Matt Brennan Catch UpĮverything you need to know about the film or TV series everyone’s talking about By the time you reach the end you’ll be impatient for more, but take heart: The streamer’s adaptation of Rooney’s debut, “Conversations with Friends,” began filming in April. Co-written by Rooney, Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) and Hettie Macdonald (“Howards End”), its tale of childhood friends-turned-classmates-turned-lovers Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell ( Paul Mescal) is crisp, almost pure, in its simplicity: Over 12 breathtakingly sexy half-hour installments, the pair hew together and drift apart, buffeted by class differences, family strife, career developments, even depression, which Mescal actualizes with empathy and precision in the stricken revelation that is Episode 10. Whether you’ve already devoured Sally Rooney’s latest novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” as I have, or simply require a jolt of cuffing-season inspiration, Hulu’s intimate, impossibly delicate adaptation of her second book, “Normal People, ” is the perfect miniseries to spend an autumn weekend with. (And never manage to review a film.) - Robert Lloyd
SQUIDS WITH GUNS FREE
(I once moderated a panel with Heidecker and Turkington on the “On Cinema” spinoff “Decker” - a MAGA-before-MAGA bargain-basement home-brew spy series - and it became clear as the night wore on that I was also an actor in this game, helping to write its history.) As versions of themselves, which is to say, characters who bear their names, the two are caught in a relationship based on jealousy and resentment, fated to torture one another into eternity - people who, however free they imagine themselves to be, have nowhere else to go. This ongoing life project from Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington - a riff on Siskel and Ebert that turned into an exercise in deep world-building - has lived on various platforms across its many seasons, the 12th of which debuts Wednesday on the HEI (as in Heidecker) Network, a real web-based subscription service that is itself part of the maxi-multi-mega-metafiction. That’s what watching a good game will do to you.“On Cinema at the Cinema” ( HEI Network). When the contestants get to the eponymous Squid Game-a contest of offense and defense, so named because the grid that kids play it on is drawn to look like a squid-the drama had me looking at my phone to escape the tension. When Ji-yeong (Lee Yoo-mi), a woman who killed her abusive father and has just left prison with no money or friends to her name, sacrifices herself for Sae-byeok, I wept. When the team of scrappy protagonists-male and female, young and old-tugs and tugs at a rope, trying to drag a much stronger, all-male team over a precipice, I cheered for every step back they took, even though them winning would mean a bunch of other people would get crushed to death. The ins and outs of the games are thrilling. The Rings of Power’s Big Twist Revealed More Than Sauron’s Identity.Tennessee Over Alabama Is Why God Invented College Football They would rather try for a big payoff, see a lot of people die, and possibly die themselves, than waste away slowly in the real world, trying to achieve something that seems impossible.įifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. They are simply too desperate-indebted, like Gi-hun refugees, like Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon, a mesmerizing presence on screen, and a fan favorite), a defector who needs money to bring her family from North Korea undocumented immigrants, like Abdul Ali (Tripathi Anupam), a big-hearted Pakistani father whose employer is stealing his wages.
They are home for a short while, before they all end up back in the van, submitting to the sleeping gas, on the way back to try for the prize. After the opening massacre, the group takes advantage of a clause in the contract they signed, and votes, by simple majority, to end the game and go home, without anyone getting the money. The players must decide that they want to be part of the game. Squid Game is different from its genre cousins in one major way, and it’s the one that gives the show its emotional punch. Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
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