IndieWire’s Craft Newsletter: Giddyup ‘Ponies
Hi y’all. Welcome back to a snowy Top of the Line newsletter from NYC. With all due respect to the suspense of Oscar season, which has reached its Phase 1 peak just before all the nomination announcements next week, there is some really good TV this week, and we simply must talk about it.
“The Pitt” Season 2 is battling injuries, AI, and time itself. “The Knight of the Seven kingdoms” has enough poop jokes that it actually swings back around to getting me to care about the world of “Game of Thrones.” the cutthroat financial world of “industry” has returned in Season 4 with even more shade for the British class system, and (somehow) even better coats. And than there is “Ponies,” the new ’70s spy romp created by David Iserson and Susanna Fogel and anchored by Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson.
– besides the playful screen wipes added in the edit,which are a delight and more people should be using them – but it is still incredibly well done,and I’ll have some pieces next week about the work that went into the production design,costumes,and really clever viewpoint that the camera takes. And Emilia Clark is so funny, y’all.it is a mark of how much society has broken down, and a sign that we are living in a fallen world, that it’s taken this long for a project to really take advantage of emilia Clarke being really funny.The newsletter’s Call To Action™ is to giddy yourself up (Pony Pun Count: 2) and go watch “Ponies” on Peacock.
