What Are You Watching?

What have I been doing since my last blog post?

A lot of thinking, waiting, filling my time with a LOT of TV and regaining my faith in visual horror and TV in general.

Here’s what I watched in the past few months:

The Light Shop (Korean)

★★★★★

Korean television to the rescue! An incredible slow burn supernatural series focussing on a group of passengers recovering in an ICU after a bus accident. Their souls are stuck in a town where strange supernatural occurrences and recurring events force them to confront the nature of their current existence and their individual pasts. The only stable place in this strange town is a light shop that sells a variety of lighting fixtures run by a rather aloof shopkeeper, the only person who seems to know what’s going on.

Available on Jio Hotstar.

Paradise

★★★★★

An incredible fan edit and mash up of Alien: Covenant and Prometheus by Job Willins that discards the unnecessary bloating in both the films, organizes the timeline and gives us a clear picture of the philosophy of David, the cyborg at the head of it all. It left me with a deep feeling of unease that horror films ought to do, and with my favourite movie genre: sci-fi horror. It was made eight years ago, would you believe it?

The link to the blog post, further instructions therein.

The House of the Spirits (Spanish)

★★★★

A very close Spanish language adaptation of the novel by Isabel Allende, one of my favourites, created with a lot of love and attention to detail that might encourage people who haven’t read the novel to check it out.

Available on Amazon Prime.

Julia

★★★★

An excellent series on the life of Julia Child as she begins testing and perfecting recipes from her cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and launches her television show, The French Chef, in the early 1960s. The series captures and the behind-the-scenes challenges of early television, taking creative liberties with her story and adding some fictional characters like the TV producer Alice Naman to further the political and racial discourse of the time, but does it rather seamlessly.

Available on JioHotstar.

The Testaments

★★★

A series adapted from the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the story of June's daughter Hannah and her life in Gilead, as well those of as her friends, parents and the Aunts who run the girl's school she attends. The setup is a little slow at first and suffers from some unnecessary bloating, however, the last couple of episodes speed up the narrative and are worth waiting for. However, I was a little underwhelmed and found it fairly predictable.

Available on JioHotstar.

That's all for now, folks! I'm in the middle of a few yummy series that I'll update on later.

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