Re: Mad Unicorn

On 2025-07-09 10:50 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-07-06 8:02 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-07-06 1:34 p.m., Rhino wrote:

I decided to take a look at Mad Unicorn, new from Netflix, mostly on the
strength of a trailer with lots of action in it. It turns out that these
scenes were rather deceptive. I've just finished the third of the seven
episodes and it's actually about a poor guy from the mountains of
Thailand who has a dream to get rich with a package delivery service.
He's got a lot of initiative but only a sketchy idea of how to go about
achieving his dream. An inspirational talk by a wealthy businessman
lights a fire under him and he starts his journey, with the businessman
soon becoming a mentor to him.
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Things don't quite go according to plan though and our hero and the
businessman soon have a major falling out, which adds revenge to our
hero's motivations. There's also a pretty girl in the mix, although she
is already engaged to someone else. In a nutshell, this is a drama -
with comedic elements - about a business startup. I should mention that
it is quite fast-paced, much like an action-adventure.
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The story is set in Thailand and China. I'm watching the subtitled
version because virtually every word of the dialog is in Thai or
Mandarin so you may prefer the dubbed version.
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IMDB rates it 8.5 and it has lots of glowing reviews. One of the
featured reviews indicates that this is based on a true story. None of
the actors so far have been familiar to me so don't expect to see your
favourite actors in this.
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We're having a scorcher here today with temperatures in excess of 90F

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That’s what our temperature gets DOWN to in the middle of the night.

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I still don't understand how ANYBODY lived in your area before the
advent of A/C. If I was a pioneer, I would have just moved on to
somewhere cooler....

 I’ve been asking that question for 60 years and I have never gotten a
satisfactory answer.
 

I'm betting you heard theories that people were just hardier in those days....
Of course one of the big differences between hot in Arizona and hot in Ontario is the humidity we have versus the dryness you get. I've only experienced dry heat like you get once, when I spent a week in LA a few months after the Rodney King riots. It was 79F in Santa Monica and 107 in the Valley one day when I was there and my friend and I stood outside for a few hours waiting to get into a TV taping of Wings. I don't know what the temperature was where we were but it was hot.  Yet it was dry so it really wasn't hard to take at all, not like here when it's humid and you're sweating constantly just because of the humidity.

 

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Then again, you're not even in the hottest part of the world. Millions
of people live places where the temperatures are substantially higher,
like India, where the pavement literally melts on the hottest days.

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I decided to watch the rest of Mad Unicorn this afternoon rather than
risk heat stroke. I was very satisfied with this series and strongly
recommend it to anyone that likes something a little different from the
run-of-the-mill. They manage to avoid a lot of cliches while telling an
uplifting story. It reminds me of Karate Kid in that respect.
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Rhino