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Started Betty last night on HBOMax but have to say the first episode didn't hold my attention, just not in the mood for poor acting mumblecore tv I suppose; does it get better?

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.

Mostly

Started Sasquatch on Hulu, so far so good.

I'm watching Warrior on HBO Max and wow, it is some ripe trash. Lots of fun in its way, though.

i kinda like it & hate it at the same time

betty is really good, imo, but i also loved the first episode so...

xps

My wife loved the first season of Betty but hated the second.

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.

Really? I don’t mind

1. Figuring out what shows would show up on my homescreen wasn't intuitive.
2. Streaming a show keeps buffering on my laptop (PC, natch), but when I switched over to my PS4, it started the episode from the beginning.

The HBO Max "can't effectively rewind or FF" glitch is driving us nuts.

I'm just finishing up Friday the 13th: the Series on DVD and have started watching War of the Worlds: the Series because I wanted something with a similar late-'80s cheesy genre vibe, and then yesterday it occurred to me that these are both series created for syndication by the company called Paramount in the wake of their success with Star Trek: the Next Generation, and now that the company called Paramount has its own streaming service, I wonder if these shows are viewable on said service? Well, the unsurprising answer to that question is why I continue to support physical media!

AFAICT, Paramount only ever made a tiny handful of scripted syndicated shows, an even teenier handful of which were syndication-only (they picked up Webster and Viper when they were cancelled by their respective Big Three networks) and which (one would think) don't have any sticky rights issues that preclude their inclusion on the streaming service. Of that teeny-tiny handful, it looks like only the Star Trek shows are on Paramount Plus. Whither Madame's Place, Paramount?!?!

I have now watched all of the Gossip Girl reboot so far and can conclude that it is bad. And not bad like the original was 'bad' as in a guilty pleasure, but bad as in it is horribly written, badly acted, and stupid. The main problem being that not a single character on the show is even remotely likable, even in a 'bad' way, they are just poorly written, badly acted, and weird. The lead, the influencer, shifts her attitudes toward her sister three times an episode but is never convincing. Maybe Zoya's dad is alright? The teachers are stupid, the kids are interchangeable and lame... just ugh.

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace on amazon…..

+1

wonderful

Classic

Spamming my new, thread, started to avoid spamming a slightly less new one, about an excellent show that is currently on Amazon Prime: COUNTERPART: Alternate History w/ Creepy Cold War Vibe

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.
Really? I don’t mind

1. Figuring out what shows would show up on my homescreen wasn't intuitive.
2. Streaming a show keeps buffering on my laptop (PC, natch), but when I switched over to my PS4, it started the episode from the beginning.

― Action Bell (Leee), Monday, 26 July 2021 23:41 (five days ago)

I love how when you’ve watched a movie on HBO Max and left like a minute of the credits unwatched, it still shows up in “Continue Watching?” with a sliver of the progress bar left to go.

Like this is basic stuff that other streamers already solved, they didn’t need to start from scratch

yeah that is quite maddening

That appletv Home Screen thing that aggregates shows from (some) services is new and the layout is bad, yes. That feature didn’t used to be there and now it’s the default interface when you turn on an Apple TV ans has done nothing but drive my wife nuts. It be one thing if Avery service made their catalogue available to it and you could really search acrossapps there but I don’t honk Netflix has an open API for their catalog probably so they can force you into their app.

Apologies for the autocorrect mess in that post

“I don’t honk Netflix” is brilliant

(fwiw, Fire TV allows you to search Netflix within the main/home interface)

Centaurworld is shockingly worth watching if the first episode is to be believed.

Whenever I learn about the existence of a show like that I can never tell, even when I read about it, if it's for kids but adults might like it too, or if it's for adults but kids will like it too, or if it's for adults and not for kids and gets its kicks riffing on kid show tropes. Netflix rates it for 7 and up, which implies it's in the first and imo often annoying category (for kids but adults might like it), but then the screen shot on the first episode of the show is a giant horse house with a door where it's butthole would be, so ... I dunno.

Ratings are useless on a host of Netflix stuff, now that I look. Stupid, seemingly harmless stuff like "Floor Is Lava" and "Nailed It" are PG, whatever that means in a Netflix context. But "Blown Away," the fuckin' glassblowing show, is rated 14+, same as "Stranger Things." Nu "She-Ra" is 7+. Nu "He-Man" is PG. "Better Call Saul" is TV-MA (sure), but so is "Chef's Table" (wtf?).

Maybe it's language for some of those? We've been tuning out the past few nites to a fluffy Netflix show called "Tattoo Redo," and there is a lot of (unnecessary, IMO) swears & innuendos.

centaurworld is made for kids but clearly intended to crossover to adult audiences. based on one episode, it seems like their stab at adventure time. a six year old would have no problems.

Yeah, but would this 46-year old think it's for 7-year olds? Would my teens think it's for toddlers (or, for that matter, 46-year olds)?

it is extremely internet aware, the songs are pretty well written and the voice acting is great. try an episode.

Anyone watch the Creepshow series? The only ILX references that come up are to the movies.

I heard the first season was pretty hit or miss.

Yeah it’s patchy but there are some A+ stories and even the ok ones are worthwhile
I’ve only seen s1 though

S1Ep1 House of the Head is sooooo good

s3Ep3 Man in The Suitcase blew my mind, i loved it so much ended buying a novel by the writer, i thought it was a great spin on a classic creepy tale

OK, we all enjoyed the first ep of "Centaurworld." My kids said it was like "Adventuretime" (which I've never seen) but its riffs on Disney musical cliche was pretty amusing to me.

you should definitely have your kid school you on adventure time. ask them to pull five or six key eps.

This is the sort of show that may be OK for 6 or 7 year olds but for the life of me I don't know why 6 or 7 year olds would want to watch it other than the fact that a 6 or 7 year old will literally watch anything.

My 6 year old watched about 5 minutes of Centaurworld and then asked me to turn it off

Chad is lit

i've been saying!

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace on amazon…..

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, July 30, 2021 8:23 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

This was fantastic - our teenagers really thought it was hilarious. Amazon does a good job with the blurb explaining the show as a desperate struggle against poor production values, awful dialogue and unrealistic violence. Of course it all that and more.

rewatched it and it's better than i remember

Wait, do you mean Amazon's blurb says that unironically/unknowingly?

I know, right? I don't see struggle, I see "filmmakers" that hilariously think their show is awesome

I think Amazon's blurb says that knowingly ... it got my teenagers interested

And, yes, the "filmmakers" do think their show is all kinds of awesome

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?

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, December 31, 2020

Yeah I'm 4 episodes into the first season and I really dislike it. I was genuinely interested because many people I follow on Twitter think it's so charming, but I find it unfunny and a bit creepy. I don't know if I'm just a grouch or what.

It’s trying so hard to be fucking adorable all the time but the writing isn’t witty enough. Parks & Rec was better at this approach.

There are some parallels, but Parks & Rec is imo a lot more cartoony, which makes it easier to be funny. We really enjoyed season one of Ted Lasso and are really enjoying season two right now. There's actually been some great, subtle character development, which a more traditional sitcom (like Parks) generally lacks. Not a bad thing, necessarily, Parks is really good, but no one is watching a show like that for character development. At the same time, anyone tuning in to Ted Lasso thinking it's strictly a comedy, yeah, I think they're bound for at least some disappointment. It's more of a ... silly drama?

Fair! But in that case it's a silly drama that's less about conflicts and more about characters saying sweet things to each other as often as possible. Relentless feel-good moments. I get cynical that the goal of jamming episodes full of these is to maximize opportunities for shareable content on social with captions like "this is everything" or whatever.