There I was, minding my own business on Amazon Prime Video, watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, or whatever, when this documentary popped up in the bottom of the browser window under “Customers who watched this item also watched…”
This made me wonder a couple of things:
- What sort of mind-altering substance was the graphic designer on when they threw this low-effort crap together?
- What marketing team looked at it and thought, “Seems legit!” and signed off on it?
- Which one of you weirdos watched this so that it ended up in my recommended videos?
It’s so bad that I don’t think I even need to discuss the actual badness of it. But I will, because Trystan will probably kill me if I don’t make this post longer. So, allow me to pose some questions regarding what makes this so bad and we can all discuss it together:
Is it Van der Weyden’s masterpiece, Descent From the Cross?
Or could it be this bitch?
This bitch, who is in no way representative of the Renaissance?
This bitch, who’s poorly fitted Leg Avenue costume is barely representative of something vaguely 18th century, which isn’t at all, in any way, shape, or form, THE RENAISSANCE?
This bitch, who probably was the first thing that came up when the designer searched StockImages under “ye olde-y time-y IDGAF”?
Yeah. I’m going to go with this bitch being all that is wrong with the world and why I hate everyone right now.
You know, I’m sure the girl in the photo is a perfectly nice person IRL, but … lol. WTH is this??!?
And I’ll note that I watched this documentary hoping for some snark-worthy costumes but nope, the promo pic was just a fucking tease!
IT WAS YOU WHO WATCHED IT!!!
But I haven’t watched Mrs. Maisel – what else in the algorithm hooked ’em up? Y’know, Gloria Estefan was right, the algorithm is gonna get ya.
Oh, this is from Waldemar Januzczak! I’ve actually heard good things about the documentary, just haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I’ve enjoyed a lot of his other art history/analysis.
Yes, I’ve seen a couple of his programs; ‘Rococo, Travel, Pleasure, and Madness’ and ‘Baroque – from St. Peter’s to St. Paul’s’. I found the programs interesting. I think the skinny gal in the weird white gown is supposed to be a representation of Spring; I believe you can watch the program without flinging anything at the screen.
That dress is circa 1989, not 1589 ffs!
Yep, that is some 1980’s Laura Ashley Bridal right there.
I feel the same when I see books supposedly set in the Regency period and the dresses are vaguely Disney princess. Makes me want to throw the book across the room. E-books and large print are notorious for this (of course I can’t throw an e-reader across the room.)
Actually this is pretty much any historical fiction novels. Most books out there would feature women in a dress or outfit that is really not historically accurate to the period it take place. I’m looking at you Anne o Brien…
I rebuke.
So weird. The cover photo for this documentary on imbd is just the Mona Lisa. No sign of Halloween costume girl.
Idk why I can get you on my tablet and not my smartphone but I agree this looks like a demented bad historical romance cover. I really want to puke, but having just recovered from a bad cough/cold, it might not be a good idea. So I’ll be very childish and stick out my tongue at it.
I will admit that the image almost put me off watching it but I am glad it didn’t because I found the show itself really interesting, along with a lot of the other programs that the host has done.
That’s WAY too much fabric for Leg Avenue, to be fair.
Try the movie “Sor Juana” on Netflix. Spanish production.
No idea where she came from – she was nowhere to be seen when the BBC showed the series here in the UK a couple of years ago.
That is sooooo weird – and total disrepect to a masterpiece by van der Weyden. The documentary itself was pretty good though. I’ll watch anything like that on BBC, and they don’t do weird like that to advertise them.