Filmography
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the_lady_lilyDollhouse - Season 2
Watched mainly out of curiosity after season one. It's not bad - it's essentially a series that's interested in exploring how stuff goes wrong with tech and how one deals with it, namely explaining how the apocalyptic scenario of the last episode of the previous series actually got going. There's a big explosion at the end. Wheedon feels the urge to kill off Echo's love interest at the last possible moment, which is somewhat tiresome and predictable. But it's all fairly entertaining, moving from the 'individual scenario vaguely interlinked' structure of the first series to a more standard narrative arc idea. I'm quite glad to have watched it, but I don't think it could have sustained another series.
Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman is a Broadway actor with a reputation of being Really Bloody Difficult and can't get any work. He puts himself into drag and gets a job on a popular hospital soap. Cue hilarity. There are various things in here which shouldn't be funny, and the film is actually surprisingly self-aware about them; the plot is also very good about picking up all the casual sexism that hospital soap/drama things go for in the US (think As The World Turns and everybody sleeping with everybody else) and challenging it. Of course, the fact it's a man in drag doing the challenging rather than a woman is a major issue theoretically, but sod it, for 1982 it's bloody good, and I thought it was a really enjoyable film.
The Politician's Husband
The recent three part BBC drama, which I finished watching last night. Not bad, although I have to say that I ended up watching more out of general interest than feeling particularly convinced by the characters - in particular, the husband was rather... well, too two-dimensional and power-grabby to quite convince. I did rather like Freya, the wife coming into her own politically, and the end of the drama was rather satisfying. But yes, vaguely popcorny drama rather than anything deeply satisfying.
Watched mainly out of curiosity after season one. It's not bad - it's essentially a series that's interested in exploring how stuff goes wrong with tech and how one deals with it, namely explaining how the apocalyptic scenario of the last episode of the previous series actually got going. There's a big explosion at the end. Wheedon feels the urge to kill off Echo's love interest at the last possible moment, which is somewhat tiresome and predictable. But it's all fairly entertaining, moving from the 'individual scenario vaguely interlinked' structure of the first series to a more standard narrative arc idea. I'm quite glad to have watched it, but I don't think it could have sustained another series.
Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman is a Broadway actor with a reputation of being Really Bloody Difficult and can't get any work. He puts himself into drag and gets a job on a popular hospital soap. Cue hilarity. There are various things in here which shouldn't be funny, and the film is actually surprisingly self-aware about them; the plot is also very good about picking up all the casual sexism that hospital soap/drama things go for in the US (think As The World Turns and everybody sleeping with everybody else) and challenging it. Of course, the fact it's a man in drag doing the challenging rather than a woman is a major issue theoretically, but sod it, for 1982 it's bloody good, and I thought it was a really enjoyable film.
The Politician's Husband
The recent three part BBC drama, which I finished watching last night. Not bad, although I have to say that I ended up watching more out of general interest than feeling particularly convinced by the characters - in particular, the husband was rather... well, too two-dimensional and power-grabby to quite convince. I did rather like Freya, the wife coming into her own politically, and the end of the drama was rather satisfying. But yes, vaguely popcorny drama rather than anything deeply satisfying.
