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Post by Prole Hole on Dec 21, 2023 5:33:43 GMT -5
Slow Horses continues to be fucking great. That is all.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Dec 21, 2023 12:27:43 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 21, 2023 12:31:48 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those. Evil's fun. I mean the show, not the action. Actually the action is fun, too, often, but that's not really what this thread is about. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Dec 22, 2023 9:58:47 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those. We mooch Paramount+, too, and I'll second Evil. Other than that I don't think I've watched anything there that wasn't a movie. If you're not into Trek or Yellowstone, it's mostly worthless. I see there's every episode of Tosh.0, you know, if you wanted to relive the halcyon days of the Obama administration and listen to a smug white dude talk shit about internet clips. I keep thinking I should watch that reboot of Beavis & Butthead, but then never do. Same with the old episodes of The State. I'll never sit and watch old episodes of The State. I assume there aren't any hidden gems of skits that I'd care about more than those on the bootlegged compilation VHS my buddy had in college. $240 worth of pudding, indeed. I think the problem I have with Paramount+ is that they mix in the Showtime content with their regular content and I keep thinking I found something I'd want to watch, but no, it requires an additional Showtime subscription. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 22, 2023 10:08:52 GMT -5
Side note, I am irritated that Showtime discontinued its Showtime Anytime app - we have Showtime through our cable subscription; I wouldn't even care except that Yellowjackets is on it, and we could use the Anytime app to watch episodes at our leisure. Now we'll have to DVR the next season or use the unwieldy on-demand through cable.
(Yes I know we're weirdos who still have cable.)
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 23, 2023 13:09:19 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those. Thirding Evil, which I honestly can't believe originally aired on CBS. My lesbian friend wrongly claims the Fatal Attraction series is ""good,"" by which she means "Lizzy Caplan is hot" (debatable, but I don't know your people). Perhaps you can delve into their reality programming, such as 72 Seconds in Rittenhouse Square and Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? (Don't do that either.)
In terms of "are there any good shows from actual TV that now air on Paramount Plus?" well, yes: everyone who digs Evil should give BrainDead a shot (it's the show that convinced me the Kings are making television shows for me and literally only me). I think all the Comedy Central originals are now streaming on Paramount+... I dug Detroiters and Corporate, and the rebooted Reno 911! is surprisingly good.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 23, 2023 13:18:36 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those. Thirding Evil, which I honestly can't believe originally aired on CBS. My lesbian friend wrongly claims the Fatal Attraction series is ""good,"" by which she means "Lizzy Caplan is hot" (debatable, but I don't know your people). Perhaps you can delve into their reality programming, such as 72 Seconds in Rittenhouse Square and Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? (Don't do that either.)
In terms of "are there any good shows from actual TV that now air on Paramount Plus?" well, yes: everyone who digs Evil should give BrainDead a shot (it's the show that convinced me the Kings are making television shows for me and literally only me). I think all the Comedy Central originals are now streaming on Paramount+... I dug Detroiters and Corporate, and the rebooted Reno 911! is surprisingly good.
I definitely want to know people’s opinions on the Geddy Lee show that I didn’t know existed until just now (I also was unaware of his new memoir until earlier this week). |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Dec 23, 2023 14:00:39 GMT -5
A friend of mine hooked me up with her mom's Paramount Plus login (she uses my Hulu/Disney and HBO logins) and I haven't had time to really sit down and explore the catalog yet. All I know is that my friend calls it the "Picard Network" because all her mom's favorite Star Trek iterations are hosted there. Any recommendations for shows? I mean, non-Star Trek shows. I know where to find those. Thirding Evil, which I honestly can't believe originally aired on CBS. My lesbian friend wrongly claims the Fatal Attraction series is ""good,"" by which she means "Lizzy Caplan is hot" (debatable, but I don't know your people). Perhaps you can delve into their reality programming, such as 72 Seconds in Rittenhouse Square and Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? (Don't do that either.)
In terms of "are there any good shows from actual TV that now air on Paramount Plus?" well, yes: everyone who digs Evil should give BrainDead a shot (it's the show that convinced me the Kings are making television shows for me and literally only me). I think all the Comedy Central originals are now streaming on Paramount+... I dug Detroiters and Corporate, and the rebooted Reno 911! is surprisingly good.
I have a cousin who plays bass, so I've heard lots of bass player jokes over the years. "What do you do if you find a bass player at your front door? Pay for the pizza." |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 23, 2023 14:39:42 GMT -5
Also, I've been watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine again on account of Andre Braugher's passing, and one (22-episode!) season in I feel absolutely comfortable calling it the last great network sitcom. I've been watching on DVD, which is a very funny artifact of the time because the front menu prominently advertises GREAT-TV-SHOWS.COM, a website that no longer exists. Miscellaneous observations: - Sometimes I ask myself, "is Rosa Diaz really my favorite character in the history of television?" to which I can comfortably respond, "yes." She is not quite the Rosa we know and love (Steph hasn't figured out the voice yet; the Boyle/Rosa not-a-romance is mildly weird) but she's already great, despite (because) her primary characterization being "Rosa loves weapons and gets off on violence." Making the character Latina was smart because it somewhat distracts from what a Thin-Blue-Line-Punisher cop she is (in this season, anyway). Also despite (because) this, she is extremely, extremely hot in these episodes, like, woof. - On the topic of "post-George Floyd retrospective weirdness," the first season (as I've said before) is surprisingly cynical about the NYPD, and this seems to be the point of the show. One exception - Terry's whole "he's off active duty for freaking out and Ramboing a mannequin" bit is probably played a biiit too glibly? - Gina is actually funny in this season, which is surprising given how quickly her character becomes cloying in future seasons. - Not a surprise for a sitcom set in NYC, but literally everyone's apartment is absolutely too huge.
- Relatively few pure cold opens - most of them tie very directly into the episodes themselves. - The DVD has a lot of deleted scenes - this is the only special feature on the DVD at all, actually - and I'd estimate about half of them are cutaway gags that were cut for time. Which explains why the show has such a great hit rate with those. - Also on the subject of deleted scenes: B99 gets a lot of mileage out of occasionally dipping into cop show cinematography, with some genuinely tense/well-shot action sequences, but one curious thing is that there are several instances in the deleted scenes where they filmed a big chase scene... ...and then said "no, actually, we don't need this." This also applies to the classic cop show "have the camera pan to spruce up the exposition" scene, which they do once or twice in the deleted scenes but then never do - and presumably reshot to fix that! - in the final episode. In general, the directors on B99 seem to pick "film this like a conventional single-cam sitcom" almost every time, and the show is usually better for it.
- Best episode? Um... "The Party," maybe? There's a lot of choices here.
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Post by moimoi on Dec 23, 2023 19:06:20 GMT -5
- On the topic of "post-George Floyd retrospective weirdness," the first season (as I've said before) is surprisingly cynical about the NYPD, and this seems to be the point of the show. One exception - Terry's whole "he's off active duty for freaking out and Ramboing a mannequin" bit is probably played a biiit too glibly? - Gina is actually funny in this season, which is surprising given how quickly her character becomes cloying in future seasons. I am also rewatching and I particularly agree with the points above. As for favorite episodes, so far mine include: Halloween S1E6 Pontiac Bandit S1E12 all of Season 2 my god, this show is so good |
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 24, 2023 23:01:50 GMT -5
TV, movie, either/or.
All these years later I'm still watching Serenity, and I STILL think Wash's death was some stupid, mawkish bullshit. Like seriously laughable in its execution - impaled by a pointy shard? Get the fuck right outta here. It was very poor and predictable story-telling that left a bad taste in my mouth, as if Whedon was thumbing his nose at the people who loved his work and made him famous. Blech. I still love Firefly, of course: what an absolute gem.
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Post by moimoi on Dec 25, 2023 11:21:42 GMT -5
Also, I've been watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine again on account of Andre Braugher's passing, and one (22-episode!) season in I feel absolutely comfortable calling it the last great network sitcom. I've been watching on DVD, which is a very funny artifact of the time because the front menu prominently advertises GREAT-TV-SHOWS.COM, a website that no longer exists. Miscellaneous observations: - Sometimes I ask myself, "is Rosa Diaz really my favorite character in the history of television?" to which I can comfortably respond, "yes." She is not quite the Rosa we know and love (Steph hasn't figured out the voice yet; the Boyle/Rosa not-a-romance is mildly weird) but she's already great, despite (because) her primary characterization being "Rosa loves weapons and gets off on violence." Making the character Latina was smart because it somewhat distracts from what a Thin-Blue-Line-Punisher cop she is (in this season, anyway). Also despite (because) this, she is extremely, extremely hot in these episodes, like, woof. - On the topic of "post-George Floyd retrospective weirdness," the first season (as I've said before) is surprisingly cynical about the NYPD, and this seems to be the point of the show. One exception - Terry's whole "he's off active duty for freaking out and Ramboing a mannequin" bit is probably played a biiit too glibly? - Gina is actually funny in this season, which is surprising given how quickly her character becomes cloying in future seasons. - Not a surprise for a sitcom set in NYC, but literally everyone's apartment is absolutely too huge.
- Relatively few pure cold opens - most of them tie very directly into the episodes themselves. - The DVD has a lot of deleted scenes - this is the only special feature on the DVD at all, actually - and I'd estimate about half of them are cutaway gags that were cut for time. Which explains why the show has such a great hit rate with those. - Also on the subject of deleted scenes: B99 gets a lot of mileage out of occasionally dipping into cop show cinematography, with some genuinely tense/well-shot action sequences, but one curious thing is that there are several instances in the deleted scenes where they filmed a big chase scene... ...and then said "no, actually, we don't need this." This also applies to the classic cop show "have the camera pan to spruce up the exposition" scene, which they do once or twice in the deleted scenes but then never do - and presumably reshot to fix that! - in the final episode. In general, the directors on B99 seem to pick "film this like a conventional single-cam sitcom" almost every time, and the show is usually better for it.
- Best episode? Um... "The Party," maybe? There's a lot of choices here.
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Post by Celebith on Dec 25, 2023 23:02:19 GMT -5
Season 7 of Rick and Morty has been surprisingly good. No amazing episodes, but maybe only one real dud. The emotional beats don't hit quite as hard as things like Interdimensional Cable or autoerrr.... the Unity / Hive-mind episodes, but they've let characters grow over the years. Maybe calling out Rick's asshole tendencies and literally having him go to therapy is a bit on the nose, but at least it's developing organically. Losing Roiland has been a net positive - the new voice actors are great and it seems as though he was dragging things down even without being present. The writers room is good at trolling the fanbase, almost as if they predicted the 'Where's Morty?' complaints of the first half of the season. Definitely worth watching if you enjoyed the early years but were turned off by the last 2 or 3.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 26, 2023 10:26:59 GMT -5
Rewatching Rectify so I'm preparing to cry a lot.
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Post by repulsionist on Dec 26, 2023 17:25:17 GMT -5
Doctor Who - The Church on Ruby Road (2023)
Crimmus and Dr. Who?!? Brilliant! Ncuti Gatwa is one handsome man. Russell T Davies' work is excellent.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 26, 2023 23:52:50 GMT -5
Dear writers of a longstanding American soap opera, I understand your intention for this scene was to have this character deliver a tearful monologue at her crazy father's grave. And this scene was about this woman. However, did it never occur to any of you that a psychopathic serial killer who killed SEVENTEEN* people would not have a gravestone, let alone one in his city's central cemetery? This man's only family - other than the aforementioned 21-year-old daughter, who has no money and hates him - is his identical twin brother, whom he tried to kill. Three times. The brother who has himself been in therapy for 20+ years dealing with the trauma of being this psychopath's identical twin. I know it is hard writing hundreds of episodes of a show per year. But, like... you all were on strike for the last several months, and this is one of your first episodes back. In all that time, none of you thought, "Y'all, this really makes no sense?"
And I know soap operas aren't exactly reflecting reality, but honestly, who the hell paid for a gravestone for this guy? Writers, please just think about this stuff, please?
Edited to add: Glad to know I am not alone, as I spotted a response to one of the show's social media posts that read "Where the hell is this guy buried??" which is related to my complaint of "Who the hell would have paid for this?" not to mention "WHY the hell would anyone have paid for this?"
*And yes, I did actually look this up, because he had killed so many people that I didn't know the final total.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 27, 2023 8:55:21 GMT -5
Final season of Letterkenny is now on Hulu. First two episodes were solid. We're trying to savor it by limiting ourselves to only two episodes a night.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 27, 2023 13:09:35 GMT -5
I'm still trying to narrow down favorite episodes on rewatch, but I think this is a good case for 'worst' episode: I have zero memory of this episode. I can't tell whether I started watching it when it aired and then noped out when I realized it was a Gina episode, or if I *did* watch the entire episode and then forgot literally everything about it. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 27, 2023 17:49:58 GMT -5
I have zero memory of this episode. I can't tell whether I started watching it when it aired and then noped out when I realized it was a Gina episode, or if I *did* watch the entire episode and then forgot literally everything about it. I also have no memory of this episode. I know I started Grad School when this show was airing, but I thought I went back and watched all the episodes later? Now I am starting to think I didn't. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Dec 27, 2023 21:21:48 GMT -5
I take issue with that video for referring to Gina as a "fan-favorite" character.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 30, 2023 17:53:43 GMT -5
Definitely worth watching if you enjoyed the early years but were turned off by the last 2 or 3. Although I checked out of R&M a bit later, I’ve never been sure if my eventual dislike of the show was a consequence of those more recent seasons or turning 30. |
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Post by repulsionist on Dec 31, 2023 13:57:36 GMT -5
My holidays have been filled with Deep Pocket Monster. Pat Flynn's ebullience informed by Christian undercurrents and steady working a plan after planning the work has resulted in his Pokemon channel rising to the most-available top of YouTube. It's absolutely stunning how much this real-life person looks and acts like the character Boyle from Brooklyn 99.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 31, 2023 17:20:25 GMT -5
My holidays have been filled with Deep Pocket Monster. Pat Flynn's ebullience informed by Christian undercurrents and steady working a plan after planning the work has resulted in his Pokemon channel rising to the most-available top of YouTube. It's absolutely stunning how much this real-life person looks and acts like the character Boyle from Brooklyn 99.On a similar note, we watched the Pokemon Concierge stop-motion series a few days ago and found it utterly delightful (it's only about an hour in total). I've always liked the non-fighting aspects of the Pokemon world (the animals living in concert with people part) but find the mainline games a bit repetitious and tedious (I like the Snap games much more), so it was right up my alley. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 5, 2024 11:18:40 GMT -5
Look, because of you people, we're watching Taskmaster. We just started series 7 and the whole thing has been pretty delightful. I wish I didn't have to watch it on YouTube with the constant, seemingly random ad placements.
I also started Silo and that's a damn fine show so far. I remember I read a bit of Wool (the source material) way back when, but don't remember much about it. I do kind of wish they'd let the largely British cast just do British accents because it's a little spotty at times, but I guess it's fine. It would have been interesting to have the different levels of The Silo have different accents, but I imagine that would have been harder to force. Sort of like in The Expanse show, where some of the actors tried to do accents for the different sects of humanity (a weird sort of Cajun thing for The Belt, Texan for Mars) but then just let some of the main actors just do whatever they could manage (see Bobby Draper just being from the New Zealand part of Mars). Anyway, it's great and it's on Apple+ so no one knows about it.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 7, 2024 1:14:06 GMT -5
The Ghosts (UK) Christmas special/series finale was low-key pretty devastating and I still don't know what I think about it.
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Post by repulsionist on Jan 7, 2024 14:28:35 GMT -5
You Are What You Eat: The Twin Experiment (2024)
Criminy, 4 50-minute episodes to get to the 10-minute synthesis? Urgh.
Taskmaster New Year's Treat (2024)
Yay! Lenny Rush won. Kojey Radical was awesome. Deborah Meaden's composure during the papadam challenge was funny. Backshall and Ball did their parts too.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 8, 2024 8:38:39 GMT -5
My holidays have been filled with Deep Pocket Monster. Pat Flynn's ebullience informed by Christian undercurrents and steady working a plan after planning the work has resulted in his Pokemon channel rising to the most-available top of YouTube. It's absolutely stunning how much this real-life person looks and acts like the character Boyle from Brooklyn 99.On a similar note, we watched the Pokemon Concierge stop-motion series a few days ago and found it utterly delightful (it's only about an hour in total). I've always liked the non-fighting aspects of the Pokemon world (the animals living in concert with people part) but find the mainline games a bit repetitious and tedious (I like the Snap games much more), so it was right up my alley. Watched the whole thing straight through with my daughter this weekend. Adorable and charming, though I won't pretend I was enthralled or anything. I wish there was more. |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jan 8, 2024 17:13:05 GMT -5
Just finished the first half of The Sopranos season six. Jesus, what a show. I'm torn between wanting to barrel through the remaining episodes because I want to see it all unfold and wanting to take my time because I don't want the story to be over.
I also just finished season two of Boardwalk Empire. Reading the comments on old AVC reviews is kind of hilarious because I share almost none of the prevailing views found there. I keep having to remind myself that people were watching this from week to week and probably aren't just really bad at understanding character-driven stories.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Jan 8, 2024 22:09:16 GMT -5
Just finished the fourth and final season of Wynonna Earp. It was a fun show overall, with a ridiculously attractive main cast, and plenty of humor and swearing. The fourth season was kind of a mess, but it ended well.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 9, 2024 8:37:17 GMT -5
Just finished the fourth and final season of Wynonna Earp. It was a fun show overall, with a ridiculously attractive main cast, and plenty of humor and swearing. The fourth season was kind of a mess, but it ended well. A supremely silly show, but danged if it's not a good time. Been awhile now, but I do remember it falling apart more than a bit in the fourth season, and the relationship between Wynona and Doc treads water far too often. Still, I'll watch Mrs. McMurray Melanie Scrofano in just about anything, and like you say, the cast is just ... gorgeous. This show, along with Letterkenny and Lost Girl, proves that Canada must have the prettiest people.
Dang, I kinda wanna watch Lost Girl again. I'm not sure I finished it.
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