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Hello Tomorrow has gorgeous dialogue. It took a few episodes to get there for me, but I've fallen into a groove with it and now I really, really enjoy it. There are scenes here and there that feel like they've wandered out of Avenue 5, and others like they're out of Mad Men. I really want it to work its grove out and be excellent in everything it does, but in terms of casting, characterization and language it's created a really interesting, peculiar world. My favourite characters are the psychopathic grifter couple who genuinely think they're neither of those things. There's also a really cute mismatched romantic couple on the villain's side that I've grown to weirdly root for. It's become a genuinely good show, IMO. Shrinking had a really good episode a few weeks ago, and then I just stopped watching it. I'll get back to it soon, but it's way more of a drama than a comedy.
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Mar 21, 2023 13:32
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Three episodes in on Swarm, I think it's safe to say Donald Glover is not on Beyonce and Jay-Z's Christmas card list.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:35
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ruddiger posted:Question for the room: Is Nope about racism? I only ask because everyone always jumps on the surface level exploitation aspect, but I haven't seen anyone ever bring up what Nope has to say about minorities and audience expectations in that regard. 4 days late, but I'm watching this video, and it apparently is. Here is Jordan Peele talking about the George Floyd protests, and how Hollywood has typically left black people out of the medium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0d7yl2ANc&t=1163s
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Mar 22, 2023 02:53
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feedmyleg posted:I just watched a few clips of Harrison Ford in that out of curiosity, and, man, he is definitely getting to that same difficult to watch "kinda sad they're so old" age, like Patrick Stewart in Picard. Picard season 3 is pretty good. And this is coming from someone who hates seasons 1 and 2.
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Mar 22, 2023 03:03
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Yeah I’ve really been enjoying season 3. And I’m someone who loving haaaaated seasons 1 & 2. If you’re enjoying season 3, don’t make the mistake of dropping into the TVIV Trek thread. They seem to hate it. Maybe it’s made for the filthy casual Trek fan and not the hardcore Trekkie, but I’m having fun.
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Mar 22, 2023 04:21
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Season 3 of Picard is poo poo from a butt, but is still better than s1 because memberberries are reading the dumb dialogue instead of just nothing but extras from Star Wars. I mean, they still have that poo poo too, they just ponied up to get actual cast members after two seasons.
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Mar 22, 2023 04:28
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I think any thoughtful piece of media made by someone who grows up black in America will, as a matter of course, have something to say about racism, even accidentally Same with queer artists or any group that's been highly persecuted
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Mar 22, 2023 05:09
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precision posted:I think any thoughtful piece of media made by someone who grows up black in America will, as a matter of course, have something to say about racism, even accidentally I cant remember where I read this take, but it was something like: Nope is about a big white thing in the sky that kills a black man in the film industry by (literally) showering him with money.It definitely reads as an allegory for the entertainment industry as a whole.
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Mar 22, 2023 05:20
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frogbs posted:I cant remember where I read this take, but it was something like: Nope is about a big white thing in the sky that kills a black man in the film industry by (literally) showering him with money.It definitely reads as an allegory for the entertainment industry as a whole.
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Mar 22, 2023 05:25
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S3 of Picard is leaps and bounds better than the first two seasons, but that is an extremely low bar to clear, and in spite of that, it only does so just barely. Plus we're just halfway through the season, so it remains to be seen whether or not it will absolutely poo poo the bed in the next few episodes.
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Mar 22, 2023 07:13
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Would I need to watch the first two seasons of Picard or could I drive right in to season 3? This is not something I'd ever normally consider but I've heard so many bad things about this series.
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Mar 22, 2023 12:00
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I mean I'd take the director's word over a goon's when it comes to what the movie is about :Jordan Peele, in a behind the scenes documentary about Nope posted:This film is about many things, I think the soul of the film is about a representation in itself. This movie’s not about race, although obviously race does interact with this idea of spectacle-lization and exploitation It's not specifically an allegory about race. Being black in Hollywood is A Thing in the movie but it's not specifically what it's about.
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Mar 22, 2023 12:29
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Sirotan posted:Would I need to watch the first two seasons of Picard or could I drive right in to season 3? This is not something I'd ever normally consider but I've heard so many bad things about this series. Absolutely not, they pretend 99% of it never happened.
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Mar 22, 2023 12:51
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It's still got the nutrek problem of half the characters always acting like they just did lines of coke.
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Mar 22, 2023 13:08
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Sirotan posted:Would I need to watch the first two seasons of Picard or could I drive right in to season 3? This is not something I'd ever normally consider but I've heard so many bad things about this series. No, they barely reference the first two seasons at all even though season 2 involved time travel and resulted in Allison Pill becoming the leader of a newer, kinder Borg who asked to become part of the Federation, and only brought back one of the new characters who you do not need to know any of her backstory. They don't even mention that Picard died at the end of season 1, and is now using a synthetic body with his memories transferred. Season 3 is still really bad, despite that other goon's recommendation.
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Mar 22, 2023 14:33
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I overheard someone watching Picard and Patrick Stewart sounded like ghost and I'm like that was is way too depressing to watch
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Mar 22, 2023 14:38
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I only watch for Captain Shaw at this point.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:02
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Sirotan posted:Would I need to watch the first two seasons of Picard or could I drive right in to season 3? This is not something I'd ever normally consider but I've heard so many bad things about this series. Just watch season 3.
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Mar 22, 2023 19:07
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Picard season 3 is definitely actually good, but woof p-stew is so fuckin old now Frakes is pretty great, and I used to hate Riker. He's playing the character a lot less uptight than in the old show Beverly owns as well and looks crazy good for her age
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Mar 22, 2023 20:18
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Enos Cabell posted:Three episodes in on Swarm, I think it's safe to say Donald Glover is not on Beyonce and Jay-Z's Christmas card list. I think it's gonna be more than just those two
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Mar 22, 2023 20:38
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precision posted:Picard season 3 is definitely actually good, but woof p-stew is so fuckin old now Watch Stewart in a recent interview. He’s purposely playing Picard as older than he is in real life, it’s a conscious decision. This was really apparent in season 1 especially, to the point where Stewart is in record as regretting the extent to which he did it.
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Mar 22, 2023 20:41
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Watch Stewart in a recent interview. He’s purposely playing Picard as older than he is in real life, it’s a conscious decision. This was really apparent in season 1 especially, to the point where Stewart is in record as regretting the extent to which he did it. They should’ve pulled a Back to the Future Part II and have Picard go to a rejuvenation clinic, complete with Stewart pulling off his makeup.
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Mar 22, 2023 21:04
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Edward Mass posted:They should’ve pulled a Back to the Future Part II and have Picard go to a rejuvenation clinic, complete with Stewart pulling off his makeup. Season finale reveals that Picard is being cloned again, and boom - Tom Hardy plays Picard in s4
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Mar 22, 2023 21:08
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Hardy is way too jocky. You need, like, an angry academic to replace Jean Luc Picard
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Mar 22, 2023 21:52
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Other than maybe the Anson Mount version of Pike who I think could fit on older, good Trek pretty much all the new characters from the Paramount+ trek shows are unfortunately highly annoying and bad so it makes sense that they would have to bring back all the TNG people. Not enough DS9 folks have been on Picard though.
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Mar 22, 2023 23:59
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The viewer reaction to the new live action Treks is pretty interesting, because it seems like the exact same thing every single time: Episodes 1-2: Yay New Star Trek! This is good start to the season, but I'm not sure what the plot is. Episodes 3-4: This is still pretty good. The plot seems to be taking a while to get going though. Episodes 5-6: Well that was a lot of wheel spinning, but now that we know the main plot, I think the rest of the season is going to be great! Episodes 7-8: Seriously, GET ON WITH IT! Episode 9: They can't be loving serious. That's where they are going with it??? Episode 10: This is the stupidest loving poo poo I have ever watched, and I hate myself that I watched all of it. Maybe the new season of _____ will be good.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:10
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Shageletic posted:Hardy is way too jocky. You need, like, an angry academic to replace Jean Luc Picard drat it’s gonna be Cumberbatch isn’t it
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Mar 23, 2023 00:14
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Shageletic posted:Hardy is way too jocky. You need, like, an angry academic to replace Jean Luc Picard 
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Mar 23, 2023 00:16
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Season 3 of Picard has all the same fatal writing and production flaws as the first two seasons, only this time they’ve filled it with enough references and old characters that every fan’s too busy clapping and hoping for spin-offs to notice. Even worse, Picard is now mining DS9 and the TOS movies for ideas and making GBS threads out inferior versions of them because the new showrunner fundamentally does not understand what made them memorable beyond a surface level. The only good parts of S3 have been the ships and the soundtrack, the latter of which has mostly just been recomposed versions of older scores.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:21
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Yeah, junkie Hardy isn't the worst match for young Stewart in the world. Modern Hardy, especially doing an insane voice for no reason, would at least be entertaining.
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Mar 23, 2023 00:34
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Based on past interviews I am fairly confident Tom Hardy will never be returning to star trek... Nemesis did help him reach rock bottom though
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Mar 23, 2023 00:35
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I've been checking out other stuff on Peacock now that Poker Face is done and I've started watching Killing It. This is the funniest show I've seen in a long time and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before. It's super vulgar which is surprising for an NBC show.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:35
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It's a Peacock original, not an NBC show.
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Mar 24, 2023 05:50
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I started watching Extrapolations (Apple TV) even though I shouldn't. Honestly, most episodes have some elements that are great, they are just surrounded by groanworthy stuff that is poorly acted/written. I would say that if you like futurist poo poo and can roll with the world as presented, you'll enjoy it.
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Mar 25, 2023 04:19
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Baron von Eevl posted:I mean I'd take the director's word over a goon's when it comes to what the movie is about : Yes. Race is unavoidable as a detail but it's not what the film is about. I I finally caught up with Nope and enjoyed it a lot. Having said that, there's some odd decisions in what is in the film and what is left out, such that you're inclined to try and look for meanings or reasons behind those decisions.
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Mar 25, 2023 22:40
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I'm trying to watch the hunger games and this might be the dumbest poo poo I have ever seen in my life
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Mar 27, 2023 23:20
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Field Mousepad posted:I'm trying to watch the hunger games and this might be the dumbest poo poo I have ever seen in my life I watched them recently and I was excited when I saw Daniel Bernhardt was going to be in it, and then he only got like 1 second of screen time. Why cast the Bloodsport/Matrix/John Wick guy if you aren't going to let him beat some people up?
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Mar 27, 2023 23:37
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Has he ever actually beaten anyone up? Too be fair he is fantastic at selling getting his rear end kicked but he seems to take only roles where he gets beat up (and mainly in movies that he does the fight choreography for)
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B-Rock452 posted:Has he ever actually beaten anyone up? Too be fair he is fantastic at selling getting his rear end kicked but he seems to take only roles where he gets beat up (and mainly in movies that he does the fight choreography for) Yeah that's true, although there's one fight he definitely wins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrX4HCxJMlk&t=232s But he didn't even get a chance to get his rear end kicked in Hunger Games
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