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Nirvanna the Band is loving great, thanks people for bringing it up. Going to watch this whole show when there's more episodes out to not give Showtime money, but I've already seen two scenes: Nathan sexually grunting against Emma Stone's leg and Nathan full frontal pissing. Little fear that those are there for shock both him ACTING and of him DOING FULL FRONTAL PISSING. Has built up enough trust from his other weird projects that I've got faith the bits around those scenes gives them validity beyond that.
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Watched the first episode yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. There’s an under current of foreboding and it’s great. Hopefully its consistent all the way through.
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Nov 15, 2023 09:46
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Really loved this, it's one of the few non-Lynch things to correctly pull off a Lynchian vibe - it feels like sort of a halfway step between Twin Peaks: The Return and Mulholland Drive. The constant tension and eeriness from SOMETHING just looming beneath normality, the feeling that things can just escalate any second, the bizarre characters who feel like they are living entire lives off-screen. Really hope it goes off the deep end. Right now I'm just anticipating something going horribly awry with that stupid loving mirror house - someone is absolutely going to drive a car into that thing before it's over.
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Nov 16, 2023 11:01
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Agreed with the above vibe of the show. On the surface it's a show about two pretty lovely people trying to prove themselves to be "good" people in a very cringe tone-deaf and performative way and you can see their reputations are quickly going to unravel. But that's probably not what the show is actually about. There's something else and I can't quite explain what it is yet, but I'm interested to find out.
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Nov 16, 2023 13:30
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Occam's razor my man. He's a brilliant writer/performer who probably has social anxiety that he learned to lean into for his shows because it makes for a better story. From what I understand Nathan is actually very charismatic IRL. I remember one quote that described how popular he was with the ladies in school.
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Nov 16, 2023 16:37
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There’s a radio show I listen to that he calls in to once in a while and he’s never in character. He’s pretty much just a normal dude with a dry sense of humor. I’m sure his character is based off his own personality to some extent, but for the most part I think he’s just very committed to the bit.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:46
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That was always my read, pretty typical for actors playing a version of themselves. Exaggerate and play up some qualities, downplay the ones that make you seem average.
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Nov 16, 2023 19:57
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The funniest Nathan Fielder thing, to me, is how Elon Musk idolizes him and has invited him to multiple parties and keeps trying to tell jokes and impress him and Nathan Fielder (rightfully) believes Elon Musk loving sucks and is lame as hell.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:04
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Mordiceius posted:The funniest Nathan Fielder thing, to me, is how Elon Musk idolizes him and has invited him to multiple parties and keeps trying to tell jokes and impress him and Nathan Fielder (rightfully) believes Elon Musk loving sucks and is lame as hell. This makes me like Nathan more, but also makes me embarrassed to like something Elon does.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:09
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To be fair Elon is more enamoured with the idea of people giving someone/himself unearned credit and praise for terrible business ideas than anything.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:15
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EvilBlackRailgun posted:This makes me like Nathan more, but also makes me embarrassed to like something Elon does. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/style/elon-musk-social-calendar.html quote:Mr. Musk has, in particular, pursued a friendship with one comedian whose public image revolves around the outrageous steps he takes to relate to other people: Nathan Fielder, who first became famous for his Comedy Central show “Nathan For You,” which turned a series of preposterous business ideas, including excrement-flavored frozen yogurt and athletic apparel dedicated to raising Holocaust awareness, into the definitive parody of modern American entrepreneurship.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:20
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My cat's name is Steven. Boy was he confused.
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Nov 17, 2023 05:49
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Once you put it between the bread, it's all the same.
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Nov 17, 2023 15:15
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Watched the second episode and the tone felt very different and more dramatic. Emma Stone really is an incredible actress. Really dug this episode
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Nov 18, 2023 02:41
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I don’t think you’re supposed to eat the turkey
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Nov 18, 2023 03:08
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Really fascinated by these characters. That entire scene with Dougie actually pulling over when he fails the breathalyzer is so interesting. I'm having trouble thinking of other TV that really hits this vibe? I can think of some film stuff but it honestly is scratching a similar itch to Twin Peaks for me. There is that same interplay between a facade, and emotional undercurrents and trauma going on.
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Nov 18, 2023 07:12
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Snooze Cruise posted:Really fascinated by these characters. That entire scene with Dougie actually pulling over when he fails the breathalyzer is so interesting. I agree there. Its like he knows he's a bit of a dirtbag, but he's clearly becoming a bit more self aware and disappointed in himself about it and is attempting to hold himself to a slightly higher standard, but its new to him and not coming very easy. There's a lot communicated just from that scene. Benny Safdie is great in this, I haven't seen him act before.
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Nov 18, 2023 07:53
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Caesar Saladin posted:Benny Safdie is great in this, I haven't seen him act before. He’s unnecessarily good in Oppenheimer.
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He’s also great in Good Time. Snooze Cruise posted:Really fascinated by these characters. That entire scene with Dougie actually pulling over when he fails the breathalyzer is so interesting. The only thing I can think of that’s even remotely in the same wheelhouse is White Lotus, but even that is very different. It’s the closest comparison I can come up with though.
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Nov 18, 2023 08:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MldMVC82-Po e: nathan fielder is my blorbo Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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Nov 18, 2023 08:31
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haha that's incredible, excellent entry into the long history of comedians going on late nite shows doing purely a bit
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Nov 18, 2023 10:01
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Peanut Butler posted:haha that's incredible, excellent entry into the long history of comedians going on late nite shows doing purely a bit Yeah, one day we will see the real Emma Stone.
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Nov 18, 2023 11:16
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this show is hugely cringe to watch and i’m not 100% sold on the entertainment to cringe ratio. emma stone is way too good for this series tbh
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Nov 18, 2023 17:34
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Vegetable posted:emma stone is way too good for this series tbh I'll admit that I agree with this, esp since Nathan is really not a good actor alongside of her
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Nov 18, 2023 18:05
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fawning deference posted:I'll admit that I agree with this, esp since Nathan is really not a good actor alongside of her
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fawning deference posted:I'll admit that I agree with this, esp since Nathan is really not a good actor alongside of her He probably was too busy giving her acting tips so he lost focus on his own job. 
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Nov 18, 2023 19:11
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Nathan might not be a fantastic dramatic actor but it works fine for this show since a lot of his scenes are of his character trying and failing to act like a normal person. Which he is very good at. But also Emma Stone is just really good, so of course he doesn’t measure up to her. Dougie’s such a sad character. I really liked his prolonged stare and tiny head shake at the casino.
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Nov 19, 2023 01:48
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I think he is really good in this, honestly. Asher was always going to be read as artificial because, well the character is that, and it does play to Nathan's strengths. But I think hes done a good job of displaying that character's anger and entitlement under that plastic facade pretty well. But yeah its freaking Emma Stone lol. Her face when she was inserting herself into Cara's group was incredible. Saying this show is beneath her is silly because who else is going to bring this amount of finesse to that character.
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Nov 19, 2023 02:07
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Stolen from somewhere else, but Benny Safdie is playing Elan Gale in this, and now I can't unsee it.
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oh christ i thought maybe spoiling the ep by reading a synopsis would help let some air out of the tension balloon but no, not even in the slightest. If anything it's just building up discomfort in anticipation. who is doing the music, is it the same folks as uncut gems? incredible ability to introduce a mood and sound rad at the same time augh the gatorade oh man Khanstant fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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Nov 20, 2023 00:42
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Khanstant posted:who is doing the music, is it the same folks as uncut gems? incredible ability to introduce a mood and sound rad at the same time yup, that's Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never
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Oh drat I think I had this conversation after seeing uncut gems at the theatre and didn't follow-up to cement the connection, plus we both couldn't remember the name just describing the couple of music videos we'd seen. Gonna slide em into my music algorithms. Great episode, and honestly I can totally see a nesting nathan for me throughline of this. The Mission: Don't make my wife and our ostensibly charitable business endeavors a public disaster after the presumed negative attention following my aggressive, off-putting, responses during a local news interview we arranged to nakedly function as soft promotion for our business and personal reputation. The Plan: Approach the journalist who filmed my embarrassing behaviour and offer to trade the footage and story for a juicier story that would be of more worth to the journalist. _The Mission: Use social engineering on my previous connections and relationships as a worker in the casino to obtain a copy of incriminating footage. _The Plan: Pitch a casino daycare to allow gamblers to spend more time in the casino to my former boss, so I can awkwardly find a pained excuse to gain access to my former coworker's computer using a cleverly placed open container of gatorade and a funny internet video.
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It was really loving weird for me when he played that video because it's from my old job, and it's like a decade old so it's from when I was working there and I knew the reporter.
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Saw on Nathan Instagram there were noted similarities between a trailer for Anyone But You and some promo for The Curse. Apparently they made this promo 6 months ago and thinks Sony Marketing might've seen it and copied it, but isn't pursuing legal action and has booked tickets to the screening of Anyone But You to support the folks working on that.
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Khanstant posted:Saw on Nathan Instagram there were noted similarities between a trailer for Anyone But You and some promo for The Curse. Apparently they made this promo 6 months ago and thinks Sony Marketing might've seen it and copied it, but isn't pursuing legal action and has booked tickets to the screening of Anyone But You to support the folks working on that. Unsure if you are playing into the bit or actually believed it
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Nov 20, 2023 04:36
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I'm a gregghead, very sincere.
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Nov 20, 2023 04:38
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What an incredibly uncomfortable doctors visit!
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Nov 20, 2023 06:46
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Asking a lot of questions I can't plausibly dodge answering already answered by my chart.
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this show is unbearable. can't wait for the next episode
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