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wow, i didn't know that existed! thanks for the heads up.

Me neither, that's awesome! Saw a couple of great shows from Cafe Tacuba and Aterciopelados, though my fave was always Julietta Venegas.

For US thread reference: https://www.netflix.com/title/81006953

Probably one for the Netflix thread

#onethread

Which one of you knuckleheads recommended "Ted Lasso"? Because we love it!

it's great!

could have been designed for COVID viewing really

just finished Ted Lasso, about as charming as could be

I have Apple TV for a couple more weeks - anything else that's required viewing (watched the Beastie Boys thing)

We're a couple episodes into Patriot (thanks again to you knuckleheads). It's good! If anyone had ever thought to market it as 'Todd Margaret joins the CIA' I would've been on top of it much sooner.

Patriot is absolutely fantastic

Cool Rick 4 Life

that show really got to me
maybe the best depiction of depression ever

hey so Doom Patrol is 100% lit

and what the government takes from people, their humanity

xpost I'm pretty much completely burnt out on most DC tv shows at this point but yes, Doom Patrol is pretty great. Pleasantly surprising how much of Morrison's run they repurposed for the show (and frustratingly weird that they chose to credit the original DP creators but not afaict the dude who created most of the characters and scenarios depicted onscreen).

Drake and Premiani have been dead for years / decades, Morrison is not only alive but actively producing TV in Hollywood, and potentially able to have a fancy agent negosh real $ on top of Levitzbucks. Safer to pretend he doesn't exist.

last couple years of Twitter had made me want to punch comic books in the face

I stopped reading comic books altogether a few years ago and it was honestly liberating; I don't know when I transitioned from "I enjoy these stories" to "I hate everything about this but it's part of my identity now" but once I realized that that had happened, it was great to stop spending that money and just enjoy the movies and tv shows based on comic book characters like a normie

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First season of The Patriot was as good as anything I've ever seen on television, the quality really shocked me. On top of everything else it does right, I find the metaphor of abusive father/broken son to amoral government/patriot to be a truly original tv construct. Does season 2 hold up?

I liked the first ep of Doom Patrol but got distracted; maybe i should go back?

s2 of patriot is a slight step down but still worth watching if you enjoyed s1

yeah you can kind of see how the momentum couldn't maintain over a third season...there are some plot convulutions that are are harder to swallow but for me it didn't diminish my enjoyment

I would like to see a reboot with the same cast and a plot/circumstance reset

i wasn't sure how it could maintain the S1 level of quality tbh, so much hinged on the newness of the way it presented ideas and scenarios! Will have a go at it soon. Definitely reenergized to try Perpetual Grace Ltd now.

I would like to see a reboot with the same cast and a plot/circumstance reset

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lol, in keeping with my Todd Margaret comparison upthread.

Something new/old that i got into this week is NHK Japan's DEEP OCEAN from 2015, which is four episodes of super alien deep sea ichthyology narrated by David Attenborough that will leave you in constant amazement at the weirdness of the natural plan. Get to know the jellynose fish! The Mariana snailfish! The bioluminescent barbeled dragonfish!

The best part: Joe Hisaishi, the music director responsible for all the Ghibli/Miyazaki films did the score for the whole series and it is FUCKING MAGICAL. I can see rewatching this for sleepytimes in perpetuity.

It was recently ported over to HBO Max in the US, though the fourth episode (set in the Antarctic) is oddly AWOL. You should try it!

also on apple tv!

this Ted Lasso show is adorable. I was missing Sudeikis after the underrated Son of Zorn

it's kind of a pity Ted Lasso isn't a big NBC show or on Netflix, feels like it could have that Office/Parks and Rec mass appeal

it ultimately may! neither of those were huge hits on first release iirc and parks and rec in particular struggled through its whole run to keep an audience.

oh I just mean I don't think Apple TV quite has the juice to make something that mainstream

Yeah, Ted Lasso sounds like something I would love, but I’m not paying for Apple TV for one show.

protip if you have bought an iPhone/iPad/Mac recently, they come with a free year of apple TV+

Unfortunately it’s been over a year since we bought any new Mac product, but that’s good to know.

Yeah, that's the only reason we have it. My daughter watched a couple of episodes with us and she noted the Parks and Recs vibe. Ted's positive vibe is very Leslie Knope.

Recommend everyone find some friends/family to split the cost of Apple One. Up to six people!

Alice in Borderland is extremely stressful

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anyone watch the Wilds on Amazon? most of the acting is a bit ropey and it's generally kind of dumb but for some reason I watched it. It's alright.

just grimdark aesthetics and Saw-grade torture porn.

ew no thank you for telling me this, I put it on my list because I like empty-world stuff but that does not sound like my bag

many xps to matt re ted lasso, i guess my thinking is that one of two things are likely to happen: apple eventually finds a mad men style show in the next three or so years that breaks through and people retroactively discover lasso alongside it or apple decides to get out of the content game in 2025 and licenses their program to a third party and it takes off then. it's high quality stuff with a great cast and they have at least three confirmed seasons; i can't help but think it's gonna find an audience sooner or later. of course that's what i thought about brockmire too. At least ILX finally discovered it!

i've watched about half of ted lasso and i think it's pleasant and amusing but i don't really get why every person i follow on twitter is losing their minds over it. i guess just because it's a "nice" show so it is an antidote to the shittiness of the real world? like great british bake-off

ted lasso is fine. it's no brockmire lol

xpost NA basically, yeah.....it's charming and the cast is fun to hang out and I have trouble with dark tv

I think that's pretty valuable now

though I do push back a bit because if it were easy to be charming a lot more shows would be

I don't necessarily think it's the best written comedy of all time

Wow, I fucking hated Brockmire, or at least the season or 2 I watched.

Ted Lasso is so low-key that it's easy to miss some absolutely stellar jokes that sneak in there. I just watched the episode about the haunted treatment room, and after they tell the story of the 400 dead soldiers you can hear one of the players quietly mutter "how can we possibly fight that many ghosts?" That's some funny shit. Anyway, I don't usually like corny, and I don't usually laugh that much at comedies, but I'm getting at least as many good chuckles per episode of Lasso as I do with any great TV comedies, and great TV comedies are imo few and far between. Just really good subtle set up and delivery. And yeah, it's a nice respite from grimdark, but there's a lot of that shit. I was going to dive into "The Patriot" more or less blind, but then I hear some of you talking about its themes of abuse and depression and ... I've had enough of that in comedies alone.

i get all that. my wife is like that too, she doesn't want to watch anything that's upsetting or dark at all. i don't dislike the show, i got some laughs out of what i watched. i think the two woman leads are particularly good. i was mostly surprised by the reaction and how it seemed like everyone at once was talking about the show.

honestly I wonder if it's also ppl like myself who are sponging off someone else's free year of Apple TV which is expiring soon and decided I should check it out before it's too late

We've had our free year of Apple for months and I only bothered to watch anything on it recently. Saw the meh Springsteen doc and then started Ted Lasso, based on this thread and other recommendations. Literally no idea what else is on there, and if it wasn't free there is no way I would pay for it. (In fact, I already had the Springsteen doc downloaded and sitting around before our free trial.)

Me, I have hundreds of movies and TV shows I could be watching, but movies and TV shows I'd want to watch with the whole family, or some percentage of the family, are few and far between, so when one comes up (let alone a good sitcom, which are themselves few and far between) I generally prioritize. And imo there's more to Ted Lasso than being merely "feel good" (though it is). My wife and I struggled through season 1 of "Schitt's Creek," and *everyone* loves that, not least for being feel good. One of my kids blazed through the whole season in like a week and keeps wondering why we gave up or, in TV terms, have given it an extended hiatus.

yeah, i tried three episodes of Schitt and opted out. i think i get why it got everyone's attention but it's not my thing.

forks, just push through to the second season. You will be glad you did. I very reluctantly half-watched when my gf started it and was underwhelmed at first but it got its hooks in and I am now a die hard superfan. The beginning of the series does not prepare you for the hard lols and emotional highs to come.