Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

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

Comments

[jo]

I did watch actual shows this week, I just can't remember what!

Sort of joking. I started season 3 of Dark Winds and am very much enjoying it. I also watched a couple of episodes of season 1 of Sloborn, a German drama about a deadly virus that infects a small community living on the island of Sloborn between Denmark and Germany. Because I just can't get enough global pandemic into my life, haha. Season 3 of The Piano started up, so have been enjoying that. Ditto season 7 of Black Mirror (although I may have started that the previous week, I really can't recall). And the weekly installments of Will Trent and FBI.

And baseball and tennis.

I also actually watched a movie, which is a pretty rare occurrence for me. Some months back -- last fall some time, I heard about a film about a meeting of the G7 where the leaders realize they're apparently completely alone -- and weird stuff starts to happen. It looked amusing, so I sort of kept an eye out for it, but forgot about it. Then I saw something about a film on Amazon Prime called "G20" and thought that was the film. I started to watch it, but it wasn't the film. The G20 film is about a meeting of the G20, but it's an all out action film. I watched about 30 minutes of it before I fully realized this was not the film I had wanted to watch. So anyway, I found the actual film, called Rumours and watched THAT one.

It was... odd? It's sort of a dystopian horror political satire comedy? Has an interesting cast. Cate Blanchett plays the German chancellor (with heavy shades of Angela Merkel). Roy Dupuis is the Canadian Prime Minister -- an overly sentimental hottie who has clearly had an affair with the UK PM (a woman) and the German chancellor, and the president of the EU. The oddest casting is Charles Dance as the US President. He plays a sort of Biden-like president -- old guy, keeps falling asleep during meetings, etc., and never makes a single attempt to not have a British accent. At one point in the film, the Italian PM basically asks him "What's up with the accent" and the President starts to regale him with the "interesting story" behind that when some dramatic thing happens that quickly puts an end to that, so we never find out why the US president is British. Or at least sounds British. Anyway, I mostly enjoyed it, but it's probably not to a lot of people's tastes. Or interests.

[yourlibrarian]

Certainly odd about Charles Dance -- so many Brits do a good American accent, seems odd they'd choose to cast one who didn't.

[jo]

What makes you think he can't do one? I'm assuming if they really wanted an American accent, they would have cast an American, or had Dance do one, or cast a non-USian who could do one if Dance really couldn't. The entire movie is absurd, so to me this was deliberate, not a failing on Dance's part.

[pattrose]

Will Trent and Dark Winds are two of my favorites right now. I also love High Potential and I'm watching season one on Hulu. Its great fun.