Presumed Innocent (Apple Plus) is really starting to make me wonder if they’re gonna follow the ending from the film. There were some clues dropped, but Gyllenhaal is also quite an unreliable narrator. I don’t like the timeframe that he supposedly had to do all this, when he didn’t go there for that. And, the statement about her being afraid of some guy from work, I’m wondering if the casting of Peter Sarsgaard is going to lead to a surprise twist. he’s a big enough name that it would be one hell of a twist for the man prosecuting Gyllenhaal, and accusing him of originally trying to obstruct the process was in turn the one who really is doing that himself.
Wandla (Apple plus) is fun. I think what always amazes me about the extent of our imagination is that when we have alien races who at all resemble humans, they have to take on things that humans came up with. This isn’t just a Wandla problem, but something that goes all throughout Star Wars. For example, Eva participates in essentially a modified version of horse track betting, just with alien creatures instead of horses. Of course, Star Wars had Pod Racing, so there’s that. Later, they eat at a dinner table. These things feel uniquely human.
Geek Girl (Netflix) in theory is a cute show. I’m on Episode 6, and she just ghosted a call from Nat, who we haven’t even seen in a hot minute, but it feels like those two should have talked by now. Plus her dad is pretending to his wife that they are in Britain somewhere on vacation, while she’s upset and pregnant. but what really sticks with me, is that our lead “Geek Girl” has so low self esteem and confidence, it is hard for her to tell that the hot model is hitting on her, she admits to having a literal list of people who hate her, and she feels awkward all the time. My problem is that I see where this show is headed, in some sort of eventual guilt trip about how she shouldn’t want this for herself, and look at all the damage she’s caused by being selfish, but the real thing we should be talking about is the system that allowed someone to feel so alienated, to have such a lack of self worth, that they really need to have this opportunity just to discover a sense of normalcy. Her dad signed that contract WAY too fast, and is married to a lawyer, and there’s no way that doesn’t come back to bite him in the ass.
I also finished Eric (Netflix), and that was a giant fucking waste of time. A show that wants to say something but can’t because it is stifled by this whole other thing that we’ve seen before. I felt like this show was made by a ton of white people, with one black writer, and that one writer knew what would make the show interesting, but they wanted Benedict Cumberbatch in some bizarre role that means nothing and has nothing to say. Edgar wasn’t even kidnapped, and all this happened because he just ran away. That is never addressed, and instead everything works out for the nice white family, while you see that the black characters in this show got the short end of the stick. Their story is far more interesting, has more emotional resonance, but is being trampled by a psychotic fuckwad who needs rehab and can see a giant puppet following him around like he’s Jimmy Stewart. God, this show had so much potential, and you can feel it in the black characters, and their stories, but this is not their story. It never is, is it?