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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 20, 2018 3:15:01 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 12, 2018 3:48:05 GMT
Almost a year later, I finally watched it! I really liked it. Edward Berger directed a few of the early episodes and was executive producer. He and the others do a very good and consistent job but it doesn’t have the explosive shots and diversity in style of Patrick Melrose. It probably wouldn’t have worked for this kind of series. Probably my only complain is that the CGI of the monster isn’t very good done but it doesn’t matter because it is not exactly the center of the plot nor the main threat. It’s more about the monstrosity of human beings, especially the “civilized” ones.
I love how the fact that the creature eats British men is debilitating it. There is a lot of stuff about being poisoned by food and yes, corrupted human flesh! Actors are all great and I’m very happy to see the wonderful Jared Harris in the leading role.
Also why always Ciaran Hinds is murdered in the most horrible way? Ok, there are a lot of nasty and bloody deaths but his is one of the first showed explicitly. The series go from being very contain to a savage climax and surprising Hinds dies very early on! Another BC’s co-star apart of Hunds and Harris is Sian Brooke but her role isn’t very interesting TBH. The last shot is beautiful!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 31, 2021 3:09:00 GMT
Anyone watched this? I'm rewatching it!
I also watched some time ago the second season but it wasn't so good as the first one. The supernatural creature (a female ghost)is much better designed so I guess there was more money but the writing is not at the same level. Also, I kind of think it's affected by politically correct stuff. Japanese ghost stories are fantastic and the fact that the set was an American internment Japanese camp during the World War 2 sounded very interesting but they were too much open with their agenda. At the end they actually do an homage to Japanese Americans showing family photos of people involved in the production. It surely was something very important for them and I feel bad criticizing it but it's kind of odd considering it supposedly is a horror series! I understand them, tho. It was nice to see the cliched role of the white woman (or man) who falls in love for a Japanese and has to enter the culture and see all the injustices against them occupied here by a Mexican woman! They really tried to be very progressive but it was still full of cliches! They shouldn't feel the need to have a non-Japanese point of view there explaining audiences a foreign culture! At the end they have a Mexican curandera helping to fight the Japanese ghost but I think I'm mixing the plot a little with the sha-man uncle in Ash vs Evil Dead so I'm not sure about this! Lol
The first season was basically about the proud colonists being hunting by a mythical native creature. They are cursed since the beginning and at the end destroyed by their own ego. The message is very clear but it's not obvious. They don't spelled to you and I guess it could be considered "problematic" by social media standard: the cast is mostly men and with the exception of the young Inuit girl, the rest of the women aren't very interesting roles; also the main human villain is gay and, worse, he isn't a posh official!!! Lol
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 4, 2021 3:12:21 GMT
I finished it again and it's just great. I only have seen the work of Edward Berger here and in Patrick Melrose but both productions are extraordinary although very different. This series has a lot of very poetic and haunting shots of, you know, big ships trapped in the ice but it's mostly about the superb writing. Patrick Melrose is also about the writing but you also can see a very distinctive visual style in each episode. Anyway, he is a very talented guy!
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