Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Bi_3 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

That's because they're all Russian.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:This series is weird. AMAZING set design and editing...But we've watched the first two eps, and so far the human element is oddly missing. For a show about mass suffering, it hasn't done a great job of actually making me care for any of the individual characters yet. Whole thing feels oddly cold.

Ep 4 handles this better, but yeah I can't recall many characters names.

That's because they're all Russian.

...speaking English.

washing machine wrote:Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.

EJ wrote:

washing machine wrote:Groups like firefighters, miners, Pripyat residents, bureaucrats etc are depicted as being affected en masse without zooming in.

I'm glad they've done it this way. It's still really effective.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.