The heart of film is visual style, and Wes Anderson is one of the most stylized directors working today. He is certainly the most popular of the great formalists. And I haven’t given much analysis of his films before - their class commentary is usually too obvious. But the Venetian scheme is a good starting place. As always spoilers below the cut.
Of course you should watch Season 2 of Andor. I'm not even going to waste text trying to convince you. There are none so blind as those that refuse to see.
Tuesday night's set of three episodes - 2.7 thru 2.9 - were bonus amazing and in many ways the climax of what this season and all of Andor had been moving towards. They have ignited a huge explosion of praise online, especially from the sort of left-wing popular-culture obsessives we know so well.
I find that... confusing, or maybe willfully blind. Spoilers below the cut.
There, I said it. I enjoy the Apple streaming mammoth "Severance" for its individual episodes. It has a strong directorial style, extremely fitting actors for their characters, and very thought out set design. Any 45 minutes of it is worth watching.
But the metaplot is an extremely cliche "mystery box" with "the large corporation has a conspiracy that is *even more evil than you thought* and for extremely vague and unrealistic motives." I don't care what is going to happen to Lumon in the end. I'm sad that seems to be the only sort of analysis I can find on reddit or any other place discussing the shows.
... but I'm even more frustrated that everyone analyzing the plot is missing the central point. Spoilers for the finale below.
