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Sir Kodiak posted:They were the advertising firm for the Fyre Festival, a fraudulent music festival, which just had two documentaries released on streaming (Hulu and Netflix). They helped produce the Netflix doc, which does some work to try to exonerate them from what seem like credible charges that they were either in on the scam or, at least, should have known they were selling lies. So them then complaining that they didn't get paid in full by a seeming co-conspirator is tangentially streaming-related schadenfreude, on top of the general thing of people viewing them as content thieves. The doc producers certainly let the various contractors lay out their ignorance defense, and someone in the film claimed McFarland is some sort of compartmentalization savant, but the film also emphasizes how there were plenty of people on staff who communicated their misgivings to people in other divisions and got canned for it, and there were also plenty of public, independent sources of information detailing the fraud and failures basically from the beginning of the enterprise, so the culpability of minor players is treated fairly evenhandedly. Also, the final revelations about how indebted these contractors were is damning - two thirds of their pay was being withheld until after the event so they were basically looking the other way in regards to the fraud and putting in their own money out of desperation, victims of the sunk cost fallacy and compromised ethics.
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I do wonder how really threatening their version of zombies are, overall. 2:Seems like she could've nipped the problem in the bud if she had burned down the infirmary instead of tried to cure them. Edit: Oh, a gun. What year does this take place? Lycus fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jan 29, 2019 20:08
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"You" is a weird show. Whenever I watch an episode, I'm cringing a lot because of the weirdness of whatever situation that guy creates, but I kinda want to keep watching because of how the story ends.
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Jan 30, 2019 00:19
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Oh, wow, Polar really is poo poo
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K. Waste posted:Oh, wow, Polar really is poo poo Jonas Åkerlund loving sucks rear end.
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Kingdom: I really hate seasons ending with big cliffhangers.
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Jan 30, 2019 04:29
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Lycus posted:Kingdom: I really hate seasons ending with big cliffhangers. I read this spoiler and now I'm definitely not going to watch this show. loving cliffhangers all the time, goddamn.
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K. Waste posted:Oh, wow, Polar really is poo poo Well, heck. Dangit
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Lycus posted:Kingdom: I really hate seasons ending with big cliffhangers. Counterpoint: The Good Place is extremely good and uses cliffhangers powerfully. It's also on topic because it's on Netflix for non-Americans. Watch The Good Place y'all.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I read this spoiler and now I'm definitely not going to watch this show. loving cliffhangers all the time, goddamn. Yeah, it's pretty anti-climactic. It's fun if you like zombie shows but are sick of post-apoc, but waiting until S2 to binge isn't a bad idea.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I read this spoiler and now I'm definitely not going to watch this show. loving cliffhangers all the time, goddamn.
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SirSamVimes posted:Counterpoint: The Good Place is extremely good and uses cliffhangers powerfully. The Good Place uses cliffhangers extremely effectively. Each episode ends in a cliffhanger, but the seasons themselves don't-- they set up clearly what the stakes for the next season will be. Also, yes, the Good Place is maybe the best sitcom ever put on network television, and you should watch it.
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Yeah, there's a really big difference between episode-ending cliffhangers and season-ending cliffhangers. There's also a big difference between concluding the season's story and having a hook for the next story, and ending the season before the first story's climax (the latter happened here).
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I totally loved Black Earth Rising on Netflix. An eight episode mini series about personal and political entanglements in the Rwandan Genocide. Lots of great acting, with highlights by Michaela Coel and John Goodman.
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Jan 30, 2019 05:18
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Black Earth Rising: What is that accent? Is that guy supposed to be Quebecois?
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Teddybear posted:Also, yes, the Good Place is maybe the best sitcom ever put on network television, and you should watch it. i like when the "best sitcom ever put on network television" says things like "MOTHERFORKING SHIRT BALLS!" now that's funny stuff. epic, too.
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Thom and the Heads posted:i like when the "best sitcom ever put on network television" says things like "MOTHERFORKING SHIRT BALLS!" And yet somehow got the phrase “blowing beefers while you’re down here boning us in the meathole” past the censors and out at 8:30pm? Impressive.
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Lycus posted:Black Earth Rising: What is that accent? Is that guy supposed to be Quebecois? Belgian, if I had to guess.
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Haven't seen it, but if it's supposed to be a Walloon accent, then yes, it sounds way way worse than Quebecois.
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Jan 30, 2019 15:43
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I'm surprised at all the hate for Polar. It was a cheesy shoot em up movie with some silly performances. Have some beers while you watch!
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10 Beers posted:I'm surprised at all the hate for Polar. It was a cheesy shoot em up movie with some silly performances. Have some beers while you watch! Not enough shoot em up, it was more like here's a guy being executed, here's a gratuitous close-up of a woman's rear end, here's another guy being executed, here's a puppy being killed, one more brutal execution, ok fine here's Mads shooting some guys for a few minutes, movie over. It was a slick looking, colorful film though, which I always appreciate.
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Jan 30, 2019 19:01
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Hate is too strong a word. A better one is "boredom."
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Kingdom is a really fun take on the zombie genre, something I wasn't expecting in 2019
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I kinda liked Polar. It's yet another entry in the subgenre that Crank and Punisher: War Zone started, and I dig pretty much anything in that vein.
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Polar was fine. Nothing special and I get how people could be bored but all the hate seems unwarranted.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I kinda liked Polar. It's yet another entry in the subgenre that Crank and Punisher: War Zone started, and I dig pretty much anything in that vein. It is in no way insane enough to be in the same classification as Crank and Punisher: War Zone. It's generic John Wick with more titties and slapstick.
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Is Mads actually the lead of Polar or is he only in it for like ten minutes? I sat through Charlie Countryman just for Mads, I figure anything will be a breeze after that.
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The lead.
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Teddybear posted:The Good Place uses cliffhangers extremely effectively. Each episode ends in a cliffhanger, but the seasons themselves don't-- they set up clearly what the stakes for the next season will be. It’s on US Netflix too unless they took it down recently. I really liked the first two seasons but I thought it totally ran out of steam in season 3.
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Superrodan posted:Man I just finished Kimmy Schmidt and it caught me off guard because I lost track of the episode count and thought I had one more... damnit. I want a Tomothy spin-off
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I’m watching Slobby’s World and it’s something else. Like 11k for two pairs of Jordons? Bought by some dude who can’t keep his eyes open or mouth closed? In Arizona? This loving venture is largely bankrolled by the economic stupidity of nostalgic meth dealers.
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mysterious frankie posted:I’m watching Slobby’s World and it’s something else. Like 11k for two pairs of Jordons? Bought by some dude who can’t keep his eyes open or mouth closed? In Arizona? This loving venture is largely bankrolled by the economic stupidity of nostalgic meth dealers. Nostalgic meth dealers who want to be on TV.
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feedmyleg posted:Nostalgic meth dealers who want to be on TV. Half the time when I’m looking down, doing some work, and I hear someone talking like Alien I look up to be confronted by a substitute English teacher looking dude wearing knock off hilfiger. “Yo, like, Mrs. Kim peaced out this week to get her baby out of her, side saddle style cuz her hips too narrow, so I’ll be hangin wit y’all. We gonna be reading The Awakening and since I already read that poo poo when I was comin up at Rutgers i’m here to tell you it’s pretty dope but also pretty boring. And, like, sad too... shits complicated as a Coogi, for real tho.”
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I refuse to believe that any person who isn't an alien/robot imposter has ever referred to a c-section as "getting the baby out side saddle style".
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Also that's funny as hell and I'm going to try and use it if possible
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Gyges posted:I refuse to believe that any person who isn't an alien/robot imposter has ever referred to a c-section as "getting the baby out side saddle style". Every tree begins as a seed. Field Mousepad posted:Also that's funny as hell and I'm going to try and use it if possible I rest my case, your honor.
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