Are there any interesting shows that you’re watching currently?
Oh, well, I don’t think there’s really been much airing? I’ve also just been pretty busy at work for the last few weeks, not had a chance to watch much even if there was anything.
Um, hmmm. What’m I watching…okay, well, I’m actually enjoying this Canada/New Zealand joint production, The Sounds. It’s set in NZ, starring Rachelle Lefevre, always very watchable, where a rich Canadian couple out on their boat and the husband goes missing. No f/f (althoughhh, I’m kind of hoping for something, it’s a long-shot and we only have one ep left, but fingers crossed), just a season long mystery drama thriller kind of thing, with a lot of the local characters really fleshed out. It’s kind of atmospheric but not really in a gloomy Scandi noir way, since NZ’s so pretty and they’re not gonna let you forget it. It started off being kind of just something to pass the time and then there was a bit of a twist and now I’m genuinely interested to see how it ends.
Also, season 4 of Fargo, just started but pretty great already. It’s about rival crime families in the ‘50s and I knew from the trailer one of the factions was a Black family so I expected it to be more about racism and–of course it’s there, it permeates everything, but Fargo plots are so distinct and substantial, in their oddball way, there’s very much an actual story to which the racism is a backdrop.
The Good Lord Bird only started this week, about Ethan Hawke as this, like, fiery, wild, kind of absurd abolitionist, it’s from the POV of a young Black boy he “rescues” in a really stupid characteristic way and so far seems to do well in focusing not just on Hawke’s character, as you just can’t for this kind of premise. It’s almost a comedy, but obviously definitely a drama. No f/f, I can’t even remember a woman in the whole of the first ep, but I’m liking it for its own sake. [ETA on October 11, 2020: I’m not sure I’d recommend it on the basis of the second ep. The main character gets separated from Ethan Hawke’s character and winds up having his own “adventure” and it ends with the death of the two named Black women on the show so far, one by hanging.]
Otherwise, I guess I got some stuff to catch up on. Caught up on spoilers on Ratched and The Haunting of Bly Manor, only gonna watch one of them. Criminal s2…oh, Soulmates started and I liked the first ep, was happy to see Sarah Snook in something watchable, but after seeing the interview with the showrunners, feel like the rest of the show’s not going to be as imaginative and bold as it could have been but waiting for the obligatory f/f ep regardless. Even though I feel like it might go the poly or bad-end route, and also, one of them has bangs, which. >_>
I dunno, there’s other random stuff, but really, there’s not much, is there.