Part time single mom with two extraordinary kids on the rainbow spectrum.
Theatre/storytelling nerd from a heavily geek family, though for me it is a recessive trait while the arts are more dominant. I gravitate toward dark humor, gothy fantasy, and creature features, but mostly want fully developed characters and immersive storytelling.
I'm kinda an open book. It’s just long and complicated. And it takes a while for me to relax enough to flip through all the pages.
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Started watching Midnight Mass on Netflix last night. Not quite halfway, but they're definitely slow rolling the scary reveal part with rich characters/setting and gorgeous cinematography.
Takes place on a small population island. And I legit was yelling at the tv "The whole point of a recovery group is the GROUP. No, your priest is not an acceptable substitute just because it's a small town."
This!
I enjoy writing and thinking and crafting a perspective from the source material.
I don't want some plagiarizing machine to do it for me. It can't. It doesn't even know me.
The part I found extra entertaining is that they were often exploring the dynamics and politics of different artistic industries.
Books, museums, the art world, burlesque, comics, radio, tv, etc. The murder would happen in one of those spaces and then the show would explore the politics and how things functioned.
The flaws of the era were still there, but they were definitely trying to be thoughtful and open up the conversation and show the humanity.
I'm guessing if there was any validity to the idea of a "death clue" we'd still be using the idea today.
There was also a point in every episode where the lead would break the fourth wall and ask the audience if they'd figured it out and run through the list of suspects.
Which was an interesting way to engage the audience, but there is no way you'd guess the outcome based on the information actually provided. It was typically some random left turn detail that you wouldn't just guess.
There were rich, unhappy marriages, mistresses and affairs and they still treated them like normal people. Those things did not automatically mean "the killer."
And the show was a who's who of classic performers. I saw Betty White, Eva Gabor, Donald O'Connor, Vincent Price, and even a George Burns cameo. And those were just the faces I knew the names for.
Unique conventions:
They were big on this "death clue" concept. Where the victim would try to grab some item that indicated the killer.