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Opinions, I have them
Apr. 15th, 2019 03:38 pmI'm feeling a bit cranky, and it's about a month or so until Avengers: Endgame, so, a few less than popular MCU opinions by yours truly:
( Opinions spoilery for the MCU movies so far ensue )
In non-MCU news, I marathoned the first season of Derry Girls, which consists of solely six episodes and has been reccomended to me a couple of times. It's a Northern Irish sit com, set in ye early 1990s, in the titular city. Our heroines are a couple of school girls plus one boy (James, first boy on an All Girls Catholic school because due to his being English, it's feared for his safety on a boys school), there'sa lot of black humor, sharp dialogue, and it manages to be very funny without prettifying the setting (of border controls and bombs, you know, all the joyful stuff the Brexiteers want to return to). In the course of the season, one of the girls comes out as gay, without this being given the "very special episode" treatment. And the headmistress is one of the best nun characters this side of Call the Midwife I've seen on tv in recent years, falling neither into the saintly nor in the evil abusive category; instead, she's a deadpan, matter-of-fact joy and further endears herself to me by wearing a post Vatican II habit instead of the full habit costumes US tv inflicts on its nuns more often than not, no matter when a show takes place. I hear the second season has just started, and hope next year Netflix will put it up as well.
( Opinions spoilery for the MCU movies so far ensue )
In non-MCU news, I marathoned the first season of Derry Girls, which consists of solely six episodes and has been reccomended to me a couple of times. It's a Northern Irish sit com, set in ye early 1990s, in the titular city. Our heroines are a couple of school girls plus one boy (James, first boy on an All Girls Catholic school because due to his being English, it's feared for his safety on a boys school), there'sa lot of black humor, sharp dialogue, and it manages to be very funny without prettifying the setting (of border controls and bombs, you know, all the joyful stuff the Brexiteers want to return to). In the course of the season, one of the girls comes out as gay, without this being given the "very special episode" treatment. And the headmistress is one of the best nun characters this side of Call the Midwife I've seen on tv in recent years, falling neither into the saintly nor in the evil abusive category; instead, she's a deadpan, matter-of-fact joy and further endears herself to me by wearing a post Vatican II habit instead of the full habit costumes US tv inflicts on its nuns more often than not, no matter when a show takes place. I hear the second season has just started, and hope next year Netflix will put it up as well.
