just finished "carol and the end of the world" -- leave it to netflix to drop one of the year's best shows right at the tail-end of said year. a very poignant, melancholic, powerful show about coming together to build a community and overcoming yourself even in the most dire circumstances. watch it immediately
One of my sequences for the lost and found episode was best boy Luis skating to I Will Survive. For a two year-old board, I'm still really proud of it.
Thank you to my board teammate (you know who you are) for helping me get the cleans done on the spins.
Hi, Dr. Berookim. This is, um, Carol Kohl. I hope you're doing well.
Savouring life.
Um, I'm calling to maybe set up an appointment for a cleaning. My schedule's pretty much open. Again, this is Carol Kohl. Hope to hear from you soon.
Okay, bye.
I don't give out many recommendations here but please go see Carol & The End of the World on Netflix*.
It's a beautiful meditation how we connect with one another. It humanizes the office (of all places!), the characters in it feel like real people - unglamorous, a little lost, sometimes assholes, sometimes kind and generous - and it takes a slow, contemplative look at what purpose is supposed to mean.
I am the type of person that is emotionally effected by the media I watch. so I try my best to watch and read things that are overall happy and don't trigger my depression.
I was a little worried that the series would make me sad with no happy ending but a cartoon with an older woman as the protagonist is so rare and so I wanted to give this show a chance no matter what.
many movies and series have made me cry in the past with very emotional scenes or endings but this cartoon is completely different.
It made my cry through out all the episodes and feel a way that no other cartoon had, a weird existential sadness that was tinged with happiness.
"Carol and the End of the World" makes me want to live.
I watched it and it made me want to look to my future and be happy.
I love Carol and the end of the world, just for the fact that it's protagonist reminds that it's okay to be me. It's fine not having to define your happiness on grand gestures, and extravagant spending. Going to the movie alone at times, just relaxing in the food court with a meal and a video, simply talking to your friends for hours can be just as a great time.
But also someone that struggles with connecting to others, overwhelmed by the need of everyone around them to constantly prove themselves and feel special, that even bringing a little attention to yourself feels terrifying.
I just watched "Sisters," and it just reminded me how much people can insult you in the name of a 'good deed'. That although their intentions can be kind, their actions can be hurtful, expecting you to do things the way they want to.
I feel so much despair and weariness. As someone who acknowledges the ongoing pandemic and who has a tuned in awareness to many events in the world right now, a piece of media that acknowledges what some don't even want to or can conceive, it's a comfort in all the carryings on and labeling that "normal."
I need that kind of honesty and a protagonist I so heavily identify with. Pensive, somewhat sad, distant, adrift maybe even, and deeply affected by what's around her.
Adult cartoon with middle age woman as main hero about oncoming the end of the world exist and you are sleeping on it
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it was released 15 december of 2023
i watched first episode and i. i am shocked.
sometimes people say that media catches it time - this is 100% about this thing (at least first episode, i didn't watch further yet).
it feels so realistic in a way you don't expect at all.
i don't want to spoil anything just watch. can't wait to see all of it
also character design is just on TOP. Carol is a character of all time, i just have to make fanarts, but i want to see all episodes first
There is something that just sticks to you after watching 'Carol and The End Of The World'.
You feel it in the core of your being. And it's such a simple feeling. A feeling of love and loss and things that were lost that were now found. Of belonging.
I know for a fact a lot of people shouldn't watch it. Not if you're in a dark place. A fragile place. A lot of the time, even I felt the dread of existing in life not knowinv if what I'm doing is enough or if I'm even living it right. Or if I will find my place in everything.
This show uses existential themes in its simpliest forms that cut straight through so well.
I know for a fact a lot of people won't like it. Despite its in your face, over the top visuals, the message....is simple. Yet not.
Most people want to party at the end of the world. Do every extreme thing that capitalism won't let us do. Except for people like Carol.
And some people would never understand.
The show made me cry over and over. It made me laugh and yearn and mourn. Made me reflect on why I could never leave jobs I hated. Couldn’t leave the community that was created from shit situations. Why I yearn for the mundane.
I am Carol.
A lot of us are Carol.
And at the end of the world, sometimes things can just be "this is nice".
Carol & The End of the World is out now on Netflix
While I find my digital boards from 2021, here are some early post-it thumbs for Throuple. Great ep. Grep.
Carol is pretty much exactly the kind of adult animated show I wanted to work on and see in the world. Watching it in its completed state today – finally – I thought of a timeline in which this show was culled like so many others in this dark-ass era for the industry
I particularly love the episodes our team – Bert, Sam, Seo, and myself got to work on. They're all weird and arthouse-y but sweet in a way that's totally in my wheelhouse. Maybe this wasn't Dan Guterman's intention, but I don't think it's unfair to say that there's something of a Steven Universe-esque spirit to these eps, if that interests anyone here haha.