Disney's NAUTILUS never made it to Disney+ in Aug'23 & spent an unworthy year in turn-around hell until they eventually sold SEVEN STORIES & MOONRIVER's excellent production to various other streamers. James Dormer & Michael Mathews' superb production is brilliantly structured, cast, directed & realised: the dialogue could do with being more characterful - too many characters sound too similar & anachronistic - but the performances make up for it. the design is exquisite, but the cinematography needs more life & variety to really show it all off to the best. the international, multi-ethnic cast are wonderful, and the visuals for a 10-part cinematic series are just MINT! the budget shows in tall the right places. it really didn't deserve mouse-houses censure, nor the shade it has since encountered... it's by no means a "kids'" show...

Love and Monsters (2020)

acrylic & collage on hardboard

Tour de France 2017 Stage 14 Australian Michael Matthews sprinted to his first stage win of the 2017 Tour de France on the steep Côte de Saint-Pierre in Rodez Saturday. Sunweb’s all-rounder got the better of Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet. Dimension Data’s Edvald Boasson Hagen was third behind BMC’s Belgian. “Last time we finished here, I had four broken ribs. It was a stage I was targeting that year before I crashed,” said Matthews, referring to stage 13 of the 2015 Tour de France. “Now to come back on the same finish, to win like that it’s really a dream come true.” Behind the one-day classics specialists, the GC riders were fighting for seconds in the overall on stage 14. Sky’s Chris Froome was fastest on the 570-meter kicker at the end of the 181.5km day. He was seventh on the day. With that result, he took the yellow jersey off Fabio Aru’s back.

Michael Mathews

Fig. 21 - 8 “Nature” 24x24 inches acrylic & collage on hardboard 2014

(via Gevelde Boom steekt middelvinger op naar Matthews - Sportwereld)