“God damn dumb son of a bitch, you fucked her…”

Okay wild that it took me so long to get round to watching this. I remember seeing the VHS cover of Basic Instinct 2 (with Sharon Stone sat backwards on an office chair) at VidBiz in Monton when I was 7 or 8 and it falls into a constellation of significant images from the time, along with Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, Dracula’s wives in Van Helsing (2004), and another…

This was a good laugh and a bit of a cringe-inducing flashback to how weird things got in lockdown. I didn’t get much Hamlet from it though. Felt like the intrigue was pretty surface level in staging a play in the game world, and it really could have been any play, aside from a few incidental comments about Shakespeare being quite violent and one moment that almost bordered on insightful, when someone linked the ‘something rotten in the state of…