Kaos

1x1 had a surprisingly hard time pulling me in (fully). But it was good enough to keep going with 1x2 in the near future.

Sh*t got so real with Episode 2, very good & very heavy stuff.
They definitely don't screw around with old-testament kinda behaviour.

Couldn't agree more. Now Sad that I finished it.

Still savoring it Just watched Episode 3.

It was great, but I am thinking of refreshing some of my greek history & mythology knowledge before continuing.
In my opinion that's advantageous to really appreciate the meaning behind some of the character's and their behavior and decision-making.
Episodes 1+2 were history/mythology 101 but with 3 it gets deeper into the not-so-common-knowledge.

I saw him at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2019 doing his talks on those books which were Brilliant and helped here too. So far the only reference I found I missed was that in the first episode

Well. Not sure how this ended up getting made, but glad it did.

Notes:

• It's nice to see an interpretation of those gods for once where their respective domains are really just their jobs/personalities, not the theme their abilities are based on. They're gods, not superheroes.

• They had an interesting take on Hades. "Bored, slightly frustrated custodian" is not one I can recall seeing before. Works surprisingly well with his characterization.

• Using Prometheus as a narrator like that is a pretty neat idea on how to use that particular character.

Well, the show is about Greek mythology ... so if not in this show, where else?

Do a show about staff in McDonalds or Disney or Congress or some other religious domain for Americans, don't destroy other culture's old pantheons.

Finished. Amazing show. One of the best shows of the year in my opinion.

Couldn't agree more on point one with the bottle talk.

I disagree. I did not feel anything in the story was in any way forcefull or tried to tell me things that were woke.

Just fyi this is a british show, not american. Would you have watched it, if it were created and produced in greek and by a greek studio? Tbh don't think we would've gotten the same quality of television.

How exactly did they "destroy" it? I think, considering old pantheons, it was one of the better adaptions. On the level of American Gods even.

American money produced it, American publisher published it, draw is Jeff Goldblum who is Jewish/American. Key theme is an issue that is overwhelmingly American that fills a lot in American media and very little elsewhere in comparison. What you think of to make it "British" is just the filler around the fact that it's basically American.

I rest my case. Hollywood and its tentacles takes mythology and it shits allover it, every single case. From Disney/Marvel to something like this.

You have no respect for your forefathers, you don't use tradition as a framework to bind you to reason which even someone like Hannah Arendt would say is necessary. By freely allowing tradition to be destroyed in comedy, absurdity and for political purposes you will drift into 1984-style joy over an increase in chocolate rations.

So reduce artistic freedom to what?, documentaries and reality tv? - Because if you go down that rabbit hole, not much will be left.
Of course, respect has to be given to the origin of the stories adapted...but I didn't see anything in this show that looked "purposefully" disrespectfull or provoking.