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What We Do In The Shadows, S05 E09

Some crazy vampirical plotting is afoot.

#tv #what we do in the shadows

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“Does that look straight to you?”

By Will McPhail at the New Yorker.

(Thanks, Russell)

#New Yorker

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Dark S01 E10, Alpha und Omega

If we were forced to split crazy walls into two simple categories, we'd have those created by people in the midst of the crazy – a serial killer, a time traveller, a script writer – and those created by people outside the crazy, attempting to figure it out from scratch.

Many of those in the latter category are the police and other security forces, either piecing together clues to catch the criminal or, as here, trying to work out what on Earth is going on in their little German town where people disappear, other dead bodies appear, and something weird seems to be happening every 33 years.

#dark #tv

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Dark, S01 E09, Alles ist Jetzt (Everything is Now), and S01 E05, Wahrheiten (Truths)

Of course, a show this complex requires more than one crazy wall and this one, spreading over more than one plane, is a nice variant. While the previous crazy wall was a simple photos-and-string affair, here we have a mess of clippings, notes, drawings, photos, pages from books, and so much more.

#dark #tv

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Dark S01 E01, Geheimnisse (Secrets)

It shouldn't be a surprise that a show featuring a large cast of interrelated characters, and storylines split over three time periods (so far) with many of the same characters, would feature crazy walls. How else is someone to keep track of everything? And so, in the very first episode, we have this dimly-lit creation. It's impossible to know where the character obtained all these photos of people but let's pass that mystery by.

#dark #tv

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Kleo, S01 E04, "Der Minister"

When your 1989 East German house is decorated with such lively wallpaper it would be a shame to cover it up for the crazy wall you need to piece together whatever it is Thilo is piecing together here. So what better alternative than rigging up some red string around the place and hanging everything from that?

#Kleo #tv

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Breaking Bad, S05 E04, "Fifty-One"

An excellent example of considered, organised work, even venturing into advanced techniques such as using a second colour of string.

(Thanks Hugo.)

#breaking bad #tv

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Spirited (film)

From the trailer, a crazy wall so big it needs one of those cool horizontally-sliding ladders to maintain it!

(Thanks Tom)

#Spirited

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For All Mankind, S03E09

It took her a little while, but Aleida’s obsession inevitably moved on from poring over thick ring binders of schematics and instructions. The only way to sort this out once and for all was to put it all up on the wall.

#For All Mankind

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The Good Place S04E07: "Help Is Other People"

This is the third time we’ve seen a crazy wall from The Good Place so they must be a good thing. Or maybe not.

Thanks Hugo.

#The Good Place #TV

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Aki Peritz has a new article on Slate, The FBI is Going Crazy-Stringboard Crazy:

Last year, the FBI launched a recruiting campaign with a head-scratching trope taking center-stage: the so-called “crazy wall.” You’ve seen it many times before: some sort of a criminal or terrorism investigation that uses a corkboard with photos, post-its, maps, and other paraphernalia attached to it, tied together by red string held aloft by thumb-tacks. If you stare at it long enough, you can solve the crime or stop the terrorists.

He goes on:

Here’s the bigger problem: neither the FBI or CIA has used pinboards to solve investigations in a generation or more. I was a counterterrorism analyst at the CIA years ago, and I attest that I’ve never tacked yarn, crimson or otherwise, to a wall to figure out who was related to whom, ever.

The rest of the article looks at the history of these things we love so dearly and why they’re used in movies and TV if they’re never actually used in real life. Crazy!

#CIA #FBI #aki peritz

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I was planning to post a review of this new book, Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television by Anne Ganzert, but it doesn’t take a load of complicated equations scrawled on a blackboard (and my walls and floors) to work out that books and magazines are arriving quicker than I can read them, so the date at which I would be able to write a review is tending towards ∞.

Anyway, if you’re into crazy walls, and especially if you’re of an academic bent with deep pockets, this book is right up your street. Here’s the blurb:

This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an “age of pinboarding” has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.

Also available on bookshop.org, uk.bookshop.org, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, etc.

#crazywalls #anneganzert

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The Rhythm Section (2020)

Such is our protagonist’s state at this early point in the movie that we only get the dimmest and blurriest of glimpses of most of this room full of righteous investigative crazy walls. A shame because it looks like a doozy, complete with one wall full of many photos of dead people...

#The Rhythm Section

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Money Heist, S01 E13

Given how meticulous the Professor had been up to this point, and the foresight with which he’d anticipated every move the authorities made to apprehend him and his team, it’s surprising that he forgot to tidy up their room full of crazy walls before embarking on their heist. But we’ve all been there. You mum wants you to tidy your bedroom but you’re so proud of the careful planning you’ve done for your imminent terrible crime...

#Money Heist #Netflix

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Proving that crazy walls aren’t a modern invention, here on TikTok we see Tyler Gunther (@greedypeasant) and his medieval version:

This is our costume fitting board for the upcoming pageant. It is also a conspiracy theory. Like what is he thinking?

#greedypeasant #medieval #crazywall #crazywalls #fashion #costume

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Ladhood, S02E05:

Proving he’s learned nothing over the decades, Liam turns what should be a short and simple film into a complicated plan for an epic drama. And we all know there’s only one way to visualise such a plan...

#Ladhood

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If you ever need a break from staring at movies and TV shows full of crazy walls, why not play a crazy wall board game?

To quote Board Game Geek:

In the two-player game Watergate, one player represents the Nixon administration and tries not to resign before the end of the game while the other player represents The Washington Post and tries to show the connections between Nixon and some of his informers.

By Capstone Games.

#watergate #nixon #boardgames