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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 5, 2024 23:08:57 GMT -5
In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot.
Aw, I loved that show. Well, I'm a bit mixed on the final season, but I did love the actual series finale. That definitely would be a fun show to rewatch.
A friend and I were talking about it when we were watching Apple's show "Sugar" because that show seemed to make a few references to Fringe, but we weren't sure if they were deliberately doing it.
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Post by ABz BπΉanaz on Jun 6, 2024 2:35:46 GMT -5
Evil is back...and this time they can swear a lot. Although they could do that the last 2 seasons once it went totally to streaming. Anyway, watch Evil, bafflingly on Paramount+ amongst all the CBS nonsense. Watch sexy people look sexfully at each other. See them say "fuck." See a CBS show portray Catholicism in a slightly unfavorable light. See actual actors in fun demon makeup! Answer the question, "What if X-files but Catholic and with a third person?" Minor annoyance, but this show was off air for 2 years and the first episode of the new season has like a 10 second "Previously on" which just left me more confused and forced me to find some recap articles. I just watched a mid-season episode of Buffy and that had 4 minutes of previously on. I guess no one at Paramount wanted to pay an editor to clip things together. Interesting question, if an actor shows up in the Previously On but is otherwise not in the episode, do they still get paid? In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot. I fucking LOVE Fringe. Anna Torv, Josh Jackson and John Noble are some of the best leads in a sci-fi series ever, and the rest of the cast is also fantastic.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 6, 2024 5:25:30 GMT -5
Evil is back...and this time they can swear a lot. Although they could do that the last 2 seasons once it went totally to streaming. Anyway, watch Evil, bafflingly on Paramount+ amongst all the CBS nonsense. Watch sexy people look sexfully at each other. See them say "fuck." See a CBS show portray Catholicism in a slightly unfavorable light. See actual actors in fun demon makeup! Answer the question, "What if X-files but Catholic and with a third person?" Minor annoyance, but this show was off air for 2 years and the first episode of the new season has like a 10 second "Previously on" which just left me more confused and forced me to find some recap articles. I just watched a mid-season episode of Buffy and that had 4 minutes of previously on. I guess no one at Paramount wanted to pay an editor to clip things together. Interesting question, if an actor shows up in the Previously On but is otherwise not in the episode, do they still get paid? In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot. Fringe is such a massively underrated show and still one of my all-time favourites. Just wait till Meghan Markle turns up in a couple of episodes! In related news, the Fringe theme has been my alarm for about the last three years and is what I wake up to every day.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jun 6, 2024 7:22:49 GMT -5
We finished watching the original run of Frasier and now are halfway through the new series (which is only 10 eps so far). The original was ... modestly progressive for the mid-late 90s/early aughts? At least in that a) there were multiple gay men in the cast (playing straight characters) and b) gay characters were treated as fairly normal, the butt of the joke usually being the straight character's confusion. However Seattle as depicted is BLINDINGLY white and the POC characters are rather tokenized. There are also not a lot of women - Daphne and Roz are the only ones who last the whole series.
I lived in Seattle in the early 2000s and I thought it was surprisingly white. At least as compared to my previous residences in Los Angeles and various parts of Arizona. Even UW, where I was attending, was much more white than I'd have expected at a major university.
Definitely in the kinds of social circles and cultural interests that these guys had, they probably would be seeing mostly white people. Though I'd agree that there should have been more Asian American representation.
Meant to reply liebkartoffel's observation of this as well - yes, I suppose it's true that Seattle was (is?) pretty white in the circles they'd be in. That's fair. But also more Asian people. I've always thought that about Grey's Anatomy too; they've had some Asian characters over the years but there should be more.
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Post by LazBro on Jun 6, 2024 7:51:53 GMT -5
Justified, completed Season 2 last night.
I feel angry that I only have time each night to watch at most two episodes, and sometimes only one. I just want to binge it so bad! The second season was excellent front to back, thanks in large part to a powerhouse performance by Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale. What a juicy role. (And I never paid attention before, but seriously, why is FX so good at making TV?)
The ending of the season, while "clean" - I see why a writer would come up with it - felt a little cute to me. The repeating of the first episode's dialogue and everything. Not sure I buy that fate for Mags. But, at the same time, with this kind of storytelling, they're stuck. Either everybody dies or everybody goes to jail or some mixture of the two. There's not a lot of ways for these things to end. Also frustrating how much of a passenger Raylan felt in the final episode, needing to be saved from mortal danger not once, but twice.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 6, 2024 16:27:25 GMT -5
Still in mid season two of my BSG rewatch I still wish that sometime as the Galactica was in mid jump, the Tardis would flash past, Teigh would look at Adama and say "What the frack was that?" and it would never be mentioned again.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 6, 2024 16:44:13 GMT -5
Finally got around to Hacks and of course it was fantastic. I do think it suffered a bit from bingeing because it made me a little sick of the push and pull of the two leads, but that's okay.
Finally trying Los Espookys next.
Sad that this season of Evil is the last one, excited to have We Are Lady Parts back though it seems they're likely burning off episodes before cancelling, and Interview With the Vampire is as amazing and melodramatic and theatrical and campy as ever.
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Post by songstarliner on Jun 6, 2024 22:40:55 GMT -5
Finally trying Los Espookys next.
Ooo, I loved this - it's delightfully and unabashedly weird. Another good one (not as good, but still) is This Fool.
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Post by rjamielanga on Jun 6, 2024 23:04:41 GMT -5
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Patrick Melrose
I can't believe no one told me about this 5-episode series. It is truly, astonishingly, powerful. I cannot recommend it more highly.
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Post by chalkdevil π on Jun 7, 2024 10:18:32 GMT -5
Evil is back...and this time they can swear a lot. Although they could do that the last 2 seasons once it went totally to streaming. Anyway, watch Evil, bafflingly on Paramount+ amongst all the CBS nonsense. Watch sexy people look sexfully at each other. See them say "fuck." See a CBS show portray Catholicism in a slightly unfavorable light. See actual actors in fun demon makeup! Answer the question, "What if X-files but Catholic and with a third person?" Minor annoyance, but this show was off air for 2 years and the first episode of the new season has like a 10 second "Previously on" which just left me more confused and forced me to find some recap articles. I just watched a mid-season episode of Buffy and that had 4 minutes of previously on. I guess no one at Paramount wanted to pay an editor to clip things together. Interesting question, if an actor shows up in the Previously On but is otherwise not in the episode, do they still get paid? In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot. Fringe is such a massively underrated show and still one of my all-time favourites. Just wait till Meghan Markle turns up in a couple of episodes! In related news, the Fringe theme has been my alarm for about the last three years and is what I wake up to every day. I'd remember those episodes with the new agent where it felt like a light repiloting but then she just totally disappears. I didn't realize it was Meghan Markle.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 7, 2024 21:21:05 GMT -5
The Daytime Emmys were tonight. Dick Van Dyke won for Daytime Guest actor. He appeared on "Days of Our Lives" at age 98. That isn't the soap I watch, but people who do said he was great. Congrats to him! In other news, the soap I *do* watch won for Writing, Directing and for Best Soap. Remember, this soap recently fired those writers, and every blog and soap media review of it so far *this* year has been a variation of, "What the hell is even happening on this show?!" Though, honestly, I have to say, if this was the best soap in 2023, then soaps are in even worse shape than I thought!
Edited to add: Saw an interview with Dick Van Dyke. He said this happened because he works out at the same gym as one of the actors on Days of Our Lives. One day he just asked this soap star if he could get him a role. He did this just because he thought it would be fun to be on a soap. Bless him! He's so great!
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Post by moimoi on Jun 8, 2024 16:45:12 GMT -5
Justified, completed Season 2 last night.
I feel angry that I only have time each night to watch at most two episodes, and sometimes only one. I just want to binge it so bad! The second season was excellent front to back, thanks in large part to a powerhouse performance by Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale. What a juicy role. (And I never paid attention before, but seriously, why is FX so good at making TV?)
The ending of the season, while "clean" - I see why a writer would come up with it - felt a little cute to me. The repeating of the first episode's dialogue and everything. Not sure I buy that fate for Mags. But, at the same time, with this kind of storytelling, they're stuck. Either everybody dies or everybody goes to jail or some mixture of the two. There's not a lot of ways for these things to end. Also frustrating how much of a passenger Raylan felt in the final episode, needing to be saved from mortal danger not once, but twice.
I too am finally and belatedly getting on the Justified train (via Hulu) but all will be pleased that I'm bringing Lord Lucan along with me :-) Just got through Season 3 and I think my estimation is close to liebkertoffel in terms of Fargo-esque cartoonishness and my preference for the old cases-of-the-week. Although season 3 has many great moments, it is a smidge of a letdown from Season 2's perfection. Looking forward to finishing the rest by the end of the summer. I only wish I had been involved in the commentariat back at AVC, rather than wasting my time on True Blood.
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 9, 2024 14:46:29 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S17:E10)
Meh-Yay! John Robins won. Crush this season was a coin toss between JoAnne and Sophie. Each won.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 9, 2024 17:25:39 GMT -5
Absolutely blasted through the final season of Sweet Tooth today, and Iβm here to tell you that I will never be sick of the precious little hybrid children MY GOD THEYβRE SO FUCKIN ADORABLE.
I very much enjoy Rosalind Chao as a villain- she is having a great time; Kelly Marie Tran was a pleasant surprise, although her storyline was a little darker than I was expecting.
It does fall prey to Ye Olde Deeply Unrealistic Travel Times, but as they mostly just β¦ donβt mention how many days have passed, itβs okay whatever; it is a little overstuffed, and thereβs that repetitiveness you get when Good Guys Keep Slipping Through The Bad Guys Fingers, but I feel that it does actually stick the landing pretty well.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jun 9, 2024 19:55:52 GMT -5
Taskmaster (S17:E10) Meh-Yay! John Robins won. Crush this season was a coin toss between JoAnne and Sophie. Each won. A fairly middling season, imo. The cast was likeable, but there weren't any standouts in any of the "brilliant lateral thinker," "chaos agent," or "so comically inept they loop back around to brilliant" categories. Nick, bless him, came closest in that last category but he was mostly just kind of clueless. After watching all of Taskmaster NZ it was fun spotting all the tasks UK either borrowed from or outright stole (*cough* "find your special friend" *cough*).
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Post by ABz BπΉanaz on Jun 9, 2024 20:07:13 GMT -5
Absolutely blasted through the final season of Sweet Tooth today, and Iβm here to tell you that I will never be sick of the precious little hybrid children MY GOD THEYβRE SO FUCKIN ADORABLE. I very much enjoy Rosalind Chao as a villain- she is having a great time; Kelly Marie Tran was a pleasant surprise, although her storyline was a little darker than I was expecting. It does fall prey to Ye Olde Deeply Unrealistic Travel Times, but as they mostly just β¦ donβt mention how many days have passed, itβs okay whatever; it is a little overstuffed, and thereβs that repetitiveness you get when Good Guys Keep Slipping Through The Bad Guys Fingers, but I feel that it does actually stick the landing pretty well. We binged the first season as a family, but when we started watching season two with BGirl she didn't seem interested, so we haven't watched since, I was surprised to see a new season out. Is this the final one, or is there potentially more to come (if Netflix doesn't cancel it)?
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 10, 2024 15:55:24 GMT -5
Finally started The Curse. Just bit into a lox-and-bagel to find there was a cherry tomato in it and I think Iβm done eating.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 11, 2024 18:11:02 GMT -5
Absolutely blasted through the final season of Sweet Tooth today, and Iβm here to tell you that I will never be sick of the precious little hybrid children MY GOD THEYβRE SO FUCKIN ADORABLE. I very much enjoy Rosalind Chao as a villain- she is having a great time; Kelly Marie Tran was a pleasant surprise, although her storyline was a little darker than I was expecting. It does fall prey to Ye Olde Deeply Unrealistic Travel Times, but as they mostly just β¦ donβt mention how many days have passed, itβs okay whatever; it is a little overstuffed, and thereβs that repetitiveness you get when Good Guys Keep Slipping Through The Bad Guys Fingers, but I feel that it does actually stick the landing pretty well. We binged the first season as a family, but when we started watching season two with BGirl she didn't seem interested, so we haven't watched since, I was surprised to see a new season out. Is this the final one, or is there potentially more to come (if Netflix doesn't cancel it)? This is the last season.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jun 14, 2024 20:44:55 GMT -5
Well, I did it again - I picked the winner of the latest American Baking Show on episode one. I've done it several times with the regular Baking Show, and at least once for Project Runway.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 14, 2024 20:59:13 GMT -5
Bridgerton Season 3 has ended. The tv series writers in this season didn't realize that if you are going to give your main romantic couple angst, you need to develop BOTH characters so the audience feels sympathy for *both* of them. Instead, they only have one well-developed character. So the audience spends the back half of Season 3 waiting for the male character to get his head out of his ass. I must have muttered more than once, "Get over yourself, jerk". Sadly, this doesn't happen until the last half of the last episode.
Overall, Nicola Coughlan was great. She really sold this. She still has the most interesting character, though it seems the show is now done with her character. Alas. Polly Walker was the stealth MVP of this season. Wow, what a great performance by her.
This is probably it for my Bridgerton watching. I'm not a lover of most romance tropes. The ones in S2 and S3 are really the only ones I can tolerate. I know the tropes used in the other books these are based on, and I find them boring at best and schlocky at worst. The one for the S4-centered character is literally the plot of a Disney princess movie. That's a big NO from me.
So, farewell Bridgerton. Loved your costumes, wigs, jewelry, sets and several of your actors.
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 16, 2024 14:21:59 GMT -5
Taskmaster: Champion of Champions III (2024)
Sophie Duker and Morgana Robinson on the same show?!? Phruaaa! And some funny stuff too. Well done, Dara.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 16, 2024 23:58:43 GMT -5
In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot. I kinda envy your wife - I'd love to 'see it again for the first time'. Maybe I should convince my daughter to watch through this with me. Fringe may be one of the only shows that got better each season, even after a fairly strong start. White Tulip is one of the best hours on TV - Peter Weller should do more weird, cult SF.
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Post by chalkdevil π on Jun 17, 2024 9:11:55 GMT -5
In a similar vein, we started watching Fringe, a series I for some reason never finished and one my wife never watched. It's pretty great right off the bat. Although the pilot has both Agent Broyles and Peter be sexist and condescending to Olivia by calling her "honey" and "sweet heart." I dunno if it was something the creators felt that element should be there since she was a woman FBI agent and Silence of the Lambs looms large over that particular trope, but it's immediately dropped by both those characters in subsequent episodes. Anyway, it's fun to watch and fun to spot the now somewhat known actors popping up in episodes. We just finished one with Britta in it (blah, blah, blah, Community notification, etc.). She doesn't get much to do but she's in the episode a lot. ...Peter Weller should do more weird, cult SF. Trying to think if I've seen Peter Weller do anything else.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 17, 2024 20:59:49 GMT -5
...Peter Weller should do more weird, cult SF. Trying to think if I've seen Peter Weller do anything else.
I think I remember him being in an episode of "House" once? That's all I can come up with. There must be more, though, right? He's been doing tv guest roles for a long time.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 17, 2024 21:59:44 GMT -5
HEY I had forgotten Temuera Morrison was Doctore before Oenomaus on Spartacus!
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Post by chalkdevil π on Jun 18, 2024 8:38:59 GMT -5
Trying to think if I've seen Peter Weller do anything else.
I think I remember him being in an episode of "House" once? That's all I can come up with. There must be more, though, right? He's been doing tv guest roles for a long time.
IMDB has him as a guest spot all over TV. The only one I know I watched was Dexter and I vaguely remember that. I guess when you play one robot cop you get really typecast.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jun 18, 2024 11:11:22 GMT -5
...Peter Weller should do more weird, cult SF. Trying to think if I've seen Peter Weller do anything else. ...lecturing on Italian renaissance art history?
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Post by outforawalk on Jun 18, 2024 21:39:59 GMT -5
Evil is back...and this time they can swear a lot. Although they could do that the last 2 seasons once it went totally to streaming. Anyway, watch Evil, bafflingly on Paramount+ amongst all the CBS nonsense. Watch sexy people look sexfully at each other. See them say "fuck." See a CBS show portray Catholicism in a slightly unfavorable light. See actual actors in fun demon makeup! Answer the question, "What if X-files but Catholic and with a third person?" Your last line here made me start watching Evil about 4 or 5 days ago, so thanks! Trucking through it and enjoying it so far, though I keep getting Pudsy's Christmas music stuck in my head.
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Post by LazBro on Jun 19, 2024 7:40:28 GMT -5
"People underestimate Bob at their own peril." - Raylan Givens.
I've still got two more episodes to go in Justified, Season 4, but for me that is the line of the season. I think the beating that Constable Bob (Patton Oswalt) took was a bit much. That scene didn't need to go as long as it did. But damned if it didn't end the way you wanted it to. I love Constable Bob. I've never connected very much with Oswalt's stand-up, but I'm always happy to see him in an acting role. Especially more serious fare (whether or not his character is very serious.)
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Post by Celebith on Jun 19, 2024 11:51:09 GMT -5
I think I remember him being in an episode of "House" once? That's all I can come up with. There must be more, though, right? He's been doing tv guest roles for a long time.
IMDB has him as a guest spot all over TV. The only one I know I watched was Dexter and I vaguely remember that. I guess when you play one robot cop you get really typecast. I always think of him as Buckaroo Banzai, but I still want to see him in more weird stuff than he's already in.
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