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The Predator meets Anne of Green Gables

New Pretty Little Liars is remarkable in that it didn’t have a single person in the cast who can act. Wall to wall amateur hour, every delivered line is torture. Yet I still watch it. Amazon’s The Wilds is a close runner up.

Really liked the first episode of Sharon Horgan’s new dark comedy drama series - Bad Sisters - on Apple TV. Beautifully played by the cast.

Horgan is extraordinary, I've loved literally everything she's done.

HBO Max Originals:

Generation Hustle

This is a mostly great documentary series about scammers that's lost in an ocean of mostly terrible and bloated documentary series about scammers. Don't recommend every episode, but definitely pirate it.

xpost, thanks for the Bad Sisters rec, very good and probably wouldn't have even known about it otherwise.

First episode of A League of Their Own was better than expected.

We bowed out after two, weren’t feeling it, but solid talent involved. D’arcy Carden is great.

i like it so far

HBO Max Removes About 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes https://t.co/4cXRh0Twsr

— Variety (@Variety) August 19, 2022

House Of Dragons so far ok - though god spare me the endless parade of explaining who characters are and dialogue that inevitably includex “well don’t worry my lord/lady everyone knows you are Lord/Lady Blabbity Blah next in line for the whatever/highest goal scorer in the kingdom/biggest knob in christendom”

occupational hazard i guess with these lineagey swordy shows

i thought it was pretty good, seems like it will be a slow build this year

yeah seems that way

i really liked the young actress who played rhaenyra, gonna be a shame to lose her when the series jumps forward in time

idk i found her creepy lol sorry

she is creepy haha

Just watched the 2019 Michael Winterbottom movie The Wedding Guest on Netflix. A surprising, well-crafted modern noir set in India and Pakistan. At first it reminded me of David Mamet's Spartan (which is great; see it if you haven't; it's on Hulu) but by the end it was in The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NlJ_Q7EfDc

House of Dragons: suspected tie-in to Henry I /White Ship/ The Anarchy shenanigans for any history trainspotters that are interested

Anyone watch House of the Dragon? I know George RR loves historical analogues. With the succession of Jaehaerys Targaryen going to the male heir of a cadet branch of the family (as opposed to an eldest daughter of elder branch), I'm getting post-Edward III vibes

— Noble Blood (@NobleBloodTales) August 22, 2022

(the thread expands on Henry I)

I feel like this media landscape is made for me at like 10-16 years old. Do I want to watch a show about She-Hulk, or an adaptation of Sandman, or a fantasy show about dragons, or wait for the new Star Wars series, or catch up one of the several cynical superhero shows, or maybe catch some new Fraggle Rock episodes, or the new Predator movie

It almost makes you wanna root for Stranger Things, because even though that show owes quite a bit to nostalgia, it is one of very few original properties that became big

That said, I stopped watching Stranger Things

I tried 10 minutes of the new Thrones, and couldn’t deal. I liked the old show, even the last season! It just felt ersatz and “check out our improved fx budget!” and “remember that theme song!!”. Given that it’s a GRRM production it felt weirdly offbrand.

Now Better Call Saul is done I feel like taking a semi-permanent break from violent and “simmering threat of violence” type shows

I want more Le Guin style struggling utopias instead

They really upped the gore factor for HoD.

the first ten mins or so of hot d did feel weird, probably because of the narration and flashback. the original series never did narration and the first flashback didn’t happen until season 6 or so

I would watch this is if it was only dragons. Just dragons, doing things.

*ten minutes* of hot d wow

need that hot d every sunday at 9pm

i tried hot d. felt pretty long

I want more Le Guin style struggling utopias instead

I keep saying this too. Like I get she's been burned by more than one shitty whitewashed adapts of Earthsea, but given what we've seen can be done re Dune, Foundation, Raised by Wolves etc could we not have a nice sprawling 5 or 10 show run at The Dispossesed, or even a redo of Lathe of Heaven? (its been done twice I know)

Not so sure Left Hand of Darkness would work on TV given 2/3 of it is 2 guys slogging across a glacier. Maybe a movie?

And speaking of, why not a big series covering Parable of the Sower/Talents?

trayce: the met is doing an opera of it next year i think

I liked House of Dragon well enough, but yeah something seemed off at first; partly, it's much brighter than the majority of GoT and less grimy. I saw someone complaining about overly dark scenes but I didn't notice any; I watched it on my laptop though.

League of Their Own episode 2 was a step down... was it really necessary to CGI the pitches? Kinda tired of Nick Offerman doing Nick Offerman too.

Chad and JT go deep Tim Heideckker produced show just released. Show definitely not to the quality of their YouTube council meeting/Fox News videos. But if you haven’t heard of them, do this for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM05Fqi2yRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjBBS03EQA

And speaking of, why not a big series covering Parable of the Sower/Talents?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, August 23, 2022 5:41 PM (two hours ago)

A movie of Parable of the Sower is in the works at A24, directed by Garrett Bradley

We're enjoying "Black Bird" on Apple. The vibe is kind of like a cross between "Silence of the Lambs" and "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" by way of '90s crime dramas. I appreciate how much of it is told through long, slow conversations between the two (very good) leads.

today i learned there's an animated version of usagi yojimbo on Netflix ("samurai rabbit"). i wonder how that is.

Finished the first season of Hacks and even though the first two episodes made me wonder if this was a Studio 60 type dramedy about comedy, the rest of the season was the hardest I've laughed in a long while. Jean Smart completely owns.

she’s so fucking good - Hacks is great, whole cast just kills it regularly

I still sometimes think of the scene in S1 where Ava is yelling “End call!” at her phone while frantically driving and stuffing a breakfast sandwich in her mouth… so damn funny

finally started Pennyworth on HBO and knock me down w a feather, it’s kinda marvelous? i mean, i’m only two in but eally impressed

i liked Gotham but it was deeply, deeply stupid. this feels more uh grounded or something. plus the cultural references are a bit more up my alley, like Alfie + Dickens with a silly true crime varnish. Mr Veg was baffled by the slang lol #bless

Wow, that Usagi cartoon looks awful, they made it a wisecracking CGI thing as usual.

I started watching Mo on Netflix. It's about a Palestinian guy in Houston who's trying to get his papers and just keep his head above water. Two episodes in and I like it a lot. It's a US show, but it reminds me strongly of UK shows like Man Like Mobeen and People Just Do Nothing.

Although actually it's not as goofy as either of those. It's probably just the immigrant, working-class family dynamics. It also kind of reminds me of the things I liked about early Better Call Saul when he was selling mobile phones out the back of his car.

Only Murders finale was very satisfying, all three of the leads look like they are having so much fun with their over the top hamming, I love it

and Reservation Dogs S2E5 was another stunning masterpiece as well