02-13-2022, 08:33 PM
Fell behind on my 80 Days reports. After HK was the shipwreck, which was a bit silly, but a beautiful deserted island.
The last ep was the wild west, which was painfully predictable, so much so that Stacy & I called most of the scenes before they happened. It had a racial theme with a KKK prisoner and a black sheriff, but was mostly lip service to Black History Awareness month. Good ol' Feb, BHA month and Lunar New Year - yeah, let's give the POC the shortest month of the year.
Tennant has really grown into Fogg. And I just learned Passepartout's first name is Jean, which is cool because he's the coolest character and I'm pulling for him to get the girl in the end. Eugenes get a bad rap in movies and TV. Jeans do much better but you gotta be French. Such a trade off.
This ep was dedicated to the memory of Charles Beeson, the director, who also did many other series like The Mentalist, Smallville, EastEnders, Inspector Morse, et. al. He directed one ep 80 Days - it was his final project.
Next week is the finale. It's been renewed for S2, but this looks like it'll end where the story ends, so S2 will have to be something completely different.
The last ep was the wild west, which was painfully predictable, so much so that Stacy & I called most of the scenes before they happened. It had a racial theme with a KKK prisoner and a black sheriff, but was mostly lip service to Black History Awareness month. Good ol' Feb, BHA month and Lunar New Year - yeah, let's give the POC the shortest month of the year.
Tennant has really grown into Fogg. And I just learned Passepartout's first name is Jean, which is cool because he's the coolest character and I'm pulling for him to get the girl in the end. Eugenes get a bad rap in movies and TV. Jeans do much better but you gotta be French. Such a trade off.
This ep was dedicated to the memory of Charles Beeson, the director, who also did many other series like The Mentalist, Smallville, EastEnders, Inspector Morse, et. al. He directed one ep 80 Days - it was his final project.
Next week is the finale. It's been renewed for S2, but this looks like it'll end where the story ends, so S2 will have to be something completely different.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse