Reverse spoiler alert: if you tell me anything that happens past episode 17, right hand to G-d I will make sure you have a rock in your shoe for the rest of your days. I have a biannual obsession. Every two years, give or take, I click onto something new, and that is that. I am a better person because of this. In the short bursts where all I can think about is a character or scene or a shot, I do a ton of reflecting. I’ve gained friends and left jobs and changed names. I did some math earlier today and realized it’s been two years, almost exactly to the day, since my last one. Then I did some more math and realized how many anniversaries are coalescing onto this moment. I am, as you have experienced, not a hugely private person, but once I finally put together all of these time hauntings the wind of screeching publicly about this show blew right out of my sails. So on a personal level, all I will say is that my current obsession is called
As a fellow queer person, I just wanted to say how much this post meant to me, to examine this show for a moment, the making of it, and I love doing it through the lens of tarot. My spouse and I clicked into Untamed with low expectations - we were just coming off watching Ice Fantasy (which is a whole other Thing) on Netflix and were convinced nothing could fill that space. Untamed seemed a little slow at first, and we were starting to despair.
Then we got to the Tortoise of Slaughter and suddenly nothing mattered to us as much as this show. My spouse started learning to play guquin (Lan Jang's instrument) purely because of this show. It rocked our queer world off its heels and left us breathless. May you enjoy all the episodes that follow, and thank you for this lovely post.
As a fellow queer person, I just wanted to say how much this post meant to me, to examine this show for a moment, the making of it, and I love doing it through the lens of tarot. My spouse and I clicked into Untamed with low expectations - we were just coming off watching Ice Fantasy (which is a whole other Thing) on Netflix and were convinced nothing could fill that space. Untamed seemed a little slow at first, and we were starting to despair.
Then we got to the Tortoise of Slaughter and suddenly nothing mattered to us as much as this show. My spouse started learning to play guquin (Lan Jang's instrument) purely because of this show. It rocked our queer world off its heels and left us breathless. May you enjoy all the episodes that follow, and thank you for this lovely post.