PurpleTentacle

The ending was kinda meh. Nothing really got tied up. A ton of threads dangeling. Seems very much like they are angeling for a second season on something that probably should have been a movie in the first place.

I have a hard time reading the scene in the restaurant. Is Remy supposed to be jealous of Mike and imagining that he could live that life or is he supposed to be into him? That song sounds kinda romantic...

Sure, but they don't joke about Alice having full grown woman face. For a joke to work something has to be contrary to expectation (in this case at least, there are other kinds of jokes). "Look, that man has a man's face!" is not a joke, it's just a statement.

I'm considering just coming back for the final two episode next season. The "previously on" should give me most of the plot of the season, since there is so little and any real developments are in the two final episodes anyway. Future daughter already tried to prevent it from happening and failed.

I think Brian just burst in. Jimmy said something about not getting paid because he had to cut a session with an actual client short. So I think it was just informal advice, but in his office. Probably because the actor is 26. Don't know, the joke falls kinda flat, when the guy with a full grown dude face is just a full grown dude.

I'm losing hope that Nandor will realise who is the right person for him in time for the finale. Somebody he doesn't need to conquor because he had already freely given himself... I never watched that movie, but still liked the episode a lot. I assume you are right though and it would be even better if I got the references. You know I thought it was him but then I was like "nah, that's not him". I don't know, he looks kinda weird around the eyes? Like there used to be more face there? I think he's just extremely thin right now. They pretty much have to be, since they'd work mostly during the day. Also yeah, perfect job for them. That is the conceit of the show, yes.

Whenever I see that car Jimmy drives, I think, if your wife died in a car accident, wouldn't you want to drive something other than that death trap? It's just we saw the car a lot this episode and even had a long scene set in it, so I had to think about that a lot. He didn't even have a seat belt on when he drove up. Guess he wants his daughter to be an orphan.

Since season 1 was a 1:1 copy of a belgian show, I doubt it.

Tbh, I fast forewarded through a lot of this. It's kinda atmospheric till he sees that flashing sign, but after that point, yeah we get it. Get on with it already. I don't think this is the show for me. Nothing much happening and just atmosphere and "deep" conversations can be fun for a 90 minute movie, but it can't sustain a whole season of a TV show. Also he is taking the elevator? Is he crazy? You don't know for how long that power is going to stay on.

But ignoring all that. Did nobody else think it was strange how they changed Glinda seemingly trying to come with Elphaba at the end of the movie, even though it goes against what they just sang about? Namely wishing each other luck and happyness on their respective, seperate journeys?

So is Jared Leto. 🤷‍♂️ Which is fitting, since they seem to have similar personalities. Edit: Sorry, my bad, Leto is an Academy Award winner, not just nominee. Ariana Grande made different choices than I'd expect when she sang the wizard and I. It was still good. Erivo tanked that song. Acting, again good in some scenes, really bad in others. It's true that I don't like her after she went off on a fan who dared to improve their shitty poster. Doesn't change the fact that she screwed up that song with her "increadible singing voice".

I'm sure there wasn't. You'd think a Tony award winner wouldn't completely tank a song, but yet it happened. Maybe that award was the reason for the bad casting afterall, I don't know. I just know the casting was bad.

Ariana is very much annorexic to a concerning degree, which has nothing to do with this movie. If anything she has lost more weight since filming this. Yet she says "she's the healthiest she's ever been", which makes me question how sick she must have been her entire life... Cynthia seems very thin, but not dangerously, like Ariana.

I was pleasently surprised by Ariana Grande. I think she nailed Glinda and her singing was great. Cynthia Erivo on the other hand... The acting was very uneven. In some scenes it was actually really good, in others pretty bad. I could totally forgive the acting though, but the singing, oh my god. They couldn't even autotune her to where she needed to be. How in the hell did she get cast in this part? I know there were some requirements, that were let's say the opposite of colourblind casting, but there have to be better black actresses / singers out there. Weirdly, "defying gravity" was much better than "the wizard and I". Even though defying gravity is the more difficult song. Granted, both songs require different skills, but I still think an army of sound engineers must have slaved over defying gravity for weeks, to get it sounding good, since it's the big showstopper. I was not spoiled on the fact that Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel would have a cameo. So that was a very pleasent surprise. Though that new part of "one short day" hardly showed off their talents. A weird choice, at the end of defying gravity, when the guards break through the door, Elphaba and Glinda run out the broken window hand in hand. This makes it seem like they did decide to run away together, which is very much not what was happening in the musical or what the part of the song, they had just sung, was about. That was the breakup part, where they wish each other good luck. I'm not sure if the writers of this movie didn't understand it or why this weird choice was made. To make it fit Elphaba should have run outside by herself and Glinda should have stayed behind. But overall, great and creative sets, fun cinematagrophy, mostly really good singing (with one exception). If only the casting for one particular character was better, this would be a fantastic adaptation. I was really not expecting it to be this good. I'm also not as miffed about them splitting the story into two movies anymore. It didn't feel like there was a bunch of obvious filler in this movie. But I still think the decision was bad. The second part of the musical is just much, much weaker and building a whole movie on that is going to be rough. So not really looking foreward to part two.

I think you are too generous with the 6 episodes. I really think it could be like 3. I don't even think this is how real people are. Yes, people can make dumb decisions, fall for obvious scams from demonic entities, etc. Sure, I don't have a problem with that part (although when it happens too often it's still annoying). But people constantly not communicating, running away mid sentence, not explaining themselves, not sharing information, that isn't believable to me. They don't even have TV. What are they doing all the time? Realistic would be them all sitting together a good part of the day and swapping stories. Instead there is basically no communication at all. I remember Lost having a similar problem, but at least there they were on a bigass island and often didn't see each other for a while. Here everybody is stuck in a small town. And with Lost the problem wasn't even as bad as it is here...