![]() ![]() Yes, it has everything-and it’s brilliant. Season One has twists and turns, church, bounty hunting, twin telepathy powers, wild relationships, high school drama, strange rivalries, sex, drinking, parents that have secrets of their own, frozen yogurt, and a stripper club. Becoming bounty hunters while moonlighting at the local frozen yogurt shop Bowser owns, Sterling and Blaire confront their sexuality, question the church, and try keeping their secret life from their parents, Debbie ( Virginia Williams) and Andersen ( Mackenzie Astin). Sixteen years-old, super talented with a weapon (thanks to their Christian daddy who taught them how to yield a gun), its when the twins mistakenly catch a “skip” (someone bailing on their bail) and join forces with veteran bounty hunter, Bowser Jenkins ( Kadeem Hardison) that their boring Jesus-driven-private-school lives change forever. ’m not sure I’ve loved teenagers as much as I love the Teenage Bounty Hunter twins, Sterling ( Maddie Phillips) and Blaire Wesley ( Anjelica Bette Fellini). ![]() Teenange Bounty Hunters Dramedy | Creator: Kathleen Jordan Hats off to the head of programming who continues to take risks and not fall into the category of networks and studios only looking for light and fluffy. ![]() The latest lineup of programming is for the viewers that want to take in some serious badassery, get nostalgic about Mister Miyagi and karate, engage in some devilish British homicidal humor, chill with nuns that curse, and experience a second season of a show that will rock your world. Auguste Dupin (whose name Bale’s Augustus Landor partially evokes).Etflix continues to keep us entertained by taking risks and creating programming that acts as a buffer to the chaos. With Poe playing the sidekick and Landor the enigmatic detective, the men form one of the core coordinates of modern detective fiction, which can be dated back to Poe’s groundbreaking 1840s trilogy of detective stories featuring his Sherlock Holmes prototype C. Standing on Poe’s shouldersīoth men are drawn together by a liking for drink and books as well the process Poe called “ratiocination” – a combination of scientific reasoning and intuition. Harry Melling – known to viewers as Dudley Dursey of the Harry Potter franchise – is uncannily brilliant as Poe, as if the iconic brooding photographs of the author have been brought to life. It can be seen, too, in cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi’s evocative palette, where the pale blue cloaks of the West Point cadets contrast with the monochrome winter setting.Ī drawn, bearded Bale is menacing as Landor, the bereaved detective called in to make sense of the case. The specific image of a pale blue eye is evoked by the seductive Lea Marquis’s (Lucy Boynton) eyes and the “piercing look” of detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale). ![]() It concentrates on developing the whodunit, favouring loose Poe-esque tropes over overt clichés (though at one point a raven inevitably appears, croaking ominously).Ĭhristian Bale as Augustus Landor Harry Melling as Cadet Edgar Allen Poe. Bringing Poe to lifeįor the most part Netflix’s film sticks carefully to this brief. The Pale Blue Eye’s themes indeed crop up repeatedly in Poe’s work: occult ritual and cryptograms, the border between sanity and insanity, the image of the beautiful dead woman – which Poe notoriously described as “the most poetical topic in the world”. Poe’s dishonourable time at West Point could lend itself to a more conventional biopic, but this would have missed what writer and director Scott Cooper is really interested in: “the themes that ultimately influence this young unformed writer to become the writer that he became”. Unwilling to continue his military career, he made sure he was court-martialed by neglecting his duty and disobeying orders then ensured dismissal was the only outcome by pleading not guilty. We know, for example, what really happened when Poe was at West Point in 1830. ![]()
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