![]() ![]() The animated movie is streaming on Disney+. The Little Mermaid live-action movie is out in cinemas now. Marshall's improvements are certainly welcome and remove any lingering doubts about this, but remember, the 1989 version achieved her life-long dream too. Thankfully, though, we think it's safe to say that the remake's Ariel takes up Ursula's bargain to achieve her life-long dream: a life on land. These elements make their love story all the more compelling and, dare we say, a little more understandable if she did give up her life under the sea for him. In other words, when they do finally kiss, it's because Ariel wants to, not because she has to. ![]() It also helps that Ursula makes Ariel forget that she needs to kiss the prince to lift the curse this time around. "They both feel displaced, they both feel they want something more and they’re not afraid of someone who’s different from them, or a culture that’s different from them." "The great thing is we were able to find these two kindred spirits that have similar journeys," said Marshall. Like the original, Ariel swims up to Eric's ship and marvels at the crew dancing while fireworks light up the sky, before she saves him. The lead singer tells Bess that she had balls by getting up on the stage and calls her a work in. On her way home, she sings with a group of singers on the subway. But this is where Marshall's updates come in. How does Little Voice season 1, episode 1, I Don’t Know end When Bess returns to the bar, Ethan introduces her to his partner Laila. We concede, Ariel does a little too much fawning over Eric before getting her legs, which is why the criticism of her giving up her voice for him can be understood. She feels misunderstood by her family and longs to break free from the confines of her sea-quarters for a place in the world where she won't be "reprimanded" for being different. It's also important to remember that Ariel takes Ursula up on her offer after her father, King Triton, destroys her collection of precious treasures. Long before she ever sets eyes on the prince, Ariel tells us she wants to be "where the people are," that she would "love to explore the shore up above." The lyric "bright young women, sick of swimmin', ready to stand," provides viewers with a pretty clear message, too. Still, as the show progresses, we do get hints that she is suffering other lingering effects of her backstory, which has a habit of becoming her front story, and that she is, after all, on a journey toward self-awareness that the series holds back for dramatic effect.Then, of course, Ariel sings her 'I wish' song: 'Part of Your World'. ![]() Much of the time she seems to be getting no fun at all out of music, either from her own perfectionism or a propensity to push back at collaborators. It is true that some artists have balsa-wood egos and that stage fright is real, and Bess is one of those fictional artists for whom self-expression is portrayed as a compulsion, a burden even, rather than a kick. Prisha is keeping part of herself from public view too it’s not because “he says ‘anyways’ too much” that she rejects a cute gentleman caller early in the season. The bigger problem is that Bess is suffering what her best friend Prisha (Shalini Bathina), who plays in an all-woman mariachi band, calls “PTSD” from, seemingly, the one time she did try to share her music and was poorly received. “They’re for me.” (And for her dog, a master of soulful looks and cellphone fetching.) This will change, or there is no series. Brittany O’Grady plays Bess, writing songs that voices never share, including her own: “I don’t like anyone listening to the songs that I write,” she tells Ethan (Sean Teale), the aspiring filmmaker and Jude Law sound-alike whose public-storage-locker editing bay is next to Bess’ studio/fortress of solitude. Abrams long ago set “Felicity,” another romance about a curly-haired young woman getting her act together. We are in New York City, where the show’s executive producer J.J. More to the point, for the show’s target audience, it also shares its title with the 2007 major-label debut of Sara Bareilles, who has created the series with filmmaker and screenwriter Jessie Nelson, her collaborator on the hit Broadway musical “Waitress.” In case you‘re wondering, “Little Voice,” a feelings-packed new series premiering Friday on Apple TV+, shares almost nothing - other than a singer initially defined by insecurity - with the 1998 British film of the same name. ![]()
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