I loved season 1 and had high expectations for season 2.
Many critics liked season 2 better. I found it muddled. Disjointed. There were too many characters. Plot too fuzzy.
Still … for me it was well worth watching. But I’m not surprised there was no season 3.
I’ll next watch Bron, Broen … the Scandinavian crime television series on which this American version was based. It’s headed into it’s 4th season.
Recall the Canadian version of Donald Trump?
She got 6% in the recent Conservative leadership campaign. There’s not much of a market for hateful intolerance in the Great White North.
Click PLAY or watch a This Hour has 22 Minutes spoof on YouTube.
That bit is making fun of her eight-minute campaign video which, if anything, is even worse.
Kellie Leitch should leave politics and return to her medical practice.
Excellent.
A good example of how the great story telling in 2017 is on TV not on film.
If you want to muse on gender equality watch Handmaid’s Tale not Wonder Woman.
This show’s success is mostly Elisabeth Moss. She carries a high percentage of the scenes.
All the casting is superb.
Personally I feel the detailed cinematography and careful sound track are too precious. I wish filmmakers would concentrate on the story and stop showing off so much.
The pacing is too slow for me, as well.
Still … it’s must watch TV in 2017.
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Gilead is a theocracy run by extremists from the American Religious right.
1. The parallels to Trump’s America are glaring and deliberate. …
2. It’s a parable about male privilege.
3. There will be changes from Atwood’s book.
4. The cinematography is both stunning and specific.
5. The Republic of Gilead parallels Puritanism. …
Why The Handmaid’s Tale Is Destined to Be 2017’s Dystopian Hit
related – 8 Questions We Really Want Answered in The Handmaid’s Tale’s Second Season
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Racists tend to ghettoize. Cling to people who look and think like themselves.
On The Media is my favourite podcast.
WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our world view. Veteran journalists Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield give you the tools to survive the media maelstrom.
I’ve had mixed feelings about Snowden himself. Watching the film was one way to learn more.
Sorry to say I ended up not much more enlightened. You can call him a a hero, a whistleblower, a dissident, a traitor and a patriot. All true. Certainly he’s a criminal.
I’d like to think I would have done the same thing … in his position.
His girlfriend Lindsay Mills is a much more interesting character. She’s an acrobat.
Snowden’s “breaking point” was “seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, lie under oath to Congress”. That’s shown in the film. Initially hopeful that Obama would improve things, ultimately he gave up on him.
Snowden was right, of course.
Trump’s pick for CIA director has called for Snowden’s execution.
I’ve been following Glenn Greenwald over the past couple of years. He’s smart. But accurately depicted in the film as a jerk.
In the movie Snowden smuggles the classified information hidden in a tile in his Rubik’s cube. That may not be how he did it.
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Snowden is a 2016 German-American biographical political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. …
For his role as Snowden, Joseph Gordon-Levitt pledged to donate his entire salary from the film to “help facilitate the conversation” about the relationship between technology and democracy …
Due to fear of interference by the National Security Agency, Stone decided to shoot the film mostly outside of the United States …
Snowden received mixed reviews from critics, but Gordon-Levitt’s performance garnered critical praise. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 61%
