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I'm 3 episodes into WARRIOR NUN and I wish it had more action, but nothing about it has been a dealbreaker (though some of the stuff about the Crusades is problematic).

did they change the name because Netflix execs thought it sounded like areola and were afraid the whole show would get me too'd

I was unaware it was based on a manga called Warrior Nun Areala, but I feel like names in the title is more of a manga thing?

it's an American comic fwiw (by a Taiwan-born manga fan), but I'm pretty sure that I've seen other American comics with names in the title. can't be sure though

The construction of putting a description before the name (“Battle Angel Alita” versus “Alita: Battle Angel” is what I was thinking of

Son Of Thunder, Arak

Floor is Lava is just the kind of dumb game show brain requires. I’m already awaiting the oral history of how that show got made 5 years from now.

Old Guard - not bad, some of the fights were a little over-choreographed

Wish this was the ‘90s and it was a syndicated show about the characters through history, though. Immortal Xena

the comic has more of the through-history stuff aiui

I'm sure they intend to get to it, and I hope they get the chance. I really enjoyed it.

Warrior Nun is finally shaping up -- took about 7 episodes but I'm digging it now.

OMG that Charlize Theron immortals thing was some trash.

it was pretty bad! so dour!

i really enjoyed it! shrug

halfway through Season 2 of The Politician and I just now found out this is the same person behind Nip/Tuck, makes so much more sense now

the show is bonkers but pretty entertaining. Bette Midler is really great in it

I appreciated that The Old Guard zipped right along, it didn't feel like a 2 hour movie

I really enjoyed the Spanish movie “the platform.” Kind of like one of the cube movies if it were a bit over obvious parable about distribution of wealth.

I liked that one too. For those who thought parable in Snowpiercer was way too opaque.

The Platform was good violent fun and didn't take its ridiculous concept too seriously

anyone with MUBI should check out Bertrand Bonello's latest Zombi Child. At least I think it's on there, I got it from a torrent. Not as good as Nocturama but still an excellent mix of of horror and not very subtle Empire allegory set in a fraternity group in a posh French girls school. Probably selling it a bit short there, but i'm tired!

it has recurring flashbacks to a voodoo zombi slave plot in the Haiti of 1962 and the granddaughter to that character in a modern Paris and maybe isn't as good as his last movie, but beats the hell of most crap out there right now!

re The Old Guard

“a first edition Don Quixote!” lmao

First editions are always hilarious in US shows/films. Culminating in Johnny Depp's antiquarian book dealer in The Ninth Gate, who smoked and drank red wine while flicking through his piles of extremely valuable old books.

ok finished The Politician, gotta say that is a pretty lazy ending, must not have thought it was getting picked up for Season 3

lol did Charlize Theron not bother learning French in the last few hundred years??

Just popping on to reiterate how totally shit The Old Guard is.

Complete dearth of imagination re concept, deathly dull characters, zero stakes, pathetically non-threatening villain who actually was kind of in the right, no better than serviceable action scenes.

I don't think most of us are on board with torturing people for as long as it takes to mine their genetic code tbh

If the subject's already been alive for a couple of millennia and it's for the good of society I'll give it a 'maybe'?

It was for the good of the pharma CEO's profits, even if you start getting on board with utilitarianism.

The villain was Elizabeth Holmes mashed up with Elon Musk

Yes, I'm being flippant. But the right thing for them to do would be to cooperate with scientists and benevolent governments to discover the secret of immortality rather than going on random killing sprees.

i wound up really disliking the first season of the Politician (for the same reason I get annoyed by about half of Ryan Murphy's shows, because he has like one good idea and then abandons it five episodes in and does something dumb), is the second one better? the last episode of season 1 made it look like it would be.

Has The Midnight Gospel been discussed here? Because, fucking hell! (in a good way)

yes at length in one of these many streaming threads

i noticed the "first edition don quixote" had faux gilded edges, very common for 17th century publishers

midnight gospel discussion:

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Thanks sic. I agree with some of the earlier posters that the interviews themselves can be kind of cringe, but I find it easy to let them drift by the background and enjoy the wonderful animation. Also it's possible that thre is a comment being made on the narcissism of a particular kind of new agey spiritualism, disappearing up one's anus while the world ends, but maybe I'm projecting.

warrior nun is kind of amazing in a super-trash kind of way. there’s a real made-for-TV basic-bitch flatness underlying it that i both have an affection for but which also puts me to sleep. which it shares with so much of the filler on netflix. have you guys ever typed “doctor” into netflix search, and seen the number of south korean surgeon dramas? they’ll be like, 1.5 hours per episode, 16 episodes in a season. sometimes i think netflix must just tender ideas against a brief and then just commission them all.

like surely warrior nun was borne of roughly the same set of tickboxes that Old Guard was.

cursed also features a supernatural quasi-immortal woman fight for survival but it was unwatchable to me. i never got around to see what peter mullan had to do with anything.

Enjoyed Warrior Nun but was left with the feeling it could have been so much better (which I know you could level at most netflix shows but this one felt like it wouldn't have taken much tweaking).

Was certainly more fun than The Old Guard

I'm several years late on this but I just got into Bates Motel and I'm very much enjoying it, particularly the fact that it, so far at least, uses Psycho only as a general template and it's not slavish in it's prequel-ness, and none of the protagonists are 'good' or 'bad'

although it certainly pulls at credibility all the time, like when Sherif Eyeliner from Lost lets them all go after they explain why they killed a COP; my wife was like "that's some white privilege right there"

Sherrif, that is. Not Omar Sherif.

I think I watched the whole thing and it is a ridiculous character drama that’s anchored by good actors

Hollywood starts out kinda fun, and then gets progressively more unbearable as it goes on. By the time racism, homophobia, sexism and Harvey Weinstein are all solved at the 1948 Oscars, I was ready to throw a brick through my TV.

sounds skippable

it’s good and infuriating in equal measure

Excited for/dreading "Immigration Nation."

I really liked the first two seasons of The Sinner but this third season is so bad, so very very bad.

― Roz, Thursday, 2 July 2020 17:25 (one month ago)

Yes, shockingly bad! I was mainly hatewatching for the second half of the season. Particularly reprehensible to present the prettyboy sociopath's banal sixth form nihilism as worthy of anything but instant dismissal. Really disappointing.

watched 2 eps of that and was done