Re: Mad Unicorn

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:43:47 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 23:04:03 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
 

We're having a scorcher here today with temperatures in excess of 90F

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

 
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....

 
I wouldn't say that but more people were used to the temperatures than
now. We still have people doing road work or building houses in all
sorts of weather so even in the USA we have people who deal with those
hot temps. My brother in law being one as he is an electrical lineman.
 

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.

 
Yeah, I still remember heading out from Georgia where the summer temps
were in the 90s with humidity running from 50% to 100% (when getting
ready to rain) to Phoenix where the temps were running mid 90s, but
with a low humidity. Walking around in Georgia was miserable because
if you sweat the moisture just stayed on you. Where as in Phoenix (or
surrounding areas) even though the temps were mid 90s with a humidity
of maybe 10% the sweat would evaporate within moments helping to keep
you a bit cooler and dryer than in Georgia.

>
Hey, I’ve been in Arizona when it was still over 100° and raining.

Oh I understand. The day I landed in Phoenix there was still water on
the ground due to the rain (this was in August). Though it was all
gone by the next day.

I’ve also been in Hawaii when it was 95 and 95. We spent hours sticking
dimes in the dryer, trying to dry our wet swimming clothes and towels, and
they just got hotter and stayed wet. Finally figured out what was going on
and that it was never going to happen.

Yeah, you are describing the weather for the past week. Consistently
in the 90s and often in 90s for humidity.

>
I will say that I am a lot lighter than I was this time last year (I lost a
lot of weight in the hospital) and something is making the heat much more
tolerable this year; I assume that’s what it is.

I know that feeling. I used to be able to walk in the 90s heat without
feeling too bad. Now I can do the same but I have to be careful of
overheating because I'm about 20 pounds heavier and that enables my
body to hold on to too much heat.

>

 

 
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.

 
so

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.