Those are good points. I was also pleasantly surprised with the uplifting, but not saccharine, tone that the series concluded on. I think it did justice to the book, in which the symphony went on, as did the world, despite tragedies. The book just left more threads loose at the end.

I loved the book. This was a really interesting adaptation. They took the basic premise of the book and asked “what if Person A did Y instead of X” a whole bunch of times, but managed to do so in a way that didn’t betray most of the well developed characters in the original.

It looks like they might cook up more time for Jeevan and young Kirsten to interact.

I’ve always been a PTA fan, but I’ve never walked away more disappointed in a movie than I did with The Master. I think I even like Inherent Vice more.

Man, Station Eleven is just a damn fantastic book and I am excited to see it adapted. From the trailer it doesn’t look not faithful, but we’ll ultimately see.

Definitely a Goya homage!

Mare of Easttown was the best season of True Detective. I mean that as no offense to either show, especially not Mare. It was intimate and epic. It made you question the protagonist and the system they work within. And in the end, justice being done is even messier than the crime itself.

Maybe C-Town! Or Food Universe, I’ve gotten lazy with how far I go for groceries in the pandemic.

That’s a totally fine opinion to have. They are very different musicals, and preferences are a valid thing.

I live in Inwood, I know. 96k could still get you, say, years of rent in an apartment in Washington Heights or Inwood, or in another part of the city if you wanted to relocate. Of course it was worth more in ‘95, but it didn’t read as weird that a bunch of people would be excited about it and how it would change their…

The leads are light skinned, but there are prominent characters with dark skin, too.

Yes, the time frame isn’t hammered home, but it’s contemporary: there are smart phones. There is also a side story about dreamers. FWIW, $96k is still a damn big deal to most people.

I got to see an early screener of this, and it was a delight! The musical is already great, and they did a great job using the medium of film to enhance it and do some fantastical staging. Great casting, too.

“It’s not a train, it’s a story device. Literally. A literal literary device quite literally metaphorically containing us.”

Randall, important correction, all 6 episodes are out on HBO NOW and I assume HBO Go.

Thanks for the really insightful reviews, Joelle! Hope there is another season so you can come back and do this again.

I do wonder how they are going to wrap it up next week, but I do not worry.

Jerri Blank on Tatooine... Check out to me.

I’m so excited that I need a Cherry Coke Zero.

(Controversial?) opinion: The Pig episode of Black Mirror is bad. Like, really, really bad. Not the kind of bad that stems from a lack of production quality, or something that is poorly communicated, but the kind of bad that stems from a horrible, horrible conceit. When the blackmailer’s demand is first made, it is…