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! Three out of four eps of season five have now aired, and I adored every single one of them. One ep to go before a longer break until September.

Tout Va Bien (2023) (English title "Everything is Fine"). Um, I know I said I'd watch this over the summer, but then it sucked me in and I watched all eight eps this week. (I knew if I stopped, I wouldn't finish it, because the subject matter is dark.) It's about a family dealing with their child's leukemia. I only watched this because Mehdi Nebbou is in it (and he's cute and dead sexy in it so totally worth all the tears), and I liked 90% of it very much and have many thoughts about it, so I'll write up a review. It's on hulu.

Mann/Frau - I finished this 2014 youtube series of 40 5-minute eps, and by the end very much loved all the main characters. I never noticed that none of them have names, until I watched an interview with producer Christian Ulmen at the end. :D I was especially delighted by the polyamory, and by how quirky and funny (and often indecent) the dialogue was. Playlist here, only in German without subs. (The auto-generated and auto-translated subs leave a lot to be desired.)

Murderbot - I watched episodes 2 and 3 this week, after rereading the first novella. I think they're really close to the book, except that I feel like they've added some sex that wasn't in the book? Which confuses me, because Murderbot explicitly says it doesn't care for sex, so why did they think they had to add that? To annoy Murderbot (and its fans) more? I guess it's a valid trade-off between the existing Murderbot fans (who are going to watch it anyway, lets not kid ourselves) and trying to attract new fans by adding more sex. Anyway, that's a minor complaint. I like it so far.

[shadowkat]

I agree, I was annoyed by the sex in Murderbot and kind of ignoring it, along with Murderbot. I think it's there because it's streaming, and they feel the need to show sex in an adult series. (eyeroll).
And because they can. But I thought it was unnecessary.