2:17: The absolute peak of comedy here when "created by Vivienne Medrano" flashes on screen SO fast it's easy to miss. *chef's kiss * The spite of Viv living her best life and creating fucking ART in the face of haters is REAL and BEAUITFUL. They definitely planted the "Mammon is an absolute piece of shit" flag loud and EARLY. Like, this show is full of characters that, while they are definitely garbage fires, or straight up antagonists (like Striker, who I am 100% expecting/hoping to get an episode about, one that reveals his backstory and WHY he has so much rage, and I'm expecting to have my heart broken. "Some of us have hard lives to live. And some of us have everything we care about taken away..." ) they can be viewed with some level of sympathy or understanding, even if their behaviour is, well, demonic. :p It's something I absolutely appreciate about this show, how the audience is given credit for being able to handle characters and relationships that DON'T have a "correct answer". I've seen some amazing discussions around Blitz and Stolas for example, and there are entirely valid arguments on both "sides" that can exist AT THE SAME TIME. There are a whole LOT of hurt people hurting people as well. We're meant to feel a little conflicted about most of these assholes, but enjoy hanging out with them as an audience and watching their story. I mean, MOST of the main characters fall into that category. SO ANYWAY, I love that with Mammon they've really just said "No. None of that nuance shit. Here is one whole entire piece of shit. You may hate this guy with no remorse. " Having a handful of truly unsympathetic characters also really lets the nuance and layers of all the other characters shine, too, because yeah, Blitz is shitty, but compared to Mammon he's a goddamned angel. I love so much about this episode.
Perfect timing because ep 9 literally just dropped the other day. Also heres the month the last 3 episodes of s2 will release: "Ghost fuckers" -october "Mastermind" -november "Sinsmas" -december Wait no you should watch the trailer
Oh boy, now it's just The Full Moon and Apology Tour. Two of the most heartbreaking episodes of the entire series (So far) Good luck!!
2:17: The absolute peak of comedy here when "created by Vivienne Medrano" flashes on screen SO fast it's easy to miss. *chef's kiss * The spite of Viv living her best life and creating fucking ART in the face of haters is REAL and BEAUITFUL.
They definitely planted the "Mammon is an absolute piece of shit" flag loud and EARLY. Like, this show is full of characters that, while they are definitely garbage fires, or straight up antagonists (like Striker, who I am 100% expecting/hoping to get an episode about, one that reveals his backstory and WHY he has so much rage, and I'm expecting to have my heart broken. "Some of us have hard lives to live. And some of us have everything we care about taken away..." ) they can be viewed with some level of sympathy or understanding, even if their behaviour is, well, demonic. :p It's something I absolutely appreciate about this show, how the audience is given credit for being able to handle characters and relationships that DON'T have a "correct answer". I've seen some amazing discussions around Blitz and Stolas for example, and there are entirely valid arguments on both "sides" that can exist AT THE SAME TIME. There are a whole LOT of hurt people hurting people as well. We're meant to feel a little conflicted about most of these assholes, but enjoy hanging out with them as an audience and watching their story. I mean, MOST of the main characters fall into that category.
SO ANYWAY, I love that with Mammon they've really just said "No. None of that nuance shit. Here is one whole entire piece of shit. You may hate this guy with no remorse. " Having a handful of truly unsympathetic characters also really lets the nuance and layers of all the other characters shine, too, because yeah, Blitz is shitty, but compared to Mammon he's a goddamned angel.
I love so much about this episode.
Perfect timing because ep 9 literally just dropped the other day.
Also heres the month the last 3 episodes of s2 will release:
"Ghost fuckers" -october
"Mastermind" -november
"Sinsmas" -december
Wait no you should watch the trailer
Tom Cardy did write and sing Juggling Is Cool