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Watched the first episode of BS Club and darn it if isn’t pretty good

I thought the first two episodes were pretty boring before it starts to pwn, so I think you're in for a treat!

I’ll put in a good word for Bad Trip, which distinguishes itself from other prank stuff I’ve seen in making an effort to show the humanity and humor and genuine niceness of the prank “victims,” and consciously incorporate this into the film’s appeal. Much better than the last season the Eric Andre Show.

i appreciate that it treats its almost entirely people of color candid camera victims as decent human beings but there's also an extended joke about eric being repeatedly raped by a gorilla while they watch so i dunno how humanistic i wanna say this is

From a new interview with Charles Forsman:

FORSMAN: The TV stuff, it wasn’t something I planned. I was not seeking it out at all. John Entwistle, who created both shows, reached out to me when The End of the Fucking World was a minicomic. I kind of didn’t take it seriously at first. But once I got to know him, we became friends. And he was sort of just starting out like I was. He had done some TV commercials and short films, but he had never done a show or a movie. And it just ended up working really well.

Sometimes people come to me for advice, about getting their stuff adapted. I have no clue. Part of me feels bad because I can't tell them the big secret of how to get a Netflix show. All I can tell you is to do what I did, which was just shut out the noise and try and tell a story that I liked. And for me, that meant doing it on a really small scale on a minicomic, for a dollar. And for me, that worked.

It's definitely changed my life. It's a complicated thing because it's so outside of me, all the Netflix stuff, and things haven't really changed much for me other than I have a little bit more money. There's also a disconnect. I think a lot of people don't even know they are comics when they watch those shows. I'll be set up at a comics convention and someone will walk by and see the books on the table, and they'll be like, “What, you’re ripping off the TV show?” It’s a weird thing.

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TISSERAND: The adaptation of I’m Not OK With This really heightened the cinematic influences that are already felt in your work. The movie Carrie, among others, flashed before me as I was watching it. When you wrote the book, was Carrie in your mind, as far as being someone who has powers that she could not control?

FORSMAN: I don't know. I'm a huge Brian De Palma fan, and I’ve always said my book Slasher is my Brian De Palma book, but I can’t actually remember if I had Carrie on my mind for that. That imagery was definitely the folks on the show, they came up with the idea to sort of sample Carrie.

Just finished Behind Her Eyes and let me just say it was incredibly stupid.

i sensed the stupid vibes early with that one and dropped it after an episode despite a very winning perf from the lead actress

Yeah, her acting is solid, but couldn't save the ridiculous plot.

I watched Bad Trip last night and can't believe I didn't watch it earlier, it's super enjoyable, Andre and Haddish are amazing, great pranks, good marks.

Watched Cut Throat City this afternoon and it was going OK, but then it arrived at a perfect, dramatically satisfying conclusion...and there were 20 more minutes left. I bailed.

I'm always up for a Sherlock Holmes reboot but this The Irregulars seems pretty bad so far. These kids are explicitly 17-ish when they should be 10 or 11 to make it work. Bah.

The Irregulars was hard work, only made it 2 episodes in before giving up. Also the concept is all wrong, Sherlock is all about solving mysteries through logic whereas they solve stuff through mystical powers that seem to come out of nowhere. Oh wait no out of nowhere, a dream where the guy from the wire tells her to touch people and that solves everything.

Just finished Behind Her Eyes and let me just say it was incredibly stupid.

― Darin, Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:53 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i sensed the stupid vibes early with that one and dropped it after an episode despite a very winning perf from the lead actress

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, April 3, 2021 5:03 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

My gf was watching this so I only saw it in bits and pieces but if you thought it seemed stupid early on and you aren't aware of what the show is ultimately about...you won't even believe how stupid it actually is.

One episode in on City of Ghosts and Last Chance U: Basketball and both are excellent

Also quickly knocked out Pui Pui Molcar (brought to my attention by our esteemed Whiney) and it's twenty minutes of squeaky fun

Yeah The Irregulars was very middling YA - I quite liked the lead actress, tarot murderer episode was kind of fun, but the rest of it was just meh. And despite the colour-blind casting, somehow they still managed to have a magical Black man character from Louisiana. yikes.

Also by the end of it I felt like there was absolutely no reason for Sherlock/Watson to exist in this other than being an audience hook. They’re barely recognisable as Conan Doyle’s creations and could’ve been replaced by pretty much any random characters.

If I watch Behind Her Eyes with the explicit warning that it's extremely stupid, will my other half be annoyed at wasting valuable TV-viewing time on it?
I'm skating close to the edge after deciding LaLa Land might be "worth a watch" the other day. (There's not much on at the moment so working our way through things we recorded last year)

i kind of liked that Behind Her Eyes went full stupid, for what it's worth.

It's very...Shyamalanesque. It's not what you think it is, in a way that is baffling but not in a way that is interesting or good. But someone who actually sat and watched it should probably comment on whether it's worthwhile.

watch the good things i just posted that are good instead of the bad things that everyone says are bad!

The Back to the Future episode of Pui Pui Molcar is the greatest thing I have seen on TV this year.

i thought behind her eyes was absolutely terrible and ridiculous but not much worse than a lot of netflix fare. definitely stupider, but not neccesarily worse.

absolutely shocking scottish accents really annoyed me but should be fine if you're not scottish and have a massive chip on your shoulder

Love piu piu molcar

Pui Pui Molcar (Japanese: PUI PUI モルカー, Hepburn: Pui Pui Morukā, "Pui Pui Cavy-Car") is a Japanese stop-motion short anime series produced by Shin-Ei Animation and Japan Green Hearts in cooperation with Bandai Namco Entertainment. The series is directed and written by Tomoki Misato, with Misato and the staff in Japan Green Hearts designing the characters and models and Shota Kowatsu composing the music. It aired in Japan on TV Tokyo through its Kinder TV children's variety program on January 5, 2021. The series' title is a play on the words Molmot (モルモット, morumotto, Japanese name for guinea pig) and car, which reflects the main characters.
The series is aired as a two-minute-plus short animation segment on the children's variety program Kinder TV. Each short focuses on a world where people drive sentient vehicles that are hybrids between guinea pigs and motor vehicles. Though each episode's story varies, the core focus of the series focuses on the Molcars' antics and sometimes a bit of solving problems for their friends and their drivers. Episodes sometimes include parodies of famous movie genres for comedic effect.

Kinder TV sounds excellent

I showed both of my kids some of the guinea pig show. One, not really sure it's for (little) kids; like, in the first one a crying guinea pig gets carjacked at gunpoint! Two, both kids (mine are older) said it made them uncomfortable.

"It's very...Shyamalanesque. It's not what you think it is, in a way that is baffling but not in a way that is interesting or good. "

Servant, on AppleTV, is actually produced by Syamalan (and he directed some of it as well) and it's baffling and terrible but in a way that is somehow interesting and ok.

don't bother with The One.
watched to end with my teenage lad just cos once i start something i normally have to see it to the end.
will not be bothering with season 2.

So I binged through Behind Her Eyes, yeah it was awful, and wasn't quite as batshit as I was expecting (I did even expect zombies at some point) and after a decent start it was a LOT of padding while they wait to drop the weird stuff on you. But the final episode was sort of worth it, and I did figure out the final-final twist immediately after the penultimate 'twist' so that was kind of fun. That's my fill of trash for now I think!

Louise and the kid were great actors. Did you know that Adele was Bono's daughter? She also kept sounding like she was channeling Lindsey Denton (from Line of Duty) at times.

I watched This Is A Robbery docuseries today about the Gardner museum heist in 1991. Really good, lots of interesting interview subjects, reporters, lawyers, FBI guys. Not draggy at all. Makes you feel like it could be solved.

(Also there’s SO much Boston mob content in the later episodes with wiretaps & whatnot i was like, you could totally do a Boston version of Sopranos)

Thoughts about Call My Agent? First 2 episodes were very good. I like the conceit of having actors / actresses playing themselves even if I have no idea who they are IRL.

Loved the first three seasons of CMA. Energy and quality drops in the writing dept with Season 4 - new writing team and the main creative forces had split - but the cast still gave it their all.

Cosmic Kid, by Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends) - kid from middle-of-nowhere small town happens upon cosmic rings of power, assembles team including a waitress, a toddler, an old man and a cat to protect the earth. Initially kinda underwhelming, felt like a good kid's show but nothing more, plus much as I love its touchstones (highways n deserts, Fantastic Four, boomer sci-fi) they felt a bit tired, but it's actually starting to have a season-wide arc - all to do with the kid coming to terms with the fact that he's not actually good at heroics. Kept waiting for the big redemptive heroic moment but it never came - now it seems more likely he will redeem himself by embracing the idea that he can be valuable in areas that aren't combat, which is a pretty sweet moral.

Visually I also really like that it replicates the experience of watching stuff on a shitty old tv.

I loved it. If you never watched Wander Over Yonder (CMC's last show), it's on Hulu, and it's goddamn hilarious and sweet and beautiful to look at.

oooh that looks nice!

it did strike me that on demand services don't give cartoons the ubiquity that having them play like twenty times a week on Cartoon Network did, but I'm sure the kids can work it out

I liked Cosmic Kid but, as with most of McCracken's stuff, it's best for me in small doses... not really "For Grown-Ups" per se. YMMV of course.

I've had a lot of trouble staying interested in Kid Cosmic, I think I'm 6 episodes in (and I haven't watched it in a few weeks)? Doesn't have the charm or humor of Powerpuff IMO.

My wife's been into it, but I think I've more or less come around to "Shtisel." It's kind of like an Orthodox Jewish "Parenthood," in Israel.

Watched Stowaway and am more convinced than ever that I really don't want to go to space. It just seems like the negatives outweigh the positives by a lot, you know? High risk, low reward.

*slowly puts golden ticket back in pocket, charlie brown sigh, walks away sadly with chin in chest*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4PlM85NJo

OK, more on "Shtisel." We just started season 3, and I've got to admit, the season premiere is one of the few episodes of TV I've ever seen that left me completely shocked and near speechless.

Fuck, I forgot to go back to Shtisel after season 1. Must watch it again.

alright Josh, you sold me - i petered out partway through season 2 but i'll get back on the horse to get to season 3 with a lede like that

New season of Call My Agent being filmed atm!

?? what!

they totally wrapped it up though?

Oui! C’est vrai! Plus a film!
https://www.nouveautes-tele.com/147577-dix-pour-cent-saison-5-france2.html

I'm just watching season 2 now. I didn't think I'd like it but I'm pretty well sucked in at this point.

They killed Jean Gabin for nothing, the monsters.

He was my favourite.