OFMD 2x04 and 2x05
Oct. 12th, 2023 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
finefoxyladiesOther than being a little peeved that this show forced me to do homework, e.g. read the Wikipedia entry about "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and Google "what is a waxing gibbous moon?" I give both episodes A+++s (four plus subtracted for homework).
I feel like I need to keep running lists of Favorite Gags, Favorite Character-Based Humor, OUTFITS!, and, naturally, Romance. I didn't keep notes because I was texting with Julie. I'll do a rewatch and maybe do that thing I just threatened I'd do.
But:
1) I love the mercurial nature of trauma/forgiveness as evidenced by Izzy now being officially part of the team and not a single Desert Island Revenge team member ever once mentioning that Buttons and Roach tried to eat The Swede. Like Stede getting over Ed plotting to burn off his face pretty quickly, it seems like this is a very individual setting no-one-size-fits-all situation, eh?
2) I love that in the middle of this workplace comedy/romance/pirate adventure/thoughtful reflection on being a human, there's just straight-up bonkers-ass shit like BUTTONS TURNING INTO A SEAGULL BECAUSE HE WORE A BOWL ON HIS HEAD AND WAVED SOME BURNING SAGE AROUND.
3) I love that Rhys Darby got to run around for half an episode waving his "Take a Bow" velvet bullfighter suit jacket around and also falling off stuff, getting punched, and generally goofin'.
4) I love ev-e-y-thing about Frenchie and Lucius's new get-ups. Fashion plates the both of them, but particularly Lucius's Sexy Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh ensemble.
5) Minnie Driver and Rachel House just killing it. Hard to beat Nick Kroll and Kristen Schaal for guest star comedy batting power, but boy, did these two deliver. It REALLY makes me miss Speechless. Did I ever watch The Riches? Should I watch The Riches? Anyway: Minnie Driver can mime the proper way to finesse a human's face off anyday. Also: she got them thaaaaaaaaaaaangs.
6) Pete and Lucius getting engaged + Lucius and Izzy still having their whatever crackling sexual tension those two have? On board for it all.
7) Roach and Frenchie: men of science. Yuuuuuuuuuup.
8) through 1,000,000)
I mean, from the awkward short-lived breakup phase--those two just can't seem to stay mad at one another for too long--to the beginnings of talks through Stede's issues (a seeming inability to articulate when he's nervous and overwhelmed! the fact that he's very susceptible to cratering self-esteem!) and Ed's issues (as Jim succinctly put it: murder and torture, anger management, blanket fort retreating!) to the sweet love confession on Anne and Mary's couch:
SIDEBAR: I am proven right that sex was another topic to tackle:
Mary: You've not even given each other a handy?
Ed: Our private lives are private (read: no)
Stede: What are you talking about? (read: oh boy doesn't know what a handjob is)
Stede Bonnet: doesn't know what a handy is but is now ready to put both hands in Ed's hair when he kisses him so... I think this is going the right direction.
Also: it is one of life's great tragedies that Ed did not get to finish his rececitation of that well-known Age of Enlightenment era poem "Hark! Here I Go Again On Minest Owneth!" with "And I know what it means/to walk along the lonely Stede o' Dreams."
Anyway, more later because my head is just Anne Bonny's wonderful, terrible ugly fucking cuckoo clock.
Oh, yeah, and! And! Stede's repeated use of "doggie heaven" like someone who just learned the term "synergy" is... just exquisite.
I feel like I need to keep running lists of Favorite Gags, Favorite Character-Based Humor, OUTFITS!, and, naturally, Romance. I didn't keep notes because I was texting with Julie. I'll do a rewatch and maybe do that thing I just threatened I'd do.
But:
1) I love the mercurial nature of trauma/forgiveness as evidenced by Izzy now being officially part of the team and not a single Desert Island Revenge team member ever once mentioning that Buttons and Roach tried to eat The Swede. Like Stede getting over Ed plotting to burn off his face pretty quickly, it seems like this is a very individual setting no-one-size-fits-all situation, eh?
2) I love that in the middle of this workplace comedy/romance/pirate adventure/thoughtful reflection on being a human, there's just straight-up bonkers-ass shit like BUTTONS TURNING INTO A SEAGULL BECAUSE HE WORE A BOWL ON HIS HEAD AND WAVED SOME BURNING SAGE AROUND.
3) I love that Rhys Darby got to run around for half an episode waving his "Take a Bow" velvet bullfighter suit jacket around and also falling off stuff, getting punched, and generally goofin'.
4) I love ev-e-y-thing about Frenchie and Lucius's new get-ups. Fashion plates the both of them, but particularly Lucius's Sexy Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh ensemble.
5) Minnie Driver and Rachel House just killing it. Hard to beat Nick Kroll and Kristen Schaal for guest star comedy batting power, but boy, did these two deliver. It REALLY makes me miss Speechless. Did I ever watch The Riches? Should I watch The Riches? Anyway: Minnie Driver can mime the proper way to finesse a human's face off anyday. Also: she got them thaaaaaaaaaaaangs.
6) Pete and Lucius getting engaged + Lucius and Izzy still having their whatever crackling sexual tension those two have? On board for it all.
7) Roach and Frenchie: men of science. Yuuuuuuuuuup.
8) through 1,000,000)
I mean, from the awkward short-lived breakup phase--those two just can't seem to stay mad at one another for too long--to the beginnings of talks through Stede's issues (a seeming inability to articulate when he's nervous and overwhelmed! the fact that he's very susceptible to cratering self-esteem!) and Ed's issues (as Jim succinctly put it: murder and torture, anger management, blanket fort retreating!) to the sweet love confession on Anne and Mary's couch:
SIDEBAR: I am proven right that sex was another topic to tackle:
Mary: You've not even given each other a handy?
Ed: Our private lives are private (read: no)
Stede: What are you talking about? (read: oh boy doesn't know what a handjob is)
Stede Bonnet: doesn't know what a handy is but is now ready to put both hands in Ed's hair when he kisses him so... I think this is going the right direction.
Also: it is one of life's great tragedies that Ed did not get to finish his rececitation of that well-known Age of Enlightenment era poem "Hark! Here I Go Again On Minest Owneth!" with "And I know what it means/to walk along the lonely Stede o' Dreams."
Anyway, more later because my head is just Anne Bonny's wonderful, terrible ugly fucking cuckoo clock.
Oh, yeah, and! And! Stede's repeated use of "doggie heaven" like someone who just learned the term "synergy" is... just exquisite.