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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 8, 2024 13:43:01 GMT -5
I finished Deadwood, including the movie, yesterday.
I AM BEREFT. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW.
I guess you could do what I do, watch it again. There is always something new to pick up on during repeated viewings.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 8, 2024 16:00:54 GMT -5
I finally gave into peer pressure and watched Bridgerton. Two seasons in and am I NOT meant to think Penelope is a horrible person?! Penelope is a youngest daughter with no marital prospects in a family of horrible people with no money. Her mother treats her like garbage and her sisters are indifferent at best and cruel at worst. So, she is using her social position as a way to earn money for herself so that she doesn't need to rely on her family and/or dismal marriage prospects to survive. And many members of society LOVE her gossip sheet, including the Queen! You think this makes her a horrible person? Not saying she is the character with the strongest morals on the show. But I think she is BY FAR the most interesting and well developed character on the show.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 8, 2024 16:15:34 GMT -5
Quick thoughts on shows old and new. The Bear Season 3, watched through episode 5 (the Tina episode). I think my sentiments line up with the mean: this is still The Bear. It's exciting, heartbreaking, funny, stressful, all in about equal measure, and it's well acted and directed. It is terribly watchable. But, oh man, FUCK ALL is happening in this show. A commenter at TOC said that Christopher Storer planned a 3-season show that Hulu extended to a fourth season, and this inert plotting is a direct result. We're stretching too little terrine de foie gras over too much pain de Campagne. I do firmly land on the side of the all-montage first episode of season 3 being a masterpiece. The montages in "Doors" and "Napkins", less so. I was okay with the first episode being a music montage until I got all the way through the season, and then realized the ENTIRE SEASON is just that. Pretty much just that. Then I went from "this is fine" to "ugh, get over yourself". If that first episode had been a music montage and then the rest of the season had actual story development from that point, then I would have come down on the side of "Wow, that was great!" As is, it just looks like Storer has nothing to say, and is falling back on the great music, editing and cinematography because he's desperately trying to fill time. The Tina episode was my favorite one, but even with that one... I wish it had shown Tina having development in the contemporary timeline. A la "Forks" or "Honeydew" from last year. A flashback episode is just another indicator that Storer has no narrative ideas. Ah well. This is all understandable if Hulu came in and told him he needed 4 seasons instead of 3. The technical aspects of the show are all still great, even if Storer is overrelying on them to get him through. The actors are all great, and I love all the characters. It is clear that there are several story threads that *can* still be explored. So, hopefully this wheel-spinning will be over after this season, and Season 4 will return to the quality of S1-2.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 8, 2024 16:29:01 GMT -5
I finished Deadwood, including the movie, yesterday.
I AM BEREFT. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW.
The movie gutted me in a way I wasn’t expecting.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jul 8, 2024 16:56:45 GMT -5
Re: The Bear. Yeah, I think the arc was pretty clearly supposed to be:
Season 1: Carmy decides to open The Bear.
Season 2: Carmy and team level up in various ways (have I commented before how similar this part is to...every sports shonen anime?) and finally get the restaurant up and running.
Season 3: After many challenges and travails The Bear (because and/or in spite of Carmy) finally earns its Michelin star...but at what cost?!?
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 9, 2024 8:07:51 GMT -5
I finished Deadwood, including the movie, yesterday.
I AM BEREFT. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW.
The movie gutted me in a way I wasn’t expecting. I was full-on sobbing by the end. I'm not ready for it to be over!
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 9, 2024 9:13:25 GMT -5
I finally gave into peer pressure and watched Bridgerton. Two seasons in and am I NOT meant to think Penelope is a horrible person?! Penelope is a youngest daughter with no marital prospects in a family of horrible people with no money. Her mother treats her like garbage and her sisters are indifferent at best and cruel at worst. So, she is using her social position as a way to earn money for herself so that she doesn't need to rely on her family and/or dismal marriage prospects to survive. And many members of society LOVE her gossip sheet, including the Queen! You think this makes her a horrible person? Not saying she is the character with the strongest morals on the show. But I think she is BY FAR the most interesting and well developed character on the show. I feel a lot of sympathy for her, but once she continued the column after doing great, PHYSICAL harm to Marina as a result of it, she was actively choosing to be cruel. And then would act shocked when the column harmed people she cares for again and again, despite her CHOOSING to continue to publish it. Her circumstances may have caused her to act out that way, and she didn't deserve the way she was treated, but at a certain point she is actively being a bully and has become just as bad as those who bullied her.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 9, 2024 14:52:01 GMT -5
The movie gutted me in a way I wasn’t expecting. I was full-on sobbing by the end. I'm not ready for it to be over! I propose somebody do a series of Deadwood graphic novels. Expand the Deadwood universe,explore the adventures of the characters, main and background. Fill in back stories and time gaps. Maybe the first in the series could feature Aunt Lou March back and Richardson.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 9, 2024 15:04:04 GMT -5
I was full-on sobbing by the end. I'm not ready for it to be over! I propose somebody do a series of Deadwood graphic novels. Expand the Deadwood universe,explore the adventures of the characters, main and background. Fill in back stories and time gaps. Maybe the first in the series could feature Aunt Lou March back and Richardson. I would love that. Get Greg Rucka to write Doc Cochrane's issue!
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 9, 2024 15:17:44 GMT -5
Also, My Lady Jane on Prime is like someone looked at The Great and went, "What if we did that, but with the Tudors, and we added some fantasy elements?" It's a little predictable, but it's very funny and enjoyable. I appreciate the wholesale replacement of religion with Animorphs, because it's a lot more fun that way. Also, it's more fitting with the other anachronisms/inaccuracies/silliness, so I'm able to enjoy it in the way I was wholly unable to enjoy Reign et al. It really commits to the absurdity. And although it's a little bit girl-power-y, I do like that they've stayed true to the spirit of most of the personalities involved in real-life events. King Edward VI is uptight and frail, Lady Frances Grey makes Atia of the Julii from the HBO show Rome look like a friendly little marshmallow, Guildford Dudley is a lout, and Lady Jane Grey herself is too smart for the lot of them.
I love that Dominic Cooper's apparently quite pleased to be typecast as "hot scheming weirdo sex-pervert dude." Watching Princess Mary (later Queen Mary I) spanking his bare ass vigorously with a knight's metal gauntlet had me cracking up. (I do feel a tiny bit bad for poor Mary. She always gets short shrift in these Tudor things.) And Jim Broadbent is a hoot, hamming it up as the ultra-disgusting, ancient Duke of Leicester. Can't wait to watch more later!
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Post by moimoi on Jul 9, 2024 21:26:47 GMT -5
Quick thoughts on shows old and new. The Bear Season 3, watched through episode 5 (the Tina episode). I think my sentiments line up with the mean: this is still The Bear. It's exciting, heartbreaking, funny, stressful, all in about equal measure, and it's well acted and directed. It is terribly watchable. But, oh man, FUCK ALL is happening in this show. A commenter at TOC said that Christopher Storer planned a 3-season show that Hulu extended to a fourth season, and this inert plotting is a direct result. We're stretching too little terrine de foie gras over too much pain de Campagne. I do firmly land on the side of the all-montage first episode of season 3 being a masterpiece. The montages in "Doors" and "Napkins", less so. I was okay with the first episode being a music montage until I got all the way through the season, and then realized the ENTIRE SEASON is just that. Pretty much just that. Then I went from "this is fine" to "ugh, get over yourself". If that first episode had been a music montage and then the rest of the season had actual story development from that point, then I would have come down on the side of "Wow, that was great!" As is, it just looks like Storer has nothing to say, and is falling back on the great music, editing and cinematography because he's desperately trying to fill time. The Tina episode was my favorite one, but even with that one... I wish it had shown Tina having development in the contemporary timeline. A la "Forks" or "Honeydew" from last year. A flashback episode is just another indicator that Storer has no narrative ideas. Ah well. This is all understandable if Hulu came in and told him he needed 4 seasons instead of 3. The technical aspects of the show are all still great, even if Storer is overrelying on them to get him through. The actors are all great, and I love all the characters. It is clear that there are several story threads that *can* still be explored. So, hopefully this wheel-spinning will be over after this season, and Season 4 will return to the quality of S1-2. Yeah, thinking about it, the only episode of Season 3 that I think measures up to the previous seasons is "Tomorrow" because it commits to the conceit. "Doors" irritated me and it was nice to see so much Tina in "Napkins" but it didn't add depth to the season because it isn't connected to the main plot the way Syd's flashback to eating at Carmy's restaurant is.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 11, 2024 11:02:34 GMT -5
Took me a season and a half of Schitt's Creek to realize that the actor who plays Mutt is the same guy who plays Doc Holiday in Wynona Earp.
Edit: And in this little mini-rabbit hole I've traveled, I discovered that he's currently playing lead in a show called SurrealEstate, about a real estate agency specializing in haunted houses, in which he co-stars with Sarah Levy; Twyla from Schitt's Creek and Eugene Levy's daughter. We just finished Justified. We have an opening for a new "one hour" show...
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 11, 2024 14:37:45 GMT -5
Took me a season and a half of Schitt's Creek to realize that the actor who plays Mutt is the same guy who plays Doc Holiday in Wynona Earp.
Edit: And in this little mini-rabbit hole I've traveled, I discovered that he's currently playing lead in a show called SurrealEstate, about a real estate agency specializing in haunted houses, in which he co-stars with Sarah Levy; Twyla from Schitt's Creek and Eugene Levy's daughter. We just finished Justified. We have an opening for a new "one hour" show...
SurrealEstate is fun, if you're looking for a little light case-of-the-week supernatural procedural with horror elements.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 15, 2024 11:54:11 GMT -5
We've discovered that there's an all-Rifftrax streaming channel on our TV, that has a lot of stuff that isn't on Tubi, so we're actually watching live TV for the first time in years when we want some background stuff on (and occasionally actual appointment viewing).
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jul 17, 2024 9:16:58 GMT -5
I finished My Lady Jane. What a hoot! I'd love another season if Amazon decides to do one.
Last night I decided I'd go for something super campy and trashy because it is summer, after all. I settled on American Horror Story: Asylum and watched two episodes. It's gloriously terrible. I'll probably watch AHS: Coven after this and then be done. I don't care about the other themes.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 17, 2024 9:28:08 GMT -5
Took me a season and a half of Schitt's Creek to realize that the actor who plays Mutt is the same guy who plays Doc Holiday in Wynona Earp.
Edit: And in this little mini-rabbit hole I've traveled, I discovered that he's currently playing lead in a show called SurrealEstate, about a real estate agency specializing in haunted houses, in which he co-stars with Sarah Levy; Twyla from Schitt's Creek and Eugene Levy's daughter. We just finished Justified. We have an opening for a new "one hour" show...
SurrealEstate is fun, if you're looking for a little light case-of-the-week supernatural procedural with horror elements. We've watched 4 episodes of SurrealEstate now, and I've enjoyed it well enough. It's funny how completely Syfy it is. It feels exactly like watching the early episodes of Wynona Earp, Lost Girl, Haven, Alphas, or take your pick. It always starts off cheesy and kinda dumb, but next thing you know you're really into it. I think we'll keep going.
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 17, 2024 11:10:10 GMT -5
I finished My Lady Jane. What a hoot! I'd love another season if Amazon decides to do one.
Last night I decided I'd go for something super campy and trashy because it is summer, after all. I settled on American Horror Story: Asylum and watched two episodes. It's gloriously terrible. I'll probably watch AHS: Coven after this and then be done. I don't care about the other themes.
AHS: Asylum is the creme de la creme of the series - utterly bonkers and fascinating. I'm a little jealous you're watching for the first time.
No other season comes close, but here's my ranking: 1. Asylum 2. Murder House 3. Freak Show 4. Roanoke 5. Coven 6. Hotel
The others are resoundingly meh.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 17, 2024 17:00:59 GMT -5
I just started rewatching The Good Place. As much as I enjoyed it the first time, having seen the big reveal at the end of season one, it's great spotting all the little ways they hinted that not all was as it seemed. If you know what to look for, it's obvious how much fun Michael has jerking everyone around. It adds a whole new level to the plot.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 20, 2024 22:39:55 GMT -5
I am behind (only watched first two eps so far), but I do wonder how much of the negative reaction to this season is in part due to FX/Hulu’s, imo, baffling decision to binge drop this instead of doling out 1-2 episodes a week. It’s just not that kind of a show (not particularly plot-heavy, good episodes really benefit from a week of marinating in the discussion, etc.). And Hulu/FX have done weekly releases with other things - it’s not like they’re as fundamentally opposed to it as say Netflix.
I don't know. I think I'd have been even more frustrated if this had released weekly. Then it would have been even more annoying that nothing happened. So, instead of spending one day with it, I'd be forced to spend weeks of zero story progression.
With Seasons 1 and 2, I actually *couldn't* binge them. I'd need time to decompress from some of the episodes. With this one, since nothing was happening, it was easy to just slide from one to the next. I hadn't even intended to watch the whole thing, it just happened.
I don't even think this season has anything really discussable that would benefit from a week in between the episodes.
Let me know what you think after you've seen the whole thing.
Edited to add: Season 2 was dropped all at once by Hulu and everyone loved it. So it isn't the release schedule that is the problem.
Ok, I didn’t hate the season or anything, but I do see why people were disappointed now. Some of the criticism I’d seen felt a little bit like when people would complain that Mad Men didn’t focus enough on the ad game parts of the show, which I always found super dumb. So I was all set to dismiss a bunch of folks just whining that the season did too much away from the restaurant and that be the whole reason for the backlash. And I’m sure that is part of it for a lot of people but it also just…didn’t go anywhere because they decided to stretch all their best potential beats into season four in a pretty frustrating way.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 21, 2024 0:56:47 GMT -5
Ok, I didn’t hate the season or anything, but I do see why people were disappointed now. Some of the criticism I’d seen felt a little bit like when people would complain that Mad Men didn’t focus enough on the ad game parts of the show, which I always found super dumb. So I was all set to dismiss a bunch of folks just whining that the season did too much away from the restaurant and that be the whole reason for the backlash. And I’m sure that is part of it for a lot of people but it also just…didn’t go anywhere because they decided to stretch all their best potential beats into season four in a pretty frustrating way.
Right. I loved "Mad Men" and I never complained that it didn't show enough of the ad business. That is a dumb complaint.
I haven't seen anyone lob that criticism about The Bear season 3. The only thing close to that was that season 1 and 2 had a focused storyline around the restaurant, while this didn't. But people aren't complaining that Season 3 has too much away from the restaurant. The complaint is that nothing happened ANYWHERE.
So, the show is still gorgeously shot. The acting is still excellent. There are wonderful scenes throughout the season. The characters are still compelling. A lot of the story ideas that are set-up are intriguing. But it all amounts to nothing.
This is why I'm not soured on the show for Season 4. I definitely want to watch season 4, because apparently that is where all the actual story movement and closure is located. And FX/Hulu just demanded that Storer stretch 3 seasons worth of story into 4, so we got an entire season of wheel-spinning. Hopefully networks/studios learn a lesson here. If the creator tells you they have 3 seasons, then let them make 3 seasons!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 21, 2024 10:05:25 GMT -5
Ok, I didn’t hate the season or anything, but I do see why people were disappointed now. Some of the criticism I’d seen felt a little bit like when people would complain that Mad Men didn’t focus enough on the ad game parts of the show, which I always found super dumb. So I was all set to dismiss a bunch of folks just whining that the season did too much away from the restaurant and that be the whole reason for the backlash. And I’m sure that is part of it for a lot of people but it also just…didn’t go anywhere because they decided to stretch all their best potential beats into season four in a pretty frustrating way.
Right. I loved "Mad Men" and I never complained that it didn't show enough of the ad business. That is a dumb complaint.
I haven't seen anyone lob that criticism about The Bear season 3. The only thing close to that was that season 1 and 2 had a focused storyline around the restaurant, while this didn't. But people aren't complaining that Season 3 has too much away from the restaurant. The complaint is that nothing happened ANYWHERE.
So, the show is still gorgeously shot. The acting is still excellent. There are wonderful scenes throughout the season. The characters are still compelling. A lot of the story ideas that are set-up are intriguing. But it all amounts to nothing.
This is why I'm not soured on the show for Season 4. I definitely want to watch season 4, because apparently that is where all the actual story movement and closure is located. And FX/Hulu just demanded that Storer stretch 3 seasons worth of story into 4, so we got an entire season of wheel-spinning. Hopefully networks/studios learn a lesson here. If the creator tells you they have 3 seasons, then let them make 3 seasons!
I think I also get annoyed with people that are allergic to detour episodes and insist that every episode of a sort season show must be about major plot advancement (apologies if I’m inventing a group of people or kind of backlash that didn’t actually exist). The issue with this season was 100% not stepping out to do a Tina or Sugar focused half hour (whatever your feelings on how successful those episodes were individually). It was wasting time doing 8-10 variations on the same “Camry’s friends tell him he fucked up with Claire, but also they feel so bad for him” and “Syd is torn on committing to the restaurant long term” scenes.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 22, 2024 7:57:54 GMT -5
Right. I loved "Mad Men" and I never complained that it didn't show enough of the ad business. That is a dumb complaint.
I haven't seen anyone lob that criticism about The Bear season 3. The only thing close to that was that season 1 and 2 had a focused storyline around the restaurant, while this didn't. But people aren't complaining that Season 3 has too much away from the restaurant. The complaint is that nothing happened ANYWHERE.
So, the show is still gorgeously shot. The acting is still excellent. There are wonderful scenes throughout the season. The characters are still compelling. A lot of the story ideas that are set-up are intriguing. But it all amounts to nothing.
This is why I'm not soured on the show for Season 4. I definitely want to watch season 4, because apparently that is where all the actual story movement and closure is located. And FX/Hulu just demanded that Storer stretch 3 seasons worth of story into 4, so we got an entire season of wheel-spinning. Hopefully networks/studios learn a lesson here. If the creator tells you they have 3 seasons, then let them make 3 seasons!
I think I also get annoyed with people that are allergic to detour episodes and insist that every episode of a sort season show must be about major plot advancement (apologies if I’m inventing a group of people or kind of backlash that didn’t actually exist). The issue with this season was 100% not stepping out to do a Tina or Sugar focused half hour (whatever your feelings on how successful those episodes were individually). It was wasting time doing 8-10 variations on the same “Camry’s friends tell him he fucked up with Claire, but also they feel so bad for him” and “Syd is torn on committing to the restaurant long term” scenes. Yup.
And sorry if this is a (very minor) spoiler to any Bear fans yet to finish up S3, but the partnership contract was introduced in episode 2 and mentioned in almost every episode following, so the fact that we get to the end of episode 10 and Syd has still not either signed it or definitively declared she won't is narrative malpractice. It's just bad storytelling at this point.
Can't wait for season 4.
(My unpopular opinion on S3 is that I love the Faks and enjoyed every (entirely pointless) scene they had. Sure, I get that they could be removed from the season wholesale and nothing would change. I get that. But I think they're funny. Their one scene with Claire was maybe too much.)
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Post by LazBro on Jul 22, 2024 8:02:09 GMT -5
By the way, Cobra Kai is back!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 22, 2024 8:06:49 GMT -5
I think I also get annoyed with people that are allergic to detour episodes and insist that every episode of a sort season show must be about major plot advancement (apologies if I’m inventing a group of people or kind of backlash that didn’t actually exist). The issue with this season was 100% not stepping out to do a Tina or Sugar focused half hour (whatever your feelings on how successful those episodes were individually). It was wasting time doing 8-10 variations on the same “Camry’s friends tell him he fucked up with Claire, but also they feel so bad for him” and “Syd is torn on committing to the restaurant long term” scenes. Yup.
And sorry if this is a (very minor) spoiler to any Bear fans yet to finish up S3, but the partnership contract was introduced in episode 2 and mentioned in almost every episode following, so the fact that we get to the end of episode 10 and Syd has still not either signed it or definitively declared she won't is narrative malpractice. It's just bad storytelling at this point.
Can't wait for season 4.
(My unpopular opinion on S3 is that I love the Faks and enjoyed every (entirely pointless) scene they had. Sure, I get that they could be removed from the season wholesale and nothing would change. I get that. But I think they're funny. Their one scene with Claire was maybe too much.)
The John Cena guest spot was maybe a little too much time that could’ve been better spent, but otherwise I’m also pro-Faks.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 23, 2024 13:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by Celebith on Jul 24, 2024 23:02:12 GMT -5
I had no interest in Time Bandits, so I had no idea that Lisa Kudrow and Charlyne Yi are in it, or that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement were behind and also in it (are we not doing phrasing! anymore?), and may have to check it out.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 25, 2024 18:09:25 GMT -5
I had no interest in Time Bandits, so I had no idea that Lisa Kudrow and Charlyne Yi are in it, or that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement were behind and also in it (are we not doing phrasing! anymore?), and may have to check it out. If it helps any, it's not terribly good. Well, not after the first two episodes anyway, it's mostly quite dull. If you like the original film, there's none of the scrappy, can-do feeling to it that makes many of Gilliam's films an interesting proposition. And if you don't know the original film but want something fun and funny and exciting then it's not that either. Lisa Kudrow is utterly wasted in it (but still great) and the kid that plays Kevin is channelling serious nerd energy which, obviously, is also great and I love. The rest is just nothing. Not funny, not bad, not good, not interesting, not... anything. It's very Taika Waititi, which in terms of TV I intensely dislike - it's unbearably smug and self-important and not nearly as funny as it thinks it is - but also very much Not My Thing. Basically, it's just a mess. But not in the fun way.
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 25, 2024 21:29:55 GMT -5
I had no interest in Time Bandits, so I had no idea that Lisa Kudrow and Charlyne Yi are in it, or that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement were behind and also in it (are we not doing phrasing! anymore?), and may have to check it out. If it helps any, it's not terribly good. Well, not after the first two episodes anyway, it's mostly quite dull. If you like the original film, there's none of the scrappy, can-do feeling to it that makes many of Gilliam's films an interesting proposition. And if you don't know the original film but want something fun and funny and exciting then it's not that either. Lisa Kudrow is utterly wasted in it (but still great) and the kid that plays Kevin is channelling serious nerd energy which, obviously, is also great and I love. The rest is just nothing. Not funny, not bad, not good, not interesting, not... anything. It's very Taika Waititi, which in terms of TV I intensely dislike - it's unbearably smug and self-important and not nearly as funny as it thinks it is - but also very much Not My Thing. Basically, it's just a mess. But not in the fun way. Thank you for your input, which I know I can trust. I thought I wouldn't like it from the get-go, but I'm glad to have that feeling validated - OG Time Bandits forever.
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Post by Celebith on Jul 25, 2024 22:38:50 GMT -5
I had no interest in Time Bandits, so I had no idea that Lisa Kudrow and Charlyne Yi are in it, or that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement were behind and also in it (are we not doing phrasing! anymore?), and may have to check it out. If it helps any, it's not terribly good. Well, not after the first two episodes anyway, it's mostly quite dull. If you like the original film, there's none of the scrappy, can-do feeling to it that makes many of Gilliam's films an interesting proposition. And if you don't know the original film but want something fun and funny and exciting then it's not that either. Lisa Kudrow is utterly wasted in it (but still great) and the kid that plays Kevin is channelling serious nerd energy which, obviously, is also great and I love. The rest is just nothing. Not funny, not bad, not good, not interesting, not... anything. It's very Taika Waititi, which in terms of TV I intensely dislike - it's unbearably smug and self-important and not nearly as funny as it thinks it is - but also very much Not My Thing. Basically, it's just a mess. But not in the fun way. Thanks! I saw the original once in theaters and don't remember much of it. Lisa Kudrow was the best part of Friends and is usually the best part of whatever else she's in. Charlyne Yi is always weird in the best ways. I'm ambivalent about Waititi - WWDITS is always on my watch list but never actually gets watched, other than season 1 of the show. Thor III was the best Thor, but that's faint praise if I've ever heard it. I don't think I've seen anything else he's done.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jul 25, 2024 22:57:05 GMT -5
I discovered that OG Law & Order is streaming on the “live” Sundance channel!
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