“ You might be the painter Niall, but I’m the rolling hills”
Now it’s finished, in the most devastating way.
I thought it was probably a masterpiece after two episodes. And I was right.
Some of the best writing and acting I’ve ever seen.
It is basically Wuthering Heights. It’s also Cronenberg‘s Dead Ringers, and it’s also a Shakespearean revenge tragedy, you could see where it was going to head once you clocked all these classic tropes.
Also, it had…
I had done previous reviews for this, but they’ve disappeared. I think people must put shows up and then letterboxd removes the entry or something IDK.
Series one and two of this were my very favourite television shows. Maybe ever.
I just adored the characters and their great 6,000 year romance.
It’s also a really great comfort watching, I don’t normally watch things over and over, but this is one that I watched maybe four or five times over the…
I’m two episodes in, and this is a masterpiece. I’m finding it really quite difficult. It’s so tense the whole time and I’m just completely on edge.
But it’s so well written and so well made. I’m intrigued that the director is quite a young woman.
The chemistry of all the actors is very intense. I feel like we don’t often get these kind of characters represented on screen. Violence is often just gratuitous or glorified. Where these two are just truly messed up lads, and Ruben in particular is just terrifying.
I have a confession, when I was five I was truly in love with Superman (also Astro Boy). My devotion was from watching the old black and white telly series on repeat, on our black and white telly. Then the 70s film happened and I loved it.
James Gunn has re captured that magic and those characters. Superman here reminds me a lot of George Reeves, but mixed with the sweetness of Christopher Reeve. Thank God Mr and Mrs Kent…
