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i'm leaning a little closer to DJI's take tbh

It took me about three episodes in to see the theme of self-improvement, particularly on mental health, and I liked that. I actually loved Ted's journey with the Doc, which was well-paced through the season. Whereas with the other characters, it was often too quickly resolved. I dunno, it was a pretty disappointing season for me given how much I loved S1, all the more because I see some seeds of a strong season that didn't really get there. I also think the previously mentioned extended episode times were not used well

Tbh I didn’t even care that much for the shrink stuff, it was a bit too by the numbers. Sorry to play Momus and be a bit jaded but: OMG, it turns out this over-optimistic if occasionally charming chatterbox has daddy issues, who’d have thought, but even in the end he is able to help the doc, who turns out to have issues of her own, just as much as she helps him.

I was much more interested in the psychological stuff in I come in peace... three times a night -- FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV Plus), for example.

That British-flavored "Home Alone" movie with Pete Holmes in it is... something

This looks absolutely horrific.

is it called Holmes Alone?

can definitely picture pete holmes' shameless mug doing the culkin scream

I watched the latest episode of Only Murders the night after seeing the dialogue-less episode of Mr. Robot, pretty cool coincidence.

― Leee Tigre (Leee), Monday, 4 October 2021 15:32 (one week ago)

Were people expecting cinema verite with Ted Lasso or something

Yes, nothing less will do.

Once I realized they weren't going to punish Sam for standing against their sponsor, following it up with Higgins' kid seeing Santa Claus, I went "oh I get it, this is an alternate dimension where being kind always pays off" and that made me watch the show very differently

But does it pay off for Ted himself? I guess we will see.

i saw there was some midnight mass discussion here. i am not really watching much "prestige tv" these days but that was one thing that broke through for me. it is very good and i recommend it if you're into horror (it isn't too extreme) and/or discussions of faith/death/forgiveness, and don't mind a slower pace. i found its twist on the ******* horror genre pretty interesting - it's not a huge or unprecedented twist but it's effective. i need to watch more mike flanagan stuff, i've only seen doctor sleep (as good as it could be based on the source material) and a few episodes of haunting of hill house (seemed good but i didn't have the time to keep up with it)

That has gotten really good reviews around here. I am intrigued.

"That British-flavored "Home Alone" movie with Pete Holmes in it is... something"

I love Aisling Bea and am disappointed she is in this but maybe she got a bunch of money and maybe this will help greenlight another season of This Way Up

Flanagan: Midnight Mass is the best thing he's done that I've seen, it succeeded on pretty much every level. Both Haunting series are good, but go awry at some point and I don't even remember how Bly Manor ended. I thought Doctor Sleep was ok and the things wrong with it were wrong with the source material. And I forgot that he made Oculus, which in fact I think is very very good.

yeah, I'm not sure I've seen anything of his since that. or maybe hush? anyway, I've generally liked everything I've seen of his, but he's since turned into Mr Stephen King, so I've lost a little bit of interest. I did see the one with what's her name handcuffed the entire time, actually thought that was pretty good.

The end of Bly Manor was wild, just from the standpoint of "I see you were going for an allegory on the acceptance of mortality but you accidentally ended up on 'life is made of dread and then one day you abandon your loved ones before you murder them'"

i wonder if I even watched bly manor, now that I think of it.

I think I'm going to pause my watching of Y: The Last Man, the pace of which is incredibly slower than it is in the comics, and I think that if I had them ready to watch every day it might go down better. Although the relative lack of humor in the show is not a good sign IMO.

got a couple of months of Now TV for £1, so binge watched that Lotus thing.
watchable escapism.
though the kidman pantomime russian accent thing was somewhat offputting.

however, as i have a few weeks left on the cheap deal, i decided to try out something else and plumped for Brassic.
f&ck me i enjoyed it.
laughs aplenty amongst the excess swearing and cliches overload.
i reckon i could watch joe gilgun in just about anything.

and yes, even when he is a vampire.
he is by far the best thing in Preacher.

oh i didnt know abt Brassic! its on hulu here, i’ll check it out. love Joe Gilgun so much

he is genuinely one of the best actors at the moment.
in Brassic his character has bipolar as he does IRL.
apparently a lot of his experiences were incorportated into the Vinnie character.
hope you enjoy it VG.
it has totally made the last couple of weeks fly by.
and weirdly i think i swear a lot more now.

“Sam and Rebecca,” huh? Where have we heard that before

(I still haven’t watched TL.)

but his criticism of Ted’s treatment of him was valid

Was it?? Because he was a literal towel boy before Ted gave him a chance and Ted was pretty much unflaggingly nice to him aside from apparently not constantly taking enough time out to treat him like mommy's special boy. Then had the fucking gall to lecture Ted after he had disgustingly betrayed him about his mental health issues to the press. Maybe Nate should look at himself and what a little Smeageol ass prick he turned into

Not to mention his shitty bullying behavior towards the new towel boy

ok

it’s reached a point where it is not enjoyable to talk abt Ted Lasso itt anymore so i will refrain

Sorry vg :(

<3 s’alright. you’re not wrong.

Some kind of sitcom gravity thing, wherein the characters end up becoming too likeable or unlikeable in a formulaic way.

“Sam and Rebecca,” huh? Where have we heard that before

They make a joke about it on the show too

Midnight Mass - “where do we go when we die” convo is a drag. I came for creepy priests not bad Christian movie.

_but his criticism of Ted’s treatment of him was valid_

Was it?? Because he was a literal towel boy before Ted gave him a chance and Ted was pretty much unflaggingly nice to him aside from apparently not constantly taking enough time out to treat him like mommy's special boy. Then had the fucking gall to lecture Ted after he had disgustingly betrayed him about his mental health issues to the press. Maybe Nate should look at himself and what a little Smeageol ass prick he turned into

Meantime

https://gizmodo.com/y-the-last-man-canceled-at-fx-as-its-first-season-ends-1847881430

I'm bailing on that after last week - the Washington-based arc is awful and especially the Meghan McCain/Ivanka Trump character.

I'll ride it all the way to the ground. It had enough interesting ideas to keep me on board.

Just read the trade paperbacks IMO.

I hate 99% of comics.

So do I but the Y GNs are good.

Oh shit, so after all those delays and false starts, they finally got the show going and fucked it up badly enough that it's one season?

looks like it

Cancelled before it even finished airing! I guess I won't bother with it after all

I honestly didn't expect this to be the one that crashed/burned of the 'long delayed they say they're working on it' series that finally appeared around now in comparison to Foundation, but here we are. (And as we've been saying on the thread about it, Foundation is doing pretty well so far!)

I read the comics a long time ago andseem to remember they were fairly humourous but the show has been pretty much relentlessly grim

Watched the first episode of Squid Game and liked it okay enough, then I decided to start re-watching episodes of The Genius instead.

It feels overwhelming how many movies and TV shows are "out there" right now... I suppose the pandemic halted production/delayed release on a number of things, and now there's a deluge

I like any director/showrunner who uses a recurring stable of actors, it always feels really comforting and fun to me, whether it's the AHS franchise or Mike Flanagan's stuff. I watched up to (and including) the penultimate episode of Midnight Mass, and was texting a friend about it yesterday before watching the finale. He said, "the only word Midnight Mass hates more than "Catholic" is "Cut!"" and I agreed. I said, "I haven't seen the finale, but if this was Stephen King, there'd be an appearance of a hand of god at the end, or the kids would fight evil by fucking". Flanagan's ending was less insulting and yet more insulting, like a figure skater who is building up to a big finish and then just elects to not make the jump.

I'm told I should watch Evil next.

I'm scoring a Netflix series atm myself, it is interesting to kinda get a sense of the relationship between studio-and-showrunners, it feels very hands-off in terms of content, but "go go go" in terms of deadlines.

I'd love to hear some reports back for sure. If there's anything that's struck me about the current era of prestige TV it's that the scores have often actually been pretty distinctive and effective, much more than mere cues and filler. I do see lots of the same names (Bear McCreary, Jeff Russo ... ).

Having seen a lot of Flanagan's stuff, and just rewatched "Oculus" again last night, his shtick really seems to be "Stephen King but slower." Which usually works, tbh. Lots of crying, too, and family trauma drama.

Bf said yesterday: "'Hill House' was a horror movie masquerading as a show about grief, and 'Midnight Mass' was a show about grief masquerading as a horror movie"

All the current prestige TV scores are extremely Kontakt-based in a very entry-level way. I hear them with an appreciation for their economy and efficiency. It's kind of pleasing to watch Flanagan, for example, and be able to identify which out-of-the-box sample bank the composer was using... same with "White Lotus". It makes me feel like I have a license to cut corners. "Oh, literally you can just press 'go' on some Mysteria samples and call it a score? good to remember ;)"

just gonna revive the Ted Lasso discourse for a hot second to say the transformation of Nate was 100% believable and, in some way, inevitable once you saw the way his dad treated him

I find that the TV scores that have been catching my ear lately aren't terribly ambitious but they are very effective in their simplicity. Like "For All Mankind," I think the composer of that one is Russo (who used to be in Tonic!), and it's really a lot of variations on a theme. But that theme is lovely, and the music works so well. Reminds me of the approach of someone like Carter Burwell in a lot of the Coen Bros. stuff.