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Anyone seen the new season of only murders? Loved the first one, but would rather tap out then watch an inferior second. Tell me it’s good!

i barely watched the first season and apparently missed the very ending of it becaue I was pretty confused when I started season 2. Hence, I only saw the first episode but it was good?

Did anybody else watch the HBO show Industry, about a bunch of attractive young people doing drugs and having sex while competing for jobs at a big London investment bank? I liked the first 8-episode season, but I don't know if I'm gonna watch Season 2, which premieres on Monday, because the protagonist was extremely unlikable. I think we're supposed to feel that she has Trauma from her Past and that's why she's a paranoid, hostile asshole to everyone and has near-breakdowns any time she faces an obstacle or fucks up, but...she's a paranoid, hostile asshole and it's very difficult to sympathize with her.

not I, I thought it looked awful but then I thought that about Succession originally too

I watched the first couple of episodes but it didn't really grab me tbh.

We watched the first 3 eps. of Only Murders S2... I thought it started slow but Ep. 3 was really good (we haven't turned back to it, though).

(They really should have done a longer recap of the twists & turns of S1; they keep referring back to events that made me think "oh yeah, I forgot about that")

i’m enjoying s2 of only murders … it took me a couple of eps to settle back in but it’s good!

I feel like the turnaround was shockingly fast! I'm not sure I'm ready for another one so soon.

We finished S2 of "The Great"... I can't think of a show with all-around better performances, the cast is just incredible

Things get pretty far-out at times (the content can be... "extreme"), but it's quite a show (again, I know this is old news for some)

The Great is totally great.

Could not get into The Great, despite loving The Favorite

i loved the first season of the great but keep forgetting to watch season 2. it's next on my list (prob not gonna have bandwidth for another hour-long show til better call saul ends)

NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock added zero paid subscribers in the second quarter of 2022 and lost 1 million monthly active accounts (MAAs) from Q1, according to second-quarter earnings Comcast reported today.

zero? how is that even possible?

I think it just means that subscriptions were effectively flat, as in for every new paid sub that signed up, they lost one.

i only have peacock because I can get it for free somehow, there are good things on there but it honestly should be like $2 and not $5.

Killing It is good.

xp that makes more sense, but the way that sentence reads makes it seem like they gained zero (not net zero, literal zero) and lost 1 million

i use it to watch Sanford and Son mainly

Undone - 2 seasons on Amazon - was excellent. Well-written, cool rotoscope animation, moving. And Bob Odenkirk !

And Rosa Salazar! And written by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg from Bojack Horseman! It's baffling to me how little attention the show gets, Amazon has done a poor job promoting it

Hopefully surprising no one, there were reportedly lots of layoffs at the Coda Collection today.

Oh man I just realized what Prey is and I am stooooked for it, Friday can't come soon enough.

I'm cautious but I'm hearing really good things so far about Prey!

Oh, that’s cool, I hadn’t heard of that movie…

Can’t believe Dan Trachtenberg hasn’t directed a film since 10 Cloverfield Lane (which I thought was awesome)!

Btw – we’ve moved onto this HBO Max* series The Gilded Age, which is like a Neanderthal version of Downton Abbey… terrible writing, acting, directing; it’s ridiculous and fun to watch / laugh at.

(*Wikipedia says this trash is actually on regular HBO, believe it or not; so I guess not fit for this thread.)

the Resort on Peacock is thoroughly enjoyable so far.

xp idk, sounds like Neando could do a better job than that!

Gilded Age is definitely dull but I didn’t find it straight-up bad - ymmv

Baranksi & Coons were worth it for me

Yeah, I didn't think it was that bad besides very obviously trying to do nothing more than transplant Downton Abbey to NYC a few decades earlier. Some of the CGI is terrible and they uh play fast and loose with geography and architecture of the era, but I enjoyed it as a mindless fun,

i was mostly annoyed by how impossibly clean the streets & sidewalks are lol

HBO Max is expected to layoff around 70% of their development staff.

“Sounds like they’re not doing HBO Max scripted shows anymore with HBO taking over, so less scripted shows overall,” says one company insider.

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fully improvised Game of Thrones spin-offs plz

It took me awhile to realize that "Max Original" did not mean it was a show from Cinemax

mindless fun

Yes, this is key - it's somehow soothing to zone out to

These behemoths, they're going to put all their money into Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings, or other CGI shit with dragons, and it will turn out people are just done with that shit and have moved on, and they'll be like, oh shit, what other cheaper IP shit do we have lying around, like, Knight Rider, or Remington Steele or something? Quick, greenlight that shit! And then it will fail, too, and they'll be at a total loss. "We regret to inform you that HBO Max (et al.) is laying off everyone, because we can not think of anything original to do, let alone do for a reasonable price that does not involve relocating the production to Europe or New Zealand or spending millions and millions on server space to process all the CG." And they'll just end up stationing cameras around Los Angeles and calling it the world's biggest, most ambitious unscripted reality show.

Gilded Age was terrible and dull, which is fine, but it also made Christine Baranski boring, which is unforgivable

Agree Undone is fantastic, thought it was the best streaming-only thing since the first seasons of American Vandal and Russian Doll, except with a better second season than either

XP NBC actually did a Knight Rider reboot awhile back. KITT was a Mustang. It didn't last long.

but it also made Christine Baranski boring

I don't think I watched the same episodes as you.

American Vandal

Don't these guys have a new show?

Oh shit, it already came and went! Thanks, Paramount+, for your deep promotional budget.

If HBO Max gets folded into Discovery+ or whatever, I might unsubscribe. Unless I still get access to the TCM hub, which has some good stuff. I don't watch any Discovery shows and don't want to.

In the meantime, the first episode of Season 2 of Industry was pretty good; the lead character is maybe even more of a damage case and destructive asshole than in Season 1, but more tolerable somehow?

Also, 2 new episodes of Reservation Dogs on Hulu! Gonna watch at least one of those tonight.

Yeah I'm champin at the bit but my boys are away at camp. Gotta wait for them, they love it

we watched 1st new episode last night & it is predictably excellent

i so desperately want to call everyone “shitass”

So there's at least some indication that streaming interfaces/home pages are a mess on purpose, right? I'm reminded of the Prey movie here, and see another (positive) review this morning, so I think, OK, is it out now? I go to Hulu on my computer and see nothing about Prey on the homepage, and scrolling around see links to Predator and Predator 2 here and there but no Prey. Search for Prey and find a page with its trailer, but even that page says nothing about a release date. Watch the trailer again, and yeah, there's the release date (Aug. 5) at the end of the trailer, but you'd think a big movie about to be released on Hulu tomorrow would have a higher profile. This isn't the first time (or place) I've seen stuff like this happen. Apple, Disney ... sometimes even high profile/in-house stuff seems to be hidden or buried. I get that maybe they want as many eyeballs on as many pages/products as possible, but at the same time, there are so many options that the longer they make you look, the more they risk losing your interest. Though I suspect they must have data that shows this is not the case.

Maybe they don't feature it on their service until it's actually launched?

It's always weird to me that these streaming services don't do better with hyping upcoming shows. Maybe I just haven't looked in the right places, like it's so weird to me that I have to go to YouTube to watch the Andor of She-Hulk trailer. You'd think Disney+ would want to host the trailers to hype their own content up.

Yeah, I guarantee tomorrow morning Prey will be the top banner item when you go to Hulu.

Same thing happened when that movie Spiderhead was coming up on Netflix. I read a review, was mildly intrigued, and had to go searching and searching to figure out that it wouldn't be available for another week. (I still haven't watched it.)

self-xp "Andor of She-Hulk" would be a pretty great show idea lol

I get weekly emails from the streaming services I pay for (as opposed to the ones my wife pays for), promoting what’s new. Those would be HBO Max and Paramount+. Seems kind of old school, but I guess it must work for them. (I’m sure if I followed them on social, I would see new stuff there as well)