Watching Russian Doll. I can tell it’s objectively good and a sort of refined Woody Allen style take on the Groundhog Day premise, but.... I suspect I may be too firmly middlebrow in my TV tastes to enjoy this.
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Got the tip yesterday.
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Good to know. I was thinking the "groundhogs day" type storylines were done after @RussianDoll did such a great job, but I'm looking forward to this.
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Shit, this once again proves I like my fiction very cartoonish. I think was first to spot this. Rich and nuanced character development loses me. Trying to think of any non-cartoonish story with realistic characters that I’ve liked, and failing. Wonder what this means.
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The most complex fictional character I’ve ever liked is probably Pip from Great Expectations maybe?
I can handle greater complexity, but only in impressionistic slices, like most other Dickens characters.
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Also why I like twitter. You’re all basically cartoons on here. On twitter nobody can tell if you’re a cartoon irl.
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I deny that I’m a cartoon irl
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Ok I’ll cop to it. I’m basically a small shell script. Lots of memory though.
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Now that I think of it, most complex characters are not actually complex but channels for complex environments. Like these Russian Doll characters are all versions of “New York.”
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Update, finished first season with partial attention (mostly wife was watching, not me). Clever twist at the end, but overall not worth the investment for me.
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