Treacle-A
Joined Feb 2011
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While it's clear that time and budget restraints effected the pace of storytelling in this second season, there's no disputing the fact that OFMD is a cut above everything else going. The themes are complex, the arcs are many and varied, the tone is comedy + high drama + romance and the format is only 8 X 30 minutes for pity's sake! This is ambitious stuff people!
Emotions are running high as a result of the long wait so reactions to an all too brief S2 are clearly polarised, but the fact is OFMD offers its devoted audience something completely unique, heartfelt and passionate. Let's not forget that as we all rally for a third season.
Emotions are running high as a result of the long wait so reactions to an all too brief S2 are clearly polarised, but the fact is OFMD offers its devoted audience something completely unique, heartfelt and passionate. Let's not forget that as we all rally for a third season.
Having being a huge fan of both Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi sinces the early 2000s, I was super excited when I heard they were co-starring in a new HBO comedy about pirates.
Expecting the same brand of hilarious dry Kiwi humour I've come to expect from any collaboration of theirs, I was both delighted and touched to find that this sweetly kind and funny comedy show was also very obviously *a gay love story*, featuring the kind of easy throwaway acceptance of sexuality, gender and diversity that I was shocked to realise I had never seen before on a TV show.
To say this sweetly funny, gorgeously shot little show has been a revolutionary step-forward in queer storytelling is not an understatement in the slightest. The outpouring of love and gratitude I've seen online from the LGBTQ+ community for these characters, the showrunner David Jenkins and for Taika and Rhys is unprecedented. The incredible fan-art, the fanfiction (thanks Frenchie!), the sharing of feelings and personal stories and emotions this whole last couple of weeks over social media has been a total trip, and the loveliest part of that has been to see it all held, validated and delighted in by the entire creative team that made the show.
I hope HBO Max know that they will be the darlings of the streaming platforms when they renew this for the 2 more seasons (minimum!) that David Jenkins has planned. That announcement can't come soon enough frankly.
Expecting the same brand of hilarious dry Kiwi humour I've come to expect from any collaboration of theirs, I was both delighted and touched to find that this sweetly kind and funny comedy show was also very obviously *a gay love story*, featuring the kind of easy throwaway acceptance of sexuality, gender and diversity that I was shocked to realise I had never seen before on a TV show.
To say this sweetly funny, gorgeously shot little show has been a revolutionary step-forward in queer storytelling is not an understatement in the slightest. The outpouring of love and gratitude I've seen online from the LGBTQ+ community for these characters, the showrunner David Jenkins and for Taika and Rhys is unprecedented. The incredible fan-art, the fanfiction (thanks Frenchie!), the sharing of feelings and personal stories and emotions this whole last couple of weeks over social media has been a total trip, and the loveliest part of that has been to see it all held, validated and delighted in by the entire creative team that made the show.
I hope HBO Max know that they will be the darlings of the streaming platforms when they renew this for the 2 more seasons (minimum!) that David Jenkins has planned. That announcement can't come soon enough frankly.
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