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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jun 29, 2023 18:38:45 GMT -5
I'm watching an episode of Ted Lasso and I laughed so hard when Coach Beard yelped 3 times in one episode. I think he's one of my favorite characters.
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Post by repulsionist on Jul 2, 2023 17:19:39 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S15:E9-10)
Last two eps provided some deep, hardy laughs. Yay to Morgana. Just one point separating you, Desiree, and Alan. Nice work, everyone.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 3, 2023 8:32:42 GMT -5
Not sure when it happened, but the classic era of Top Gear (UK) is back on Prime Video, free with ads (Freevee). Top Gear / The Grand Tour is my ideal show to put on in the background while I make dinner or do other chores, but since Top Gear was removed from Prime last year, I've run through The Grand Tour so many times that I can practically recite some episodes from memory. There are only so many cooking channels and video game speedruns that perfectly fill that "kill 1-2 hours" niche that I need a show to fill.
I'll go back further eventually, but I just started at S12 E1 and let it go. So happy to have Top Gear back. And I find the ads tolerable as well. Way less total ad time than Hulu or even YouTube, and it seems like they stop playing them altogether in the last half of each episode.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Jul 3, 2023 9:48:13 GMT -5
Finished the first season of The Bear last night. What an amazing show! Excited for season two now.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 3, 2023 17:43:57 GMT -5
After meeting someone who had written for Robot Chicken a few months ago I was surprised Robot Chicken had lasted so long and, to a lesser extent, that a woman had written for it. I slowly went backwards through seasons, expecting to go back into 00s pop culture and whatever degree of revulsion/nostalgia I’d have for it. I was surprised how much I enjoyed most of it, until I hit season five and quickly gave up. What changed season six? Women showed up in the writing room.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 4, 2023 14:42:12 GMT -5
Because This Is My First Life on Netflix is objectively a sappy Korean drama but I'm still watching it because I find the female lead unbearably cute. Also I guess I'm a big sap at times.
The show is about a failed TV writer who enters into a fake marriage for a roof over her head and her landlord who goes for it so he can get help with his crushing mortgage payments (also tax breaks? I haven't seen episode 1 in a while). If you've read South Korean romance comics before then you'll know this is a very standard setup in that medium and the show is very much one of those comics but in live action form. I'm better able to accept the extraordinarily dumb events, though, possibly because real people can sell stupid twists better than a lifeless drawing.
The show is actually more of an ensemble piece and is really about three different couples who are friends with each other. One couple is a woman who wants nothing more than to be a housewife who's working as a waitress to support her loser boyfriend who swears his app is going to be a hit any day now, and the other is two hard charger businessfolk where the woman just wants to be friends with benefits while the guy pretends he's okay with that.
Money is basically another character in the show because the lack of it hangs like a miasma over every interaction we see. It's kind of operating in the same space as Friends in that it's a comedy about living and loving in the big city. However, Friends is basically about being a broke hipster but still being able to live a full romantic and social life in New York, while in this show there's no handwaving about rent-controlled apartments in Seoul. Who you date and who you marry is always tangled up with money and I suspect half the cast secretly has stress-induced ulcers about it.
I haven't finished watching the show yet but it's obvious the main couple are going to end up together. I really hope at least one of the other couples doesn't make it because that's just realistic when it's the 21st century and people with different ideas about their future are in a long-term relationship.
Anyway, this is me revealing myself as a big softie.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Jul 4, 2023 16:26:25 GMT -5
Has anyone watched Season 2 of "The Bear"? How intense is this? How strong is the temptation to binge it? Need to know if I should block out an entire weekend day, or if I can (or should?) spread it out over several days. I have been binging it myself after finishing the first season a few days ago. I have 3 episodes left, and this season is FANTASTIC. I just finished "Forks" which is one of the three highest rated episodes of the entire show on IMDb, and I 100% agree. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 4, 2023 21:27:02 GMT -5
Has anyone watched Season 2 of "The Bear"? How intense is this? How strong is the temptation to binge it? Need to know if I should block out an entire weekend day, or if I can (or should?) spread it out over several days. I have been binging it myself after finishing the first season a few days ago. I have 3 episodes left, and this season is FANTASTIC. I just finished "Forks" which is one of the three highest rated episodes of the entire show on IMDb, and I 100% agree. Ok, I jumped into it today. Have watched 4 episodes. It is just as good as Season 1. Really love this show. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 4, 2023 23:45:17 GMT -5
Ah, don't you hate it when an otherwise well-written tv show makes an error in a tiny detail and it drives you bonkers that the otherwise stellar writers would get this wrong?
In season 2 of "The Bear" Marcus tells Will Poulter's character that he played DIII football and it paid for school.
No it most certainly did not. DIII schools do not give out athletic scholarships. "The Bear" should have said DII.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 5, 2023 8:09:43 GMT -5
Ah, don't you hate it when an otherwise well-written tv show makes an error in a tiny detail and it drives you bonkers that the otherwise stellar writers would get this wrong? In season 2 of "The Bear" Marcus tells Will Poulter's character that he played DIII football and it paid for school. No it most certainly did not. DIII schools do not give out athletic scholarships. "The Bear" should have said DII. I haven't watched The Bear but from what I hear from Chicago-area folks they make a lot of little mistakes about Chicagoland. Which would certainly drive ME crazy. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 5, 2023 15:10:23 GMT -5
I watched a few of the newest Black Mirror episodes on Sunday, and yesterday saw a few newer Twilight Zone episodes (the Jordan Peele ones).
Black Mirror:
Joan is Awful: clever, a bit trippy, love Annie Murphy, definitely slagging on Netflix!
Loch Henry: Saw most of the twist coming but oof.
Beyond the Sea: Some great acting, good premise, felt like the ending fell a little flat.
Twilight Zone (2019):
S1:
Replay: Well, there's the social commentary combined with a little sci-fi. Happier ending than the OG episode it's loosely based on.
The Wunderkind: On the other hand, this one kind of hits you over the head with its social commentary...
Not All Men: I wanted a little more of a twist or punchline here, but it's genuinely unsettling.
Blurryman: OK, I actually kinda loved this one even though I mostly saw the end coming.
S2:
Meet in the Middle: This feels very much like a modern version (e.g. more violent, more adult) of The Twilight Zone, I feel like Rod would have approved.
Downtime: Good story, still not sure what the point of it was.
The Who of You: Again, feels true to the OG but not sure if I liked it or not.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 5, 2023 16:08:55 GMT -5
I’ve started watching Babylon 5 and I have two questions:
1) 2258 is “the dawn of the third age of mankind”. I’m in the year 2023 right now and nobody has ever told me what age of mankind we’re currently in. When do the first and second ages of mankind take place?
2) Am I supposed to find the Centauri endearing or something? They seem to only do genocide and colonialism and to be universally proud of this fact, and Londo and his lackey are extremely annoying and bad at their jobs.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 5, 2023 16:50:16 GMT -5
I watched a few of the newest Black Mirror episodes on Sunday, and yesterday saw a few newer Twilight Zone episodes (the Jordan Peele ones). Black Mirror: Joan is Awful: clever, a bit trippy, love Annie Murphy, definitely slagging on Netflix! Loch Henry: Saw most of the twist coming but oof. Beyond the Sea: Some great acting, good premise, felt like the ending fell a little flat. Twilight Zone (2019): S1: Replay: Well, there's the social commentary combined with a little sci-fi. Happier ending than the OG episode it's loosely based on. The Wunderkind: On the other hand, this one kind of hits you over the head with its social commentary... Not All Men: I wanted a little more of a twist or punchline here, but it's genuinely unsettling. Blurryman: OK, I actually kinda loved this one even though I mostly saw the end coming. S2: Meet in the Middle: This feels very much like a modern version (e.g. more violent, more adult) of The Twilight Zone, I feel like Rod would have approved. Downtime: Good story, still not sure what the point of it was. The Who of You: Again, feels true to the OG but not sure if I liked it or not. Your description doesn't make Peele's TZ sound, like, super promising, but it does make it seem as if it's more or less tonally consistent with original TZ (both good and bad, original TZ has plenty of episodes that are rather mediocre, and it obviously has a reputation for being preachy as well) and not just relentlessly packing every episode with easter eggs and trying to pump as much content out of this piece of IP as possible, as has been the case with a lot of reboots and spinoffs recently. Do you think that's a fair assessment? |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 5, 2023 17:33:14 GMT -5
I watched a few of the newest Black Mirror episodes on Sunday, and yesterday saw a few newer Twilight Zone episodes (the Jordan Peele ones). Black Mirror: Joan is Awful: clever, a bit trippy, love Annie Murphy, definitely slagging on Netflix! Loch Henry: Saw most of the twist coming but oof. Beyond the Sea: Some great acting, good premise, felt like the ending fell a little flat. Twilight Zone (2019): S1: Replay: Well, there's the social commentary combined with a little sci-fi. Happier ending than the OG episode it's loosely based on. The Wunderkind: On the other hand, this one kind of hits you over the head with its social commentary... Not All Men: I wanted a little more of a twist or punchline here, but it's genuinely unsettling. Blurryman: OK, I actually kinda loved this one even though I mostly saw the end coming. S2: Meet in the Middle: This feels very much like a modern version (e.g. more violent, more adult) of The Twilight Zone, I feel like Rod would have approved. Downtime: Good story, still not sure what the point of it was. The Who of You: Again, feels true to the OG but not sure if I liked it or not. Your description doesn't make Peele's TZ sound, like, super promising, but it does make it seem as if it's more or less tonally consistent with original TZ (both good and bad, original TZ has plenty of episodes that are rather mediocre, and it obviously has a reputation for being preachy as well) and not just relentlessly packing every episode with easter eggs and trying to pump as much content out of this piece of IP as possible, as has been the case with a lot of reboots and spinoffs recently. Do you think that's a fair assessment? I think Peele does a solid job of the balancing act that is trying to be original while honoring the original series and adding a little fan service, which has to be hard. They’re hour-long episodes, which gives the stories more room to breathe but can also make them less punchy. And Serling certainly could be preachy, besides which at times the series could drag. The new one has better production values and better acting. It’s less subtle because it doesn’t have to be subtle. Much like the original series it’s a product of its time. so yes overall I would agree with your assessment. I think it’s enjoyable for what it is, and I like Peele’s work. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 5, 2023 20:29:54 GMT -5
Your description doesn't make Peele's TZ sound, like, super promising, but it does make it seem as if it's more or less tonally consistent with original TZ (both good and bad, original TZ has plenty of episodes that are rather mediocre, and it obviously has a reputation for being preachy as well) and not just relentlessly packing every episode with easter eggs and trying to pump as much content out of this piece of IP as possible, as has been the case with a lot of reboots and spinoffs recently. Do you think that's a fair assessment? I think Peele does a solid job of the balancing act that is trying to be original while honoring the original series and adding a little fan service, which has to be hard. They’re hour-long episodes, which gives the stories more room to breathe but can also make them less punchy. And Serling certainly could be preachy, besides which at times the series could drag. The new one has better production values and better acting. It’s less subtle because it doesn’t have to be subtle. Much like the original series it’s a product of its time. so yes overall I would agree with your assessment. I think it’s enjoyable for what it is, and I like Peele’s work. Yeah, that definitely does sound more interesting than I’d been led to believe the show was, and makes me more interested in it than I was previously. Might have to check it out the next time I subscribe to Paramount+. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 5, 2023 21:11:28 GMT -5
I think Peele does a solid job of the balancing act that is trying to be original while honoring the original series and adding a little fan service, which has to be hard. They’re hour-long episodes, which gives the stories more room to breathe but can also make them less punchy. And Serling certainly could be preachy, besides which at times the series could drag. The new one has better production values and better acting. It’s less subtle because it doesn’t have to be subtle. Much like the original series it’s a product of its time. so yes overall I would agree with your assessment. I think it’s enjoyable for what it is, and I like Peele’s work. Yeah, that definitely does sound more interesting than I’d been led to believe the show was, and makes me more interested in it than I was previously. Might have to check it out the next time I subscribe to Paramount+. If you have cable, it’s on SyFy sometimes. That’s where I saw it. |
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 5, 2023 23:27:47 GMT -5
How am I supposed to feel about this? Spartacus 2.0
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 5, 2023 23:27:51 GMT -5
Ah, don't you hate it when an otherwise well-written tv show makes an error in a tiny detail and it drives you bonkers that the otherwise stellar writers would get this wrong? In season 2 of "The Bear" Marcus tells Will Poulter's character that he played DIII football and it paid for school. No it most certainly did not. DIII schools do not give out athletic scholarships. "The Bear" should have said DII. I haven't watched The Bear but from what I hear from Chicago-area folks they make a lot of little mistakes about Chicagoland. Which would certainly drive ME crazy. Yes, this is part of why it drives me crazy when I see this in an otherwise well-written show. Because I know if they aren't paying attention to *this* detail, that means they likely aren't paying attention to other details, where I wouldn't know they are getting it wrong.
Like with this DIII football thing, I'd bet that it didn't even occur to any of the writers that football players in DIII don't get scholarships. They just wanted to say "He played for a small, low ranked school". They were trying to signal class. But I know people that play/played sports in DIII schools. So, I knew there were no scholarships. The writers here didn't play sports, probably didn't attend DIII schools, and seem to not know anyone who did. So, it ends up being a signal of THEIR class.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 5, 2023 23:35:11 GMT -5
Watched "The Bear" season 2 episodes 5 and 6. If the mom in the Christmas episode is at a 10 on a dysfunctional scale, my mom would rate around an 8.
Need to take a break before I watch the next one.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 6, 2023 0:19:53 GMT -5
Ah, don't you hate it when an otherwise well-written tv show makes an error in a tiny detail and it drives you bonkers that the otherwise stellar writers would get this wrong? In season 2 of "The Bear" Marcus tells Will Poulter's character that he played DIII football and it paid for school. No it most certainly did not. DIII schools do not give out athletic scholarships. "The Bear" should have said DII. Wait Will Poulter is in The Bear? I love that dude; it’s the first thing I’ve heard that makes me want to watch it. My Jeremy Allen White tolerance is often very iffy. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 6, 2023 8:15:12 GMT -5
I haven't watched The Bear but from what I hear from Chicago-area folks they make a lot of little mistakes about Chicagoland. Which would certainly drive ME crazy. Like with this DIII football thing, I'd bet that it didn't even occur to any of the writers that football players in DIII don't get scholarships. They just wanted to say "He played for a small, low ranked school". They were trying to signal class. But I know people that play/played sports in DIII schools. So, I knew there were no scholarships. The writers here didn't play sports, probably didn't attend DIII schools, and seem to not know anyone who did. So, it ends up being a signal of THEIR class.
I associate DIII with, like, selective liberal arts colleges whose athletics take a backseat to their academics--your Amhersts and your Sarah Lawrences--so I don't know what they're trying to convey beyond "we meant to say DII." |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 6, 2023 8:17:01 GMT -5
I haven't watched The Bear but from what I hear from Chicago-area folks they make a lot of little mistakes about Chicagoland. Which would certainly drive ME crazy. Yes, this is part of why it drives me crazy when I see this in an otherwise well-written show. Because I know if they aren't paying attention to *this* detail, that means they likely aren't paying attention to other details, where I wouldn't know they are getting it wrong.
Like with this DIII football thing, I'd bet that it didn't even occur to any of the writers that football players in DIII don't get scholarships. They just wanted to say "He played for a small, low ranked school". They were trying to signal class. But I know people that play/played sports in DIII schools. So, I knew there were no scholarships. The writers here didn't play sports, probably didn't attend DIII schools, and seem to not know anyone who did. So, it ends up being a signal of THEIR class.
Yeah, I went to a D3 school, my husband works for a D3 school, as you know they tend to just be smaller schools that focus on academics. When I think of them, I think of SLAC full of richer kids  I will never write for a TV show, but if I did, you'd be damn sure I'd fact-check that kind of thing! |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 6, 2023 8:17:42 GMT -5
Like with this DIII football thing, I'd bet that it didn't even occur to any of the writers that football players in DIII don't get scholarships. They just wanted to say "He played for a small, low ranked school". They were trying to signal class. But I know people that play/played sports in DIII schools. So, I knew there were no scholarships. The writers here didn't play sports, probably didn't attend DIII schools, and seem to not know anyone who did. So, it ends up being a signal of THEIR class.
I associate DIII with, like, selective liberal arts colleges whose athletics take a backseat to their academics--your Amhersts and your Sarah Lawrences--so I don't know what they're trying to convey beyond "we meant to say DII." yep - I just said more or less the same thing, I went to one of those colleges  |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 6, 2023 8:22:38 GMT -5
I associate DIII with, like, selective liberal arts colleges whose athletics take a backseat to their academics--your Amhersts and your Sarah Lawrences--so I don't know what they're trying to convey beyond "we meant to say DII." yep - I just said more or less the same thing, I went to one of those colleges Ahem, me too. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 6, 2023 11:20:03 GMT -5
In season 2 of "The Bear" Marcus tells Will Poulter's character that he played DIII football and it paid for school. Wait Will Poulter is in The Bear? I love that dude; it’s the first thing I’ve heard that makes me want to watch it. My Jeremy Allen White tolerance is often very iffy. Oh, you should definitely watch Season 2, episode 4 then! It has a lot of Will Poulter and almost none of Jeremy Allen White. It looks to be a one-off guest role for Poulter. He's good in it! Edited to add: You can easily watch just this episode, and it will all make sense to you. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 6, 2023 11:21:45 GMT -5
I associate DIII with, like, selective liberal arts colleges whose athletics take a backseat to their academics--your Amhersts and your Sarah Lawrences--so I don't know what they're trying to convey beyond "we meant to say DII." DIII is just the size of the school. It has nothing to do with selectivity. Though the reason they don't offer athletic scholarships is because they do want the students to be focused on academics. They were trying to convey that he went to a small school where there was no hope of him turning his football playing into an actual career. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 6, 2023 11:41:59 GMT -5
I associate DIII with, like, selective liberal arts colleges whose athletics take a backseat to their academics--your Amhersts and your Sarah Lawrences--so I don't know what they're trying to convey beyond "we meant to say DII." DIII is just the size of the school. It has nothing to do with selectivity. Though the reason they don't offer athletic scholarships is because they do want the students to be focused on academics. They were trying to convey that he went to a small school where there was no hope of him turning his football playing into an actual career. Sure, I know. I was just talking about the associations I (and presumably other audience members) make when someone brings up a "DIII school." It's weird that they seem to be equating "small" with "bad" or at least "highly obscure," when there are plenty of famous SLACs in DIII. As you said, if they really wanted to say that he went to an obscure school with a middling athletics program they should have gone with DII, which includes all the lower-tier state schools, random private Christian universities, etc. |
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 6, 2023 14:46:54 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 6, 2023 23:43:15 GMT -5
How am I supposed to feel about this? Spartacus 2.0
Article is from February; I hadn’t heard anything about it. If you're me you're thinking, Oh shit, more Spartacus!!?! Why didn't anyone tell me? And then you're thinking, Wait. Who's still alive? |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jul 7, 2023 10:53:43 GMT -5
I was hoping the trend of ""woke"" (by which I mean gender-, race-, etc.-flipped) reboots of old IP had burned out, but apparently once you've reached the bottom of the barrel there's nowhere left to go but through the oak floor, hurtling towards the Earth's molten core, in a beeline towards sweet flaming oblivion: Kathy Bates is Matlock! |
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