I don’t know what dates are anymore. Am I behind? Am I not behind? Did I just momentarily for like a full month not post at all. Who’s to say? I’ll promise to catch up again, because I hate when I miss them but like- ya know…
I wrote this one, and then I forgot I wrote this one. Over a week ago. I wrote it over a week ago. I haven’t edited it to accommodate for that, so bare with, it’s a little behind. For the sake of getting just any post out at all you’re just going to get it now. It might be a Tuesday, but ya know what? It’s the weekend in spirit.
So, let’s round this up, shall we?
Where Am I? What Have I Even Been Watching?
Not had a shit ton to say, or if you’re my partner I’ve had a hell of a lot to say it’s just about the catastrophic and horrific dystopia that is The Handmaid’s Tale, and I’ve just not been jumping to write a post about that. One, because if I do I want it to be when I’ve finished it, which is still two weeks away whether I want it to be or not. The hype of that finale might have passed, but I live in the UK, and ya know I’m just not jumping at alternative methods of watching it right now, not that I’ve finished Season 5 again yet. Two, it’s just obviously very dark, and that feels like it needs many-a trigger warnings and a dedicated post. This is not that post.
I am the sort of person to binge through a series. I watched all seven seasons of Elementary this past month in like a week and a bit, and we’ll probably go over those in a minute. THT, though? I was watching Season 2 like a month ago and I just picked it back up again like last Wednesday. I am writing this now on Monday, largely because I’ve decided after like 5 days of watching it straight I need a break. Which would just be a day, but I have regular plans on Tuesday’s so I’ll probably continue on Wednesday evening. I’m like 3 episodes into Season 5… which is a season. I just need a lighter breather. This show is a lot. A meaningful, poignant and important lot, that seems to be becoming increasingly relevant. But still a lot.
That’s another reason I suppose I’m not writing about it. THT cannot be written about in a vacuum. I write in a vacuum a lot on here, keep it personal, subjective, etc. – it’s just less taxing for me, which is me admitting that I am occasionally lowkey lazy – but art, almost always, is political. How can it not be? You don’t even have to look very far for the political contexts of THT at the moment, and they were baked into the source material as it is. It is common knowledge that Atwood did not use anything in the story of The Handmaid’s Tale that had not already occurred. Now look at us, repeating it. Yeah, when I do write that post, it’ll be political… and I’m avoiding that, for now. It will also have a lot to say about June, I suspect, because this is one hell of a character arc that is of some great fun to get into. So, that’ll come too.
Anyways! Lighthearted, lets run through this, right?
Seven seasons of Elementary in like a week and a bit. I really just- binged those. Though, for perfect clarity I was in a Sims 4 mood and I felt that required some background noise. Elementary worked very well in this instance. So well I could watch it again.
No, really, while watching it I spoke at length to a few friends about my sheer joy with the Holmes/Watson partnership and friendship in this version. It feels like so many partner procedural’s do the whole ‘will they/won’t they’ fiasco, which don’t get me wrong I do love, as you know, but these guys? This platonic best friendships was so fun to watch. They’re perfect. I mean I could write an essay on them right now, the thing is I don’t really want to. So later, I guess.
Also, I finished School Spirits, and like look it was very good and I kind of want to watch it again before I cancel my subscription to Paramount+, however, may we please discuss, what kind of cliffhanger is that?
What am I supposed to do with this information? I mean like I saw it coming a little, I was like “Oh no, Simon.” the minute he walked back into that place, and for a hot minute I thought Maddie was just going to die die but like… I have so much to wait… again.
Really I feel like it’s been a few years since Season 1, and season 1 had a cliffhanger but it was only Season 1 if you get me. It was good, but it wasn’t a ‘I-can-invest-and-give-you-part-of-my-soul’ sort of time frame. I am, however, very invested so how in the hell do we go on like this? Knowing that?
No, it’s okay, I will be not over dramatic about it. I needn’t be. It was a very good second season, and I am glad I came back to finish it, eventually. I can’t wait for the next.
I really didn’t think they would get Maddie back in the world of the living till like the series finale, I can’t lie. Just thought they’d drag that out until the very last moment, but they didn’t. So, like, already shocked me a little, which I think is perhaps a very good sign. So much more good stuff to come, yes?
Okay and also, Doctor Who. I mean, I finished it. Yeah.
So, it turns out Mrs Flood is Archie Panjabi. That’s neat. I like Panjabi from her role on Blindspot, so that really was a “Who the f*** cares who the Rani is that’s Archie Panjabi!” Stoked, to say the least.
None of the episodes were anything to really write home about, in my opinion. Couple weeks later, none of them really stand out to me. I liked Lux enough, I think. The one about the creature from the diamond planet was a weird addition to an iconic story. If it’s the same creature how come it functioned entirely differently, ya know? A little unnecessary. The story machine was a neat idea, that was fine to watch. The song contest was fun to watch, honestly, I did quite like that episode. I thought the commentary in ‘Dream World’ was perfectly on the nose in the way it should have been, just glaring you in the face, but it was an otherwise okay episode.
Then… it was Archie Panjabi, and then she got eaten by a CGI skeleton and then she was no longer Archie Panjabi and I stopped caring.
What was this finale, really? Like, sure, it exists. Is it the best they’ve ever done? No.
Clearly all their budget is going towards these ridiculously huge CGI monsters, though. I may not have watched classic who, but has either of them even resembled their classic counterparts? Based on the images I’ve seen, no. So… pray tell… why?
I don’t know. I continue to be underwhelmed. Which is sad because I really got into it just as this era of Doctor Who came back and now it’s like… shit… I missed the good stuff.
So, anyways, what an ending, hey? Really can’t believe they killed Gatwa already! It’s only been 2 seasons! Not even 20 episodes at that! What is this??? AND into Billie Piper??? That’s Billie Piper??? What are we supposed to do with this? What does it mean? Is the Doctor Rose now? Will we ever find out?
More too but like… I can’t remember what they all were.
To Conclude
Oops.
Look, you know that feeling when you just don’t want to do anything, ever, always?
I do this blog for fun, and ya know what, I don’t want to just not write on it, because I like keeping up with my self imposed schedule and such but also… I reserve the right to just not write. This past few weeks the schedule happened to coincide quite regularly with stuff and I just didn’t make it up.
I don’t really have a reason.
So… oops.
Thanks for the patience, though! And an extra thank you if you read this post. Maybe they’ll be one next weekend! Who knows.
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