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The new guy in charge has a bias against uh...all scripted content? https://twitter.com/TheDonkeyDrip/status/1554729911335587840
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So what I'm hearing is "RIP HBO Max and all it's associated content."
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Aug 5, 2022 03:11
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SlothfulCobra posted:The new guy in charge has a bias against uh...all scripted content? That means what, reality shows? Game shows? Youtube react videos?
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Aug 5, 2022 03:28
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A.o.D. posted:That means what, reality shows? Game shows? Youtube react videos? the man is apparently a fanatic for reality TV, every network he's touched has been gutted and filled with My 600 Lbs Life-tier trash
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Aug 5, 2022 03:31
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Oxxidation posted:the man is apparently a fanatic for reality TV, every network he's touched has been gutted and filled with My 600 Lbs Life-tier trash Why is he allowed to keep doing this?
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Aug 5, 2022 07:36
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He makes the line go up
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Aug 5, 2022 07:48
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I just started watching 'Farzar' on a whim and I got all of 6 minutes in. In that time there was -a sounding joke, explicitly shown to children in-universe (yes, *that* sounding) -a pedophilia 'joke' -a joke intellectually disabled character who starts jerking off in public -a fourth wall break in addition, the protagonist names his team the 'S.H.A.T.', which the drug addict robot sidekick character immediately points out is the past tense of poo poo (why in gods name would you explain this). a serious question in all earnestness: who is this show for?
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Aug 5, 2022 09:21
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People who still think that Family Guy is the height of comedy years after its time has passed.
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Aug 5, 2022 09:45
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He was the guy in charge of Discovery, so he's in charge after the merger. Of course, I don't understand why he acquired a company that he hated all the assets of and wanted to burn down without even getting insurance money out of it.
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Aug 5, 2022 15:58
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Has there been any good news from this merger at all? It seems to be an unmitigated failure across the board, every piece of news has been about the vast swathes of literally loving everything that is being cut and basically everyone is furious with them for one reason or another. Some very rich people are going to get slightly richer, so it’s good news for somebody!
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Aug 5, 2022 16:27
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Why is he allowed to keep doing this? Keep in mind, the channels he's been involved in are the kind of thing that produces content, not programming. Like, My 600 Lb Life is acceptable background noise when you're taking a sick day or collapsing at a hotel in bumfuck Iowa at the end of a long day's drive. For the most part, he's never been involved in handling something like HBO Max. It's funny, because he talks about data. Well he got his start at NBC in the late 80s. Do you know what show NBC had on at the time that was very popular. Cheers. You know what show was at the bottom of the ratings for it's very first season? Cheers. NBC kept the show on because it was a good show, the president of the network believed it could find an audience, and it paid off. And they didn't have much they could replace it with, but shut up! This data driven approach to content is bad. Sometimes, a good show needs to find its legs. You need to give these things a chance. And it can pay off in the end. But you let some business major walk in and say "look at this data," and you end up with someone who can produce the Discovery Channel - a channel with bland inoffensive content that is just interesting enough to get someone to look at every so often, but predictable enough that you don't need to bother watching.
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Aug 5, 2022 17:44
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Its a real life example of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAbh39aoU8
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James Urbaniak is one step ahead of you https://twitter.com/JamesUrbaniak/status/1555323658809184256?t=wwWhzJsfPrb7TJ18AYBD2A&s=19 TheDeadlyShoe posted:I just started watching 'Farzar' on a whim and I got all of 6 minutes in. I appreciate their obvious Leela-knockoff character, i.e. Hot Chick But With A Mutation But Don't Worry She's Still Hot
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Aug 5, 2022 19:57
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I don't know how much they advertised it but the Smiling Friends special airs tonight.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:It’s gonna be some weird poo poo where they never leave the airport or some poo poo. winner winner chicken dinner
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Happy Landfill posted:How soon did the Futurama/Rick and Morty joke happen? It was in the introductory cut scene explaining the sending. Right after the sounding joke!
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Aug 7, 2022 11:17
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Dapper_Swindler posted:It’s gonna be some weird poo poo where they never leave the airport or some poo poo. It was this and it was great. It's literally just them talking and arguing. The dialogue is the most natural I've ever heard in a show
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Aug 7, 2022 15:20
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Happy Landfill posted:I think that's what makes episode 2 so great--the first and only time you meet Stolas his only joke/character beat is The Horny Dude; but then episode two starts and you're like, "oh, haha it's the horny guy again, I bet he's about to do a funny horny bit," and you think it's the lead up to a joke but it ends up going in to "You Will Be Okay" and it's this straight, genuinely touching character moment. He spends a lot of the episode being a weird horny dude and it's played as a joke but it also plays up against the other bit of his character that's been established--genuine love for his daughter. I seriously thought he would be a one-note character and then he wasn't. I think it also plays into that he is in a clearly dead marriage and is looking for a lifeboat and he goes full horny because he is desperate for any sorta of connection mixed with he has never really had a great emotional connection with anyone much less romantic. Macaluso posted:It was this and it was great. It's literally just them talking and arguing. The dialogue is the most natural I've ever heard in a show Dope is it on hbo max yet? Happy Landfill posted:He makes the line go up He isn’t currently, he is making the line drop like a loving rock. TheDeadlyShoe posted:I just started watching 'Farzar' on a whim and I got all of 6 minutes in. Morons. It probably makes enough views to justify a 3 seasons Cemetry Gator posted:Keep in mind, the channels he's been involved in are the kind of thing that produces content, not programming. Like, My 600 Lb Life is acceptable background noise when you're taking a sick day or collapsing at a hotel in bumfuck Iowa at the end of a long day's drive. Lol hbo is gonna die. I just hope adult swim and a24 survive and James Gunn poo poo survives somehow
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Bust Rodd posted:The only streaming service with a library that everyone could get excited about just eating it’s own lunch, pooping it’s pants, and dying at the precipice of Netflix committing subscriber suicide is so impossibly stupid. Yeah if they kill adult swim or a24 somehow. I am out. They are just gonna make it trash and milk a bunch of dead series too death. Like I think there are like 7 or more GOT shows in production and only one looks ok.
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Aug 7, 2022 16:59
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Macaluso posted:The dialogue is the most natural I've ever heard in a show It really is and its one of the reasons I love it. That and how it gets so weird I end up sitting there saying "WTF is going on?!" in a good way. This episode was no different. Dapper_Swindler posted:Dope is it on hbo max yet? Yup, that's how I just watched it.
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Macaluso posted:It was this and it was great. It's literally just them talking and arguing. The dialogue is the most natural I've ever heard in a show THEY DIDN'T PAY FOR THE FRIES!!!
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Aug 7, 2022 17:19
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:People who still think that Family Guy is the height of comedy years after its time has passed. It's decent background noise, but these days it seems like literally every joke is "Peter is secretly bi", "Lois is unhappy", or "Jews like money", and they're trying to include at least one of each of these jokes in every episode.
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Genuinely worried for the future of the Venture Bros movie  if they get poo poo canned twice I'm going to be pissed
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Dapper_Swindler posted:He isn’t currently, he is making the line drop like a loving rock. I'm fond of the idea that investors are just like "Well, gently caress, they're gonna cancel everything I watch! What's even the point??"
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muscles like this! posted:I don't know how much they advertised it but the Smiling Friends special airs tonight. This episode gave me PTSD. 10/10
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I had to stop and come back to that episode like 3 times from what I can only describe as psychological cringe damage. It’s a drat fine episode by it goddamn hurt to watch. It’s the same reason I can’t watch Always Sunny as the first episode makes me want to die.
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"Could barely watch the whole thing. 10/10"
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Warbird posted:I had to stop and come back to that episode like 3 times from what I can only describe as psychological cringe damage. It’s a drat fine episode by it goddamn hurt to watch. It’s the same reason I can’t watch Always Sunny as the first episode makes me want to die. Yeah, I've never seen 'accidentally loving up and ruining poo poo for your friends' captured in such a realistic and uncomfortable way. "You picked the worst possible time, you just picked the worst possible time to go"
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Smiling Friends sounding increasingly like Nathan for You//Rehearsal, a brilliant piece of comedic art that would probably make my skin crawl with anxiety and I would hate completely.
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Bust Rodd posted:Smiling Friends sounding increasingly like Nathan for You//Rehearsal, a brilliant piece of comedic art that would probably make my skin crawl with anxiety and I would hate completely. It's really just this episode so far that goes for the extremely uncomfortable too real thing. The rest is pretty silly overall. They just really like having these goofy looking characters have realistic conversations and this episode was like the ultimate version of that.
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Bust Rodd posted:Smiling Friends sounding increasingly like Nathan for You//Rehearsal, a brilliant piece of comedic art that would probably make my skin crawl with anxiety and I would hate completely. Smiling friends sorta reminds me of a more refined version of aqua teen hunger force(shows fantastic) but more for younger millennials and older zoomers. The humor class clicks just right. Macaluso posted:It's really just this episode so far that goes for the extremely uncomfortable too real thing. The rest is pretty silly overall. They just really like having these goofy looking characters have realistic conversations and this episode was like the ultimate version of that. I remember Zach talking about how that was one of his intentions, it’s a wacky cartoon weird poo poo but everyone acts realistically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56pOweQdgcw
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Just finished Tuca & Bertie season 2. I cannot fathom why they cut the excellent intro in half, but it makes a certain kind of sense as this season was a lot less zany fun and a lot more mental health struggles. Season 1 was better, overall, but season 2 had some great episodes. Night Friends and The Flood were great episodes, the gentrifying moss was a hilarious running gag, and I think a lot of people have dated a Kara in the past (including me). I'll start season 3 tonight, interested to see where they go with it.
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https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1560051134185684992 Too bad if you liked any cartoons on HBO Max.
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Aug 18, 2022 03:02
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Mokinokaro posted:Man so many of those deserved better. The success of a show is no longer determined by whether or not it's good or if people like it, but rather the whims of a CEO who has never seen it.
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Feels like we're entering a dark age for animation.
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Pixeltendo posted:Feels like we're entering a dark age for animation. Yeah, and things have been going really well lately so it's an extra big bummer to see it killed off for no loving reason. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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Goddamn. I feel the worst is they are gonna write these as tax write offs so no ever seeing them on a streaming platform ever again.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The success of a show is no longer determined by whether or not it's good or if people like it, but rather the whims of a CEO who has never seen it. Well in fairness, this has been true for a very long time. The entertainment industry is spectacularly awful
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