The only TV I had time to watch this weekend was an episode of Archer and a week-and-a-half-old episode of The Americans. I'm still liking the show well enough, but I kind of think they need to slow it the hell down. I'm no master spy, but having a new mission every week while you're supposed to be undercover and a sort of sleeper agent feels like a lot of missions. Perhaps it makes sense in the context of Archer, but I'm cool with long-game sorts of scenarios and letting the domestic issues the show writers seem to want to focus on (and I welcome) broil from episode to episode is fine.
But, really, I have no complaints.
Well, one. Every episode now seems to end with our leads in their bedroom having a whispery and angry conversation, and it's a bad pattern to get stuck in. Yes, we need to see these two together, but somehow it reminds me of how Smallville started going downhill when every episode started ending the A Plot with 10-15 minutes left, and spent 10 minutes with Lana and Clark in Clark's barn-loft with Lana making cow eyes at each other and being weepy teens.
If the killer Russian spies turn into Clana, I shall be disappointed.
I also picked up and read the second volume of a trade of a Planet of the Apes comics series that has to be two or three years old now. It's well written and fantastically drawn, and, like all POTA stuff, it's also headed somewhere incredibly nihilistic and depressing. Just showing a world where humans still talk is the start of the end of a world where humans cease talking and become primitive and beast-like by their first appearance in the Cheston films. And, of course, when you blow up the Earth in the second movie (spoiler?), there's just not really a "and things get better" to be had.*
All of this makes it hard to go seek out the third volume as... I kind of know how all this wraps up. Hmmm...
Mostly, I worked on Saturday, and today I made a cake for Jamie's birthday. And then we made dinner. And now I'm sort of done. And the weekend is over, and we're starting all over again.
*yes, there are three more films after they blow up Earth. What of it?
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2 comments:
Good for you for making a cake!
Dunno if this is in your wheelhouse, but we watched the 1st 2 eps of "Top of the Lake" last night, and were pretty hooked. Murder-mystery in New-Zealand.
Dammit! Did that already start? I was planning to catch that. Where did you see it?
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