Some recent ones:
- Luthen in Andor.
- Tywin while slaughtering a deer in Game of Thrones.
- Multiple monologues by Rust in True Detective while Marty does his annoyed face.
- Legazov’s closing testimony in Chernobyl.
Free Churro (Bojack Horseman S05E06) is essentially a 20 minute monologue/eulogy from bojack as he struggles to come to terms with his mother’s death
What an emotional roller coaster, especially at the end when:
SPOILER
it cuts to his POV and is shown he was giving the eulogy at the wrong animal’s wake
Ned Beatty explains capitalism in “Network.”
That is excellent, usually it the ‘Im mad as hell’ monologue that gets the spotlight from this movie!
Jon Stewart after 9/11 and later Stephen Colbert after J6. Those men really love their country and fellow humans.
What is it about society that disappoints you so much?
Oh I don’t know, is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children?
Or maybe it’s that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit; the world itself’s just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our burning commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy.
Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I’m not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books makes us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it’s painful not to pretend, because we’re cowards.
Fuck Society.
Mr robot S01E01
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You see, in Russia, there are two words for truth. Pravda (правда), is man’s truth. Istina (истина), is God’s truth. But there is also nepravda (неправда), untruth. And this is the weapon the leader uses; because he knows what they don’t. The truth is whatever he says it is.
-Yuri Gurka (Goran Bogdan), Fargo series; Season 3 Episode 4 “The Narrow Escape Problem”
Star Trek: The Next Generation, S02e09 “Measure of a Man” A classic Star Trek courtroom scene, in which Picard argues to defend the rights of the android Data. (4:30 long clip which includes a bit of questioning before the main monologue. Useful for context) https://youtu.be/ol2WP0hc0NY
A very different kind of Star Trek monologue, from Deep Space 9’s “In the Pale Moonlight”. Captain Sisko does war crimes, and then wrestles with his morality in his personal log. He concludes that he “can live with it”. https://youtu.be/K-YyL7X4CWw (2 minute long clip)
In my view, these episodes are some of the best that Star Trek has to offer, but in very different ways. Deep Space 9 has a much darker tone as a series overall than The Next Generation, and that variation is very cool.
The two from Midnight Mass about death and afterlife.
Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood
Captain James Flint speech in the Black Sails series finale. Bo’s speech at the final fight in the Lost Girl series finale.
