So it's that time of year again, where I look forward to every Sunday. And not for
church, but for R-rated church. Game of Thrones is going to be on for, like, the
next seven weeks and I am excited. As a big, you know, book fan of the series I
loved the show from from day one. And even as it's diverted a little bit from
the series, and now we're in completely uncharted territory where I really have
no idea where it's going. I still am a really really big fan. Now that's not to
say that it's beyond criticism. I think there are certain storylines that have
been complete garbage (Dorne). And there's some things that, maybe, haven't lived up
to my expectations. But then there's stuff that has totally exceeded my
expectations. Like the whole Battle of the Bastards
that happen last year. I thought that was just a fantastic hour of television. I
was on the edge of my seat the entire time. So even while certain storylines
kind of either evolve to great things or kind of slowly die and whimper away,
this is still a great television show. So I want to
preface it with that. So I've only seen the first episode so far, even though
when you see this the second episode will have aired already. And this is just
what I wanted to say with some of the main characters that we are following. Arya!
How we start off this season is super awesome. This is where I've wanted this
character to reach to, ever since it's been (essentially) foreshadowed from her
first kill all the way back in season 1. She is now the badass Stark who's going
around and she is going to revenge her family like no one has ever revenged.
Before now the only small criticism I will have, I think that they really
fumbled the ball over the last couple years of her training. I think in the
book that's going to make it a lot more impactful because it'll be, like, in dozens of
chapters of her having lost her sight, gaining her skills, amassing this amount
of information so that she can go and accomplish it. In the show, because
they've had to truncate it so much, it's like: well we lose our sight for one
episode, we figure out how to use some powers for one episode, and then we're
off to do our revenge piece. And it just didn't feel as climactic because of what
it could have been. But I like me some dead Fries ... Freys.
Whatever. You know you know who I'm talking about!
By the way, this is a quick sidenote, of what supreme acting from Walder Frey.
That actor, who's been in like countless British shows and Harry Potter.
Phenomenal! Like was able to act like he was a twelve-year-old. He acted like Arya
Stark in his facial mannerisms, so that you can you subtly know, "oh, I
know what's going on here." I think that the Cersei and Jaime plotline is
starting to be interesting. I mean I don't know if I entirely buy Cersei
completely throwing her family under the the cart, so to speak. But I think that
she might be just going completely mad at this point. I don't, again to really
super nitpick, I don't understand how the Iron Islands was able to, you know, build
however many they said like a few dozen warships, in the span of like two or
three months. But whatever. It's fantasy. It has dragons! My hot take is I didn't
care that Ed Sheeran was in the episode. It didn't detract for me, it didn't add
for me, it was just like he's there. Whatever. Although everyone on Twitter
thought it was the worst thing ever, so whatever, that was a thing! I
think the best single plotline for this entire episode is the Hound
storyline. You actually see him being redeemed in some ways. Which is something
that this series has done so phenomenally well. Showing shades of grey
to each character. No one is a hundred percent evil or a hundred percent good.
There's kind of ... through those of shades of grey that runs through all these
characters and we've seen the Hound from Season 1 grow over the last couple
seasons. Of almost dying, his relationship with
the church, I guess, last season. Until now where he comes back to that
house where he stole their money and left them to die. Understanding that this,
this was not the right way to accomplish this. And finally Daenerys is
in Westeros! it only took 7 freaking years for her to get here. But she's there. Those
dragons are gigantic! And for me it worked,
honestly, that last scene worked. I saw a bunch of criticism online about they
really didn't like the five minutes of complete silence. But for me, if you think
about this character who was, you know, ripped out of her home at a very young
age, has been in exile for that long, to finally come home ... to finally be back
where her ancestral home should have been, for me it worked that this is like ...
we have to, you know, have this moment. She needs to be acclimated back
into this. And then we have that smile, and "let's get started" and boom! We were
back into Game of Thrones baby! Now because we have a kind of short season,
I'm thinking that every episode needs to fire and all cylinders.
I'm hoping that there is some payoffs, like the Littlefinger and Sansa storyline.
If we never see Dorne again that'll be great.
And I'll never look at soup again, let's put it that way. With Sam
and the chamber pot. So I'm interested to see if he is literally just going to be
there in the plot, just to simply be like "oh hey there's some ancient stuff that
we all need to know" or "I'll reveal what the audience needs to know so here it is. I'm
going to send it over to Jon." We'll see. And we'll see if the Sansa and Jon, kind
of like, fisticuffs continues on. A lot of interesting things that they
brought in. I'm excited for the new season. I'll probably talk about it every
week for the next seven weeks and bore you to tears. Let me know what you
thought down in the comments.
Jen, you know this from living together for a while. But there's two things that I
hate. One is intolerance, and the second is British people. So we decided to do
something really interesting, really cool. Something I know that has existed for a
while, that I've never participated in. Which is seen a live
theatrical performance, like a live on-stage with real people (real actors). But being
broadcast into a movie theater. So we got to take part in this. We went and
saw Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. I think that was the
full title of it. This is a play that ... well actually, before we get into that there's two
things. Number One, have you ever gone to something quite like this, where it was like
a live play being broadcast? JEN: No. And I had seen previous for something like that. I
had actually seen a documentary that was brought into Calgary because enough
people signed up for tickets and they were talking about that. And I never went
far enough to figure out how to go see it because I thought it was really cool ida.
KYLE: It seems to be more and more common. I know there is the Met
from New York, is broadcasting certain operas and plays. I really
wish Broadway musical theater would start to do that, because I would
literally pay $40 just to go to a movie theater just watch that. JEN: yeah. KYLE: money left
on the table, I think. This was specifically being broadcast from London.
Now two things: I don't actually know how legitimate it was, like, a live broadcast.
I feel it was a live-to-tape thing. And then they just broadcast it to a bunch
of theatres. yeah oh sorry yeah but there's a cool
because when you walk in and you're hearing and seeing like the actual crowd
and the audience there and then Aselton commissions so when there's an
information that happens then you get up and you go and stretch your legs makes
me want that to happen every movie now because it's just a
great like great I can stand up they don't feel cramp and I go and buy a four
dollar lemonade from the concession stand
yes yeah it was amazing I honestly think Lord of the Rings would have been
incredible with even just one intermission and really the Killick I'll
double the concession sales I bought double concession that's right
right who doesn't like double concession yeah so this play if you're unfamiliar
with angled in America this was a play that was written by the playwright Tony
Kushner and I believe is about 20 years ago is in the early nineteen nineties
regardless and I do remember that in the early 1990s in the details very
specifically about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s love and life and it's I think
subtitled a gay Fantasia because physically this is not as a
straightforward like realistic play there is phantasmal elements have
happened there is dreams that people enter into there are visions that people
see there's actual angle that come down from the top spoiler alert but it is
called angles in America yeah I do want to call out those specifically the
people who are a part of this production namely Andrew Garfield and has a main
role we fold him and his boyfriend as Andrew Garfield contracts the AIDS virus
and then his his boyfriend's reaction to that is his Horseman is played by
Russell - no excuse me it's played by James McArdle but then we have made some
lane in a very dramatic role in these gal played a bunch of different
different roles here as well I'm in Russell Tovey the other main actor in
the production each of them plays sometimes multiple different roles which
if you want to go into like theory and and really pick it apart you can you can
talk about a few things I want to keep this fairly surface level I what did you
think of the production itself I really liked it I've never seen and I know it
wasn't technically led but I've never seen a play at that high level right
that those kinds of wins enlist axes of authority so absolutely incredible and
I really appreciate how they treated the characters I know there's been some
critique about Andrew Garfield thank you can't be in some place well just
something about him in the gay community oh yeah there's all this well we won't
get into that I thought he did a phenomenal job
I even got a degree - it's really interesting to take a character like the
ones he played and hyperbolas it too much and you could get it to be too
campy of a presentation of gay culture there it says subtle nuances you could
tell that it was based on possibly a real person that he may be spent some
time with and the complexities of yes it can have that very typical gay s and
Lisp but it can turn into other tones and and he flipped in and out of it
really comfortably I really appreciate it I think that that's what I get drawn
to the most of them as a bisexual I mean there's a lot of this but I identify
with and there's the character to work you have absolutely internalized
homophobia the people who can't come out the people are out but I have to every
single person they're surrounding family dealing with the fact that people are
dying from this virus they know what that means but no one's actually saying
what is actually going on a lot of subtext in' and new ones it's happening
this with this decent capsule elements that are there going on with tony
kushner wrote this play he was intending to just to be one three-hour play ready
kind of got away from them he said I cannot do this justice if I only spend
time three hours of these characters so this part one is what would book three
and a half hours long there is a part two that we're going to be seeing next
week that is about four hours long so there's going to be a lot of play that
is those devoted to these characters funny little stack though the life they
actually cut out three minutes is very very young which was kind of hilarious
because it's like getting to this really dramatic point and then we'd like froze
up and like crash the system and then we're just looking at this like save
screen because if we got a free movie deal out
of it a nice peck on another event that we can come to you for free so wasn't
completely and we did get to see it right when people were leaving the
theater and they're saying sorry here's these extra tickets it said oh wait I
think we got it and so we got to watch the end which is great I'm really am
glad we got to catch that and we still got a free ticket for another event so
that were promised if you were Canada look at the Cineplex scheduled for Angel
America I know that there are few other performances that you'll be able to
actually see and if you're interested in this if you're other countries I don't
know I have no idea this is the National Theatre in London so I'm assuming they
do broadcast it to like the US and to other parts of the UK but you can look
it up from there yeah there's an encore presentation I'm really looking forward
to part two I was a big fan of this yeah and I'm pretty sure just knowing kind of
how the East crisis ended I am going to be a blubbering mess but showers all
right bring your tissues right all right well let's not freeze up in a way she's
people time I'm killing time before I go and see a movie so I wait here in my car
but I wanted to tell you about this Netflix thing emphasis something called
oh hello on Broadway this I have to I have to preface everything I'm about to
say that this performance is so made for me that even though I really liked it
nobody else is so be aware be forewarned so what this is there was a limited
engagement performance on Broadway where you could go buy tickets and watch this
live show called oh hello and it started to crawl John Mulaney and they perform
as these like very old like in their 80s gentlemen with all the makeup in the
hair who were you trying to be actors and their views have been living
together for 40 years and are now putting on this show this
play about not only their life but also kind of the the trappings of shame in a
way so that's kind of what the plot is but really what it turns into is that
there it's partly scripted partly improv partly like crowd work it's a comment
both on the feeder cattle love letter to the theatre but also really poking fun
at the theatre as well so that's all of these things and it's so specific and so
bizarre and I like it a lot but I cannot in good faith recommend anyone else
watch this it's again very very specific to those types of things so if you're
like alternate comedy if you're into theater I think there's a lot of stuff
to like here try and check it out you'll know within five minutes whether or not
this is the show for you if you have not correct a smile or if you think
everything is just really dumb pushed up it's not going to get any better from
there but for like the Broadway fan that I am for the theater fan that I am I was
all about this and I am also a fan of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney themselves
so if you like those types of back type of comedy then there's going to be some
some stuff to like hear - there's a special guest that the interview halfway
through and I'm not going to spoil who it is but one of my heroes and they're
able to like have this really cool back-and-forth that feels very natural
it's it's part of the entire play but it's also just really good improv at the
same time so yeah oh hello on Netflix check it out if you're interested
try it for five minutes if you don't like it push stop this is a free country
don't do things that you don't like to do huh I should crack a window
For more infomation >> Recovery programs address mental health issues - Duration: 1:53. 
For more infomation >> Cyclists want answers after they say they were run off the road - Duration: 1:17. 
For more infomation >> Bicarbonato para Vello en Mujer - Como Eliminar el Vello con Bicarbonato - Duration: 2:33. 
For more infomation >> Remembering Austin & Perry - Duration: 0:28. 
For more infomation >> President Donald Trump On Obamacare: Republicans Close To Passing Replacement | NBC News - Duration: 2:35. 
For more infomation >> ¿Romeo Santos tiene tanta fama que ya no quiere más? | Suelta La Sopa | Entretenimiento - Duration: 0:42. 
For more infomation >> Woman tried to take 21-month-old from car, prosecutors say - Duration: 1:07. 
For more infomation >> Jared Kushner: 'I Did Not Collude With Russia' | MSNBC - Duration: 2:30. 
For more infomation >> Report: Gas prices on the rise in PA - Duration: 0:50. 
For more infomation >> Expert says shark research impacted by president - Duration: 1:19. 
For more infomation >> Girard Playground Allstars welcomed home after Dixie Youth state championship win - Duration: 0:58. 
For more infomation >> Pleasant week on tap; Watch Joe's forecast - Duration: 3:08. 
For more infomation >> Se estrenó la película The Emoji Movie en Los Ángeles | Suelta La Sopa | Entretenimiento - Duration: 1:57. 
For more infomation >> Video: Man denies abducting 1-year-old girl - Duration: 2:00. 
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét