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xp good description imo

the Plot Against America is v v good

waiting to hear if it improves on the book's ending

quibi doesn’t have tv casting support yet. it also doesn’t let you take screenshots.

Peacock launches today, goes wide in July
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/peacock-streaming-lineup-free-tv-shows-movies-1234580315/

i could absolutely not get into that book at the time, maybe I will try the series.

Tales from the Loop is pretty good btw, in a twilight zone, black mirror lite sort of way. It's kind of nice to not have something relentlessly grim and dark.

I love Cate Blancett dearly, but I gotta say, not terribly eager to watch this new Hulu series where she plays Phyllis Schlafly. the woman was a fucking ghoul, plain and simple, case closed.

ditto

otm

me either but I hear it's very good

her rictus grin is very on point, i will try it.

not a fair comparison but i was also leery of watching Vice because I did not want to see Dick Cheney humanized in any way. but i don't know if it does that or not

Losing my fucking MIND at this Quibi show where actual Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman obsessed with her golden arm pic.twitter.com/rSfqCv75SG

— Zach Raffio (@zachraffio) April 15, 2020

incredible.

Watched the first ep of “Run” on HBO
v watchable so far & ridiculously horny.
Phoebe Waller Bridge is exec producer & guest stars in later ep.
Domnhall Gleeson is great too, but he is great in pretty much everything even if it’s garbage (cf: About Time)

Yeah that was enjoyable.

Devs finale was excellent. LIke the Leftovers, and Twin Peaks: the Return, I can't even believe someone greenlit this for television and paid for it, it's so fucking crazy.

Devs was (no season 2, right?) a great show, but...

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I just don't buy that you could watch your future self and then just sleepwalk through what you watched perfectly when the time came. I don't even think I could re-create what I saw in the machine even if I was TRYING to make it happen. All very trippy to think about though.

Combining the ideas of devs and Wolfram's latest messianic proclamations with some stay-at-home levels of consumption has been fun.

on quibi i wrote this almost a year ago and i’m interested to see if my prognostication was stoopid or smart

this profile of Meg Whitman (eBay, Hewlett Packard) is off the back of launching the start-up Quibi – whose value proposition is 'high quality snackable video', aiming to become 'the Netflix of the mobile generation'.

She's co-chairman with entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenburg. He provides the entertainment contacts, she's responsible for getting the finance, producing a high-profile investment roster of 21st Century Fox, Viacom, Alibaba, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.

In some respects the logic is sound: she points out people are spending 4-5 hours a day on their phones, but average session length is 6.5 minutes. Twitter and youtube are filling that space.

I'm not convinced - people pay for high quality when there is an investment of their time involved. here it's filling the cracks. text-based apps like twitter are perfect to pick up and put down, music videos on youtube can get a quick rewatch, but you don't have to stick to the end. Part of the point is that you don't know when your time poor snack break might need to suddenly end.

Who else has paid $3.33 for the Night Flight app and what have you watched so far? It has a LOT of weird stuff, like having the cool video store inside your house + old eps of NF may be the most soothing thing on earth next to time lapse photography of plants or Planet Earth.

wow I didn't know that existed, just checked out the website. I'll absolutely sign up for that later today. Decent price and shitloads of stuff I'd watch while stoned.

Did not know about Night Flight app! I have like twenty burned DVDs of old Night Flight material that I incidentally started digging into the other day so this news is up my alley.

that fucking Quibi golden arm show

xp to stuff you just don't care about

the start-up Quibi – whose value proposition is 'high quality snackable video', aiming to become 'the Netflix of the mobile generation'.

i’ve just watched a quibi sitcom about dan harmon’s sex doll, can we start 2020 again please

... a fictional sitcom starring Dan Harmon, or a sitcom about the actual mannequin leg that he used to fuck?

Was said mannequin leg gold?

a fictional sitcom about a fictional dan harmon (whose name is dan harmon) and the sex doll he used to fuck, which comes to life and provides handy creative writing tips

did the IRL Dan Harmon write this?

(or a writer who used to work under him?)

his partner wrote it, it’s all quite self aware

and honestly, i can’t really fault this for being an original idea, and based on what i’ve seen so far it doesn’t not work

how do we know the sex doll didn't write it

technically the sex doll is also “his partner” so

perhaps that’s how they get around his sex doll not having an equity card

I’m enjoying ‘For all Mankind’ on AppleTV+, which is free right now.

I started watching Messiah on Netflix last night and really like it,then discovered it was cancelled likely due to cost and necessity for overseas shoots which they didn’t want to commit to given the situation. I hope it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.

just finished up McMillions, was pretty entertaining though it definitely didn't need to be 6 hours. in particular I couldn't find myself caring much about the 'winners' who were otherwise just regular people. also disappointing: the reveal of how he stole the tickets (no way could they not figure that out until the trial), the identity of the informant, the fact that neither of the main figures appeared - it was kind of a shock to find out that the 'mastermind' behind it was still actually alive. I liked the main detective guy though, he was like a real life Brooklyn Nine Nine character

That show was WAY too long

I’ve been enjoying Night Flight app a lot, so much non-inflammatory content to enjoy.

goddamnit, Messiah does end on a cliffhanger, kind of.

I watched Le Choc du Futur, one of this year's SXSW films, on Amazon Prime. It's about a young woman in 1978 Paris with an apartment full of analog synths, trying to create the next new thing. Pretty much Moodles fanfic.

Know what is on amazon prime and is super duper topical? SOMEONE I TOUCHED, starring Cloris Leachman. It's about a syphilis outbreak and the contact tracer who has to tell people "guess what, you've been exposed"

TV movie! Recommended if you just can't get enough contagion irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjjK61JXZM

that video clip is great!

The whole movie is enjoyable — would recommend for 1975 TV movie contagion entertainment!

Theme song is sung by Cloris Leachman herself

The Normal People adaptation is good

yeah started it last night and was dubious with the first episode but it gets it's stride rather quickly. the one thing that throws it off slightly, or at least makes me rethink things about the book, is that Daisy Edgar-Jones is hardly unattractive, or awful, or gross, which was really how I'd thought she was supposed to be before she went to University. So the discomfort he has with being with her seems really weird if you've only seen the series. But both of them are very good. As it is television, there are bits of it that are far more sentimental than how I took the book, where the love scenes can be graphic, but it's a bit brutal and almost clinical.

yeah, her casting does strain credibility for sure. And the accent slips now and again

the guy who plays Connell is brilliant though. Only his second screen role or something

yeah, I actually think they're both extraordinary and now I am in love with Daisy Edgar Jones forever so you know I'm not complaining.