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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 16, 2024 9:02:38 GMT -5
Itās a super generic poster but itās also going to run quietly for years without you knowing it and most viewers will be 60+ so it neednāt reach too high, itās your standard CBS procedural. I do not doubt it for a second.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 16, 2024 15:51:20 GMT -5
Also the world just generally needs more Billy Burke, whether he's in this piece of crap or not. It apparently also has Kevin Alejandro in it, who was in the TNT cop show "Southland" that was actually very good. (The one with Regina King and Michael Cudlitz.) Spoiler! His character there was killed off in an incredibly dramatic episode in Season 3 that I still remember. So, good for him for going and getting a main role in this probably incredibly generic firefighter show. I googled this show and see that it is about California's prison inmate firefighting program. Which, wow, there is a LOT of non-procedural interesting things to say about that program, including that it is essentially using slave labor to fight fires (they get paid about $2-3 per DAY). I wonder if any of the actually interesting things about this real program make it into this fiction tv series?
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Post by chalkdevil š on Feb 16, 2024 16:39:07 GMT -5
Also the world just generally needs more Billy Burke, whether he's in this piece of crap or not. It apparently also has Kevin Alejandro in it, who was in the TNT cop show "Southland" that was actually very good. (The one with Regina King and Michael Cudlitz.) Spoiler! His character there was killed off in an incredibly dramatic episode in Season 3 that I still remember. So, good for him for going and getting a main role in this probably incredibly generic firefighter show. I googled this show and see that it is about California's prison inmate firefighting program. Which, wow, there is a LOT of non-procedural interesting things to say about that program, including that it is essentially using slave labor to fight fires (they get paid about $2-3 per DAY). I wonder if any of the actually interesting things about this real program make it into this fiction tv series? The producers of Fire Country would like you to know that the show is not racist because, even though they hired a white man as the lead, they'd also like you to keep in mind that he is a prison inmate, so...
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Post by chalkdevil š on Feb 16, 2024 16:55:39 GMT -5
Donald Glover's Mr. & Mrs. Smith show on Prime is actually pretty good. He and Maya Erskine have good chemistry. The tone is great, kind of a more accessible Atlanta. I like that they took more of a The Americans set up and used that to explore the nature of a strained relationship. I would say the lacking bit is the fight choreography. It's pretty lack luster at times. I think maybe they didn't use a lot of stunt people and it shows. Glover and Erskine are not quite up to snuff on punching or gun handling. That's not really the point of it though.
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Post by ABz Bš¹anaz on Feb 16, 2024 20:59:42 GMT -5
Also the world just generally needs more Billy Burke, whether he's in this piece of crap or not. It apparently also has Kevin Alejandro in it, who was in the TNT cop show "Southland" that was actually very good. (The one with Regina King and Michael Cudlitz.) Spoiler! His character there was killed off in an incredibly dramatic episode in Season 3 that I still remember. So, good for him for going and getting a main role in this probably incredibly generic firefighter show. I googled this show and see that it is about California's prison inmate firefighting program. Which, wow, there is a LOT of non-procedural interesting things to say about that program, including that it is essentially using slave labor to fight fires (they get paid about $2-3 per DAY). I wonder if any of the actually interesting things about this real program make it into this fiction tv series? He was Dan, the cop ex-husband on Lucifer as well, and he was pretty fun on there. He also had a dramatic death, followed by a bunch of afterlife-related stuff that was pretty good also.
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Post by haysoos on Feb 20, 2024 15:16:05 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month.
Fuck. That. Shit.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 20, 2024 15:25:12 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month. Fuck. That. Shit. And yet, somehow, people torrent things. Amazing... Not that this mod condones the cool crime of piracy.
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Post by haysoos on Feb 20, 2024 15:32:00 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month. Fuck. That. Shit. And yet, somehow, people torrent things. Amazing... Not that this mod condones the cool crime of piracy. Yes, it seems I shall be taking to the high seas once again. I'm just not sure what ports are the most conducive to a scurvy privateer looking to download some booty. I think most of the shoals I once prowled were dynamited by the Crown.
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Post by ABz Bš¹anaz on Feb 20, 2024 19:00:19 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month. Fuck. That. Shit. I really hope there's a class action suit for this, because as someone who pays an ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP for Prime, this fucking bullshit shouldn't take effect until the next time renewal comes around.
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Post by LazBro on Feb 21, 2024 8:44:50 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month. Fuck. That. Shit. I really hope there's a class action suit for this, because as someone who pays an ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP for Prime, this fucking bullshit shouldn't take effect until the next time renewal comes around. It does seem wrong and a mistake of law that virtually every service subscription contract we enter into allows the bigger party to just ... change it. However and whenever they want.
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 21, 2024 23:19:27 GMT -5
I went to watch something on Prime this weekend, and discovered that they have added advertisements to the service that I'm paying for. They will remove the ads if I pay an extra $3 a month. Fuck. That. Shit. I re-watched Trainspotting on Prime and didn't get any ads. Is it because I use an ad-blocker? I can watch Tubi with no ads too. Hmm, it occurs to me that you all may be watching on tvs and not pcs. Anyway I'll keep Prime until they figure out a way to shove ads down my throat, because fuck that shit.
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Post by LazBro on Feb 23, 2024 0:44:15 GMT -5
So many articles to the effect of: "What to know about Avatar: The Last Airbender" or "Here's Your Primer on the World of Avatar."
I know it's an SEO thing fishing for ad clicks, but like, you could just watch the show. The show will tell you what's going on. It will tell a story, and you can learn about the world as it does so.
And to be clear I'm not saying to just go watch the animated series instead. I'm saying if you're interested in watching the live-action Avatar, just watch it. You don't need to bone up first. Avatar is rich, but it's not complicated.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Feb 23, 2024 9:25:07 GMT -5
Season 1 finale of Deadwood last night. Everyone talks about President Bartlett in The West Wing yelling at God in the National Cathedral, but it would be a whole lot of nothing - and justifiably so - if more people saw Doc Cochran on his knees begging God to take the reverend. I cried so hard I had to rewind the show to hear the dialogue I missed, and then I cried harder. This is up there with the James Flint "England should be asking MY forgiveness" speech from season 1 of Black Sails in terms of emotional devastation (although that speech is only heartbreaking in hindsight, once you watch season 2).
I had to watch an episode of Frasier afterward to calm myself down.
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Post by haysoos on Feb 23, 2024 10:03:24 GMT -5
Season 1 finale of Deadwood last night. Everyone talks about President Bartlett in The West Wing yelling at God in the National Cathedral, but it would be a whole lot of nothing - and justifiably so - if more people saw Doc Cochran on his knees begging God to take the reverend. I cried so hard I had to rewind the show to hear the dialogue I missed, and then I cried harder. This is up there with the James Flint "England should be asking MY forgiveness" speech from season 1 of Black Sails in terms of emotional devastation (although that speech is only heartbreaking in hindsight, once you watch season 2).
I had to watch an episode of Frasier afterward to calm myself down.
This reminded me how great Ray McKinnon was in the role of Reverend Smith, and how he needs to be in more stuff. So I looked him up, and discovered he was the creator/writer/producer/director behind Rectify! Still needs to be in more and better stuff though. Apparently he's recently been in Mayans MC and The Continental, neither of which I have any interest in.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Feb 23, 2024 13:30:00 GMT -5
This reminded me how great Ray McKinnon was in the role of Reverend Smith, and how he needs to be in more stuff. So I looked him up, and discovered he was the creator/writer/producer/director behind Rectify! Still needs to be in more and better stuff though. Apparently he's recently been in Mayans MC and The Continental, neither of which I have any interest in. I have been searching for the word that best describes his performance, and I think it's "beatific." But in the best possible way, not as a negative against the character -- he's a true innocent. I've never felt so relieved to watch a mercy killing on TV before.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 23, 2024 19:47:44 GMT -5
This reminded me how great Ray McKinnon was in the role of Reverend Smith, and how he needs to be in more stuff. So I looked him up, and discovered he was the creator/writer/producer/director behind Rectify! Still needs to be in more and better stuff though. Apparently he's recently been in Mayans MC and The Continental, neither of which I have any interest in. I have been searching for the word that best describes his performance, and I think it's "beatific." But in the best possible way, not as a negative against the character -- he's a true innocent. I've never felt so relieved to watch a mercy killing on TV before. The scene where he appears at Starr and Bullock Hardware asking if they are demons sums up everything beautiful about that show. "An evening stroll with friends, I would so enjoy that."
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Post by George H.W. Bush on Feb 23, 2024 20:10:57 GMT -5
I am happy you guys convinced me to finish up Archer. Thirteen and fourteen are okayāthey still sometimes have an ersatz Archer feelingāthey kind of remind me of Archer Vice, typical-Archer-but-not. The show also felt like it was a bit more like every other show on TV in the way that continuing plot threads are structured and the increased niceness of the characters. I didnāt mind, but I did notice.
That final year, though, it was like an impossible return to form. Zara Khanās a great breath of fresh air. Lanaās perfectly suited for the big chair. H. Jon Benjamin sounds positively reenergized (I didnāt think of his performance in the previous seasons as being tired at all when watching them, but itās amazing when you hear him truly on). The obscure references were back on track as feeling like real, naturally-incorporated bits of obscure knowledge rather than the writers struggling to fit some in. Itās like the show had just lost its voice, now itās better. I wish we could have gotten more, but the endingās about as good an ending it could be (evidently the reason Archer didnāt end more ānaturallyā is because the animation studio couldnāt sell or sustain another showāArcher continuing was the only thing keeping people from losing their jobs).
I guess my only, minor qualm is aesthetic. Archerās supposedly getting a bit long in the tooth and he looks exactly the same. Come on, give us silver fox Archer! I wasnāt a huge fan of the show losing its out-of-time character and leaning completely contemporary (calling attention to Archer as an anachronism does kind of take one out of the show). Since Archerās already getting older thereās also a chance to advance the out-of-time aspects from the 60s to the 70s, Connery to the somewhat more dandyish Moore. This is a super-minor things
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Feb 23, 2024 20:23:27 GMT -5
I started watching Loudermilk the other night, and I really love the show. It stars Ron Livingston and Will Sasso. Imagine that the guy from Office Space went back to work at Intertech or some other shithole company and stayed there till he totally burned out and developed a crippling alcohol and drug habit, bottomed out, got sober, and became a counselor running a recovery group. That's pretty much this show. it originally ran on some now defunct streaming service and almost nobody saw it till Netflix started running it. It is about a group of recovering alcoholics and addicts in a "Sober Friends" group, and it compares very favorably with the series "Mom". I am near the end of season two (of three) and when I do a rewatch, i may try to alternate it with episodes of "Mom". I need to see if The John Larroquette Show is streaming anywhere for a recovery hat trick. Maybe it's because I grew up around and among.....let's just say a lot of "colorful characters" that Loudermilk, and these other shows ring so true to me. The characters act and talk like a lot of people I know (or knew). Most of them are well meaning assholes, but funny assholes. The humor is sometimes very dark, and the characters screw up a lot, but keep trying to be better. I guess I would say it is very humanistic, as I understand the term. as the series progresses, The characters change and grow and develop, and each becomes more interesting. It has a deep bench of characters, and uses them very well. One thing that really stands out to me is that somewhere around the 4th or 5th episode of the first season, the show goes totally off on a tangent (and a great one) featuring a minor background character and a character not seen before, and the next couple of episodes are almost totally focused on their story, and then they disappear form the series with a throwaway line that "his sponsor hasn't seen him for a couple of months, so if anybody sees him, let me know" and the main characters never know anything about their story. And their story is funny and a little bit grim, and totally worth seeing. Then it just goes back to the main characters. I have never seen a series do that, and in this case, it worked. I am sad that there was only 3 seasons, but it is doing so well that there is talk of Netflix possible greenlighting more seasons.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 25, 2024 9:14:43 GMT -5
I watched the first episode of Constellation. It's... alright so far. It reminds me a lot of the Katee Sackoff vehicle Another Life, though Sackoff is a more watchable lead. Not dull enough to turn off, not captivating enough to require full attention. Nice to see Mike Off Of Breaking Bad get cast as something other than a hitman-type (Scientist Guy!) at least. Noomi Rapace, someone I've only seen in Alien: Prometheus it seems, is quite boring to watch thus far but the Gravity-on-a-TV-budget stuff is well done. I'll probably pop another one on sometime my fella is out or doing the dinner or something.
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Post by ABz Bš¹anaz on Feb 25, 2024 15:52:27 GMT -5
Mrs B and I watched the first episode of the new live-action Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender show today. It was really good so far.
The casting is pretty great overall, but the guy they got to play Sokka is so spot-on in appearance, voice and expression that I'm not convinced they didn't just pull him out of the cartoon directly!
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 25, 2024 17:14:15 GMT -5
Like ABz Bš¹anaz, I too embarked on the Airbender journey. Looks great. Great characterisation. Taskmaster (S4:E6) - Noel did poorly. Lolly auditioned for Saltburn. Hugh Dennis is my fave for this series. Lolly my crush. I respect Hugh's solutions to unique challenges. Joe is fabulous. Mel is so damn nice; goodonya, Mel. So much YouTube rubbish that my children watch. It's as though one can "watch" human society coming apart pixel by pixel. I deeply resent the coming apart couches itself in a feature-long infomercial. I also continued my Soft White Underbelly exposure. Little bit of mischief here of recent: An IMDB actor impersonated an incel (and did so very well) but was outed shortly afterward and the video was removed, Mark incorporated an in-video plug for privacy software/applications, and Laita's curation for the past few weeks bounces between serious topics and harrowing degradation with infrequent redemption.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 27, 2024 17:55:08 GMT -5
I'm watching Resident Alien. I like it. And I love seeing Alan Tudyk in something again.
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Post by Prole Hole on Feb 28, 2024 3:24:10 GMT -5
I'm watching Resident Alien. I like it. And I love seeing Alan Tudyk in something again. The first two season are such good fun. I don't know I'll get into Season Three yet, I think they show might have done what it needs already but it's an absolute joy seeing him back on screen I completely agree.
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Post by ABz Bš¹anaz on Feb 28, 2024 9:47:42 GMT -5
I'm watching Resident Alien. I like it. And I love seeing Alan Tudyk in something again. The first two season are such good fun. I don't know I'll get into Season Three yet, I think they show might have done what it needs already but it's an absolute joy seeing him back on screen I completely agree. YES! I was so excited that this finally reached Netflix. I'm halfway through season two now. I love how this show mixes absurd humor with real feelings and humanity.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Feb 28, 2024 21:50:27 GMT -5
I'm watching Resident Alien. I like it. And I love seeing Alan Tudyk in something again. I had a hole in my TV viewing schedule, and thought about starting Resident Alien. I've looked for legal ways to stream it before, and the ads for season three made me seek it out again. Finally, I gave up, and started Locke & Key instead. And then, the WEEK AFTER I started Locke & Key, Netflix picked up Resident Alien. I will start RA after I'm caught up on Rick & Morty.
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 29, 2024 14:38:27 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S4:E7)
I continue to watch this series, have a few laughs (sometimes deep laughs), and repeat. Hugh's resourceful, but Noel more agile.
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Post by repulsionist on Mar 3, 2024 14:45:29 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S4:E8)
Mel won an episode. Huzzah! Noel won the series. Yay. Kinda beefin' with Noel re. that sandwich dodge he "performed".
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 5, 2024 9:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 5, 2024 17:09:33 GMT -5
Ooh, very cool! I've wondered if I could get away with doing a rewatch of that show, but stopping at the S5 finale? I really loved all of S1-5. I even liked a few parts of S6. And I thought the series finale was fine, and was actually better than a lot of the rest of the season was. But, yeah, that final season was disappointing. I just have to convince myself that Seasons 1-5 really are fun even though the final season falls flat. I truly believe there is a way to salvage the story with a few small changes, and just have it end with the S5 finale. And, you know, fewer cool characters dying.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 5, 2024 17:56:28 GMT -5
I did a thread here as sort of a diary when I watched through it for the first And only time about ten years ago. Not an episode-by-episode thing, just a general thoughts collection on whichever batch I'd watched that day or if I'd come to something that seemed important. I'm sure it's still deep in the TIF archives. I remember it got okay traction.
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