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We watched the perfectly fine lil' kids doing ballet documentary series "On Point" (which is On Disney). It's supposed to be a year in the life in NYC ballet school, yet we were still sort of shocked when covid hits and shuts everything down in spring after I think six episodes. I think that makes this along with Borat the first two things I've seen recently where covid makes an unscripted appearance. I assume we will start seeing more.

We also watched an installment of "Deep Ocean" on HBO. Not the best Attenborough or Attenborough-adjacent nature doc, but inspiring all the same. The variety, beauty and mystery of nature is an incredible way to put life into perspective.

Anyone hyped for the Jamaal Khashoggi movie on Apple Plus? No?

Not particularly new but been really enjoying this super dour Czech procedural set in early 90's: "Red Lines". A lot of brown commie apartment interiors.

Fran Lebowitz thing is pretty much all you could wish for if you like her humor

yeah its great

Errol Morris's The B-Side made it to Netflix and is worth seeing.

Thanks for the heads up on this - watched it last night and loved it!

this Night on Earth nature documentary is pretty wild

We just watched the city episode, the clarity of that night vision tech is pretty cool.

Finished Ted Lasso. It was cute- enjoyable but I didn't laugh much honestly.

Biggest criticism is that it was trying so hard to be adorable that very often it came off a bit forced or unearned (Ted does something "playful" to other character - I figure the other character will be annoyed - cut to other character giggling/enjoying it - me: "oh ok I see they were charmed by that then?"). Just not as convincing as it could have been for a show with so darn many scenes of characters unable to hold down smiles. And Ted himself was a bit too good to be true honestly. But, it's a feel good show so I wasn't necessarily bothered! I guess I just wasn't buying it all the time.

Sounds about right. I felt like it was a show that other friends of mine might enjoy more than me.

Huh. See, I think they did a good job of showing the strain Ted was under to keep up his optimistic front. There's a lot we don't know about him. Why such a seemingly good guy's marriage fell apart, for example, or that panic attack he had. Which is to say, I found it more "convincing" than the cartoon lunacy of something like "Parks & Recs," with which it shares a certain vibe, even if I didn't think it was ever going for verisimilitude.

Yes I was also a little unsure what unaddressed background contributed to the failed marriage given how such a "good guy" he appeared to be, as you said. But are we supposed to assume that or are we supposed to accept that sometimes people drift away despite not doing anything "wrong"? And yes it wasn't as cartoonish as some comparable shows but I personally felt all the "awww" moments were a bit relentless and not always earned.

ted probably not great in the sack

sorry for party rockin

One Night in Miami - directed by Regina King - now streaming on Prime. It’s really good, highly recommend

First episode of Servant was quite good

Watching Patriot, which is very good and smart and clever and can't be fucked with as far as the music goes. But it's a bit too much on the comedy side afaic. Wishing it would tone the wit down a little bit! I am looking for a more serious crime/thriller series, on Prime. Is McMafia worth the watch?

Assume you've watched Bosch?

Yeah! So good. And Goliath too which I enjoyed

zerozerozero is meant to be good

Haven't watched it myself though

Ah seen it :) That isn’t on Prime though here in NL. I found it dissapointing

The Expanse has lots of crime in it

And not for everyone but would certainly recommend trying Too Old To Die Young if you've not seen it

yes it's great fun and a wonderful waste of their money

Ah thanks gonna try that one!

Okay that starts off.....uhhh weird

All five seasons of the Muppet Show heading ti Disney+!

One Night in Miami, along with the Small Axe series (both on Amazon Prime) are the two best things I've seen in at least a year.

Okay that starts off.....uhhh weird

fair warning it gets much much weirder

Muppet Show is a pretty big deal. Remains to be seen how bowdlerized it is, as I believe music licensing is what's held it up from being issued in its entirety on DVD (and even then they wound up having to edit segments out).

I'll be a little optimistic, I mean if anyone has the $$$$ to throw at licensing issues, it'll be Disney.

I thought what kept the fourth season from coming out on DVD (I own 1-3) was licensing the Star Wars-themed episode, which given Disney's ownership of that would eliminate the issue.

They never released season 5, though, did they?

No, 4 and 5 never came out. The only above-board way to see a lot of those later episodes is via best-of discs that Time-Life put out forever ago.

And the episodes on the Time-Life discs were (iirc) unedited, unlike those on the season sets.

Same thing with iirc Beavis & Butthead.

The official Beavis & Butthead releases are completely useless. I honestly don't know why they even bothered (I mean, yeah, $$$, but still).

Speaking of which, "Freaks & Geeks" coming to Hulu next week with original soundtrack intact.

Haha of course it is, just weeks after I finally bought the Blu Ray set because I was sick of waiting.

the commentaries are worth the price of the blu ray set (assuming they carry over all the commentaries from the DVD set)

I believe they do, it's the same company and otherwise the same package afaict. That makes me feel better.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-01-18/streaming-services-churn-hollywood-netflix-disney

They're going to make it like cancelling a porn site circa 1999 - three calls and two hours of waiting to ditch Hulu Premium this month

Last week I finally cut the cable cord (and got fiber!) after ~25 years of being a Comcast customer, and I was surprised at how easy it ended up being. Maybe it was my tone of voice, but the person in the call center didn't even try to keep me.

are you saying it took you two hours to cancel hulu premium? because you can do that yourself fairly easily by changing your plan.

Anyway, watched Doug Liman's "Locked Down" on HBO Max, which was written and filmed last year. It's ok, I like Anne Hathaway when she doesn't play cutesy, but I had a hard time watching the blatant disregard for any masks? Like, people would put them on for one second and take them off when entering a room? Is this what London was like last year? I just kept thinking "whatever happens to these two, they are probably going to wind up sick as fuck or dead"

They're going to make it

Thanks to whichever one of you nerds recommended the Conny Plank documentary on Amazon however many months ago, it was lovely and really interesting.

Garrett Bradley's documentary feature Time is streaming on Amazon Prime, but if you're a MoMA member who doesn't have it, you can stream it from MoMA's virtual cinema for the next five days starting at noon today:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6779

It's been an especially good year for documentaries, and MoMA is streaming two more great ones before the end of the month: Sam Pollard's MLK/FBI and Frederick Wiseman's City Hall. Those three films alone would probably rank among my top five films of the year.

Thanks for the heads up on Time, will watch that this weekend!

As a big fan of the new cast regular, it pains me to report that the new season of Search Party is outrageously, depressingly bad and I have checked out for good after three episodes.

:/

I checked out after s1. I love Alia Shawkat but I have no idea who the audience for that show is.