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Censor (2021)
Lynchian...
An inversion of the stories of the Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire with unique enough story elements to make it entertaining. Omits some of idiosyncratic melodrama and tweeness of Lynch's style but would recommend to fans of that type of weirdness. Will look out for writer and director in the future.
Murder Among the Mormons (2021)
Lacks key context
If this documentary was made with an objective approach to Joseph Smith's history of fraudulent behaviour, and the acts of violence committed by its followers in the religion's formative years, the events depicted would seem ironic or even inevitable.
Star Trek: Discovery: That Hope Is You, Part 2 (2021)
Pretty, pretty good...
Fantastic end to the season. Every plot for every character I questioned was triumphantly vindicated in the end.
The perfect blend of emotion and action which, I think, in time will be viewed as one of the all time classic episodes of Star Trek. No episode from any iteration has ever managed to combine the two so successfully.
Every great episode, which preceded this one, with huge emotional impacts for the protagonist (such as 'inner light' or 'far beyond the stars') came with the consequence of having no stakes in the larger story. But this episode managed to capture huge emotional stakes for all the protagonists (the actor who played Suk'al deserves an Emmy) of those episodic highlights with the added dramatic implications for the federation and the crew such as in the greatest serialised episodes of Star Trek (like 'best of both worlds 1+2' 'all good things 1+2' 'favour the bold' and other episodes in the late ds9 arc 'scorpion 1+2' 'year of hell 1+2' 'endgame 1+2').
The only episodes that come close to combining the two so successfully are 'in the pale moonlight' and 'chain of command 1+2' but on first viewing this was so much satisfying to watch than all of them.
This is a true vindication for Discovery and what can be done in the more focused format of Star Trek in general. My only wishes are that this high standard is maintained, because I found this season oscillated (almost weekly) between 7-8/10 and 3-4/10 episodes, and that were finally get to see some more crew centric episodes on other members of the bridge crew that actually resolve themselves (unlike Detmer's ptsd). But that is a criticism for Discovery in general and not this episode.
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