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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.

i also just caught the first few, and then bits and pieces of Schitt's Creek. It doesn't seem to have started out planning on being the World's Sweetest Show.

I think Mythic Quest is super funny but ymmv.

i will go back to schitt someday

TMI IMO

also tried Schitt's Creek, and while a fan of all the Chris Guest movies and their players this show is just too much effortful quirk for me

then again I'm prolly just a crank cuz I watched the first two episodes of Ted Lasso and have no idea what the fuss is about...it just seems....bad?

Schitt's has at least three indelible emotionally-affecting moments (Patrick singing 'You're Simply the Best' to David, Stevie's Cabaret performance, and Ted and Alexa's last evening together) that I'd rank among the greatest in television history.

I had to push a bit at first but once Schitt got moving it was really satisfying

Just finished Dark, and though the ending was dopey, it was all time well spent. Expanse & Avatar TNA next I reckon

Just finished Dark, and though the ending was dopey, it was all time well spent.

There could be a few different series called Dark, but I'm guessing this was for the Netflix thread.

Avatar TNA

tmi

Lol

I see there is a dark thread too!

they're all dark threads these days

more like dork threads

Finally finished season 2 of The Boys. I thought it was excellent, really smart/shocking in equal measure, and anchored by some great performances. Antony Starr in particular.

I never saw Fringe past the first season but it’s free w/ commercials via Amazon/IMDB

Fringe always feel frustratingly short of great, but I enjoyed it.

ugh, “fell”

I should take another opp since we are talking about Red Oaks on Prime, wonderful feel good show, great performances by Paul Reider, Richard Kind and Jennifer Grey

the set up is basically an 80s movie about a kid working at a country club but the execution and characters are great

er Reiser

Second the recommendation for Red Oaks. The pilot episode plays a bit more raunchy 80s movie than the rest of the show ... worth getting past that one.

it's definitely a show that transcends a pretty derivative premise (feels similar to Ted Lasso which is basically the movie Major League)

Richard Kind is a treasure

I like how most of the characters start as pretty stock 80s movie types then they gradually subvert that and you get a deeper view of them

should also say some episodes are directed by the master herself Amy Heckerling and, surprisingly, Hal Hartley

You'd think with that combination of people on both sides of the camera this would have more conversation around it but this is literally the first time I've heard of this show.

yeah Soderburgh is an exec producer too! I feel like Prime stuff falls through the cracks sometimes

not a big name but Ennis Esmer as the club tennis pro Nash is a real breakout performance

I started that last year and it was cute but I couldn't get into it. Is it still being made? I felt like it was several years old

it ended, though thankfully it seemed planned or at least they were given notice that it would be the last season

David Gordon Green and Gregg Araki also directors on Red Oaks.

And that "Executive Producer" isn't just vanity titling: he actively worked on developing the show, which is co-created and -written by a dude who was his first AD for a decade, and has been producer on nearly everything Soderbergh's done since 2002 (plus he directed Magic Mike XXL while Sodes stayed DOP and editor).

Wow, literally never heard of Red Oaks. Scans a little like Caddyshack, the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akfokV3wSHA

discovery+ original programming:
Home Town: Ben’s Workshop
90 Day Fiancé Universe
American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda
Bobby and Giada in Italy
Six Degrees with Mike Rowe

this is v old man yells at clouds but

i am so fucked off about Comedians on couches househunters only being on stupid discovery+

season 1 was on normo discovery & it was v fun
and i was looking forward to more lols but noooooooooo

i hate this world, this “technological” “age”

streaming sucks

streaming sucks

let's all razz these streaming schmucks

I've made a special Lockdown Cinema for my laptop to replicate the big screen experience pic.twitter.com/LBlLwbbwCg

— Tom Kingsley (@kingsley_tom) January 5, 2021

Needs more tiny people texting during the movie imo

I assume it smells like old popcorn butter, various intense perfumes and body sprays, and the guy holding open the emergency exit so that he can smoke with one foot in the theatre and one foot out, though.

Watched most of the first season HH: Comedians on Couches, and thought the roasting was fairly gentle for the content. Was expecting more skewering of the slackline and cat tube husbands. The regular ep editing is fun, though, when it catches a spouse's eye rolling (the birdhouse wife smirking in the back seat) or the less and less subtle hints (the wife re: her sporty husband's bike/soccer gear). Most of these eps, I'm wondering what the couples see in each other, when the marriage expiration date is, while being impressed by the real estate agent's professional reserve.

As more content goes to streaming and other channels (TCM, for one) become pay options, makes cutting the Comcast cord easier. ALso, El Rey folding this year was a bummer. I'll miss El Rey Nation and the Director's Chair.

Ah, dang. Hadn't heard about that. A shame because I liked them, but it feels that sort of third-tier cable network model is dying out early, if it ever lived at all.