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Watch season one and two, then don't even bother with the rest. Unrelated, I'm not usually big on Adult swim stuff but delocated is on Hulu and it's pretty great. Can't believe I sat on watching this for so long.
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veni veni veni posted:Watch season one and two, then don't even bother with the rest. I'll check it out, I'm out of stuff to watch and can't handle watching 30 rock for the 12th time I saw School for Scoundrels which also has Jon Glaser and it was mildly entertaining. The supporting cast is great and somehow Matt Walsh looks 20 years younger despite it being made in 2011
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Jun 23, 2017 18:46
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Delocated was great and it always shocked me every time it got another season, because I was under the impression that nobody watched it aside from stoners who forgot to change the channel after ATHF
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MacheteZombie posted:Season 6 uses a combination of ghost shows with re-enactment actors and found footage to tell the story. They somehow made a concept super up my alley very boring. Yeah, Season 6 was shockingly dull. The best thing about AHS is the promo material, but seasons 1 + 2 are a great time at the movies.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, Season 6 was shockingly dull. One thing they haven't quite done yet is to do a B-monster movie season. Like, set it in the woods at a summer camp or something and all the sudden a den of prehistoric giant spiders wake from hibernation and swarm the camp. Then Bigfoot shows up, something like that. They're too focused on every season having a ridiculously complex twisting and turning plot. I guess the ideas they can use are somewhat limited by budgetary concerns.
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Jun 23, 2017 20:38
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The winning formula for the show has always been a bunch of wild mood swings and incident for its own sake, like a horror version of Boston Public. If they so chose, they could have done something really special and somber with season 6.
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Basebf555 posted:One thing they haven't quite done yet is to do a B-monster movie season. Like, set it in the woods at a summer camp or something and all the sudden a den of prehistoric giant spiders wake from hibernation and swarm the camp. Then Bigfoot shows up, something like that. They're too focused on every season having a ridiculously complex twisting and turning plot. I guess the ideas they can use are somewhat limited by budgetary concerns.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:So everything I've heard about American Horror Story makes it sound like an entertaining trainwreck. Am I wrong? Season 1 is good. Season 2 is great. Season 3, if you like high camp, then maybe you'll like it. I didn't. Season 4 is an absolute mess. Season 5 probably had the most fully realized story since season 2. I liked it. A lot of people didn't. Season 6 was a stray from formula, I give a B for effort, and a D for execution.
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coyo7e posted:Rubber suits and CGI look loving terrible without a AAA movie-sized budget. I'm glad they haven't tried it. Hey now, I think they did fine with their rubber suit! 
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Jun 23, 2017 22:49
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Nihonniboku posted:Season 1 is good. Season 2 is great. Season 3, if you like high camp, then maybe you'll like it. I didn't. I like high camp but it's, like, thirty minutes of really funny scenes (most of them involving Kathy Bates) spread out across an entire season of nothing. It's not worth it.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:05
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Yeah there's probably a good fan edit of season 3 to be made, but watching it all is just soooooooo boring between the good scenes.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:21
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The first episode of GLOW is great
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I'm on episode five and it stays good. It's definitely going for an apatow vibe so if you're into that then watch it
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Jun 24, 2017 03:54
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This is why movies will always be superior to TV shows
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The actual GLOW documentary on Netflix is also great.
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Movies are terrible unless they're Hunt for Red October or Jurassic Park or Dredd 2012 Tv owns tho
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I like high camp but it's, like, thirty minutes of really funny scenes (most of them involving Kathy Bates) spread out across an entire season of nothing. It's not worth it. Yeah. Season 3's worst crime is that it's incredibly boring. It starts out really strong too, it's a shame. That was the last season I actually finished. All the later seasons I'll watch half way through and completely lose interest.
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Jun 24, 2017 08:27
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I'm watching American Anarchist on netflix, it's a recent interview with the author of The Anarchist Cookbook. It's pretty interesting, you can tell some of the stuff he wrote makes him uncomfortable to look at today. The interviewer really sucks though and kinda keeps pushing the guy about the same thing, the quality drops off dramatically after the first half with some bullshit that feels like forced actions specifically for the interview to try to sell a story.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, Season 6 was shockingly dull. The best thing about AHS is the promo material, but seasons 1 + 2 are a great time at the movies. Season 6's biggest problem is that the re-enactment outstays its welcome. Once they return to the manor to film a reality television show, the show degenerates into entertaining insanity. Usually AHS's problem is the opposite. The season starts strong but then completely falls apart around the midway, obligatory Halloween episode. I wouldn't recommend watching seasons 3, 4, and 5 to anyone.
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Basebf555 posted:They're too focused on every season having a ridiculously complex twisting and turning plot. This is exactly what I didn't like about ahs, there's just too much going on plot wise. The story is a convoluted mess.
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Jun 24, 2017 14:46
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GLOW is really good.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:GLOW is really good.  "Vodka for dinner!"
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QuoProQuid posted:Usually AHS's problem is the opposite. The season starts strong but then completely falls apart around the midway, obligatory Halloween episode. I wouldn't recommend watching seasons 3, 4, and 5 to anyone. Even season 1 and 2 fall apart quickly, but they do it in a way that is really entertaining and hard to put down. 3 4 5 (I won't comment on 6 because I only saw a few episodes) fall apart in a way that makes them feel like an exhausting chore to watch.
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GLOW is good, Shimmer Lake is worthwhile.
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I really liked season 1 of AHS because it was much more contained. At the end of the day it was about a dysfunctional family trying to stay together. So it always had that thread to hold it together. The other seasons never really had that. They'd all start off interesting enough but by the end of it there would be 50 stories going on and only like 3 of them would get wrapped up.
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Remulak posted:GLOW is good, Shimmer Lake is worthwhile. I really loved Shimmer Lake except for the really offputting thing it did where the twist in the first 10 minutes is insanely obvious but the movie seems to think it was remotely clever which... it really wasn't, the Sheriff is literally the only character that it would have made sense aside from the "wild card" option of having it somehow be the doofus Deputy Didn't take away from my enjoyment per se, just kinda dumb.
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I just kinda turned off my brain for that movie. I'm glad Adam pally is getting work tho
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QuoProQuid posted:Season 6's biggest problem is that the re-enactment outstays its welcome. Once they return to the manor to film a reality television show, the show degenerates into entertaining insanity. It's the same problem really. 5 episodes of worthwhile ideas, 12 episodes of plot. I mean it's got other problems too but even the short for us tv seasons they do are too long
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I was expecting Alison Brie to be good in GLOW (and it's one of her better performances) but I hadn't seen Betty Gilpin in anything and she's pretty strong too. Also liking a lot of the little wrestling in-jokes. (Chavo's Gym, the first trainer being Johnny "No Time For Pants" Mundo/Morrison, Awesome Kong playing a woman whose first line is "I don't know anything about wrestling!")
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Jun 24, 2017 20:33
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Yeah GLOW is really good so far.
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I've found with AHS that the odd numbered seasons are at least watchable. The even numbered seasons are just a slog to get through and filled with bizarre and boring side plots that are tenuously connected to the main storyline.
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Simplex posted:I've found with AHS that the odd numbered seasons are at least watchable. The even numbered seasons are just a slog to get through and filled with bizarre and boring side plots that are tenuously connected to the main storyline. 2 is the best one though
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Maxwell Lord posted:I was expecting Alison Brie to be good in GLOW (and it's one of her better performances) but I hadn't seen Betty Gilpin in anything and she's pretty strong too. I never heard of Gilpin until American Gods and she's maybe one of the biggest scene stealers I've seen in my entire life
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Sour Grapes is a pretty good documentary on Netflix. It's about some guy who made millions of dollars in fake fancy wine. I hate wine people so I was rooting for him the whole time. Bill Koch is part of it and apparently billionaires have teams of personal private investigators just on staff for fun.
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drunken officeparty posted:Sour Grapes is a pretty good documentary on Netflix. It's about some guy who made millions of dollars in fake fancy wine. I hate wine people so I was rooting for him the whole time. That guy was also the subject of an episode of American Greed. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3o1r2w It's pretty amazing how easily he defrauded wine assholes for tens of millions of dollars and how long he managed to continue defrauding people after it became known he was a scammer. If he wasn't an idiot living far beyond his means that was desperate for his next cash infusion, he could've rode off into the sunset before his reputation caught up with him. Also it was hilarious how the person who pulled the first loose thread that unraveled his scam was basically a catlady angry that he had a boys club where they would open a ton of bottles in a single night and send out super crass emails describing all the wine. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Jun 25, 2017 05:45
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Holy poo poo, I remember that episode. American Greed owns.
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drunken officeparty posted:Sour Grapes is a pretty good documentary on Netflix. It's about some guy who made millions of dollars in fake fancy wine. I hate wine people so I was rooting for him the whole time. People who spend 10k on a bottle of wine deserve to get defrauded. I hope he personally pissed in every single bottle he sold.
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I'm drinking yellow tail and watching it now, it is definitely great. I mentioned it earlier but along the same lines as this, Art and Craft on Prime about a "harmless" art forger.
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I have a feeling that all of that dude's wine was counterfeit, despite what these people say. Good on him. These people want to be lied to.
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And at the end it has this somewhat sincere reminder to enjoy things for what pleasure they bring you, not because someone else tells you to value it.
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