Okay, this is the review to read if you don’t want to see the movie but are curious. Or if you have seen the movie wand want to discuss it.
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Tribhanga Review (No Spoilers): Pick a Tone and Stick With It For Goodness Sake!
If you are considering watching this movie and want a sense of what it is like before making your decision, I am here for you! If you have seen this movie and want to talk about it, wait a second, I’ll be putting up another post in a second.
Continue readingChopsticks Review (SPOILERS): A Little Fable of a Girl and a Guy and a Goat
What a very pleasant little movie! Not a perfect movie, not a deep movie, not even that involving of a movie much of the time. But very very pleasant.
Continue readingChopsticks Review (No Spoilers): A Pleasant Little Film, No Songs But a Great Heroine
I finally watched it! Over a year after it released on Netflix and most other people saw it! But whatever, in this strange world of sliding release dates and straight to streaming products, I am still giving it a “no spoilers” and a “spoilers” separate review.
Continue readingIrrfan Khan Fest: Karwaan, Irrfan and His Character Steal the Movie From the “Hero”
This is a slightly frustrating movie, because Irrfan is so very good in it and his character is so very interesting, but instead the film expects us to care about Dulquer and his boring character. Still worth watching though, mostly for the Irrfan of it.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 8: Is This a Break Up or an Engagement? Or Somehow Both and Neither?
This is a very interesting open ending. It could be the end of the whole story for these characters, or the start of their next chapter, and the show leaves it open. Because right now, it is open for them too. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 7: How Did We Get Here
Yet again, the show fills in backstory and it makes you go “yeah, that seems right” as though it had been written all along. Because maybe it had, they just hadn’t filmed it yet. (Little Things Review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 6: Messy Re-Entry
Hey, this episode is about why I decided not to go over to my apartment this weekend and instead stay at their place! It’s not the leaving, it’s the coming back, all those little micro-adjustments. And I’m just talking about an hour of adjustment following two days away, this episode is about the whole messy return after 6 months apart. Blech!
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 5: The Moment You Know You Can Never Fully Forgive Your Parents
I avoided this episode, because I was afraid it would be too painful. But then the interesting thing is, it ended up being sadder because it was without pain. This relationship has a door that is so firmly shut, there isn’t even pain any more. It’s just over, and that is sad. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 4: Mithila Thinks About Her Paths Not Taken
And the differences and distances keep coming! This episode and the next are structured differently, instead of cutting back and forth, we are seeing things solely from the perspective of one part of our separated couple, the other half only appearing in brief phone calls. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Time Apart Flies By, But Then What?
This was brave, the whole season is set up around their long distance, and we get past the whole thing in one episode. But then, it’s a show about relationships, we don’t need to see them apart, we need to see the good-bye and the re-entry.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 2: This is So SAD!
Boy, that headline doesn’t make you want to watch the episode, does it? But it’s a good sad. A healthy sad. And the kind of sad we don’t usually see in art, normal every day non-tragic sad. Which is part of why it is sad, that you don’t feel like you have the right to these emotions. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Long Distance is Scary
Okay, season 2 was twice as good as season 1, and season 3 looks to be doubling in quality again. This episode is so lovely and loving and scary.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 FINAL EPISODE: Big Conversations, and Chaiyya Chaiyya!
Once again, nails the landing! Dhruv expresses himself in a way he has never really done before. And Mithila finally says the thing that will release them from the biggest issue of the season. (Little Things reviews index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 7: The Big Fight
Hoo boy! Glad we had the light episode before this one, because this one is HEAVY. Man, so heavy! Everything from the whole season before this comes together in a big blow out fight. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 6: Lazy Sunday
This is a pleasant episode, but doesn’t quite give the Big Thoughts that the other episodes this season did. It’s a throwback to last season, and is almost consciously a throwback, especially to the very first episode. Kind of taking a breath before we hit the finale. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 5 Review: What is Cheating?
Another fabulous episode! Really, this season is so good. I wish more of you were watching it. It’s happy, it’s beautiful, it makes you think about relationship stuff and life stuff and interesting things. Emily and I are loving it, the rest of you should try! (Little Things index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 4 Review: If You Watch Only One Episode, This is the One to Watch. Also, MANNAT!
Woot! MANNAT! And a really lovely hopeful small gem of an episode. Don’t watch anything else of this show if you don’t want to, just watch this one episode and feel happy. (full index of reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 3: Earning Your Money
Another money episode! Think this is going to be the theme of the season, and that’s a good thing. Too few artworks honestly deal with money issues. Not showing poor people, but showing how money drives folks of all levels of society. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Money Matters
Another really good episode with a lot of smart observations! Man, just adding those extra 7 minutes added a lot more depth too. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 1 Review: Friendship, Moving Away, Growing Apart, Universal Themes Told Specifically
Season 2! “Long” episodes! This one was about half an hour, but the others seem to be mostly 22 minutes. Still awfully long compared to the 15 minutes last season. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 5: The Slow Build Pays Off, Turns Out Mithila Was the Main Character All Along
Such a brilliant final episode! Pulls into focus everything from the last 4 episodes, and makes you go “ooooooo! I see what you did there!” And also, retroactively, turns Mithila into the lead character. Which is especially interesting since Dhruv Sehgal wrote the show, and plays the other character. But turns out, his character isn’t that great and Mithila is the important one! Oh, and also we get a flashback to how they met. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 3: 3am Sandwiches and Condoms
This is a happy episode. About a happy safe time, 3am all alone together, with your own jokes and laughter and being together. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 2: “Dude” “Yaar” and “Daddy”
Episode 2! Another pleasant 15 minutes of life with a young couple figuring things out together. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Review Episode 1: the Warm Coziness of Live In Relationship
I’ve been thinking I need to do more streaming series reviews, so I sat down all ready to finally watch Family Man on Prime, deep and complex and clever and critically acclaimed, deserving of lengthy in depth reviews and discussion. And I just can’t do it. So instead, I went the total opposite direction and started Little Things on Netflix. Cozy, happy, uncomplicated, 15 minute episodes. Awwww. It’s like having a little piece of chocolate instead of a full meal. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
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