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Defenestration
Aug 10, 2006

"It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"


Grimey Drawer
Letters in the package make no sense except for the cheap emotional shot of listening to their words and seeing June spread them on the floor. And then she falls asleep with them all out like that? Come on, she knows she has to watch her back so hard.

The soundtrack is bad use of contemporary music and completely heavy handed.

Ofglen's Martha was vastly superior to anything else this season. I hope for next season they come to understand that the most powerful scenes are about the lack of autonomy and feelings of utter futility.

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Defenestration
Aug 10, 2006

"It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"


Grimey Drawer

Pocket Billiards posted:



Maybe a Nina Simone or Tom Petty song that the Handmaid is familiar is representative of her state of mind/attitude at that point in the tale.

The point is that I shouldn't need a song that literally says "I'm feeling good" to discern the mood of June after that stoning scene. "you don't own me" is another case of the lyrics being so on the nose when the music makes no aesthetic sense

Pitchfork article that's making some decent points about the score.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1507-the-handmaids-tale-is-so-much-smarter-than-its-soundtrack/

Defenestration
Aug 10, 2006

"It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"


Grimey Drawer

Skizzzer posted:

bathetic was a good word to describe the feeling that hit me when feeling good came on
thanks for teaching me this word. I agree.

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