oleg is a different actor now, blander imo :(
(also i realised i was getting pote and oleg muddled upthread, bcz potemkine is a russian name)
― mark s, Friday, 18 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
e8 was a bit of an emo trudge but e9 has picked up some speed
weirdly this is reminding a bit of buffy s7: super-tough 2nd-gen young women en masse (ok there's three of them, teresa's daughter, the goth and her sister)
― mark s, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
oh, i was wondering waht up, but didn't wanna spoiler any more than i already. . .that's too bad abt Oleg, my second fave Russian on the show (after Dima). i recall S1 had a episode or two that were lackluster, then it would get back to the goods. too bad the intro. has changed, imo. watching the band play was one of me and niece's fave parts - the facial expression of the bassist literally made us lol every time.
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
sara vidorreta as rocio aljarafe: best goth in a telenovella?
https://i.imgur.com/1xWUt9w.png
the non-goth is her sister paloma (agata clares)
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
also lol at the jules verne-ish turn teresa's and oleg's adventures just took :D :D :D
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
and the swell of some russian-sounding choral music when they hurtle from one absurd scrape to another
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
"i don't remember you, you're nobody""we're the dogs who will feast on your bones"
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
educational as well as exciting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_crucifixion_legend
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
the production values and qualoty of film stock have skyrocketed, and it's now set in "the entire world": yet if anything the ambition is even pulpier :)
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
viz: so far this ep had a v violent middle east scene war scene and a selling drugs in a rave scene and we're less than ten minutes in
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
i like sofia's watchful patience (so do the scriptwriters and directors, mind you)
― mark s, Sunday, 20 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uPw99oT.jpg
Well, I can't spell jefe.
― mick signals, Thursday, 24 October 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
ROMA HOUSE INVASION
juanita does terrific "hold me back! why i oughta… !" (opinion: she oughta)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
the war between prisoner sofia and gaoler morgana is hilarious
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
i've been a bit ambivalent abt the WAY higher production values but now and then (roughly once every other ep) when they frame one of the nuttier scenes it's kind of magnificent
this roma funeral by torchlight with all the grieving is a case in point, it's like something out of peter greenaway ffs
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
multiple tables turned and yet things don't get better!
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
(s2e16, for those keeping count or looking forward)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
i just watched S1E1 again with a friend to get them on board. i think they were slightly bamboozled. i enjoyed as much if not more the second time around. on ep10 otherwise. have had a pause due to work and life stuff but aiming to sort my priorities out.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
i really like S1 production values. watching the earlier day of the dead parade when she’s on the run some of the shots are just stunning in a v mundane way.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
yes i haven't been able to coax my main TV-watching buddies into co-bingeing :{
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
mundane way is bad words for what i meant which is that the quite cheap and lurid tv values give it a immediacy and realism. i *should* know what it’s shot in to give it that effect, but i don’t. ok i just checked “lensed entirely in digital format” it says here.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
s2 has a lush HD feel to it, so that the posh locations feel insanely stately and the poorer ones feel art-photographer grungy -- but lunatic nonsense hurtes through both, with not much more than a doorway bead curtain between them, so the immeciacy has become an urgency and the realism is semi-magic
(if it slows down a bit too much sometimes it always picks up speed again, with added wtf acute-angle turns)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
yikes this took a dark turn (e20) :0 :0 :0
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
oh this telenovela is so good at layering the badness of the ppl involved, and getting you to like and even love the "less bad" ones
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
things really not going epifanio's way
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
oh that's good to hearxposthopefully that goes for Ratta, too.
i think Dris Larbi is my favorite character name of all-time
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
wait who is ratta? dris was great
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Ratta is Epifanio's lunatic son
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
gotcha!
ramiro is very much not my favourite character but i do like actor salvador zerboni's commitment to seeming to be on ALL the drugs ALL the time― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkALL THE DRUGShttps://www.telemundo.com/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/styles/promotional_content_4_3/public/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/images/gallery/2014/02/19/reina_rataseductora01_130514439041_2_0.jpg― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
ALL THE DRUGS
https://www.telemundo.com/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/styles/promotional_content_4_3/public/sites/nbcutelemundo/files/images/gallery/2014/02/19/reina_rataseductora01_130514439041_2_0.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
because greasing your millstones is what
gotcha! _ramiro is very much not my favourite character but i do like actor salvador zerboni's commitment to seeming to be on ALL the drugs ALL the time― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkALL THE DRUGS🖼― mark s, Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink_
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
oh teresa why are you always horny for the worst (also prettiest) people
― mark s, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
spoiler*: teresa sexing a hottie who already sent the entire series extremely betraying her
*i mean obviously not a spoiler if you ever watch this show lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
the sexing is on an aztec pyramid, is where it is
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
i mean on a blanket but
feeling like everyone's a bit softer in this series?
(not sure this makes total sense, a minor character was burnt at a stake in the previous ep lol -- but the pellmell trashiness is toned down and some of the longtime villains have their nice sides fleshed out a bit) (which is OK!) (also the worst new villains are beasts!)
(but there's no one to match ratta)
― mark s, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
flavio medina is a great singer (if it's him singing, i know they can do stuff with overdubs and such these days)
also he won the 2015 TVyNovelas Award for Best Antagonist Actor
― mark s, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
so S2 showed up on Netflix the other day!! when i watched half of the first episode the other week, which was all i could find on youtube at the time, i made a prediction to my niece (whom i've watched S1 with two times). for no concrete reason i felt like Abdelkader was gonna show up at some point. still, surprised the **ck outta me when it happened!!
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 8 December 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
lomg break: back again to note that sofia is also good at ugly crying (and her situation -- kidnapped kid -- merits it)
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
actress = isabella sierra, and she's excellent
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
terrific heist-movie type double caper in e30 s2, not sure it's going to end 100% well tho
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
after [checks previous post] exactly two months too tired in the evening to engage i am BACK ON TERESA MENDOZA'S BULLSHIT
of course as soon as i click into it it leaps into ultra-lurid action: blood AND absurdity AND tangly backstory hurrah
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
the goth is explaining to the gangster who also owns and runs a very crappy ghost train that vampires can't be black
(tbf he calls her out on this)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
meanwhile sofia has escaped lupo but fallen down into a deserted sarlacc pit
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
oo blimey unexpected headshot and pool bleeding
sometimes the high-def filming in s2 really does work with the story
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
a thing abt s2 is that it can go long stretches -- lengthened by me not watching for weeks on end -- where all most of what happens is small-bore and even sentimental
and then it remembers it's abt love in the time of narcotraffic and gets v bloody again
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
i found this season had fewer sentimental boring parts than S1, which had Theresa quoting that poem about twilight all the time, and the scenes of her and whichever lover to whatever that theme song was that got played quite a few times. freaking awesome show still. i wonder if they'll come back in 8 years again. also, i wish i were Godoy, irl
― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
lol six months of the rona as hiatus and im back on TM's bullshit ppl (ep32)
in which TM is a lethal boss again
― mark s, Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
i have got weirdly out of step with myself -- some of the plot i have already seen, other bits not even slightly
(unless sections of the story just repeat themselves competely, which seems unlikely: i guess i realised i'd not been watching carefully at some point -- viz tweeting while watching lol -- and went back and totally forgot i did this?)
― mark s, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
ok i am exactly back where i was on 1 March 2020 20:26, i guess i just completely missed one the (extremely um vivid) resolution of one particular strand three eps ago (and also for some reason netflix restarted me three eps ago)
― mark s, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link