On how a divine drama walked off the altar

Athena 2022-11-14 19:29:59

The halo of the first season is too great, and then watching the second season, it is impossible to compare it with the first season. Black and honey are two ends. .

Let’s list the intuitive details first:

1. In terms of the crew, the screenwriter is still Nick, and a little-known Scott has been added. Since he signed his name, there is no need to think about it. Most of the editors are estimated to be this Scott. written. I guess that according to the principles of American drama production, the combination of a novice director and a novice screenwriter can give a good fortune for one season, so from a global perspective, Nick may not have pinched the original case of more than three seasons at the beginning, so there is a later one. The story, no one expected that the first season would become so popular. In other words, from the perspective of creative polishing, the rush of the second season began from the source.

2. In terms of starring, the blunt addition of the four-starring form is the main point that I am most dissatisfied with. When I first saw this cast, I felt vaguely bad, and the play took almost half a season to complete. Explain the characteristics of each character and try to make it reasonable. If the line of Vince is barely able to be added, I can't get the point of the triangular exploration. If Colin is considered the number one, OK, then Tyler and Rachel's removal of any one would not make the show look as distorted as it does now.

3. To put it bluntly, it seems that any successful new drama will inevitably end up being over-exploited for commercial value. At the same time, since Matthew and Wudi have been praised to the sky, this drama has tragically become a rebound for the second-tier poor stars. The bus of wish, look at what the little stars who squeezed their heads in order to get on the bus have become, especially Rachel's neurotic father, I immediately thought of the now hot Master Wang.

In short, the 5 episodes I have watched so far, and the whole case from a distance, is nothing more than a puzzle that integrates corruption, promiscuity, and torture, and the style of the whole film, because it is the work of a collective director, is not to mention the degree of fragmentation. Compared with the unified style of director Carrey in the first season with a little light in the fog from beginning to end. Interestingly, the producers are brave and decisive, not trying to emulate the first season at all, but wanting to create another more psychedelic and decadent portrayal of Hollywood. In my opinion, the best result should be close to , but it is farther from the altar of divine drama.

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The Western Book of the Dead quotes

  • Ray Velcoro: I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don't even go to the moon anymore.

  • Ray Velcoro: If you ever bully or hurt anybody again, I'll come back and butt fuck your father with your mom's headless corpse on this goddamn lawn.