goducks-58290
Joined Feb 2023
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I spent my college years and beyond listening to DEVO and the many groundbreaking musicians and bands who emerged throughout the 70s and 80s. This documentary perfectly captures the talent, focus, uncontrollable urge, weirdness, and circumstances that shaped and catapulted DEVO. Highly recommended, even if you can't stand or understand their music. DEVO's many influences that helped shape rock 'n' roll and performance art are undeniable.
Everyone keeps comparing this to "Columbo" and how "Poker Face" is a throwback to old style detective dramas. There's certainly a shred of that cooked in, but "Poker Face" is true to form to Rian Johnson's stylistic creativity and his reliance on introducing us to a rich cast of characters, a diverse palette of locations, colorful insights about people and their motivations, and a parody of American culture. And it's all wrapped together in a well written script supported by great actors who work in tandem to weave a good story. This series is less about the actual whodunit, but instead relies on the finer details of how ordinary people can lie and deceive. If you liked "Knives Out" you will love "Poker Face".
Wow. Just wow. And so damn dark.
Excellent in many aspects but also unbearably depressing. I had hopes for this episode at the start since it structurally reminded me of "Be Right Back" - one of my all time favorite BM episodes.
But unlike "Be Right Back", which was one part sad and one part sweet yet thoroughly thought provoking, "Common People" was just a downward death spiral without nearly as much depth or redemption. You could see the ending coming from a mile away, and I longed for a tiny bit of a silver lining which never arrived.
The Dum Dummies sequences borrowed heavily from concepts introduced in prior BM episodes, and I thought it served to ramp up the depressive story arc in a somewhat manipulative way.
O'Dowd and Jones were solid, but overall this episode was too predictably depressing. I longed for a tiny shred of positivity that I think would have aided the arc of this story to make me want to watch it again and again. For those reasons, I've re-watched "Be Right Back", "Hang The DJ", "San Junipero", and several other BM episodes multiple times.
I'm pretty certain I will not need to re-watch "Common People" again.
Excellent in many aspects but also unbearably depressing. I had hopes for this episode at the start since it structurally reminded me of "Be Right Back" - one of my all time favorite BM episodes.
But unlike "Be Right Back", which was one part sad and one part sweet yet thoroughly thought provoking, "Common People" was just a downward death spiral without nearly as much depth or redemption. You could see the ending coming from a mile away, and I longed for a tiny bit of a silver lining which never arrived.
The Dum Dummies sequences borrowed heavily from concepts introduced in prior BM episodes, and I thought it served to ramp up the depressive story arc in a somewhat manipulative way.
O'Dowd and Jones were solid, but overall this episode was too predictably depressing. I longed for a tiny shred of positivity that I think would have aided the arc of this story to make me want to watch it again and again. For those reasons, I've re-watched "Be Right Back", "Hang The DJ", "San Junipero", and several other BM episodes multiple times.
I'm pretty certain I will not need to re-watch "Common People" again.