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]

HPI season 5 premiere is nearing! \o/\o/\o/ I have managed to contact (tentatively make friends with) a French fan of the show, and hope I'll be able to get the new eps from them. It turns out that Belgium and Switzerland are airing the first two eps on Monday already, where I thought I had time until the French premiere on Thursday. Huh! It's always so exciting to wait for a season premiere. I'd forgotten how exhausting it is, too.

I got sucked into The Pitt this week and watched all of it - just finished it yesterday. Phew! So good! I still maintain that the one-day format detracts from my enjoyment of character development, but they did a really good job letting us get to know the characters despite that restriction. I liked all of them in the end, even Langdon. I think my faves were the abrasive women, Santos and McKay. I was happy (not happy) to have predicted what was going to happen in the evening eps, as I'm usually not good at picking up on foreshadowing. I blame it on them being very very obvious. :D Now on to the fic! (I will take recs if you have them.)

I also saw a documentary called Ice Grave at the theater this week, since there's a festival going on here. It's (another) version of the famous Swedish North Pole expedition in a hydrogen balloon in 1897. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition . I can't honestly recommend it, but it was well done and pretty immersive, put together mostly from the photographs taken by one of the three expedition members, and underscored by the absolutely beautiful saxophone score that was apparently played in real time for the whole duration of the movie (from this artist, Bendik Giske, and it sounded very much like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQfk5HUN-Q). I couldn't find any more information on it online anywhere, and the version we saw looked kind of unfinished. I don't think it has an international release yet.