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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 8, 2023 21:34:58 GMT -5
Mrs. Floyd likes to watch Longmire (or at least have it on in the background sometimes) and my cousin's 12 year old daughter likes to watch Yellowstone, and for a while I had no idea these were two different shows when I would see them on the TV.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 9, 2023 9:23:02 GMT -5
Last night's Bob's Burgers was really sweet, but I felt very attacked by this exchange:
"Party of Five, it was a really popular show in the 90s"
"I was born in 2002"
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 10, 2023 4:58:38 GMT -5
Loki is back and I'm grateful for the first episode because it means I don't have to bother with this load of old rubbish again. Hiddleston deserves so much better.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 10, 2023 13:31:51 GMT -5
Last night's Bob's Burgers was really sweet, but I felt very attacked by this exchange: "Party of Five, it was a really popular show in the 90s" "I was born in 2002" It occurs to me that, as the show enters its fourteenth (!!) season, we're approaching the territory where, assuming the show is supposed to take place in the present day, all three of the Belcher kids are now younger than the show they're on. Even Tina!
Here's to another fourteen years, and to the inevitable retcon explaining that Bob and Linda met in a tragic Heelys accident at a Franz Ferdinand concert or whatever.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Oct 11, 2023 14:34:07 GMT -5
Here's to another fourteen years, and to the inevitable retcon explaining that Bob and Linda met in a tragic Heelys accident at a Franz Ferdinand concert or whatever.
I think this is the plot to the Back to the Future reboot. Marty's got to get his dad to stop perving on his mom's MySpace page long enough to get to the concert before he disappears. "Steve, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Jobs. You know that new technological advancement you're looking for? Well, check your texts!" Once again, Hollywood producers, I am available to write script treatments for absolutely cursed sequel/reboots for a hefty fee. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 11, 2023 14:41:43 GMT -5
Here's to another fourteen years, and to the inevitable retcon explaining that Bob and Linda met in a tragic Heelys accident at a Franz Ferdinand concert or whatever.
I think this is the plot to the Back to the Future reboot. Marty's got to get his dad to stop perving on his mom's MySpace page long enough to get to the concert before he disappears. "Steve, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Jobs. You know that new technological advancement you're looking for? Well, check your texts!" Once again, Hollywood producers, I am available to write script treatments for absolutely cursed sequel/reboots for a hefty fee. I'm still waiting for the movie version of Firesign Theater's "Forward, Into the Past!". |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Oct 15, 2023 21:43:43 GMT -5
Wrapped up the final season of Sex Education. The second half of the season was much stronger than the first, and the ending was bittersweet but well executed. My only gripe is that the show really seemed to lose the thread with Otis. It's as if they were embarrassed by the fact that they still had a straight white male protagonist, so they just kind of shoved him off to the side so he could overreact to things and be a bit of a pill while everyone else dealt with their real problems...which I suppose is true to life, but I did miss the version of the character that was willing and able to actually help people.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 16, 2023 2:08:03 GMT -5
Would stake a £10 bet that Julian Clary wins this Taskmaster. My crush for this series is Susan Wokoma.
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Post by LazBro on Oct 16, 2023 14:37:51 GMT -5
Less than 2 weeks now.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 16, 2023 14:43:45 GMT -5
We are watching Jury Duty (on Freevee/available on Prime) which is pretty entertaining if you like cringe comedy. It follows a man who thinks he's being filmed for a reality show about how jury trials work, but in fact, every damn person is an actor except him and it's all fake. James Marsden plays himself as an overbearing douche. Good stuff.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Oct 16, 2023 17:28:26 GMT -5
Nu-Frasier is...watchable, I guess? To absolutely no one's surprise it mostly just reads as Frasier fanfic. At one point Frasier says he feels "amalgamated with the hoi polloi," which is the sort of awkward shit an "I am very smart" Frasier fan would write in an attempt to sound like Frasier. I agree with others here that simply reversing the Frasier/Martin dynamic is just profoundly lazy, and doesn't make much sense given what we knew of the older incarnation of Freddy. Would the goth dork loser from "High Holidays" really grow into a generic hunk fireman who dropped out of college because he couldn't fit in with all the "poindexters" at Harvard? Do the writers really think that working class people, or, indeed, anyone still uses the word "poindexter"? Rounding out the cast are Nu-Niles (Frasier's heretofore unmentioned old Oxford buddy and current colleague), Nu-Roz (the ambitious psychology department head who's desperate to increase enrollment and "make Provost"* earlier than her Yalie sister), Nu-Daphne (Freddy's roommate and inevitable love interest), and Also-Nu-Niles (David, Niles's and Daphne's son, who actually comes across more as a Sheldon Cooper type). Like I said it's all...fine. Might even be pretty good if it weren't trying to live up to the original, but it also obviously wouldn't exist without the original, so, eh? At least Grammer is clearly having a good time.
*TV writers do not understand academia and particularly do not understand the ambitions of academic types.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Oct 16, 2023 18:35:14 GMT -5
None of you told me there's a Twisted Metal TV show with Stephanie Beatriz!!?? Shame, shame! They've now announced she's going to be on Hazbin Hotel. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 16, 2023 18:45:54 GMT -5
The last half season of Doom Patrol has begun airing, and I am both happy and sad.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 16, 2023 21:23:07 GMT -5
None of you told me there's a Twisted Metal TV show with Stephanie Beatriz!!?? Shame, shame! They've now announced she's going to be on Hazbin Hotel. Finally, a show starring Steph Beatz that I will never, ever, eeee eeever watch. |
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Post by moimoi on Oct 16, 2023 22:01:28 GMT -5
Nu- Frasier is...watchable, I guess? To absolutely no one's surprise it mostly just reads as Frasier fanfic. At one point Frasier says he feels "amalgamated with the hoi polloi," which is the sort of awkward shit an "I am very smart" Frasier fan would write in an attempt to sound like Frasier. I agree with others here that simply reversing the Frasier/Martin dynamic is just profoundly lazy, and doesn't make much sense given what we knew of the older incarnation of Freddy. Would the goth dork loser from "High Holidays" really grow into a generic hunk fireman who dropped out of college because he couldn't fit in with all the "poindexters" at Harvard? Do the writers really think that working class people, or, indeed, anyone still uses the word "poindexter"? Rounding out the cast are Nu-Niles (Frasier's heretofore unmentioned old Oxford buddy and current colleague), Nu-Roz (the ambitious psychology department head who's desperate to increase enrollment and "make Provost"* earlier than her Yalie sister), Nu-Daphne (Freddy's roommate and inevitable love interest), and Also-Nu-Niles (David, Niles's and Daphne's son, who actually comes across more as a Sheldon Cooper type). Like I said it's all...fine. Might even be pretty good if it weren't trying to live up to the original, but it also obviously wouldn't exist without the original, so, eh? At least Grammer is clearly having a good time. *TV writers do not understand academia and particularly do not understand the ambitions of academic types. Yeah I just watched the first one after the Guardian assured me it gets better after a few episodes. I hope that means they quicken the pace. I think a lot of jokes in the pilot would land better if they had the breezy pacing of the original, only slowing down for the heartfelt bits about Martin's passing. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 16, 2023 22:29:30 GMT -5
On this subject, specifically re: Frasier and its writers not being able to tell mock erudition from the real thing: www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/178jfnf/frasier_themed_crossword_in_the_sunday_new_york/I know that I am more in tune with the conventions of this sort of thing, but without delving into the clues, even, I think even a layperson can see this puzzle is objectively beyond fugly, right? I don't know, maybe they thought that the person reading this advertisement might not know what a real crossword looks like - you know, the person perusing the print edition of the Sunday New York Times. |
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Post by Jimmy James on Oct 17, 2023 9:53:08 GMT -5
On this subject, specifically re: Frasier and its writers not being able to tell mock erudition from the real thing: www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/178jfnf/frasier_themed_crossword_in_the_sunday_new_york/I know that I am more in tune with the conventions of this sort of thing, but without delving into the clues, even, I think even a layperson can see this puzzle is objectively beyond fugly, right? I don't know, maybe they thought that the person reading this advertisement might not know what a real crossword looks like - you know, the person perusing the print edition of the Sunday New York Times. "If I wanted to see unchecked squares I would have watched Niles bypass the metal detector at a rock-and-roll concert." "And if I wanted a lack of rotational symmetry I would have watched you attempt to do 'The Twist'" |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 17, 2023 13:22:58 GMT -5
On this subject, specifically re: Frasier and its writers not being able to tell mock erudition from the real thing: www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/178jfnf/frasier_themed_crossword_in_the_sunday_new_york/I know that I am more in tune with the conventions of this sort of thing, but without delving into the clues, even, I think even a layperson can see this puzzle is objectively beyond fugly, right? I don't know, maybe they thought that the person reading this advertisement might not know what a real crossword looks like - you know, the person perusing the print edition of the Sunday New York Times. I have mentioned here that I am bad at crosswords and don't really understand all the conventions in clue writing, and therefore don't really do them. Ever. And yes, this is a fugly crossword design. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 17, 2023 14:12:41 GMT -5
They've now announced she's going to be on Hazbin Hotel. Finally, a show starring Steph Beatz that I will never, ever, eeee eeever watch. Rosa, what if this show ends up being the most highly acclaimed television show in history, and everyone is just constantly going around talking about how it is better than The Wire or The Sopranos or whatever? |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Oct 17, 2023 15:09:46 GMT -5
None of you told me there's a Twisted Metal TV show with Stephanie Beatriz!!?? Shame, shame! They've now announced she's going to be on Hazbin Hotel. I had no idea what this show was, so I looked it up and...is Genndy Tartakovsky going to get a co-creator credit or what, because yeesh:  |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 18, 2023 10:01:34 GMT -5
We are watching Jury Duty (on Freevee/available on Prime) which is pretty entertaining if you like cringe comedy. It follows a man who thinks he's being filmed for a reality show about how jury trials work, but in fact, every damn person is an actor except him and it's all fake. James Marsden plays himself as an overbearing douche. Good stuff. I was expecting this to be mostly comedy, and it was, but it also had some surprising sweetness to it. The producers threw all kinds of challenges at Ronald, and he handled them with aplomb - genuinely trying to bond with his fellow jurors no matter how weird they were, taking responsibility for things he didn't need to, and generally being a really good guy. The way he took leadership during the deliberations was really cool, too. The whole show might not have worked as well if he'd been a jackass. |
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Post by LazBro on Oct 18, 2023 10:24:33 GMT -5
The price hike at Disney+ had us rejiggering our accounts, and now we have a new Disney+Hulu bundle for hardly any more than we were already spending on the two annually, and it's also the ad-free Hulu. Those 42-minute broadcast procedurals simply fly by when there's no commercials, though you do quickly become aware that there are no natural restroom breaks either.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 18, 2023 13:27:55 GMT -5
The price hike at Disney+ had us rejiggering our accounts, and now we have a new Disney+Hulu bundle for hardly any more than we were already spending on the two annually, and it's also the ad-free Hulu. Those 42-minute broadcast procedurals simply fly by when there's no commercials, though you do quickly become aware that there are no natural restroom breaks either. That's why Philo Farnsworth invented the pause button. |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Oct 21, 2023 11:42:57 GMT -5
On my flights I had access to some of AppleTV for free, so I watched the first two episodes of Severance and the first episode of Foundation.
Severance is great so far. I'm really intrigued by whatever the fuck is going on with this Lumon company. Is it a cult? Are they assassinating people by numbers?
The first episode of Foundation was fantastic, and similar enough to my vague recollection of the books I read 20-25 years ago that I'm excited. But if I recall correctly, the reviews said it kind of goes downhill from there?
Either way, I don't have AppleTV and am probably not going to subscribe to it, so I'll have to wait to see any more unless work sends me on more flights. I might have another in January.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 22, 2023 16:02:49 GMT -5
The price hike at Disney+ had us rejiggering our accounts, and now we have a new Disney+Hulu bundle for hardly any more than we were already spending on the two annually, and it's also the ad-free Hulu. Those 42-minute broadcast procedurals simply fly by when there's no commercials, though you do quickly become aware that there are no natural restroom breaks either. That's why Philo Farnsworth invented the pause button. Philo Farnsworth used to be one of Utah’s entries in the national statuary hall and they took him out and replaced his statue with that of a writer. That’s absolutely un-American! Florida still has John Gorrie, who invented a precursor to air conditioning, as one of its statues. At least some things are still sacred (no irony, it’s a perfect statue entry for Florida). |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Oct 22, 2023 18:13:54 GMT -5
I think about the adult cartoon fans crowing about how A.I. IS COMING FOR THE VOICE ACTORS!!!, and then I read paragraphs like this one:
And I just laugh, and laugh, and laugh. And then I read the phrase "featured in roles like 'Security Guard'" and laugh some more. WB just replaced their most profitable animated series's creator with a pair of dudes whose resumes don't even rise to the level of "corpse on SVU" and they're going to face zero consequences for it. Why would you bother replacing Rick and Morty with an LLM when any halfway-decent impressionist could do it for five bucks? And, not to be unduly dismissive of animation as a medium, but isn't this sort of the entire point of cartoons? That you can have an IP to milk that's completely disembodied from a real person? Didn't y'all watch "The Waldo Moment" ??
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 22, 2023 19:09:32 GMT -5
That's why Philo Farnsworth invented the pause button. Philo Farnsworth used to be one of Utah’s entries in the national statuary hall and they took him out and replaced his statue with that of a writer. That’s absolutely un-American! Florida still has John Gorrie, who invented a precursor to air conditioning, as one of its statues. At least some things are still sacred (no irony, it’s a perfect statue entry for Florida). Ah but he lived in Fort Wayne, Ind when he developed the tv, in a house just down the street from my high school. |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Oct 23, 2023 10:42:29 GMT -5
The Fall of the House of Usher - This was pretty great. Fantastic cast, engaging story, some great creepy vfx. All of the usual Mike Flanagan favorites, with new additions like Mary McDonnell and Mark Hamill. And confirmed that my 30-year crush on Carla Gugino still exists.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 23, 2023 14:26:02 GMT -5
Werewolf by Night - In Color (2023)
Didn't take the duochrome pill last year for reasons of vague disinterest and sneering condescension wrt MCU. This turned out alright. Running time approximate to that of the feeling when reading a standalone Marvel Two-in-One or Marvel Spotlight. Excellent acting from Bernal. Super cool to see Man-Thing.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 26, 2023 14:52:19 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S16:E4)
Still think Julian's gonna win. The human moment between he and Alex about birding was some nice television. Sue Perkins will be a very close second. Sam Campbell was a clever lad during his Australian schooling. Lucy can be charming. Susan's such a character.
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