Long Song Not Given Masterpiece Full Rollout
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“There’s a lot to unpack in Long Song and some feels like ambivalence on part of Masterpiece compared to All Creatures and even the Miss Scarlet both playing same time. Those are Masterpiece de rigeur and All Creatures beauty and acting is an easy A. But Long Song is tremendous! If a bit threatening to the Masterpiece stalwarts like Victoria whose policies we see in action...and the beginning in which the narrator takes a delicious and gentle hit at heroines in other dramas...”this is not that story...”
The interview w Tamara Lawrence where Jace Lacob calls Miss July an unreliable narrator is an example. Miss July is sarcastic and plays w a touch of surrealism, not unlike trickster techniques in indigenous literature by Gerald Vizenor or even the idea of Jazz interpretations of musical traditions. But she doesn’t lie and not unreliable at all—-rather honestly reflecting intense trauma and remaining a storyteller not a therapy session. These innovations are ways to subvert form while showing a mastery of it, in the same way oppressed cultures are submerged by power but then come up w innovations and resistance and new forms of art with humor. Alive voices.
I say all this because I think Masterpiece, hilarious name in this context, is so steeped in one form of classics and training. And needs to read outside the box a bit more. Literary without a doubt but unsure when engaging other equally superb forms. Keep playing Masterpiece, so many forms of literature are pieces of excellence and don’t be afraid to learn especially when you get references, allusions, tools and techniques from outside English and French aristocracy. Jane Austen would encourage this! And don’t just tell One Black story in February. Keep going. There are a lot of incredible excellent stories out there. See Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo and The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich. Best!”
Mackypooh via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/16/21
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