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Riget/The Kingdom: Exodus (2022)
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[QUOTE="AXX°N N., post: 3468, member: 99"] Anyone else watching the new season of Trier's show as it airs? I binged the first two seasons having only seen the first episode forever ago and it was a very TP experience: solid first season, uneven second season with big highs and big lows. It might be jumping the gun to say this now that a new season is taking shape, but I almost wish it had ended at season one's climax for how unhinged of an anticlimax it wouldn't been and how delirious the "what could possibly happen next" feeling that would have maintained forever, compared to the fact I felt season 2 deflated that high and was spinning its wheels in the wake of said climax. I'm not sure I felt the whole series was "worth it" by the end, because it felt like it refused to shape into being "about" anything, and character motivations stopped feeling comprehensible minute one of season 2. This may be a result of binging, but it felt like the humor also started at a peak and dwindled at a regular pace. At the same time, there were individual scenes I loved, actors whose performances felt perfect, and nuggets of ideas I found compelling. It left me feeling rather torn. Now that S3 is airing (spoilers ahead!), and given the context, the comparisons to The Return are so unavoidable as to be a fool's errand to do anything else. I don't want to suggest discussion has to hinge on contrasts and comparisons, as I'm sure there will be much to dig into for its own sake, but so far we've got: Unfortunate passing of actors and the writing techniques needed to not just work around, but incorporate real-world transience, Recasts that aren't really recasts, but are replacement characters so obviously and directly continuing certain narratives that they may as well be, More than 20 years of in-universe and real time having passed, A previously-mentioned significant date finally coming back into play, and metatextual winks and nods to the prior material's existence as prior material. One thing it's doing that The Return definitely did not do is emulate the look and feel of the old show; I imagine the moment when the sleepwalker enters the hospital and the old warm tones and grain swept back in might be unbelievably cathartic for those who yearned for The Return to do the same. There are more "cute" self-references and direct emulation going on than I maybe would've expected from Trier, but at the same time that itself feels sort of fittingly (paradoxically) anarchic. Again, like TR, I'm entranced by the gall. And biggest relief of all, I'm finding it way funnier than the old stuff at its worst. [/QUOTE]
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