The world is a wasteland.
Depression is a terrible sickness. It’s addictive. It infects the very things that caused it in the first place; the ones we love, the things we care about, the places we grew up…and worst of all, most of the time you hardly even notice it’s there. An Elephant Sitting Still is the most deadly accurate and deeply affecting cinematic portrayal of depression ever put to screen, a timeless masterpiece of human nature.
I’ve been struggling…
I’m gonna use this as means to a review of the entire show, not just this “miniseries” (which isn’t a separate series in itself, just a more serialized group of 10 episodes to tell one story within the series). Anyway, here I go.
Adventure Time. I was 9 years old when this show first came out. I was used to watching cartoons before school and after dinner, around this time the most notable shows I remember watching were Total Drama…
Gotta hand it to Van Bebber, this guy goes all out no matter what. It’s 110% or nothing. That said this isn’t the brutal, violent masterpiece Deadbeat at Dawn is but The Manson Family is still a trippy, bloody ride in mockumentary form retelling the crimes & sins of Manson and his followers, in the most nightmarishly hallucinatory way…and it’s a sight to behold.
Final Space has been canceled after 3 seasons. Not particularly the news I wanted to wake up to today, but here we are. I can’t put into words how amazing this show is, weaving comedy, adventure, action, and sci-fi into a beautiful & heartbreaking story about loss, togetherness, righteousness and friendship. I can’t explain how much Final Space means to me, it has no right ending the way it did but unfortunately that’s how television goes. If you haven’t already, go…
