This is kinda cool, like a wackier dietland meets downward dog with some tackier SMILF or Jerk on BBC humor. Shrill explores a pretty likable character with low self-esteem who quickly becomes quite selfish on her road to self acceptance, getting intoxicated with the idea that she can 'not care' what others think.
I just wish these kinds of shows wouldn't make it seem like refusing to do anything to change your fitness is this body-positive thing. Let's be real, it's the natural consequences to eating chips and candy and never running, unless you have some disorder. In this case, Annie is just at the point of obesity. But while body-shaming never helped anyone get better, while inspiration and support do, it's weird to see the plus sized characters act like the thin people around them are horribly privileged or insensitive, like the trainer girl was made out to be for trying to help. How dare she insinuate Annie is not perfect how she is. And therein lies the problem of motivating someone who gets set back several steps any time someone implies they have a problem. But as for thin privilege, no, they probably work out and earn that "privilege" and you can too.
Back to the first ep- that was the most drama-free abortion ive ever seen.
The comment about "screwing the secretary, eh? A bit of a cliché" was brilliant.
"Say goodbye to eternal life", yeah what a threat by a masterkiller like Eph. Cheesy one-liner.
Being the stupid clichéd love affair that it really is, I didn't and don't care for the secretary, but must question the way Palmer was secured. Actually he wasn't secured whatsoever by his bodyguard. He was made a much simpler target instead.
Previously, the bodyguard even directly looked into the scope of Eph's rifle but didn't see anything. It's equally absurd to even think a second about Eph being able to hit Palmer in the first place. He wasn't able to do so with a much lesser distance and a still-standing Eichhorst. He should know it himself that he is incapable of hitting his target. His alcoholism is no excuse here.
Hilarious was also the secretary being operated in Palmer's office. What the actual f. What an unsterile and unprepaired environment. But in a hospital the master's appearance couldn't that easily happen, right?
The script seems pretty rushed, written in a too strict timeframe or too little care or even both. I think it's both.
I bet Palmer is only killed by Eichhorst later on. Cliffhanger was pretty obvious, at least the book part of the cliffhanger.
All in all an okay-ish episode. No Zach, that is worth a bonus point.
The German in the book, was it Google translated?
The complete English title of the Occido Lumen is supposed to read as "Occido Lumen - A complete account of the first rise of the Strigoi and full confutation of all arguments produced against their existence".
German was:
"Ein compleat Konto des ersten Aufstieg der Strigo und volle Widerlegung aller Argumente gegen thier(?) Existenz produziert"
If I translate that back as it is (ignoring that compleat is not German, just like thier), I'd end up with:
A complete bank account of the first rise of the Strigo and full confutation of all arguments against their existence produced.
Better would have been:
Eine gründliche Auseinandersetzung des ersten Aufstiegs der Strigo und eine volle Widerlegung aller aufgestellten Argumente gegen ihre Existenz.
Sounds still somewhat bumpy and lengthy but that's what the English title says. It kinda goes around three edges instead of one.
To say "going to proof the existence of the Strigo" is shorter than saying "going to refute produced arguments against their existence" and means the same. In English the lengthy version sounds better, in German it's the shorter version that sounds better.
In our digital world you might expect maybe not 100% accurate non-English texts but you could demand a little more than that.
Especially considering the actor of Eichhorst is actually German. Shouldn't be a big deal asking him for an appropriate translation of at least the title.
The mythology described on the other page is pretty much accurate but the German is not at all. But interesting nontheless, if you care for mythology that is. The other sides of the book are written awkwardly as well, but most of all umlauts and the ß are missing entirely. This would suggest the used font didn't support umlauts when they copied it from Google to print it out. Seriously, it's no problem to use ue, ae, oe instead of ü, ä, ö or ss instead of ß but leaving them out completely? No-Go.
I know the book thingy is only a minor thing, even though the book itself plays a bigger role, but I like to pay attention of how my native language is (ab)used in fiction.
Eph, a rather healthy middle-aged man, has an effing sniper rifle, the moment of total surprise and completely misses his still standing target in like less than 20 meters (~60 feet) distance but a hundred-something year old man has better aim "skillz" with a handgun than him??
Wow. Just wow. The scriptwriter of this episode has outdone him-/herself yet again to insult the intelligence of this show's audience.
That council woman is annoying af, when she introduced that ethically and morally despicable...memorial(?) of vampire/ghoul heads the scriptwriter did a great job there, too. But it also showed the incredible stupidity of that character as a whole.
While she annoys the hell out of me, I still see her as a really awful (and therefore hilarious again) caricature of Leslie Knope. I can't help it. Everything that made Knope likeable, funny, charismatic, enjoyable to watch that council woman is the exact opposite.
That calling out to the citizens was ridiculous and second hand shaming as well, it's like Eph and his constantly nagging co-worker are the only ones ever to research what is happening in this entire show and know what is happening overall.
The showdown with Eichhorst was no showdown, the new intro that was introduced this week shows Eichhorst in it, would be a massive waste to do so if you'd be killing him off in the episode. So...that spoiler is on you, The Strain!
The new intro is a tad too long and..nothing's really happening but nice nontheless and it took The Strain only 1 1/2 seasons to get a proper intro. Thankfully this got a S3 order last month so the intro actually pays off.
