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A MIRACLE posted:I only made it one season into mad men, Elizabeth whatzerface skeeves me out too much. Ill give it another shot tho Lolwut? Compound take here that I can only feel bad for you about.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Lolwut? she skeeves me out too, but mostly because of the whole scientology thing. she's a terrific actress regardless and Mad Men is easily her best work
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God Hole posted:she skeeves me out too, but mostly because of the whole scientology thing. she's a terrific actress regardless and Mad Men is easily her best work I did not know that. Lame.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Sopranos is peak 'prestige drama' Breaking bad kicked the poo poo out of the sopranos
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This Fool on Hulu is not a replacement for Joe Pera Talks With You, but it has a lot of Joe Pera energy (if Joe Pera were a Chicano living in LA and working in a gang rehab center run by Michael Imperioli).
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I only got to see half of Day Shift so far but it was nailing it as a solid buddy cop comedy. Hit all the classic tropes but still felt fresh. Dave Franco plays the nerdy bureaucrat paper pusher foil to Jamie foxxs just tryna make it single father slash vampire hunter slash pool boy. Gonna finish it later when I’m back
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Field Mousepad posted:Breaking bad kicked the poo poo out of the sopranos Breaking Bad doesn't hold up and will be forgotten like Sea Hunt
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Breaking Bad is better than the Sopranos don’t @ me
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If you want a real hot take: Apple TV+ is the HBO of the 2020's And it's cheap
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Can confirm have zero desire to relive the breaking bad saga. Better call Saul is the poo poo tho holy poo poo
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If you want a real hot take: Apple TV+ is the HBO of the 2020's Only by aesthetic. Prime original series beat Apple TV+ on average by a lot
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Wolfsheim posted:Its possible it got good again in S3 but I didnt stick around to find out, there is exactly one good episode in S2 and it featured almost none of the characters the show was was about (the Native American episode)
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A MIRACLE posted:Only by aesthetic. Prime original series beat Apple TV+ on average by a lot That's not true at all, at least the new stuff.
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A MIRACLE posted:Can confirm have zero desire to relive the breaking bad saga.
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rewatching both breaking bad and sopranos at once and they are unmatched by anything I've seen recently.
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I had to take a break halfway through rewatch of the last season because Walt was too much of an rear end in a top hat. Someday I will get back to it.
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Walt was always an rear end in a top hat. The story is not about how he changes from a mild mannered teacher to a ruthless drug dealer, it's how the whole world of Albuquerque stops coddling a middle aged middle class white man who's an rear end in a top hat, and how he experiences actual consequences for the first time in his life
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Is Amazon bubble-proof? There doesn’t seem to be any bad news around them and they seem to make all their monkey off web services and selling user data
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Steve Yun posted:Is Amazon bubble-proof? There doesn’t seem to be any bad news around them and they seem to make all their monkey off web services and selling user data They aren't bubble-proof (just b/c technically nobody is) but they are making wise choices in their investments (AWS and now medical clinics) that diversify their portfolio into very growth-y sectors. So basically they aren't dependent at all on their streaming performance. That's not something just a Disney or HBO can do. On the negative side, it also just means that it's basically soulless and the content isn't great. I mean I know *all* capitalistic enterprises are soulless but at least most streaming services thrive or die on the quality of content. Amazon's content is basically an accidental tumor growth. Sometimes benign. Sometimes cancerous. But they're rich enough to take care of it no matter what. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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breaking bad is pretty great but it did rely a lot on cliffhangers and mysteries that don't hit as hard on the rewatch. probably the most egregious example is all of the cold opens in season 2, where you see all of the wreckage and debris in walt's driveway. it's heavily implied to be due to some sort of big shootout or blowup due to walt's meth cooking, but it turns out to be wreckage from the airplane crash, which makes it all pointless once you know the reveal
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Prime Video is, essentially, the DVD aisle at Best Buy circa 2013. You'll find some good stuff, but you have to sift through a lot of crap.
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Aglet56 posted:breaking bad is pretty great but it did rely a lot on cliffhangers and mysteries that don't hit as hard on the rewatch. probably the most egregious example is all of the cold opens in season 2, where you see all of the wreckage and debris in walt's driveway. it's heavily implied to be due to some sort of big shootout or blowup due to walt's meth cooking, but it turns out to be wreckage from the airplane crash, which makes it all pointless once you know the reveal Not pointless it leads to lots of things like putting the Q in ABQ
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I saw the news earlier this week that hulu prices were going up and assumed they'd grandfather people into lower-tier ad-supported options... but has that happened already? Was watching Reservation Dogs tonight and had a (short) ad break in the middle of it. Was jarring.
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Aglet56 posted:breaking bad is pretty great but it did rely a lot on cliffhangers and mysteries that don't hit as hard on the rewatch. probably the most egregious example is all of the cold opens in season 2, where you see all of the wreckage and debris in walt's driveway. it's heavily implied to be due to some sort of big shootout or blowup due to walt's meth cooking, but it turns out to be wreckage from the airplane crash, which makes it all pointless once you know the reveal It's not pointless though? Walt is indirectly responsible for the plane wreck happening. He let the girl OD at Jessie's place and her dad is the air traffic controller, he's grief stricken and loses focus and that's how the plane crash happens.
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Steve Yun posted:Is Amazon bubble-proof? There doesn’t seem to be any bad news around them and they seem to make all their monkey off web services and selling user data I would cancel Amazon Prime Video if it wasn't attached to Amazon Prime delivery. They just don't produce enough good content to justify paying for it, and they've pushed most of their catalogue to the free, commercial supported service Freevee (formerly IMDBTV).
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Field Mousepad posted:It's not pointless though? Walt is indirectly responsible for the plane wreck happening. He let the girl OD at Jessie's place and her dad is the air traffic controller, he's grief stricken and loses focus and that's how the plane crash happens. I get what he means, BB does a lot of flash forward stuff to serve as a little teaser for what's to come, which is less satisfying when you already know the 'mystery' being hinted at. I've actually been watching BCS after blowing it off years ago (just made it to S5) and it's kinda better about it and kinda not, because most of the little teasers are just to remind you that BB eventually happens. I think the Sopranos kind of stands on it's own a little better as a whole for trying to be less 'suspenseful' in that way, if that makes sense? Less about building to a reveal and more about watching horrible people bounce off of each other. Then again the BB prequel is mostly good and the Sopranos prequel is shockingly bad so who's to say which is better overall
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Yeah, I get it too. It's the difference between a foreshadowing moment that includes hints that you may not appreciate until the twist is revealed, and a foreshadowing moment that's just meant to misdirect or to make you wonder what's going on. The pool moments at the opening of that season's openings don't really include hints (except the stuffed animal, maybe), so those moments don't reward a rewatch as much.
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Well yeah obviously if you're doing a rewatch it's not as impactful but the first time you see it played out is definitely a holy poo poo moment.
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Edward Mass posted:Prime Video is, essentially, the DVD aisle at Best Buy circa 2013. You'll find some good stuff, but you have to sift through a lot of crap. Tubi is that mom and pop rental store that has so many movies they have to break down the video boxes and put them in flat sleeves in comic book long boxes.
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Netflix-Good for just finding random palatable trash to watch. Once in a while something good pops up but not enough. Not worth the money. I only keep it cause my family uses the account. Might still cancel Hulu-Better than Netflix but still spotty. Overall decent possibly worth it HBO Max-Historically pretty good. Future looks bleak. Probably still worth it atm Amazon-Mostly worth it for the shipping. So much junk. occasional great original shows though. Apple TV+- Dirt cheap, great content, great streaming quality. Low overall content, but totally worth it Disney-Barely use it. I don't care about almost anything on it. probably great for the right customer like parents and turbo nerds. peacock-Dog-poo poo paramount-Not as bad as peacock but still dog poo poo Tubi-Actually not bad for a free service but I don't use it much.
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I wish Hulu were better at discovery, because they really have, pound for pound, some of the best stuff next to HBO Max. Just looking back recently, you've got Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; The Bear; Prey; Fire Island; Only Murders in the Building. That's just off the top of my head based on my own limited discovery abilities
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Yeah Hulu has a lot of good stuff and a lot of variety. They are also really good for certain types of movies. Like, lots of horror new releases and I think they still get a lot of A24? Maybe that's split up with HBO now I'm not sure.
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The Modern Leper posted:I wish Hulu were better at discovery, because they really have, pound for pound, some of the best stuff next to HBO Max. Just looking back recently, you've got Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; The Bear; Prey; Fire Island; Only Murders in the Building. That's just off the top of my head based on my own limited discovery abilities Hulu has (all of?) FX's programming, so stuff like Always Sunny, What We Do In the Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Atlanta, etc are great. Their movie selection usually rotates in some pretty solid options as well. I agree that they are second behind HBO Max in terms of current quality.
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MrXmas posted:Hulu has (all of?) FX's programming, so stuff like Always Sunny, What We Do In the Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Atlanta, etc are great. Their movie selection usually rotates in some pretty solid options as well. I agree that they are second behind HBO Max in terms of current quality. Yeah Hulu is crazy for rewatching shows. In addition to what you mentioned they've also got Archer, Bob's burgers, Rick and Morty, Dave, workaholics, etc
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And Atlanta. But I guess since Doja cat was on Dave then Dave is better
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