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shapinglightS and I have hardly seen each other this last week. I went away on Tuesday and came home on Thursday evening. He went away on Wednesday and isn't due back till tonight.
I don't get the house to myself much and it's been quite nice (though a bit creepy at night). I've listened to some classical music, which for various reasons I hardly ever get to do, and I've binge-watched quite a lot of telly - something I also hardly ever get to do and actually don't like doing that much (because you get through the good stuff too quickly). I've re-watched the entirety of Lucifer season 3 so far. It hangs together much better than I thought it would and there isn't - IMO - a bad episode in there.
I've also watched Godless on Netflix.
Spoilers for that behind cut.
My mum was a big fan of westerns, and I've watched a lot of them over the years. Plus, I'd read an interview with Michelle Dockery about the series and was curious to see her play a character so different to Lady Mary from Downton Abbey. So I binged it over three nights. My feelings are mixed ultimately. There was a lot of stuff I liked in it. The cast was superb, as was the cinematography. The landscapes are just stunning. I also very much like the diversity of the casting, and that it was so female-centric.
That said, I don't think it lived up to its promise in some ways. Jeff Daniels was terrific as Frank Griffin so I suppose I understand why he had so many scenes, but I could have done with fewer, actually, showing how monstrous and evil he and his gang were, and I especially did not like the way they disposed of the entire town of Blackdom so easily. Also, it got ever so slightly farcical in the end how long it took the gang to arrive in La Belle.
Instead of so many scenes featuring the gang and their depredations (not that graphic for the most part, thankfully), I would have liked the series to delve more into Alice Fletcher's past and her marriage to Truckee's father, and for there to be more scenes of the other La Belle women, some of whom got pretty short shrift, IMO.
That said, the climactic gun battle between the gang and the women of La Belle is just so well done that I've now watched it three times and will probably watch it again. It's just incredibly satisfying to see a bunch of murderous rapists taken down that way - even if the whole thing is a hymn to the gun as an equalizer, and even if the gang's behaviour -milling about in plain sight so that Mary-Agnes and Alice up on the roof can just pick them off one by one - is...kind of silly.
I also thought the whole thing about the old Shoshone man with the dog who was following Sheriff McNue around, but was apparently a ghost (?) was a bit of a weird mislead. I expected that to lead somewhere and it didn't at all. Unless I missed something?
Anyone else watched this? What did you think?
Next up, Spike Lee's TV series of She's Gotta Have It. Shan't be binge-watching, though.
ETA: Should have said, Tantoo Cardinal as Alice's acerbic mother-in-law Iyovi is just wonderful.
I don't get the house to myself much and it's been quite nice (though a bit creepy at night). I've listened to some classical music, which for various reasons I hardly ever get to do, and I've binge-watched quite a lot of telly - something I also hardly ever get to do and actually don't like doing that much (because you get through the good stuff too quickly). I've re-watched the entirety of Lucifer season 3 so far. It hangs together much better than I thought it would and there isn't - IMO - a bad episode in there.
I've also watched Godless on Netflix.
Spoilers for that behind cut.
My mum was a big fan of westerns, and I've watched a lot of them over the years. Plus, I'd read an interview with Michelle Dockery about the series and was curious to see her play a character so different to Lady Mary from Downton Abbey. So I binged it over three nights. My feelings are mixed ultimately. There was a lot of stuff I liked in it. The cast was superb, as was the cinematography. The landscapes are just stunning. I also very much like the diversity of the casting, and that it was so female-centric.
That said, I don't think it lived up to its promise in some ways. Jeff Daniels was terrific as Frank Griffin so I suppose I understand why he had so many scenes, but I could have done with fewer, actually, showing how monstrous and evil he and his gang were, and I especially did not like the way they disposed of the entire town of Blackdom so easily. Also, it got ever so slightly farcical in the end how long it took the gang to arrive in La Belle.
Instead of so many scenes featuring the gang and their depredations (not that graphic for the most part, thankfully), I would have liked the series to delve more into Alice Fletcher's past and her marriage to Truckee's father, and for there to be more scenes of the other La Belle women, some of whom got pretty short shrift, IMO.
That said, the climactic gun battle between the gang and the women of La Belle is just so well done that I've now watched it three times and will probably watch it again. It's just incredibly satisfying to see a bunch of murderous rapists taken down that way - even if the whole thing is a hymn to the gun as an equalizer, and even if the gang's behaviour -milling about in plain sight so that Mary-Agnes and Alice up on the roof can just pick them off one by one - is...kind of silly.
I also thought the whole thing about the old Shoshone man with the dog who was following Sheriff McNue around, but was apparently a ghost (?) was a bit of a weird mislead. I expected that to lead somewhere and it didn't at all. Unless I missed something?
Anyone else watched this? What did you think?
Next up, Spike Lee's TV series of She's Gotta Have It. Shan't be binge-watching, though.
ETA: Should have said, Tantoo Cardinal as Alice's acerbic mother-in-law Iyovi is just wonderful.