It might be too twee for me.
It is pretty twee, but IMO not much more than She-Ra (if that's an appropriate reference point for you).
The last one featured GZA as a member of a pack of astronomer-wolves.
And a Sagan fan to boot!
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
thanks ulysses, i didn't realize how much they changed
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
good on disney for correcting that jiji line i completely forgot about???? damn
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
This is kind of what I mean!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
lol yeah as I was writing that I thought "this probably sounds wack" but I enjoyed it as an odd surprise.
This is different from "too twee," but I don't usually try to convince people to like animation as I find its appeal works on a more instinctual/affective level than live action. I tried to get into Big Mouth after it did well on the cartoons poll--it is funny but the animation style is aggressively hideous to me and I couldn't stand it after a while.
― rob, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah the animation in Kipo isn't really my thing either. It's funny - the backgrounds / mattes / whatever they are look straight out of classic Japanese anime, but all the characters and action look like... indie comics?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
I often find myself totally out of step on this stuff. Like I can't stand Adventure Time.
I sorta see where you’re coming from, as I don’t think the character designs for most of the humans show off the quality of the animation. (Wolf and maybe Benson have good designs.) It's grown in me all the same.
Also the penultimate episode goes to a REAL dark place.
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
And I just realized that all of the central characters are people of color! Lots of diversity here.
― Siouxie Sioux and the Vanjies (Leee), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
second season of sex education is great - this show has so much heart and the characters are so well-drawn, i fuckin' love it
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah. Few episodes in and loving it. Shot just up the road from me so lots of added place recognition too
― groovypanda, Saturday, 25 January 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
I just started watching s1! It is great agreed
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
I'm not particularly fond of it but it's quite cute and the soundtrack is dece
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
GILLIAN ANDERSON
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 January 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
I watched the first 2 eps of S1 last night and am having trouble with suspension of disbelief.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 26 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
You mean the fact that literally everyone talks about, or has, sex all the time and only one person seems the least bit shy about it? I kind of see it as science fiction in a way, like, what if the world was like this
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 January 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
Pretty much. The idea that any teen having sex probs would talk to someone outside their clique about it doesn't fit with my known universe, and paying for that advice is even more NOPE. Give me high school science teachers cooking meth to pay for cancer treatment any day.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 26 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Giri/Haji: I'm enjoying this, as it's certainly not afraid to move the plot along, but I've reached a point where the characters are making what seen to me inexplicable decisions and it's a little hard to swallow.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
ok I'm walking back my premature knock on Cheer that it seems drama-free relative to Last Chance U
just got teased pre-credits by the revelation that Monica has a scary, inner "Annette"
v much digging this
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
It's definitely a fantasical utopia, for the houses alone (well, except for the trailer park I guess), but it's funny & sweet.
xp
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I liked Grace and Frankie in the beginning, but my god, the current season is like they pulled all the episode ideas out of the big hat of tired sitcom tropes. Mank.
― trishyb, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
i had to nope out of Grace & Frankietoo much like hanging out w my mum & her friends when theyve had too much wine
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
my gf (and ergo by extension me - our apartment is small) binged the last half of the first season and all of the second season of that show marcella yesterday and god, what a crazy show. started to find how grim and heightened everything was sort of unintentionally hilarious by the end of it, but that didn't stop it from stressing me out
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
I had to bail at the beginning of the second season (Marcella). I think I kind of started to hate it even though it started out fine.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
it's pretty ludicrous
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Monday, 27 January 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
everyone in the second season looks so uncanny valley too.
― Yerac, Monday, 27 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
I just watched E5 of Sex Education's first season and it is one of the best episodes of anything I've ever seen. So many stories interweaving, so much payoff. And so much NOT paid off that it's giving me a gnawing feeling in my stomach. There were horrific moments and heroic moments. There were moments that the characters will remember their entire lives. FUCK!
I don't know why I'm so late realising this but have they deliberately mashed up styles from the last half century? Or is this just the post-modern way people dress now??
Gillian Anderson - 1940sJackson - 1950sAimee (toothy girl) - 1970sOtis - 1980sEric & Maeve - 1990s
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
it's not just the clothes, the locations are often very late 70s / early 80s drab, and the set dressing of the school seems neither typically british but not quite american either
i think it looks fantastic tbh
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 09:44 (four years ago) link
eric has some incredible outfits in s2 btw, you've got a lot to look forward to
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
the locations are often very late 70s / early 80s drab
You need to spend more time in the Wye Valley.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
I had to google wye valley to make sure it was a real place. It’s beautiful.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
Nestled between the Because Hills, presumably
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
I watched the film Journey's End last night, about a small group of officers in the trenches in 1918. I had forgotten that it's a play from 1928. It seems to be a big influence on Blackadder Goes Forth. Obviously it's a lot of men manning about the place, but it was very good.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
The famous(ish) Rockfield Studios are in the Wye Valley xps
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
It amuses me that Sex Education went all the way to provide a new livery for buses but didn't do anything to tart up Brown's in Llandogo or even put up other signs.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
re: Sex Education, it's "good" I just can't watch any more teevee about teenagers I don't think, esp their sex lives
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Just finished Sex Ed: S2. Quality goods. Love how they've opened up the show, and how all the new characters are as well-drawn as the originals. Kind of wish there was full cut of the footage from Lily's musical from the finale out there.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 January 2020 07:00 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that anything that ran as part of Netflix's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like any show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
There are eight (8) seasons of an Ashton Kutcher Netflix series called The Ranch.
Has anyone ever watched it?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
I don't mean anyone on ILX, I mean anyone.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
Big hit amongst the red state folks from what I understand.
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
that's an explanation.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:19 (four years ago) link
I’m theoretically in Kutcher country and I’ve never even heard of it
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
it's like those network sitcoms like Last Man Standing that nobody watches but have been on for like 12 seasons
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
Last man standing gets good ratings
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
I’m pretty sure The Ranch does too. Just probably don’t associate with people who watch it. I work with a few uhhh, church going, conservative types and it’s like their favorite show.
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
For some reason on IMDB, they skip from S4 (last year) to S8 (this year), so there's actually just five seasons.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
...and over 5000 images!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
I watched the first season of The Ranch. It's a dumb sitcom with a laugh track, which isn't really my thing, but for a dumb sitcom with a laugh track I thought it wasn't bad. At the time, I didn't get the impression it was actually a conservative show, but it's definitely written by people who have spent a lot of time in red-state America and know it well. But I haven't seen it since Trump was elected, so I don't know how its politics come across now.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link
I just read a summary of Last Man Standing (i orig. thought you were talking about Last Comic Standing) and this show looks very...trash-like.
― Yerac, Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link