Eloise's Thoughts and Fancies

I bet you thought I’d forgotten you! I have been reading a lot and half paying attention to random videos on YouTube, or rewatching all of Sense8 which I’m not going to review beyond “it still makes me smile and is a balm to my psyche.” On to the real review. In season one, Stupid Wife pushed my limits with its amnesia trope that certainly up there in my list of story lines I hate that still this side of the nope-line stories. On the other side of the line you have all the yucky things like incest and so on. I can imagine shows around most of the yucky topics I might watch, but they’re not going to be pitched as sexy, fun shows. To be honest, if not for lesbian YouTube raving about it, I’d have probably bounced, which would have been a shame but I liked season one despite the central premise. Season two picks up a bit after the end of season one. Luiza is a bit battered, but ok, and things between her and Valentina are not perfect but are in a much better, and generally improving,...

There’s a totally spoiler-free review which is facile, and a mostly spoiler free review that still gives plenty to enjoy but gives some more context. First up, spoiler-free: Hot Brazilian lesbians. Enjoy. We’re left on a cliffhanger so I hope there will be another season (they made a Christmas special, which is officially listed as a second season) but I’m not sure. This is a tiny web show and whether they can make another season or they’ll move on to another project remains to be seen. Also, a friendly warning: you’ll be using subtitles unless your conversational Brazilian Portuguese is really up to speed. I speak just enough classical Portuguese to recognise a tiny amount of what they’re saying and, now, to recognise more words that have deviated from what I learnt. But there’s absolutely no way I can follow what’s going on here, it really is odd words, and I probably wouldn’t have started to catch them without the subtitles. Mild Spoilers from here on We start with a group of f...