Oh, that’s interesting. Probably the Scandinavian one is better, they usually are. And the title makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
Them is one the most relentlessly ugly and brutal things I’ve sat through since The Nightingale. Given the lineage, we could say it is Get Out without the safety net of comedy.
I don’t blame you for bailing on it. Too bad the people that probably need to see it the most, likely never will.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked everything I saw, and the subject material is important to me. I just don’t want to watch the specific scene I mentioned. Maybe I’ll resume watching and just skip that scene.
Wasted youth. I could have learned calculus or something back when my brain was a sticky learning machine. Instead I just still know to this day that reinemachefrau mean’s “cleaning woman.”
It’s one of the best-acted and most poorly plotted series I’ve ever seen. Watch it for the performances and character arcs, blink rapidly through the plot developments.
The performances were certainly top-notch.
Sounds like another winning series on Prime Video.
Nice, looks like its available May 14th.
Regarding the phrase “Underground Railroad”, I have to confess, this was me when I first heard it as well:
When I first heard the phrase “the underground railroad” as a child, I thought it was a literal locomotive churning under the surface, transporting Black people to salvation. Jenkins makes that fantasy a reality. In this fabled alternate universe, there’s a system of smartly dressed porters, dark tunnels, bending rails, and beautified trains, where mystical fairy dust seems to emanate from the locomotives’ hard-charging orange glow.
That was a cool book. I had no idea that Amazon was making it a series, and it’s coming out next week. Sweet.
I just finished Invincible. It starts out as a decent enough superhero story, but it’s really quite good once it finds its footing. It also does not end on a cliffhanger, which surprised me. I enjoyed it a lot!
Also, it has been renewed for two more seasons!
We have a dedicated thread if you’re interested :
And I agree, I really enjoyed the show (especially once it got going).
It was a cool book, but I need to re-read it before watching, I think. This series sounds more fantastical than I remember the book being.
Thanks. I don’t believe I’ve seen that one. Will watch it.
But while on that page, I noticed two other stone classics that are also free with Prime:
Night Of The Hunter, which just may be the best film I’ve ever seen.
And Sunset Boulevard, which, while not amongst my favorites, is certainly near the top of the field.
Both of these were filmed in stunning Ultra-Noir™!
Holy shit. And The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, another of my favorites, and Kirk Douglas’ first film.
Has Prime always had this much Noir on it, and I just never bothered to check? Wow.
Prime also has a bunch of silent movies, classic and otherwise. And random things like old serials. (Prime is a great fan of things in the public domain.)
You guys made me browse and I found this random show called Daughter of Lupin which is a Japanese TV comedy about the daughter of Lupin, famed criminal, dating a son in a family of cops.
For some reason the tag has qt3 on it so it’s destiny
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/storefront/ref=sv_atv_logo?tag=qt3-20&node=2858778011
This is really quite something. Probably my favorite contemporary television show related to slavery and the African-American experience.
I haven’t started watching yet- I had some (properly-vaccinated) riends over on Sunday, and my bestie was talking it up, though he said that first episode is brutal. My gal said it sounded interesting, so I’m waiting to start it with her later this week.
It definitely is, but I was able to stick with it no problem. Assuming your friend was referring to the horrificness of any specific scenes and not about themes, etc., there’s nothing that comes even close to a couple of specific scenes in Them that were just too much for me.