But regardless I would totally watch this. The guests are a serious upgrade on Murder In Successville
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 January 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
It seems like there's a lot of comic spins on the murder mystery genre either already out (Only Murders in the Building) or coming out soon. I'm assuming we can credit the success of Knives Out for this, and while I didn't love KO as much as others did, I'm happy with this development.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 January 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
Ugh that looks terrible to me. Reminds me of that 30 Rock episode where Tracy realizes that people think breaking character is funny and starts doing it deliberately.
Looks fun for the actors though.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
I'm enjoying Mobeen btw, very well written! I should prob have subs on tho.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
Three episodes in and Archive 81 is pretty good so far - definitely quite unsettling/scary at times
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link
Archive 81 felt like there was one element too many in it for me, although I couldn't tell you which one I'd drop.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 10:28 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that every show you watched on Netflix that had a 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
Feeling like Archive81 could have been a better 105 minute movie than series.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 27 January 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
I'm five episodes in now and still enjoying the pervading sense of dread
― groovypanda, Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:55 (two years ago) link
Just watched the first two episodes of All of Us Are Dead, the latest South Korean zombie offering, this time with an outbreak that starts at a high school.
They really are very good at these over there - nothing too original, but still really gripping and fun and incredibly well-made.
― Roz, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah I started Silent Sea last night and it's just really well made, makes you wonder what's going to happen, the characters are all really clearly drawn and not always predictable. The main character is this mopey, cut-the-bullshit female scientist who you just instantly love.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 January 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
No spoilers but I was disappointed with Silent Sea after the promising startStarting All of Us Are Dead later. Does look fun
― groovypanda, Friday, 28 January 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
finished All of Us Are Dead - around the middle it starts to get bogged down by tedious teen soap drama which we ended up fast-fwding through a lot, but otherwise I thought it was good, if overstuffed. appreciate that they were trying to use the zombie outbreak to say something about teen bullying, the pressures of the SK education system, and all the myriad ways that adults inevitably disappoint, but I don't think they managed more than just surface criticism ("Extracurricular", another violent teen K-drama on Netflix, does this much better).
still fun watching the characters figure out 1001 ways to get past zombies within the confines of the school though
― Roz, Thursday, 3 February 2022 05:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I was surprised by how long it was. Was expecting maybe 6 episodes not 12
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 February 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
Holy shit this is like a parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTI6T5M8Fj0
For something designed to build hype, I couldn't even make it the full two minutes.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
Didn't realise Knives Out 2 was going to be a Netflix film
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 February 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
knives out 3 will be too
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
Liking Murderville. It's cool to see a partially improvised show shot and edited like a drama, and there's some good laughs each episode. The guests handle the show in pretty different ways - Conan handled his episode so smoothly, you'd think he read the script!
― Vinnie, Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's very funny, although I kind of miss the weird/bad celebrity impressions of the original.
― braised cod, Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
Original?
― Evan, Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
It's a remake of Murder in Successville, a british TV show.
― braised cod, Saturday, 5 February 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
It's cool to see a partially improvised show shot and edited like a drama
Did anyone else watch Bad Trip? I've never seen any of the Jackass movies so maybe this isn't as original as it seemed to me, but it's a hidden camera prank comedy movie (w/ Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish) where the prank scenes are part of an overarching narrative, and they never show the camera reveal to the participants bit. It's funny, def gets kinda gross, but it's almost worth watching just for the formal qualities
― rob, Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
are today's biggest movie stars the ones who get comic book roles or the ones created by comic book roles
i liked the conan episode of murderville. series doesn't seem to be getting good reviews though.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
Murderville was good. It wasn't life-changing but it was good.
I kept getting more and more agitated with Archive 81 because one of the protagonists is a nerdy Black man named Dan and I kept saying over and over "dude wtf I would never do that" to the TV
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Hmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-sWlgFhUGo
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 February 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link
I guessed that was jeunet in the first few seconds.
i'm not a fan of retrofuturism or of sexbot revenge stories.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 11 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
iirc there's a Love, Death & Robots episode that has a very similar plot but is less than 15 mins long. watch that instead imo - you don't even have to switch streaming services
― Roz, Saturday, 12 February 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
Inventing Anna is too goddamn long by half … i wouldnt call it “good”? … more like a trashy watchable soap opera that pretends to be true
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
lol yeah it's terrible but I can't stop watching. making Anna out into some kind of girlboss hero is a bizarre take but not surprising coming from Shonda Rhimes, I guess.
also the "journalism" scenes are hilariously bad, it's hard to believe that Jessica Pressler - who wrote the original Anna story and is exec producer on the show - allowed this version of herself to be portrayed this way i.e. doing some deeply unethical things like paying a source, accepting expensive gifts from a source, convincing Anna to change her plea, and literally begging the defence lawyer to part of his team?? wtf
― Roz, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
yeah its really weird how they center the journo character & basically throw aside all but the barest bones of the actual story
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 04:47 (two years ago) link
As soon as I realized Shonda Rhimes was involved, I realized this was going to be about 85% nonsense with some good one-liners scattered through it
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
The accent is the worst I’ve heard in years. And I saw house of gucci
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
I've only seen one episode of the show but it's meant to be dodgy fake accent, no?
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
The big problem I have is that they are trying to thread the line between the audience knowing she's full of shit but not all the characters realizing it, but she's hamming up the unconvincing side so much that it is incredibly difficult to believe that she could convince anyone of anything.
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
That accent is a monstruosity. That charachter in general is tedious. Some funny moments with Anna Chlumsky and others though
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
tbh the accent is the least made up thing in the show. her irl accent is almost identical, its SO weird
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
heres an irl comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnsnaRSAiQ
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
I mean, it's overdone but not by much
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
finished it :/ this show is wayyyyy too long, could've done without the final two or three episodes entirely.
And I'm reminded of why I dislike Shonda Rhimes shows - ultimately, they're always about characters who take their jobs way too fucking seriously and are constantly yelling at other people about it.
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:30 (two years ago) link
i just finished ep 4 & i’m like HOW are there five more episodes !!??? 😩
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
the article was fine; it's hard to imagine wanting to think any further about her
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
It's very easy to imagine wanting to imitate that accent though
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
At least Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder complimented this with a lot of entertainingly batshit murder
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
as with most things in life, adding viola davis ups the enjoyment factor considerably
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
Did anyone else watch Bad Trip?
yeah it's totally fun.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
Anyone recommend The Woman in the House...? I'm halfway through and while I find the mystery mildly interesting, it isn't the least bit funny to me.
― Choice Errol Quotes (Leee), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
i didnt like the first one so i skipped this one altogether
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
Watched them all as was fairly short but it's not great. The tone is all over the place and, as you say, it's not particularly funny so that when they do try an absurdist joke it's just really jarring. Most of the time it just plays as a straight whodunnit.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 February 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link
i watched some of the first ep and got the strong feeling that the script was written as a comedy - it's full of jokes - but was shot and directed as a straight TV mystery. which, you know, is a choice - you could argue that SUCCESSION (2018-) is essentially veep or the thick of it just executed as a prestige drama - but succession allows the comedic beats to land, lets us just roll in the deliciousness of it, where with this, it's like, these carefully written jokes are just buried
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:18 (two years ago) link