Tag: Television
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Girl on: Robert Wise’s ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’
It feels weird that they should make this a submarine movie, but thinking about it, it’s the only way to make this work.
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Girl on: Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 17-20)
It’s weird, before I write these I’ll watch all of the episodes I’m covering twice. Once spread out, over a few days or so, so that I can pay attention and get the experience of actually watching for the first time, and the second will be running through the four and taking notes right before…
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Thoughts on: Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 13-16)
These next four episodes are split two ways again, 13 and 15 seem to be interested in drilling down into objective reality, 14 and 16 go in the exact opposite direction, interrogating these character’s subjectivity. It feels odd to describe them out of order like this, but it’s really the only way that writing like…
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Thoughts on Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 9-12)
Nine episodes in and it seems like things have finally settled down into a good rhythm, although I’m assured by reputation that it’ll be shaken up before too long.
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Thoughts on Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 5-8)
I guess I basically decided to cover these episodes in blocks of four because I got to the end of the fourth and decided it was such an amazing piece of filmmaking that I had to write about it.
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Thoughts on Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion (eps 1-4)
So this is a show with a main character who is suicidally depressed. It’s confirmed at episode four, but the whole thing’s been building to that point.
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Netflix’s ‘Aggretsuko’ Season 2 Review
I got drunk and watched most of this over the course of a single evening, then the rest in bed hungover the next morning. It’ll explain why I spent a lot of it in tears moaning about how hard life is for poor Retsuko who never did nothing wrong.
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Netflix’s Black Mirror: ‘Smithereens’ Review
Smithereens is overlong, tiresome, and I’d say meandering but like its hero it reaches a destination within half an hour and just sits in place waiting for something dramatic to happen. And then it does and it’s not worth the wait at all.
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Netflix’s Black Mirror: ‘Striking Vipers’ Review
It’s easier sharing a body when the one you’re offering isn’t really yours. I’ve known this ever since I was a fourteen, pretending to be an adult woman to have cybersex on anonymous websites. Back when the internet was slow and those spaces still felt illicit folks were less picky about confirmation. I think they…