My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- The Death of Stalin

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
10.30.24	Internet	This was mentioned on a podcast I listened to and I had kind of forgotten I'd seen it. I know I haven't seen the tv series In the Thick of It, and I know that at the time this movie was on IFC or HBO all the time and I constantly caught clips of it which were memorable due to the absolutely caustic dialogue, and I know that since then I've enjoyed shows like Veep and Succession and Death of Stalin. So watching it again felt familiar both because I knew I'd seen parts before and I'd just heard a podcast about it but thanks to this journal I'm now learning I actually did see this ten years ago. If anything this is a bit tame now Post-Succession and Death of Stalin and all that. You can see the blueprints here but over the years everything got cranked up faster and faster. This didn't hit as overwhelming as it did ten years ago. Still good though. It got me lol-ing when Tom Hollander calls Zach Woods "the boy from the Shining" which is saying something because I have the flu and laughing hurts.
04.07.14	Netflix	It's kind of funny just how similar this is to Veep. I guess I should track down and watch In the Thick of It too... although I'm not sure if I'm ready for it. I liked this though... we can always do with more intelligent comedies that don't play stupid.