!! where did you watch Wynonna Earp? I really need to watch the final season but I didn't think it would make it onto a streaming service available to me. *sob*
Lupin was AMAZING, I love it so much. I can't wait for part three! I thought it was going to be a two-parter so when I saw the words 'will return in part 3' I nearly screamed.
(Hm, Loki. I had an all right time watching it. I didn't have great expectations and I wasn't a fan of many things about it, but I did enjoy some specific parts of it. It didn't feel like a show that actually fit into the MCU, which on a meta level is kind of funny - like it's a variant itself.)
I really enjoyed Katla as well - it was a treat to watch an Icelandic tv series with such good production values (thank you Netflix, for bringing the money?) for once, and also for it to have people in it I hadn't already seen in every single other piece of Icelandic media. I don't even have any 'so and so is unrealistic/fake/not accurate/whatever' quibbles of the kind that are like...very blatantly obvious foreign influence (still mad about parts of Sense8, much as I love that series). I was very pleasantly surprised! I particularly enjoyed how the Swedish lady spoke Swedish to some of the Icelanders but English to others - that was one of the most realistic Icelandic bits to me, actually, because it's very common for some Icelanders to be able to speak Swedish, or Norwegian, or Danish (often through having lived/worked in one of those countries for a while) but also for others to have only a smattering of Danish from school and instead choosing English when speaking to Scandis. the only thing about this show that had me go a bit 'wtf' was Gríma's name - that's a highly unusual name to have and as a noun it means 'mask' (some people might recognise it from LOTR as the name of Theoden's snake-tongued two-faced advisor), but then I realised she's named after her grandfather and then it made complete sense. (on her mother's tombstone you can see she's Grímsdóttir, so her father's name was Grímur, a completely normal name to have. Gríma would be a feminine version of that.) anyway! I really liked this series and I want Netflix to throw more money at Icelandic content. we have great film/tv makers - our problem has always been funding.
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Lupin was AMAZING, I love it so much. I can't wait for part three! I thought it was going to be a two-parter so when I saw the words 'will return in part 3' I nearly screamed.
(Hm, Loki. I had an all right time watching it. I didn't have great expectations and I wasn't a fan of many things about it, but I did enjoy some specific parts of it. It didn't feel like a show that actually fit into the MCU, which on a meta level is kind of funny - like it's a variant itself.)
I really enjoyed Katla as well - it was a treat to watch an Icelandic tv series with such good production values (thank you Netflix, for bringing the money?) for once, and also for it to have people in it I hadn't already seen in every single other piece of Icelandic media. I don't even have any 'so and so is unrealistic/fake/not accurate/whatever' quibbles of the kind that are like...very blatantly obvious foreign influence (still mad about parts of Sense8, much as I love that series). I was very pleasantly surprised! I particularly enjoyed how the Swedish lady spoke Swedish to some of the Icelanders but English to others - that was one of the most realistic Icelandic bits to me, actually, because it's very common for some Icelanders to be able to speak Swedish, or Norwegian, or Danish (often through having lived/worked in one of those countries for a while) but also for others to have only a smattering of Danish from school and instead choosing English when speaking to Scandis. the only thing about this show that had me go a bit 'wtf' was Gríma's name - that's a highly unusual name to have and as a noun it means 'mask' (some people might recognise it from LOTR as the name of Theoden's snake-tongued two-faced advisor), but then I realised she's named after her grandfather and then it made complete sense. (on her mother's tombstone you can see she's Grímsdóttir, so her father's name was Grímur, a completely normal name to have. Gríma would be a feminine version of that.)
anyway! I really liked this series and I want Netflix to throw more money at Icelandic content. we have great film/tv makers - our problem has always been funding.