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Do I Even Have Customers? More Than You Would Expect.: A Midnight Diner Thread

GettinMelt

GettinMelt

HUGGBEES!!!
(he/him)
I watched a few episodes of "Tokyo Stories," which I later learned were seasons 4 and 5, and then saw Netflix got the three original seasons on their service, so I dived into those, and I've been a sobbing wreck ever since.

Let's talk about a deeply emotional and philosophical series revolving around a tiny after-hours restaurant!
 
ghosttaster

ghosttaster

I enjoyed this series but I had trouble discerning if I really thought it was capital G "Good" or if it was all just really elevated by the Ozu-ish long shots of people eating and drinking quietly in small rooms, with a whole lotta "meaningful silence" (the minimal soundtrack really helps).

One thing I think the show does very well (and that English-language domestic drama/human interest fiction absolutely never does well) is portray the awkwardness and difficulty of class. The show leans hard into the seedy potential of people confined to a nightlife and doesn't flinch. Don't get me wrong- its corny- but its still head and shoulders above any US tv show about the urban underclasses.

(Can you even imagine an Eng tv show so focused on failure that WASN'T just about some witty handsome white guy who was still rich or something anyway?)
 
GettinMelt

GettinMelt

HUGGBEES!!!
(he/him)
ghosttaster said:
One thing I think the show does very well (and that English-language domestic drama/human interest fiction absolutely never does well) is portray the awkwardness and difficulty of class. The show leans hard into the seedy potential of people confined to a nightlife and doesn't flinch. Don't get me wrong- its corny- but its still head and shoulders above any US tv show about the urban underclasses.
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I don’t see the corniness you’re talking about, but I do agree that Western dramas could never convincingly fill a cast of characters with a porn star, a stock “old guy” bystander, and office ladies anywhere as competently as this does.

And yeah, the food looks absolutely amazing.
 
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