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Shôgun: A Dream of a Dream (2024)
Great show but I feel a bit misled
This complaint may be a simple critique of the source material, but the plot in my opinion fails its goal of being a political thriller with the fact that all of Torinaga's enemies seeming to have no will of their own.
We aren't really given reason to care for his enemies which seemingly listen to everything Ishido says, and thus his swaying of their decisions shouldn't cause him to become shogun? If Ishido without Torinaga couldn't become shogun, and the other houses are scared of him, why can Torinaga become shogun without Ishido?
I loved the concept of Torinaga being this morally grey character the entire time, but again as a political thriller drama where plot twists are the norm, this ending felt lackluster, like an epilogue to a climax that never really showed up.
Tim Minchin: Back (2022)
What a shame...
Other than a pretty brief rant about confirmation bias that is nice, the majority of this performance feels either recycled or has no intention of being funny. Admittedly Tim has found himself in a landscape where atheism is no longer as "edgy" and funny as it was a decade ago, and thus his humor moved away from it, and suffers as a result.
He also seemingly messes up the rhythm of past jokes like when retelling his "thank you god" joke, he says he won't make fun of religion, and the punchline is supposed to be the song that suddenly starts making fun of religion, but he destroys the joke by telling the punchline before even singing the song by saying stuff about Jesus.
The joke is supposed to go:
I don't make fun of religion anymore -> crowd goes awww -> he says sorry, I wrote a song about it to explain why -> crowd goes oh? -> punchline hits with the rhythm speeding up halfway through the song to make fun.
Instead it goes:
I don't make fun of religion anymore -> crowd goes awww -> he says sorry -> then for some reason tells some jokes about religion -> then reverts back to the not making fun of religion at the start of the song. Therefore breaking the actual punchline of the song and that part of the act!