|
Cacator posted:Amazing miniseries that just wrapped up and zero discussion here. Did everyone give up on David Simon after Treme? I like David Simon for all his flaws but Paul Haggis? Eh...
|
#
¿
Aug 31, 2015 16:52
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 27, 2024 06:23 |
|
|
Well I finally finished this. Pretty good overall, though I do think the first half of the show or so is a bit weaker than than the second half. I think my main issue is that the beginning parts of the show didn't do a very good job at showing us the lives of the people that would eventually move into the public housing. Some scenes with these characters were only about 15 seconds long. Luckily the later episodes rectify this, particularly once we see the struggles these people face once they've finally moved in. Oscar Isaac was great of course, The Wire alumni pull their weight remarkably well with how little time some of their characters get onscreen, and Paul Haggis ended up doing a bit better than I was expecting. For whatever reason this shot stuck out to me most in the whole show: 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 6, 2015 12:39
|
|
|
aga. posted:Maybe it's my British naivete but I really thought this was based in the 70s/80s based on the politics (well, racism), I couldn't believe it when 199x popped up at some point. Racism is still very much alive in America. Like they say on this show, it just gets couched in very different terms other than the n-word and other obvious epithets these days, and even in some parts of the country those still happen too.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 8, 2015 03:28
|
|