Just watched, Black Rabbit. It was released on netflix a couple days ago. Put it on when I got home from wedding last night drunk and couldnt stop watching. Literally took some adderall at 1am to finish watching the whole miniseries. Its prolly one of the best written, best produced, and best directed shows I’ve seen in a very long time. For movies or TV. No joke even the soundtrack made me google every song the music is thru the whole show is so fuckin good.
It stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law who both play very different characters than they normally get cast for but they fuckin kill it. But for me that is what should be expected from any starring or costarring protagonists. What sets a show above the rest is when there doesnt seem to be a single miss casting the entire show. If the character in the show is written to be a junkie, they casted an actor who physically looks like they spent months prepping for the role by booting up real life speedballs and sleeping in the gutter.
The story is hyperbolic to anything that normally happens in real life, but it is so spot on to the absolute chaos and familiarity amongst staff, good or bad, that it takes to keep the wheels from falling off an established well known restaurant in any metropolitan culinary/hospitality market. To have that love hate familiarity to come across the screen as strongly as it did can only be credited to the performances by every actor in any scene cuz it would only take one actor in one scene to miss for the whole emmersive feel to fall apart.
Sparknotes w/o spoilers: Imagine The Departed crossed with Brothers (2024) but instead of using the “started from the bottom fight to be on top” trope, its more of a “keeping everything from falling apart after you make it off the bottom” kind of trope. So the same mood, theme and feel as The Departed minus the plot structure/plot twists and centered around a New York City restaurateur and his degenerate brother instead of Boston cops and mafia.
So many shows seem to try so hard to break the next Game of Thrones mold that you can see its affect in the writing by pushing for more than what the show was created to handle. It doesnt hurt shows necessarily, its just obvious when it happens. The noticeable difference in a show like Black Rabbit, im guessing, comes from it being created by relatively new to the scene screen writers. Zach Baylin has like 3 writing credits (King Richard, Creed III and I think another upcoming release other than Black Rabbit) and the other creator is Zach’s wife, Kate Susman who doesnt even have a wikipedia page. The priority they put into creating the best project of a great story is so refreshing over all the rebooted/sequeled/prequel stories created to be next the great project.
Just watched, Black Rabbit. It was released on netflix a couple days ago. Put it on when I got home from wedding last night drunk and couldnt stop watching. Literally took some adderall at 1am to finish watching the whole miniseries. Its prolly one of the best written, best produced, and best directed shows I’ve seen in a very long time. For movies or TV. No joke even the soundtrack made me google every song the music is thru the whole show is so fuckin good.
It stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law who both play very different characters than they normally get cast for but they fuckin kill it. But for me that is what should be expected from any starring or costarring protagonists. What sets a show above the rest is when there doesnt seem to be a single miss casting the entire show. If the character in the show is written to be a junkie, they casted an actor who physically looks like they spent months prepping for the role by booting up real life speedballs and sleeping in the gutter.
The story is hyperbolic to anything that normally happens in real life, but it is so spot on to the absolute chaos and familiarity amongst staff, good or bad, that it takes to keep the wheels from falling off an established well known restaurant in any metropolitan culinary/hospitality market. To have that love hate familiarity to come across the screen as strongly as it did can only be credited to the performances by every actor in any scene cuz it would only take one actor in one scene to miss for the whole emmersive feel to fall apart.
Sparknotes w/o spoilers: Imagine The Departed crossed with Brothers (2024) but instead of using the “started from the bottom fight to be on top” trope, its more of a “keeping everything from falling apart after you make it off the bottom” kind of trope. So the same mood, theme and feel as The Departed minus the plot structure/plot twists and centered around a New York City restaurateur and his degenerate brother instead of Boston cops and mafia.
So many shows seem to try so hard to break the next Game of Thrones mold that you can see its affect in the writing by pushing for more than what the show was created to handle. It doesnt hurt shows necessarily, its just obvious when it happens. The noticeable difference in a show like Black Rabbit, im guessing, comes from it being created by relatively new to the scene screen writers. Zach Baylin has like 3 writing credits (King Richard, Creed III and I think another upcoming release other than Black Rabbit) and the other creator is Zach’s wife, Kate Susman who doesnt even have a wikipedia page. The priority they put into creating the best project of a great story is so refreshing over all the rebooted/sequeled/prequel stories created to be next the great project.