Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Making use of my Netflix account

I've been trying to watch shows but I'm in such a place mentally sometimes I only need noise with no requirement for engagement, and if you're trying to placate another person when you're viewing stuff, I'll go with whatever the other person wants, I don't care.

I've been trying to get into Sweet Tooth, which is mostly a good show, but I can only say that kid got picked to do the main role because he looks adorable with antlers and animatronic dear ears. He's basically on a level of the kid who played Anakin. I know kid actors can get better. I genuinely hated Halley Joel Osment when he was a child actor, I like him now he's grown up, but he wasn't adorable to me, he was a little prat and I didn't like anything he did. I thought he was mostly overacting in AI and Sixth Sense, I just wasn't interested in his efforts. The Sweet Tooth kid is genuinely cute but he's middling for a child actor. Plus he's basically playing a kid, there's not a lot to his character outside of the inevitable naivety from growing up isolated from a decaying civilisation while having to cope with being made and not born like other kids. There's a few tired cliches as well, it's not a bad show, I'm just not that invested in the main character, just the rest of them in his orbit.

We also got into an Australian comedy drama of a small town murder and I am invested but not enough to give a shit if there's a new episode, plus it's also not on Netflix. What I'm really trying to avoid is the torturous chore of scrolling through streaming services just to find something to make noise while I eat dinner.

Having said that, I'm finding out about how bad the show with the Weeknd is in, I don't really understand the point of it other than to be a vehicle for his music. I've heard songs of his and liked them, I wanted to listen properly but this is putting me off. He's a pretty bad actor and I find him really off-putting already, it kinda doesn't help his videos are intentionally making him look ugly, which is a really interesting aesthetic for someone making pop music. But now him getting pissed on missing out on nominations make him even less sympathetic. Which sucks because his synth pop sound is really nice to listen to, I don't think he needs a TV show to showcase his music and his severe lack of acting prowess.

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