My Top Three This Week
Greetings to all my semi-constant readers. It has been a traumatic time since I last posted. The news is terrible and we are in a global panic. Many of us are now sheltering and working from home or self quarantining . With so much time on our hands and the need to take a break from the news here a few of my favorites right now.
1) Devs on FX and streaming on Hulu is a fantastic and cautionary tale about playing God and technology. Set in a Google like campus in Silicon Valley the story focuses on a couple Sergei and Lily who work in research for a tech company called Amaya. Sergei gets transferred into development and becomes one of the "Devs" and mysteriously commits suicide within days of his new post. Amaya is run by an obsessed Forest played by Nick Offerman who is secretly housing some of the world's biggest terrifying innovations. Lily played by the amazing Sonoya Mizuno goes into full investigation mode while enlisting an ex boyfriend and trying to escape the greatest villain in recent history -Kenton perfectly cast Zach Grenier. One of the creepiest visions in this whole series is the 50 foot statue of a little girl overlooking the campus of Amaya. #Devs
2) Tiger King is the WTF of the week for me in the best possible way. This Netflix original documentary series is the most outrageous show on television right now and I am watching it like a treat -A little dessert every night . This is a tale of murder, big cats, mullets, country music and not just a couple of toothless characters. Joe Exotic a zookeeper known as Tiger King runs a animal park with over 200 big cats and various other exotic animals and two husbands. His story connects with a host of other eccentric characters who seem broadly drawn cartoons. Even Carole Baskin who runs Big Cat Rescue seems like some drugged up earth mother who is Joe's nemesis . This has something for everybody. #Tigerking
3) Freaks on Netflix is such a wild movie I don't know how I missed it. Starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park and Lexy Kolker , this film opens with a young girl who is confined to her room by a survivalist father (Hirsch) who seems intent on keeping his daughter Chloe safe after the death of her mother. This is such an artfully directed film that you are kept guessing what is real and is what is inside of Chloe's vivid imagination. When all is revealed in a twist it becomes a completely different story. Hirsch and Kolker as well as the amazing Bruce Dern show us an authentic world where people are a "little" different. #Freaks
