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zoux posted:If the first episode grabbed you like that you're in for a treat Yeah, the whole series opens with that Tusk segment iirc
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feedmyleg posted:Oh poo poo. I just watched the first episode of The Americans. I felt like I just watched an entire season. That was incredible. I recently powerwatched the entire series for the first time over the course of a few weeks and it was indeed incredible.
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Ray Donovan has always been a very dark, rather depressing show. But this season, they’ve really taken it to another level. Sweet Jesus. Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight both deserve Emmys.
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AllisonByProxy posted:I recently powerwatched the entire series for the first time over the course of a few weeks and it was indeed incredible. Managed to watch 5 episodes last night. Had the most overactive paranoid dreams. This thing is already worming its way into my brain and I'm barely into it.
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Hey there's a sale on the Veronica Mars box set let's see the praise for the show in the comments... Since when did it become ok to start calling shows "content" like they are just advertisements to be consumed.
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Mu Zeta posted:Since when did it become ok to start calling shows "content" like they are just advertisements to be consumed. I think it's an inevitable process of calling shows "franchises" or even "IPs". It's deeply crap, but I think that's what it is. Those two are deeply stupid though.
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Dec 24, 2018 13:31
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Since when is Veronica Mars not a feminist show? 
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Mu Zeta posted:Since when did it become ok to start calling shows "content" like they are just advertisements to be consumed. It's a product of the tech industry leaking into the entertainment industry. It's gross, but it's also somewhat necessary because they're no longer strictly "television" or "cinema" in a post-Netflix world.
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Rarity posted:Since when is Veronica Mars not a feminist show? Something gamergate?
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Veronica Mars does have one of those storylines where a self-described feminist is in opposition to the main character, which shows starring women used to do all the loving time to reassure their audience that they're not feminist just for being about a woman who is cool and deals with issues relating to her gender. Remember that one of the PR people for the loving Handmaid's Tale insisted it wasn't a feminist show before it started airing. That label is viewed as poisonous in the US.
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VMar's take on the college feminists was a little more nuanced than that, I thought. Veronica rejects those women not because she's anti-feminist (or opposed to the feminist label) -- and not because the show is opposed to either of those things -- but because she's anti-solidarity in its entirety because she's reprocessing her trauma of being raped. She ends that arc embracing solidarity, and is saved specifically by the systems those women fought to have put in place to keep women safe. The Lillith House women are generally shown to be in the right about most of what they do, but consistently have their credibility undermined by the actions of a handful of outliers. The frat houses, on the other hand, blatantly endorse rape culture, and regularly commit actions far more widespread and insidious, and consistently shown in a very dim light. But the few men who ever have to face up to their actions are easily let off the hook, and the Greek system ultimately fails to make anything but the most token gestures towards reform. I'd argue that's a pointed critique of the way minority organisations tend to be treated. I also give that season more of the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their long term plotting, because they were ordered to stop telling serialised stories partway through the season. So a bunch of their plots just immediately stop overnight. Lurdiak posted:Remember that one of the PR people for the loving Handmaid's Tale insisted it wasn't a feminist show before it started airing. That label is viewed as poisonous in the US. Wasn't that Elizabeth Moss?
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For what it's worth, the Greek culture in VM is exceptionally accurate to a college town (say Ball State in Muncie Indiana) of the time. It's horrifying how much they can get away with.
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Open Source Idiom posted:VMar's take on the college feminists was a little more nuanced than that, I thought. Veronica rejects those women not because she's anti-feminist (or opposed to the feminist label) -- and not because the show is opposed to either of those things -- but because she's anti-solidarity in its entirety because she's reprocessing her trauma of being raped. She ends that arc embracing solidarity, and is saved specifically by the systems those women fought to have put in place to keep women safe. Yeah, well she's only got one oar in the water.
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feedmyleg posted:What's some of the best pulp fiction on TV in the last decade? Killing Eve comes to mind for me, just nailing everything that's great about the stuff but also being stylish, sharp, and incredibly well-written. Hap & Leonard is the best.
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Rhyno posted:For what it's worth, the Greek culture in VM is exceptionally accurate to a college town (say Ball State in Muncie Indiana) of the time. It's horrifying how much they can get away with.
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Timeless finale was pretty good. Everything wrapped up a little too neatly, but I'm good with that - I wish more shows had definitive finales they were allowed to make.
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So I watched episode 1 of The Fix and it's awful. America cannot do panel shows right. I don't get it.
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feedmyleg posted:What's some of the best pulp fiction on TV in the last decade? Killing Eve comes to mind for me, just nailing everything that's great about the stuff but also being stylish, sharp, and incredibly well-written. This is a bit unconventional but as noir as you can possibly be with a show about vampires, Angel, was pretty grand. Banshee but I gave up a couple seasons. Spartacus if you're counting swords and sandals.
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Medullah posted:Timeless finale was pretty good. Everything wrapped up a little too neatly, but I'm good with that - I wish more shows had definitive finales they were allowed to make. Spoil me baby, I fell off after a few episodes and will never get round to catching up.
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Croatoan posted:So I watched episode 1 of The Fix and it's awful. America cannot do panel shows right. I don't get it. That, along with the US remake failures of Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Coupling, Skins, etc. there is just something about British TV and humor that doesn't translate to mainstream American success. Panel shows are a weird outlier because since the BBC runs everything its not like people are making $600K an episode for a long running series. I'm pretty sure before he got married David Mitchell (BAFTA award winner with multiple major TV successes) was still living in a shared apartment in London. I can't really imagine most US actors willing to show up for a paycheck that's smaller then they were getting when they started out.
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Shameless US is a rare case of the remake being better imo, but the two shows also have wildly different vibes so that probably helps it.
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Does Voltron end up sucking at the end or is the falloff in IMDB ratings because of the whole gay Shiro foofaraw
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From what I've gathered (have not watched in forever) there's some legitimate issues with the way certain arcs resolve, particularly one character's death, but most of what I'm seeing is shipping bullshit.
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I watched the trailer for The Fix and it looked like twice as scripted as the most scripted UK panel show I’ve seen (and that is already a heck of a lot) so I’m not surprised it sucks
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Arist posted:From what I've gathered (have not watched in forever) there's some legitimate issues with the way certain arcs resolve, particularly one character's death, but most of what I'm seeing is shipping bullshit. loving fandoms man. I'm mid season 5 and it was just a “laundry show” that I could watch while doing other stuff but it's kind of grabbed me.
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Voltron, for those who are unaware, is the children's show on Netflix where a fan tried to blackmail the producers into making their ship canon.
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So much media would be so much better without romantic sub-plots. I don't know if it's just teenagers, but how are so many people so unfulfilled in their relationships that they have strong, real-world opinions about which fictional characters bang?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:So much media would be so much better without romantic sub-plots. I don't know if it's just teenagers, but how are so many people so unfulfilled in their relationships that they have strong, real-world opinions about which fictional characters bang? I think it's about status within those online communities. Like they want to be known as the go-to guy for Lance/Hulk mpreg fanfic and the most important thing when approaching new media is what popular ships they can generate out of them, to impress people on message boards and tumblr.
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Parasocial (especially pseudonymous) relationships incentivize narrow specialization and radicalization
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House of Cards season 7 is looking very strange https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1077330842496708608
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Anthony Hopkins counters with a better video https://twitter.com/AnthonyHopkins/status/1077314641934442496
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I came across some more info about the Black Mirror moviequote:The latest reported details on “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” are the most clear-cut yet. The movie’s alleged official plot description reads: “A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game. Soon, reality and virtual world are mixed and start to create confusion.” That “Bandersnatch” would be set in the world of video games lines up with recent fan theories, as “Bandersnatch” was the name of a video game listed in the Season 3 episode “Playtest,” directed by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Wyatt Russell. Additionally, “Bandersnatch” was a video game developed in real life by Imagine Software in 1984, but it was never released to the public. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/black-mirror-bandersnatch-page-goes-164416444.html
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Binge watched first season of 3% today. Not really certain how good I think it was yet but managed to be interesting enough to keep watching.
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Kevin Spacey, havin' a day.
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Lycus posted:Kevin Spacey, havin' a day. Keep in mind, what's come out is still only about 5% of what's strongly rumoured about him.
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Norwegian Rudo posted:Keep in mind, what's come out is still only about 5% of what's strongly rumoured about him. Kevin Spacey died when the gerbil he shoved up his rear end to remove his ribs so he could blow himself mixed pop rocks and coke. The next day the gerbil came home to a bouquet of flowers and a note from Eddie Murphy saying that it was the funniest thing he had ever seen. That gerbil's name? Albert Einstein.
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The gerbil is a George Clooney rumour, but I like your version better.
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Guy Mann posted:That gerbil's name? Albert Einstein. Albert Brooks was a gerbil?
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Here's an early Boxing Day gift https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinthekith/status/1077602296039723008
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