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
back on my bullshit baby
(this showc goes quite slow and i get distracted but it's hit a high-speed section and i'm still only at e45)
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
lupo and the sexy assassin suddenly grappling in balaclavas
(lol did they fuck before? looks like they will soon)
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
probably i shd have watched this all joined up, i no longer know who the sexy assassin is working for
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
lol jesus, this is all a bit saving private ryan (except i don't give fuck abt this guy whose name i don't even know)
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
i wish i liked -- or hated -- zurdo more (or believed there was even a spark between him and T), bcz this is a *terrific* pulpy twist
brought abt largely by the fact that all mexican crims live 3 minutes away from one another w/o knowing it but
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
oh no it's "plan trotsky" that can't be good
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
gotta say s2 does make good use of the much bigger budget sometimes
― mark s, Monday, 30 November 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
even when it makes some of the plot turns seem extremely goofy
love how stubborn and capable sofia is (and how complicated this makes everything for the all adults)
― mark s, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
s2 has a very different feel
― mark s, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
loool a very word-heavy reveal at a fraught everyone-back-together moment suddenly casually tosses in the claim -- i think meant to be true, a man is pleading for his life -- that the US are interfering in mexico's elections by ensuring the president is (a) a legendarily corrupt gangster and (b) a puppet in their pocketses
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
during the extremely long word-dump recap the approaching threat has once again been the sexy assassin on a bike but the recap-reveal is so detailed that it feels like she's motored across the whole of mexico
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
oh no
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
i kind of knew this was on the weay bcz i spoilered myself looking up something abt what else the actress in question had done
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
don't forget totzi :(
is there no one else in this airport?
anyway lol it's GLOVES OFF now
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
"there's a reason they call her QUEEN OF THE SOUTH"
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
thats right
https://radical.town/media/radical-town-media/accounts/avatars/000/000/008/static/d986e9e06e7521c7.png
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
ok so who ELSE is inexplicably alive and requires fill-in backstory to firm up this fact unconvincingly
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
not that i care, this is exactly what i watch this insane show for
― mark s, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
it is effective that -- in this tangled war between very bad gangsters doing murders and stuff -- the overarching baddie who allows us to withhold full judgment is washington, behaving very much more badly
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
this is a documentary
haha this US agency is out-of-the-box evil
and it's not even the CIA
(well it might be but i *think* it's the DEA)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
not helping that i started watching this series 1 x yrs ago, binged like 40eps, stopped for 10 months for various reasons inc 🦠🦠🦠🦠and am back again and bingeing again -- some of these callbacks are p mysterious to me, like who is this young tied-up man suddenly
(last week he was skateboarding in front of congress in washington and he's kira's nephew but how does he have a plot role, i just entirely forgot)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
mexican all-woman shoot-out near the washington monument, we love too see it
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
¡finally! circled back to this (starting at e54)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
lol i have no idea who this young angry grieving goth lady is any more, there is a downside to my very punctuated bingeing style
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
"sit near the river and you will see your enemy's body float by"
this is also my motto
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
my enemy is ned raggett
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
a funny thing abt this show is that they present the DEA as a kind of more focused CIA, all plots and plans and overthrowing the rightful mexican government (a gangster)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
teresa has a low opinion of gringos
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
literally no one is ever dead in this show
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
i see from five yrs ago i was commenting on the unending interwoven flashbacks, that hasn't slowed down at all
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
lee harvey batman
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
this ep has an escape from jail by helicopter as a mere passing element for some minor characters
(i mean i'm sure they'll have a role shortly but in any other show an escape from jail by helicopter would be climactic for a bigwig)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
(just checked and s3 of his marvellous show is all ready to run)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
o fuk that's eric roberts (as the corrupt and murderous head of the DEA)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
season three begun broadcasting 1 x week ago: 6 eps so far tho i have not found them anywhere yet
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
i keep reading that it's on netflix but it's not on netflix uk yet 😔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7yh9KOrQpE
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/a92ef861f1c2056ae6a16aa7e8adc7ec/tumblr_inline_mlxzsjMhxw1qz4rgp.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
loooool amazing gif
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link