So this is set to be the finale for the Winter Watchlist Warmers series. Coming soon my RATED post where you can see the best (and worst) of the last few months. Today is a random one. Unlike Sarah Silverman's latest HBO stand up special, Someone You Love (streaming now on Binge) Michelle Wolf has gone for a three part, It's Great To Be Here - Comedy Special.
Wolf has worked as a contributor and writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Wolf won me over, after she spoke at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
This is her return to Netflix, following the comedy talk show series The Break with Michelle Wolf along with a stand-up special Joke Show.
She returns with three short episodes as part of It's Great To Be Here.
I did love this. It's controversial. She could get cancelled, but I did love this. She does push the envelope (hard at time) however she opens up the conversation.
Comedy is dangerous in the world of cancel culture, but I think Wolf does well to stay uncanceled (if that makes sense).
If you like me love comedy, loved Sarah Silverman's above mentioned special, this is totally for you. Michelle Wolf is totally unstoppable! Geddit GIRL!
I have been watching a bit more British TV of late. What with the US TV strikes, giving up watching free to air shit like the Masked Singer, I have gone back in time to finally watch, Behind Her Eyes.
This noir supernatural psychological thriller series created by Steve Lightfoot, is some weird ass shit. Well it starts out fairly normal, then takes a weird turn. Then a few more weird turns, before a bat shit crazy finale.
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough, this landed on Netflix back in February 2021. I do have a number of Netflix series banked up to catch up on, however I have found of all streaming services its quality is a little less than others. For Netflix its more quantity over quality.
The six parter stars Simona Brown, Tom Bateman, Eve Hewson and Robert Aramayo.
The story follows Louise, a single mother, whose world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss, David, and matters take an even stranger turn when she’s drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife, Adele.
What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no one is what they seem.
In the finale, OK first though if like me you haven't watched this 2021 series, SPOILERS AHEAD!
Its about to get bat-shit crazy up in here!
Louise pays a visit to David's former mistress, Marianne, in Brighton where the latter reveals how Adele vandalised her home and threatened her. She then confronts David about Rob's death when he explains it was Adele who threw his body in the well after he had overdosed on heroin.
After he discovers that Louise has informed the police about Rob's death, David decides to tell them Adele's truth and sets for Scotland. Meanwhile Louise faces Adele for her surreal use of astral projection.
When Adele finds out that Louise has told the police and David has decided to tell her truth, she decides to end her life while texting Louise. Worried, Louise arrives at Adele's house which she has set fire to.
Unable to break in, Louise decides to project out of her body to save Adele. When her soul reaches Adele's body, the latter's soul that was hiding, reaches for Louise's body.
Now both of them having swapped, Adele arrives in Louise's body and kills Louise in Adele's body with a heroin overdose, completely taking over her life and reconciling with David.
In the flashback, it is revealed that Adele had told Rob about swapping bodies and when they did, Rob cleverly refused to give Adele's body back and killed her in his own body with a heroin overdose because he fell in love with David himself. Now married to David, Rob lives as Louise while treating Adam cruelly.
So fucking weird. But if it sounds like your thing, it streams now on Netflix.
Full Circle is my latest miniseries binge. Funny I say binge, as it streams in Australia on Binge. Stateside it is a HBO Max or now, just Max title.
Created and written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the series landed mid-July, concluding later that month. So I am playing catch up a wee bit here.
With just under an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes I did expect a fair bit from this six parter.
I am really leaning into Steven Soderbergh this week also getting into the film, Kimi. More on that later.
The cast in this Max total is also hot AF! Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, Jharrel Jerome, Sheyi Cole, CCH Pounder, Jim Gaffigan, William Sadler and Happy Anderson all star in the series was inspired by the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low.
The series had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on mid-June before it's streaming launch mid-July. So what's the plot? An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present-day New York City.
So it all links up more and more over the six episode run. With all characters melting together in New York City.
However the story doesn't really start and end there. But you'll have to watch this on Binge to find out what I mean.
This is not the best or the worst, Winter Watchlist Warmers. However as we are already reaching 30 degree days, this will be one of the last Winter Watchlist Warmers posts. A RATED post will land soon.
A new series for the last quarter (or so) of the year will commence soon. With big series finales for Fear the Walking Dead, Physical and Reservation Dogs incoming. Also a number of other shows are returning during this strike period. Two weeks left until FOX call off all 2023-2034 scripted shows. Will the strike end in time? Me thinks no after the Nanny, I mean Fran Drescher's most recent, passionate speech.
Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star in the original comedy THEATER CAMP as Amos and Rebecca-Diane. Could this be the most random film of 2023?
If you are not into theatre or musicals, be warned this is very niche. Like VERY niche!
Lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. When clueless tech-bro Troy (Jimmy Tatro) arrives to run the property (into the ground), Amos, Rebecca-Diane and production manager Glenn (Noah Galvin) band together with the staff and students, staging a masterpiece to keep their beloved summer camp afloat.
Alongside Molly Gordon and Ben Platt, Theatre Camp stars Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Nathan Lee Graham, Ayo Edebiri, Owen Thiele, Alan Kim, Alexander Bello, Bailee Bonick, Kyndra Sanchez, Donovan Colan, Vivienne Sachs, Quinn Titcomb, Caroline Aaron and Amy Sedaris as Joan.
Theater Camp was released mid-July in the USA, getting a small release here down under recently. So it was off to Bondi Junction I went. Sydney's Eastern suburbs. Oh dear god. One of the ad's before the film was for a retirement village deep in the Eastern suburbs. I honestly laughed as much in that 30 second ad as I did in this film.
Look that was a bit harsh, but this film is hella niche. Some of the kids do really well, however Ben Platt is just really annoying. Remember him in the Politician? Whatever happened to that half baked Ryan Murphy idea?
Back to the plot.. As summer rolls around again, kids are gathering from all over to attend AdirondACTS, a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York that's a haven for budding performers. After its indomitable founder Joan falls into a coma, her clueless “crypto-bro” son Troy is tasked with keeping the thespian paradise running. With financial ruin looming, Troy must join forces with Amos, Rebecca-Diane, and their band of eccentric teachers and students to come up with a solution before the curtain rises on opening night.
Look maybe adding Will Ferrell as a producer under his Gloria Sanchez Productions banner, was why I didn't love it. I may be the only person who just doesn't find Ferrell that funny.
Either way it was enjoyable, just not excellent. A few too many gaps between LOL moments. 2.5 Theatre love/hating stars.
Heels has just concluded its second season with High Flying. It ends on a bit of a cliffhanger on Stan. Airing in the USA on Starz. Unlike Power and BMF there are no gangs here. So how does the finale go down?
The cross-promotion event is here. Everything culminates with Harmageddon: DWL versus Dystopia. Can Jack (Stephen Amell) and Ace (Alexander Ludwig) forgive each other and right their wrongs? Or will it all fall apart in the ring yet again?
The eight episode second season commenced back in late July. Those eight weeks has passed by so fast.
The second season resumed directly after the season 1 finale with Ten-Bell Salute.
Ace storms out of the arena before anyone can calm him down. However, due to the successful State Fair show, the general locker room vibe stays positive.
Meanwhile, The Florida Wrestling Dystopia promoter promises to get revenge on Jack for messing with him.
Ten-Bell Salute primarily connects the present with the past rather than taking the story forward. Tom Spade’s funeral is shown in a series of flashbacks and highlights of how his death affected those closest to him. Jack is so angry and sad that he dramatically refuses even to read his farewell letter. Ace is even worse off as he is shattered by the feeling of not living up to Tom’s expectations.
Also starring in this wrestling, family dram, Alison Luff was cast as Staci Spade, Jack's wife. While Chris Bauer, Allen Maldonado, James Harrison, Kelli Berglund, and Mary McCormack also star across the two seasons.
A third season is yet to be announced with Starz roster of titles in "waiting" for their future growing. Minx was last week, Shining Vale will return after a long absence next month. Finally Power Book III: Raising Kanan returns for a third outing December 1st.
Way more last minute Winter Watchlist Warmers posts to come, all this week! Later!
Dead Ringers lives on Amazon which is really churning out the decent content of late. Harlan Coben's Shelter, Gen V, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
This is another one of my last minute Winter, catch ups. The series landed late April this year, however I am just getting around to finishing it now. The miniseries is based on the 1988 film of the same name by David Cronenberg, itself adapted from the 1977 novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.
Rachel Weisz is the two sisters, Beverly and Elliot Mantle. Joining Weisz is Michael Chernus, Poppy Liu, Britne Oldford, Jeremy Shamos, Jennifer Ehle and Emily Meade.
So this series is weird, creepy, a little drawn out and crazy. While it does rate 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, whilst also ranking highly with TV critics.
This was a bit of a full on watch, however I have really leaned into the TV miniseries this season. Which is indeed coming to an end. Yes the weather is warming up, the back burning is happening and school holidays is again, almost upon us AGAIN!
So is this worth around six hours of your viewing time? Maybe it depends how much you like a psychological thriller.
It does jump around a fair bit, have some wild sequences along with some gory births.
Dead Ringers, will not be everyone's cup of tea. However it looks great, shows Amazon is willing to give different ideas a go. Which I like. Amazon is also now finally creating great Aussie content like Deadloch.
Coming up soon, another TV end of year blog series. Followed by a long hot summer series January to February. Can you believe it's almost Christmas AGAIN????
