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West Side Story is good but the Gee Officer Krupke scene seemed beyond superfluous. Does it actually add anything to the story?
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Hey poster above me...krup you!!!
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Mar 8, 2022 06:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkoXjnAm88s
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Mar 8, 2022 06:56
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It’s fun OP that’s what it adds
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Mar 8, 2022 07:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmN8yvz668E Season 2 of Russian Doll is coming April 20th. So excited, I absolutely loved season 1.
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Mar 8, 2022 15:38
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Originally, "Gee Officer Krupke" was a challenge to the audience, rendering their instinct to project a specific pathology onto the characters into discourse. Maybe these kids are violent because they're poor, or they're neglected by their parents, or because of capitalism. That instinct is comforting because the idea is if you can correctly diagnose their problems, those problems can be fixed. In the Krupke song, the Jets are just as aware of these possible diagnoses as you are, but they're not interested in being fixed. Because of that, the very purpose of social criticism or satire is put into question. In the new movie, the song is superfluous because Tony Kushner is quite certain he knows exactly what these kids' problems are and how to fix them.
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Mar 8, 2022 16:25
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I'm a few minutes into Guardians of Justice and the aesthetic is extremely my poo poo
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Mar 8, 2022 17:42
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Nihonniboku posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmN8yvz668E Finally!
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Mar 8, 2022 17:50
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A premiere date! What a concept!
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Mar 8, 2022 18:52
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Since the pandemic started me and my SO have been bouncing from show to show, some we've seen, some one of us wants to show the other, etc etc. The last couple months we've been making our way through Sex and the City and wouldn't you know it...it sucks! Well, not entirely. The first couple seasons actually hold up pretty well and, while I'm not sure if this is the intention, but almost act like this neat mirror image to Seinfeld, only from the perspective of the random women they date and also they're allowed to swear and gently caress on camera. The perspective of four single friends engaging with the dating scene and getting into mildly wacky sitcom situations is pretty solid. But because it's a show about women it eventually has to become a series of monogamous relationship dramas and poignant life moments, and then it just...stays that way. Everyone just breaks up with then gets back together with their longtime boyfriend over and over. It's very rote but if you're following the characters and like them you do get to see them get happy endings which is pleasant. The movies! They're both bad. The first feels like they wanted to do another season of the show but couldn't so they crammed a bunch of season-long arcs into a 2.5 hour movie so it feels both bloated and rushed at the same time. The second is interesting because it tries to do slapstick comedy for some reason, which the show never was, and fails so spectacularly you're kind of in awe of it. There's a scene where a bunch of Muslim women remove their burkas to reveal they also love NYC fashion and designer brands that's the worst scene in the entire series and so loving terrible I still can't believe it's real. And then there's the return, which we just finished. One of the main actresses refused to return and her absence is felt because their entire dynamic is thrown off, so they treat her character like they do when the actor dies and just have awkward text exchanges. One of the other actors really did die halfway through the season and they write him out by making his character be an rear end in a top hat. There's several sequences about nonbinary and genderfluid sexuality that are painfully boomers-writing-millennials. Every character is written so poorly it feels like Rise of the Skywalker where you can't tell if its incompetence or malevolence. So...Sex and the City. More bad than good! But if you're interested and haven't seen it (this applies to no one ITT) just watch the first three seasons or so and then call it good.
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Mar 8, 2022 18:54
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Now do the Carrie Diaries and complete your journey
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With a couple of edits you've pretty much just described Entourage as well.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:12
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I refuse to learn what the Carrie diaries are  I actually watched Entourage up through the Sasha Grey season and then bowed out, and...I can see it. There's no way the Entourage movie has anything as insane as the Abu Dhabi burka fashion reveal scene though.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:14
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The Modern Leper posted:A premiere date! What a concept! Very clever! Wolfsheim posted:Since the pandemic started me and my SO have been bouncing from show to show, some we've seen, some one of us wants to show the other, etc etc. The last couple months we've been making our way through Sex and the City and wouldn't you know it...it sucks! During its original run I'd catch episodes here and there on HBO, and then I later saw most of the series in its PG edit on TBS. I always thought it was fine, I never thought it was particularly funny. I rewatched it in its entirety during the pandemic, and it's not very good at all. Carrie in particular is a terrible person, and for all the grief she gets from a few of the guys she dates, she is an absolute nightmare to her more longterm relationships, and is an awful friend. She just takes and takes and takes from everybody in her life, and rarely actually gives anything back. I remember the episode when her building was going condo and she couldn't afford to buy her unit, so she harassed her friends until they gave her the money to buy it. The new series, And Just Like That, is maybe even worse, but also better at the same time. They clearly recognized how whitewashed (racist) and homophobic the original series was, and went through concerted efforts to diversify the show. The characters handled the changes pretty terribly, and continued to make awful decisions at every step. But I actually quite liked the new characters, and I wouldn't mind at all if season 2 was focusing on the new ladies, and ditching Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte altogether the way they ditched Samantha.
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Nihonniboku posted:I rewatched it in its entirety during the pandemic, and it's not very good at all. Carrie in particular is a terrible person, and for all the grief she gets from a few of the guys she dates, she is an absolute nightmare to her more longterm relationships, and is an awful friend. She just takes and takes and takes from everybody in her life, and rarely actually gives anything back. I remember the episode when her building was going condo and she couldn't afford to buy her unit, so she harassed her friends until they gave her the money to buy it. See, Carrie being a bad person was fine with me because of the whole 'Seinfeld but all women' motif, and the fact that she ends up with someone just as bad as her so they stop inflicting their awful behavior on innocent bystanders is actually pretty funny. I think my favorite episode of the final original season is the one-off with David Duchovny where he decides he'd rather stay in a mental institution than continue dating her, and its somehow her best breakup in the entire series. quote:The new series, And Just Like That, is maybe even worse, but also better at the same time. They clearly recognized how whitewashed (racist) and homophobic the original series was, and went through concerted efforts to diversify the show. The characters handled the changes pretty terribly, and continued to make awful decisions at every step. But I actually quite liked the new characters, and I wouldn't mind at all if season 2 was focusing on the new ladies, and ditching Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte altogether the way they ditched Samantha. This frustrated me because Carrie's new friend is actually an interesting character but so overtly a stand-in for Samantha that was awkwardly slotted into the scenes where Samantha would be that it just never clicked. The nonbinary comedian was terrible though, her standup made me involuntarily wince with how unfunny it was. The biggest casualty of the return is Miranda though, binging the series means you see her ruin Steve's life over and over again to the point it starts to seem sociopathic.
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Mar 8, 2022 19:43
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sex and the city was golden girls without any of the wit or talent
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Mar 8, 2022 20:34
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precision posted:sex and the city was golden girls without any of the wit or talent Golden Girls actually really holds up well. Probably the biggest problem with the show is that other than Stan, there are no other recurring characters. A lot of the guest actors playing boyfriends or children of the girls are usually not very good actors, and have no comedic timing or chemistry with the 4 leads.
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Mar 8, 2022 20:37
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I've been going through Columbia and Rockford Files on Peacock and have thoroughly enjoyed both. Colombo's character and personality is a lot of fun to watch
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Mar 8, 2022 20:39
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precision posted:sex and the city was golden girls without any of the wit or talent My SO is binging Golden Girls on her own so I've seen a few eps and from what I could tell this isn't really true because GG sticks to its premise of "these funny broads hanging out and cracking wise and banging randos" which SOTC abandons for relationship drama and never really looks back
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Mar 8, 2022 21:00
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yep am on season 4ish of golden girls its boring to me but my wife loves it, the jokes are solid tho
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that was my point guys, that Golden Girls owns and SATC only wishes it were anywhere near as daring or funny
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I'm a few eps into the tourist and I still can't tell what kind of show its trying to be lol
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Mar 8, 2022 22:48
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BonoMan posted:Free Guy was really bad I put it on hoping for a brainless but slightly enjoyable nerd movie like Ready Player One, but couldn't make it more than 2 minutes in. ryan reynolds is a cringe elemental
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Mar 8, 2022 23:10
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oh wow i didn't even know they'd finally started on a third season of american crime story pretty good so far
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God. Mrs Maisel season 3 is a complete bore. No stakes nothing interesting happens. They have no idea where to go with these characters Should’ve been one and done.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:10
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mcmagic posted:God. Mrs Maisel season 3 is a complete bore. No stakes nothing interesting happens. They have no idea where to go with these characters Should’ve been one and done. Yeah I think that's where I lost interest. Season 2 was a lot worse than 1 and then 3 was completely forgettable.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:13
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Winning Time, about the Lakers dynasty, on HBO is great. It's Adam McKay so it has a ton of fourth wall but the cast is so insane and they're having so much fun that it doesn't bother me.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:15
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I need to check out Winning Time if only for John C. Reilly. That man can loving act. I'm glad to hear its a solid show.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:30
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hell yeah Fresh on Hulu is aces, lol that last 20 minutes was some good poo poo What? He's married?! I don't recall seeing the two leads before but I recognize their names... what else have they been in that I should check out? I really liked both of them
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mcmagic posted:God. Mrs Maisel season 3 is a complete bore. No stakes nothing interesting happens. They have no idea where to go with these characters Should’ve been one and done. I loved Gilmore Girls, probably seen every episode 5 times at least, but the new season ruined the original series for me with realizing that Lorelai and Rory are complete narcissists and Emily is actually not so bad. I hated Bunheads, but that's because I find Sutton Foster an insufferable actress. I loved the first 3 season of Marvelous Mrs Maisel. But I'm finding the new season, season 4, not just boring, but I'm finding all of the conversations to be very grating. They've decided to make all of the characters completely irritating, and there is nothing left likable about any of them. The show has become a parody of itself.
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mcmagic posted:God. Mrs Maisel season 3 is a complete bore. No stakes nothing interesting happens. They have no idea where to go with these characters Should’ve been one and done. I liked some moments (the NY boho communists made me laugh) but I literally booed my screen at the ending. So many interesting and unique angles have taken with Shy's story, and they just...didn't. nah let's just let the increasingly unsympathetic main character out him as a gay man at the Apollo theatre then spin it like Shy was the unreasonable dick
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Mar 9, 2022 07:33
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isaboo posted:The Fresh Prince reboot (Bel Air) is good. Not great, but good. Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv are cool as hell, as is Geoffrey. I put off watching this just because the concept of a "serious" Bel Air seemed so silly. But because of this post I decided to start it...and yeah I don't hate it! Everything is well done enough to keep me interested for now. I agree though, def needs more jokes.
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I stooped watching Raised By Wolves because I realised the only thing I was really moved in any way by was the lovely title sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WVDcxrRJ_M And I looked the artist up and she did another opening sequence for a very similar show that that was my favourite part of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ytp8jv66co
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Wolfsheim posted:My SO is binging Golden Girls on her own so I've seen a few eps and from what I could tell this isn't really true because GG sticks to its premise of "these funny broads hanging out and cracking wise and banging randos" which SOTC abandons for relationship drama and never really looks back Well, his girlfriend died and he's trying to bring her back to life. Not really the kind of relationship drama you can look back from. At least until you've killed all 12 colossi.
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Mar 9, 2022 09:02
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The international women's day episode of Letterkenny is fuckin awesome
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veni veni veni posted:Well, his girlfriend died and he's trying to bring her back to life. Not really the kind of relationship drama you can look back from. At least until you've killed all 12 colossi. Could used more sexy banter with the horse though.
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Tim Whatley posted:Winning Time, about the Lakers dynasty, on HBO is great. It's Adam McKay so it has a ton of fourth wall but the cast is so insane and they're having so much fun that it doesn't bother me. Can anyone explain why Jerry Buss was able to buy the Lakers with a check but cash would have been a deal-breaker?
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Mar 9, 2022 13:54
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isaboo posted:hell yeah Fresh on Hulu is aces, lol Daisy Edgar Jones was in Normal People on Hulu and is very good in that as well. You should watch that. Sebastian Stan is the second most boring Avenger and was very boring in many different Marvel movies and TV shows but YMMV on those.
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mcmagic posted:Daisy Edgar Jones was in Normal People on Hulu and is very good in that as well. You should watch that. Sebastian Stan is the second most boring Avenger and was very boring in many different Marvel movies and TV shows but YMMV on those. he's also pretty funny as Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy edit: holy poo poo it's The Winter Soldier hahaha. i didn't even recognize him
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smackfu posted:Can anyone explain why Jerry Buss was able to buy the Lakers with a check but cash would have been a deal-breaker? It was still cash, but half in property trades instead of the full cash amount ($67 million)
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