I fuckin love television. Starting with the Sopranos, television has quickly become the medium for telling complex and engaging stories. The trump thread often incorporates lots of tv chat/cool gifs of the young pope smoking, and I thought it might be nice to have a place specifically to post about the wonders of the So, grab a cig/jay , fire up your lappys, and get ready to vicariously live more interesting lives through the magic of tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXQ512JgDbw
|
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:18 |
|
|
# ? May 16, 2024 18:32 |
Since this is CSPAM, let me start with a politics specific rec: Show Me A Hero is the brainchild of David Simon, which is probably enough of a recommendation all on it's own. It tells the true story of politician Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Isaac), who became America's youngest big city mayor by campaigning against the forced desegregation of Yonkers via the construction of affordable public housing, only to then have to implement the plan himself when a judge begins fining the city $1 million dollars for every day that they don't comply with the order. It's a pretty intense tale, one that highlights complicated hypocrisies of local politics by showing how ambition can corrupt even the best of intentions. It's also a surpsingly engaging look into the issues surrounding public housing, specifically with regards to the defensible space theory, which stipulates that the crime surrounding high-rise projects is a failure of design and not, as the middle-class white population of Yonkers assert, some personality flaw specific to "those people." It has a similar feel to the social commentary portions of the Wire, except told from the prospective of the people trapped inside the high-rises versus that of the drug dealers and police who make life so unbearable. imho, it's Isaac's best performance to date, and also includes some great turns from Jim Bulshi, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, and CSPAM-favorite Winona Ryder as Yonkers City Council president Vinni Restiano. It's the kind of biographical true story that you shouldn't look up details about beforehand if you don't already know them, allowing you to fully experience the arc of one of America's most fascinating politicians. It's only six episodes, so not a huge commitment at all. Go watch it! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPIflcWIOk
|
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:18 |
|
huh, maybe i should've kept watching mad men
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:19 |
zeal posted:huh, maybe i should've kept watching mad men pete campbell is the best imo Mad Men is one of the only shows that never had a dip in quality, but instead just got better and better with each season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoILGnHnvM&t=9s
|
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 18:33 |
|
Yes, Minister
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 20:53 |
Speaking of David Simon, I'll go ahead and recommend Generation Kill here as well. Based off the memoir of a Rolling Stone journalist embedded with the Marine 1st Recon Battalion (a propaganda tactic pioneered by bushkrew; give the illusion of "full access" by placing reporters within units where their experience of the war can be monitored and controlled, and where they'd inevitably become "one of the guys" and lose their objectivity), Generation Kill nonetheless is a brutal depiction of the bewilderingly idiotic Iraq II invasion. It reveals the absurdity of modern war, and shows how those early months in Iraq mismanaged and frankly, kind of surreal. Guys who had been trained for elite surgical stealth missions ride around in humvees in broad daylight, shooting at a massively inferior army like an on-the-rails video game. It's funny in parts, maddening in others, and ultimately just a morose portrayal of what happens when you send dumb kids into the desert with machine guns and tell them to intelligently wage war in an alien world. There's no swelling Saving Private Ryan orchestral music. It's soundtracked by the squeaking of radios and the bitching of Rip-Fuel'd wacked out all-American marines, bouncing from one inevitable war crime to another, undersupplied by an administration whose priority was to destroy a civilization as cheaply as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRg4-pCSMjM If you're hyped to experience the frustration, confusion, and bureaucratic nonsense that governs modern warfare, then Generation Kill is the best place to go.
|
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 21:04 |
|
Trumps Baby Hands posted:imo Mad Men is one of the only shows that never had a dip in quality, but instead just got better and better with each season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWlKCfSPcU
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 21:17 |
|
Generation Kill would have been a better season 5 for the Wire than actual season 5.
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 21:30 |
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y_q36-mJQ quality writing, the medium of today
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 21:47 |
|
spoilers: a bunch of swole slaves start murdering rich people, and then they help normal slaves become swole so they can murder rich people too, and then everyone dies because they had not yet developed the immortal science
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 21:55 |
|
Yeah so I've been watching Babylon 5 off and on with a friend of mine and season 2 when creeping fascism arrives in the guise of a baby-faced smoothbrain being manipulated behind the scenes feels a little too real for a show with cardboard sets and rubber mask aliens
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:05 |
|
Silicon Valley was pretty good at portraying the tech sector and it made Elon Musk hella mad as a bonus.
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:12 |
|
sorry, i don't own a tv
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:16 |
|
Bear Retrieval Unit posted:
I just started finally watching this, what part made Musk mad?
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:17 |
|
Bear Retrieval Unit posted:
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:20 |
|
Tatum Girlparts posted:I just started finally watching this, what part made Musk mad? The negative portrayal of tech CEOs and the weird creepy cult compounds they create for theit employees. Musk was angry after seeing the pilot episode sy Redwood City since he said weird abusive startup owners would never be able to find success. Also the Expanse owns, instead of Final Frontier you have rich people being horrible in space and the production values are top notch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8 Incorporated is also good since it takes places in post global warming apocalyptic America in which corporation in cyberpunk style take over the whole country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nv1m1FZuGY
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:20 |
|
most people in the tech industry love Silicon Valley. Google started off a presentation with Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani as their characters on the show. Musk is just a whiner
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:22 |
|
get that OUT of my face posted:most people in the tech industry love Silicon Valley. Google started off a presentation with Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani as their characters on the show. Musk is just a whiner They didn't take too nicely to getting trolled by TJ Miller at the Tech Crunch awards especially his line on how SF will never be loved like LA. Also for Trump supporters the best show is Colony since it has big beautiful wall Aliens invade and take over the earth, getting collaborators to run what's left of the government. Good since a good amount of the show is about collaboration and even the "good" guys have shades of grey for how far they are willing to go for resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLW-qQLMQs
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:24 |
|
get that OUT of my face posted:it still is, season 4 is coming in a couple of months Oh cool. Didn't know they got another season coming.
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 22:59 |
|
Kill Joys is good too if you prefer a more pulpy sci fiction show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8rLnjMqi78
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 23:04 |
|
etalian posted:Incorporated is also good since it takes places in post global warming apocalyptic America lol @ this er'day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Smh0vojz0
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 23:04 |
|
NoneMoreNegative posted:lol @ this er'day This ad owned
|
# ? Feb 19, 2017 23:08 |
|
Bear Retrieval Unit posted:Oh cool. Didn't know they got another season coming.
|
# ? Feb 20, 2017 03:52 |
|
The Thick of It
|
# ? Feb 20, 2017 17:08 |
|
Armando Iannucci also did Veep, and it's insanely good.
|
# ? Feb 20, 2017 18:27 |
The final season of Girls is killing it so far
|
|
# ? Feb 20, 2017 18:57 |
|
Trumps Baby Hands posted:The final season of Girls is killing it so far on the other hand, Bates Motel started tonight. i'm already loving the norman and norma bates dynamic. freddie highmore needs an emmy nomination
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 06:59 |
|
Mayor Dave posted:Yeah so I've been watching Babylon 5 off and on with a friend of mine and season 2 when creeping fascism arrives in the guise of a baby-faced smoothbrain being manipulated behind the scenes feels a little too real for a show with cardboard sets and rubber mask aliens lol yeah B5 is pretty loving on target atm
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 10:12 |
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cDvtsRSQk Watching West Wing made me really really want Trump as president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYcMk3AJKLk
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 10:22 |
|
baloogan does any part of your life involve not trolling liberals
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 10:53 |
|
deadgoon posted:baloogan does any part of your life involve not trolling liberals im not trolling this is just how i discuss politics
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 10:55 |
|
Baloogan posted:im not trolling this is just how i discuss politics there are people who say, "i believe in the dumb thing", and they don't even know the thing is dumb and there are people who say, "i believe in the dumb thing", but they don't actually believe the dumb thing, they are just trolling; they are amused by making people mad by saying things they don't really believe and there are people who say, "i believe in the dumb thing", but they don't actually believe the dumb thing, they are just ironic; they are amused by mocking people who believe in dumb things and then, then there are people who say, "i believe in the dumb thing", and they know the thing is dumb, but they make themselves believe it because it is dumb, and that's the highest form of trolling deadgoon has issued a correction as of 13:42 on Feb 21, 2017 |
# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:07 |
|
mad men is so fucken slow i couldn't get back into it and finish the second half of season 7 and now i had the last episode spoiled through some awful salon/slate/w/e headline
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:29 |
|
cargo cult posted:mad men is so fucken slow i couldn't get back into it and finish the second half of season 7 and now i had the last episode spoiled through some awful salon/slate/w/e headline i'm sorry about that; i relate, and it was hard for me to hang in there too, i mainlined that show on Netflix like an opiate addict seeking a fix much like opiates though, the longer i watched the weaker the high
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 11:44 |
I haven't seen the West Wing, is it good and if so how do I trick my boyfriend into watching it with me?
|
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 14:57 |
|
the west wing may not have been the origin of "by your logic you've proved my point" fantasy arguments, but it definitely made them more prominent
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 17:37 |
|
the classic sorkin walk and talk
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 19:50 |
|
The West Wing is the greatest anime ever made
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:28 |
|
I love te young pope is who is extremely sexy but also evil
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:28 |
|
|
# ? May 16, 2024 18:32 |
|
The West Wing should come with flashing subtitles saying *this is what American liberals actually believed*
|
# ? Feb 21, 2017 20:56 |