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This show Alone Together thats produced by the Lonely Island is pretty funny even if it has Chris Delia in it (not in a starring role) and I don't know if it's even still being made, but ran across it on Hulu and am enjoying it.

They only did two seasons of it, both premiering in 2018, and it was cancelled right after the second season aired.

We got another 3-month trial of HBO Max; their catalog of movies is somewhat interesting/random. There's good sprinkling of "cult / indie / foreign" titles, with an emphasis on the '80s and early '90s (for some reason); plus some older "classics" along the same lines. It's nothing that would impress a real film buff, but a young person just getting into it (especially, say, 20 years ago) may be interested. Or, I suppose, someone "our" age who has a hankering to watch Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, followed by the early Jim Jarmusch films (they even have Permanent Vacation) and Godard's Weekend. Not much in the way of classic Hollywood, though they do have tons of Charlie Chaplin films and some others from that era.

(FWIW, I'm an hour into Mulholland Drive, which I've never seen. Their print has the Criterion Collection logo at the beginning.)

I rewatched the first episode of nu-Who on HBO Max and a) it's surprising how well it holds up; b) it's extra surprising how engaging and likeable Rose is given how insufferable she becomes later on

If you like quirky/foreign horror, Folklore on HBO Max has six episodes worth watching - "six tales of horror from six Asian countries in this series based on folklore from each country". Even the lackluster ones are interesting for the premise and country of origin. Tatami and Nobody were standouts, I thought.

well it's on their front page anyway

It does work if I paste it into a browser though

(the ilx auto-hyperlink losses the last / )

Well this looks fun

just got this frightening press email

IT COUNTS PEOPLE IN THE ROOM SO IT CAN CHARGE PER PERSON??!?!

capitalism is fucking exhausting pic.twitter.com/9hDEhor6UT

— Sean Aitchison (@Sean8UrSon) April 5, 2021

Ooof. To be honest, just the other day I wondered aloud to my wife why TVs didn't have face recognition yet to know whose streaming account to use. This is just one step further (and one step closer to streaming hell).

I'm hard-pressed to think of a product whose crushing, humiliating failure I'd like to see more.

Doesn't the Xbox or some other gaming system already do the facial recognition --> user account thing?

I assume the part where they claim it collects real-time "emotional" data for the content providers is below the fold.

I don't know who the Tweeter is, but seems like he's doing exactly what he's being asked to do - virally promote a speculative product with a whopping $330k investment behind it.

Exterminate All the Brutes on HBO looks like tough but necessary stuff.

So the New Mutants finally showed up on HBO Max and it is ... pretty good? At least I thought it was pretty good. It was def. better than the last two X-Men movies.

For the next 2 days I have Netflix, Prime, Crave+HBO, Disney+, Criterion and Mubi. halp?

Sign out and take a walk

So the New Mutants finally showed up on HBO Max and it is ... pretty good? At least I thought it was pretty good. It was def. better than the last two X-Men movies.

You are the only person out of a dozen I've heard mention this who didn't hate it fwiw

New Ted Lasso coming in July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-stBDiXNk

You are the only person out of a dozen I've heard mention this who didn't hate it fwiw

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, April 18, 2021

this movie opens and closes with a native american character recounting the bullshit made-up-by-colonizers "two wolves" parable and appears to have been made for about $8K as a student project but is still definitively better than Dark Phoenix.

Shout Factory has a bunch of old Dick Cavett episodes, puzzlingly sorted into "seasons" even though the actual categorization is thematic. I've been watching some of the ones with writers - part of the fun is how the selection mixes up his 70's variety show with later 30min interview shows, one of which - from the early 90's - has a vaporwave a f intro. Allen Ginsberg casually reading out FBI tactics to undermine the left that he got through a freedom of information request! The Kurt Vonnegut episode is entirely about Mozambique!

"this movie opens and closes with a native american character recounting the bullshit made-up-by-colonizers "two wolves" parable"

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

Seen a lot worse than Shadow and Bone, which is formulaic YA fantasy but openly so and concentrates instead on production value and a cracking cast

enjoying mare of easttown on hbo/hbo max its p sordid and pulpy in all good ways (so far)

realized its the reunion of winslet & guy pearce from come anticipate HBO's MILDRED PIERCE with me (kate winslet star, todd haynes directs)

yeah there was a little bit of discussion (not much) on the police procedurals thread

I mostly love it but thought the montage of local kids being interviewed was really jarring

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

― akm, Sunday, May 2, 2021

sometimes the wolf feeds you <3

The Wilds on Amazon Prime is good, trashy fun.

And I'd echo the Mare of Easttown endorsements. I never tire of watching Kate Winslet bitterly sip Rolling Rocks.

xxp i do agree abt the tone point you are making re: those interviews but idk it didnt bother me.. i bet it was cut that way to save time

i would also like to see the crossover mare of easttown & down

A lot of the filming locations of Easttown were apparently about 15-20 minutes from where I grew up, so watching the first episode gave me some mixed emotions.

TBH I'm finding Mare of Easttown a bit relentlessly grim.

wait, an HBO prestige crime drama is relentlessly grim!?!?!?

idk The Sopranos was frequently hilarious

The New Mutants was fine. It absolutely could have been worse and I really hate what they did with Cecilia Reyes but it wasn't the trainwreck everyone predicted it would be. I do wish they'd leaned harder into the horror aspects, though, especially given they had an entire cast of mutants who accidentally killed/maimed someone when their powers manifested. I also get why they didn't include Karma given that she would have made half of the showdowns trivial to deal with and I liked that they didn't have the kids working together as a well-oiled fighting unit at the end given that they weren't being trained that way.

The pairing of Mare of Easttown + Philly DA on PBS has been a real journey for me. I finished Philly DA (would strongly recommend) and can hear Mare's peers screaming in the community meetings.

Anyone else have consistent issues with HBO Max freezing at the start of shows/movies? Every new episode or movie we start, about twenty seconds to a minute in, the video freezes for about two to ten seconds while the audio rolls on, then the video catches up. About 80% of the time it does this twice in a row, though it's always fine for the rest of the episode/movie. But even if we binge roll right into the next episode, it does it again.

It only happens with Max - no issues with any other services, our internet speeds are not an issue, restarting the Roku and router has no effect.

hbo max is much much improved over hbo go, but it's still probably the glitchiest streaming service that i regularly use

I haven't had those issues w/HBO Max, though their UI is fairly weird.

(Actually - I have had an issue where I fast-forward or rewind a long way, but it snaps back to the starting point when I press play.)

Oh god the UI on HBO Max is fucking awful. Hulu too, for that matter.

Hulu's UI is terrible, but at least the viewing experience is always smooth.

hulu is unusable with ads, pretty great without in my experience

With ads it's a bit of a pain, but i'll be damned if I pay more for the ad-free version
(I spent the last 2 years watching the entirety of Bob's Burgers - just imagine how many ads...)

Movies on hulu with ads just show an ad at the start and then shows the movie uninterrupted, so I don't have any reason to upgrade.

The UI on pretty much all of these services is so terrible I've got to assume it's intentional, for some mysterious reason above my pay grade.

prime has got to be the worst

but i agree they're all pretty bad

enjoying mare of easttown even though my initial reaction to it was "every element of this has been done to death". i guess i just like kate winslet and jean smart?

Hulu is very bad UI. in particular, their 'my stuff' tab is a fucking disaster and removing shit from it is almost impossible; you can't really do taht via a device like an apple tv, you have to log in through the web, and make sure each episode is also removed from 'my stuff' because if you just remove the show (which it allows you to do) it doesn't work. Finally spent 30 minutes figuring this out because I got really sick of the Looming Tower being in there for years even though I'd finished it.