Birdwings

I now own both Miracles and Hard Core Logo, both having been on my personal Christmas list - but being realistic, I almost never buy things just for me, I have to have some excuse, so last week I decided to just skip the holiday wait and go for it. I want them, I don't want to navigate YouTube ads, I have a job so I can spend money on things I want, end of story.

Pretty packaging! I had to scour eBay for a copy of HCL that didn't have "QUENTIN TARANTINO'S" emblazoned up the side in bigger lettering than the name of the film (let alone the actual director). Distribution notwithstanding, the cheek of it. My copy has the distributor "presents" in normal tiny lettering, which I have zero problems with - plus a fictitious booklet and so forth. Fun stuff.

I do wonder what the deal is with packaging, why Miracles got a beautiful case for its thirteen episodes (seven never seen on US TV), American Gothic got a pretty case with its brain (episode order) scrambled, Jeremiah got half a beautiful case followed by multiple variations on "fuck you," and Brimstone got dumped in a shallow grave never to be unearthed.

Now I have to commit to actually rewatching them both, which will enable their plotbunnies to grow fangs and start hunting me. Before I wrote fic I would rewatch stuff all the time but I've gone avoidant lately. Concerning trend, must combat.

We've just finished watching Better Call Saul, which I was never invested in to the extent of needing to write about the experience. It was, of course, of inarguable quality once we got past the first season or so, but I don't think I've struggled so much with a show in a long time, partly for personal reasons (the entire Chuck storyline was hellish). I was hoping the ending would turn it around for me the way it happened with Breaking Bad, but it didn't. The finale, though low-key and thematically fitting, really didn't do anything to lessen the pain and discomfort of six seasons of toxic relationships, bad life choices, petty cruelty and cringe-inducing cons.

Anyway, since this one didn't pull a rabbit out of a hat and Breaking Bad oddly enough did - transforming my experience of the entire show which came before - I got to thinking which other shows actually pulled such eleventh hour victories and went ahead and made a spoilery list of the endings which have most impressed me for one reason or another.

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