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As a fan of Vikings (at least the first few seasons), I tried to watch Norsemen. It's a genre parody like Airplane, Scary Movie, or Another Gay Movie, except it's only mining one IP for inspiration, and there isn't enough there go around. So instead they take one conceptual joke, and just drag it into the ground until it's dead and tired. If the initial joke had actually be funny, that would be one thing. But it's not funny.
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Britain's Best Home Cook is on Hulu, with head judge Mary Berry, in a format pretty much identical to the Great British Bake Off, except for general home cooking instead of specifically just baking. It's okay. It's perfectly watchable to put on in the background. But it somehow doesn't have the same charm as Bake Off. Charm that Bake Off still has even without Mary Berry. Conclusion, while Mary Berry is a treasure, she is not the key to the success of either of these shows.
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Oct 8, 2018 02:39
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LifeLynx posted:The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is so entertaining. She's obviously not an actress, which is especially noticable in the second episode where she sounds like she has a bad cold. I keep wanting to watch it with my kid, but then a character will drop a line where I think I really don't want to have her asking me or her mom what that meant. Going to be a fun Halloween marathon when she's a little older though! Yeah, I was thinking that too, but then I realized that it will probably just go over their heads. It's really fun show, and I recommend it.
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Oct 25, 2018 01:01
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redreader posted:Am I the only person who has sound issues with Amazon prime? I use a ps4 with 5.1 sound speakers and a 5.1 receiver. I plug my ps4 in with the hdmi cable and I have two problems: I've been having this issue with my PS4 a lot lately. And it's not just Prime specific. Netflix is fine, and I can play it at 10 volume. Playstation Vue and Amazon Prime lately I have to turn the volume all the way up to 50 to hear it.
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Oct 26, 2018 22:59
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Steve Yun posted:How is Sabrina? The trailer looked like Footloose except the boring normies are now the good guys If you like Riverdale, you'll like Sabrina.
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Oct 27, 2018 04:34
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So Amazon Prime is now advertising their original shows before anything you watch on there. At least it's not straight up commercials yet, like Hulu which plays the exact same commercial every commercial break.
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Nov 4, 2018 19:25
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rngd in the womb posted:Have you seen Maniac yet? I started to watch it one day while doing housework, and then five minutes in I had no idea what was going on, and I remembered that it's by the complicated stud muffin Cary Fukunaga, so I decided I should set it aside for a time when I can give it my full attention.
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Nov 19, 2018 04:11
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Criminal Minded posted:I spent five days in jail over the summer for a DUI because I’m a dumbass and my cellmate happened to have a big hardbound copy of the complete Elmore Leonard western short stories, so any fan of Buster Scruggs should check that out. Was the five days waiting for your arraignment or your sentence?
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Nov 21, 2018 12:16
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I'm completely surprised by this, but everybody should watch Dogs on Netflix. I totally thought it was going to be some inane TLC type series with just lots of videos of dogs being cute, or maybe at most something about the evolution of dogs from wolves. But no. Each episode is like a mini documentary. The first episode dealt with a young girl with serious epilepsy, and her family, as they were about to welcome a service dog into their home. The second episode deals with a Syrian refugee in Berlin who had to leave his husky Zeus back in Syria with a friend, and his efforts to bring Zeus to Berlin. It's very good. Edit: I just finished episode 2, and I definitely teared up a little bit. Episode 3 is about a dog who works on a small fishing boat in the Italian Alps. The cinematography in this episode is gorgeous. Edit: You guys. Episode 4 is about dog hair stylists from Tokyo entering an American dog grooming competition. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Dec 2, 2018 20:47
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A Proper Uppercut posted:I'd just like to say that Schitt's Creek is sooo good. David Rose has to be one of my most favorite characters ever. Agreed on both counts. Dan Levy is a treasure.
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Dec 17, 2018 04:38
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:SyFy has kinda stepped up their game in the last few years. The movies are as poo poo as ever, but pretty much all of their recent shows are neat; Z Nation is probably the worst of the bunch and even it's pretty fun. You can't talk about how good Syfy has gotten without mentioning The Magicians and The Expanse. Season 3 of the Magicians is now on Netflix, and was maybe the funniest show of 2018. Still waiting in season 3 of The Expanse to show up on Amazon Prime.
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Dec 29, 2018 16:47
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Lycus posted:Hogwarts University was definitely not my thing, but Happy! was great. I will get around to Expanse some day, it sounds like it would be for me. How far did you get into The Magicians? Because season 1 ranges from mediocre to average at best. I only kept on going because I was a fan of the books. Season 2 is when the show really starts to become good, and season 3 cemented it as one of the best shows currently on TV.
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Dec 30, 2018 04:40
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I'm a little late on this, but I started watching Forever on Amazon Prime, that show starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen about a married couple. Holy poo poo, how did I sleep on this brilliant, brilliant show.
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Jan 2, 2019 13:31
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Frog Act posted:I've been having a hard time finding a really good show to watch properly after finishing Happy!, which is like in my top shows ever now and is a tough act to follow. I'm slowly watching The Expanse, which I'm supposed to like as a big fan of hardish sci-fi and cyberpunkish stuff in particular but for some reason it just doesn't grab me, it all moves so slow and is punctuated by super serious conversations and sometimes just feels to me like sort of generic modern TV drama stuff instead of actual innovative sci-fi, but I've been told it gets better in the second season and I'm almost done with the first. Yeah, they dragged book one out across a season and a half, which doesn't really make sense. They begin to speed things up in season 2, and by season 3, the action is moving at breakneck speed.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:27
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veni veni veni posted:New season of Room 104 is ok. It's kind of inconsistent but as far as anthology shows go it's not that bad. other than that I dunno. HBO hasn't really been knocking it out of the park lately. It's basically a small handful of middling shows and movies and final GOT season teasers. Yet it's the most expensive streaming service for some inexplicable reason. They did this 10 years ago or so. They decided that they wanted to get out of the big TV production game, so they canceled their more expensive shows like Deadwood, Rome and Carnivale, and put out a bunch of much cheaper shows. We did get some good things out of it like Flight of the Conchords, Summer Heights High and Eastdown and Bound. But we also got Tell Me You Love Me, and John from Cincinnati. And none of these did all that well, regardless of quality. The only true hit they got out of this era was True Blood. Once Game of Thrones ends in a few months and everybody cancels their HBO subscriptions, they're going to realize, "Oh, gently caress...", they're going to realize that they need more than one big hit at a time.
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Jan 6, 2019 14:23
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Frog Act posted:also the extremely short shot at the end where both of their eyes change color to indicate neither of them are "them", which was confusing since if Natalie Portman's character could tell she had been refracted just by looking at a drop of her blood under a microscope, surely the super secret mega scientists figured out she was a refraction or whatever, but it is heavily implied they did not during the questioning and last scene I don't agree that is what happened. I just watched it last night, and read some things about it today, and my impression was that She came out as herself, but she's still changed. But she's also okay with her husband being just the doppleganger.
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Jan 8, 2019 02:01
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I don't recall seeing anyone talking about this, but Alfonso Cuaron's latest Roma is wonderful. It's a very specific look at a very specific type of people during a very specific time in Mexican history, and never goes where you think it will. I spent like an hour afterwards reading about the major historical event depicted in the movie, and also shocked to learn that Cuaron says that the movie is basically 90% based on his own life, right down to filming in the house across the street from where he grew up, and 70% of the furniture in the movie being his family's.
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Jan 13, 2019 16:16
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Grudgerm posted:My brother recommended me “The Little Hours” with John c Riley and I was honestly surprised of how good it was. It's a very, very funny movie. It's actually based on like a 13th century Italian novel, written during the middle of the plague. Apparently it's actually as raunchy and funny as the movie is.
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Jan 16, 2019 03:56
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tweet my meat posted:The Magicians feels like a way schlockier version of Legion. It's been very enjoyable so far and they do a good job of making magic seem pretty terrifying. Season 1 is a little rough, but each season it gets better and better, and I think it's now one of the funniest shows on television.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:40
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TOOT BOOT posted:Ted Bundy is still still casting a spell on women from beyond the grave. My wife was talking about watching the series at work and 2 of the reactions were 'oooh, he's hot' and 'maybe he didn't do it...I'm not sure...' I'm pretty sure there was a segment on Dark Tourist that met with women who are obsessed with him, and go on tours.
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Jan 28, 2019 03:58
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Frog Act posted:Is that true for Boardwalk Empire too? I’m a sucker for period pieces I struggled with Boardwalk Empire at times. Like, technically, it's good. But I sort of feel like if you've seen one show about organized crime, you've kind of seen it all? But this time, with FLAPPERS, and a young Al Capone. I don't think I got around to watching the final season. But if that's right up your alley, you'll probably love it.
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Feb 2, 2019 01:06
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Hubbardologist posted:following up on Russian Dolls, if you like the Good Place, you should watch this show. Watching now. Episode 2. Really enjoy it.
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Feb 2, 2019 05:34
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James Woods Fan posted:Man I definitely disagree with the latter. 3 was the best season but the final two just stunk to high heaven imo. How many shots did we need of Chalky looking at that dancer? Harrow's story line should've ended with the season 3 finale. This is the right take.
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mystes posted:Finally. Also, is there any news on when season 4 is going to come out? This fall. There was some delay in the production because of the SyFy cancellation. The cast are saying it's the best season yet, which makes me hesitant because I thought that book 4 was the weakest, but the show hasn't let me down yet, so I'm still eager.
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Feb 16, 2019 02:58
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precision posted:And yeah PEN15 is so funny. Oh my gawd, shut up! So funny. Yeah. Too funny and stuff. Oh my gawd. Yeah, PEN15 really is fantastic. So so funny. I'm a guy, and a few years older than the characters portrayed in the show, but god drat, it really does a great job of portraying teenagers in that era. And the show very easily could step into cringeworthy and awkward, because that's so much what being 13 is about. And it does that a little, but with healthy doses of sympathy for these characters. Also, you completely forget that the two leads are actually 30, and not 13 in the show, Which is so funny given that they are acting with a slew of actual 13 year olds.
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Feb 18, 2019 22:57
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syscall girl posted:So the step-siblings hooking up was more of a pornhub homage? It's not like that's a running gag in Wes Anderson movies. It was a minor plot point in literally only one of his movies. Asnorban posted:I’m interested in knowing if these Umbrella Academy impressions have read the comics or not. I didn't read the comics. I'm enjoying the show more than I thought I would. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 02:59
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AWarmBody posted:Yeah, the AIM stuff took me back. It reminded me of how one of my nemeses growing up tried to catfish me with a fake AIM ne but I knew it was her because the catfish would always sign on after she signed off and they were both terrible spellers My friend Dave was really into rap music at the time, so naturally, he'd want that to be reflected in his very first AOL Instant Messenger screenname. So, I get a message one day from: RapingDave I told him what he spelled. He didn't believe me. He messaged some more of our friends. I later got a message from someone new: RappingDave
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Steve Yun posted:2 episodes into Russian Doll, it seems kinda pedestrian. Does it get better? I mean, the show is utterly fantastic, and takes you on a number of emotional and existential twists. It's not just a Groundhog Day retread.
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