Which notably features Adam Nagaitis! The scene with Valya on Venus reminded me so much of >!Blanky finding the Northwest Passage, knowing he’s going to die but having that euphoric moment of victory/having completed the mission/getting to see something really unusual.!<
Not only is that song very catchy (I wasn’t familiar with it before but now keep listening to it!) but the lyrics are too perfect for the show’s themes, from the flight metaphors (“and when she found out she couldn’t fly”, “she’s lost the sun”) to the questions of truth/surveillance (“all she got was lies”, “too many people and not enough eyes to see”). They must have been thrilled when they thought of this perfect song!
Binged this show in the past couple weeks and it’s my favourite thing I’ve seen in a while (I loved HBO’s Chernobyl, so definitely see some echoes there and not surprised I liked it, but I really savoured it even the points where you had to give a bit more artistic license). It’s not perfect, for sure!
But I will say that tonight at the seaside I saw a star that was definitely too bright to just be a star, and I knew even before confirming with a star app that it was Venus, and it made me genuinely emotional.
I will be very sorry if this show doesn’t get a second season.