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sweetmercifulcrap posted:I'm only three episodes into this season but I'm starting to think that I only really liked the first season but the rest just isn't really for me. The amount of focus Titus gets feels like overkill, which is a shame because he's a great supporting character. In fact, I feel that way about the entire main cast other than Kimmy. They all feel like characters that should be kept to supporting roles, but instead they all get equal focus and their shtick feels very played out already, like they've already run of ways to surprise the audience with them. Yeah, I felt the same way with regards to the Titus episodes. I recognize that he's a good supporting character, but I can't stand him, and whenever he's the protagonist I want him to fail because he's just so ridiculously self-centered and arrogant, but that's not really the tone of the show.
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, I felt the same way with regards to the Titus episodes...he's just so ridiculously self-centered and arrogant This is largely Jacqueline as well. They are both big influences on Kimmy's life right now, yet she has rubbed off on them and she hasn't absorbed much from them at all. She's Unbreakable, after all.
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All the characters on this show are broken in one way or another, except Kimmy. CelestialScribe posted:Does she have a speech impediment? I'm seriously asking. Her method of talking is really really strange. The character is from New York. That's one of the accents they have there. Lillian is delightful.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:All the characters on this show are broken in one way or another, except Kimmy. Kimmy's arc last season was recognizing she has PTSD and needed help to deal with it and slowly forgiving her mom for not being there for her when she needed her. She's still a mess this season but for different reasons Messing with the reverend in revenge when she needs to recognize there is no reason for her to continue letting him in her life And it's Titus's thing this season recognizing he's an awful selfish self centered goon
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313: "Cooking sherry? YOU DON'T TELL ME HOW TO USE YOU!" And then again with the rubbing alcohol.
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It always bums me out when shows get you invested with plotlines and cliffhangers that you expect to go somewhere, and then they just pinch them off in a new season because they can't keep the actors around, or can't make them work into new plotlines. Still, as for raw comedy and great characters this season is as good or better than the others. With Xanthippe's roommates they fit roughly the same physical types as Kimmy's bunker mates. I was really expecting something there. I don't think this is a spoiler just thinking out loud about it, but one thing I was actually wondering is if they were going to do the stages of grief one season after another, just based on the first two.. First season: Denial - Kimmy refuses to confront her past until the very end, and she tries to take on the word through optimism and perseverance. Second: Anger - Pent up anger manifesting itself in a fugue state and psychosomatic belching, ultimately blows up in the deli, and destroys her safe-place retreat. This season would've been Depression? But I guess it didn't really follow. EDIT: Er bargaining I mean Captain Lavender fucked around with this message at 17:57 on May 24, 2017 |
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:All the characters on this show are broken in one way or another, except Kimmy. That is not just an accent. There's something wrong with her voice.
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She's a crazy old druggie drunk catlady who lived hard and shot her husband in the face. It's the character.
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Yeah not really. I haven't seen anyone pronounce words so badly.
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PT6A posted:313: "Cooking sherry? YOU DON'T TELL ME HOW TO USE YOU!" And then again with the rubbing alcohol. There's a visual follow-up later. When Kimmy is getting loaded on the stoop, she's got a bottle of "drinking alcohol"
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The way some people online are talking, I should trade in all my progressive cred and start wearing a MAGA hat and read Briebart becuase I enjoy this season. Holy poo poo people are taking issue with everything, calling the show racist, and anti-woman, pro-rape and so on. Holy poo poo, has progressives become incredibly humorless or is it just the people I know? Like Kimmy the feminist, the whole joke is these kids have these high minded and correct beliefs and ideals, but they still kids and will do dumb poo poo. Kid who calls his mom after rejecting isn't a "consent is for whiny millennials" but "this guy is a baby"" . Drunk as poo poo Xan was adorable. Everyone is completely over the top and turned up to 11, not unlike the Simpsons so everyones ridiculous. Maybe I'm just old and don't get the kids these days. I think pretty much everyone from 30 rock save Kennith and Jack was on this season. Omg Ray Liotta with a Bodega cat!!!
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twistedmentat posted:Drunk as poo poo Xan was adorable. Alcohol's good; I like it Captain Lavender fucked around with this message at 17:48 on May 24, 2017 |
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CelestialScribe posted:Yeah not really. I haven't seen anyone pronounce words so badly. Just go to New York and hang out a while. As long as it takes. twistedmentat posted:The way some people online are talking, I should trade in all my progressive cred and start wearing a MAGA hat and read Briebart becuase I enjoy this season. Holy poo poo people are taking issue with everything, calling the show racist, and anti-woman, pro-rape and so on. Yeah, people from the Internet never overreact, huh?
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Maybe you have a hearing impediment. Nah, Carol Kane has always talked weird. It's been her schtick since the 80's. I understand her just fine though, but saying it's her "character" isn't necessarily true. Go watch any movie or interview with her, she has a weird slur to everything she says.
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Maybe she's like Stallone and people are making fun of a remarkable overcoming of a physical defect. Or she sounds like she's from New York.
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I've watched up to 308 so far, I thought the first few episodes were a little bit slow and a lot of the jokes fell flat (aside from 302 Titus Lemonading), but it really clicked with me shortly afterwards. I felt like there was a run of really great episodes. I loved the Gretchen one, and 308 Maya Rudolph as Dionne Warwick was just amazing, holy poo poo. The 30 Rock cameos are great, I completely didn't recognise Judah Friedlander apart from his voice.
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twistedmentat posted:Kid who calls his mom after rejecting isn't a "consent is for whiny millennials" Assuming you aren't just tilting at strawmen the problem isn't that your friends are humorless, censorious progressives, it's that they're idiots. How could you possibly think that was a joke about consent?
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13 episodes aren't enough  Season 3 was really amazing. I wasn't a huge fan of the second season, it had felt like they'd sort of lost their way and were having trouble figuring out how they wanted to move the show forward. The humor also seemed to suffer as a result. This season felt like a surging return to form though. The jokes, man, the jokes. So loving clever and fast, it was like watching 30 Rock in its prime. I feel like they really benefited from a slightly longer hiatus.
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twistedmentat posted:The way some people online are talking, I should trade in all my progressive cred and start wearing a MAGA hat and read Briebart becuase I enjoy this season. Holy poo poo people are taking issue with everything, calling the show racist, and anti-woman, pro-rape and so on. I try not to let outrage addicts bother me, but the criticisms leveled at that episode in particular have been really wrongheaded. I know Fey and Carlock are middle aged, but they seem to have a pretty good grasp on millennials, and the criticism is more sophisticated than "lol look how 'woke' they are". The biting part is when it's shown that they use a cockeyed interpretation of feminism to justify doing what they would've done anyway. The show is not without problems (Dong was a problematic character, they really should have known the heat they'd drawn for casting Jane Krakowski as a Lakota native, etc.). but the point of the rowing girls was that no matter how sophisticated and knowledgeable college kids act, they're really still just kids, and generally all that learning is used to service continuing to be kids, but with a couple layers of irony added. There's something really fascinating about contrasting Kimmy with those girls. It's kids playacting as grownups vs. an adult that more often than not acts like a kid. part of what makes Kimmy such a good character is that she's a lot more emotionally mature than she appears to be. That makes the conclusion that she has "emotional intelligence" rather than booksmarts really work.
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PostNouveau posted:There's a visual follow-up later. When Kimmy is getting loaded on the stoop, she's got a bottle of "drinking alcohol" You're leaving out the best part! The back to the future gag: the kid dressed like Marty McFly coming out of the DeLorean and Lillian looks like Doc Brown. ”it's about your future! Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 24, 2017 |
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dirksteadfast posted:Seriously want a shirt of Seattle Raisins You Think Are Chocolate Chips Me too. So I can burn it!!!!
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wizard on a water slide posted:Assuming you aren't just tilting at strawmen the problem isn't that your friends are humorless, censorious progressives, it's that they're idiots. Because of a shallow, surface reading rather than actually getthing that part was just part of a while joke. They also complained about how Perry going "oh so white girl walks in and gets a scholarship" was never addressed even though it's pretty clear he googled Kimmy and found out what she'd been trough and realized she needed as much help as possible Though I am not saying to a trans person "you're dumb and don't get the joke" because that sounds exactly what some alt right poo poo head would say when their racist joke doesn't go over. Though this person also complained recently that Cis people should stop using cis to describe themselves because some trans people consider themselves cis. Is there a thing such as too woke? Spatula City posted:I try not to let outrage addicts bother me, but the criticisms leveled at that episode in particular have been really wrongheaded. I know Fey and Carlock are middle aged, but they seem to have a pretty good grasp on millennials, and the criticism is more sophisticated than "lol look how 'woke' they are". The biting part is when it's shown that they use a cockeyed interpretation of feminism to justify doing what they would've done anyway. Yep, that's how i felt too. I always thought the Native American stuff was done fairly well. Jaquelyn's parents always came across as "here's a stereotype, oh wait no its not, native Americans are people like everyone else". I feel like younger people judge everything by how woke it is. Or that the kind of comedy I grew up with, which involved a lot of exaggeration for comedic effect and everyone being terrible so you can get away with having some problematic characters, doesn't exist anymore. Like the Simpsons, they can get away with a character like Apu because he may be a terrible sterotype, he is still better than Homer. Finished the season, I want more of Kimmy's dog puns.
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I loved the ending of the religion episode. It seemed like they were setting up Kimmy for a very awkward, cringe-humor situation, and then zagged right away from that in a great way.
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From the trailer I had expected this season to focus way more on college. Like, Kimmy living there and being entirely about it. And a lot more Xan, who is the best character.
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This was still a funny season but maybe the worst yet? The arcs weren't very strong and a lot of stuff felt forgotten about. The whole Russ storyline was awful - is David Cross really that busy? And there were too many A-plots about weird stuff that really isn't that funny, like the whole bathroom key episode.
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Escobarbarian posted:This was still a funny season but maybe the worst yet? The arcs weren't very strong and a lot of stuff felt forgotten about. The whole Russ storyline was awful - is David Cross really that busy? And there were too many A-plots about weird stuff that really isn't that funny, like the whole bathroom key episode. yeah it was just as funny as it's always been so i enjoyed it but the actual plots going on just felt kinda...there even the semi-interesting long term ideas like titus finally getting some fame+money from a song he completely hates ends up feeling kind of underexplored
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Like, a big problem story wise I've seen with it is that they keep trying to bring up weird romance things with Kimmy, only to just drop them without any reason. What about the guy from season 2 who had to get the greencard marriage? Where was Perry during that entire time when she was forced out of college? And on that same line, though it was different to see him be cool with her, Perry's character seemed inconsistent. Like the problems he had with her seemed to just drop the minute neither of them were on screen together. I also found the whole Russ thing to be just bizarre. Like they build up this whole thing about taking down the Redskins, then every thread of their plot feels dropped off. The fact that he wasn't really involved in it at all, the whole trickster god thing being something that went nowhere, and the solution ending up coming from something at the very end felt like they had no long term plan for it, and just kinda winged it by episode. The only other thing that bothers me sometimes is some of the joke structures get a bit tiresome if binge watched, though I blame that more on Netflix than anything. It's the same problem I had binging Archer. You get big blasts of character quirks condensed into a few hours, so they can sometimes become a bit tiring, especially if they are bigger personalities, like Titus or Lillian.
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Escobarbarian posted:This was still a funny season but maybe the worst yet? The arcs weren't very strong and a lot of stuff felt forgotten about. The whole Russ storyline was awful - is David Cross really that busy? And there were too many A-plots about weird stuff that really isn't that funny, like the whole bathroom key episode. As a Ray Liotta and a cat delivery system, it was great.
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Metal Ray Sunshine posted:Like, a big problem story wise I've seen with it is that they keep trying to bring up weird romance things with Kimmy, only to just drop them without any reason. What about the guy from season 2 who had to get the greencard marriage? Where was Perry during that entire time when she was forced out of college? And on that same line, though it was different to see him be cool with her, Perry's character seemed inconsistent. Like the problems he had with her seemed to just drop the minute neither of them were on screen together. Perry's initial negative read of her (mostly spurred by her oblivious comment of "why don't you just get one of these full scholarships??") seem to drop when he spent some more time with her and 1: realized that she's just kind of an oblivious person and 2: that she's just as dirt poor as him. Also he googled her at some point. I liked their relationship and thought the arc made sense.
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I loved this season. I wasn't super invested int he arcs, I just love the nonstop jokes they do. Whichever one had the big storm: WELL I ALWAYS GET IT WRONG THE OTHER WAY!
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