4 posts tagged ‘zal batmanglij’
The week in TV: Fargo roars back, and a sharp Oliver Twist spinoff
AV Club,
If you’re brave enough to press play on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, prepare to be disappointed and, even worse, bored. The reality series is an utterly dragged-out, inauthentic mess that takes all the wrong lessons from the 2021 South Korean hit that inspired it. The takeaway from Squid Game should not be… Read more...
A Murder At The End Of The World recap: For Darby Hart, the game is finally afoot
The game is finally afoot At The End Of The World, with writers Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij, and Melanie Marnich focusing on the mystery at hand rather than the one in Darby’s book. Filling in gaps is undoubtedly essential to this story, but the dual narrative was exhausting in those exposition-filled openers.… Read more...
Something’s Missing From A Murder at the End of the World
Vulture,
Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij applying their signature extravagant weirdness to a murder mystery is both too much (complimentary) and not enough.
A Murder At The End Of The World premiere: Gen Z Sherlock is on the case
A Murder At The End Of The World starts at a disadvantage. Opening with a Doors song will do that to you, especially the one echoing Apocalypse Now. As a needle drop, the Doors are a blunt object. A Murder At The End Of The World uses “The End” like a sledgehammer. Read more...