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sleepy_bird Dec. 3rd, 2009 12:04 am)
sleepy_bird Dec. 3rd, 2009 12:04 am)Have just finished watching "House of Cards" with S., and started in on "To Play the King" tonight. "To Play the King" is one of my faves, although it doesn't have the straight-up revenge scenario cleanness of "Cards." It's a little slower, but in my opinion the payoff at the end is better. I remember reading a review of it when it first came out and thinking "Oooh, it sounds so exciting and grown-up and fun!" And then many years later I was able to get it on DVD and it was just the way I thought it would be when I was 13! Which is pretty nice, considering how many things are not exactly as instantly amazing as you think they are going to be when you are 13 (beer, sex, the Beavis and Butthead CD with tracks by White Zombie and Sir Mix-a-Lot). It is very nice that there are things in the world that are gratifying with so little effort to be made on my part.
Anyway, I was just reading this article (which is not very good in and of itself, the comments were more of a spur) and it made me think--in a series in which almost all the characters come to grievous physical or emotional harm, the only character who has anything near a positive ending in "To Play the King" is... the gay man. (Not counting F U, of course. But that's a given.)
Anyway, I was just reading this article (which is not very good in and of itself, the comments were more of a spur) and it made me think--in a series in which almost all the characters come to grievous physical or emotional harm, the only character who has anything near a positive ending in "To Play the King" is... the gay man. (Not counting F U, of course. But that's a given.)