Let’s pretend like I totally meant to combine two weeks into one post rather than thinking I posted for last week when in reality I never fucking started it.
Welcome to a mega post! This is a post where I combine two weekly reviews into one update!
To summarize, I’ve continued my unfortunate trend of depression watching (meaning: playing things in the background so I’m not driven crazy by silence as I desperately search for any remaining serotonin to cling to), though i was able to squeeze in a couple interesting things!
The first of which was a short on Netflix titled What Did Jack Do? (2020) which is about a monkey being questioned by a homicide detective about a murder that takes place in a train station. Or at least, that’s what the synopsis said. Honestly, I wasn’t aware there was any plot until after the fact. It felt like watching a twenty minute long Whose Line Is It Anyway? sketch without knowing the prompt. It made so much more sense after I realized it was by David Lynch- the same dude who made Eraserhead (1977), among other things.
I’ve continued my slow, slow, SLOW watch through of October Faction. I’m still not totally sure how I feel about the show. They’re spending too much time on plotlines I don’t particularly care about, and not enough time on the ones I’m interested in. There’s a lot of talk about fighting monsters and not a lot of actually fighting monsters. Also this shows falls into the high-school-homophobic-bully-is-secretly-gay trope, which is exhausting, to say the least. But I will get through it, if it’s the last thing I do! Same goes with my watching of Drunk History which, yes, I am (as a matter of fact) still watching, at the rate of about five episodes per month.
One night, my dad came over for weird father-daughter time that I never had as a child and he’s trying to make up for now, and we watched a comedy special that he’s surprisingly obsessed with by Ronny Chieng called Asian Comedian Destroys America! Like don’t get me wrong, it is funny. It was just interesting for my dad, a full-blooded American ™ to be so into a comedy special that heavily focuses on being an immigrant and the foreign experience in America. I’m happy he’s broadened his horizons, but still… It’s interesting.
I finally decided to catch up on Season 3 of The Masked Singer, a show I started watching ironically but am now legitimately a huge fan of. My supervisor at my internship and I talked about the show for a solid twenty minutes at work on Thursday, so it’s comforting to know I’m finally not the only viewer of this bizarre competition show full of celebrity furries.
And that’s about it for this session. Apathy is still going strong, so nothing’s been able to spark any interest or keep my attention for longer than five minutes. I have started writing my proposal for my honors seminar final essay (which is about horror films, obviously), so hopefully that will get me to watch some more things soon.
Alrighty then. Time for me to go put Bob’s Burgers on in the background while I recite the full lyrics of “One Week” by The Barenaked Ladies to myself on repeat for three hours and blindly scroll through Tik Tok.
See y’all next week!
Unofficial Reviews
What Did Jack Do?
This poor, poor 17-minute film tried so hard to render properly the whole way through, that by the end I was happy it was over just to put it our of its misery. The video was trying to load gradients as hard as I was trying to understand the plot, so at least I found some comfort knowing I wasn’t the only one who was struggling.
Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!
This was, quite possibly, the most positive view of the USA I have ever seen in a comedy special. I’m not exaggerating.
Film Student Watchlist 