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Lazy_Liberal posted:i wait until a show has their series finale before i start watching it because i don't feel like living on someone else's timetable. same with book series. i'm sure streaming companies hate me but DVD box set companies used to love me. another nice thing about living this way is you get to avoid spoilers by never engaging with TV fandoms
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Jolo posted:If they dropped True Detective Season 4 all at once, most of the conversation would be around that wild finale where we find out that [spoilre] the True Detective was the friends we made along the way[/spoiler] and not the week to week discussion about who the True and False Detectives were. That conversation will cost you. You will pay for that conversation.
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Simplex posted:The only reason services switched to the weekly release model is because they realized they could milk 3 months of subscription fees out of impatient consumers, rather than the standard one month binge and drop the service. Frankly juggling a list of subscriptions that I'm actively canceling or renewing based on new release schedules sounds worse than just like, having Netflix or not having Netflix and not really thinking about it either way
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Wolfsheim posted:Frankly juggling a list of subscriptions that I'm actively canceling or renewing based on new release schedules sounds worse than just like, having Netflix or not having Netflix and not really thinking about it either way That's more or less Netflix's original concept. They would have so much stuff on there that once you finished binging one show, there would be another show right there waiting for you to binge a well. So there'd be no point to canceling because there was always something new. But they had trouble meeting those kind of production schedules and started experimenting with things like splitting seasons in 2. Then the late comers to the game started launching streaming platforms with really sparse catalogs, and here we are.
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enigmahfc posted:That conversation will cost you. Pray that I don't chat about it further
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In order to fully understand True Detective Season 4, I had to go back and rewatch a scene from the first season over and over again. You know the one.
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enigmahfc posted:That conversation will cost you. gah, no......
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One detective always tells the truth, and one always lies. It’s your job to determine, by asking only one question, who the True Detective is
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Lazy_Liberal posted:another nice thing about living this way is you get to avoid spoilers by never engaging with TV fandoms TV fandoms are the worst, I was around for I acquit and Mike shot Jessie or whatever that one was
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i dated someone thick into  when it was airing and that was wildunrelated, just watched marcel the shell with shoes on via Netflix and it was good!
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Like they had a dump truck rear end and they were also into lost or they just were really really into lost?
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I simply subscribe to some dog poo poo steeeaming service to watch 3 episodes of some show and continue paying for it forever. very easy for me
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Smythe posted:I simply subscribe to some dog poo poo steeeaming service to watch 3 episodes of some show and continue paying for it forever. very easy for me No joke, this is what happened to my parents when the did the Disney bundle - they watched one thing and forgot to turn it off for three months.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:i wait until a show has their series finale before i start watching it because i don't feel like living on someone else's timetable. same with book series. i'm sure streaming companies hate me but DVD box set companies used to love me. I like to wait ten years after a show has ended and then look up the old threads and read along while watching, so it feels like travelling back in time  .
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Famethrowa posted:must consume content
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Baron von Eevl posted:Like they had a dump truck rear end and they were also into lost or they just were really really into lost? you know, now that i think about it, both
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Lazy_Liberal posted:another nice thing about living this way is you get to avoid spoilers by never engaging with TV fandoms I get the idea of wanting to talk to others about "what happened last night" on Your Favorite TV Show. But the level of fandom discourse is stygian. Exhibit 1, just about any discussion on Lost.
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Lost wasn't / isn't a typical fandom IMO. It attracted a lot of weirdos, even by TV-fandom standards.
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Wasn’t Lost really popular with normies? That’s how I remember it c. 2005-2006 anyway
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eighty-four merc posted:Wasn’t Lost really popular with normies? That’s how I remember it c. 2005-2006 anyway Yep. Came in to work one day and like 7 diff people were talking about last nights ep in 2005 for most of the season. Same for 24 but slightly less of a following.
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eighty-four merc posted:Wasn’t Lost really popular with normies? That’s how I remember it c. 2005-2006 anyway Yeah I mean it was one proto-modern golden age of TV shows with a really shareable mythos that invited people to talk about it. Everyone joined in the "water-cooler"ness of it. What Went Wrong podcast just did two episodes (one on its inception and one on the finale). While the idea has been around it was always just a straight arrow crash survival show. When they got Abrams/Lindelof involved they had six weeks from the greenlight of their "weird" version to first day of shoot. That's insane. Casting, scouting, EVERYTHING done in six weeks. And honestly they never really got their footing from there and thats why the mythos kinda struggled. Honestly it sounds like Lindelof was looking to get out from drat near day 1 after the pilot. Too much stress.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:TV fandoms are the worst, I was around for I acquit and Mike shot Jessie or whatever that one was That wasn't fandoms. That's goons being bad at watching tv.
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Jose Oquendo posted:That wasn't fandoms. That's goons being bad at watching tv. It's not just TV, remember the multi page TDK arguments about whether Harvey Dent was still alive lol
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Edward Mass posted:No joke, this is what happened to my parents when the did the Disney bundle - they watched one thing and forgot to turn it off for three months. i think this describes the majorty if ppl irl. aint nobody out there toggling their streaming things like theyre playing factorio or something
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BonoMan posted:Yeah I mean it was one proto-modern golden age of TV shows with a really shareable mythos that invited people to talk about it. Everyone joined in the "water-cooler"ness of it. That variety (?) article about Carlton Cuse coming in there and loving things up with the explicit intent to sideline every minority character didn't help either. Never liked it.
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Lost would've done so much better under HBO or a cable channel. Network TV deadlines are already insane for episodic shows that shoot mostly on stage. Doing a fully serialized show with a sprawling ensemble cast almost fully on location is nuts even without a psycho like Cuse running the writers room.
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The mean girls reboot is smashed dog poo poo.
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Glottis posted:Lost did pretty loving well, it ran for many seasons. I meant "would've been a better show". It was definitely a smash hit, ratings wise.
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veni veni veni posted:The mean girls reboot is smashed dog poo poo. lol
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veni veni veni posted:The mean girls reboot is smashed dog poo poo.
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Just discovered that my local library system has a really good film catalogue (better selection than Netflix) and you can stream 5 a month for free. The website bears all the hallmarks of french public sector contractors (ie it's incredibly slow and buggy) but it's still a fantastic service. Check yours out if you haven't!
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Martman posted:but is it fetch
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Extraordinary is back on Hulu and it's great already. Takes the fun everyday superpower aspect of Boys without the cringe Ennis-ness of it all. The gag of bringing back the spirits of the dead for petty young adult problems never gets old.
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distortion park posted:Just discovered that my local library system has a really good film catalogue (better selection than Netflix) and you can stream 5 a month for free. The website bears all the hallmarks of french public sector contractors (ie it's incredibly slow and buggy) but it's still a fantastic service. Check yours out if you haven't! That needs to go into the OP. Public and college library systems can get you access to lots of free streaming services. Kanopy is the first one that comes to mind. You can even sign up for library cards and poo poo online so you don't have to go to a physical library (but you should anyway and support your local library system.
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Inspector Hound posted:Foxcatcher, on Hulu, is at least worth checking out for Steve Carell's very weird performance. It's the bizarre story of John du Pont manipulating a pair of brothers into helping him with his ill fated turn at coaching a wrestling team, and how mean to him his mom was. I love seeing comedic actors do dramatic roles. I feel like it can be their secret strong suit--you can almost see the way comedy and drama are the same, that in order to make another person laugh you have to transform yourself completely, and how maybe delivering offensive jokes completely deadpan on The Office is the same as portraying evil or grief.. Everyone is good in it, I was impressed by the depiction of wrestling in general, and the way the two main characters walked in particular; they really had down the "all your joints were horrifically injured before you were 20 but you wouldn't stop, also you are more muscle than man" walk. I didn't have a brother, but I hope if I had it might be close to this. Well, except the end, I guess. Carell's performance is considerably less weird than the real John duPont. nonathlon posted:Netflix has been promoting the Code 8 films so I caught up with them: Did they really not have a better title for the second one?
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Jose Oquendo posted:That needs to go into the OP. Public and college library systems can get you access to lots of free streaming services. Kanopy is the first one that comes to mind. You can even sign up for library cards and poo poo online so you don't have to go to a physical library (but you should anyway and support your local library system. Kanopy costs libraries and universities a huge amount of money. Even Stanford noped out.
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theflyingexecutive posted:Kanopy costs libraries and universities a huge amount of money. Even Stanford noped out. I don't know the particulars but I know there's different tiers institutions can sign up. Like, if I log into Kanopy with my university login, I get a different set of movies than if I log in with my public library account. edit: I found this about the cost of the service: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamrowe1/2019/07/31/how-much-is-your-library-paying-for-the-kanopy-video-streaming-service/?sh=7f32ae9170fd
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