"Irma Vep" The Thunder Master (TV Episode 2022) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2022)

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3/10
Hipsters, Celebrity Culture and Narcissism
MaggieQ-public12 July 2022
The assistant to the actress is on my last nerve. Too much of that hipster, awkward , nerd vibe going on and its all too real and all too annoying. How much of it is the character and not the actress? Do they offer social skill classes like they did in the 40's and 50's anymore?

Anyways, there's some light humorous jokes - dark humor and no Carrie Brownstein, so that's the bright side. The German actor, Lars Edinger, playing Gottfried is absolutely brilliant.

And I do like the show's sentiments on the desire to generally produce great art that adds something to the world, despite the indulgences of the medium and how pop culture swallows up true beauty and spits it out into crass, throw away noise.

But the neurotic, obsessive indulgence of director Assayas, and the celebration of celebrity culture is definitely on maximum display in episode 6.
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3/10
Are we going off the rails?
magste-15-1066562 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Up to this episode I'd been following with a casual interest what might happen. After this I kind of lost interest. It seems the writers felt they needed a drastic episode to shake things up. And they threw everything in there. The director losing his mind and being replaced, an actor self strangling himself, and Mira not just having trouble separating from her role, but being able to walk through walls. Seriously?

And of all the directors in the world they had to bring in someone only known for Hollywood blockbusters, with no interest or experience in the arthouse stuff, who just happens to be married to Miras former lover, whom Mira is still pining for and who will show up in Paris. And Mira walks through walls to spy on them. When they took off the necklace my first thought was "don't have Mira take it". Predictably pathetic, like a day-time tv soap script.
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