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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.

the supporting garbage men are also extremely well cast - the schoolmates, Marianne's brother, the college boyfriends. I've met all those types

I'm six episodes in and I feel like they cut a lot of the brother stuff out. maybe more happened near the second half of the book? I now can't recall.

Ok, finished. I found the very ending seemed much more ambiguous than the book, which was a little ambiguous but I certainly came away from it with a reasonable feeling about what was going to happen. Maybe it was just me.

I certainly hope they don't try to make a second season of this though.

I doubt it, but Lenny Abrahamson and Alice Birch are also adapting Conversations with Friends for the BBC

that'll be interesting. I quite like both of these novels but Normal People has a leg up on having two characters I actually liked and cared about despite them making frustrating and stupid decisions over and over and over. Conversations had two main characters who I thought were deeply unlikeable. It's still a great book.

We watched the odd Parks and Rec reunion/benefit show, which was better than it had any right to be, while still being totally contrived and goofy. So many great people on that show, and almost all of them showed up.

On Hulu/Peacock

Upload on Amazon is pretty good. Interesting that Greg Daniels and Michael Shur went on from Parks and Rec to both make shows about the afterlife.

Opposing viewpoint after two episodes: Upload is not good. Actors are not great (plus everybody is too pretty/character is too shitty), writing is by the numbers and draw everything out unnecessarily, the larger MYSTERY isn't interesting me in the slightest and the constant product placement undercuts the cynical themes in a really cynical way.

Daniels didn't really work on Parks & Rec after the pilot afaik, so it looks more like him specifically chasing his decade-ago collaborator's more recent success

Opposing viewpoint after two episodes: Upload is not good.

yeah this. i binged three and lost interest. what’s great about the show (the concept, the future vision, the dramatic elements) is so undermined by a complete lack of charisma that it feels more like a tech showcase than a fully developed series.

nathan might as well be a robot. i couldn’t give two shits what happens to him. nora’s drawn to nathan because the story needs her to be. nathan’s girlfriend is so superficially villainous that i struggle to see her as anything more than a plot device. and how is this show set only 13 years in the future?

i’ll watch it to the end because there’s enough here to enjoy, but i will definitely keep drifting off, and i really doubt i’ll care what happens to whom.

Yeah - the same. It's not great - but I'll finish it. The episodes are short, and there's just enough mileage in the concept to keep it going.