#SOFIA!!! KILL THIS MF NEXT SEASON AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[eyeball-freak]

Me watching the penguin finale like

[julius-novachrono]

Ok so I just binged S3 of La Casa de Papel and here are some thoughts on the bullshit:

1) What the fuck was even going on for 3/4 of the season I was confused as shit and so was the Professor since he knew this bitch ass plan wasn’t even his and it had a 90% chance of failing

2) Tokyo and Rio gotta be the most insufferable characters I have ever laid eyes on holy shit someone string these mfs by the goddamn neck

3) These people way too soft like if I was them and the Professor came up to me talking ‘bout saving Rio I’d be like who? and gotten back to my racks of billions of euros like fuck y’all dumb bitches it ain’t my fault y’all can’t follow basic instructions

4) That pregnant bitch is a stone cold sociopath I salute tf out of the man with enough balls to knock her up

5) Palermo and Berlin fucked at least once and no one can tell me otherwise

6) Cincinatti? smh the caucasity knows no bounds

7) So is Nairobi in love with Helsinki orrrrr???

8) There was A+ shade thrown out like Raquel calling out the Professor on doing this whole thing to avenge Berlin, or the cop reading Arturito for filth telling him he eats out of tuna cans like damn he snatched him so hard his pubic hairs came out

9) Monica and Raquel are tru ride or die bitches I need me a bae like that

10) I was real life crying when I thought Raquel was about to get killed like Suarez don’t you dare we know your ass still hurting from her fucking y’all mfs over and stacking on the pile of Ls y’all been collecting

11) Bro the Professors’s face when he heard that gunshot tore my fucking heart apart. This man has lost his brother and now he thinks he’s lost the love of his life, and y’all seen that face at the end? That’s the face of a man that got nothing left to lose. My dude about to go all out on these bitches, principles and morals be damned, we doing an eye for an eye next time around bitch

11) Nairobi soft af, she let her emotions get the best of her and put herself in the center of the sniper’s aim like what kind of headass antics??? She really thought they were gonna let her even come within 5 ft of that kid? Pls

12) Sofia the MVP!!!

13) All that “resistance” crowd outside better not turn against the gang over that tank. They all out there like ‘yeah fuck the police! stick it to the government!’ with their lames ass signs but the moment the gang actually defends themselves they gonna flip on them? I cannot stand hippies who preach about resistance and change under the delusion that that’s enough to overwhelm an enemy who is armed to the teeth and ready to kill in a whim.

14) Raquel slapping Tokyo was the best thing that’s happened in all 3 seasons that shit was so good I came 10 times

[69annebowlin69]

14/3/19 - 14/7/19 Watching True Detective Episode Six and Seven

7.06

It’s likely that this version of my body - flabby in the centre, bulky around the edges - will be the one i die with, allowing i maintain it properly, and for the first time today i realised it might be ok, that i was so scared of turning doughy and shapeless again that i missed that my body right now might be ok to have for thirty more years or whatever.

7.14

‘Wondering why it took two days to find that backpack’

‘Took god six days to make the world!’

***

17.19

Okay so a few things. First, i only remember the pink room and Vulture is pay-walled now so i can’t  crib from their recaps, which are usually basic but written smartly. Two, i started watching Ep Seven on one of the small screens where the backs of peoples heads should be, halfway through an eight-hour flight. The person reclined ten-mins in. Thirdly i’ve not taken adderall today, in fact i finished the valium we had before boarding. Fourth, I no longer feel comfortable admitting that my body will stay the same til i die (see 7.06, written months ago).

Okee, in the words of Hays, “lets True Detective!!” - that famous and good catchphrase we all love

17.36

Two people have text me that The Beguiled is on Netflix. Looking forward to watching it through Emmy’s account later! Stephen Dorff is in a lesser Sofia Coppola, i think. Where he’s an exiled actor holed up at the Chateau Marmont and his daughter gets dumped on him? I’m looking to watch that one, i love that early 2010s earnest low-concept, major release, arthouse director stuff. Tree of Life core. Basically any trailer where bed sheets are unfurled, curtains billow and there’s a pool, i’m pre-booking.

17.49

Not to dig up old ground…this title sequence is such a downer. Really cools one off after the Previously On.. sequence.

17.53

This man Mahershala really going to be the next Blade. Folks, he’s already been up against Deacon Frost. Folks? I said he’s… oh we did that already.

17.56

First earnest post of the blog: the shot ascending the rusted stairwell towards, first Tom Purcell’s prone legs and then his bloodied body, with Roland crouched over, is a nice touch.

17.57

Emmy has thrush, it’s called Thrush, not a yeast infection, which i keep saying instead, and to which she squirms. It’s not gross, i remember the phrase ‘cottage cheese-like discharge’ from school, which is also not gross. Just, i can’t not imagine a container of cottage cheese, one of the 300g tubs that i used to eat, even though I can’t imagine it’s so much that’s released. We had sex last night and everything was, uh, extremely good. Sex

18.04

This season’s palette is immoveable. That slate grey, wide open spaces of the midwest containing nothing, not terrifying, not hopeful. Just drab. In the first season, there were nuances between locations and eras. When they drove out to the meth lab, Woody wore the Keith Haring t-shirt etc, the bayou was saturated and chemical-bright. Season two a kind of bright shimmering L.A. was counterpoised by seedy neon bars in which Farrell drank.

18.19

Tonally, the voices of Mr and Mrs Hays are at odds. Sonic discord between his steady montone and her fluttering, often close to cracking, timbre.

18.25

Rust and Marty! In the papers! On the laptop! Feels kind of sad. Pizzolato revelling in former glory.

18.28

They should redo s2, with all the same actors, but give someone else the job of fleshing out the story. They should redo s2 every five or ten years. I suppose HBO always do a similar version anyway. Scratch that. Keep up the good-to-middling work, my friends at HBO!

18.31

My man is looking at FLIGHT RECORDS!!! Fuck yes, sound the Epstein alarm. IS Pizz on those flight logs? How does he know so much about this racket? Same question for Stan Kubrick. I read Kubrick made Kidman and Cruise keep things from one another on the set of Eyes Wide Shut, or like set it up so that Cruise was unsure where he stood with Kidman and over time developed insecurities and doubts and misgivings, which transpired on screen, but also in their personal life. Damn. WIld.

The latest on Epstein, there was a comprehensive Daily Beast piece about his ties to Clinton and how their relationship stretched earlier than ’02, which is what Clinton claimed. Epstein actually attended balls or galas in the white house as early as ’92 and donated money to whatever that charity is that aims to protect the white house as a historic landmark.

Anyway, back to these mf flight records.

18.39

This is eerily similar to the Clinton Kill List. All these people, all these suicides, what a tragedy! Such morbid bad luck!!

18.47

Ok the pace of this is course-correcting - less of the meandering stuff and how much of a bummer it is to get old, lose your family and memory etc, and more long and birds-eye shots of cars snaking after one another on eerily empty nighttime b-roads.

An empty, rotting barn lit only by headlamp, gloves, cuts and bruises. The music hitting.

18.56

If i’d paid more attention i might have seen the signs, but i’m not sure that there were clear signs of the rift between Hays and Roland developing over a dead body that they atmospherically had to bury in the backwoods. Always burying stuff in the backwoods at dusk.

18.59

“say it. Say it then, motherfucker.”

“no… i just want you to know that i’m thinking it.”

White HBO crime writers really think they have a pass on saying, writing or alluding to the n-word.

19.00

The complex form doesn’t fit the simplicity of the relatively straightforward story of a child sex ring. We saw the same conspiracy uncovered in s1, with a more interesting narrative structure where Hart and Cole were dishonest to the investigators and we got to see their words diverge from the events of the case as they kept more aside. Their own memories and fragments of what only each one knew, never revealed to the other.

This narration is reaching for something grander, more poignant but it’s hurt by the poor storytelling of the missing children. I don’t care about the missing children, i have a passing morbid curiosity of the details of the child sex ring and dirty underground parlours and pink rooms where the kidnapped children were taken, there’s interest in seeing why this was never uncovered. However, even though they’ve built the character Hays very well, the three different iterations of him that circle round one another, drop in on one another - that’s controlled structure done in a way that suggests chaos, but if there’s nothing interesting to structure, what purpose does it serve?