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good thread about the show

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— 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.

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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

er, *derive

The full review I read (in the same paper) says the show barely shows any actual teaching, which seems like a missed opportunity(?)

Just rewatched S1 of The Other Two, in preparation for the forthcoming S2. Some of the jokes obv feel a few years old now, but it’s still really funny. Interesting to me how SNL itself is… not very good (IMO), but projects from SNL writers / B’way Video can be very good.

The Chair shows actual teaching, but each episode is 30 minutes and its not about what goes on in the classroom (other than one major incident which is one of the driving plots of the whole series), its about department dynamics and university bullshit. I thought it was very good on the whole. Duchovny cameo is priceless. Series written (mostly) by Amanda Peet!

is anyone else watching the new wrestling drama “Heels”?

i watched s1 & its better than i expected. kinda like rasslin sons of anarchy, with like 90% less butts lol

Watched the first few episodes of The Chair (on akm’s rec). It is pretty good, and funny. I like the character relationships. Holland Taylor is terrific.

The major plotline that akm mentioned (involving Jay Duplass’s character) feels somehat forced, but will see how it plays out.

This is going to be a tough sell, but Agua Donkeys which I mentioned before is Roku Channel original they bought from Quibi when it went down and it's one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time

just saw that they added all that quibi stuff recently! didn't see the golden arm show on the list though which made me sad. but they do have murder house flip, looking forward to watching that disaster. will check out agua donkeys too thanks for the rec!

will give it a go

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

― rob, Sunday, August 22, 2021 9:32 AM (yesterday)

If you want to get people to write think pieces about your tv show, make your show a depiction of academia ... lol ... and I mean that compassionately, because non-profit workers also have this same tendency

I remember when journalists were upset by the depiction of newsrooms in the Wire. Drug Dealers were pretty quiet so the show must have gotten that right.

g's move in silence like lasagna iirc

fact-checkin drug lord tweets would be more entertaining

game is to be sold and not tweeted iirc further

i watched the first ep of The Chair but i dont think it is “my thing”. i wasnt charmed or interested, just kinda bored? maybe I have been out of uni too long, or am just v grumpy today

^^ We watched it, but no lols for us. I still recommended to my academic dad/stepmom, since it seemed tailor-made for them.

It's kinda weird they chose Pembroke as the name of the fake college in the show – b/c that name is associated with Brown, but the school doesn't seem to be particularly modeled on Brown. In fact, the setting lacks the kind of specificity that you normally see in a "sharp" satire of academia. As akm pointed out, the show's focus isn't really on teaching or scholarship at all – with a few (significant) plot changes, the setting could be a law firm, publishing house, or whatever. It's really about the relationships, particularly a mother/child relationship that has nothing to do with where the mother works.

All that said, some of the faculty repartee does ring true to me (though it's been years since I've been in that world).

There’s an HBO limited-series remake of Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage” coming Sept. 12??

Not sure how that could possibly be a good idea

It stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.

whoa

Was hoping it would be on The Hallmark Channel.

Apparently The Chair is a Netflix show, if anyone wants to talk about it with Roz on the Netflix shows thread, not here on the not-Netflix shows thread

lol thanks sic, I keep missing discussions of Netflix shows on this thread which I don’t usually open because I live in a country that only has access to Netflix and Disney+ (also Amazon I guess but I cancelled my Prime subscription)

I thought this thread was for streaming TV services generally.

That's the intent behind the OP, but it seems to have evolved into an all-purpose streaming *content* thread. Given intl differences, it probably doesn't make sense to organize threads around specific services, even Netflix, but a rolling TV thread might end up a spoiler minefield so idk

This thread seems to be working pretty well for general content discussion, but whatevs

yeah I'm not really advocating any change; the netflix thread title is dated anyway; netflix is in this thread title...whatevs sounds about right