Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
VagueRant
May 24, 2012

Anonymous Zebra posted:

And the way his mother kept egging him on even as he tried to act like a mature adult was absolutely insane.
Every time she tried to get close to an emotional truth, he lied to her face, and she knew it. Your creepy inhuman son trying and failing to gaslight you and keeping you out of his life isn't what I'd call 'acting like a mature adult'.

Blood Nightmaster posted:

Yeah I didn't even realize Laurie was essentially grooming her into sex trafficking til after that episode ended. The way she was so nonchalant about it/casually shooting her up was terrifying and the pans over to the padlocked basement door are very creepy in retrospect
A part of me wishes the show had completely gone there, as long as they handled it sensitively. I feel like they could address that reality and explore that, but it felt like they just wanted to dip their toe in the themes and wouldn't go that far with Rue/Zendaya. Like an audience would judge trading sex as so much morally repulsive than anything else she's done.

But then maybe it would get too far from what the show actually is, or maybe they didn't feel confident handling it properly.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
True, but I still think that would be an interesting topic for a piece of fiction to sympathetically cover. And audiences are hosed up enough to still think less of the character/actress for that.

'Willingly choosing' is also kind of a complicated phrase from an addict's perspective, even without Laurie's injections and padlocks - I mean I'm not expecting glowing sex worker positivity from that particular situation either way.

Equally not sure this show could or should handle something like that. I don't even feel super comfortable posting about it, just felt like the show backed down and shied away from something real. :shrug:

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
I was real confused by the random shots of Kat doing her pornhub thing being mixed in with the Cass/Nate stuff but someone explained it as contrasting both girls performing for men, which seems to track.

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
I truly cannot tell if this is a bad soap opera mess of a show that's occasionally accidentally really good (episode 5 of season 2, the Rue special), and really stylish (rotating hallway shot, dickpick presentation, detective Rue) or if it's a good show with a point and a purpose that's just overly self-indulgent on pacing and musical numbers and Riverdale-level drama and is actually going to pay things off.

TheBizzness posted:

Yeah he loving owns
Every company I've worked for has done some unethical poo poo from paying less than minimum wage (inc. mine) or plagiarising, or literally gambling. I can't take the moral high ground on a dealer who looks out for his cleintele.

VagueRant
May 24, 2012

VagueRant posted:

I truly cannot tell if this is a bad soap opera mess of a show that's occasionally accidentally really good (episode 5 of season 2, the Rue special), and really stylish (rotating hallway shot, dickpick presentation, detective Rue)

or if it's a good show with a point and a purpose that's just overly self-indulgent on pacing and musical numbers and Riverdale-level drama and is actually going to pay things off.
Oh, it's the first thing.

I guess I still kinda believe in these characters (except Cass and Kat who were completely new characters this season), but the finale really made it clear it's an aimless hodgepodge that will literally make you sit through five minutes of a man playing guitar.

The dramatics with Ash were very weird and took me out of everything. Got across some real tension in those moments, but this kid willing to go kamikaze jars so hard with what the rest of the show is, it was such an odd way to go.

What was Cal actually arrested for? Filming without consent? If it was the Jules video, she's going to be compelled to testify and that's kinda hosed up? I was kinda confused.

VagueRant
May 24, 2012

PostNouveau posted:

Child porn. At the very least Jules but likely a lot more
Was this established? He didn't seem to have a predilection. He only had sex with Jules because she lied about her age, right?

Dunno if I'm just forgetting something from season 1.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
Very curious what he's on.

MrMojok posted:

I recently binged this after seeing Zendaya in Dune, and reading some criticisms of her performance in that flick.

She wasn’t given a whole lot to do in Dune, but she should have a bigger part in the second film.

I thought she was amazing in Euphoria, and I hope I never hear anyone say she can’t act again.
I only really knew her from the Spider-Man movies and even rewatching some No Way Home clips after Euphoria you can really tell how good she is even in that schlock. The lil kungfu pose when she throws the bread, the begging to find another way for the spell at the end.

I didn't know anyone said she was bad, I figured the Dune criticisms was that she was used like a perfume model who got a couple of lines at the end, haha.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply