Does anyone else having a hard time separating Cary (the guy who was running the MRI, and who has Kerry living inside him) from Mr. Noodle on Elmo's World? Same actor. Now that you know this, try to watch him on Legion and not see Mr. Noodle.
It seems I am not the only one who was horrified by the crappy GFX of the Astral plane Is it supposed to be laughably shit?
That transition from Scooby-Doo diver ghost to Austin Powers/worlds most interesting man mash up was, uh, still trying to find the right words. Entertainingly strange in a Lynch-ian way?
I hated it! The cube was OK setwise but as Ive known clement since he flatted round the corner as a fellow struggling artist in the 90s I found his persona really upset the mood. He's too much of a joker even playing a caricature of himself! The diving stuff was stupid Who did those GFX? Alarmingly shit
Episode five is directed by Flemish director Tim Mielants. Apparently Noah Hawley liked his work so much he offered him all of season 3 of "Fargo" as the sole director, but he couldn't commit to that because of other jobs he had already signed on to.
Wait, you know that guy? In real life? I just looked him up, and did not realize he was one of the Conchords. I guess him being from New Zealand means that maybe you knew him, I mean, NZ's pretty small, maybe you all know each other? I haven't seen today's episode yet (it's still Wednesday here in California) but last week, I was wondering why that guy was talking to the camera at the beginning of the episode. I thought it was pretty clever when David met him on the astral plane or whatever. Weird, David Lynch also came to mind as Mojo Jambo mentioned. I got kind of a Twin Peaks red room vibe from it. Edit to add - I just remembered that Clement was also the voice of Nigel, the evil cockatoo from the Rio animated movies. If you have kids of a certain age, you may have seen those. Now I won't be able to see Oliver and not think Nigel.
I actually knew Brett - the other half of Conchords, though i've meet Jermaine several times. Those guys had a famous party flat in Mt Vic which I believe was the basis for their horror film. We did a few art projects together with Brett in the 90s before Brett was famous. It's my ongoing regret that I have lost the music he made for our art projects, but one was a super cool piece featuring Toby from Fat Freddys. It was obvious back then that he was super talented. NZ is a big place but central wellington was tiny. When i first moved there in 1995 it was a boring government town. Everyone with money and kids lived in suburbia so the central city was cheap and filled with artists and yuppies. In the next 5 years it went crazy especially with the arrival of Peter Jackson's LOTR. That gave birth to the $20 cocktail consumed by "production assistants" on fat $50K hollywood contracts. So suddenly there was a scene based around the 2 lounge bars and 2 nightclubs and various house parties where you could meet the hobbits who at that time were just young lads on the make same as us. What times we had. The creative industry really took off in those years - especially propped up with $ from the advertising industry where we all moonlighted. The usual idea was to do a cool art project, then prostitute it to cultural scavengers like Saatchi's It's amazing how many people from that small group went on to be serious directors, artists, muscians - but in most cases they had to leave NZ to "make it" Anyway this turned into a long post but in many respects I feel like Jermaine was parodying himself there
Did the production design and the general visual style of the Division 3 compound remind anyone else of Ken Levine's Bioshock? It's getting really confusing to interpret the layers of reality.
I am following on iTunes so if past experience is anything to go by I will get nothing this week and then 2 eps next week
840048541519208448 is not a valid tweet id Looks like I wasn't the only person to have noticed nods to "Bioshock".
Just finished ep 5 I thought it was awesome and after the shakey ep 4 this was a very much needed return to the horror genre Just goes to show they didn't need all that astral plane shit I was totally scared in parts of this ep. Very well handled. And the sound edit? Amazing.
This was the episode directed by the Belgian. Apparently Noah Hawley liked his work on it so much he was offered all of "Fargo" season 3. Which he had to decline due to prior commitments.
There were moments in this latest episode when Aubrey Plaza was genuinely scary. That's a side of her we haven't really seen before.
Yeah - I see a lot of people liked it. It's the kind of episode I would just blink thru if i was binging but I guess going week about I just found it very predictable and thus frustrating. Some of the reviews were saying we learned a lot about Lenny but in my view we didn't learn anything. And we already knew since the cliffhanger last week they were trapped in some kind of fake reality Lenny had made So basically nothing happened in this episode? And please no more of Diver Oliver.
Well I guess this episode did confirm something that most viewers already strongly suspected, which is that the scary bigheaded dude and Lenny are one and the same.
I'm glad they cleared some stuff up - the chalkboard exposition in chapter 7 was fun. The story isn't that different than a typical X-Men story - I remember the Shadow King from an episode of the animated series from 20 years ago - but the visuals and such are much more interesting.