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Originally Posted by Demoncrat  After a wee technical hitch am catching up with Preacher. Doolally is the word even if you have read it   |
I watched, and thoroughly enjoyed, the first season, so the others are on my (very long) watchlist.
The last few series I've watched were the third of
Twin Peaks, something which baffles, beguiles and leaves me wanting more (possibly in the form of a third viewing).
Because they've recently aired the final episodes, I also finished watching the second seasons of
The Handmaid's Tale and
Versailles, neither of which were as gripping as the first. In the case of the events in Gilead, the season finished in such a way that I'm eagerly anticipating a third season, something I didn't think would be the case while I was watching the first six or so episodes.
I also saw the last episode of
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, a series he co-wrote with Kim Newman, and has featured engrossing and fascinating breakdowns of the formula behind rom-coms, heist, and coming of age films as well as the major themes within the sci-fi and horror genres. I'm glad I recorded the series because the episodes are like lectures at film school and features so many references to films I haven't seen that I will have a long watchlist/shopping list of films I either haven't seen or haven't seen in a long time and will want to see before giving the series another viewing.
The amount of information and level of details in each episode is remarkable and it's delivered almost effortlessly by Kermode, who says sentences with reasonably high-level film terms in the same way as most people would do if reading a basic shopping list, so it isn't something for people with a passing interest in film and more for those with a semi-academic understanding of film, either through watching and reading at home or studying at college or university. It would be a good introduction to the different ways of looking at films for someone about to do an A-level in film studies or even a degree in English and film, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a book by Kermode and Newman released in the next couple of months.