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Chairman Capone posted:Also probably the biggest ratio of cast who are also writers and/or directors on it. Surely that's It's Always Sunny (three of five regulars, plus Cricket) or The X-Files (two of three, plus The Ciggy Man). That said, I love it when shows turn actors into writers - Ben McKenzie on Gotham being the biggest wtf. (Or Gillian Anderson on the X-Files, if you want to talk about times this went really bad.)
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Enjoying Physical, but wow did the ads not prepare me for how toxic Rose Byrne's monologue is. Or the way that both she and her husband seem to low key hate their child. The prominence and cruelty of that inner monologue makes the aerobics scenes, where it fadea away and things are allowed to finally slow down, all the more effective IMO. It's hard not to feel bad for her all the same, but this show is really not pulling its punches. (Also is it just me, or do a lot of Apple shows take two or three episodes to fully explain their premise and status quo? Not complaining, they're not Netflix style pilot seasons, but they don't really do pilots either. ) Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jun 24, 2021 |
# ? Jun 24, 2021 17:07 |
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Esco n Idiom, at it again! I like Physical more than I expected from the reviews but it commits two cardinal streaming sins of 1. feeling like it’s stretching a regular pilot premise out over multiple episodes and 2. starting off with a useless in medias res opening that isn’t even that interesting
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# ? Jun 24, 2021 19:13 |
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This new episode of Mythic Quest is very good. Called the final "twist" pretty easily but lol at the idea that they're just gonna make Second Life.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 07:30 |
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If they get a third season they should call it Mythic Quest 2.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:08 |
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Central Park s2 is good so far. Really liked the third episode about Molly’s issues, and Emmy Raver-Lampman is a great replacement for Bell
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:09 |
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:If they get a third season they should call it Mythic Quest 2. Mythic Question Season 3: Mythic Quest 2 does have a nice ring to it.
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 00:08 |
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention: At the start of this episode they have someone putting up the graphic of the female character where... it always has been. "Yeah, that looks great. Awesome work." But... that's always been there. I get the feeling there was a cut scene where he had it taken down at some point? Or am I missing something?
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 05:34 |
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I wouldn't put it past him to have it removed when she changed offices.
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 05:36 |
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For All Mankind season 2 felt a lot slower than season 1. The last three episodes were incredible and made the season worth watching. I can’t believe I waited this long to watch.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 03:27 |
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Spacebump posted:For All Mankind season 2 felt a lot slower than season 1. The last three episodes were incredible and made the season worth watching. I can’t believe I waited this long to watch. Yeah I agree with this. The first half of the second season I thought was good but not quite as good as season 1. There were a lot of little side plot things that were fine for what they were, but I wasn't quite sure why we were spending time on them. Then at the end of the season a huge chunk of that turned out to be really important in setting up character motivations and background that became super relevant to how things played out.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 07:21 |
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The teasers for the new Foundation show have got me pretty excited, I must say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvOAA1U0li8
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 08:13 |
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Finished season 2 of Mythic Quest and I enjoyed it a lot, but I really do not care one bit about the playtesters as characters and I don't think they add anything to the show. Less of them and more of anything else for season 3, hopefully. One other thing that bugged me, and it's real minor and not even about the quality of the show but the second to last episode ends with the Willy Nelson version of The Rainbow Connection playing but it's timed to play over the credits and it cuts off right before the songs refrain! Just have it start like 5 seconds earlier and it would end perfectly as the verse ends! Why go through the trouble of getting a song and then go and cut the legs off by a few seconds when it could end perfectly otherwise? I know this is a very much me thing but I notice when this constantly happens in shows and it kills me every time!
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 12:02 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:One other thing that bugged me, and it's real minor and not even about the quality of the show but the second to last episode ends with the Willy Nelson version of The Rainbow Connection playing but it's timed to play over the credits and it cuts off right before the songs refrain! Just have it start like 5 seconds earlier and it would end perfectly as the verse ends! Why go through the trouble of getting a song and then go and cut the legs off by a few seconds when it could end perfectly otherwise? I know this is a very much me thing but I notice when this constantly happens in shows and it kills me every time! Nah, I noticed it too and it bothered me. They really wanted you to sit through those particular credits too.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 12:06 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Finished season 2 of Mythic Quest and I enjoyed it a lot, but I really do not care one bit about the playtesters as characters and I don't think they add anything to the show. Less of them and more of anything else for season 3, hopefully. Yeah I actually like them as characters but the show doesn't seem to know what to do with them in season 2.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 22:22 |
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Trig Discipline posted:The teasers for the new Foundation show have got me pretty excited, I must say. I mean, I understand the need to put together a narrative that's easier for a TV audience to follow, but it sounds like they are basically just inventing their own plot and characters out of thin air. It's hard to trust the writers with that much heavy lifting, although For All Mankind and Ted Lasso are two of the best-written shows out there these days.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 00:25 |
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Paddyo posted:I mean, I understand the need to put together a narrative that's easier for a TV audience to follow, but it sounds like they are basically just inventing their own plot and characters out of thin air. It's hard to trust the writers with that much heavy lifting, although For All Mankind and Ted Lasso are two of the best-written shows out there these days. The point of Foundation is that the characters aren't important so I can give them some leeway.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 01:41 |
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Yeah it's been a decade or two since I read the Foundation books and I think I remember a grand total of two characters (Hari Seldon and The Mule). I honestly couldn't give a poo poo whether it adheres closely to the books as long as it's well written and gets the central ideas across.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 07:21 |
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Trig Discipline posted:Yeah it's been a decade or two since I read the Foundation books and I think I remember a grand total of two characters (Hari Seldon and The Mule). I honestly couldn't give a poo poo whether it adheres closely to the books as long as it's well written and gets the central ideas across. Yeah, those two characters are most essential, and some of the others later on are important. But for the most part, the characters in the core Foundation trilogy are important for their roles in the plot rather than who they are precisely and there's a lot of flexibility in how they're presented and interpreted. It changes a lot over the course of the series...which is another thing. The books were written over a literal 50 year span, with the earliest Foundation stories written in 1942 or so and the last actually written by Asimov in the early 1990s shortly before his death. There was a 30 year gap between books at one point, but in between that he wrote whole other series of books that he later tied into Foundation as an enormous shared universe spanning tens of thousands of years. It's an understatement to say that the themes and technologies referenced in the books were all over the map, including when he came back to revisit the same in-setting time period from different real-world decades. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of room for the TV showrunners to screw up or diverge heavily from the "heart" of Foundation such as it is. There totally is. But there's oddly a lot of flexibility in how a valid adaptation could be made and so far nothing seems too bad.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 09:38 |
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Man, I wish I was more optimistic. I just think that in order for it to work as a scripted drama they are going to have to invent so many characters and so many plots out of thin air that the central idea of the series gets pushed aside in favor of clichéd violence, sex, and forced intrigue. Foundation is about the life / death / rebirth cycle of civilization. It's super big-picture and cynical, and that's what made it interesting to me, and what separated it out from all of the generic space operas out there. I think David S. Goyer is just going to turn it into a mix of comic book movie and Game of Thrones.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 18:27 |
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Heads up: this season (series?) is based on the prequels. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 19:05 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Heads up: this season (series?) is based on the prequels. Adjust your expectations accordingly. I don't think it's really based on the prequels. Inasmuch as anything from Asimov's actual writing is in this, there's one element so far from the prequels (Eto Demerzel) while the rest (Seldon's warnings, his trial, and Gaal Dornick) are from the first story from Foundation. Paddyo posted:Foundation is about the life / death / rebirth cycle of civilization. It's super big-picture and cynical, and that's what made it interesting to me, and what separated it out from all of the generic space operas out there. I honestly don't think that Foundation was all that cynical, especially compared to the other space opera stuff from the 30s and 40s like Heinlein, Stapledon, latter Wells. The sequels that Asimov wrote in the 80s are a bit more cynical but the original trilogy at least has always seemed very straightforward, with the core of the story being faith that a better future is inevitable.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 19:19 |
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I wanna stan more for Home Before Dark. It’s a really cool mystery show that’s kinda like if Veronica Mars had been ten years old. Not the best show on Apple, but probably the most underrated. Has anyone checked out Lissey’s Story?
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 16:25 |
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Physical has Sera Gamble as a producer (The Magicians, You, Supernatural's most misanthropic seasons just after the creator left). This explains a lot, down to some of the casting. Still enjoying it. It's a drama that'd be too much to handle as an hour long, so it's only half as long. I appreciate that. It feels like a mean spririted GLOW, and there are other times it reminds me of Aquarius, another Sera Gamble joint which was a sort of 70's serial killer melodrama with a David Duchovny procedural gaffertaped on. That fondue scene was gross. Escobarbarian posted:Has anyone checked out Lissey’s Story? Me! I have! I really enjoyed the first few episodes, and I thought the show's woozy editing and interweaving of plotlines really worked to tell this story of a woman who's slowly slipping into a kind of supernatural dementia. But now a) I'm not too sure that's happening, and b) it's got a bit slow. I do think Stephen King was the right person to adapt this material. He's good at bringing out the nuances in the script (or the director is, it looks very nice -- at times very, very nice). It looks beautiful, and some of the acting is insanely good. I'm definitely watching it to the end. But it's a Mare Of Easttown -- good, but I'm not nourished by it and I'm not going to think about it too much five years down the track. Edit: I've also found parts of this show insanely moving -- not the parts that I think the series was sold on (the relationship between Julianne Moore and Clive Owen) but the instead the relationship between the three sisters. Say what you will about overqualified acting, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is very good as the third, outsider sister. The bond between the three of them is very good, and papers over a lot of frustration with the earlier parts. Michael Pitt gives one of those performances where you really wish he hadn't ended up being ousted from acting for a while. He's very unnerving, and gives one of those perfectly commited horror performances that skirts just the right side of camp (think Robin Weigert's strong WTF horror performance in American Horror Story Roanoke). euugh. i've watched a lot of tv Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jul 4, 2021 |
# ? Jul 4, 2021 05:39 |
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Speaking of Asimov-related shows on Apple+, I rewatched the Backstory episode of Mythic Quest and liked it even more the second time. It made me realize that the guy playing young Peter was pretty clearly working to imitate William Hurt. Also, much as I liked the acting throughout, my favorite part is absolutely the smile that F. Murray Abraham gives at the end when asked if he'd ever wanted to write a video game.
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# ? Jul 8, 2021 00:50 |
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Schmigadoon premiered and it’s quite a lot of fun although could get old fast. Not sure how long the season is. Also still watching and enjoying Home Before Dark, Central Park, and Physical. Also rewatching Ted Lasso s1 in anticipation of season 2 premiering soon. That could probably do with its own thread, right? I can’t remember if it had one last year. It’s crazy how Apple has been like by far the best streaming service for me so far this year
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 16:18 |
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Escobarbarian posted:Schmigadoon premiered and it’s quite a lot of fun although could get old fast. Not sure how long the season is. Only six eps. Not sure if it's a miniseries though. Apple's been loving fire ngl.
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 16:49 |
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Apple’s original content has been some of the best on streaming this year. I just wish they’d fill out the service with rotating movies and old shows. I’m still kind of shocked they didn’t outbid Netflix on Cobra Kai season 3. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 16, 2021 |
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Spacebump posted:Apple’s original content has been some of the best on streaming this year. I just wish they’d fill out the service with rotating movies and old shows. They seem interested in making a wholly original library, with an aim of creating the kind of thing HBO was producing back in the 00s, except more modern (similar to how Amazon started out). I don't mind the lack of back catalogue if their overall standard is this high though.
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 17:12 |
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I had to laugh in the week when I got an A+ notification saying they were celebrating their 34 Emmy noms. Just to be dicks, HBO Max emailed the next day with essentially the same message but for 130.
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quote:Carpool Karaoke: Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama Or Variety Series Really???
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 17:59 |
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I've only watched the first episode of Physical but as someone who has always had issues with food the whole thing with her berating herself all day about food and then finally just snapping and binging on a bunch of garbage but saying it wont happen again (it will) is pretty much exactly how it goes in real life.
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 22:18 |
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Yeah the depiction of bulimia is rough. Definitely something I would warn people about beforehand if I thought it would affect them
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 22:36 |
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I dunno about the whole series but there is a content warning message at the start of the first episode.
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# ? Jul 16, 2021 22:39 |
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I've found it easier to deal with the further I got into the show, but those first few episodes were very intense -- more intense than I thought they would be, even given the warning. Good show though. Rose Byrne is amazing, and I love the blonde gym couple. They're very charming.
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# ? Jul 17, 2021 00:02 |
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I enjoy Schmigadoon but, man, the boyfriend is awful.
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# ? Jul 17, 2021 01:41 |
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I recently got an Apple TV so I've been going through the ATV+ shows. Started with For All Mankind because, well it's a Ronald D. Moore show in space, and really enjoyed it. Morning Show was good, better than I expected but in reality, I didn't know much about it going in. Now watching the first season of Ted Lasso and it's an absolutely lovely change of pace. Lots of smiles, and surprisingly emotional at times. What should I watch next? I see a lot of chatter about Mythic Quest but it's another show I'll be going into completely blind. I must say, I've been very surprised and delighted at the quality of the shows in this service.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:54 |
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Mental Hospitality posted:I recently got an Apple TV so I've been going through the ATV+ shows. Started with For All Mankind because, well it's a Ronald D. Moore show in space, and really enjoyed it. Morning Show was good, better than I expected but in reality, I didn't know much about it going in. Now watching the first season of Ted Lasso and it's an absolutely lovely change of pace. Lots of smiles, and surprisingly emotional at times. Mythic Quest is good, Central Park is decent depending on how much you like the singing in Bob's Burgers. Servant is fantastic and probably the best they have.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 08:02 |
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drat I forgot to make a Ted Lasso thread and I’m working all weekend. Loved the premiere
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Mental Hospitality posted:I recently got an Apple TV so I've been going through the ATV+ shows. Started with For All Mankind because, well it's a Ronald D. Moore show in space, and really enjoyed it. Morning Show was good, better than I expected but in reality, I didn't know much about it going in. Now watching the first season of Ted Lasso and it's an absolutely lovely change of pace. Lots of smiles, and surprisingly emotional at times. Definitely seconding the recommendations for Mythic Quest and Servant. See is another show I'd recommend - it's a bit of a ridiculous premise but if you can accept it, the show itself is fine, and I think it does good worldbuilding. And yeah, I think in terms of overall quality of original shows, Apple+ is at the top of the streaming list for me.
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