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White Lotus #2

 Tanya and new characters in Sicily. Harper & Ethan, rough patch in marriage despite new wealth Daphne and Cameron, slick couple, Cameron a cad, Daphne at peace with it. Separated one night, C & E have hookers over.  C sleeps with them; E doesn't.  Harper finds condom pack . . . accuses E.  He denies. In revenge, she (probably) has sex with C.  In revenge, E probably has sex with Daphne. Tanya set up for murder by Greg, husband.  Gay guys in Sicily will show her a good time (sex with gigolo) and then kill her.  She ends up shooting all of them and then drowning when she tries to get off the boat. Portia, her assistant, is with her lover, a bad boy who probably was supposed to kill her but instead takes her to the airport and tells her to get away Family visiting ancestral home.  Dad is sex addict on outs with wife.  Son is Stanford grad, a bit of a dufus. Grandad cynical old guy with old guy values.  Two hookers set up the young ...
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Hacks Season 5

 Lots of padding.  Deborah Vance gets cancer and says she wants assisted suicide.  This comes after a triumphant performance at Central Park having been thwarted at Madison Square Garden. All's well that ends well. Jimmy & Kayla take over Dad's agency (he's a crook, stealing voices, and they more or less blackmail him to get the company. Ava's idea for her TV series is accepted. Marcus opens new casino in Las Vegas. Deborah decides on Chemo instead of suicide. Fun, but a weaker season.
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Henry V

 Kevin Branagh again, and again excellent.  Henry V battles the French (Agincourt), wins against tremendow odds, marries Katherine, King of France's daughter to ensure peace. He is no longer the drunken sot who hung out with Falstaff. Great scene where he threatens town with murder, rape, destruction if they don't surrender.  After the surrender, he demands his soldiers treat the city with respect. Odd ending, in a way.  Henry V dies soon after and the peace doesn't last.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 Tom Stoppard film version of play Two characters summoned.  They mill about as Hamlet is (sort of) performed.  They come in for their parts, wondering exactly what the whole thing is all about.  They aren't even sure which one of them is R and which is G.  Created by someone else for some purpose they only vaguely surmise. Scene of Gonzalo's death is fantastic.  Interesting if somewhat tedious as times.  I read this in college and had no clue.  Now I have a clue.
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White Lotus #1

 White people behaving badly in Hawaii Mossbachers:  Sidney Sweeney daughter.  Rich mom, less successful dad, SS is traveling with college friend of color, younger brother just a miserable wreck. Friend of color talks Hawaiian  boyfriend into robbing M. family.  He's caught, she's miserable, dad & mom reconciled, back to happy white life in NY except their son doesn't get on plane but instead stays in Hawaii where he feels alive for once.  Rowing with natives around islands Tanya:  spread mother's ashes in Hawaii.  Drunk, a bit loony, hates her mother, needy.  She promises to help Belinda (person of color) open a holistic center, but then she finds a beau--man is sick, coughing, but friendly.  She bags out on Belinda and goes off to Aspen with her new friend Shane and Rachel, newlyweds. Shane doesn't get the room he wants, throws a series of fits.  Makes Armand,  gay manager, miserable. Armand--five years sober--not sober a...
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Ballard: TV series

 So far, watchable but not much else.  Maggie Q is the star.  Not her problem that Ballard has so little personality.  Her sole passion is righting a wrong in the LAPD.  She was assaulted (details vague as of episode 3) by Olivaras.  Her partner didn't stick up for her. Now she's in the basement working on cold cases.  Her partners don't provide much drama.  Black woman, ex-cop.  Intern, hispanic. Gay older white guy.  Younger white guy who is a bit of a doofus. Cases:  fraternity kid pushed off balcony:  solved, scorned girlfriend is murderer.  Frat had a "book" of all the female conquests.  She found it, confronted boyfriend who laughed in her face.  Whacked him on the head and pushed him off the balcony. Perlman's sister:  councilman supporting the unit, wants this murder solved first. Yulia Kravitz:  cleaned up in hotel where one murder occurred.  Ballard visits the motel, the woman tries to co...
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Belle de Jour

 Bunuel . . . 2/3 finished.  So far, not much.  Catherine Deneuve is a frigid married woman, abused as a child. Unable to enjoy sex with her husband.  She becomes a daytime prostitute, meeting up with men with strange sexual predilections.  Not sure where this is going Finished, still not quite sure.  Throughout the film, "fantasy" sequences are interposed.  At the very end, there is a suggestion that the entire movie is actually a fantasy.  Glad I saw it, but not a masterpiece by any means.
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