The show continues to impress me with its genuine emotional interactions, in turn warming my heart and being really relatable with how Hughie and Annie interact on the subway, and then having me on the edge of my seat in the life and death action scenarios in the show, as well as heightened "normal" confrontations where you're never really sure what's going to happen, and whether someone will end up crestfallen, bleeding, or dead.
There's also a lot of societal humor that is executed superlatively by the director and actors, and I have to wonder how much a foreign audience would pick up on the subtleties thereof, or even just someone who just isn't in touch with the last decade's zeitgeist. The scene where The Deep wakes up on the couch had me sequentially unnerved, intrigued, and laughing out loud, completely drowning out The Deep's protestations. Kripke is a master of tone and subtle satire and I miss it in other shows and films.
Can't wait till I hit play on MPC-BE to watch the next episode.
meta I always have to wonder about the internal psychology (of both the show runners and casting liason, and the courted subject) and the way negotiations go when a film or show like this casts someone like Chris Hansen as himself. They cast him doing something he'd likely actually do in the universe of the show-- that is, being a skeezy nineties-style show presenter exploiting human tragedy for morbid speculative drama to sell dish washing liquid. I doubt someone like Hansen has any qualms about essentially playing himself in a show criticizing society, but the prospect of actually reaching out to someone like that for that reason seems so socially fraught and surreal to me. It took me until well into adulthood to get to where I could be confident and natural ordering takeout, so I can't imagine how that kind of thing works.
Review by LNeroBlockedParent2022-09-02T00:09:46Z
Great return episode.
The show continues to impress me with its genuine emotional interactions, in turn warming my heart and being really relatable with how Hughie and Annie interact on the subway, and then having me on the edge of my seat in the life and death action scenarios in the show, as well as heightened "normal" confrontations where you're never really sure what's going to happen, and whether someone will end up crestfallen, bleeding, or dead.
There's also a lot of societal humor that is executed superlatively by the director and actors, and I have to wonder how much a foreign audience would pick up on the subtleties thereof, or even just someone who just isn't in touch with the last decade's zeitgeist. The scene where The Deep wakes up on the couch had me sequentially unnerved, intrigued, and laughing out loud, completely drowning out The Deep's protestations. Kripke is a master of tone and subtle satire and I miss it in other shows and films.
Can't wait till I hit play on MPC-BE to watch the next episode.
metaI always have to wonder about the internal psychology (of both the show runners and casting liason, and the courted subject) and the way negotiations go when a film or show like this casts someone like Chris Hansen as himself. They cast him doing something he'd likely actually do in the universe of the show-- that is, being a skeezy nineties-style show presenter exploiting human tragedy for morbid speculative drama to sell dish washing liquid. I doubt someone like Hansen has any qualms about essentially playing himself in a show criticizing society, but the prospect of actually reaching out to someone like that for that reason seems so socially fraught and surreal to me. It took me until well into adulthood to get to where I could be confident and natural ordering takeout, so I can't imagine how that kind of thing works.