|
|
Post by Mrs David Tennant on May 4, 2023 20:07:45 GMT -5
I feel bad for these kids on Junior Baking show that signed up to be judged by Liam (one of the previous contestants on Great British Baking Show) and find out that the 1st two days they're being judged by Paul Hollywood!
Ha, one of the kids just got a Paul Hollywood handshake! Good for him!
|
|
matt
Grandfathered In 
Posts: 300
|
Post by matt on May 5, 2023 7:30:42 GMT -5
I feel bad for these kids on Junior Baking show that signed up to be judged by Liam (one of the previous contestants on Great British Baking Show) and find out that the 1st two days they're being judged by Paul Hollywood! Ha, one of the kids just got a Paul Hollywood handshake! Good for him! Is he doing the thing of Gordon Ramsay where he is way more affable with children though? |
|
repulsionist
TI Forumite
actively disinterested
Posts: 3,680 
|
Post by repulsionist on May 7, 2023 15:48:51 GMT -5
Yo! That Coronation, eh? A whole religious ceremony on TV during late night Saturday NZT. Liked the choirs, groups performances, and the soloists. Liked the closing off of the principals during the rites of blessing. Enjoyed Camilla being too fussy with her hair after the crown was placed; wickedly enjoyed, that is. Charles's fingers looked like they would explode (both hands). Sir Karl Jenkins, sitting beside Lloyd Webber, looked most of out place. Sweet shades and 'tache, though.
|
|
|
|
Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on May 7, 2023 21:00:22 GMT -5
Last weekend I turned on Netflix and surprise! Season two of Sweet Tooth!
That little deer child has not gotten less adorable*, all the other hybrids are also varying levels of cute, and I’m never going to get tired of Jepperd being way outside his comfort zone.
Can’t decide how I feel about the continued world-building; there are bits that seem logistically unlikely, even in a universe with animal-human hybrids. And “General” Bald McBeardyson got waaaay too overblown; stg he might as well be on The Walking Dead.
But otherwise I enjoyed it! Be curious to see what they’re going to do when their child actors start slamming into puberty, which ought to happen soon, especially with the strike.
*also : no you dumb tumblr user, Gus is not “coded autistic”. He’s coded “kid raised in the woods in a primitive, solitary cabin after a global pandemic who a)never interacted with anyone but his dad until just a few months ago and b) has experienced almost zero forms of technology”. “Inexperienced with what you think is modern life” is not “non-neurotypical”.
|
|
|
|
Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 7, 2023 22:11:45 GMT -5
Florida Man - 2023
Somebody read a lot of Elmore Leonard, which is a good thing.
|
|
|
|
Post by liebkartoffel on May 8, 2023 0:00:44 GMT -5
Just finished a Legend of Korra rewatch, and I have to say that season 4/the finale hit a little different, given the current political climate. I don't remember being this annoyed by the finale, but "Korra completes her journey of self-discovery by learning to feel empathy for Fantasy Hitler" really rubbed me the wrong way this time around. Like, you don't have to kill Kuvira, but does she really deserve a "we're not so different, you and I" speech? The fascist dictator behind all the slave labor and reeducation camps? The one who just essentially nuked a city? Her? I also remember Kuvira being a more nuanced villain, but she's really just cipher throughout, with her backstory filled in by another character over the span of a 2-minute flashback scene. Anyway at least the season 4 finale is better than season 2's fanficky bullshit magic spirit Kaiju battle supreme. Man is season 2 a slog to get through. S3>S1>S4>>>>>>>S2.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on May 8, 2023 9:14:09 GMT -5
HBO should just call the Succession-Barry line-up "the Sunday Night Emotional Devastation Power Hour." I swear to god these shows hurt my feelings every single week.
|
|
repulsionist
TI Forumite
actively disinterested
Posts: 3,680
|
Post by repulsionist on May 10, 2023 16:39:01 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S11:E1-6)
I enjoy this show for its introducing comedians I had no idea existed until watching the show. My current fave is Mike Wozniak, with Charlotte Ritchie and Sarah Kendall coming in close behind. I also dig Jamali Maddix. Lee Mack I knew of via Twitter and Stewart Lee taking him to task occasionally in The Guardian and in clips of Lee's recent-ish specials.
Watching Wozniak pop a grape (introduce a hemorrhoid) when trying to fulfill a task provided the most laughs for the participants and for me.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ben Grimm on May 10, 2023 18:26:46 GMT -5
Muppets Mayhem
This is the level of chaos the Muppets have been missing lately.
|
|
|
|
Post by haysoos on May 11, 2023 9:43:17 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S11:E1-6) I enjoy this show for its introducing comedians I had no idea existed until watching the show. My current fave is Mike Wozniak, with Charlotte Ritchie and Sarah Kendall coming in close behind. I also dig Jamali Maddix. Lee Mack I knew of via Twitter and Stewart Lee taking him to task occasionally in The Guardian and in clips of Lee's recent-ish specials. Watching Wozniak pop a grape (introduce a hemorrhoid) when trying to fulfill a task provided the most laughs for the participants and for me. Mike Wozniak is, hands-down, my favourite Taskmaster contestant of all time. He always just seems to be enjoying every minute of his time there. |
|
|
|
Post by liebkartoffel on May 11, 2023 10:36:50 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S11:E1-6) I enjoy this show for its introducing comedians I had no idea existed until watching the show. My current fave is Mike Wozniak, with Charlotte Ritchie and Sarah Kendall coming in close behind. I also dig Jamali Maddix. Lee Mack I knew of via Twitter and Stewart Lee taking him to task occasionally in The Guardian and in clips of Lee's recent-ish specials. Watching Wozniak pop a grape (introduce a hemorrhoid) when trying to fulfill a task provided the most laughs for the participants and for me. Mike Wozniak is, hands-down, my favourite Taskmaster contestant of all time. He always just seems to be enjoying every minute of his time there. Man, I've been trying write out my personal top five in response, but I kept resorting to cheats like "2. the entire series 7 cast." So much of a Taskmaster series' success comes down variety of approach and chemistry between cast members, so it's hard to single out individuals. That being said, yeah, Mike Wozniak would top any theoretical list I could come up with. |
|
|
|
Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on May 11, 2023 11:30:21 GMT -5
HBO Max has the original Clone High available in anticipation of the new season later this month (YAY), and I binged most of it in one night until I had to stop because my stomach ached from laughing so hard.
I'm not going to say every joke still holds up, but I will say that even more of the jokes are funny to me now that I'm an adult. The bit where Abe Lincoln goes to a Hall of Presidents-style presentation about his historical self and then continues on with the ride, where you hear, "And now, a stop at beautiful Ford's Theater" and then a gunshot a beat later had me in actual tears.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 11, 2023 11:48:01 GMT -5
Look, I'm not saying Ted Lasso season 3 is its best season, but I'm really tired of reading all of these "this show is bad now, actually" takes from people who don't seem to like it much in the first place. It very much smacks of "this show is not what I want it to be, therefore it's bad."
|
|
|
|
Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 12, 2023 22:26:14 GMT -5
Season 3 of "The Great" is out now, and we watched the first 3 episodes. This may be the best written series since "Deadwood". The characters grow and evolve, the plot is in there somewhere, the dialog is outstanding, and history is briefly acknowledged and mostly ignored, for the better.
The more I think about it, the more parallels to Deadwood I see. Just a Great* show.
*It is a low-effort joke, so what, it's the weekend.
|
|
|
|
Post by songstarliner on May 14, 2023 21:12:36 GMT -5
Queer Eye continues to be the loveliest, most uplifting television show - I'm one episode in, and the sheer joy it gives me makes me feel like we're not necessarily doomed to extinction. Kindness and love, everyone.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 15, 2023 19:13:54 GMT -5
HBO Max has the original Clone High available in anticipation of the new season later this month (YAY), and I binged most of it in one night until I had to stop because my stomach ached from laughing so hard.
I'm not going to say every joke still holds up, but I will say that even more of the jokes are funny to me now that I'm an adult. The bit where Abe Lincoln goes to a Hall of Presidents-style presentation about his historical self and then continues on with the ride, where you hear, "And now, a stop at beautiful Ford's Theater" and then a gunshot a beat later had me in actual tears.
I’m not sure how I feel about Clone High being resurrected, mainly because I saw it when I was thirteen so I’ll always find it funnier than it might actually be and I was emotionally in the perfect place for me, with the finale really punching me. It’s sort of irreproducible to feel the same way as an adult, and I feel like a Clone High that’s implicitly aimed at adults isn’t great. I’ve rewatched Clone High a couple of times and it takes me back, I don’t really enjoy anything new in it even if I get more of the references. I think that’s valuable, and making something that really was for its target age group was something late 90s-early 00s MTV did well, for good and ill.
It just popped into my mind that I feel like an aged up Hey Arnold! could work better because, watching as an adult, it definitely does feel like it was filtered through adult nostalgia in a way I didn’t catch as a kid.
That said I was skeptical of the Party Down revival and enjoyed it a lot. I actually started writing something, it got long, and I copied it into a text file since I had to leave. idk if I’ll post a finished version, though—feels a little late.
---
In terms of what I’m watching now I’ve skipped the first couple of episodes of Documentary NOW! because I haven’t seen Burden of Dreams (and don’t really know how it would stand up to spoofind anyway) but the northern England hairdressers episode was a good acting showcase (what a shift for Cate Blanchett, who originated the idea) and almost more a little drama with bits of humor than a spoof.
The Welsh rock throwing episode is amazing, a great, offbeat, and unexpected spoof and a lot of great lines from John Rhys-Davies and Jonathan Pryce’s aged journalists. I enjoyed Pryce’s period-specific phrase-making—I’m currently reading a collection of Lou Reed interviews and there was a lot of wit that hasn’t aged well. 70s BBC aesthetics really are unbeaten, aren’t they?
The monkey documentary spoof was pretty bad. The past spoofs of documentarians (the white guy in Cambodia in the first season, the Gary Larsen stalker in the third) rather than documentaries were pretty flat, too.
|
|
|
|
Post by liebkartoffel on May 16, 2023 22:41:42 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that Eureka makes the bonkers decision to slip an entirely new major break-up scene into the "previously on" segment of a season premiere. You can't just gaslight viewers!
|
|
matt
Grandfathered In
Posts: 300
|
Post by matt on May 16, 2023 22:50:59 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that Eureka makes the bonkers decision to slip an entirely new major break-up scene into the "previously on" segment of a season premiere. You can't just gaslight viewers! Remember the timeline shenanigans that they just went with? That also erased a character's neurodivergency? They just stayed in that timeline for the rest of the series. |
|
|
|
Post by liebkartoffel on May 16, 2023 23:59:15 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that Eureka makes the bonkers decision to slip an entirely new major break-up scene into the "previously on" segment of a season premiere. You can't just gaslight viewers! Remember the timeline shenanigans that they just went with? That also erased a character's neurodivergency? They just stayed in that timeline for the rest of the series. And it's maybe kinda implied that the neurodivergent character in question deliberately sent them back in time in order to "cure" his own autism? And his mom is just kind of happy and rolls with it despite her son effectively being a completely different person? I have a lot of affection for this happy mess of a show, but I try to check out whenever it brings up Kevin and his "special gifts." (Which isn't difficuilt, fortunately, given how boring and go-nowhere that Artifact business ends up being.) |
|
Hippo
Prolific Poster 
Posts: 6,740 
|
Post by Hippo on May 19, 2023 8:48:59 GMT -5
Remember the timeline shenanigans that they just went with? That also erased a character's neurodivergency? They just stayed in that timeline for the rest of the series. And it's maybe kinda implied that the neurodivergent character in question deliberately sent them back in time in order to "cure" his own autism? And his mom is just kind of happy and rolls with it despite her son effectively being a completely different person? I have a lot of affection for this happy mess of a show, but I try to check out whenever it brings up Kevin and his "special gifts." (Which isn't difficuilt, fortunately, given how boring and go-nowhere that Artifact business ends up being.) Ew, don't care for that, erasing autism like it's a sinful thing to be cured of. |
|
|
|
Post by Mrs David Tennant on May 21, 2023 18:34:36 GMT -5
I just got a free 3-month subscription to Apple TV - what should I watch? Bear in mind I don't watch scary things or things that have a lot of graphic violence. My limit for violence is approximately Buffy the Vampire Slayer level.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 21, 2023 18:37:55 GMT -5
I just got a free 3-month subscription to Apple TV - what should I watch? Bear in mind I don't watch scary things or things that have a lot of graphic violence. My limit for violence is approximately Buffy the Vampire Slayer level. Ted Lasso. Severance if you can handle some suspense. Shrinking. |
|
|
|
Post by Prole Hole on May 22, 2023 3:22:20 GMT -5
I just got a free 3-month subscription to Apple TV - what should I watch? Bear in mind I don't watch scary things or things that have a lot of graphic violence. My limit for violence is approximately Buffy the Vampire Slayer level. Ted Lasso. Severance if you can handle some suspense. Shrinking. Slow Horses. |
|
|
|
Post by Ben Grimm on May 22, 2023 7:46:20 GMT -5
We've been watching the newish Disney Plus version of Willow, since it's about to be yanked from the service, possibly on its way to becoming lost media, and I can kind of see why it didn't get a ton of attention - it's not bad, neither extraordinary not disappointing. I probably would have loved it as a kid. But holy hell are some of the music choices bewildering in it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 22, 2023 7:56:33 GMT -5
Season finale of Bob's Burgers and The Great North last night.
The Great North is very much in the vein of Bob's - quirky loving family gets into misadventures - but the characters and setting are distinct enough that it works. It's grown on us a lot and is a good pairing with Bob's to ease into the week.
Bob's has tried a few new things this season and is definitely getting more sentimental about it - even though the kids haven't aged in 13 seasons, there's still a sense of watching them grow up and Linda especially trying to deal with it. Anyway, this episode was I think the first one to NOT contain a pun in the title? It's a funny comfort food show. I like it.
|
|
LazBro
Prolific Poster
Posts: 10,267
|
Post by LazBro on May 22, 2023 8:38:14 GMT -5
Ted Lasso (S3, 4 episodes watched) - I'm liking this season better than the last so far, and surprisingly even the extended length episodes don't bother me. Whenever the credits roll I always wish I had time enough in the night to start the next one. I like all the characters and all of their stories, though by far and away I'm most interested in seeing where things go between Ted and Nate.
Mythic Quest (S3, 3 episodes watched) - This show is great. The reveal at the end of E1 when Ian and Poppy return to GrimmPop had me rolling. One of the best unexpected gags that's hit me in awhile. Lots of good Jo so far, which is great, because Jo is the best character from anything ever. While I like Rachel and Dana, they do feel a bit shoehorned in here for as much screen time as they're getting. Like I know they do have a legitimate story reason to be there, but if anything the focus feels like it's on Rachel, who kinda doesn't, and not Dana, who does. |
|
|
|
Post by Prole Hole on May 22, 2023 12:59:21 GMT -5
We've been watching the newish Disney Plus version of Willow, since it's about to be yanked from the service, possibly on its way to becoming lost media, and I can kind of see why it didn't get a ton of attention - it's not bad, neither extraordinary not disappointing. I probably would have loved it as a kid. But holy hell are some of the music choices bewildering in it. So what you're saying is it perfectly captures the original movie? |
|
|
|
Post by Ben Grimm on May 22, 2023 13:12:44 GMT -5
We've been watching the newish Disney Plus version of Willow, since it's about to be yanked from the service, possibly on its way to becoming lost media, and I can kind of see why it didn't get a ton of attention - it's not bad, neither extraordinary not disappointing. I probably would have loved it as a kid. But holy hell are some of the music choices bewildering in it. So what you're saying is it perfectly captures the original movie? Harsh but probably fair. |
|
|
|
Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 22, 2023 15:13:17 GMT -5
I’ve seen the first nine seasons of Simpsons. I decided to stop there and watch the popular television program Futurama instead of continuing to watch the subsequent 25 seasons. But that’s OK, because I think the show takes a real nosedive in quality in Season 9 (there’s still a few good episodes, but also a lot of fairly dull ones, a couple of really bad ones, and there’s a lot of jokes that just don’t land throughout). The episode where it turns out Principal Skinner isn’t the real Seymour Skinner is imo a good place to mark where the show isn’t very good anymore. The middle of season 3 through season 8 is what imo should count as golden age smipsons. Turns out it was a really good show there for a few years. Who knew?
|
|
|
|
Post by liebkartoffel on May 23, 2023 7:14:35 GMT -5
I’ve seen the first nine seasons of Simpsons. I decided to stop there and watch the popular television program Futurama instead of continuing to watch the subsequent 25 seasons. But that’s OK, because I think the show takes a real nosedive in quality in Season 9 (there’s still a few good episodes, but also a lot of fairly dull ones, a couple of really bad ones, and there’s a lot of jokes that just don’t land throughout). The episode where it turns out Principal Skinner isn’t the real Seymour Skinner is imo a good place to mark where the show isn’t very good anymore. The middle of season 3 through season 8 is what imo should count as golden age smipsons. Turns out it was a really good show there for a few years. Who knew? Yep, that's pretty much where the fan consensus lies, including marking "The Principal and the Pauper" as the end of the "classic" era. At the time, however, I didn't reach the "not good anymore" point until season 11 and the one-two punch of "Saddlesore Galactica" and "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily." |
|
