PopaHALLics #97 "Secret Agent Man"
A phone rings in the White House basement—a secret agent's in trouble! Do they call superspy Elvis Presley for help? Sorry - we're mashing two very different shows, "The Night Agent" and the adult cartoon "Agent Elvis." We'll review those and the streamers "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," "Shadow and Bone," "Kill Boksoon," and the novels "A Little Life" and "Boo." A little more conversation, a little less action ....
Streaming:
- "The Night Agent," Netflix. Last-minute twists and two attractive leads make this highly improbable 10-episode spy thriller strangely addictive.
- "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," Amazon Prime. Your life's miserable, your husband died in World War II, but you too can find hope in a Christian Dior dress!
- "Shadow and Bone," Netflix. Season two of the fantasy series based on Leigh Bardugo's novels find good challenging evil in an elaborately built world.
- "Agent Elvis," Netflix. In this gonzo animated series, the King underwent experiments during his Army days in Germany. Now, when he's not shooting up TVs, he's fighting bad guys like the Russkies and Charles Manson.
- "Kill Boksoon," Netflix. In this Korean action drama, one of the world's most skilled assassins discovers parenting a teenager is more difficult than killing people. Well, duh.
Books:
- " A Little Life," by Hanya Yanagihara. This improbable bestseller "depicts the everyday experience of living with trauma, chronic pain, and disability, demonstrating the inherent intersections with one another" (Wikipedia).
- "Boo," by Neil Smith. In this imaginative young adult novel, a nerdy 13-year-old and his classmate die and wake up in n a bizarre version of heaven. When they learn they were the victims of a school shooting and the perp might be in heaven too, they go looking for "Gun Boy."