Let’s talk series and movies

Series:

1. Afro beats: The Backstory

2. Alchemy of Souls

3. A Teacher

4. Black Bird

5. Blacklist

Raymond Reddington

The Inner Voice

6. Blood & Water S2

7. Bridgerton

Quick Thoughts on S2

Additional Thoughts

8. Chernobyl

9. Cowboy Bebop

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Scars To Your Beautiful

We’re all hypocrites.

I’m a hypocrite.

You’re a hypocrite.

We’re all hypocrites.

Finding The Meaning Of Life Through Chaos

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The desperate need to not be alone, to find that missing piece that will make life make sense, give meaning to these routines, and validate you, you’ve done something right. That will say it was all worth it. That will make you feel seen…

If you want messiness, chaos cos when I say shit goes from a zero to a 100 real quick and with so much depth…. And how these feelings are no respecter of persons or status.

Killing Eve

The Perfect Yin Yang

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“ I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing and what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with. I think about what friends you have. I think about what you eat before you work and what shampoo you use and what happened in your family. I think about your eyes and your mouth and what you feel when you kill someone. I think about what you have for breakfast. I just…want to know everything.”

From season 1, it was clear Eve was so interested in Villanelle as a person, not just as an assassin. Her monologue at the end sounded like someone that wanted to know intimate things about her like breakfast, her friends, what she feels. I think their relationship was still cat and mouse until the moment the knife went in and it evolved into cat and cat.

One thing about Villanelle I find fascinating is how she tries to learn what a person wants whether facsimile or misunderstanding, she does try for example, she has learnt Eve’s husband is untouchable without being told. The season 2 ending, I feel Villanelle in her heart really did believe that she was in love and that was how to express but I I don’t blame Eve too for rejecting her even though somehow it felt like this is what you asked for going back to her monologue in S1, ‘I want to know what you feel when you kill someone ’, and Villanelle take people literally, she is definitely not that person you want to say one thing to and mean another thing. I honestly see why Eve rejected her, she had just been manipulated by Carolyn but in a way I believe Eve trusted Villanelle and she was in a daze, almost like hypnosis after killing Raymond until the wake up call, the finger click was that Villanelle too had manipulated her. In that moment I understood her rejection coupled with the expression like she was a thing to be owned or belong to someone. Season 3 really helped to do the work of bringing them to the perfect yin yang. Villanelle had now learnt and understood, if you love someone, you let them go which may have been squeezed out of her individual journey finding out no one really wanted her, not her mother and her handlers and the 12 only wanted a killing machine, not her. Eve had come to a place of acceptance, acceptance of who she is now which may have been squeezed out of all the dominos finally falling to the last bit and acceptance of Villanelle too

Under the Banner of Heaven

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Religious fanaticism at its finest.

Brutal violence and oppression of women. A cautionary tale to be careful of the family you choose to marry into. Generational abuse. You reap what you sow. The way the scenes are juxtaposed between past and present showing history repeating itself on a loop. And they are done so well that builds up the …and it’s not so much a cliffhanger but an overwhelming feeling of what’s to come. The way human beings use religion to justify and as a weapon to mete out unspeakable and despicable acts against their fellow human being is jarring. When you find out and begin to question everything you’ve ever believed. Was it all a fallacy? The longer you believed and were committed to the fallacy, the more it hurts. Dangerous family traditions.The notion of not questioning leaders when even Apostle Paul said to check the Scriptures for ourselves and not follow blindly. Don’t be lazy. Read the Word of God and know Him for yourself. Brainwashing. Using religion as banner and masks to cover misdeeds and have an air of superiority. This is not faith, it’s pure fantacism.

Stories I would Rewatch In The Next 10, 20, 50 Years

• Scenes From A Marriage

I just found it so relatable, so much so that I ranted to a friend about it for hours, and she thought it was a real-life story, haha. Discovering the answer to the question. Who am I, and not what family or society or friends or people feel we should be can be really hard. And coming to the realisation and acceptance of one’s part in the fizzling out of a relationship is a lot of work.

• Interview With The Vampire

The themes of grief, identity, abuse, cycles of abuse, dysfunctional family that bleeds throughout the show is how I know Ill be coming back to this from time to time. Basically a show about flawed people trying to love and be loved and the show demands you have empathy for them, and even goes beyond to ask that you forgive them. I have accepted the fact that no matter how many times I rewatch this show, there will always be something I missed. With every new season, you go back and you see certain things in a new light. The core theme, “Memory is a monster” makes it so that you’ll never know the full story.

• Fleishman Is In Trouble

This is one of the shows that had me asking what rock I had been under??? If you haven’t seen it, you’ve been living under a rock too! From time to time, my mind keeps bringing me back to the ending monologue.

“It has to do with how you feel about yourself, and the person closest to you gets mistaken for the circumstance and you think, Maybe if I excised this thing, Id be me again. But you’re not you anymore. That hasn’t been you in a long time. It’s not his fault. It just happened. It was always going to just happen.”

• Feud: Bette and Joan

I would quote the Finale Title for this one.

“You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?”

Saying this title has me tearing up already. I mourned the women. I mourned the friendship these two women could have had and loathed all the things that stood in the way of that.

• Fosse Verdon

The final one in the 3Fs.

• This World Can’t Tear Me Down & Tear Along The Dotted Line

In a time when I had pushed many friends away and felt like they couldn’t understand what I had been through, and was searching for purpose, to feel needed and to have some meaning to this thing called life. This made me feel seen and told me I was not alone. A friend recommended this to me, he may not know it, but he saved my life.

Stories

What are those shows you would rewatch in the next 10, 20, 50 years?

Becoming

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Yes the adrenaline rush, the thrill is there, the moment everything goes silent and you’re waiting with bated breath to see what will come next. But, beyond all this is how the show invites you to sit with them and reflect. Without outright saying it, you find yourself putting yourself in their shoes and thinking What will I do in this situation? How will I behave and react in this situation? There’s almost no room for judgement, because sometimes, even the betrayals, you find yourself nodding in understanding.

It is the becoming of people. Who they become through these games. It is the fact that the games “encourage” them to move as a team, and they see these people they care about die, and they have to keep going in real-time. There is no time to grieve the loss, there is no time to feel or do anything. There is nothing people wouldn’t do for the future they desire or to avert a repeat/escalation of their past. There is nothing as soul-crushing as hearing your future will amount to nothing. When the guilt and regret swallow one whole and all the hope drains from our souls, what else is there to live or fight for? What will you do, what will you sacrifice for your dream future? Or will you sacrifice your dream future and who or what will you do it for?

What makes you feel like life is worth living?

Stories

Storytelling is important. Stories are not just entertainment, they carry weight. They are how histories are learnt, perceptions about people and situations are built and they carry the blueprint of the very essence of what it means to be human. They echo our beating hearts.