I belong to the SCA; of course I’m going to hear about this.
BEFOREIGNERS is this Norwegian series where the modern era starts getting Vikings and Stone Age people and apparently 19th century folks with horse-drawn carts showing up. And one of the Viking women is now a cop? And there’s a murder mystery going on? …Okay, guys. Just run with it and we’ll see if it flies.
Moe Lane
PS: You never know. It could be awesome. Or it could suck.
HBO has decided to challenge Netflix. I love free market economics.
Eh. From that trailer I expect the same as we got from CarnivalRow: A glorious opportunity for a Science-fantasy noir mashup, smothered by the usual suspects’ virtue-signaling.
’tis a very nice *idea* .. but yeah, the trouble is there aren’t enough artists who can manage to
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Oh, yeah, the “before time” shock collar. It’s probably gonna suck for reasons.
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Mew
I’m gonna give it a chance; “I’m proud to announce our first employee with a multi-temporal background” seems pretty tongue-in-cheek to me, not sincere.
I would really like this to be good.
Doing it well would require flouting Hollywood shibboleths for most of the run-time.
It won’t be done well.
One hopeful sign is that it may be bowing to Norwegian shibboleths, which don’t always match up to Hollywood’s.