Maximum Overjew

Teacher, law student, urban planning enthusiast.

[llovinghome]

[mysharona1987]

[mysharona1987]

[politijohn]

Cc: establishment democrats

[maximum-overjew]

Agreed. Now, where are Bernie’s tax returns?

[fozzie]

the production of fiddler i saw tonight was the broadway on tour production so it had the new broadway ending addition (where ((spoilers)) during the final overture tevye comes out in modern clothes and he and the fiddler stare at each other before tevye quietly picks up his cart and joins the caravan) and when i first read about it i thought it sounded tacky but man it just. smashed me to pieces. everything about the staging spoke to how cyclical this narrative is, with the caravan moving in a circle, heads down, silhouetted.

[maximum-overjew]

I know there should be something more eloquent to say here, but... fuck.

[fathippyfeminist-deactivated201]

There are hundreds more.

[mysharona1987]

[maximum-overjew]

Review: Netflix’s Hilda

Hilda, an eminently bingeable program from Netflix, aimed at the seven-and-up crowd, is a different kind of kid’s show. The art is great, the themes are outstanding, and it’s one of the few pieces of TV I’ve seen where the kids are clearly bright, precocious kids rather than id-driven brats or miniature adults. The world building adds to the enjoyability of the show without ever being the point, and the writers’ choices about what not to include (any romance whatsoever, where is Hilda’s father, etc) are pointed and thoughtful. The show deals with realities that often get swept away in the cushier kinds of kids show. Sometimes friends are neglectful and thoughtless and disappear for episodes at a time. Hilda’s mom is sensitive about her status as a single mother, without in any way drawing attention to it. Hilda’s heroes - and there are many - are imperfect, and sometimes undeserving. 

If I have a reservation, it’s that the writers seem unsure if they want the show to be purely episodic or carry out multi-episode arcs. When they happen, they feel much more like a single story stretched out I’ve more time than linked individual chapters. Netflix’s binge-prone format makes this much less of a problem, but I still think the show would benefit from more flexibility in episode length. All in all, I’m delighted that Hilda has been confirmed for a second season, and look forward to how the writers will handle the transition from adapted comics to new material.

[maximum-overjew]

Review: Salt Fat Acid Heat

Netflix's Salt Fat Acid Heat is great, and not really a kind of cooking show I've seen before. The book it's based on is a sort of general how-to of the kind of instinctive, recipe-free cooking that people who grew up cooking develop naturally. The Netflix program isn't a how-to, and it isn't an Anthony-Bourdain style exploration. What it is is a surprisingly intimate showcase of what makes good food good, and of the peculiar obsession of the people who make it. The visuals and, particularly, the sounds of the program are intended less to evoke the experience of eating and more the experience of cooking. Pouring oil, slicing meat, and crumbling cheese are rendered with an acuity and emphasis that I've never seen in television, and rarely in film. Ultimately, Salt Fat Acid Heat is less of an educational experience and more of an aesthetic one, with the instructive component included only secondarily. I experienced ASMR - a phenomenon I had never felt and didn't really believe in - watching this program. For anyone with a love of food and cooking, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[maximum-overjew]

Being American in 2018 means being asked if you heard about the mass shooting and having to ask which one.

[12b6]

... so did you watch Don't Be a Lawyer? Cause I want your takes. That song spoke to me in the middle of a 100-hour week. Or maybe it was one of my sleep deprivation hallucinations speaking. Either way, I will use it whenever kids ask me if they should go to law school.

I still haven’t seen it, but I feel like I already have

[maximum-overjew]

One line in it really annoyed me.

“Your parents might think your a failure / but no one said first kill all the tailors”

The “first we kill all the lawyers” from Shakespeare’s King Henry VI is spoken by a group of authoritarians trying to overturn the (relatively) democratic government and replace it with a dictatorship. The point of the line is that lawyers are pretty much the only segment of society that could stop them.

So, ironically, it’s gotten picked up unironically and printed on mugs and t-shirts for the “yuck yuck aren’t lawyers the worst” crowd, when the very point of the line is that lawyers are a necessary block on autocracy.

So, boo. The fact that wannabe dictators’ first instinct is to kill the lawyers is the best reason to become one.

[maximum-overjew]

I’m in law school. Our professors said it was ok if we wore costumes to class on Halloween.

Two roommates showed up, one of them covered in holly branches, the other one wearing bloodstained clothes and gory makeup.

They were holding a big cardboard V between them.

The absolute madwomen came as Bush v Gore.

[vaspider]

So.

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say, y'all, but your Jewish friends are probably not okay right now.

Take care of them. Don’t ask for emotional labor; provide emotional support.

And DON’T BE THIS DUDE.

[jewish-tutter]

[maximum-overjew]

A missionary who cosplays as a Jew, for a bigot who cosplays as a leader.

[maximum-overjew]

so it turns out there was a kind of extinct goat that lived on isolated islands without predators, and evolved forward-facing eyes and a human-like face and it is the most accursed beast I’ve ever seen

[justsomeantifas]

Super helpful description as I see it. (Same anon) is there a site or something that could help a person find their correct stance? I'm not sure of what to call myself. I hold very strong beliefs, but it seems I dissagree with every group.

i know a test that gives you readings after if you’d like that it’s uhhh

http://www.politicalsextant.com/

you shouldn’t take any of your results as law, only as results of things you would probably enjoy learning more about

yall should all share your results if youre comfortable because i’m curious

[maximum-overjew]

Somehow this thinks I’m an evolutionary socialist, a free-market environmentalist, and a social democrat.

Either this test is very confused or I am.

[maximum-overjew]

Actual photograph of an Internet denizen somehow turning the rise in antisemitic violence into an opportunity to victim-blame Jews and soapbox about foreskins