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[tv post] Sex Education; The Chair
Sep. 15th, 2021 06:19 pmSEX EDUCATION (Netflix, season 1)
I have long complained that mainstream romcoms and romance novels miss the most important thing about sex: that it is fundamentally hilarious and awkward and goofy as all hell. Like okay yes it can be steamy and hot and mind-blowing and all that, but everyone already depicts it that way (right before tastefully fading to black). Where is my absurd physical comedy scene where people are getting all confused and flustered about positioning and weird noises and inconvenient leg cramps and, y'know, any of that low-hanging fruit?
Thankfully, Sex Education agrees with me, leans into that all the way, and the result is delightful.
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THE CHAIR (Netflix, season 1)
Sandra Oh is great, isn't she? Dreamy sigh. Love to watch her doing Sandra Oh things.
I picked this up because I apparently follow a lot of overworked grad students, and they were all a-twitter over this one, and at the beginning, I could certainly see why. The opening is laden with promise: Yi-Joon (Sandra Oh, who is great here) becomes the first woman of color chair of the English department at an idyllic fancy university, she's ascended the ladder, finally she can make some of the changes she's been dreaming of... and she's immediately, unceremoniously told that enrollments are down, you need to cut at least three people from the payroll somehow (yeah, we know they have tenure, bully them into early retirement or something), and also your funding is getting slashed, again. Welcome to academic administration!
( but uh tl;dr the execution is merely middling thereafter )
I have long complained that mainstream romcoms and romance novels miss the most important thing about sex: that it is fundamentally hilarious and awkward and goofy as all hell. Like okay yes it can be steamy and hot and mind-blowing and all that, but everyone already depicts it that way (right before tastefully fading to black). Where is my absurd physical comedy scene where people are getting all confused and flustered about positioning and weird noises and inconvenient leg cramps and, y'know, any of that low-hanging fruit?
Thankfully, Sex Education agrees with me, leans into that all the way, and the result is delightful.
( Read more... )
THE CHAIR (Netflix, season 1)
Sandra Oh is great, isn't she? Dreamy sigh. Love to watch her doing Sandra Oh things.
I picked this up because I apparently follow a lot of overworked grad students, and they were all a-twitter over this one, and at the beginning, I could certainly see why. The opening is laden with promise: Yi-Joon (Sandra Oh, who is great here) becomes the first woman of color chair of the English department at an idyllic fancy university, she's ascended the ladder, finally she can make some of the changes she's been dreaming of... and she's immediately, unceremoniously told that enrollments are down, you need to cut at least three people from the payroll somehow (yeah, we know they have tenure, bully them into early retirement or something), and also your funding is getting slashed, again. Welcome to academic administration!
( but uh tl;dr the execution is merely middling thereafter )
