NP - This Xmas Season's Movies

[John Bailey]

The Netflix series of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency should
be of interest to some P-listers. Based on the Douglas Adams
(Hitchhiker's Guide) novels, it's as massively convoluted and loopy
and genre-defying as Pynchon's California books. The titular (though
not main) character is a detective who refuses to do any sleuthing
because he thinks mysteries just resolve themselves if you hang
around, and this is just part of a terrific meta-level to the show
where people seem to understand that they're functions in a fiction,
and that they have to fulfill those functions if the universe they're
in is to continue to operate (ie be interesting to the viewer). I've
only seen the first episode, and had mixed reactions, but the word I'm
hearing is that it becomes pretty addictive.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's 'buy"....'description" not 'decryption"...and 'really' rather than
> ''rather" ...sorry
>
> will go back to proofreading...
>
> "to crack the frozen ice within"---Kafka on MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA.
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> yet, even though trailers are not meant to be viewed....(do you by a book
>> by it's cover; or worse, the catalog copy--if
>> you ever get to see it; or the ISBN registration decryption?)----
>>
>> if you don't rather cry or tear up mightily with necessary stoic control,
>> then you haven't 'seen' that is, felt it....even Casey does so briefly.
>>
>> I am damn glad I KNEW NOTHING about it but Lonergan and Casey Affleck
>> before I went...
>> or I might not have gone.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, kelber at mindspring.com
>> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The trailer certainly makes it look like a by-the-numbers guy-weepy (ya
>>> know, like Shawshank Redemption). Is it drastically different from what's
>>> shown in the previews? I stay far, far away from weepies of any variety.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Frame <jbframe at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not everyone liked it.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>>> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, Dec 28, 2016 2:31 am
>>> Subject: Re: NP - This Xmas Season's Movies
>>>
>>> Why is the title misleading or ironic? It's the name of a town.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:23 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just saw Manchester by the Sea.  It is a finely-crafted tale that
>>>> jerked many tears from this sap.  Beside the great acting, its best feature
>>>> is the telling of its story via seamless meshing of past with present.  This
>>>> meshing makes us quickly love and care for all the characters presented, but
>>>> especially for the main one, a deeply broken man who always soldiers on
>>>> through his great pain.  Highly recommended.
>>>>
>>>> The film's title is a misleading irony.  It is a spoof.  This ain't
>>>> Masterpiece Theater.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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