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Seinfeld would be about 20% better if it were exactly the same except it was named Costanza.
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Was there a thread for Godless, or was it just discussed in here? Because I just finished it and holy poo poo was it good (minus one kind of nagging loose end that probably bothers me more than it should).
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:53 |
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bring back old gbs posted:It's really weird it exists, but enough people watch laugh track shows on Netflix, so it tripped their RatingsBot algorithm, so one of their ProducerBots greenlit the series. The machine-generated Scrubs script could plausibly pass for an episode of Scrubs. Calaveron posted:Man I’m still fuming over the single episode of the ranch I watched. I mean there’s a scene where Sam Elliot and a lady were having HEE-larious dialogue while Danny Masterson and Ashton Kutcher are just frittering away on their cellphones to the side and all I’m thinking is I am 100% sure they’re for real looking stuff up on their phones because what self respecting actor can possibly expend any effort on this garbage Well, people finally realized at some point that neither of them are very good actors, so they've gotta take what they can get. Sam Elliot is in it though? I guess my theory that he can elevate the worst poo poo to at least the level of "watchable" has finally been shattered. raditts fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/MKupperman/status/946801894399365120
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:13 |
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Are those vague descriptions of the new season? Because I want to watch the toilet episode.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:30 |
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Rhyno posted:Are those vague descriptions of the new season? Because I want to watch the toilet episode. I’ll tell you that I just watched USS Callister and it’s pretty drat good. Ending was a little easy, but other than that, good poo poo.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:36 |
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the first episode is a movie-length Star Trek parody
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Rhyno posted:Are those vague descriptions of the new season? Because I want to watch the toilet episode. Nah he's just riffing.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:37 |
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precision posted:the first episode is a movie-length Star Trek parody That’s a little...actually, yeah, let’s go with that. Not that the actual product is mind blowing, but I had fun.
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Lurdiak posted:Nah he's just riffing. Nothing can properly convey my disappointment.
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DivisionPost posted:I’ll tell you that I just watched USS Callister and it’s pretty drat good. Ending was a little easy, but other than that, good poo poo. It balances out the holiday special that had a similar plot device sooo
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:42 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:It balances out the holiday special that had a similar plot device sooo I’m not necessarily talking about the happy ending. I’m talking about Daly’s death, which was a.) unclear about how it happened, and b.) less interesting than keeping him alive. I read some reactions in the Black Mirror thread that chalked it up to narrative convenience—if Daly got out, he’d just re-collect everyone’s DNA and start again—but I think that discounts the fact that Nan now KNOWS he’s been collecting the DNA of his co-workers. You’d have to massage it a bit to account for the fact that Nan broke into his apartment, but leaving Daly alive with nothing would’ve been a much more fitting ending for the guy who refused to kill anyone.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:53 |
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BM: I think it was probably timed out so he was stuck in the game or some void space over the Christmas holiday (which they specifically note is two weeks or smth) and he dies due to lack of food and water because he can’t jack out.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 19:58 |
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precision posted:the first episode is a movie-length Star Trek parody What the gently caress? I need to catch up on BM...
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 20:28 |
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precision posted:the first episode is a movie-length Star Trek parody Well The Orville did a way better job handling a Black Mirror plot (what if Reddit but too much???) than Black Mirror itself so maybe it'll work in reverse.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 20:49 |
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ep 1 of new Black Mirror was real good. on to 2. i'm thinking jesse plemons for the inevitable docudrama about philip seymour hoffman
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 21:28 |
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Just a reminder that there is a thread for Black Mirror so I don't want to see any more spoiler filled posts about it.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 22:03 |
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I haven't seen any of Black Mirror, but from what I understand its like a modern Twilight Zone? There isn't any serialization right, so I can just dive in with the new season?
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 22:08 |
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swickles posted:I haven't seen any of Black Mirror, but from what I understand its like a modern Twilight Zone? There isn't any serialization right, so I can just dive in with the new season? Yes!
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 22:44 |
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swickles posted:I haven't seen any of Black Mirror, but from what I understand its like a modern Twilight Zone? There isn't any serialization right, so I can just dive in with the new season? I'd say its more like a modern Outer Limits in that its way more lurid and the social commentary is nowhere near as smart or insightful, but yes to both points.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 23:11 |
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It's also always about modern technology. And most of it is bad so you will just want to jump around anyway.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 23:40 |
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Aphrodite posted:It's also always about modern technology. Yeah, the hot/miss ratio hasn’t been fantastic for me but I’m definitely gonna see if anything in the new season grabs my attention
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 23:42 |
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Just watch 15 million merits, White Christmas, and San junipero.
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# ? Dec 29, 2017 23:54 |
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Anyone know if there's any episodes in the new season as good as San Junipero? I like Black Mirror but it's super inconsistent and there's yet to be an entire season I've loved all the way through
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:19 |
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The Trekish episode is not good.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:37 |
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HorseRenoir posted:Anyone know if there's any episodes in the new season as good as San Junipero? I like Black Mirror but it's super inconsistent and there's yet to be an entire season I've loved all the way through There aren't. One or two are close but which ones they are will vary based on your preferences.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:51 |
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I thought the first two episodes of S4 are two of the series’s best, personally. Not as good as 15 Million Merits or San Junipero, but not boring or twist reliant as the more middling ones. I don’t know if I’d call the first ep a full Star Trek parody, per se. More of a deconstruction of sorts. Also, while there isn’t any serialization, but there are some fun nods that link episodes together between seasons. I’m halfway through the third ep and as someone that works in insurance I’m unreasonably happy that an adjuster is a big focus of it.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:55 |
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If you have Hulu they put up a documentary about the rise and fall of the Dana Carvey Show called Too Funny to Fail which is really good even if you don't have strong feelings about the show itself just because so many huge, great comedians appear on it. The basic thesis is that they managed to wrangle a supergroup of great comedians and then wound up in the timeslot immediately after Home Improvement which wound up sinking it since it was so edgy and experimental and out there that the family audience had no idea how to react to a show that opened with a multi-breasted Bill Clinton nursing puppies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDjnAdczQI
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:56 |
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yeah Too Funny To Fail was a very fascinating watch
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 00:59 |
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The two Stephens tripping over themselves to say that the other one was the better comedian was great.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 01:19 |
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if you're not feeling the new season of black mirror, feel free to skip to episode 4 which is one of the best of the entire series
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 03:21 |
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precision posted:if you're not feeling the new season of black mirror, feel free to skip to episode 4 which is one of the best of the entire series The first Netflix season has one good episode so I expected the new one to be the same.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 04:48 |
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What horrible sin cursed world do we live in that there exists a show based on the premise of the insufferable, most unlikeable nerdman on TV as a child
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 05:07 |
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While Black Mirror can be somewhat inconsistent I have never regretted watching an episode. I also strongly disagree that last season only had 1 good episode. I really enjoyed San Junipero, Shut Up And Dance, and Hated in the Nation (although this was a drop for me from the other 2). Even the other 3 episodes were OK (Playtest was my favorite out of those). Overall it has the same consistency as other shows of its type (Twilight Zone and Outer Limits). The only difference is when it’s great, it’s really freaking great. That said I love this type of show, so what can I say. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Calaveron posted:What horrible sin cursed world do we live in that there exists a show based on the premise of the insufferable, most unlikeable nerdman on TV as a child I refuse to watch it but I'm curious how often they make reference to future events that the characters could have no possible knowledge of.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 05:18 |
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Rhyno posted:I refuse to watch it but I'm curious how often they make reference to future events that the characters could have no possible knowledge of. The one episode I watched, the most excruciating 20 minutes of my life and I’ve had broken, dislocated bones popped back in their place, didn’t do any of that annoying winking and nodding so there’s that Pondy is wasted on that show
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 05:42 |
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Haha that was Aaron Paul at the end of USS Callister.
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# ? Dec 30, 2017 05:42 |
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nate fisher posted:While Black Mirror can be somewhat inconsistent I have never regretted watching an episode. I also strongly disagree that last season only had 1 good episode. I really enjoyed San Junipero, Shut Up And Dance, and Hated in the Nation (although this was a drop for me from the other 2). Even the other 3 episodes were OK (Playtest was my favorite out of those). Overall it has the same consistency as other shows of its type (Twilight Zone and Outer Limits). The only difference is when it’s great, it’s really freaking great. I know I'm in the minority here but I think the only "bad" episode is "The Waldo Moment" (even if it was eerily prescient). But, like you, I might just be biased towards liking moralistic sci-fi anthology shows. This season's "Crocodile" is kinda eeeeh too.
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Calaveron posted:What horrible sin cursed world do we live in that there exists a show based on the premise of the insufferable, most unlikeable nerdman on TV as a child Why does the child version wear collared shirts and bowties all the time when the adult version's wardrobe entirely consists of "distressed" DC comic T-shirts
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JethroMcB posted:Why does the child version wear collared shirts and bowties all the time when the adult version's wardrobe entirely consists of "distressed" DC comic T-shirts We can only hope the show ends in a horrible tragedy that explains this.
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