"Irma Vep" Part Deux

Coming to terms with a TV series about "cinema" and all the Frenchness and side-eyeing that comes with it.

Sep 29, 2022

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I put HBO’s “Irma Vep” through the Two Episode Test and it passed with flying colors masquerading as ecstatic words. It was an early-take winner, which not all Two Episode Test series can claim. You may have heard:

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"Irma Vep."

One of the great pleasures of the “Irma Vep” television series is that it so effortlessly works on multiple levels with a naturalism and confidence that beguile. While it’s easy to get lost in the meta-verse of this gem — a TV series based on a movie of the same name from the same writer and director done 26 years earlier is just the tip of it — everywhere the camera turns there are new revelations, such as a remarkable performance from…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 18 comments · Tim Goodman

For all those full-time TV critics out there, they got the first four episodes early and based their reviews on those, which, I must confess,…

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