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........yeah, it's time to give ATV+ a 6+ month break until there is something new.
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Watching the third episode of Shrinking now, and yeah i think I like this show. Segel's a great sad sack and the show's funny when it wants to be. Though it mostly doesn't want to be -- there's an entire three minute scene in this episode where there's exactly one joke, and that's Michael Urie saying the word "cornhole". So yeah, it's on the drama end of the dramedy scale, closer to something like Casual. (Which is fine, I really liked Casual.) On a more high falutin level, I'd say the show "suffers" from not having a particularly strong concept behind it; it's really about a loose tangle of people who happen to be in each other's orbits rather than a show about a shrink and his patients, or whatever. But I think that just means it's a more traditional, low-concept set-up, something I'm not used to seeing on screen that much anymore. I like that too. So what I'm saying is that this was entirely not what I expected, but now I've got a better sense of what it's like I'm far more into it.
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Feb 5, 2023 14:53
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Open Source Idiom posted:Watching the third episode of Shrinking now, and yeah i think I like this show. Segel's a great sad sack and the show's funny when it wants to be. Though it mostly doesn't want to be -- there's an entire three minute scene in this episode where there's exactly one joke, and that's Michael Urie saying the word "cornhole". So yeah, it's on the drama end of the dramedy scale, closer to something like Casual. (Which is fine, I really liked Casual.) I second all of this. Also, who would’ve thought that Indiana Jones and a former Daily Show correspondent would’ve been one of the more compelling on screen duos?
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Feb 5, 2023 15:06
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Does See get much better in Season 2? I’m working my way (slowly) through season 1 and while the premise is really interesting, and it’s visually very pretty, it’s also a goddamn slog. I heard starting in Season 2 David Bautista shows up so I’m just trying to push through. Reminds me how Into the Badlands had this massive improvement once Nick Frost joined in S2.
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Feb 5, 2023 15:09
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Does See get much better in Season 2? I’m working my way (slowly) through season 1 and while the premise is really interesting, and it’s visually very pretty, it’s also a goddamn slog. See's second season has a largely different production crew, and you can tell. New sound person, new credits, new structure. Lots of cameos by random Banshee and Warrior cast members (Jonathan Tropper show ran all three) -- and by Stargate Atlantis actors too because Jason Momoa. It's got a different feel, closer to Canadian science-fiction than what it was doing before. I personally missed the fantasy vibe, the new show isn't the kind of thing that'd do something like the bridge episode, or the mines episode, and the politics are closer to modern military thrillers than a fantasy court. But YMMV.
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Feb 5, 2023 15:33
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Open Source Idiom posted:Watching the third episode of Shrinking now, and yeah i think I like this show. Segel's a great sad sack and the show's funny when it wants to be. Though it mostly doesn't want to be -- there's an entire three minute scene in this episode where there's exactly one joke, and that's Michael Urie saying the word "cornhole". So yeah, it's on the drama end of the dramedy scale, closer to something like Casual. (Which is fine, I really liked Casual.) Nailed exactly how I was feeling about it . I like it, but it's not amazing or anything. I wasn't even going to watch it until I watched an interview with Brett Goldstein who was promoting it on Colbert or something. Goldstein told a story of trying to get Harrison Ford involved. Harrison read the script and told him that it was the best script he had ever read. If Harrison Ford says that, i'm gonna watch whatever he's talking about. It was also a really charming, funny story (and interview) and tipped me off to Goldstein being a writer of both Shrinking and Ted Lasso (among many other things).
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ShowTime posted:Nailed exactly how I was feeling about it . I like it, but it's not amazing or anything. I wasn't even going to watch it until I watched an interview with Brett Goldstein who was promoting it on Colbert or something. Goldstein told a story of trying to get Harrison Ford involved. Harrison read the script and told him that it was the best script he had ever read. If Harrison Ford says that, i'm gonna watch whatever he's talking about. It was also a really charming, funny story (and interview) and tipped me off to Goldstein being a writer of both Shrinking and Ted Lasso (among many other things). watching episode 3 and if you didn't crackle at the the whole scene at the start of the episode at the trash can, I don't know what to tell you.
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On the second season of Servant. I really like it but I also really really despise the wife. It's making it hard to watch. I mean I dislike all of them as people but have a visceral reaction to the wife. It's like a super dark It's Always Sunny where everybody is a terrible person but there is no comedy payoff. Glad to see the Harry Potter dude in something though he is great in this.
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D-Pad posted:On the second season of Servant. I really like it but I also really really despise the wife. It's making it hard to watch. I mean I dislike all of them as people but have a visceral reaction to the wife. It's like a super dark It's Always Sunny where everybody is a terrible person but there is no comedy payoff. Glad to see the Harry Potter dude in something though he is great in this. SLOSifl Channel 8 neeeewws Back to you
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ShowTime posted:Harrison read the script and told him that it was the best script he had ever read. If Harrison Ford says that, i'm gonna watch whatever he's talking about. I thought the same thing, but then I watched it, and I thought maybe a second-hand quote about a show from someone with a financial interest in its success, delivered by someone else with a financial interest in its success... is not 100% unbiased. It's not terrible, but if Ford said it was the best script he'd ever read then his opinion is trash
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Feb 7, 2023 18:01
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Mixed Shrinking this week. Segel especially was doing all the worst things about his acting style
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Escobarbarian posted:Mixed Shrinking this week. Segel especially was doing all the worst things about his acting style Oh man, I thought this episode was my favourite so far -- really funny at times, particularly the opening, and I loved the subplot with the neighbour. She's one of the more interesting parts of the show for me. Interested in what you mean about Segel, since I'm not really familiar with his work (outside this and his AMC show, Dispatches From Elsewhere). Is it, like, the broad comedy faces he pulls sometimes or...?
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Feb 13, 2023 08:57
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Ted Lasso is back March 15th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m14CQFtNi8
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gently caress yeah we're finally getting to the Evil Nate factory.
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blast0rama posted:I second all of this. Also, who would’ve thought that Indiana Jones and a former Daily Show correspondent would’ve been one of the more compelling on screen duos? I feel like it would've been much better as a movie. Just going with the best 15 mins from each episode so far would've made a tight first hour. I understand why it isn't, there's a lot more money out there for producing comedy series than there is for comedy movies right now.
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Cautiously optimistic for new Lasso, I hope the issues were either dealt with or not as severe as reported (which is quite likely).
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Feb 14, 2023 17:05
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Open Source Idiom posted:Oh man, I thought this episode was my favourite so far -- really funny at times, particularly the opening, and I loved the subplot with the neighbour. She's one of the more interesting parts of the show for me. Yeah in scenes like his meltdown to Christa Miller I just find him embarrassingly broad with his faces and movements especially
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Shrinking was fine this week. Generally I’m just not all that excited by it. The writing is fine, the filmmaking is fine, the performances are generally very good but they don’t have solid enough material behind them. Don’t know why Lawrence jumped ship on Lasso to make the same show again but worse in just about every way. Hello Tomorrow is interesting but dull. They like…..forgot to write jokes. You’re the Worst creator Stephen Falk was hired as the showrunner for this season so I’m hoping it’ll improve as it moves past the creators’ initial scripts but we’ll see.
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Feb 17, 2023 16:36
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Making the same show but worse is most of Bill Lawrence's career.
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Escobarbarian posted:Hello Tomorrow is interesting but dull. They like…..forgot to write jokes. You’re the Worst creator Stephen Falk was hired as the showrunner for this season so I’m hoping it’ll improve as it moves past the creators’ initial scripts but we’ll see. I didn’t really get the feeling they were primarily going for humor, just little bits here and there. I mainly was into it for the world, which I definitely dig. That delivery vehicle rules and then lol.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I didn’t really get the feeling they were primarily going for humor, just little bits here and there. I mainly was into it for the world, which I definitely dig. That delivery vehicle rules and then lol. lol yeah that 2d driver was great. I’m looking forward to seeing just how big of a scam the moon really is.
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Nuts and Gum posted:lol yeah that 2d driver was great. I’m looking forward to seeing just how big of a scam the moon really is. Same, at first I was expecting it to be just a huge disappointment when they get there that we might never even see and then it was like oh it really doesn’t go any higher than this one dude who duped some sales people and they just go town to town stealing money.
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Shrinking is 100% people just randomly talking at each other in random groupings in the same 5 locations with no real stakes, conflict or plot.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Same, at first I was expecting it to be just a huge disappointment when they get there that we might never even see and then it was like oh it really doesn’t go any higher than this one dude who duped some sales people and they just go town to town stealing money. Given how much they outright hint that the moon thing is a scam, I’m starting to think that it’s a misdirection, and there are actually apartments on the moon.
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Oasx posted:Given how much they outright hint that the moon thing is a scam, I’m starting to think that it’s a misdirection, and there are actually apartments on the moon. It is played very straight. Maybe the scam is the moon kicks rear end but none of these schmucks are gonna get there
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Oasx posted:Given how much they outright hint that the moon thing is a scam, I’m starting to think that it’s a misdirection, and there are actually apartments on the moon. Nuts and Gum posted:It is played very straight. Maybe the scam is the moon kicks rear end but none of these schmucks are gonna get there My guess is that these people are definitely buying space in the moon, but, you know, those robots seem super unreliable and someone has to wash the dishes. They're importing a slave class for their moon colony. Edit: I wrote this without having finished the episode. But I do wonder. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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My only problem with Shrinking is the plot of Jason Segel's high school daughter and the Afghanistan war vet and them trying to justify it as her wanting to sleep with him and she'll make it happen.
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Great Servant this week, Funkytown out of nowhere, I was howling. Also will stick with Hello Tomorrow! Crudup has got that perfect 1950s Mid-Atlantic face, y'know? The potential for chaos is high, Myrtle's already blown up Herb's life, Eddie only has a limited number of bones, Jack's still not told Joey the secret, but his mother is noisy. Forms Guy will bury them in bureaucracy till they cannot escape. You're The Worst had no jokes either, that's the point, you're not meant to be laughing, only to be aghast. It beat Fallout to the Googie Optimism, while also capturing the darkness and desperation underneath. I hope they'll keep up the useless-devices-and-labour-saving-machines-that-save-no-labour themes. The conveyor belt device that... puts cans on the shelf, that you load by hand. The dictaphone that goes straight-to-paper capturing every word, when ultimately it woulda been quicker for Jack to type it himself, that sort of thing. Delivery vans that'll stop to avoid a dog in front but happily crush the human behind. I could get my parcel dropped on the floor by a human easily enough! A.P.P. was deliberately on-the-nose. Human-sized floating servitors to hand you a piece of paper.
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Only Kindness posted:You're The Worst had no jokes either, that's the point, you're not meant to be laughing, only to be aghast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBkTy9WV04g
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Only Kindness posted:You're The Worst had no jokes either, that's the point, you're not meant to be laughing, only to be aghast. What are you talking about lmao
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Escobarbarian posted:What are you talking about lmao Simply that comedy comes from many places, not just "funny man fall down". For example, I just made you laugh by posting no jokes.
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Feb 18, 2023 17:55
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This is loving hilarious holy poo poo.
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I didn’t even realize there were 2 more episodes of Hello Tomorrow to watch, yay.
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You're the worst is loving great. Will probably stick with Hello Tomorrow! for a few more episodes solely because of Falk
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Watched the first two episodes of Hello Tomorrow and it's... fine. The retrofuturistic worldbuilding is by far the best part. The basic plot essentially could be set in the 1960s so I wonder if it began as a more straightforward Mad Men clone and they added the retrofuturistic elements to it.
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Mooseontheloose posted:My only problem with Shrinking is the plot of Jason Segel's high school daughter and the Afghanistan war vet and them trying to justify it as her wanting to sleep with him and she'll make it happen. I haven't watched the last couple episodes of it but are they still sticking with that loving theme? I hope to hell not.
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ShowTime posted:I haven't watched the last couple episodes of it but are they still sticking with that loving theme? I hope to hell not. Yeah, it’s been one of the main plot threads the last two episodes. It’s…not good.
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Zero One posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyPx64LjdJM When I first saw him I was like, who's this Matt Dillon-looking motherfucker? But Crudup won me over so hard on "The Morning Show," which he was the best part of (and that show stars two A-list movie stars.) Looking forward to this.
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