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finefoxyladiesHahahahaha I found the IG equivalent of an Advent calendar: the 30 days of OFMD Bingo:
#1 It was sort of a dual thing: my friend Amy G had been watching it and had mentioned it in passing in a letter. Then The Kiss happened in ep 9 and Twitter blew up, and I went poking around reading about it and thought, "Hey, why haven't I been watching this? I love What We Do in the Shadows and other Taika-containing things."
And here we are.
#2 I don't know that I remember 100% but Id say the thought after the first two episodes was, "This is an office comedy with surprising depth and a wonderful approach to anachronism, whether in the costumes or the dialogue." I may have also thought, "When oh when is Taika going to appear?"
#3 I feel like Frenchie's face when Stede is outlining his branding in this meeting is absolutely how my face has looked at work during several key moments of my career. "I work for you," that look says.
#4 Because it combines Chuck Jones era Looney Tunes humor with sly anachronistic humor with amazing costumes and a genuinely thoughtful portrait of two men who are the result of the pressures of toxic masculinity without being ABOUT!! that. Also when Stede sees Ed for the first time haloed in gold light? That's a little how I feel about looking at Taika Waititi in all his various OFMD get-ups. And Rhys Darby really really really won me over forever as Stede.
#5 I feel like Julie is right to point to Oluwande as the very best of the main characters. He manages to pull off being the straight man to a group of cuckoo birds without seeming condescending or uncaring. Obviously exasperated at time (his delivery of "Stab him... for fuck's sake" during the Stede and Izzy duel is Oluwande all over) but never fully dismissive or cruel. Samson Kayo is great (see also: Bloods, and I'm still low-level crabby we won't get a s3 of that show).
That said: I'm a sucker with a big ol' marshmallow heart, and I can't deny that the mess of Edward Teach isn't where most of my emotional investment lies. Watching his infatuation with Stede grow into love, all while knowing that there's this house of cards in his heart and mind that can be knocked over with the slightest toxic breath from Izzy is... boy, it's just something.
#6 Okay, so since completing Day 5, I saw a few people on Bluesky or IG calling Oluwande a supporting character. He's not a supporting character! He's a main character! Wrong, boo.
Anyway, Lucius is my favorite supporting character. From his off-the-shoulder Jennifer Beals on the high seas shirt to his 1,000,000 different nonverbal takes to his ability to love easily the most annoying of the Revenge crew. I love Lucius. Runner up: Spanish Jackie. I would love any character who says "That was fucking kind of gauche," but I especially love one played by Leslie Jones, who asked that her hairstyle mirror that of Eddie Murphy in Vampire in Brooklyn.
ETA: Oh no I forgot (wife) Mary Bonnet! Played by the inimitable Claudia O'Doherty, tart and bright and frustrated and loving. Like Doug: she's the best.
#7 Perhaps it is recency effect talking, but Prince's I Would Die 4 U is figuratively and literally the Ed Teach we saw in Season 1:
I'm not your lover
I'm not your friend
I am something that you'll never comprehend
No need to worry
No need to cry
I'm your Messiah
And you're the reason why
#8 I've said it a bunch but: Fred Armisen's Geraldo packs a lot into a very brief time on the show. He's smarmy, has inappropriate boundaries, dresses like Tony from Staying Alive, and has the best delivery of the line "So... should we serve food?" that is maybe possible? Anyway, give it up for Geraldo, RIP.
#9 I'm an Oluwande with a Lucius rising.
#10 Is this expressly written for the character of Black Pete? It has to be, right? I don't know that I GREW to love him, but I feel like the rest of the crew, I am able to meet him where he is: a born follower who believes he is a leader, a sycophant, and kind of a know-it-all who is a dumb-butt.
#11 Okay, so if this is for platonic pairings, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Oluwande and Lucius's friendship is established in the pilot and is really delightful. Two pragmatists, one a bit more patient than the other, one a little less of a slut than the other... I think it'll be so great to see where that goes in S2 with Lucius being dead and all.
#12: Every time (also couldn't find a video of the actual scene without HILARIOUS sfx)
Runner-up: Fred Armisen's line reading of "So should we serve food?" and "Forgive me, Father, for I did sins" and the subsequent list.
#13
Specifically when it cuts to Ed crying in Stede's empty cabin, figuratively cracking up on the rocks of the lighthouse painting.
Also: I just noticed Doug's reaction to Evelyn's "This is how Stede would've wanted to go." LOL, Heidecker. Nice take.
#14 There's always a war in my heart between Ep 3, A Gentleman Pirate, where I think the series really excels at all the various ways it does comedy, and Ep 6, The Art of Fuckery, where you get Ed's backstory and, upon second... uh and other multiple... viewings, you can see how and why the infatuation and attraction grows into something more between them.
But really: all episodes?
#15 I mean, hard to top "Polite menance: that'll be my brand." I really feel that.
#16 So many, excepting the Armisen stuff because I covered that. There are some VERY skilled comic actors on this show.
1) Claudia O'Doherty's "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" after Stede departs their bedchamber in ep 10
2) Samson Kayo's Andre the Giant-esque "This is the ghost of the forest!"
3) Nathan Foad's "Well, if it's scary, I'll probably just head back to the ship" in ep 3.
4) Rhys Darby's "Muse, why have You forsaken me?" (Kills me every time. I laugh, out loud, every time.)
5) Con O'Neill's sputtering "You think you know everything! About everything! In the whole world!" in ep 6.
6) Leslie Jones's "M'noses!"
7) Joel Fry's "Bottle it up?" in the pilot
8) Matthew Maher's "GodDAMNIT!" in the pilot
9) Samba Schuette's "It was all a dream! Come back!" in ep 6
10) And Taika's sing-songy "That's mah name! Edward Teach! Born on a beach!"
eta today I thought about Taika's "Uck, lame" as Stede is reading about the fancy party for hoity-toity people (TM Frenchie). The combo of that and his great big luminous eyes, clearly jonesing for the experience... delightful
#17 Uh do the kids mean Original Sound Track? Couldn't they just... oh, never mind. Anyway: gotta stick by my sentimental favorite, Cat Stevens's "Miles From Nowhere," previously mentioned. Seeing that close-up of a Stede Bonnet who is done believing he has to flatten himself into the shape of what his father or society expected of him... it's really tremendously moving. He's the man you'd expect to then rescue his goof-ass crew from a cartoon island so that they don't eat Cartoon Ham The Swede.
#18
#19 Lucius Spriggs: Reluctant Matchmaker. Honestly, I love the runner of the crew, like most coworkers/friends, being dragged along unwillingly into romance drama: The Swede listening to Oluwande's ramblings, Oluwande listening to Stede's malarkey, Jackie listening to IZZY, etc.
#20 God, I maybe think about them at LEAST once a week:
#21
I mean, no offense intended to Spanish Jackie and her 19... well, 18 husbands.
#22
#23a) Aww cute this has a portmanteau now? Fandom keeps rollin' on the river.
#23b) I don't know about rarepair but I do think the actor playing Hornberry is definitely making some Choices that lead me to believe Hornberry has a big ol' nonsanctioned by Her Majesty's Navy crush on Stede.
#24 Until such time as Season 2 occurs, I'll put my chips on the Beach Kiss in Ep 9. For now. For now.
#25 Further illustration of my generational gap with the fandom: uh, I don't have favorite memes. Of anything.
#26
I just have to say this out loud: that sash is the red dressing gown, oh my god oh my god oh my god.
#27 Despite his theater kid energy, I'll love Taika forever, if only because he was Viago, and I love Viago. Viago is my favorite. I feel like maybe some of my Ed Teach love is due to transference.
#28 David Jenkins is a straight-up weirdo, and I'm into it. His Twitter was largely full of medieval paintings of cats, and it's clear that he wanted to do something like Edgar Wright did with Baby Driver and make some kind of filmatic tableau based on his interpretation of Purple Rain. I'm into whatever his deal is.
#29Nathan Foad and Samson Kayo
Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi
Oh, how about Nat Faxon and Rhys Darby? I feel like their energy, like Faxon and Rash, would complement one another. I'll get to writing that project. Untitled Faxon/Darby project.
#30a Lucius coming back to us from the briny deep
#30b Uh... who are you? What is this question? Stede and Ed reuniting. Stede and Ed reconciling. Stede getting a FUCKING EARRING.
Thank you, Void, for participating in this with me. It was a helpful way for me to not rewatch the series again until just this week. I appreciate you, Void. You're my best friend.
ETA two more amazing line readings as I rewatch eps 9 and 10: Joel Fry's "Yeah, it's fucking badass" re the cat flag, and Alma's "I don't! Want! Your old! Food!"
#1 It was sort of a dual thing: my friend Amy G had been watching it and had mentioned it in passing in a letter. Then The Kiss happened in ep 9 and Twitter blew up, and I went poking around reading about it and thought, "Hey, why haven't I been watching this? I love What We Do in the Shadows and other Taika-containing things."
And here we are.
#2 I don't know that I remember 100% but Id say the thought after the first two episodes was, "This is an office comedy with surprising depth and a wonderful approach to anachronism, whether in the costumes or the dialogue." I may have also thought, "When oh when is Taika going to appear?"
#3 I feel like Frenchie's face when Stede is outlining his branding in this meeting is absolutely how my face has looked at work during several key moments of my career. "I work for you," that look says.
#4 Because it combines Chuck Jones era Looney Tunes humor with sly anachronistic humor with amazing costumes and a genuinely thoughtful portrait of two men who are the result of the pressures of toxic masculinity without being ABOUT!! that. Also when Stede sees Ed for the first time haloed in gold light? That's a little how I feel about looking at Taika Waititi in all his various OFMD get-ups. And Rhys Darby really really really won me over forever as Stede.
#5 I feel like Julie is right to point to Oluwande as the very best of the main characters. He manages to pull off being the straight man to a group of cuckoo birds without seeming condescending or uncaring. Obviously exasperated at time (his delivery of "Stab him... for fuck's sake" during the Stede and Izzy duel is Oluwande all over) but never fully dismissive or cruel. Samson Kayo is great (see also: Bloods, and I'm still low-level crabby we won't get a s3 of that show).
That said: I'm a sucker with a big ol' marshmallow heart, and I can't deny that the mess of Edward Teach isn't where most of my emotional investment lies. Watching his infatuation with Stede grow into love, all while knowing that there's this house of cards in his heart and mind that can be knocked over with the slightest toxic breath from Izzy is... boy, it's just something.
#6 Okay, so since completing Day 5, I saw a few people on Bluesky or IG calling Oluwande a supporting character. He's not a supporting character! He's a main character! Wrong, boo.
Anyway, Lucius is my favorite supporting character. From his off-the-shoulder Jennifer Beals on the high seas shirt to his 1,000,000 different nonverbal takes to his ability to love easily the most annoying of the Revenge crew. I love Lucius. Runner up: Spanish Jackie. I would love any character who says "That was fucking kind of gauche," but I especially love one played by Leslie Jones, who asked that her hairstyle mirror that of Eddie Murphy in Vampire in Brooklyn.
ETA: Oh no I forgot (wife) Mary Bonnet! Played by the inimitable Claudia O'Doherty, tart and bright and frustrated and loving. Like Doug: she's the best.
#7 Perhaps it is recency effect talking, but Prince's I Would Die 4 U is figuratively and literally the Ed Teach we saw in Season 1:
I'm not your lover
I'm not your friend
I am something that you'll never comprehend
No need to worry
No need to cry
I'm your Messiah
And you're the reason why
#8 I've said it a bunch but: Fred Armisen's Geraldo packs a lot into a very brief time on the show. He's smarmy, has inappropriate boundaries, dresses like Tony from Staying Alive, and has the best delivery of the line "So... should we serve food?" that is maybe possible? Anyway, give it up for Geraldo, RIP.
#9 I'm an Oluwande with a Lucius rising.
#10 Is this expressly written for the character of Black Pete? It has to be, right? I don't know that I GREW to love him, but I feel like the rest of the crew, I am able to meet him where he is: a born follower who believes he is a leader, a sycophant, and kind of a know-it-all who is a dumb-butt.
#11 Okay, so if this is for platonic pairings, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Oluwande and Lucius's friendship is established in the pilot and is really delightful. Two pragmatists, one a bit more patient than the other, one a little less of a slut than the other... I think it'll be so great to see where that goes in S2 with Lucius being dead and all.
#12: Every time (also couldn't find a video of the actual scene without HILARIOUS sfx)
Runner-up: Fred Armisen's line reading of "So should we serve food?" and "Forgive me, Father, for I did sins" and the subsequent list.
#13
Specifically when it cuts to Ed crying in Stede's empty cabin, figuratively cracking up on the rocks of the lighthouse painting.
Also: I just noticed Doug's reaction to Evelyn's "This is how Stede would've wanted to go." LOL, Heidecker. Nice take.
#14 There's always a war in my heart between Ep 3, A Gentleman Pirate, where I think the series really excels at all the various ways it does comedy, and Ep 6, The Art of Fuckery, where you get Ed's backstory and, upon second... uh and other multiple... viewings, you can see how and why the infatuation and attraction grows into something more between them.
But really: all episodes?
#15 I mean, hard to top "Polite menance: that'll be my brand." I really feel that.
#16 So many, excepting the Armisen stuff because I covered that. There are some VERY skilled comic actors on this show.
1) Claudia O'Doherty's "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" after Stede departs their bedchamber in ep 10
2) Samson Kayo's Andre the Giant-esque "This is the ghost of the forest!"
3) Nathan Foad's "Well, if it's scary, I'll probably just head back to the ship" in ep 3.
4) Rhys Darby's "Muse, why have You forsaken me?" (Kills me every time. I laugh, out loud, every time.)
5) Con O'Neill's sputtering "You think you know everything! About everything! In the whole world!" in ep 6.
6) Leslie Jones's "M'noses!"
7) Joel Fry's "Bottle it up?" in the pilot
8) Matthew Maher's "GodDAMNIT!" in the pilot
9) Samba Schuette's "It was all a dream! Come back!" in ep 6
10) And Taika's sing-songy "That's mah name! Edward Teach! Born on a beach!"
eta today I thought about Taika's "Uck, lame" as Stede is reading about the fancy party for hoity-toity people (TM Frenchie). The combo of that and his great big luminous eyes, clearly jonesing for the experience... delightful
#17 Uh do the kids mean Original Sound Track? Couldn't they just... oh, never mind. Anyway: gotta stick by my sentimental favorite, Cat Stevens's "Miles From Nowhere," previously mentioned. Seeing that close-up of a Stede Bonnet who is done believing he has to flatten himself into the shape of what his father or society expected of him... it's really tremendously moving. He's the man you'd expect to then rescue his goof-ass crew from a cartoon island so that they don't eat Cartoon Ham The Swede.
#18
#19 Lucius Spriggs: Reluctant Matchmaker. Honestly, I love the runner of the crew, like most coworkers/friends, being dragged along unwillingly into romance drama: The Swede listening to Oluwande's ramblings, Oluwande listening to Stede's malarkey, Jackie listening to IZZY, etc.
#20 God, I maybe think about them at LEAST once a week:
#21
I mean, no offense intended to Spanish Jackie and her 19... well, 18 husbands.
#22
#23a) Aww cute this has a portmanteau now? Fandom keeps rollin' on the river.
#23b) I don't know about rarepair but I do think the actor playing Hornberry is definitely making some Choices that lead me to believe Hornberry has a big ol' nonsanctioned by Her Majesty's Navy crush on Stede.
#24 Until such time as Season 2 occurs, I'll put my chips on the Beach Kiss in Ep 9. For now. For now.
#25 Further illustration of my generational gap with the fandom: uh, I don't have favorite memes. Of anything.
#26
I just have to say this out loud: that sash is the red dressing gown, oh my god oh my god oh my god.
#27 Despite his theater kid energy, I'll love Taika forever, if only because he was Viago, and I love Viago. Viago is my favorite. I feel like maybe some of my Ed Teach love is due to transference.
#28 David Jenkins is a straight-up weirdo, and I'm into it. His Twitter was largely full of medieval paintings of cats, and it's clear that he wanted to do something like Edgar Wright did with Baby Driver and make some kind of filmatic tableau based on his interpretation of Purple Rain. I'm into whatever his deal is.
#29
Oh, how about Nat Faxon and Rhys Darby? I feel like their energy, like Faxon and Rash, would complement one another. I'll get to writing that project. Untitled Faxon/Darby project.
#30a Lucius coming back to us from the briny deep
#30b Uh... who are you? What is this question? Stede and Ed reuniting. Stede and Ed reconciling. Stede getting a FUCKING EARRING.
Thank you, Void, for participating in this with me. It was a helpful way for me to not rewatch the series again until just this week. I appreciate you, Void. You're my best friend.
ETA two more amazing line readings as I rewatch eps 9 and 10: Joel Fry's "Yeah, it's fucking badass" re the cat flag, and Alma's "I don't! Want! Your old! Food!"