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For They Know Not What They Do (2019)
Powerful gut punch of a film essential for the present moment
The stories are both inspiring and heartbreaking, the storytelling grips you from start to finish, and the feeling it leaves you is one of profound determination to be more vulnerable, be more bold, and most importantly, have a little more courage to stand up for what's right. Especially now.
High Maintenance (2012)
This is the future
Every episode I watch I get more excited about this show. From a filmmaking point of view, it's obviously filmed on a budget (compared to other shows) and is absolutely top-notch. Direction, photography, acting, writing. All up there with the best.
From an audience point of view, I couldn't be getting more pleasure from it right now. Every episode contains a new, different, well- rounded story with interesting characters and situations, which is incredible considering the time-limit they have to create them!
Now Vimeo has started their On-Demand service and placed this as their lead show, this is where i'm starting to get really excited. I've paid for the new season and consider it one of the best purchases I've ever made. Seriously, ever. For the price of a couple of coffees there's so much content. In a world in which our attention-spans are getting shorter and shorter (just look at vine taking over phones and facebook), I'll admit that when I'm looking to chill after a long day, or even on the train to work, the appeal of 15 minutes, rather than a season of 10 hour long episodes, is really enticing.
Don't get me wrong, these short-shows won't be replacing anything bigger any time soon, but when talented people like this are getting paid to make incredible content for the internet, I wouldn't be surprised if TV as we know it will be dead in 10 to 20 years time.
Veep (2012)
Political satire at its best
I came into this series as someone from the UK, just expecting more of the Thick of It and a bit of In The Loop (both of which I loved). The first series provided this, with the ''Veep'' acting more as a Nick Clegg character, shoved to the side of the President. In the Second Series, I have been informed, the show is far more accurate to the actual American system, with the VP given more power, and therefore garnering more flack. The episode where American forces are sent to re-capture hostages is an obvious, yet brilliant play on the Osama Bin Laden Operation Room dynamics.
Every character is played extremely well, the writing is top notch and I haven't seen better banter between characters. Can't really fault it. 10/10