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P&R was good to the end, sounds like y'all need to get out of your own asses. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsIyt4kbCU BonoMan fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Famethrowa posted:is anyone else feeling more or less lukewarm on The Bear? it's a pretty good hangout show and I'm enjoying lounging while soaking in the show...but it's so nothing. Beyond a few sketchy outlines, I feel like I know absolutely nothing about any of the characters. I really liked it. It reminds me of a dramatic take on Bourdain, and shows like Mind of a Chef and Chef's Table. I love that poo poo. I have a friend whose career has been in the food industry, and owns a few high end restaurants and bars in Detroit, and he's been raving about the show, talking about how accurate it is to working in a kitchen.
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They go a little too hard on the heard chef and corner stuff but other than that it's pretty accurate. Restaurant people are hosed up
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Blind Fury is on prime and if you havent seen it it's def a top 80s shlock action comedy recommend, honestly kinda underrated Rutger Hauer as Vietnam vet Zaitoichi, Terry O'Quinn making blue meth in Reno for a tyrannical casino owner, Tex Cobb chewing cigars and being a great heavy, Sho Kasugi as an evil assassin, and just a whole cast of colorful goons to be dispatched (including a scene-stealing turn from Nick Cassavetes and Rick Overton as a pair of hick henchmen brothers). Pretty great sense of fun n humor too.
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Jul 20, 2022 22:09
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BonoMan posted:P&R was good to the end, sounds like y'all need to get out of your own asses. i can see the argument that it became too driven by the characters' quirks, but at the same time, what else should quirky ensemble character shows be about  like to me Parks and Rec is the platonic ideal of a show that did exactly what it set out to do
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Blind Fury is on prime and if you havent seen it it's def a top 80s shlock action comedy recommend, honestly kinda underrated I'll second this, super fun movie. precision posted:i can see the argument that it became too driven by the characters' quirks, but at the same time, what else should quirky ensemble character shows be about I'm in a co-signing mood, because I agree with all of this. Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Jul 20, 2022 22:32
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im goin thru the hbo max library now is there anything that stands out? I watched hacks already it was v good
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You watch Watchmen (the show) yet? It's pretty great for a show that both seemingly has almost nothing to do with the book but would make absolutely no sense to someone who hasn't read the book.
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Jul 21, 2022 00:22
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Have you seen Barry? It's my favorite show probably ever.
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A MIRACLE posted:im goin thru the hbo max library now is there anything that stands out? I watched hacks already it was v good Somebody Somewhere is under the radar and fantastic. It's only like 7 short episodes.
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Let Him Go is a pretty good slow-burn thriller starring Mr. and Mrs. Superman themselves Kevin Costner and Diane Lane.
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Doom Patrol is superhero bullshit but Brendan Fraser is real good as a piece of poo poo robot and it's real weird and also super queer. There are carnivorous butts and a genderqueer sentient street.
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A MIRACLE posted:im goin thru the hbo max library now is there anything that stands out? I watched hacks already it was v good It's a Sin is phenomenal. Short British series about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. I never cry, and I ugly sobbed a couple times during the show. Seconding Watchmen, but you should be aware of all of the main HBO shows over the last 22 years. Six Feet Under especially. Euphoria is a standout from the last few years. And The White Lotus. But if you're looking specifically to HBO Max shows, which I think are supposed to be separate from HBO? Or do they air on regular HBO also? Of those, Raised by Wolves is a bonkers SciFi show from Ridley Scott, you'll either love it or hate it. Sadly, it got the axe after two seasons, so a bunch of mysteries aren't likely to ever be answered. Station Eleven was a very satisfying show to watch, if you can tolerate a show about a global pandemic. It's about a traveling theater group who goes around the Great Lakes after civilization fell following a pandemic. Julia, a biographical drama about Julia Child was fun at first, but I stopped watching about halfway through because it got tiresome. Season 1 of The Flight Attendant was a lot of fun, about a drunk flight attendant who gets caught up in some big murder mystery with international espionage. I couldn't get through season 2 though. Generation is a less successful version of Euphoria by Lena Dunham. Justice Smith is the standout in the cast, and worth watching if you like him. Made for Love was interesting in concept and less so in execution about a woman who marries a billionaire tech genius, and her attempts to escape from the marriage. Stars Christin Milioti (the mom from how I met your mother), and Ray Romano (ray from everyone loves raymond). And Just Like That is the sequel series to Sex and the City. It's simultaneously insufferable, but I also didn't want it to end. The returning characters have become incredibly obnoxious, and the most compelling characters are the new ladies added to the cast. Peacemaker is a DC superhero show from James Gunn, and a spinoff of Suicide Squad. It took me some time to get into it, but it got legit good by the end. It also has the most bonkers opening credits of any show I've ever seen. Minx is a decent enough show about a feminist woman in the 70s who works with a porn publisher to create a woman's porno magazine. Lots of prosthetic penises attached to real men. Has Jake Johnson and Lennon Parham. What Happened, Brittany Murphy is a biographical documentary about the life and death of, Brittany Murphy. Very sad. Legendary is a fun reality competition show about voguing and ball culture. Phenomenal display of queer culture. Starstruck is a very charming and funny show about a normal Kiwi woman who meets and falls in love with an incredibly handsome movie star. Search Party, brought over from TBS, is a very funny show about a friend group of narcissistic millennials who become involved in the search of a woman they barely knew in college. Becomes more unhinged as the show goes on. Definitely worth watching. Stars Alia Shawkat and John Early. And finally, I can't recommend The Other Two enough. Brought over from Comedy Central. I haven't laughed as hard as I do with this show. Its created by former SNL co-headwriters Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider. It's about two siblings who moves to NYC to try and make it big in the entertainment industry, and have utterly failed. Then their younger tween brother becomes an overnight Justin Bieber like sensation, and they've become the other two. Incredibly funny, stars Drew Tarver, Molly Shannon, and Ken Marino. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Great rundown. Station Eleven is a wonderful limited series. Beautiful story telling and was with pre pandemic so it's not some cheap cash in. Search party is amazing. Just bonkers poo poo that I try to recommend to everyone because it is just goes to wild places. Most people just watch a few episodes and say "I don't like these people" and bail but dear God stick with it... It's amazing. Every season is a new gift.
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Those are all good recs - I'm especially fond of Search Party and the Other Two - but I also want to throw out The Great Pottery Thrown Down. It's more or less Great British Bake Off except with pottery, and you already know if you want to watch it or not based on that description. Special kudos go to the judge with truly catastrophic hair who frequently cries at peoples, like, tea cups. EDIT: Oh also Infinity Train is excellent animation. Nice, tight little show, each season is 10 15-minute episodes. Undeniably peaks at Season 3. S4 is fine (and has one great supporting cast member) but it's just a let down after S3. Boxman fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Is black bird any good? I’m a big Paul Walter Hauser fan (although maybe I’ll be less of one after seeing him play a serial killer)
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precision posted:i can see the argument that it became too driven by the characters' quirks, but at the same time, what else should quirky ensemble character shows be about They flanderized every character to a degree even season 33 of the Simpsons hasnt. It got so sickly sweet there shoulda been a fuckin warning about diabetes before every episode
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Station Eleven is so good possibly the best thing I saw this year it's thoughtful affecting funny it's got good performances it has an actual end and not a cliffhanger. That is what TV should be
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It was grating and pretentious to me but I liked the anarcho communism apocalypse future parts a lot. Nice departure from mad max poo poo
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:They flanderized every character to a degree even season 33 of the Simpsons hasnt. It got so sickly sweet there shoulda been a fuckin warning about diabetes before every episode Pretty clever referencing something no one has ever seen so its impossible to say if you're wrong or not
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A MIRACLE posted:It was grating and pretentious to me but I liked the anarcho communism apocalypse future parts a lot. Nice departure from mad max poo poo I do agree it’s a bit pretentious but I still liked it a lot. Everything Teriyaki Hairpiece wrote is true
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Wolfsheim posted:Pretty clever referencing something no one has ever seen so its impossible to say if you're wrong or not The last season of The Simpsons was season 33, actually. I thought it was more like 35 tbh, haven't watched it in years
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The joke is that I don't know anyone who kept watching the simpsons past season 15 or so It would be like meeting someone still watching the walking dead, or someone who likes the final season of the office the best
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I haven't watched The Simpsons in many years either, probably 20 years since I last watched regularly, but there was a certain point where they just started focusing on celebrity guest stars, and it was far less interesting for it. I've heard the show has had its ebbs and flows over the years, but yeah. What's stranger is that Family Guy has been going for like 20 years now. South Park is 25 years old.
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I've actually seen a lot of recent family guy but only because it's my SO's "put this on to fall asleep to" show It's so bad now that I think the writers are actively hostile to the idea they have to keep doing it
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I watch all of that poo poo. Simpson’s has mostly bad episodes now. Family guy is so fuckin dumb but it makes me laugh every time
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any time i watch a random new Simpsons episode, i'm either astonished by how bad it actually is, or astonished that it's not that bad. it doesn't seem to ever have hit that bland middle road that most Family Guy sunk into
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Baron von Eevl posted:Doom Patrol is superhero bullshit but Brendan Fraser is real good as a piece of poo poo robot and it's real weird and also super queer. Those parts are great, but the series as a whole is obsessed with being so dour and morose and you spend forty minutes an episode in flashbacks of all the traumatizing things that happened to the characters.
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Is "Visitors" good? It looks like adult stranger things
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a whole rear end bunch of recommendations for hbo shows but not a single mention of I Know This Much Is True? for shame
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Money Heist Korea is a peculiar beast - 50% straight from the original and the rest inspured by the new setting (North and South Korea have entered into a cooperative agreement but there's massive distrust and inequality). In some ways this adds to or fixes issues with the original and in other ways it takes away. There's a slight soap opera feel and I swear some of the cast must be from boy bands. But it's short and different enough that I'm on board.
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Famethrowa posted:is anyone else feeling more or less lukewarm on The Bear? it's a pretty good hangout show and I'm enjoying lounging while soaking in the show...but it's so nothing. Beyond a few sketchy outlines, I feel like I know absolutely nothing about any of the characters. BonoMan posted:Search party is amazing. Just bonkers poo poo that I try to recommend to everyone because it is just goes to wild places. Most people just watch a few episodes and say "I don't like these people" and bail but dear God stick with it... It's amazing. Every season is a new gift.
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I thought The Bear was goofy and cliched and full of really obvious telegraphing of all its character development... also it was great. It built up the kind of energy and tension that let me enjoy all the silliness, I didn't only like the show despite all of that stuff.
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nonathlon posted:Money Heist Korea is a peculiar beast - 50% straight from the original and the rest inspured by the new setting (North and South Korea have entered into a cooperative agreement but there's massive distrust and inequality). In some ways this adds to or fixes issues with the original and in other ways it takes away. There's a slight soap opera feel and I swear some of the cast must be from boy bands. But it's short and different enough that I'm on board. Yeah, it's very weird. In a lot of ways it's almost a 1:1 remake, in some ways quite different. It did feel quite a bit better paced than the Spanish version, though.
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I miss some of things they lost but it is better paced. And some of the casting seems almost inspired - like they looked for someone with the same vibe as the original character. And, maybe it's my imagination, but the negotiator character seems a lot stronger. In the original, she's constantly fighting to be heard and having the robbers run rings around her.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Station Eleven is so good possibly the best thing I saw this year it's thoughtful affecting funny it's got good performances it has an actual end and not a cliffhanger. That is what TV should be Extremely co-signed. It was one of the most satisfying artistic experiences I've had in years and years. I still think about it all the time
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It is indeed fantastic. One of the better book adaptations I’ve ever seen done. It’s quite different from the book too (basically all good) so if you want to read the book for, basically, an alt universe take on the show - I’d definitely recommend it even after seeing the show. There was an episodes of Scriptnotes (screenwriting podcast) the other day that had the showrunner on and I was so excited to hear his thoughts on the things he changed. He’s a friend of the author so surely there were gonna be some good stories on the changes…. but instead it was solely about the technical process of getting hired on and shooting in a pandemic etc. Nothing about the creative process. Boooooo.
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Doom Patrol is a show with a nonbinary sentient street. it owns
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ShoogaSlim posted:a whole rear end bunch of recommendations for hbo shows but not a single mention of I Know This Much Is True? for shame The question was about HBO Max shows, so people are discussing HBO Max shows. I Know This Much Is True, while very good, is regular ol' HBO.
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