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i'm not watching succession because it's too popular
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Jan 26, 2023 18:20
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Antonymous posted:I am not a lawyer. yeah that's all theoretically true but you just get bludgeoned by frivolous lawsuits or more modern equivalents like frivolous takedowns on the internet if you get in the way of a corporation so virtually without exception people self-censor their creative output in most mediums (basic prose like books generally gets a pass on this). it's gotten really bad imo and people are starting to internalize the self-censorship as simply common sense respect for intellectual property or w/e Jazerus has issued a correction as of 19:38 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Jan 26, 2023 18:21
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The Wednesday show is pretty fun. It looks pretty good (Tim Burton directed a bunch of the episodes). Nevermore Academy school stuff is a fun school for banshees and psychics and gorgons and werewolves and has some great "Not Hogwarts" vibes. I also really like some of the side characters and the performances are universally pretty good. The actual "mystery" that the first season is based around is garbage, but I thought it was OK and would happily watch a second season of continued adventures in the school. Having said that, my wife is obsessed with it and has watched the whole thing like half a dozen times, so it clearly resonates with someone.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:22
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https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1618609918562500613
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Jan 26, 2023 18:26
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the best thing about Wednesday is that it had a Cramps song in it.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:28
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Wednesday was ok but I’ve had my fill of kid private school shows. tried to watch this vampire show on peacock and it was the same setting.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:47
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm not watching succession because it's too popular this was me but GoT. it was worth it just to be able to purposefully extract myself from conversations with coworkers I hate.
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Jan 26, 2023 18:49
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I don't understand not watching something because it's popular. if it's "popular" that means it appeals to normies sensibilities and I know that's not to my taste
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Jan 26, 2023 18:49
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I am euphoric
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Jan 26, 2023 18:52
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War and Pieces posted:if it's "popular" that means it appeals to normies sensibilities and I know that's not to my taste Cronenberg movies are popular just how niche are your tastes
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Jan 26, 2023 18:52
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Cronenberg movies are popular I believe those are what is called "cult classic"
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Jan 26, 2023 18:59
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99% of the time when someone says "this tv show is so good you have to watch it" it sucks rear end. tv sucks rear end!
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Jan 26, 2023 19:13
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honestly agreed. with the statement that tv sucks rear end. It does. It sucks rear end
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Jan 26, 2023 19:14
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in any given year like one scripted tv show will have a good season
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Jan 26, 2023 19:15
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Substandard posted:The Wednesday show is pretty fun. It looks pretty good (Tim Burton directed a bunch of the episodes). Nevermore Academy school stuff is a fun school for banshees and psychics and gorgons and werewolves and has some great "Not Hogwarts" vibes. I also really like some of the side characters and the performances are universally pretty good. where i land with wednesday, too - the central plot was a huge nothing, but it's a truly fantastic looking show, the characters are charming and the sideplots are way more fun than the mystery, and if theres a second season ill definitely catch it
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Jan 26, 2023 19:21
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lol
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Jan 26, 2023 19:22
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my girlfriend and I tried watching the new velma and turned it off after the opening scene. i have never seen a show that far up its own rear end. anyway we also started season 4 of the Sopranos (her first time watching, I only got to season 3 before) and the vibe has shifted hard. the saturation is turned up, the characters are nastier to each other, the shadows are deeper… the characters look so much older that I went back to see when the episode was filmed to confirm that it was only a year later. the lines in their faces are accentuated or something, I don’t know. it feels like maybe the camerawork is more dynamic? this is the first fully post 9/11 season and it definitely feels like it. would love to hear more about it from anyone that knows more about cinematography we also cracked into vice principals and danny mcbride is a master of capturing the essence of various kinda of dumb southern guys, it’s incredible
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Jan 26, 2023 19:22
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Jazerus posted:yeah that's all theoretically true but you just get bludgeoned by frivolous lawsuits or more modern equivalents like frivolous takedowns on the internet if you get in the way of a corporation so virtually without exception people self-censor their creative output in most mediums (basic prose generally get a pass on this). it's gotten really bad imo and people are starting to internalize the self-censorship as simply common sense respect for intellectual property or w/e depends. there's a story of a judge awarding 2M in legal fees against big companies attempting to do this, on top of throwing it out of the court if they can get a sypathetic judge maybe. but 1st ammendment is pretty strong. my experience is fear creates too much censorship b/c of fear of brand power
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Jan 26, 2023 19:24
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pogi posted:anyway we also started season 4 of the Sopranos (her first time watching, I only got to season 3 before) and the vibe has shifted hard. the saturation is turned up, the characters are nastier to each other, the shadows are deeper… the characters look so much older that I went back to see when the episode was filmed to confirm that it was only a year later. the lines in their faces are accentuated or something, I don’t know. it feels like maybe the camerawork is more dynamic? this is the first fully post 9/11 season and it definitely feels like it. would love to hear more about it from anyone that knows more about cinematography was that the first season filmed in hd? did the screen ratio change?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:24
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i don't think Succession is really generally "popular" offline
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Jan 26, 2023 19:25
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After the People's Revolution comes, we will all be freed from the shackles of the water cooler... Every season will be 6 episodes long with no cliffhangers. Children will run gaily in the streets without fear. Real squibs will be used in all gunfight scenes. Cats and dogs will live together in harmony. Technical awards such as best production design will be given equal weight as best actor. Gilbert Gottfried will be revived from the dead and narrate every audiobook and documentary. WE SHALL ALL BE FREED
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Jan 26, 2023 19:27
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anyone keep up with three body problem? tencent youtube is up to episode 8 now, which means about 5 hours of content. is it exciting yet?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:29
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i say swears online posted:was that the first season filmed in hd? did the screen ratio change? googled it and apparently they started airing the second season in HD, at least according to an article from 2001. it’s definitely an improvement in quality and it serves the story (which is going to much darker places and has tony being badly evil from the start), but the shift from the last episode of season 3 to the first episode of season 4 was huuuuuge. i wonder what people thought of it when it aired
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Jan 26, 2023 19:33
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KomradeX posted:Was Wednesday good? it's fine, some cute stuff, very YA (obviously). always like to see Catherine Zeta Jones and Christina Ricci in anything. very accurate depiction of the level of poo poo teenage boys will put up with cause they're horny. first time Fred Armisen has ever been good in something which is an accomplishment, big girl from GoT redeemed her awful performance as Lucifer, they didn’t let Luis Guzman do enough, costuming and production was really good except for Bianca's contacts which sucked, pretty much everything looks and sounds great. the costumers clearly put 1000% more effort into the women's looks than they did the boys, although now that I type that out maybe it's just an accurate depiction of reality. hmm if you aren't as into Christina Ricci as I am you aren't missing anything
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Jan 26, 2023 19:41
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drat horror queefs posted:After the People's Revolution comes, we will all be freed from the shackles of the water cooler... Every season will be 6 episodes long this sucks. I’m joining the reactionaries
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Jan 26, 2023 19:47
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I tried watching Wednesday and I was clearly not the target audience and her macabre cynicism schtick got old real fast but the production values seemed real polished and I liked the dynamic between gomez and morticia for whenever they were present
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Jan 26, 2023 19:47
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Buck Wildman posted:I liked the dynamic between gomez and morticia for whenever they were present I'd be more interested in this spin-off than another season of Wednesday. let the adults cook
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Jan 26, 2023 19:49
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I haven’t watched it but Guzman as Gomez is good casting based on the one screenshot I’ve seen of him
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Jan 26, 2023 19:51
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drat horror queefs posted:After the People's Revolution comes, we will all be freed from the shackles of the water cooler... Every season will be 6 episodes long with no cliffhangers. why would the people's revolution make TV like the british? that sounds like the opposite of good. how about 23 episode seasons designed for syndication?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:53
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i'm hardly the first to notice it, but succession's overarching plot is basically the same thing over and over: one or more of the kids scheme to take over the company, logan seems like he's hosed, but at the last second he pulls a legalistic trick to kick their rear end and defuse their takeover. logan gets big mad at whoever tried to dethrone him but ultimately nobody faces any consequences the whole thing with the company's cruise lines being mired in scandal definitely suffered from the TV writing process, because in season 1 the exact details of whatever horrible crimes their cruise lines did weren't relevant, since the whole thing was kind of a farcical scenario for tom to get unwittingly trapped in. then in later seasons it became this huge existential threat to the company with congressional hearings and everything, but they never bothered to flesh out exactly what the crimes were so it's too abstract to have any stakes the main appeal of succession seems to be the costuming, which to be fair is very good
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Jan 26, 2023 19:54
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RandolphCarter posted:I haven’t watched it but Guzman as Gomez is good casting based on the one screenshot I’ve seen of him my friends all loved the show but universally hated guzman because he didn't look like raul julia. they had never heard of the comic strip
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Jan 26, 2023 19:54
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i say swears online posted:my friends all loved the show but universally hated guzman because he didn't look like raul julia. they had never heard of the comic strip I wonder if the was internet complaining about Julia back then for being too handsome to be Gomez?
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Jan 26, 2023 19:58
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No, bc he looked like the one from the TV show
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Jan 26, 2023 20:00
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RandolphCarter posted:I wonder if the was internet complaining about Julia back then for being too handsome to be Gomez? Doubt it because he basically looked like John Astin.
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Jan 26, 2023 20:05
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:99% of the time when someone says "this tv show is so good you have to watch it" it sucks rear end. tv sucks rear end! Can't think of a tv show ive watched that not watching would leave a hole in my life where it used to be... Maybe MASH?
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Jan 26, 2023 20:09
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today I learned that Tim Curry played Gomez once
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Jan 26, 2023 20:10
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:today I learned that Tim Curry played Gomez once whoa
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Jan 26, 2023 20:11
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I think I'd have a very different sense of humor and probably be less empathetic without the Simpsons and more importantly Futurama
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Jan 26, 2023 20:11
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indigi posted:I think I'd have a very different sense of humor and probably be less empathetic without the Simpsons and more importantly Futurama same but Doug
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Jan 26, 2023 20:11
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indigi posted:I think I'd have a very different sense of humor and probably be less empathetic without the Simpsons and more importantly Futurama Simpsons and MST3K were key to me developing my sense of humor. also both have the thing going on where when you're a kid like 70% of the jokes go over your head so when you revisit it as an adult it's a whole new thing.
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