lol I haven't thought of the Peach Pit in decades
― sleeve, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
yeah it's really weird, because I know the cast has had big careers after but I just wasn't into them at all. It was fine. I went to hs in virginia in the 90s.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
oh yeah +1 for atypical. I really enjoyed it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
I think the daughter on atypical is playing Ted's? daughter in the new bill and ted movie.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Oh, shit, Atypical is the one about the teen with autism? I think we watched maaaaaybe the first episode of that a year ago and absolutely hated it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
No doubt these shows are all being made by people who were teens 20 years ago and whose only exposure to teenagers are the Hollywood kids they cast.
Chuck Forsman doesn't cast the English TV shows based on his American books.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about; this show is American, I thought. I'm not familiar with the comic book author, but looked him up, and indeed, he was a teen ... 20 years ago. fwiw.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
as a family we're all enjoying Tiger King
― akm, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about; this show is American, I thought.
The previous Forsman adaptation was made for an English TV channel, in England, starring English actors in their 20s, by the same English producer / director of I Am Not Okay With This. His short films prior to End Of The Fucking World were made in England. Casting the adaptation of I Am Not Okay With This would probably have been the first time in his life he was around "Hollywood teenagers."
Forsman was a teen 20 years ago, and the teens in various of his works do seem to be inspired by his own experiences, but both he and his partner have worked as lecturers and tutors for college-aged kids in the last decade.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Interesting. Anyway, I was talking about this new show, which I have heard from multiple places is a show that shows teens being teens. And I commented how teens being teens in these shows often reflects literally none of the teens I know or live with, nor do they reflect what studies repeatedly show contemporary teens are or are not doing, and I hypothesized it's because all the creators were basing their stories on their teenage years 20 years earlier. I predict in 20 years someone will make a show about teenage boys hanging out in their rooms and playing online games.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Also this is a fictional story (about teenagers with psychic powers). Movies that have relatable adults engaging in identifiable behaviour don’t necessarily show them flossing and making coffee and checking their facebook wall multiple times per day of story time, even if that’s a major part of how your suburban neighbours’ lives play out as you observe them.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
this is fiction? is that why nobody poops?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
ffs, this whole thread needs to go into quarantine now.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
Yerac, Tan France is on Celebrity Bake Off. I am not watching it!
― current (jed_), Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
is he baking or a judge? I just want to judge things in life as a career.
― Yerac, Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
He's baking.
― current (jed_), Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
Crip Camp is up!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
I know it's been mentioned but seriously holy shit at Tiger King.
Also this show coming out in the middle of a pandemic is just... idk a giant self-own for humanity? There's something ironic about watching horrible people do horrible things to caged animals while being caged up ourselves.
― Roz, Friday, 27 March 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
Feel Good is good (on Channel 4 in the UK) and I'm astonished how great Mae Martin is as an actual actor but there's something annoying me about it that I can't quite place. Maybe it's that this new love of hers, for whom she's turning her whole life upside down, is just pretty insipid and has nothing to offer (apart from validation of Mae's desperate, grasping insecurity). To be fair this is the same thing that I don't like about Shrill. So maybe it's me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 March 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
Was this the thread where we were talking about fuckinghell timeloop films? Cus Viavarium is really good, really stressfull, maybe relevant? ok sicpedant not literally timeloop, but fucking hell, I am annoyed by nonexistent children screaming right now, I cannae imagine folk with actual children right now
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Basically imma go out dig in the garden right now...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
Like maybe this would be better in some gaming thread or or whatever, but the reason I never completed Yoshi's Island was that constant WAAAAAH! WAAAAH! whenever you lost the baby, and I donno this film has me triggered
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
do you guys know any good netflix documentaries / docu-series ? haven't seen many but my favorites so far were probably untold history of the US and inside the mossad
― Bstep, Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
ok sicpedant not literally timeloop,
I endorse any timecockery in film and would enjoy a thread dedicated to them
(this movie does not appear to be on DVD or Netflix streaming, and to still be ~in theory~ working through the festival circuit, RIP)
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, 28 March 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
Me too. There was a bit of chat hereNetflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread
― kinder, Saturday, 28 March 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
Vivarium is on Amazon to rent, apparently, also it stars Imogene Poots, who is a person whose name I refuse to believe is real, like Piper Peraboo and Peekaboo Street.
― akm, Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
Along w Scoot McNairy & Skeet Ulrich: all names that make me giggle & seem made up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
Non Zappa division, presumably.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
if they were both around in the '90s, we definitely would have had seen their buddy-cop films advertised with big
SCOOTSKEET
posters in Video Ezy
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
I knew the new season of Ozark would be dark, and they did take it there
― mh, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Not an REO Speedwagon fan then?
― groovypanda, Monday, 30 March 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
lol
― mh, Monday, 30 March 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
yeah finished last night, fuuuuuck
― akm, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
fyi discussion over here: Ozark
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
OHHH, something I was surprised and excited to discover buried in the dusty subbasement of Netflix: what appears to be the complete contents of Kino Lorber's Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers and Pioneers of African American Cinema box sets. They're listed as television shows, iirc, with the individual films indexed as episodes.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
if you haven't seen The Great Hack, go watch it immediately. mind blowing 🤯
― Bstep, Sunday, 5 April 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo
― Bstep, Monday, 6 April 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the tip!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 6 April 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
I watched the first season of Freud this past week. It was entertaining, good actors, great sets, a healthy dose of creepy occult shit, A+ facial hair. On the other hand, the premise and plot were fairly ridiculous. Essentially a creepy mystery show set in a 19th century Vienna, in which hypnosis is used like a Marvel superpower. If you are looking for an informative show about the life of Freud, this ain't it. If you want some lurid kicks, and don't care much about realism, this may be for you.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 6 April 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
Lurid kicks, I'm on it.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
this seems like 100% my jamtheres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise & so i would definitely be coming into this almost ready to shed what i know of Freud & go forward in life accepting this fictional Freud insteadi will def watchplus that actor is so handsome my god
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:08 (four years ago) link
theres these books i love about Arthur Conan Doyle & Oscar Wilde solving murders together & it holds ZERO real-life water but is a great time imaginary-wise
These sound fun - what books are these?
― Roz, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:34 (four years ago) link
Interpretation of Murder has Freud as a detective.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
By Jed Rubenfeld
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
those ACD and OW books are by gyles brandreth. run away!
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
is it just me or is the Netflix 'family films' selection - with the extremely honourable exception of the Ghibli films - total fuckin trash?
this is like....... a massive need for the world rn
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
The ones I read were by Vaughn Entwistle- The Revenant of Thraxton Hall- The Dead AssassinThey’re really good!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
(xposts to Roz)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Thanks VG! Some fun AU mystery fanfic is probably just what I need in these quarantine times.
― Roz, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link