Watch List Weekly Recap 6/2/23
Three strangers, two childhood sweethearts, and one extremely messed-up family.
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For this week’s One Good Film recommendation, a documentary that has been haunting me (and, judging by the comments, some of my readers) since the day it came out.
Was a law passed this week that everyone with a blog had to weigh in on the “Succession” finale? Probably not, but I went ahead and wrote one anyway. “The bleak pleasure of this show – and it was a pleasure to watch for a lot of us – was that it never lost its own moral bearings even as it gave us characters with no morals whatsoever and asked us to pick sides. Well, it didn’t ask us. It just knew we would.”
Not much on VOD in terms of new releases this week, but there’s a honey of a drama opening in theaters, as well as a superhero sequel that strains to achieve lift-off.
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