A shout out or Tweet-sized review of Emon Hassan's new webseries, The Third, which premiered, appropriately enough, on the 3rd of December (yesterday), with a 3-minute episode. Lots of powerful things come in three's - Hegel's dialectic, the 3 pyramids of Giza, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy to name three (ok, I'll add in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, either Star Wars trilogy, and the Godfather trilogy, now that The Third's got me going on this).
I'm not saying that The Third has anything in common with these other behemoth triads - certainly not in length - but it does have something in the sparse, speechless, evocative 3-minutes of the premiere. I can't say just what, as yet, except it conveys a sense of murky foreboding quite clearly. Think, maybe, Primer, I don't know.
All right, this was a little longer than a Tweet. But the premiere does follow below.
The Third - Pilot from Emon Hassan on Vimeo.
Episode 1 of 4.
About The Third
New York City holds many mysteries and its inhabitants hide many secrets. Neil (Philip Willingham) is The Third. His job is to solve them.
2 comments:
Can't forget the 3 wise men, The Matrix Trilogy, three blind mice, The Three Amigos, "third times a charm", Kirk Spock and Bones, Earth is the third planet from the sun, 3 strikes you're out, "Once, twice, three times a lady..."
Ok, so some things that come in threes are bitter sweet, think that is the point of the tweet though.
Curious to see where it goes.
Good points, Loooper ...
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