(which is how "skip credits" at the beginning of TV shows on Netflix works so well - someone is actually keying in timecodes of this stuff)
nah, I've seen that on Big Mouth
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
you've seen what on Big Mouth?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
"skip credits"
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
regardless of whether it's the usual credits or a bespoke one that ties in to themes or events of the episode
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Right. all I'm saying is that your assumption is correct - someone at Netflix is auditing all of that and adding metadata about when credits begin and end to every movie and tv episode.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
if a character is introduced in the opening credits and repeatedly speaks in them, then reappears through the post-credits part of the episode, imo it is pretty poor auditing to offer a button to skip the credits
if an animated show has drawn a 30-second sequence specifically for one episode, imo offering a "skip this sequence" button might as well be offered at any point in the episode as from 1:30 to 2:00
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
gotcha. yeah I've only ever seen it done when the credits are just literally the same thing every time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
xp but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
btw Bigmouth S3 is, imo, a significant step up, "Do The Thing" and the cell phone episode were great
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
ha ha :D
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
I love that show but Coach Steve is a truly disturbing individual lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
Amazon do the skip closing credits thing but in a much more infuriating way as it'll automatically start the next episode within about 3 seconds of the credits starting running.
I've also noticed that if you're watching two episodes in a row on Netflix, the next episode will start after the 'previously on' section but at least will usually play all the closing credits before switching. I think these features also vary from device to device and pretty sure there's an auto play option in your account settings that you can uncheck if you don't want it to do it
― groovypanda, Monday, 23 December 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
Yes the Netflix app on the amazon fire stick attached to my tv no longer gives me the option to watch closing credits. You can either watch trailers while the credits play in the left top corner or go back to browse main menu only.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
It does the same on the all4 app but the picture in picture credits box is even smaller. Incredibly frustrating. The shot playing under the closing credits to the last ep of Catastrophe were pretty crucial but you couldn’t see them.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
I started The Witcher. These things are always so weird that they shoehorn female nudity in like everyone is so hetero male gaze-y even in fantasyland.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
Like, that wizard is danish, don't tell me he wouldn't have a couple of young nubile men in his thought harem.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
The John Mulaney Sack Lunch Bunch is so good. And Gyllenhaal !lert! for certain people.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Season 2 of "You": this show is still bonkers and amazing. Joe is the dumbest serial killer on TV.
― Roz, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Sack Lunch Bunch is sooo weird, and aimed at ... I have no idea. But Jake deserves an Emmy.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
It's like, a kids show for people who don't have kids? Mulaney doesn't have kids?
I started watching the second season of You yesterday while rowing and I rowed 10k without even realizing it. It's just filled with great, bad decisions everywhere.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
I loved Sack Lunch Bunch, and also have no idea it's for. But I'm about Mulaney's age and have no kids, and found it weird and charming, so maybe me?
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
yeah, same. I don't have kids (slightly older than mulaney) and I thought it was great. I loved the chess and the NYC segments.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Trying “You” again but it makes my skin crawl like a Larry Clark movie.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
I should put in here that I am very, very terribly late in discovering Schitt's Creek. I didn't know what to expect but such terrible people made so lovable. Everyone is so good in it. I just finished season 4. It has been our thing to watch over breakfast.
― Yerac, Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Yah it’s a great comfort food show
― championship winning vibration (Spottie), Sunday, 29 December 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
The witcher needs its own thread
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
“Nailed It” with Jacques Torres is probably some of the funniest TV we’ve seen all year
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
Trying “You” again but it makes my skin crawl like a Larry Clark movie. I totally get why people would be skeeved out by "You" and don't blame anyone for not watching it - Joe's behaviour is very stalker-y and gross, and his narration doesn't allow you to escape from being inside his head.
The appeal for me is the way it sends up toxic rom com and "Nice Guy" tropes, the mentality of men who refuse to see women as real people instead of living fantasy dolls. Season 2 goes a little further - exploring what happens when law enforcement/society fails victims of sexual violence, the links between trauma and (self)abusive behaviour, and deconstructing the idea of the perfect girl.
it's a deeply feminist show as seen through the eyes of a male serial killer of women, with all the implausible wtf plot twists and ridiculous dialogue of a Lifetime melodrama. it's gross yeah, but also totally insane and smart and great and Badgley is perfectly cast.
it's also incredibly funny - i enjoyed "the seven totems of LA" bit from this season. and the LSD episode.
― Roz, Monday, 30 December 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
The Two Popes is excellent
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
It's almost fascinating in a way how boring The Circle is - like there's no way a show where people sit by themselves and just text each other for an hour this would pass muster at one of the big four networks so this show is basically a result of Netflix's "green light everything, cancel after" strategy
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
It's based on a UK show. And it's good
― Number None, Friday, 3 January 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
Although I absolutely accept that it seems impossibly tedious at first blush (and I haven't seen the American one)
― Number None, Friday, 3 January 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
i’m on episode three of the second season of you and it’s fuckin great ridiculous trash! again!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 4 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
I know I said I couldn’t bring myself to watch it bc of the eyerolly name but yeah schitt’s creek is a delight
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
it really is
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, the name is a terrible name for a show that good. And how is Eugene Levy all of a sudden hitting his peak attractiveness?
― Yerac, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
I actually just finished season 5 last night. It's such a calming show to watch.
― Yerac, Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
Jews age like fine wine
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:42 (four years ago) link
okay but explain Ted Danson
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
OMG Six Underground is ludicrous trash but the action set pieces (of which there are a TON) are amazing. Pure Michael Bay distillate.
― DJI, Sunday, 5 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
Carole and Tuesday is back but I gave up on it when it turns out Pitchfork is still around.
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
Don’t @ me but Dracula is pretty good. I watched ep1 last night & enjoyed it immensely
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
some talk in RIP Dracula , mostly by ppl who didn't realise the revive was about the show
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
I may need someone to explain Ted Danson to me. xpost.
― Yerac, Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
also I still really enjoy Anne with an E. I love the opening a lot.
It's all downhill from ep 1 xpost
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
thx eeyore
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
Six Underground's action is amazing coherent for late period Michael Bay
high concept garbage plot, of course
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Ryan Reynolds seems to only ever play Ryan Reynolds, in much the same way Tom Cruise only ever plays Tom Cruise.
― just1n3, Monday, 6 January 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link