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Mysterious Cities of Television
As I mentioned before, Hulu is streaming The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I've been catching up on it, and I've watched the first ten episodes. I'm having lots of fun running mini-marathons at work while doing other things.
It holds up really well, and I think one of the reasons it does is because the three children are played by child actors. It makes the whole thing feel a lot more authentic (though I wonder if the children's voices are heightening the sense of nostalgia for me). I did a little research about the process, and learned two interesting things. One, the actors were Canadian, and apparently bilingual, since they watched the original French before recording the dub. Also, the actor who played the European kid Esteban was a person of color, Shiraz Adam.
It still bugs me that Tao, the "steampunk" (but older than steam) boy genius is portrayed as a clown in the credits. But damn that song is catchy. No wonder he's a billionaire.
If you don't believe that I love watching the trashiest of trashy TV, you should know that I've been watching More to Love. It starts out at the level of trashiness of The Bachelor, then descends lower because it's on Fox, then it descends lower because it uses all overweight contestants as its "gimmick."
It presents itself as far more enlightened than it actually is, but it still manages some small victories in showing fat men and women looking sexy on television without being told that they need to lose weight to deserve their screen time. But the show seems to take great joy in exploiting the vulnerability of the women on the show (which is tacky), a joy seemingly also indulged in by the "bachelor" Luke (which is creepy). In the first episode, one of the women introduced herself by saying, "I'm a rocket scientist!" and it was very clear that Luke wrote her off before she said another word.
The detox I'm using for this show is Lesley's recaps at Fatshionista, which do a good job of picking out the little gems of fat acceptance amid the compost pile of reality-television production.
It holds up really well, and I think one of the reasons it does is because the three children are played by child actors. It makes the whole thing feel a lot more authentic (though I wonder if the children's voices are heightening the sense of nostalgia for me). I did a little research about the process, and learned two interesting things. One, the actors were Canadian, and apparently bilingual, since they watched the original French before recording the dub. Also, the actor who played the European kid Esteban was a person of color, Shiraz Adam.
It still bugs me that Tao, the "steampunk" (but older than steam) boy genius is portrayed as a clown in the credits. But damn that song is catchy. No wonder he's a billionaire.
If you don't believe that I love watching the trashiest of trashy TV, you should know that I've been watching More to Love. It starts out at the level of trashiness of The Bachelor, then descends lower because it's on Fox, then it descends lower because it uses all overweight contestants as its "gimmick."
It presents itself as far more enlightened than it actually is, but it still manages some small victories in showing fat men and women looking sexy on television without being told that they need to lose weight to deserve their screen time. But the show seems to take great joy in exploiting the vulnerability of the women on the show (which is tacky), a joy seemingly also indulged in by the "bachelor" Luke (which is creepy). In the first episode, one of the women introduced herself by saying, "I'm a rocket scientist!" and it was very clear that Luke wrote her off before she said another word.
The detox I'm using for this show is Lesley's recaps at Fatshionista, which do a good job of picking out the little gems of fat acceptance amid the compost pile of reality-television production.
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