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veni veni veni posted:Overall I thought it had it's ups and downs. All around it was entertaining and had some funny parts. Was surprised at how awful Dre was lol. I thought it was gonna be kind of this anti hero where you sort of root for her, but she is just batshit and I found myself mostly just like "please someone stop this woman". She is supremely unlikable in a way you rarely see from a main character. I don't mean that as a dig on the show or DF, I actually liked that aspect of it. Yeah, I was impressed at how committed they stayed to that. The early episodes in particular managed to keep her thoughts really distant and unnerving. Like in Episode 2 when she's just moving from point A to point B without any real plan and we're just stuck on the outside watching the mayhem. Having just finished it, I think it was pretty decent, but it also feels a little off because it peaks hard in Episode 4. That's the spot where the stylistic stuff and the plot beats just line up perfect and it's a great ride from start to finish. And then it just kinds of winds down with Episode 6 being a weird one and Episode 5 being a little drawn out. It's kind of interesting to do 6 as a true crime homage/parody. It's a decent one, but maybe the little jokes only work if you've watched or listened to enough shoddy True Crime shows and podcasts. I got a little smirk out of "Oh, they're doing a badly filmed from across the street interview" "Now it's time for the super animated parking lot phone call" "Oh, the detective is trying to make herself memorable to get an Investigation Discovery show out of it" but that was about it. Not sure how it landed for anybody who wasn't on that wavelength. And also it doesn't do too much beyond that, and True Crime parody is a well-trodden field by this point. I think that the issue with Episode 6 was the lack of meat to it. The Goofy episode of Atlanta had a lot of actual story within it. This one had a few good minutes when it just went ahead and stated the message. That the documentary wanted to write this off as some sad and broken person who was just wrong in the head or doomed, and not wrestle much with the alienation/isolation/hopelessness/desperation for community that also played a big role. It worked well for me that as soon as the social worker told them off, the detective immediately did her "We share the same last name , just think of how her life might have been different..." navel gaze, but also that worked for me because bad True Crime shows love to do those shallow monologues. I also just kind of groaned at the ending of Episode 6 though. The wink and nod about how Swarm was the show Glover was making about the documentary was just too much for me. Pretending that it was based on a real story was strange. I assumed the lead-ins were just a fun Fargo reference until Episode 6 did the changes and went back to a bleeped out Beyonce and Hive. I think the only thing that it actually helped with was the ending. Making it explicitly, "in-universe" canon that this was fiction made the ending a little clearer. In canon, it's Glover writing a weird, what-if fantasy of how Dre rushing the stage would have gone in her dreams. So no arguments about what "really" happened. Fine...I guess. But it still felt kind of off after everything. Still a really pretty, stylish show that was surprisingly brutal, just wish it had a little more substance to it. Parakeet vs. Phone fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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I did a little writeup on my thoughts earlier, but the documentary episode, I think, isn't meant to necessarily be suspicious. Things like the faked phone calls and reenactments are just spoofing bad True Crime shows and kind of pushing back on common tropes from them. There's a reason that the conversation with the social worker is the emotional peak for the episode. Like I said earlier, they nailed the idea of "This cop thinks she's getting her own show on Investigation Discovery/hit podcast if this works out." I don't think that they did an amazing job with it and I wondered how it would track for someone who didn't have a lot of experience with those types of shows/podcasts. But it's meant to be an exploitive documentary within the canon. But, I'd assume the information is mostly "true" within the setting. But also, yeah, it still presents a picture of someone who was very isolated, mocked and rejected so you kind of understand how she ended up latching onto a fandom like that. The point about the food seems right. Borderline compulsive eating, especially of junk food, is usually a sign in TV of someone trying to feel something or fill the emptiness. So it tracks.
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