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TuxedoOrca posted:Supposedly they have a Starfleet Academy show in the making that's set in the 32nd century, but it's anyone's guess if it will be real between how the strike derailed production and paramount being in financial trouble. It's filming now. Variety (I think) did an article recently where they visited the set, which is the largest ever built for a Star Trek show. I was really hoping the end of Discovery would be the end of that corner of Trek but looks like we are stuck with it.
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Oasx posted:I don’t like most American comedies, and Lower Decks didn’t do anything for me. Well I don't like most British comedy so there. Scratch that. Northern Irish comedy is good and Scottish comedy is fine. This goes for shows, movies, and standup. Lower Decks isn't just cool because of jokes however. The absurdity is entertaining aside from whether it's funny or not. And the focus on platonic friendships is oddly enough quite novel for a Star Trek show.
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Apr 8, 2024 09:31
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cant cook creole bream posted:Man, the latest Simpsons barely qualifies as a parody. Things are really that dire in the US. Honestly, it's way to hopeful. Reading the logline and . . . this is a new level. "Marge gets a job in a high-pressure ghost kitchen, but when she tries to start a union, she gets more than she collectively bargained for."
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Apr 8, 2024 09:44
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You know peak TV has jumped the shark when you're watching a perfectly fine LA Noir pastiche and asking yourself questions like "is the twist here that Colin Farrel's a space alien? Are they all aliens? Is this an alien version of the Matrix?"
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Apr 8, 2024 09:53
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I thought we were having LA Noir. Oh no no no, I meant Alien Noir, that's what I call LA Noir.
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Apr 8, 2024 10:17
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Like I mentioned in the Apple TV thread, the Daily Beast review of Sugar spoils the twist at the end. Do NOT read unless you're like me and can't wait to know.
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Apr 8, 2024 10:20
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SimonChris posted:Like I mentioned in the Apple TV thread, the Daily Beast review of Sugar spoils the twist at the end. Do NOT read unless you're like me and can't wait to know.  
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Apr 8, 2024 10:48
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Trip report: I binged Parasyte over the weekend, and it was pretty nice. I liked the main characters, and aside from the insane body horror monsters it's a workable "no one can trust anyone and drama ensues" romp. Probably won't need to watch again, but I thought it pulled off what it seemed to want to accomplish. Seriously though if you're squeamish, the monsters might be a bit much 
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Apr 8, 2024 11:28
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Wasn’t that big on The Regime overall but the finale was prolly the best episode and the way it ended was pretty drat good
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Apr 8, 2024 11:51
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Perhaps all this prestige TV media is chasing to recreate the impact of the twist of Life On Mars back in the late 2000s.
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Apr 8, 2024 12:21
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lol someone mentioned Scrubs being a bit politically incorrect by modern standards and I disagreed with the example of Elliott being picked on but I do watch old shows sometimes and marvel at what was seen as appropriate not too long ago. Ya'll remember when Brooklyn 99 was lauded for having a main cast with backgrounds you probably expect to find in a real Brooklyn police station? Without whitewashing on the one hand or adding token roles for characters where their minority status is the whole point? You have 2 African Americans, 2 Italians, one half Italian half African American, 2 Latinas, and two lazy white guys for whom everything comes easy. Just like real life. I distinctly recall reading that it was the first show to air on a major US network that had two Latino characters who weren't related (key specific) on the main cast. And the show didn't come out that long ago. And even it has one or two episodes taken down.
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Apr 8, 2024 12:27
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Finished S1 of Resident Alien. I haven't been this enamored with a show in a while. It's super funny and has a lot of heart. Alan Tudyk is so good it hurts. Lots of great characters combos - Liv and Big Black, D'Arcy and Judy, the kids and Harry. I thought the finale was a bit weak with Harry and Atsa at the end but overall it was a great first season. I'm glad I have S2 and S3 to blaze through. I'm pretty sure i spotted Sarah Tomko (Atsa) in a pharmaceutical commercial!
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Apr 8, 2024 18:15
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Time for my kinda-annual You’re the Worst rewatch. It remains of the best shows ever made
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Apr 8, 2024 20:00
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Bright Bart posted:Ya'll remember when Brooklyn 99 was lauded for having a main cast with backgrounds you probably expect to find in a real Brooklyn police station? Without whitewashing on the one hand or adding token roles for characters where their minority status is the whole point? You have 2 African Americans, 2 Italians, one half Italian half African American, 2 Latinas, and two lazy white guys for whom everything comes easy. Just like real life. I like the separation of "Italian" from "white" here, especially for a show made and set in 2010s NYC.
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Apr 8, 2024 20:18
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I was bummed about season 2 of Tokyo Vice ending but the last episode felt like a satisfying ending to the whole show if Zaslav feels like wielding his loving axe again because I haven't felt like the show made a huge buzz overall to the point where I was genuinely surprised it got a second season. It feels like they could go on pretty comfortably but if not, hell of a show. Figures too when the last show I really enjoyed was The Knick and that one was canned after the second season.
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Apr 8, 2024 20:40
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Shogun is cool but I am worried they're going to have him be passably skilled with the swords he got on becoming a samurai. So far that's not the case and actually it has him being a poor swordsman. I'm just worried that's going to change. If it does I want to know what's going on inside of the heads of the samurai who witness it. 'We've been doing this all wrong. We train our children from the time they could walk to use our weapons, sending them to learn from specialists, spending thousands of hours sparring by the time they're adults. What we should be doing is painting their skin light and have them do a montage where they learn all the secrets from the Daimyo's master-at-arms in a week.'
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Apr 8, 2024 20:52
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Bright Bart posted:Shogun is cool but I am worried they're going to have him be passably skilled with the swords he got on becoming a samurai. So far that's not the case and actually it has him being a poor swordsman. I'm just worried that's going to change. What episode are you on? I don't think that this is going to be a thing that the show is worried about unless there's like a decade long time skip. In Shogun ep 7: Blackthorn tries to hold a katana like a rapier because it's long and that's what he's seen European nobility do with swords longer than a cutlass in that era. He of course gets soundly schooled. AngryBooch fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 21:09
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isaboo posted:Finished S1 of Resident Alien. I haven't been this enamored with a show in a while. It's super funny and has a lot of heart. Alan Tudyk is so good it hurts. there's a whole bunch of shows that native actors pop up in including resident alien, reservation dogs and rutherford falls and it's kinda cool but then it becomes obvious there's a very small pool of native actors available to fill these roles. so much better than an italian guy with a headdress though.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:18
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Luvcow posted:there's a whole bunch of shows that native actors pop up in including resident alien, reservation dogs and rutherford falls and it's kinda cool but then it becomes obvious there's a very small pool of native actors available to fill these roles. so much better than an italian guy with a headdress though. 🤌🏻
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Apr 8, 2024 23:32
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Chuck is a real classic background tv show. love the nerd crew
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Apr 9, 2024 01:54
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Midway into season 2 of Halt and Catch Fire. Way more soap operatic than I thought it would be based on its reputation. That aspect of it is really fun, but continues to throw me here and there. I thought it would be a bit more Mad Men. e: Love how seriously it takes the stakes of small or somewhat goofy things other shows wouldn't bother with, too. Really grounds the show. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 02:07
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feedmyleg posted:I thought it would be a bit more Mad Men. From what I remember of its history, I think the producers thought the same thing
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Apr 9, 2024 02:21
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Escobarbarian posted:Time for my kinda-annual You’re the Worst rewatch. It remains of the best shows ever made I’ve been doing my first rewatch and partway through season 3 now, still agree with all of this. I love it all from the very beginning and it’s got the perfect short theme song/intro.
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Apr 9, 2024 02:35
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mistermojo posted:Chuck is a real classic background tv show. love the nerd crew I'd agree for the first few seasons, then the writing turned into the laziest affair ever.
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Apr 9, 2024 03:34
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Amazon moved up Fallout's release by a couple of hours and now it will drop Wednesday at 6pm PDT.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:04
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feedmyleg posted:Midway into season 2 of Halt and Catch Fire. Way more soap operatic than I thought it would be based on its reputation. That aspect of it is really fun, but continues to throw me here and there. I thought it would be a bit more Mad Men. It gets a bit more silly and the stakes of everything loses the clear clarity of the 1st season but I liked it well enough. There's something to be said about the soap operatic stuff making you want to see how these characters are gonna ping pong against each other next.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:25
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Ripley got me thinking, what do you all think are some of the most well-shot TV shows of all time? To me Ripley and The Underground Railroad are on a whole nother level to pretty much anything else I’ve seen, although you then have BB and Saul right below equal to Mr. Robot, and then, I dunno, Mad Men, Hannibal, and Severance, maybe? Am I forgetting anything? Older shows? Joke answer: Ozark
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Apr 9, 2024 10:17
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Escobarbarian posted:Ripley got me thinking, what do you all think are some of the most well-shot TV shows of all time? To me Ripley and The Underground Railroad are on a whole nother level to pretty much anything else I’ve seen, although you then have BB and Saul right below equal to Mr. Robot, and then, I dunno, Mad Men, Hannibal, and Severance, maybe? Am I forgetting anything? Older shows? I stand by Expats being fairly impressive. I'd also place both seasons of The OA, The Young Pope, and Euphoria's second season up there with anything else on your list. Maybe Dead Ringers, the first season of American Gods, Sharp Objects, Pachinko, The North Water and Too Old To Die Young. And someone's probably gonna say the British version of Utopia so it might as well be me.
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Apr 9, 2024 10:32
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Hannibal was loving gorgeous though I think the (excellent) cinematography was aided by the absolutely loving impeccable wardrobe, set design and art design just elevating everything. Similar to Shogun where I love how it's shot but a huge part of what makes it work is the attention to detail in the wardrobe as well as the physical movement of the actors.
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Apr 9, 2024 12:59
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Escobarbarian posted:Ripley got me thinking, what do you all think are some of the most well-shot TV shows of all time? To me Ripley and The Underground Railroad are on a whole nother level to pretty much anything else I’ve seen, although you then have BB and Saul right below equal to Mr. Robot, and then, I dunno, Mad Men, Hannibal, and Severance, maybe? Am I forgetting anything? Older shows? Its bad though, right? I've seen super positive reviews and some terrible ones but yea.. gorgeous but bizarrely stilted acting. Its as if the producers thought the cinematographer was so great they let him direct the actors too. The weirdest thing is its gotta be intentional (they're good actors; I assume they were going for some sort of ~"Ripley's a socially weird sociopath" vibe) but it doesn't work at all. Unrelated: Did something go wrong during the shooting of Monseigneur Spade? It went from promising, to I don't like where this is going, to "the writers died in a fire, along with the finale script, quick make something up" worse than any other show I can think of.
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Apr 9, 2024 13:23
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Mindhunter looked amazing (RIP), ditto Chernobyl. It's a lot older and very uneven, but I've been watching Miami Vice and am continually impressed by sometimes incredible shots that appear absolutely out of nowhere. The very stark set design definitely helps, but it's a show that absolutely thrives on its visuals and direction when it's good. But of course with 22 episodes a season in the 80s they're not all going to be winners. Everyone has seen the stunning In the Air Tonight scene but they usually pull off at least a couple of similar scenes a season.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:07
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False posted:Its bad though, right? I've seen super positive reviews and some terrible ones but yea.. gorgeous but bizarrely stilted acting. Its as if the producers thought the cinematographer was so great they let him direct the actors too. The weirdest thing is its gotta be intentional (they're good actors; I assume they were going for some sort of ~"Ripley's a socially weird sociopath" vibe) but it doesn't work at all. Uhhh, I reckon Scott's performance in this was really, really good. Superficially charming for brief periods, but absolutely dead inside and completely lacking in whatever threads are meant to tie a person to humanity in general. He grows more charming across the show, but remains ultimately more in love with objects than with people. I sense, halfway through, that this shifts the story towards being more like the novel. The Mingella film is more about the tragedy of the closet, and the pressure to pass as straight and the way that dooms the lead to a life of tragedy. He's still a sexual being, he just feels compelled to cover his feelings -- he ultimately can't maintain a relationship and to pass among the rich as one of their own, and he ultimately chooses to pass. Whereas the show's Ripley, while still gay and repressed about it, seems to only appreciate dudes in an abstract, bloodless sort of way. He sublimates any sexual attraction into a fascination with rings and sunglasses and shirts and things. As such his relationship with Dickie is primarily defined by Dickie as an avenue to getting stuff -- the first signs of betrayal are when Marge becomes the subject of Dickie's presents (the fridge they buy together, the perfume). He shows more emotion to that loss than to the actual murder, which he carries out with a unhurried disinterest.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:34
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Oh I think it isn't bloodless.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:39
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Bright Bart posted:Oh I think it isn't bloodless. I wouldn't call that appreciative.
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Escobarbarian posted:Ripley got me thinking, what do you all think are some of the most well-shot TV shows of all time? To me Ripley and The Underground Railroad are on a whole nother level to pretty much anything else I’ve seen, although you then have BB and Saul right below equal to Mr. Robot, and then, I dunno, Mad Men, Hannibal, and Severance, maybe? Am I forgetting anything? Older shows? It'll never get an HD upgrade or anything because it was shot on 16mm and printed on video, but Homicide: Life on the Street had some truly incredible cinematography.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:13
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Twin Peaks Utopia (the UK version) Fargo The original Twilight Zone GoT too, I guess But when I think of great cinematography the first things that come to mind have already been mentioned - Hannibal and Mr Robot oh! and Rectify! The first season of Rectify especially, hell yeah. isaboo fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 15:23
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Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul usually has an outstandingly shot scene per an episode
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Apr 9, 2024 15:28
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Mad Men was never that flashy but snuck in alpt of shots that looked like moving paintings. Particularly thinking of Joan and Srerling standing a few feet outside a hotel after their last tryst. I'd buy that and frame it.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:30
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Shageletic posted:Mad Men was never that flashy but snuck in alpt of shots that looked like moving paintings. Particularly thinking of Joan and Srerling standing a few feet outside a hotel after their last tryst. I'd buy that and frame it. Honestly this was the exact shot I was thinking of when I put it in my post
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Oh drat, the one big show with gorgeous cinematography I was forgetting*: Flowers. *until I remember another one.
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