Just started watching Lioness this week, about 3 or 4 episodes in and I think it's pretty good. Like some of Taylor Sheridan's other shows it can be graphic at times but it's another well produced show I think.
I watched most of the first season of that show. It felt less like an alternative history and more like an alternative reality to me from how advanced the Soviets are. Cool premise, but I wish it had delved into the Soviets more. It used the alt history to spotlight issues in American history (sexism, racism, perceived war crimes) while leaving what little perception of the Soviets you get as a technologically advanced, morally just, bordering on aspirational society. I’m sure it’s narratively justifiable but personally I think we (the west) don’t give ourselves enough credit, at least compared to the authoritarian east. There are several good reasons we won the Cold War and the show doesn’t display any of them.
I read about that, but thought my wife might not like the jumping back and forth between time periods. Does it do a good job of keeping things on track, or does it get confusing at times?
I really don't like those that jump around or have flashbacks... but this seems to do a decent job with it so far. It basically spends like 15 mins on one of the 4 years, jumps to the next for a similar context, to the next, etc. It was way more mental energy than I was looking to use last night. I'll push through because the concept is pretty cool.
I'm hoping that this gets my wife to watch that. She wasn't pretty meh on it and we only lasted one episode. May just not have struck her at the time.
I think I missed this announcement. Is Amazon expecting to do the entire Dark Tower series?
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