Lunch break working from home extended skives
True Detective S1. Sublime apart from the very very end. Picked up more. Existential dread, the influence of psychospheres extending out into the lives of others - Woody H’s kids and their doll arrangements, Rust Cohle’s beer can figurines, the spirals in flocks of birds and the galaxy that appears. As much as ”time is a flat circle“ ran throughout, the cut ups of time to keep the plot and the viewer on their toes raised it above so much other dross. Some of the best dialogue in any tv.
The Terror S1. To add to the lockdown Covid claustrophobia. If you can’t beat em join em logic Strong cast, relatable characters and yet just far enough back in time to appear semi-alien. The unyielding cold, the diver who freaks out, command structures disintegrating. The thing made of muscles and spells must get in the heads of millennial Wicca and tarot gimp newbs at night. Zero fat. The multitude of problems that escalate. Just add Lustmord‘s Goetia and Robert Fripp’s tune for the last scene. Bravo!