I'm a Virgo: I'm a Virgo (Full Season 1)
June 24, 2023 11:08 AM - Season 1 (Full Season) - Subscribe
Cootie is a 13-foot-tall 19-year-old Black man raised by his Aunt Lafrancine and Uncle Martisse in Oakland, California. He is shielded from the outside world until being accidentally discovered by a group of teenage political activists. Created and directed by Boots Riley, of "Sorry to Bother You." All 7 episodes available for streaming on Prime Video.
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holy shit this is incredible. better than sorry to bother you, and as you all know sorry to bother you was a fuckin' revelation. spoilers for the last half of the series below in rot13:
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nyfb vg'f ernyyl sha.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:41 AM on June 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
tbq qnza, obbgf evyrl! abg bayl qb lbh unir gur jubyr cybg uvatr ba n punenpgre jubfr fhcrecbjre vf qryvirevat yhpvq crefhnfvir vagebqhpgvbaf gb znekvfz, ohg gur svefg gvzr lbh unir ure qb vg fur fgnegf jvgu gur graqrapl bs gur engr bs cebsvg gb snyy! tbq qnza! lbh trg n fubj ba shpxvat nznmba naq lbh hfr vg gb rkcynva gur graqrapl bs gur shpxvat engr bs cebsvg gb snyy?!
nofbyhgr gbgny syrk, 100% gbc-abgpu cebcntnaqn, c e n k v f nf shpx.
nyfb vg'f ernyyl sha.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:41 AM on June 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
oh and also i lost my mind when that one talking head shouted "i know how people from oakland say 'twenty!'"
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:43 AM on June 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:43 AM on June 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
My favorite show of the year so far! I hoped I'd find more folks talking about it here. If you didn't see the bonus features for each episode you should check them out too. They're easy to miss!
I love how Boots used The Hero to head off potential criticism of the I'm a Virgo by having him explain that all art is propaganda.
posted by ericthegardener at 5:00 PM on June 25, 2023
I love how Boots used The Hero to head off potential criticism of the I'm a Virgo by having him explain that all art is propaganda.
posted by ericthegardener at 5:00 PM on June 25, 2023
Did anyone else catch that whenever Flora is doing her fast burger work, the Doll's Polyphony from Akira is playing in the background?
posted by FatherDagon at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by FatherDagon at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2023 [4 favorites]
I was like 5 episodes in before i realized The Hero is a literal white knight. Boots, you ain’t subtle but I love what you’re doing.
posted by FallibleHuman at 5:00 PM on June 26, 2023
posted by FallibleHuman at 5:00 PM on June 26, 2023
Elijah Wood as the avatar of liberalism slayed me.
posted by rodlymight at 7:19 PM on June 27, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by rodlymight at 7:19 PM on June 27, 2023 [5 favorites]
and krown (based on kaiser) is depicted doing the thing that kaiser does, and highland (based on highland) is depicting doing the thing that highland does.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 9:33 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 9:33 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
> Elijah Wood as the avatar of liberalism slayed me
i could not stop giggling about how boots made a thing with extensive use of forced perspective and managed to snag frodo, fuckin’ frodo himself, for a minor role
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 9:34 AM on June 28, 2023 [5 favorites]
i could not stop giggling about how boots made a thing with extensive use of forced perspective and managed to snag frodo, fuckin’ frodo himself, for a minor role
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 9:34 AM on June 28, 2023 [5 favorites]
Absolutely incredible, I went in knowing nothing about it and was absolutely blown away.
posted by Space Kitty at 11:46 PM on July 9, 2023
posted by Space Kitty at 11:46 PM on July 9, 2023
In a series full of metaphor, I'm still a little confused on what Cootie's parents represented. They seem intent on tearing down all society, are they intended to be anarchists? (don't @ me yall) They imprison an adopted son for 19 years, and enforce a strict regimen, does that make them fascist?
I thought flipping the perspective on The Flash was interesting, and vaguely reminiscent the poison from Bleach's Mayuri Kurotsuchi, which slows down the perception of time but becomes a curse in high doses, as every painful moment now lasts aeons. I was really hoping the show would lean into the ambivalent nature of the superpowers it presented, but the pink slip pixies didn't quite get the same treatment, or was perhaps a little too obvious on the up and down sides, especially at it seemed like a temporary condition.
Ultimately, Boots Riley's work wishes it was a Ralph Ellison work instead: his criticism of capitalism's excesses ring hollow when so eagerly paired with empty praise for Marxism. Which is a shame, as they ought to land harder -- PG&E has a lot of problems but a well functioning regulator wasn't one of them.
BYOYOYOYOYOOYOYING!
posted by pwnguin at 12:43 AM on July 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
I thought flipping the perspective on The Flash was interesting, and vaguely reminiscent the poison from Bleach's Mayuri Kurotsuchi, which slows down the perception of time but becomes a curse in high doses, as every painful moment now lasts aeons. I was really hoping the show would lean into the ambivalent nature of the superpowers it presented, but the pink slip pixies didn't quite get the same treatment, or was perhaps a little too obvious on the up and down sides, especially at it seemed like a temporary condition.
Ultimately, Boots Riley's work wishes it was a Ralph Ellison work instead: his criticism of capitalism's excesses ring hollow when so eagerly paired with empty praise for Marxism. Which is a shame, as they ought to land harder -- PG&E has a lot of problems but a well functioning regulator wasn't one of them.
BYOYOYOYOYOOYOYING!
posted by pwnguin at 12:43 AM on July 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
> In a series full of metaphor, I'm still a little confused on what Cootie's parents represented
not sure what tendency cootie's parents are supposed to represent (or if they're supposed to represent any particular tendency) but if i were to sum up their approach in one word i'd say "adventurist."
> his criticism of capitalism's excesses ring hollow when so eagerly paired with empty praise for Marxism
boots is a marxist, but i'm not sure "empty praise for marxism" is an accurate description of what's going on, or a take that's going to stand up to future seasons. to be sure there's a character whose superpower is persuasion through brechtian/gondryesque application of marxist concepts, but that's used as a means of criticizing capitalism rather than a means of praising marxism / any particular marxist tactic.
i guess this might be hairsplitting. it's just that "hey, here's a weird idea about capitalism from that marx guy doesn't it look like it has explanatory power? i think it has explanatory power" feels different from praise, exactly, even when from a creator who is very clear that they think that marxist ideas have explanatory power.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 6:08 AM on July 21, 2023
not sure what tendency cootie's parents are supposed to represent (or if they're supposed to represent any particular tendency) but if i were to sum up their approach in one word i'd say "adventurist."
> his criticism of capitalism's excesses ring hollow when so eagerly paired with empty praise for Marxism
boots is a marxist, but i'm not sure "empty praise for marxism" is an accurate description of what's going on, or a take that's going to stand up to future seasons. to be sure there's a character whose superpower is persuasion through brechtian/gondryesque application of marxist concepts, but that's used as a means of criticizing capitalism rather than a means of praising marxism / any particular marxist tactic.
i guess this might be hairsplitting. it's just that "hey, here's a weird idea about capitalism from that marx guy doesn't it look like it has explanatory power? i think it has explanatory power" feels different from praise, exactly, even when from a creator who is very clear that they think that marxist ideas have explanatory power.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 6:08 AM on July 21, 2023
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