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The AppleTV 6-month trial I got so my wife could watch Ted Lasso is coming to an end in a few weeks and I've been desperate to watch something, anything good to get a little more value out of it. The results have been mixed. I already mentioned Mythic Quest, the show about neurotic game developers written by and starring Mac from Always Sunny. Its...fine. Its fine. Platonic is the comedy about Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen rekindling their friendship when their adult lives have gone astray. Its pretty low stakes (its that TV thing where they don't have real problems but stuff like "I'm worried the brewery I work for is getting too commercial") but gets by almost solely through the strength of the leads playing well off each other. Its not exactly revelatory but its charming enough for a one-off. Hello Tomorrow! is a show about moon real estate salesmen in a retro future starring Billy Crudup that is somehow so devoid of humor or drama I literally couldn't tell what genre it was supposed to be until I looked it up. A good cast, an interesting premise and excellent set and costume design wasted on the most inert show I've ever seen. The visual equivalent of taking a benadryl. Schmigadoon! (why all the exclamation marks?) is supposed to be a send-up of musicals and 90% of the time the joke is "isn't it just ridiculous that everyone keeps singing? what the heck?" and boy is that not funny enough to sustain a series. They also managed to write an entire faux-Broadway show without a single memorable song, at least in the first season (its two seasons but I dipped after the first one). Dreadful. Shrinking is a Ted Lasso-like that is supposed to be a comedy but is mostly just Special Moments, but if you like Jason Segel being depressed and Harrison Ford being a bitter old man its still decent enough for a watch. As for movies, Tetris is nearly a cartoon for all its attempts to be based on a true story but about as entertaining as you could get out of a corporate biopic. On the flipside Beanie Bubble is less interesting than just reading the wikipedia article about Beanie Babies would be, Elizabeth Banks stays losing. Raymond and Ray is what you'd get if you typed 'indie movie about dealing with loss' into one of those lovely AI prompts. Coda isn't bad for what it is, a TV movie about a deaf family, until you realize it won Best Picture which is absolutely insane. Aaand that's about it. Did I miss anything especially interesting, or is it all just similar slop?
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Aug 7, 2023 04:15
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Wolfsheim posted:The AppleTV 6-month trial I got so my wife could watch Ted Lasso is coming to an end in a few weeks and I've been desperate to watch something, anything good to get a little more value out of it. The results have been mixed. Have you seen For All Mankind yet? It's pretty good.
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Aug 7, 2023 04:43
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No watch the work one with Adam Scott it’s the best Apple TV show
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Aug 7, 2023 04:58
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Wolfsheim posted:The AppleTV 6-month trial I got so my wife could watch Ted Lasso is coming to an end in a few weeks and I've been desperate to watch something, anything good to get a little more value out of it. The results have been mixed. I just finished up my free 3 months last month. If you haven't seen Severance you should absolutely positively watch that. It is one of the best shows I've seen in years. Also Silo is really good. I tried Foundation because I liked the books but it suffers from the same Apple vibes as most of the other shows. I'm not sure what it is. Too glossy? Too corporate feeling? Too soulless? I has the same feelings about Mythic Quest. It is certainly a television show. That's how I felt about most of the stuff on Apple. They all look like a very expensive commercial. But seriously, Severance can't be missed.
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Aug 7, 2023 05:59
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Yea Severance is great. If you watch one thing on AppleTV, watch that . (Ted Lasso is a close second)
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Aug 7, 2023 06:05
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Severance is pretty brilliant i loved it. John tuttoro rules great cast
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Aug 7, 2023 06:12
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Yea thee is a weird sheen to the Apple TV stuff. On the other hand I like max originals a lot so far
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Aug 7, 2023 06:16
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I just started watching Foundation, as I loved the Asimov novels but haven’t read them since the late 90’s in high school. I’m almost done with season one (season two started recently), and let me just say that it’s a very visually expensive show.  I like the Homeworld aesthetic of all the ships. I’m gonna tackle Silo and For All Mankind next. Maybe Invasion, too. Gonna catch up on all these sci-fi shows.
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Aug 7, 2023 08:02
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I was really disappointed by Invasion. It's very slow, which isn't necessarily bad, but then I felt like right when something was going to happen, it turned out I had binged all the seasons and it was over.
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Aug 7, 2023 12:05
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Man, Reservation Dogs is so damned good.
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Wolfsheim posted:AppleTV+ takes Pretty much spot on to my opinions. Echoing that Severance is easily the best show on that service. I watched it twice! For All Mankind is worth watching if you like space stuff at all - it's not great all of the time, but the highs are pretty high. edit: oh and I liked Silo a lot Re: Mario, remember that this movie is for 2 audiences primarily - Kids who haven't seen a whole lot of stuff yet so virtually anything is novel and exciting, and adults who had to take their kids and will at least get a bit of nostalgia from references. Excited for Hulu shows to get started again with new Reservation Dogs and Only Murders in the Building. Glottis fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Aug 7, 2023 15:12
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Rez dogs is good but I’m fine with this being the last season. Just over dramedy as a genre I’m still very much into what we do in the shadows
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Aug 7, 2023 15:24
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A MIRACLE posted:No watch the work one with Adam Scott it’s the best Apple TV show He can watch both!!! There is no new TV for a while anyway and they are both worth watching (for different reasons) RCarr posted:Yea Severance is great. If you watch one thing on AppleTV, watch that . (Ted Lasso is a close second) ew
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Aug 7, 2023 15:45
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Glottis posted:Pretty much spot on to my opinions. Echoing that Severance is easily the best show on that service. I watched it twice! For All Mankind is worth watching if you like space stuff at all - it's not great all of the time, but the highs are pretty high. Severance is amazing, but Pachinko and Station Eleven are right there with it
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Aug 7, 2023 15:55
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Station Eleven is so good. So good
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Aug 7, 2023 16:15
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I couldn’t stand Station Eleven, it had a fantastic first episode and each episode after that was worse until the finale where I was begging the show to either make sense of for the characters to be consistent
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Aug 7, 2023 16:22
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Papercut posted:Severance is amazing, but Pachinko and Station Eleven are right there with it Uh excuse me. Station Eleven is Max: The one to go for HBO, not Apple TV. it's also incredible Also Pachinko doesn't get enough discussion. It was really good and people seemed to have just forgotten about it. Are they even making season 2? Edit: yes they are in early 2024
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Aug 7, 2023 16:23
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mcmagic posted:Uh excuse me. Station Eleven is Max: The one to go for HBO, not Apple TV. Oh poo poo you're right haha. Well everyone watch Station Eleven if you have Max. Yeah Pachinko was incredible and I believe slated for 3 seasons, but they're at minimum releasing a season 2.
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Aug 7, 2023 16:26
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Watching ted lasso is like mainlining a packet of sweet n low
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Aug 7, 2023 16:29
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Nihonniboku posted:Goons gonna goon I guess, always jumping on a contrarian band wagon. You are too old to be this narcissistic about your loving Disney opinions, man. Grow up.
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1glitch0 posted:That's how I felt about most of the stuff on Apple. They all look like a very expensive commercial. This is a good way of summing it up. There's this subdued quality to most of them where they don't want to be too exciting, like they saw the success they received from Ted Lasso being a show about people being nice or mildly rude to each other and decided every show should be some flavor of that. A MIRACLE posted:Watching ted lasso is like mainlining a packet of sweet n low This is also true, but I would argue it was really good at being that for about a season and a half before descending into full-blown self-parody. It sounds like Sudekis had one foot out the door by then and didn't want to keep being in it so it makes sense, but even someone like my wife who loved the first season finished the show shocked by how totally incomprehensible the final season was.
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Aug 7, 2023 17:18
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It's always a little odd when shows have a great first season and then fall apart right away in the next. I think Homeland was that way, Westworld was like that, American Gods (although that one has an explanation)
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Aug 7, 2023 17:25
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Deadite posted:It's always a little odd when shows have a great first season and then fall apart right away in the next. I think Homeland was that way, Westworld was like that, American Gods (although that one has an explanation) What happened with American Gods?
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Aug 7, 2023 17:29
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My boss wanted me to watch Ted Lasso because "it's inspiring and teaches you how to be a good manager." I will never watch it just because of that.
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Aug 7, 2023 17:34
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:What happened with American Gods? The show runner got fired and some of the cast decided not to return for the second season
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Aug 7, 2023 17:35
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Tim Whatley posted:My boss wanted me to watch Ted Lasso because "it's inspiring and teaches you how to be a good manager." I will never watch it just because of that. This is pretty funny because one of the weird sticking points is that in S1 Ted doesn't know anything about soccer because he just accepted the job offer on a whim but by S3 he still doesn't know anything about soccer which accidentally makes it a show about a lovely lazy guy who is unwilling to learn how to do his job and just smiles a lot
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Aug 7, 2023 17:37
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Deadite posted:I couldn’t stand Station Eleven, it had a fantastic first episode and each episode after that was worse until the finale where I was begging the show to either make sense of for the characters to be consistent I feel the same when it comes to the characters behaving in sensical ways but I won’t disrecommend the show. The plot with Jeevan and Kirsten was really enjoyable to me, and I think somebody here mentioned that the show really expanded on it from what was in the book.
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Deadite posted:The show runner got fired and some of the cast decided not to return for the second season Yeah it was a bit of a poo poo show. Fuller was asking for a higher budget per episode than Game of Thrones at the same time that Gaimen was expressing his displeasure at the liberties taken with the story. Fuller then gets replaced with someone with no clue what they were doing and episodes were being shot with half finished scripts. To make up for this actors were asked to adlib to the point that Orlando Jones filed a grievance than he and McShane should have writing credits. Jones was then fired before the third season. Edit: for Ted Lasso I think it started suffering when Ted Lawrence stepped away to focus on other projects. He's been really good at knowing how to cut the saccharine with a little bitterness, like with Shrinking.
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Aug 7, 2023 17:44
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I couldn’t finish Shrinking. Platonic is a pro watch tho
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are there any good shows about football? Ted Lasso not being a grim serious show got my interests up but hearing it's barely about the sport is ehhh.
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Tim Whatley posted:My boss wanted me to watch Ted Lasso because "it's inspiring and teaches you how to be a good manager." I will never watch it just because of that. The most annoying corporate striving weirdos love that show
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Aug 7, 2023 19:30
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mcmagic posted:The most annoying corporate striving weirdos love that show That all makes complete sense
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Aug 7, 2023 19:49
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Don’t make me blog about you on my linkedin
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Aug 7, 2023 20:00
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Imagine knowing you were directly responsible for causing corporate team building activities
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Aug 7, 2023 20:33
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finished righteous gemstones, what a great season. complete opposite ending from succession haha also Full Circle owned
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I liked Crowded Room on Apple TV as well. It's based on a book which is mentioned in the intro credits, and that book title very much gives away the premise. That book is also based on a real story but VERY loosely. For some reason reading the book title made it less enjoyable to watch for me, and it happens to show up just where the "skip intro" button drops you. It's not supposed to be a secret or anything like that, and doesn't ruin the show, but it could have been more surprising. So pro viewing tip - hit skip into and then close your eyes until you hear dialog or something. At least for a few episodes. Also Apple TV+ note - if a show comes out on, say, Friday, it will be available at 9PM eastern the night before.
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Aug 7, 2023 21:11
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yeah I found this season of RG to be great, but it does take its time in bringing various stories together.
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Aug 7, 2023 21:11
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Glottis posted:yeah I found this season of RG to be great, but it does take its time in bringing various stories together. the Uncle Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers payoff made it all worth it imo.
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I've gotten up to the last season of The Americans on my rewatch, drat that's a heckuva time skip between 5 and 6
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