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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:How is the Shrink Next Door? It dragged on a bit and like many shows these days just needed to be a 2 hr movie.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:How is the Shrink Next Door? Its super stressful and depressing. I got like an episode or two before the end and couldn't bring myself to watch anymore, despite loving the entire cast.
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Jun 11, 2022 04:55
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Anybody else have a lot of problems with Paramount Plus? The only reason I have it is for my kid and I can only get it working on my Roku box. Streams won't start on any browser (tried multiple computers), straight up cannot sign in on any of our iPad or iPhone devices. Support is no help.
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Jun 11, 2022 23:28
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On anything other than our Roku tv... It can take like five minutes to load
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Yeah, no issues on Roku or in Chrome for me.
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Jun 12, 2022 00:08
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I gave up trying to use the Xbox app because of constant buffering issues. Loads super slow on my smart tv, but at least it functions correctly. It’s still easily the worst streaming app I’ve used.
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GoodApollo posted:Anybody else have a lot of problems with Paramount Plus? The only reason I have it is for my kid and I can only get it working on my Roku box. Streams won't start on any browser (tried multiple computers), straight up cannot sign in on any of our iPad or iPhone devices. Support is no help. Do you have any sort of VPN on your client or router? Are you using a different DNS (again on client or router) to get around regional lockouts for content?
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GoodApollo posted:Anybody else have a lot of problems with Paramount Plus? The only reason I have it is for my kid and I can only get it working on my Roku box. Streams won't start on any browser (tried multiple computers), straight up cannot sign in on any of our iPad or iPhone devices. Support is no help. Paramount Plus is the worst app on my tv. It's insanely slow and doesn't count button pushes like 25% of the time.
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Jun 12, 2022 01:26
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okay so yeah Adam Sandler's Hoop Dreamz is actually a very good sports movie
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Just finished Night Sky. I liked it but it needs to step up its game. JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek are amazing as is to be expected and I did like their story. But the rest just felt really cheap. Both in skimpiness of story and actual production value. Felt like some B-Team putting it together and any of the “action” was really poorly done. But still an interesting premise and I liked it enough to see where it goes next season if they get one. Maybe they’ll spend some more cash on it. Also… Penny!
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Jun 14, 2022 03:29
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BonoMan posted:Also… Penny! she has been so consistently awesome on For All Mankind as well
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Jun 14, 2022 04:03
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Peaky Blinders really went out with a banger of a season. I can't wait for the movie.
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Jun 14, 2022 04:17
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mcmagic posted:Peaky Blinders really went out with a banger of a season. I can't wait for the movie. did it stop feeling like a 2015 jamesons commercial? the random artic monkey type needledrops drove me nuts.
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Jun 14, 2022 14:32
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Finished For All Mankind s2. Really good, although I disliked what an easy ride Reagan got.
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Jun 14, 2022 14:47
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For all mankind is really cool at times but it’s definitely got some Tom Clancy style boomer writing / military hero worship. Feels like a join the navy ad most of the time. Of course they aren’t going to poo poo on Reagan
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Jun 14, 2022 15:01
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Famethrowa posted:did it stop feeling like a 2015 jamesons commercial? the random artic monkey type needledrops drove me nuts. I bailed on Peaky Blinders after season three since it got super formulaic. Kinda of shocked it lasted for six seasons.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:13
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Famethrowa posted:did it stop feeling like a 2015 jamesons commercial? the random artic monkey type needledrops drove me nuts. No, not at all but the songs aren't as obnoxious I would say.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:19
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A MIRACLE posted:For all mankind is really cool at times but it’s definitely got some Tom Clancy style boomer writing / military hero worship. Feels like a join the navy ad most of the time. Of course they aren’t going to poo poo on Reagan This is what stopped me watching it about four episodes into the first season.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:56
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eehhhhhh i don't think they gave Reagan an easy time, i think that what they're doing is showing how history changes stuff. how Nixon and Reagen could be remembered fondly if things had gone differently. everything in the whoel show is like that i deffo would not say it's boomer poo poo, especially since the main story arc of season 1 is about how girls can do space just as good as boys and the struggles of being gays and queermos in the 70s i mean all the libs on the show are made to look super good too, you know?
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Jun 14, 2022 15:59
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Need a good show dedicated to making Regan look like the crap he is
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Jun 14, 2022 16:23
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Ron Moore is pretty lib brained, Outlander is actually more hilariously lib brained than For All Mankind is too.
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Jun 14, 2022 16:25
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mcmagic posted:Ron Moore is pretty lib brained, Outlander is actually more hilariously lib brained than For All Mankind is too. I'm actually a little worried about For All Mankind right now. I love it so far, but I also really enjoyed the first couple seasons of Outlander, which is pretty unwatchable now. I just looked it up, and Moore is still the showrunner of that show.
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Jun 14, 2022 16:42
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actually the more i think about it the more hilariously wrong it is to describe For All Mankind as boomer Tom Clancy type stuff because the show goes very far out of its way, almost to the point of being silly, of pointing out that dudes are toxic jerks who hold everyone else back, and every dude on the show who is an hero is also showed to be so flawed its almost comical
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Jun 14, 2022 16:55
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Liberals can be boomers too
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Jun 14, 2022 17:58
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Before anyone @‘s me I love RLM and I watch botw and review all the time and have fuckin space cop on Blu ray lmao But gently caress them too for making Star Wars harder to enjoy irl with other people.
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Jun 14, 2022 18:04
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The kind of backlash to Star Wars being noticeably worse than you remember as a kid was inevitable even before Disney bought it, they were just the first to really capitalize on it
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Jun 14, 2022 19:00
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You know what is a boomer-Tom Clancy type of movie that has aged horrendously? "Clear and Present Danger". Great cast, good performances, wild 90s lib mindset. Very instructive stuff.
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Jun 14, 2022 19:01
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Jun 14, 2022 19:05
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CelticPredator posted:Liberals can be boomers too i mean yes but my point still stands, FAM is not even a little bit politically conservative. the alt history stuff with nixon and reagan and whatever, it's just having fun. they also have a beatles reunion in it because john lennon never got shot. it's just fluff, i don't think there's any other reason for it
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Wolfsheim posted:The kind of backlash to Star Wars being noticeably worse than you remember as a kid was inevitable even before Disney bought it, they were just the first to really capitalize on it This both gave people excessively high expectations and encouraged Disney to go ahead and order a zillion spinoffs. They could have just made fewer shows or pumped out spinoffs aimed purely at kids, but trying to sell a streaming service based on this level of continuous star wars shows may have been a mistake. They may also be trying to apply the Netflix strategy of making a ton of stuff in the hope that a small percentage will become big hits and cancelling whatever fails, but that may not work as well within franchises because once people start ignoring new marvel and star wars shows they're going to have a problem. mystes fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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Jun 14, 2022 19:45
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Emergency is pretty good I dug it.
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Just spotted Alien, Aliens, and Akira in the Hulu search page, I don't know if that's common knowledge or not, especially Akira. I've had a hard time finding that one the last couple times I looked
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Jun 15, 2022 04:02
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I saw Akira on there a while back but thought it got taken down, glad to hear it's back up there.
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Last night I finished the latest reboot of Queer as Folk on Peacock, after the original UK version aired from 1999 to 2000, and the first US version aired from 2000 to 2005 on Showtime. Of the 3 versions, only the UK original is actually any good, although I haven't seen it in about 12 years. I could never get into the Showtime show. This new one, while full of plenty of eye candy, is plagued by some poor plot choices (a Pulse nightclub style shooting in the first episode, the lead character repeatedly hooking up with a high schooler, a high school teacher regularly drinking and partying with her students without any serious repercussions, a will they or won't they romance between the gay cismale lead and the lesbian transfemale supporting lead), and some shitpoor acting by Jesse James Keitel as Ruthie, CG as Shar, Ryan O'Connell as Julian, Eric Graise as Marvin, and Kim Cattrall as Brenda. Much of the show feels like a very deliberate response to criticism of the first US reboot and HBO's Looking, in a very showy "look here, look here, we're doing it right" sort of way, while also failing to do so in a successful way. Its a Sin (created by the creator of the original Queer as Folk) remains the best gay TV show of the last few years, that show had me ugly crying a few times.
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Nihonniboku posted:Its a Sin (created by the creator of the original Queer as Folk) remains the best gay TV show of the last few years, that show had me ugly crying a few times. oh gently caress yeah, that show was so good 
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I watched the first episode of P-Valley after The Guardian posted a glowing review of the show. It was pretty good, impressively serious and well-done for a show that's ostensibly about a strip club.
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Papercut posted:I watched the first episode of P-Valley after The Guardian posted a glowing review of the show. It was pretty good, impressively serious and well-done for a show that's ostensibly about a strip club. Yeah it's a fantastic show. The plotting is above average, but the dialogue is what impressed me (and not in the sense that it's made of a bunch of super quotable pithy lines, like a lot of people mean when they talk about good dialogue, but more in the sense that it's vibrant and characterful and informative without being declarative... a lot of television has very mediocre scripting).
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I really hope Severance doesn’t pull a Raised By Wolves in S2 and goes so hard that it loses the audience, leading to an early cancellation. Although it also feels like a show that will get worse and worse the longer it lasts.
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i feel like Severance has enough goofyness at its core to not fall into the usual traps of such shows
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precision posted:i feel like Severance has enough goofyness at its core to not fall into the usual traps of such shows 
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