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Just finished watching both seasons of The Bear in about a 5 day stretch. My God, what a loving show.
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Rewatching True Blood years later. Still think the show would be 10x better just dropping 3/4 of Jason's story arcs, but season 6 almost makes up for it. Falling in with an adorable 800 year old dominatrix vampire who for 2/3 of the season is portrayed as this probably sinister psychopath type, but it turns out all this time she was just looking for a playmate? I love it.
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Aug 17, 2023 23:55
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Escobarbarian posted:Joe Pera Talks With You was great and his stand-up is great too, enjoy! Yes I’m quite excited to cry in a comedy club this weekend. Just watched the episode of Joe Pera where (late season two spoiler) he has to write his grandma’s obituary. And I cried the whole time. What a great show.
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Aug 18, 2023 03:05
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Lotus Aura posted:Nearly finished season 1 of House of Cards and I was genuinely surprised to see how casually Frank Underwood was while seemingly spur-of-the-moment planning and ultimately murdering Peter Russo with carbon monoxide poisoning. You could see the gears in his head turning as the scene was progressing during the whole conversation in the car, so it didn't completely come out of nowhere but still one heck of a step up compared to everything else so far. The opening of Season 2 is another one of these moments, which I won't spoil but.. wow
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Aug 18, 2023 16:59
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MokBa posted:I got invited to see Joe Pera do standup this weekend so I decided to finally watch Joe Pera Talks with You to prep for it. Holy hell what an incredible show. I watched the entire first season last night and would tear up at the most innocuous moments. The time it happened was this delivery: The entire episode about discovering The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" is probably a series high for this sort of thing. Just hilarious with him inviting the pizza guy in, dancing and then trying to wrestle a slice of pizza away from his dog all within 30 seconds. Brilliant.
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:The entire episode about discovering The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" is probably a series high for this sort of thing. Just hilarious with him inviting the pizza guy in, dancing and then trying to wrestle a slice of pizza away from his dog all within 30 seconds. Brilliant. Yeah that has one of my favorite episodes so far. Just the pure obsession he has over the song, not realizing that literally everyone has heard it. And I love the "punchline" of the episode. That they ruined a perfect song with a violin solo.
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Been watching and enjoying Guilt, Scottish BBC drama about two brothers who cover up a hit and run. Towards the end of Season 2 now. Usually in this kind of show you would have everything that happens lead from the initial hit and run incident, its kind of weird how a couple of episodes in they abandon this and it turns out to be a show about max's dodgy money laundering that started before the show. It really felt like a one season show and I was curious how they would continue. When I saw the first scene in S2 I thought this was going to be an anthology of different guilt related stories so I was glad to see max pop up again next scene. I like the way S2 is feels more or less like a spin-off with the same characters. It has the feel of a series of loosely connected novels sharing characters, rather than feeling the need to continue everyones stories. The former alcoholic detective is great, I'm glad he got a bigger role this season, Max is awful from day one but great to watch.
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Really enjoy binging Skins (UK) currently. I'm somewhere in season 3, here's hoping it stays this funny and charming till the end.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:49
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Outlander: Wow. How the hell did it take me almost ten years to find this? I'd written it off for a long time because historical romance sounds very yawn, but it's by far a period epic first, and a drat good one. i'm about 2/3 into the second season and it's had at least 2 episodes that emotionally wrecked me harder than the last half hour of Inside Out. Wish it would ease off on the torture porn, though.
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Aug 23, 2023 06:33
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Toadsmash posted:Outlander: Wow. How the hell did it take me almost ten years to find this? I'd written it off for a long time because historical romance sounds very yawn, but it's by far a period epic first, and a drat good one. i'm about 2/3 into the second season and it's had at least 2 episodes that emotionally wrecked me harder than the last half hour of Inside Out. Yeah, I don't usually have a problem with violence or torment or whatever, but the penultimate episode from Season One was waaaaay too far for me. Dropped and never looked back.
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Toadsmash posted:Outlander: Wow. How the hell did it take me almost ten years to find this? I'd written it off for a long time because historical romance sounds very yawn, but it's by far a period epic first, and a drat good one. i'm about 2/3 into the second season and it's had at least 2 episodes that emotionally wrecked me harder than the last half hour of Inside Out. We got most of the way through the first season, but it seemed like torture and sexual intimidation were main themes and we were like “this is for somebody else”
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Aug 23, 2023 14:09
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Rape as a relatively large part of the narrative doesn't stop with season one, by the way. It's what really ruined it for us.
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Aug 23, 2023 15:17
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Aug 23, 2023 15:45
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Maybe it's my sick sense of humour, but it's loving ludicrous that the show's first villain (spoilers for season two as well) sexually assualts, or attempts to sexually assault, the lead, her love interest and this kid they basically adopt.. Like, bro, that's some hosed up completion anxiety. It's just so loving awful it wraps back around to being funny. And also makes the show just completely unwatchable. Pretty sure the next major antagonist is a serial rapist as well.
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Aug 23, 2023 15:54
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Monstaland posted:Really enjoy binging Skins (UK) currently. I'm somewhere in season 3, here's hoping it stays this funny and charming till the end. Midway through the 3rd also and feeling the same. The second generation feels a bit less tethered to any attempt at reality than the first, but I enjoy it all the same.
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Aug 23, 2023 18:19
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Annabel Pee posted:Been watching and enjoying Guilt, Scottish BBC drama about two brothers who cover up a hit and run. Towards the end of Season 2 now. Just finished S2, highly recommend for anyone looking for an easy watch BBC drama/crime thing. Whole thing rests on Mark Bonnar’s performance. They don’t even go the mad men/breaking bad route, the main character is just clearly a bad person from day one but you for some reason root for him to turn it around just based on his charisma. The brother is definitely a weaker character. He just has on trait, nice guy who’s into music and that’s basically it. Was a good move promoting the moustache detective to co-lead, he is the heart of the show and it’s great seeing him evolve from a joke character to the moral centre of the show. S2 ended on a massive anti-climax, with Max flying to America to his brother and evading the big shootout. I could see someone being disappointed but it kind of worked for me. It’s hard to tell if this show is well written or just made up on the fly, it’s wild how far it diverges by the end of each season. Like for a show called Guilt, I presumed S2 would focus SOME on the woman dealing with the guilt from killing the guy in the opening scene, but it seems like everyone forgot about that two episodes in. I just looked up Mark Bonnar typing this and it says he’s only in 8 episodes, so unless that’s a mistake it sounds like he won’t be in the third season so be wild to see how that works. Annabel Pee fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 18:25
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Open Source Idiom posted:Maybe it's my sick sense of humour, but it's loving ludicrous that the show's first villain (spoilers for season two as well) sexually assualts, or attempts to sexually assault, the lead, her love interest and this kid they basically adopt.. Yeah I just passed that point in S2. The author would get along with Robin Hobbe. Some writers just have this warped worldview that it's some kind of virtue to loving obsessively dwell on human misery. That's a sad thing with everything else the show does so well. "Show not tell" for making a terrifying villain is usually good advice that is all too often not followed enough but this is by far way the hell over the line. I came out of the pilot episode already hating Randall with every fiber of my being and there was nothing particularly explicit in how the character was introduced. Spending an episode and a half at the tail end of the season graphically depicting what happened to Jamie instead of leaving it to the imagination was just gratuitous, miserable, and wildly unnecessary. Also the fact that they twice left Randall behind without taking great pains to make sure he was dead was not one of the high points of the script. Toadsmash fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 18:39
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I missed that there was a sixth season of Line of Duty so I'm watching that. Time for more bent coppas!
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I finally did a re-watch of Deadwood and finished by watching the movie. I loved it just as much if not more than my previous viewing. The film was good but there's just something about the time skip being combined with such a rushed conclusion that made the whole thing seem surreal to me, as if I were watching a fanfic instead of the "real" thing. Kind of hard to explain but the whole thing was melancholy - fitting for the show and its themes. Seeing how much the actors have aged reminded me of how much I have as well. Bittersweet. I am thankful that the show received an "ending" and the actors got to reprise those roles one more time. Their joy was easy to see on screen and that alone makes the whole thing a triumph. Ian McShane, what an all time performance. Rivals Gandolfini IMO. FLIPADELPHIA fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I finally did a re-watch of Deadwood and finished by watching the movie. I loved it just as much if not more than my previous viewing. The film was good but there's just something about the time skip being combined with such a rushed conclusion that made the whole thing seem surreal to me, as if I were watching a fanfic instead of the "real" thing. Kind of hard to explain but the whole thing was melancholy - fitting for the show and its themes. I agree 100%. I would have loved a whole new season with the time jump. Getting just a couple hours of it kind of spoiled it for me. I still love the show though. It's one of the few shows where I can say I legitimately enjoyed all the charcters. The heroes and the villains. Ian Mcshane can say "gently caress" unlike anyone else. Season 3 of Ragnarok came out today, so I'll be binging it tonight and this weekend. To me it's a guilty pleasure. It's not good at all but it's so bad it's good. It's got the driest, clingiest acting, but I can't look away. If you haven't seen it, you can imagine what it's about based on the title. It's basically Thor in the modern world and without overblown fights and CGI. For some reason it gets pretty good reviews, so maybe it's not as bad as I say it is.
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Aug 25, 2023 23:59
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Ragnarok is doubly impossible to take seriously if you're from a similiar language group due to a lot of the high-value norwegian dramatic language in life-or-death scenes being low-level like traditional or childrens words in others.
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Aug 26, 2023 06:10
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Just finished high school musical the musical the series. Corny but a lot of cleverness in there. The last season is about the filming of high school musical four, the reunion.
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Aug 26, 2023 07:06
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I finally did a re-watch of Deadwood and finished by watching the movie. I loved it just as much if not more than my previous viewing. The film was good but there's just something about the time skip being combined with such a rushed conclusion that made the whole thing seem surreal to me, as if I were watching a fanfic instead of the "real" thing. Kind of hard to explain but the whole thing was melancholy - fitting for the show and its themes. I think the ONLY legacy sequel I’ve ever seen — be it television or film — that didn’t just feel like glorified fanfic was the new season of Party Down. And I think that mostly worked because the original show had such a specific (and inexpensive) tone that they were able to replicate. It just never really feels right, no matter how much effort and money go into it.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:58
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MokBa posted:I think the ONLY legacy sequel I’ve ever seen — be it television or film — that didn’t just feel like glorified fanfic was the new season of Party Down. And I think that mostly worked because the original show had such a specific (and inexpensive) tone that they were able to replicate. It just never really feels right, no matter how much effort and money go into it. Beavis and Butthead!
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Aug 26, 2023 18:55
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MokBa posted:I think the ONLY legacy sequel I’ve ever seen — be it television or film — that didn’t just feel like glorified fanfic was the new season of Party Down. And I think that mostly worked because the original show had such a specific (and inexpensive) tone that they were able to replicate. It just never really feels right, no matter how much effort and money go into it. The Twin Peaks revival was very well received.
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I like the fan theory that the Gilmore Girls legacy sequel ret-conned the original series into being an idealized version of Rory's memories. But yeah, Twin Peaks season 3 is definitely up there with the Deadwood movie.
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Oh gently caress I forgot about Twin Peaks: The Return. Though it’s incredibly different from the original run, and more like a very, very long movie. IMO it’s the best season of the show. Beavis and Butthead is on my list to watch. Paramount Plus is such a garbage app though but I guess I can sign up via Prime so at least there’s functional UI.
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Rappaport posted:I like the fan theory that the Gilmore Girls legacy sequel ret-conned the original series into being an idealized version of Rory's memories. But yeah, Twin Peaks season 3 is definitely up there with the Deadwood movie. I think she was clearly set up to be an entitled brat from the first episode when her grandparents paid the tuition for her private school. And when the biggest decision of her life was going to Harvard or Yale, which was also fully paid for by her rich dad. Also she had a terrible group of snotty friends in college. The Netflix series really was the logical conclusion and I agreed with the depiction of Rorie.
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I'm closing in on the end of a rewatch of Friday Night Lights, and this show is still great. Short clip from S5, audio is a little spoilery https://i.imgur.com/CQaLbAo.mp4 Great teen drama, great sports show, great coming of age story. The thing that's impressed me most on a rewatch is how much I'm enjoying seasons 4 and 5, which are probably my favorites now. Season 2 was still a down note for me (especially the infamous murder-fugitive plot, which the show does its best to forget ever happened after), but I don't think I've ever seen a show dip in quality, change networks, lose half its cast, and then come back to become extremely good again like this. It does have a big mid 00s US Methodist vibe though and while it ducks a lot of the prejudices you'd expect to come along with that and has aged a lot better than its contemporaries like the OC IMO (it even has multiple gay characters and a girl who gets an abortion without getting judgy or turning them into tragedies or villains), the one it didn't duck is good old sexism and there are a few plotlines where girls get judged for sleeping around or showing too much skin while the camera ogles them in an extremely 00s way.
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Aug 27, 2023 11:33
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Joe Pickett is pretty good. I didn't recognize the main actor as Gordo Stevens from For All Mankind.
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Mu Zeta posted:I think she was clearly set up to be an entitled brat from the first episode when her grandparents paid the tuition for her private school. And when the biggest decision of her life was going to Harvard or Yale, which was also fully paid for by her rich dad. Also she had a terrible group of snotty friends in college. The Netflix series really was the logical conclusion and I agreed with the depiction of Rorie. Even taking the OG Gilmore Girls at face value, it's explicitly about rich people having rich people problems. Lorelai's "sad" story about a teen pregnancy, running away and having to schlep it as a hotel maid is her choice as a rich-born person. And as you say, all the money issues portrayed in the show tend to revolve around fulfilling dreams that normal working people are not entitled to have. It's all in the back-burner as the show's main interest is in the character drama, but the Gilmore family  hoard, and explicitly generational too!, acts as a deus ex machina to facilitate a lot of the drama.
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Who is Erin Carter on Netflix. Pretty good action show. The fight scenes did get a little ludicrous, but were still mostly enjoyable. Without spoiling anything, there's an urban car chase scene midway through that stuck out at me as very good. Maybe that's just in contrast to the awful car chase scenes in the recent Indiana Jones movie, but still well filmed and paced. The one thing that did piss me off is that repeatedly the main character incapacitates, or otherwise has ample opportunity to kill, someone who is actively trying to kill her and just doesn't finish them off. Then the person gets back up and continues perusing her. This happens over and over and over. I refuse to believe that someone in this position with her training wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone who was actively threatening her or her kid. Is she expecting these people to send her a fruit basket for not killing them? Does hallmark have a line of "sorry we didn't realize you were uncomfortable with the idea of us murdering you, so I guess we'll stop now" cards? This is yet another show where I found myself yelling JUST SHOOT HIM a lot. It's not like the show was going to run out of antagonists. Also what the hell was up with the daughter's hallucinations? That thread fizzled out pretty quick. I guess two or three therapy sessions is enough to cure massive psychological trauma.
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Aug 27, 2023 18:43
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One more because I appreciate the pun: Behind Your Touch on Netflix, aka All Keisters Great and Small. A veterinarian starts having psychic visions whenever she touches animal or human butts, and pairs up with a police detective who thinks she's a notorious pervert. It's dumb fun, I'll take it. This hole was made for me.
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Buttchocks posted:One more because I appreciate the pun: Behind Your Touch on Netflix, aka All Keisters Great and Small. A veterinarian starts having psychic visions whenever she touches animal or human butts, and pairs up with a police detective who thinks she's a notorious pervert. It's dumb fun, I'll take it. This hole was made for me. Lol thanks for this. Probably too silly for me but I'll definitely give it a try. I do have a thing for supernatural police procedurals. We binged the first season of Dark Winds on AMC. It's a 6 episode arc featuring Navajo tribal police trying to solve a double-murder and a bank robbery. It's based at least loosely on the Tony Hillerman mystery novels. The lieutenant is played by Zahn McClarnon who apparently will always play a tribal police officer (Res dogs, Longmire). For some reason Rainn Wilson is in it as a used car dealer. Anyway, we liked it a lot, pretty decent season long plot, good acting, lots of southwestern scenery. There's even some spooky supernatural elements scattered throughout. In some ways I wish they'd leaned into these a little more but at the same time I liked how it's like this real thing to the cops where they have to do normal cop things but also yes, you have to search the house of the witch who tried to curse you and steal your hair. Somehow it missed being spectacular and I'm not sure why. There were two or three conversations among the Navajo talking about forced sterilization, boarding schools, etc that felt a little out of place like it was entirely for the white audiences benefit and not something they would even need to talk to each other about. I'm also wondering if setting the show in the 1970's, the aesthetic choices in production to make it feel older maybe just make it feel like it's lacking in production quality. Anyway, a recommend if you're into stuff like True Detective or Mystery Road and I'm looking forward to starting S2 soon.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Lol thanks for this. Probably too silly for me but I'll definitely give it a try. I do have a thing for supernatural police procedurals. I love this show. Zahn McClarnon has been killing it with two great shows on at the same time, with Reservation Dogs
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I finally got around to Jury Duty which was such a great ride. I’m so glad they dedicated an entire episode to the reveal of everything being fake. They really lucked into this guy being such a genuinely positive bro who basically always made the more ethical decision. They really struck gold with this season and I’m very curious if they will try and replicate it in the future.
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Started Farscape from the beginning, got to the episode after the one where Chiani shows up. It's a really great show and not just for nostalgia. There's plenty of tired sci-fi greatest hits episodes but also super fun creative ones like Crichton and Crais imprisoned in an evil energy vampire wizard's death labyrinth and uplifted genetic freak rat thing turns Aeryn into an octopus monster. And Rygel. Rygel is the best part of the show. The puppetry is great. I wonder where the OG Rygel puppet(s?) is now. And Pilot. Best guys. The characterization is pretty uneven, one episode everyone but Crichton is all selfish and mean and the next they're all best friends, but generally it's great at portraying a rag-tag crew of misfits with secrets. I appreciate very much how it feels like a reaction to more popular sci-fi movies and TV of the time; there's no captain, they have no goals other than a vague "get home," and nobody is particularly special, other than Zhaan's mind sex/death powers. 10/10 stoked for the remaining 3 seasons and the rest of the first. The 90s and early 2000s were the golden age of sci-fi television. It tripped me up that Lexx came out before Farscape, going to have to watch that next.
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MokBa posted:I’m very curious if they will try and replicate it in the future. I wondered the same, but honestly I suspect Jury Duty is kind of one-and-done now that it’s out and getting attention. The time to make more would probably have been before wide audiences saw it, if they fast-tracked more based on good pre-release reactions. Though I guess Sacha Baron Cohen still fooled tons of people as 3 or 4 different characters, so maybe I’m wrong and there are still marks who wouldn’t google “docuseries about jury duty is this legit?”
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