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Res Dogs

I really enjoyed watching Reservation Dogs, especially seasons 1 and 2. The 3rd season had a very different feel to it and seemed driven more as a series of individual stories than an over-arching story across the season; it was not lesser for this it just felt different.

The stories in the show were fun and told the difficult aspects of life well too. I particularly enjoyed things like “white jesus”, and doughnuts being “white people food” as thus should be avoided. I want to try catfish and fry bread to see what they are like. Flamin Flamers can stay on the show XD

I enjoyed the depiction of the extended groups; cousin uncles, cousin-grandson, aunties, etc. I am familiar with something that's perhaps similar here, an auntie or uncle not needing to be blood to have those titles but it doesn't extend much further than that.

North of North

Similar to Reservation Dogs, I really enjoyed this show. Location was obvs amazing, I wish here experienced cold that was below-freezing for extended periods of time, much nicer than being around freezing with slush and sleet.

Again, it was good to see them tackle harder issues of their place, especially with the incomers seeing a “blank slate” and having loads of ideas to improve the area. Very familiar with that rhetoric tbh, hear it frequently enough.

Connections

I enjoyed the similarities depicted in both shows with aspects of being of The Highlands. Folk who've grand ideas of how to improve the area and the casual racism that associated. The implicit power dynamic of money and investment; lack of investment running the place down.

I'd like to say the community aspect is similar too but that would not be my experience, unfortunately. Perhaps it was before but I don't experience that today, that could also just be me.

I enjoyed the use of non-English in both series, it was awesome to hear them. I wish it was more prevalent in TBh here but there're too many folk with colonised minds^1 ^2 here to go for that.

The Night Manager

We watched the 2 seasons back-to-back having not somehow missed the 1st season for over a decade. Thoroughly enjoyed the 1st season, it had a good James Bond feel to it; music, locations and cinematography doing the work there. The 2nd season was not so good, it seemed far more of a cash-in and the ending felt kind of flat. A lot of action in a short-space of time for a relatively short and quiet ending. It didn't feel like it fitted the longer show at all. It certainly lost the James Bond feel to it. He even lost the Night Manager aspect of his identity...?! Like he was at least a night manager in the 1st series.

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