These are the freeform notes that I record on shows as I watch them and might not be of interest to anyone, but you are welcome to submit a pull request if you have anything to add.
The Americans
A young American family turns out to be parented by two Soviet spies, without their neighbors, or their children, knowing.
The ideological division that split the world into East and West during the Cold War is portrayed in an average American family. The Americans turns the traditional “anti-hero” on it’s head and looks inside.
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Intro is spoken word, credits
The husband, Grey, fixes an old car, while the wife drives home in super modern tech. The husband “stays home all day” fixing cars. Must be a writer.
The husband’s friend, Aaron keen, owner of vessel computers, plays with clouds, like a “good”.
Chips cause unemployment.
Keen is husbands lady paying customers.
Car goes in wrong direction, and they can’t control it.
The robbers have some kind of ideological motivating.
The Terror
Set mostly in the frozen arctic, this show’s chilling storyline matches the isolated white scenery. The climate is inhospitable and, as captain Crozier claims, even seems malevolent.
01 Go For Broke CPN CROZIER: In this place technology still bends the knee to luck, James.
02 Gore CPN FRANKLIN: Is nature’s author nowhere in your tally?
03 The Ladder 21:40 We are separated here from the temptations of the world, at sea, a man can find spiritual benefit in the collective.
Ozark
Ozark vs Breaking Bad “Ozark” is an answer to “Breaking Bad”. Marty Byrd is actually trying to save his family, unlike Walter White, who was lying to his family the whole time about why he was doing everything in the show. Walter White is satire of some people’s idealization of “thug culture” and crime families. All the tragedy was of his own making. Marty Byrd found himself caught up in circumstances he was barely able to escape with his life.
