Stacking cultural elements - "Pulp talk: City of Angels"

Today, let's talk about the American drama "Pleasant Talk: City of Angels".

The title is Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020).

The 2014-2016 British drama Pulp Talk is set in Victorian England at the end of the 19th century, bringing together monsters such as werewolves, vampires, witches, Frankenstein and more, by Eva Green and Josh Starring Hartnett (Josh Hartnett), tells a series of love-hate stories.

At that time, the American drama "Hannibal" achieved the most beautiful picture, and "Vulgar Story" achieved the most beautiful lines. "Purple Talk" has also become a favorite of my heart.

A few years later, Pulp Talk: City of Angels was launched as a spiritual sequel to Pulp Talk, produced by Showtime.

In order to make a good connection, director Paco Cabezas directed the first episode of the series, which was also the last episode of the third season of "Pleasant Talk" directed by him that year.

"Purple Talk: City of Angels" is set in Los Angeles in 1930, and shares some plots with the American drama "Perry Mason" (2020), which was broadcast in the same year.

Both dramas are based on Vikings in the 1930s, and both feature the "Florence Moore" case, in which a 12-year-old girl was tragically kidnapped, dismembered and murdered in Los Angeles in December 1927.

The show also features a female missionary and her controlling mother.

Little Rose Natalie Dormer (Natalie Dormer) plays four roles in the play. Death, city councillor assistant, little German widow, Mexican gang members.

When playing the assistant to the alderman, the right lens of her glasses was specially processed to make the right eye look larger, in order to make the assistant to the alderman appear incongruous.

Natalie Dormer's other three looks were nothing but her signature crooked mouth.

Aimee Sepul Macpherson

The female preacher in the play is based on Aimee Semple McPherson.

Aimee Sepul Macpherson was a well-known evangelist in the early 20th century who founded the Foursquare Church. Her lifestyle is full of charity, controversy and contradictions. She first watched her mother work in the Salvation Army, and then she played herself, she believed that faith was as important as helping people, and that work alone would not get you into heaven.

Aimee Sepul Macpherson died in 1944, leaving behind good deeds, the church and many unanswered questions.

In this play, in order to harvest more souls, the goddess of death provokes and provokes conflicts, aiming to cause more casualties.

One of the main clues is that the city councillors promoted the construction of the highway. The road plan passed through the Mexican gathering area, and the demolition caused a lot of contradictions.

In reality, the Los Angeles River flooded so much in early 1938 that paving began later that year.

It can be seen that this drama has always wanted to replicate the advantages of "Vulgar and Weird Talk", but the actual content shown is confusing.

The play begins with the Mexican undead culture at the beginning, but it has only a shallow taste of the undead culture and lacks in-depth performance.

Compared with the beautiful lines of "Vulgar and Weird Talk", it is simply the difference between the clouds and the mud that brings people from all walks of life together in the chat and laughter.

Forcibly adding various elements such as World War II, Nazis, racial discrimination, etc., gives a feeling of cheap stacking, and soon gives a very boring feeling.

There is a scene in the play.

Detective Michener mentions the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis when he threatens Kyle on a cliff.

While the three countries signed individual treaties, it was not until 1939 and 1940 that they signed the Iron and Tripartite Pacts that their military alliances received that designation. The time background of this play is 1938, which is obviously time-traveled.

When the show aired, in addition to some of the usual violent pornographic warnings, there was an episode with additional warnings.

An episode of the Los Angeles Police Department interrogating Diego came less than a month after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparked a nationwide outcry. Black Lives Matter campaign of police brutality.

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