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Shrimpy posted:Martian Worker's Rights And a way less interesting exploration of this idea than The Expanse, which did way more with it, more interestingly, for longer.
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I'm 4 episodes deep into Fringe and does it evolve beyond "X years ago, I worked on Y project for Z people. Now it's back" ?
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Fate Accomplice posted:I'm 4 episodes deep into Fringe and does it evolve beyond "X years ago, I worked on Y project for Z people. Now it's back" ? Yes. The first season is a little patchy in quality but it's somewhere in the top 10 of my all time favourite shows.
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Fate Accomplice posted:I'm 4 episodes deep into Fringe and does it evolve beyond "X years ago, I worked on Y project for Z people. Now it's back" ? Yes, but a lot of S1 is like that. Unless you hate it, keep going.
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Fate Accomplice posted:I'm 4 episodes deep into Fringe and does it evolve beyond "X years ago, I worked on Y project for Z people. Now it's back" ? Yes and no? That's basically the premise of the show but they start doing it in bigger and better ways.
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 04:17 |
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Octy posted:Yes. The first season is a little patchy in quality but it's somewhere in the top 10 of my all time favourite shows. BetterLekNextTime posted:Yes, but a lot of S1 is like that. Unless you hate it, keep going. Doctor Spaceman posted:Yes and no? That's basically the premise of the show but they start doing it in bigger and better ways. appreciate it! the number of projects this guy worked means each took him like 3 days tops.
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Xealot posted:And a way less interesting exploration of this idea than The Expanse, which did way more with it, more interestingly, for longer. I know The Expanse is supposed to be excellent, but I tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past Thomas Jane's hat.
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what in tarnation
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Shrimpy posted:I know The Expanse is supposed to be excellent, but I tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past Thomas Jane's hat. I bounced off the first season of The Expanse like three times before I just made myself sit through it so I wouldn't miss any significant story. Once it hit season two I found it really enjoyable.
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Shrimpy posted:I know The Expanse is supposed to be excellent, but I tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past Thomas Jane's hat. lol I have started rewatching 'Ash vs. Evil Dead'. Super campy and cartoonish. Bruce Campbell is hilarious. Not one of the best shows ever made....but certainly one of the most fun.
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 18:09 |
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Wait until you find out about Brisco County Jr
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Watched a couple of episodes of Deadloch. I love a good crime story but making every personage around the protagonist extremely dumb is not the pinacle of comedy.
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magiccarpet posted:Wait until you find out about Brisco County Jr Brisco is fun, but there's less Bruce Campbell getting fake blood splattered at him at high velocity
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 18:33 |
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Just finished up Griselda. It's from the team behind Narcos and, well, it obviously follows their general "show about a drug lord" formula. Not high art by any means, but hell, it's a formula that works for me. I enjoyed the warm tones of Miami and Colombia (a nice alternative to the local gloomy weather) and in general I think the show just looks good, nice use of film grain too. Sofia Vergara is great as the titular Griselda Blanco, she pulls off a dramatic role well! (I'll admit I didn't really recognize anyone else besides Vanessa Ferlito but that's par for the course with Narcos-universe stuff)
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RestingB1tchFace posted:lol It is amazing how each episode builds to a crescendo.of preposterous gore. The effects team for that show was positively amazing.
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Shrimpy posted:I know The Expanse is supposed to be excellent, but I tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past Thomas Jane's hat. Holden feels the same way about the hat.
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Almost to the end of Scavenger's Reign and it's been fantastic. Between it and Blue Eye Samurai it's been a great month for animated shows. Thank you thread for the recommendations on both.
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:33 |
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The Curse. A show about a show about two terrible people trying to gentrify a neighborhood and then make money off of it via an HGTV type flipping program. Every moment, in true Nathan Fielder/Safdie tradition is tense and unnerving, even something so simple like the second episode opening scene showing a positive pregnancy test is filled with dread and anxiety. Emma Stone kills in this role, as does the Safdie bro (can't remember which one) and Fielder himself. Loved seeing Corbin Bernsen as the dad. Grim and unflinching. Loving it
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:The Curse. A show about a show about two terrible people trying to gentrify a neighborhood and then make money off of it via an HGTV type flipping program. Every moment, in true Nathan Fielder/Safdie tradition is tense and unnerving, even something so simple like the second episode opening scene showing a positive pregnancy test is filled with dread and anxiety. Emma Stone kills in this role, as does the Safdie bro (can't remember which one) and Fielder himself. Loved seeing Corbin Bernsen as the dad. Grim and unflinching. Loving it Im watching it slowly because is often so uncomfortable to watch They both are awful people and at the same time so so embarrassing Sometimes the cringe I feel for them is almost physical
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 13:32 |
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Shrimpy posted:I know The Expanse is supposed to be excellent, but I tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past Thomas Jane's hat. It keeps the rain off his head!
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RestingB1tchFace posted:lol This was my same experience with The Expanse. I also didn't like Thomas Jane's character or his hat for quite awhile.
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 14:35 |
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drat Jane Cobb for setting such a high bar for spacefaring hats.
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 16:15 |
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I kinda wanna watch the Portuguese gremlins movie from Community.
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# ? Jan 29, 2024 16:27 |
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Expanse S1 is much better if you rewatch it right away. Just so much happening from the jump
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absolutely insane takes itt re: millerhat
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magiccarpet posted:Expanse S1 is much better if you rewatch it right away. Just so much happening from the jump I'd believe that. I wasn't enjoying the show at all from the start, especially Jane's character, but it really grows on you. Look back really fondly on the whole season now.
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Miller needs to earn your love as a character more than almost anyone else. He's as old school as the show could possibly have a character and them not be a time traveller, and he's a massive prick to everyone.
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if it helps i think most of the characters that meet Miller think his hat is ridiculous too.
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Turns out that the belters were just pissed off about the hat.
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uber_stoat posted:if it helps i think most of the characters that meet Miller think his hat is ridiculous too. In the books, and only really partially explained in the show, they tell you his former partner gave it to him so he wouldn't "lose his head" and that he also wears it to thumb his nose at Belters who hate Earthers. the hat has friggin' LORE EDIT : he also uses it to stash poo poo in when he's searched since nobody tends to look there
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Monstaland posted:Watched a couple of episodes of Deadloch. I love a good crime story but making every personage around the protagonist extremely dumb is not the pinacle of comedy. I don’t see them as extremely dumb, they are just very into the minutiae of small town drama and day-to-day life, and this is completely at odds with the very serious investigation that Dulcie is trying to put together. It’s kinda the whole drive of the comedy of the show, “what if broadchurch was a set in an artsy small town full of dorks who never grasped how serious everything is getting”.
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Somehow my wife and I have never seen Curb Your Enthusiasm before, despite both of us appreciating tightly written sitcoms, and my family and I watching Seinfeld in the '90s, back when MOST television shows were awful. We started our binge in mid-December, when my winter break began, and two nights ago, we made it past the six-year hiatus to season 9, released in 2017. We will definitely be caught up in time to watch at least part of the final season as it airs. It's pretty, pretty, pret-tay, pret-tay good.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Curb Your Enthusiasm….appreciating tightly written sitcoms ??? Curb is largely improv
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So now me and my partner have included The Incredible Pol Farm into our rotation and goddamn, starting a farm looks EXPENSIVE as HELL...but really fun.
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Fate Accomplice posted:??? I know, and it's some of the funniest improv I've ever seen, when improv comedy too often falls flat. (Anyone who has loyally gone to support friends performing live improv comedy shows can attest to that.) I didn't realize Curb would rely so heavily on improv when we started, but it is so polished and seamless, I would rank it up there with some of the funniest, most entertaining sitcoms ever, like Arrested Development (before it ended the first time and they had to revive it), 30 Rock, Childrens Hospital, and Party Down, all of which relied on tight writing as much or more than the acting and cast chemistry.
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Robobot posted:I've been watching through Community. Boy, it really fell off a cliff after season 2. I'm a bit into season 4 (I gave up in season 3 when it was airing) and I'm surprised it managed to keep going. This is just...odd. People say season 6 is good because Dan Harmon returned. I thought it was the worst season of all. 3>4>5>6
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Wrong
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Started watching Northern Exposure on Prime. It seems like it's trying to be a sitcom, and another Twin Peaks at the same time.
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I just finished Obliterated on Netflix. I found it hilarious. It's like a mixture of Weekend at Bernie's, the hangover and the TV show 24
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MightyJoe36 posted:Started watching Northern Exposure on Prime. It seems like it's trying to be a sitcom, and another Twin Peaks at the same time. yeah it's more like "aren't small towns funny" vs "aren't small towns scary" - a solid sitcom with a fun cast
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