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So I picked up HBOMAX for a few months here, and finally got to watch White Lotus and Mare of Easttown.
White Lotus
White Lotus is some really excellent filmmaking. It doesn't try to get out over it's skis and tell some grandiose story. Nope. It's a bit of a character study on like 8 people over a week in a resort. The acting is all really good. There is a bit of a stretch in is this how these people would really react - but nothing cheesy. And the beginning line of "Oh we heard someone died. Yeah, they're loading the body on our plane" was really ****ing excellent. The whole ****ing time I was trying to figure out who was going to eat shit, and they did a great job of leaving it open.
Really had my ass hooked for no more than it was.
I listened to some interesting analysis about White Collar vs Blue Collar consequences to what happened that was really interesting, but I totally missed it upon the first watch.
Mare of Easttown
Mare was ****ing amazing. I'm probably going to rewatch it before I dump the subscription.
Top to bottom, really ****ing good. A little more aggressive in that it was a bigger story, but really, REALLY good.
Anyone that hasn't watched it. Do it.
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