happy bday to the best doctor ik! he’s deserves the best and ONLY the best :)
OKAY QUESTION - Who here Thinks New Anti Is Hot ??
No judgement here, I asked this on Twitter as well and got quite the responses hehe
Damn, remember when I said I was gonna be more consistent? Yeah me neither. Can’t believe I skipped two weeks worth of reviews on accident. I swear it was, school and life’s been kicking my ass lately. Hopefully I make up for it in this review. Though, I do need to keep this one short so I’m review ep’s 8-10 all together, then hopefully I remember to write the review for next week. No more wasting time, let’s get to it.
Ep’s 8-10 Review - So, uh, it’s been a lot of content up until this point. So far, loved and loving every bit of news getting dropped. Let’s get the obvious out of the way, totally saw Mother being the one responsible for Fadel’s ex disappearance. I don’t think he came as a shock to anyone, but the scene of Fadel reacting to the news still didn’t make it any less heartbreaking. Again, the casting was fantastic in this show, everyone knowing how to act their heart out and pull on your heartstrings.
But I’ll slow down a bit and start from episode 8, the whole episode of the two couples learning to accept and trust each other. Both sides hearing each out, Bison and Fadel being still in love with the two best friends that they’d rather cry than kill their lovers. The scene on the beach with Bison and Kant was fantastic. Again, I cannot praise the acting enough. But I like how the writing still doesn’t excuse what Kant did. Sure, he did it cause he had no choice but he still deceived Bison and his brother, at first willing to risk their freedom for the sake of his and his brother’s. The show makes it clear it was still unacceptable and that Kant had to earn his right back into Bison’s heart. However, I liked that they spent more time with Fadel and Style’s relationship, as it makes sense for Fadel’s character. He’s the more cautious of the brothers, as seen with how long it took Style to get into his heart compared to Kant’s with Bisons. I loved how they spent more time with those two and properly developing their recovery arc, even though we all know damn well Fadel was never gonna kill him. The poor man needs to stop lying to himself.
Other little tid bit, the story behind Bison, Fadel, and Keen. It’s gets more sad the more I think about it. No matter how much the show paints these adults as stone cold sometimes and them doing what needs to be done, they were kids. Kids who lost everything and instead of getting the parental figure they needed, they got a blacksmith that shaped them into weapons, treating them no more than objects with no self respect or conscious. Episode 10 really hammered this point home for me, especially every scene with Keen being put down by Mother.
Now with episode 11 on the way next week, we only have two more left to go. Can’t believe it’s already almost over but I’m choosing to ignore that for now. Also, again, so sorry for the lag in posts. I would make another promise but at this point, I don’t wanna promise anything just in case lol.
Until next time. Bye!
He’s taken form.
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After finishing The Killers Heart episode in a proper watch where I could see it in all it's glory (which means uninterrupted and in the big screen with no one around) I can say I had SO MUCH FUN.
Kant and Bison hadn't really caught my attention until today's ep, and Fadel and Style continue being such interesting characters I cat help but be all 👀‼️about themselves and their interactions.
What I feel also allows me to really turn my brain off (in a suspension of disbelief sense) on here and enjoy what the show's offering is that:
1) I started this with zero expectations (literally, not good, not bad, nothing, just went with it) and as the show progresses I get more and more interested in it. I still have no expectations as where the story is going, there are things I would like to see character-wise, but from the story I have no ideaaaa, I'm just a witness so far.
2) The tone of the show really does feel like a comedy, in the classical sense of the word, where It does not mean that it will be comical.
Comedies are about absurds, situations out of the ordinary, that often lead to contrived situations that yeah, might cause you to laugh because they're ridiculous, but they don't stop taking themselves serious about what happens within them, and the absurd can also lead to absurd tragedies: over the top, messy, but tragedies nonetheless. So in terms of the genre I feel it's quite true to itself (and I love it when that happens)
3) The characters are so well balanced it's ✨chef kisses✨.
What I mean about this it's that I don't feel any character has the upper hand over the rest, they're all on the same ground, albeit in very different directions.
When it comes to messy relationships I enjoy it a lot more when all parts are equally fucked up (see Big Dragon) rather when the messiness or toxicity comes from only one of the characters to the other.
This is literally a comedia de enredos (comedy of entanglements?) in all the ways, every character has something to hide and it's creating a web of misunderstandings one above the other, the assassin settings just adds a tad bit more of risk to the overall experience.
Kant is lying through his ass, Bison is masterfully making everyone believe he's an innocent little guy but Kant knooows he and his brother have killed people and YET send Style to pester Fadel without telling him and now Style is really intrigued to what Fadel is hiding and he's gonna take whatever it takes to find out while Fadel just wants a break but it's pretty conscious he's still an assassin and it's also jumping around between those realities and aha aha aha aha.
4) Finally, I'd say that overall and above everything else, what I enjoy the most in anything is congruence.
I like it when something it's set up and then followed through, I like it when characters act in ways that make sense for them, and I like it when stories are earnest and stay true to their genre.
It's only ep 3, but I really like the bases and conflicts it's setting up to, and the way it's executing them so far has been pretty coherent within what we've been shown.
So yeah, unironically enjoying the ride in more ways than what I expected to! Let's see how this one develops 🫴✨
“We need to leave. I’ve been here before”
You’ve been here before? Mmm
I wonder where you’ve seen it before
funny how in todays stream, there were 8 story clips. Just like 8 subjects of interest? What a coincidence, huh?
i dont know if anyone mentioned this, but thinking about that last scene of Anti finally coming thru the camera, passing all of the bodies of the iris workers he literally just killed and introducing himself to chase and like. if that was the point where anti was corporeal/chase finally saw him in person, like can you just imagine how terrified Chase must’ve been to see all those people drop like flies basically out of nowhere beforehand?
Something you can’t see just decimating everyone around you as you remain the last person alive somehow. only to have the thing you had just tried to warn them about, very thing that has been haunting you for so long, that feeling of absolute dread and horror personified literally looming over you. greeting you with a simple hello and a smile.
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ok. here me out-