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Anybody else catch this last night? I hated the books the series is based on so my expectations weren't high, but it was very well done - best series HBO has put out in years. The tone was dreamy and whimsical at first (sometimes verging on cloying), but they worked in darker, more serious themes as the show went on and the mix seemed very real and organic. It was slow-paced, mellow by TV and even indie movie standards, and yet once I got into the rhythm of it I found it very funny and engaging. (Somehow the original writer's Bwana faux-primitive bullshit prose worked out once the right people got their hands on it.)
Jill Scott is terrific and gorgeous as ever as the eponymous detective, and I think Dimensioneers of both genders will be interested in how they incorporate her size into various themes and plotlines. It's almost revolutionary how her character is depicted as confident, desirable, and sexual, and yet Africa isn't shown as some sort of size acceptance Shangri La either - the society depicted is almost as schizo as ours on the subject of fat and yet it's all on somewhat different terms.
Idris Elba, Stringer from the Wire, is in it as well and plays a totally different yet equally compelling bad guy.
Jill Scott is terrific and gorgeous as ever as the eponymous detective, and I think Dimensioneers of both genders will be interested in how they incorporate her size into various themes and plotlines. It's almost revolutionary how her character is depicted as confident, desirable, and sexual, and yet Africa isn't shown as some sort of size acceptance Shangri La either - the society depicted is almost as schizo as ours on the subject of fat and yet it's all on somewhat different terms.
Idris Elba, Stringer from the Wire, is in it as well and plays a totally different yet equally compelling bad guy.
