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That Reacher show looks about as good as the Bourne-less Bourne show. Which was a televisual wet fart.

exactly

i have read a couple of the reacher books, and i had no problem with cruises portrayal.

i dunno why anyone would enjoy reacher as a dull meathead but ppl are fuckin stupid so good luck to them

First episode of "Landscapers" on HBO (with Olivia Colman and David Thewlis) was much weirder than I expected.

trying a bit too hard I thought

Yeah, that's fair. I've only seen the first one, though.

the jack reacher books are incredibly absurd and dumb, but kinda fun paperback trash

I do like that they are fairly low stakes. Like Reacher always shows up in some town and ends up fighting the local hotel franchise owner and his thugs

lol exactly

Sounds good. I'm in.

They are massively padded.

so is he lol

I liked the first ep of Landscapers quite a bit, I definitely get the "trying too hard" thing, but Colman and Thewlis are pretty great to watch. I also didn't expect it to be quite as funny as it is in parts, for some reason I expected the typical HBO dour crime thing and was pleasantly surprised by the laughs.

Ok, maybe I have to order Peacock?

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

Don't encourage Peacock.

Jack Reacher books are a Little Free Library classics, grab one on your next walk

"College Girls" is 10 eps in; the show is good as hell. The emotional/character moments are so effective (and affecting). Conflicts resolve quickly (within a few episodes), and the storylines continuously shift; but the pacing doesn't feel rushed, and the resolutions are satisfying and feel "earned." Some of the cast is so great. After watching a few episodes, I feel like I want to keep hanging out with these characters... it's that kind of show.

ok that MacGruber bit was great

“The report detailed your penchant for cruel, guerrilla-style executions”

“Sounds like me”

I fire this up and scroll to a random spot to get some lols:

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

"The Rescue" (which is on Disney now) is one of the most astounding things I've ever seen. Perfect doc to save for one of those days where you just feel terrible about everything and need something to make you finally feel a bit of hope for humanity.

Missed this earlier this week, but Neilsen's ratings for Red Notice are out! So let's point an obvious thing. Many people watched the film! It scored about 1.8 billion viewing minutes, which we might equivocate to around 15 million viewers. Not bad. But let's note something.

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) December 16, 2021

If that was a way to prove that no one really watched "Red Notice," they probably could have saved their energy.

I think it was meant to prove "Marvel movies are very popular"

Does anyone use Alamo on Demand?#anotherdamnedstreamingservice

Was often tempted to get on it during this pandemic but ultimately didn't bother. At least they're just a standard VOD rental service rather than subscription

Watched Red Notice with my son last week. It was quite fun and my son loved it xps

they're making a second season of 'good omens'? the series was so slavishly devoted to the book that i can't imagine what a second season would even look like

how much was gaiman involved in the first one? i know he's written for TV before, doctor who episodes, but only infrequently and this would be like 6x that.

Gaiman wrote the entire series and was showrunner on it

He and the director of S1 are co-running S2, I think, and it’s based on a sequel that he and Pratchett plotted while sharing a hotel room at a convention, but were both too successful by then to coordinate time to write

Season 2 of Beforeigners now on HBO max. S1 was excellent but stopped abruptly after 6 episodes.

Is this the thread where we discuss Don’t Look Up? Watched it on a lonely Xmas eve and enjoyed it much more that I expected to. Pretty shambolic and full of jarring changes of tone but pretty funny throughout.

Adam McKay's World-Ending DON'T LOOK UP (2021)

that movie looks like the sort of "every famous person we could con into participating" thing that would wind up bombing at the box office 20 years and/or only show up at your video store.

yeah it looks kinda like that stupid Movie 42

pass

I’d compare it more with Wag The Dog and Contagion in its own way.

ok so i started watching it bcz idk why

its not AS bad as i expected but still kinda meh mainly tho my god whyyyy the fuck is it 2.5 hours long????

Speaking of (I guess) stylish satire, I saw the first two eps. of The White Lotus last night, without knowing much of anything about it (I thought my wife was watching a movie; was surprised when the first set of end credits appeared).

It's not the kind of thing I would normally seek out or expect to enjoy, but it's definitely watchable. The cast and writing seem good enough to elevate the characters above mere "satirical constructs" (...plus, I sort of know people like that, lol). Also feels like it curdle/turn unpleasant real quick; at least it only has 6 episodes to do its thing, whatever that turns out to be.

Well, that really went somewhere. It sure knew what it was doing (and what it did wasn’t easy). Not sure I’d “recommend” it, but glad I watched it. The cast was so good…

“Sorry That Chaise Is Taken. But You’re A Very Pretty Man”: A Thread for White Lotus on HBOMax fyi

Ah… well, I’ve said my piece (lol).

Southside is brilliant. It should be much better known.

My parents are super technically inept and have a cable box / dvr with a complex remote, a tv remote only used to control volume and switch inputs, and an ancient bluray player with another complicated remote that handles streaming at a terrible resolution with very few services available. Neither of them can consistently get the tv to show what they want when they want to.

I bought them a roku for Christmas, set it up, logged into their their services and installed the app from their cable service and trained my mom to use it for like 45 minutes. She was terrified and skeptical but once it clicked she basically wept with joy and told me it was the best Christmas present she’s ever gotten because there’s only one remote that does everything she’s ever wanted with only 10 buttons. Not bad for like $80

a christmas miracle

actually, a christmas mirokule ? hm no

that’s awesome!

lol, i have had a similar experience. Now get them on plex!

Season 2 of Beforeigners is just as good as the first so far. (Only two episodes have been loaded.)

I had a similar experience except after setting up the TV and the Roku I just got an implicit acknowledgment from my MiL that it wasn’t the worst thing in the world.

We watched "CODA" on Apple. It's often sappy and has a pretty boilerplate plot, which initially kept me from getting into it. But it's really sweet and more or less won me over by the end. Some of the deaf family dynamics were compelling and new (to me), and the lead, Emilia Jones, is really solid. I guess it's a remake of a French movie, but if you told me it was adapted from a bestselling YA novel I'd believe it.

I got my Dad a Roku and he was oddly reluctant to watch any of the TV series now available to him, and after a while I finally realized he didn't understand that you can watch streaming shows from the beginning. He was thinking of it as basically another cable channel delivery system!