actually make people more anxious! I understand the info at the end, tho. But trigger warnings are silly I think I will finish the series before give my opinion about it. I sincerely doesn’t know where it goes! It’s pretty well acted, edited and it has cool music. It’s amazing that a series with these themes is apparently at the top in Netflix’s Top Ten! We will see if it can stay there longer! Maybe people is stopping in the 4th episode! After all, Netflix counts minutes not complete viewing! |
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Post by mllemass on Apr 19, 2024 5:44:54 GMT
I had 17 minutes left to watch of episode 4, so I managed to get through it. I haven’t gone any further yet. I decided to look into whether I knew the cast from anything else. The only name that sounded familiar was Tom Goodman-Hill ( who plays gross, creepy Darien). It turns out that he has a connection to our Benedict! He was in The Imitation Game, and he did the voice of Martin in the Newcastle episode of Cabin Pressure. |
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 19, 2024 11:38:07 GMT
Thanks. He looked familiar!
He was great, tho.! Very difficult character.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 20, 2024 2:28:11 GMT
I finished it. It’s pretty good. It has a dramatic and pretty adequate ending that sympathizes with Martha but practically during the whole series there were a lot of moments in which the protagonist and audiences were permitted to sympathize with her I have read a few comments comparing it with Patrick Melrose. Some of the themes are similar but I think those difficult themes were much better and more realistically managed in PM. I mean the warnings and recommendations weren’t common then (maybe there was one in the second episode. I don’t remember it!) but instead they had sensitivity and unsensationalism. There was also some hope. Here as part of the dark drama, the possibility of salvation wasn’t permitted which kinda contradicted the announcement about reaching for help at the end of the episodes! And the ironic thing is that the dramatization of the reaching for help in PM felt authentic because it wasn’t something bombastic or instantaneous. Patrick discreetly and gradually told others about the sexual abuse he suffered but he avoided to go big, for example, in the funeral scene when it seemed he was about to scream to the world about it. Here happens the opposite, he can’t tell anyone but then just scream it to the world in the wrong very public place at the wrong time. Then he goes viral. This act liberates him but it is just something ephemeral (I don’t know what happened to the writer in real life and what was fabricated, tho.). Maybe because the “happiness” he found is just about him being finally famous. Wow! It’s much more tragic if you think about it! It’s full of self-hating and kinda reflects the way young people today manage trauma with big confessions and trying to go viral on Internet but TBH, I’m not sure the series really went so deep about this. Although, it was clearly, at least at the end, the wrong move for him and it’s desperate to see how he always take the worst decision! In other words, it’s a very satisfying ending but at the same time it felt unreal and maybe even slightly irresponsible (especially when they are the kind of show that worries about putting contacts for help at the end of the episodes!). At least, compared to the other series I mentioned above! |
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 20, 2024 11:55:37 GMT
It’s amazing that a series with these themes is apparently at the top in Netflix’s Top Ten! We will see if it can stay there longer! Maybe people is stopping in the 4th episode! After all, Netflix counts minutes not complete viewing! It's not only staying #1 but is also raising in almost every country (where it is seen, perhaps).
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 20, 2024 13:13:47 GMT
That’s interesting! Imagine if “difficult” Patrick Melrose would had been released on Netflix instead of Showtime! It also had the advantage of a more popular cast.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 20, 2024 13:48:27 GMT
I think it’s amazing because I don’t think Netflix publicized it a lot. Probably I’m wrong but I personally didn’t knew about it until they released the trailer during the British event in which they just released Eric photos. I don’t think there was a teaser nor photos released before that! I also didn’t knew about the actors doing American press until now. Andrew Scott and co. did talk shows, if I’m not wrong? Netflix even did Patricia Highsmith’s film festival in their movie theatres to promote Ripley!
EDITED She was brilliant, by the way. You indeed can’t avoid to really feel sorry for her even in her more scary moments! The script is very explicit that you MUST feel for her but it’s her performance what make it possible.
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