Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[tinny]

Oops, I missed last week's post again - but I am really very slow at watching things these days and I was on vacation to boot, so even in two weeks, not all that much has accumulated.

I've now seen 9 eps of The Pitt and enjoying it a lot, but that's not telling anyone anything they didn't know before. Everyone loves the show as far as I can tell. :D

I continued Dark Winds, but I'm still in early s1, so that'll take a while.

Still enjoying Doctor Odyssey, although there was only one ep last week (and now they're on a two week Easter hiatus), and that was one that had been planned for earlier in the season and got moved back due to necessary reshoots, so it didn't really fit the season's ody3 character arc. Renewal/cancellation is still unconfirmed at this point (but viewer numbers are rising because apparently the throuple made enough people take notice).

I also tried to find Justice in the Dark, the Chinese BL that has now been released in Japan, and while I did find it, I only watched about a minute of it. The auto-translated engsubs are so terrible that I decided to wait for better ones to come along.

While scouring youtube for more stuff that Mehdi Nebbou was in, I somehow found *three* things!

Couples, a German Arte production that takes a humorous look at couples, and it's set up like conversations with a therapist. Each couple only gets five minutes or so, and there are only ten couples in the first season, so it's a very short watch. Some of them are... ehhh questionable, but I liked them overall. You can watch them all on youtube (in German): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqdif7wT03ds2d06O0JnIIXgjrsBiNRZ

Les Heures Souterraines (somehow translated into German as "Die Tage Unter Null" which... wtf, it's about people having a bad time and not about temperature, and it's exactly one day, not more. I've seen some bad German titles but this one's even worse than usual.) That said, the movie wasn't all that good either imho. It just follows two people around the city of Paris for one day. One of them is a doctor who does house calls, and the other is a woman who has to contend with gaslighting at her job. It wasn't terrible, but it was also not very satisfying. I felt like the author (it is based on a book) needed to write that topic to get it off her chest, and that's perfectly fine, but it does not make for a good movie, unless you're a victim of gaslighting yourself, maybe? What made the time worth it for me is that it's (to my knowledge) the only movie in which Mehdi Nebbou dubbed himself. The original production is French, but there's a German dub (as usual with movies released in Germany) and he did the dub for his character himself. If my lackluster review hasn't deterred you, you can watch it here (in French or German) at the official site: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/054789-000-A/les-heures-souterraines/

And then a fellow HPI fan pointed me towards Cookie, another French movie with Mehdi Nebbou (from 2013), in which he speaks Chinese. I also found that on youtube, but it was a very LQ rip, not an official release. It's about a woman who suddenly has to take care of a six-year old Chinese boy. It turns out that his mother (the main character's cleaning woman) was in France illegally, and she's been picked up by the police. The movie can't really decide whether it wants to be a drama or a comedy or a romance, and the plot basically consists of the woman and her sister (and her husband and her ex) trying to reunite the boy with his mother (in an absolutely impossible way omg i want to rant about this it's so illogical). I still did not regret it because I did get to hear Mehdi Nebbou speak a few lines of Chinese (uuuuuuuh, understandable but terrible), and watch him kiss one of the women. So, for me, A++ experience. :D I would not recommend the movie for anyone else.

That's it! Not much for two weeks.

[yourlibrarian]

Oh I forgot! I watched 2 episodes of Doctor Odyssey. This show is like a crack fanfic, I swear.

[tinny]

IKR? I used to read fanfic at first, but then the show went and made everything I wanted canon, so now I don't need the fic anymore. :D

[china_shop]

I still did not regret it because I did get to hear Mehdi Nebbou speak a few lines of Chinese (uuuuuuuh, understandable but terrible), and watch him kiss one of the women. So, for me, A++ experience. :D I would not recommend the movie for anyone else.

Hee! *hearts*

[tinny]

choosing my battles lol :D