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it wasnt bad, just a bit ~too~ chill

Is there no white lotus thread

weve been using the “Enlightened” thread bc its mike white

Christmas episode of "Ted Lasso" was exactly what people criticize the main show for, x2, but ... it's a standalone Christmas episode, so very par for the course for any show, and still pretty good. I guess the story is that at the relatively last minute the show was given 12 episodes this season, not 10, so the writers had to come up with two more standalone episodes that fit in with what they had already written and (perhaps) filmed, and this was one of them. Noted in a few pieces that the Christmas/holiday episode used to be a the standard of every show, but they're relative anomalies in the on demand/streaming world. Of course Rick and Morty just had a Thanksgiving episode a couple of weeks ago, so maybe that is changing.

The Ted Lasso episode was a large amount of saccharine and I was 100% here for it

i thought it was kinda perfect as a christmas ep

If it made people happy that's great but agreed it was definitely a "x2" version of what I was saying upthread. Like there was a whiteboard in the writer's room with a giant list of everyone's ideas for what would be "so cute!" to do for an xmas episode and they said screw it you know what we'll do them all.

The new episode of Reservation Dogs is the best one yet. Hilarious.

xpost At the same time, nice twist for the teased kid to actually have repulsive, disgusting breath. Roy's "I think you're dying" response was perfect comedy.

That entire sequence was hilarious

so funny. also the premise of them going door to door to find a dentist was like “wait what” but also VERY christmas episode

ted’s skype xmas gave me feels
i have been doing skype xmas for 20 years & it is still weird & disheartening

Skype Xmas was very accurate

I want to like this Brand New Cherry Flavour thing. It starts really promisingly, kind of a Blue Velvet type thing but after a few episodes it's fallen into the trap of so many Netflix supernatural things where it's not especially scary or unsettling, instead ramping up the camp and becoming something more like Buffy or whatever

I watched Lazy Susan on Amazon Prime

Please do not repeat my mistakes

I'm 4 episodes into Brand New Cherry Flavour and still enjoying it. Salazar and Keener are ace and I always love seeing Sikowitz in things.

Definite Lynchian/Cronenberg vibe to it but also enjoying the campness/humour xp

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f2h57g5QpI

Never heard of brand new cherry but see it’s from the guy who made the Channel Zero series which was surprisingly good at times.

it looks great, haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

First two seasons of Channel Zero have been quite good - the plot of season 2 got stretched pretty thin but making 6 watchable episodes from a copypasta is a feat.

Starting the starring David Cronenberg Shudder series tonight I think.

z watch Channel Zero?!

what's the cronenberg series?

re channel zero, I liked the first season, Candle Cove, I loved the second, No-End House, never saw the third, Butcher's Block, and very much liked 4, the Dream Door.

Slasher: Flesh & Blood. I don’t know anything about it except that Cronenberg is involved tbh.

In and Of Itself is certainly engrossing and affecting. I spent a lot of time later thinking about how he did the big trick (the letters) and I think I figured it out which made it a little less special but it's not really about the technical artistry of what he did but how people respond. And I'll never not be blown away by stupid card tricks too.

― akm, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:38 (six months ago)

Man, the second and third episodes of Reservation Dogs are sooooooo good.

omg yes! Gary Farmer was SO freaking good, it was an awesome ep

and the owl w the blurred out eyes made me lol

regarding Reservation Dogs- “...all the directors and writers are Indigenous, and Indigenous people are involved at every level of production. It’s a genuine, one-of-a-kind breakthrough.”

I grew up spending summers on a small reservation in Southern California where my grandma lived and it's crazy that there are still so many similarities.

good thread about the show

Looking for #ReservationDogs coverage from an Indigenous perspective? Here’s a thread that will be continually updated: pic.twitter.com/tG8XeZTSO8

— ᏎᎷ ✨ (@justsheavassar) July 30, 2021

i'm only one episode in but it's clearly great. the FX house style makes this feel a lot like Atlanta to me?

Yes!

I've seen that comparison here and there, and there are some loose similarities, but I dunno. Atlanta is about more or less often infantile adults in the real world, but this one is (of course) about kids in a very specific, more isolated location, which gives it a pretty different, more innocent perspective, and that warped perspective is key. For example, I assume for all the "gang" beefs and drama, no one is actually at risk of being killed in this show, and the kids themselves are often hilariously (and accurately) clueless about stuff. I do love all the little details here and there, not just (more or less) in-jokes like the owl's blurred out eyes, but I also caught an empty Lactaid box in the background of one scene (I think 80% of Native Americans are lactose intolerant). I love that the kids (like most Jewish people I know, fwiw) all share a language (figurative if not literal) and experiences and cultural traditions while essentially living "secular" lives. Like coming across a discarded deer carcass, of course their instinct is to throw it in the trunk for later, because duh, backstrap. Even though it's a terrible idea, because duh, kids.

MVP (among many) right now is the goofy spirit guide.

I was prepared for a lot more animal gore at the end of this episode: I figured the obvious gag would be for them to tear all the legs off the deer carcass at the end when they were all yanking on it at once. Kinda glad they didn't go that route.

The two rappers, Lil Mike & FunnyBone, have a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSry_L6b05s

love those thuggish ruggish guys

Ive only seen the first episode but my native-descended lactose intolerant wife (whose mother and brother are also horribly lactose intolerant) lost her shit at the lactaid. I also liked the use of 1491 as a house number.

https://lootcrate.com/products/ted-lasso

new jon bois vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_ORMhpmoU

I don’t care that this technically isn’t the Netflix thread, I just watched Fantastic Fungi and I need corroboration from someone else who is also not mushroom-phobic that it basically plays like a cult recruitment video

They are our friends and have much to teach us. Drink this tea and let us begin.

new ted lasso ep was gold, christmas last week & romcoms this week, an embarrassment of riches for me personally

nice little thread of all the romcom references here if you care

fuck it we're doing it https://t.co/n1eJJfR3K9

— gabs (@gabbishaw) August 21, 2021

Am I the only one watching The Chair? ... It's super fun.

it was great.

Do not watch any part of Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block while eating.

all the profs I follow on twitter are SO riled up by The Chair—apparently they've just discovered that pop cultural depictions of workplaces are not always accurate—I am tempted

Working on a critique of how The Chair gets contemporary academia wrong but first want to finish my piece showing the huge gap between most desert island experiences and Gilligan's Island.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 22, 2021

haha exactly, though worse was the day the trailer dropped and you had all these tenured profs posting photos of their offices to show that, no actually we don't spend 6 hrs a week in spacious wood-panelled offices, they're smaller and made of less desirable materials

I read this piece in which an Asian American prof says the show gets certain things right, haven’t seen it though.

Ah thanks, that's interesting. I think this show probably hits too close to home for me to deride entertainment value from it, though I do enjoy a good Duchovny self-parody