[Baby Lee]

Now that everything is going to hiatus, and still being locked down, I circled back to try out Get Shorty the series. Only watched 5 episodes thus far, but it is more impressive than expected.

It's fairly trod ground in terms of concept, and loosely based on the movie. Basically, an enforcer for a small time mob interest gets ahold of a script that he reads and falls in love with. He takes it to a producer he heard about and tries to get away from mob life and turn his life legit by making a movie.

So you have criminals dealing with corporations dealing with creatives, and nobody knows the whole story that the viewer gets, and they all kind of slide by each other oblivious to different dangers alll around them.

What makes it shine though is the effective employment of deadpan surrealism. Lots of mundane and insane things happening on the same screen at the same time, kind of reminiscent of the dark humor of Pulp Fiction, particularly Jules and Vince's scenes.

I don't want to detail too much, because the best fun of the show is catching it as it happens, but it really does subtle humor well, at least thus far.

I'd heard plenty of good about it, and wanted to put in my voucher. Seems like it didn't get a lot of buzz, since it was an Amazon/Epic production instead of Hulu or Netflix or HBO.

The 'studio head' dealmaker chick is hot, and it took me forever to place her. Because I'd only seen her one other place. She's Megan Stevenson, who played AJ, the sidekick who gave Forrest his tasks and bounced the studio questions off him in Review.