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.

tragabigzanda wrote:We finished S1. WOW. What a doozy.

Spoiler: show

Loved how they dealt with Frankie's being transgender. No big revelation, no dramatic music, just Sam too busy to notice the major change going on in her child's life; Max calling it to her attention; Sam kind of going "holy shit, that makes sense." Then just crawling into bed with Frankie and giving her/him(?)* an embrace. Hit me hard, that sequence

*I'm not sure how I'm supposed to refer to someone who was assigned a female gender at birth, and seems to be transitioning, but hasn't made any new gender proclamations yet. Apologies if I've mishandled this.

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.

Spoiler: show

a spoiler for later seasons but Frankie isn't transgender anymore.

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.

wease wrote:We finished it last night. Thought it was great. Having daughters the ages of her kids really enhanced it for us, I think. Her kids could be absolute assholes but then totally sweet. Just like real life.

There was a lot of weird shit, too but we were ok with it. Great friend group/supporting cast. Loved Pollack and Phil was a fucking hoot. She was prob my favorite character.

I really liked how it was a reflection of Adlon’s real life. Even including the Ching of the Mill reboot. (Glad that wasn’t the same in real life.) it’s amazing how much Bobby Hill is her actual voice.

daft twat wrote:

wease wrote:We finished it last night. Thought it was great. Having daughters the ages of her kids really enhanced it for us, I think. Her kids could be absolute assholes but then totally sweet. Just like real life.

There was a lot of weird shit, too but we were ok with it. Great friend group/supporting cast. Loved Pollack and Phil was a fucking hoot. She was prob my favorite character.

I really liked how it was a reflection of Adlon’s real life. Even including the Ching of the Mill reboot. (Glad that wasn’t the same in real life.) it’s amazing how much Bobby Hill is her actual voice.

My favorite moment in the series was when Adlon was shopping for Phil, and said to a person at a counter, “I’m looking got something for an old English woman with huge tits,” and the salesman standing in the background said, “I’ve got you right over here.”

I also overall loved how kitchen-centric the show really was. It was doing Bear stuff long before The Bear.