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also Murray Hill as Fred Rococo omg <3

Halfway through Bad Vegan and yeeeeesh. (I am amused that 'Netflix documentary' is clearly its own genre now given how the term is used in conversation out of the gate.)

as someone who has carried Bridget onto a stage before, welcome to the party

"Kate McKinnon's worst project since forging a relationship with Bari Weiss." wait what?

xp for the record i think Bridget and Murray and Jeff Hiller are all amazing on this show but the plotting and the show itself just doesn't live up to what they bring to the table

oh that was some time ago. nvm (xpost)

xpost i think i agree. i loved the show as-is but i definitely felt like it could have easily gone deeper, weirder, funnier & sadder with that cast. so good.

the show also felt like maybe it started as a movie & they turned it into a show? maybe its just me

bridget's first show on Amazon "Love You More" - which never got past the pilot - was perfect but bezos done fucked up

"Kate McKinnon's worst project since forging a relationship with Bari Weiss." wait what?

Not gonna lie, my first thought was " Isn't she gay? What's she doing with the Storage Wars dude?"

More love for “Somebody Somewhere”.

Also, two episodes into "Pieces of Her" and enjoying it so far.

Completely obsessed with "Severance".

New season of Upload is on Prime, I quite like it. It doesnt feel like a Greg Daniels joint for some reason but its still entertaining, though I want to slap his vain stupid girlfriend.

Pieces of Her is jarring for me, its meant to be set in Georgia/outer suburban ATL or something right? But it is SO clearly filmed in Sydney.

network TV, but I caught five seconds of the "the wrestler The Rock as a young boy" tv show Young Rock the other day, and learnt it is filmed in Australia. good old pandemic.

Quite enjoyed the first season haven't got around to starting the second one yet xps

Anyone else watching Shining Vale with Greg Kinnear/Courtney Cox? First couple of episodes were ok and I'll keep watching because of Horgan's involvement

Looking forward to this one. The book series is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ZJChzPn0U

Really liking the Dropout, which has reached episode 6 in the Disney dripfeed schedule. The first episode is corny, as noted by others above, but the series really takes off by the third episode and the performances are excellent.

I’m also watching WeCrashed, the WeWork factionisation, on Apple TV. It’s eminently watchable but doesn’t have the same narrative tension or outstanding performances.

My 'huh, this is kinda all right I guess' series I'm currently watching is Halo -- never have played the games or anything but I was curious and while it's not great or anything I kinda appreciate the counterintuitive weird chilly/paranoid vibe so far as opposed to nonstop action. Perhaps appropriately, I was startled when the end credits ran for the second episode and I realized Keir Dullea was in it! Should have clocked him out of the gate.

Really enjoyed Somebody Somewhere … thanks for mentioning the show up thread

Pachinko (Apple TV+) has been excellent so far. Nice to have a South Korean show without zombies or murder games.

And the opening titles are fantastic.

opening titles are bonkers

Is there really no thread or even mention of Severance on ILX? Did I search wrong?

Seasonal finale was last night and honest to god maybe the best episode of a TV show I've ever seen.

Are you kidding? Or maybe you are severed yourself?

Sorry.
This is Kier Egan. I love you, daniel s.

Aargh Eagan.

to be clear, that other thread was repurposed to be about the show.

I did a search! It didn't show up!

Hmm.

Might bite the bullet and get Apple TV for Severance. Is Slow Horses any good?

KAJ apparently likes it, according to his substack.

If you like space/alternate history, you might want to wait till For All Mankind season 3 drops (no idea when that'll be though other than probably sometime this year).

Slow Horses is ok & Oldman is good but i have only seen ep1 - need to watch more of it bc even though i like it well enough the first ep felt like every other “british domestic-spying-group-of-misfits” show and/or procedural … still kinda waiting for the hook i guess

BTW, the Great Fusion is upon us

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/discovery-warnermedia-merger-close-warner-bros-discovery-1235200983/

AT&T just walking away from that circus they created is so them. “peace out losers” *throws cigarette on smoldering wreckage*

plus there were SO many layoffs after that last WarnerMedia merge. this one is going to be worse. maybe this is a boring observation but i saw on Deadline that Discovery promised wall street something like $3b in cost savings which is a) nuts and b) scary and c) way more than trimming fat, those layoffs are gonna hurt imo

Next GoT spinoff will be about castle repair and flipping

Anyone watching Tokyo Vice?

oh, it's being discussed over here?

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Property Brothers: Westeros

Here: The Michael Mann poll

the Dropout is excellent. I was on the fence about watching another miniseries based on a documentary about a current event and in fact missed the first episode but walked in on episode 2 while my wife was watching and then we watched almost the entire thing last night. I'm glad this went to Seyfried and not Kate McKinnon in the end.

also if you didn't want to punch George Schultz in the fucking schnozz before you will want to here, even though he is Sam Waterson

Seyfried and Anne Hathaway are both amazing clueless/too aware monsters in their respective series right now.

yeah Hathaway also wonderful in wecrashed (I hate to admit Leto is also very good in that). How many more charlatan CEO series are we getting?

it is good to hear that a series that looks terrible is actually not, but yeah... both evil CEO tales don't appeal to me

Dropout is directed by Michael Showalter which I didn't realize before hand and has a healthy dose of humor, which is why I can see why McKinnon was tapped, but it doesn't dwell there. That said the episode with the Walgreens team (with Alan Ruck and Rich Sommer) was at times completely hilarious.

I really like Leto in WeCrashed: I’m impressed at how he shows Adam ‘reads’ peoples’ characters and tailors his pitch accordingly. And he does convincingly portray the sheer audacity and self-belief/self-delusion needed to carry it off.

The Dropout is excellent overall - I’m just slightly disappointed it’s bookended by two corny episodes (the first a lot more so than the last).

How many more charlatan CEO series are we getting?

Well we also have Super Pumped which has also been a good watch; the Tarantino V.O. moments are...unneeded, generally, or at least my tolerance for them widely varies, but the whole thing's been pretty good and the final episode should be an amusing car crash, if you will. Gordon-Leavitt's got the self-regarding asshole part down to a T and it's a solid ensemble cast as well.

It's been amusing how all the series have essentially been fusing in one way or another as time goes on. Dropout ends with the Uber pickup (confirmed as being very intentional), earlier in the final episode Seyfried-as-Holmes talks about getting ready for an appearance with Jared Leto, the Benchmark VC firm is represented in Super Pumped by Kyle Chandler's character and in wecrashed by Anthony Edwards's, yesterday's wecrashed had Leto-as-Neumann asking Edwards how Benchmark treats Kalanick and then later watching a news report about how Kalanick was out as Uber CEO, which is essentially the final episode of Super Pumped tomorrow...

The Charlatan CEO Cinematic Universe

Just started Severance, which is totally my thing, but what is up with Adam Scott's face in it? (Don't tell me if it's a spoiler or something)