Luke Skywanker
[lovecraft country] I am only through episode 6 but I am loving all the risks this show is taking. "Oh they WENT there" is one of my favorite feelings to get from art. And they sure are going places.
Gavitron
I need to finish that show. I think I have two episodes left or so.
Gavitron
The one where there's an Incident in the observatory... that one was a LOT to process. A lot. That's where I stopped for a while, and I haven't gotten back to it yet.
Haunted Boobs
GOD LOVECRAFT COUNTRY IS SO SO GOOD!
Haunted Boobs
It's a rare example of the adaption surpassing the original source material
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Gavitron
: Want to catch an episode tonight?
Haunted Boobs
Misha Green took the foundation and good ideas from the novel and just...ran with them and made a masterpiece
FeralGremlin
I love this show. It's also rough.
Haunted Boobs
Yeah the show is a very personal and raw exploration of racism and sexism, which is in a large part why it surpasses the source material. (The book is a perfectly good book, also just very obviously written by an older white man, who perhaps is not the best storyteller for this story)
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I mean I guess slightly spoilery but the one about Ruby's exploration ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Haunted Boobs
GOD YES
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I mean I can see how it's dangerous territory but YES I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE DEAL WITH THIS
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I know it's not how the world works but goddamn I love it
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race and gender both
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plus they do it in this viscerally disturbing way
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I just got to the Korea episode
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and I am in love with this woman
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person
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being
Haunted Boobs
Yeah, the showrunner on this project is Misha Green, a black woman who's projects have all realistically and rawly explored racism and sexism, and teaming up with Jordan Peele...there are no better people to tell this story
Haunted Boobs
JI-AH IS MY FAVORITE!
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(plus she hella cute)
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honestly the only reason I'm interested in either Christina or William is that they both exist
Haunted Boobs
That's actually a fascinating plotline
Haunted Boobs
I really enjoy Christina as a villain. (She is another example of surpassing the source material, she doesn't exist in the novel, the villain is a very boring generic rich jerk white dude with boring generic motives)
Luke Skywanker
oh boo
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CHristina turning to Ruby and being like "no you don't understand, you get to do whatever the fuck you want
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like I know she's the bad guy but I still feel like she is genuinely like "no Ruby you GET SOME BACK"
Haunted Boobs
YEAH CHRISTINA IS COMPLEX AND INTERESTING!
Haunted Boobs
And the dynamic between her and Ruby (and also her and Leti) is just really well done
Luke Skywanker
ok and can i say, that scene where Leti busted out all those cars was both cathartic and really fucking hot?
Luke Skywanker
Even like, how she moved
Haunted Boobs
Oh hell yes it was
Luke Skywanker
I love her
Haunted Boobs
Leti is a badass and I love her
Haunted Boobs
I love all the women on this show
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plus I am listening to the podcast and I am glad they brought up the issue of her skin color
Luke Skywanker
like it was a discussion in the writers' room, the light-skinned lead thing, but there's also a reason for it
Haunted Boobs
Oh yes the podcast is very good
Luke Skywanker
as a white girl I appreciate the added context
Haunted Boobs
Yeah. Though I admit until I learned all the behind the scenes stuff, I just assumed it was because Jornee Smollet is the female lead in all of Misha Green's stuff pffff
Luke Skywanker
That might well be part of it! But it's also part of the story? So I feel better?
Haunted Boobs
Yeah, the context does definitely make a difference
Haunted Boobs
God I can't wait till you get to episode 8
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My roommate is also like vibrating about my response to it lol
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(she watched it while I was gone)