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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

I love that each of the OMITB season finale's give Steve Martin space to do some expert physical comedy.

yes, the slow motion thing was incredible

It was very funny... S2 was a bit less compelling overall than S1 (it's a hard thing to pull off twice), but enjoyed watching it for sure.

I've never been a huge Martin Short fan (or a Steve Martin fan, for that matter), but I really enjoy them in this show – Short's character is so funny to me.

there was also a very good setup for S3, now that I think abt it

I agree, Only Murders is very enjoyable and satisfying. It’s not genius and it’s not perfect, but it sure is fun. They make a really great trio.

Also loved the Only Murders finale, a great cap to a weaker season. It probably should have been 8 episodes; 10 felt like they were dragging it out. But I did think Selena Gomez improved her delivery a lot this season, or maybe I finally got used to it

Yeah, she holds her own with those two (which obv isn’t easy).

Finished "Black Bird" on Apple, and yeah, I recommend it. Parts of it are tough, but it's a good story and, shockingly, reportedly remarkably close to what actually went down. Lots of longs scenes of people talking, which really allows you to get to know these flawed, fucked up characters.

Another +1 to enjoying the OMIT-B finale. And next season's guest star looks like being much better than the previous ones

I am happy to see he'll be a part of next season but I've loved almost all the casting choices and cameos in the first two seasons (Cara Delevingne was eh)

This week's episode of Reservation Dogs was hilarious. Amber Midthunder, the lead actress from Prey, has an amazing guest role.

didn't realize who that was. Totally hilarious. Every cast member of that show deserves a breakout career, it's like every episode I look up a different actor to see what they've done and it's like, this show and then Rutherford Falls. And that's it. Tonight I finally looked up Jackie.

Yeah, was gonna say, this was maybe the funniest one yet. When she shifts from thanking their ancestors to thanking their neanderthal ancestors, and then their dinosaur ancestors, and iirc the lizards both underground and in the stars ...

omg i was DYING

her revealing she’s irl from the Bay Area was truly the most perfect detail

^^^ 100%

her physical BODY is from the Bay Area, don't you see

I wanna know if the real serial killer from "Black Bird" also has Jordan Peterson's voice

her revealing she’s irl from the Bay Area was truly the most perfect detail

That was great, also that they picked Dartmouth as the place she's working on her PhD, because of the specific relationship between its founding and Native people:

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2020/10/on-native-land-reflecting-on-dartmouths-indigenous-history

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096809768/dartmouth-returns-the-papers-of-an-18th-century-mohegan-scholar-to-the-tribe

(tl;dr "In the 18th century, a scholar worked to raise money to build a college for Native American students like him, but the money was diverted to establish the Ivy League Dartmouth instead.")

whoah

xp did love that total pseud role Amber played. Had to look up who it was then kicked myself cos i should have got it. She was pretty good in Legion too from what I remember.
Had me thinking of Rachel Dolezal though just somebody alienated from their roots and overcompensating. Not sure if the guy was much better.

Been enjoying Five Days At Memorial this week too Which had me d/ld some Treme which I haven't watched yet.

the guy was worse! or at least as bad, in a different way

“dinosaur ancestors” was killing me

I thought the guy was going to be a comment on the whole "two spirit" thing but that didn't really come up. Though there was that great moment where he was going on about the influence he had growing his hair long and the kid from the other gang mumbled something like "I just met you an hour ago".

I loved the storytelling bits with the black and white.

Really I feel like there's a new kind of show that's a half-hour and able to blend comedy and heaviness, sillyness and drama, realism and surrealism in amazing ways. Atlanta, Better Things, Reservation Dogs. I'd have to group Louis in there was well, which definitely influenced all of these shows but I could also say it lost some of it's lustre even before he did publicly.

Don't know how much Better Things has been discussed but it was a really really special show. Like often one of the least "plot" driven things I'd ever seen on TV.

Flight Attendant probably fits in that category Dan

(though not as good as the shows you mention)

and Shrill, and Work In Progress

I don’t think so. I like flight attendant but it’s totally different. It does do the comedy drama thing but I’m more focused on the realness of these other shows.

Ah okay well you mentioned surrealism. But yes I suppose it is pretty different in terms of how totally confected it is.

Okay replace that with Feel Good?

Better Things is so good.

Loved Better Things. Pretty sure Louis CK was involved with it initially but then it very much became Pamela Adlon's own thing

yes he produced it and co-wrote/maybe directed a few in the beginning but was gone after the first or second season.

Higher Maintenance is in that category for me

it's a bit of erasure to say that LCK was "involved initially" on a show that he co-created and wrote/co-wrote the first two seasons for and almost certainly would have continued on with as a lead creative force if he hadn't hit a (apparently temporary) professional brick wall

Brockmire and the first couple of seasons of You're The Worst were great for blending comedy and heavier stuff

it's a bit of erasure to say that LCK was "involved initially" on a show that he co-created and wrote/co-wrote the first two seasons for and almost certainly would have continued on with as a lead creative force if he hadn't hit a (apparently temporary) professional brick wall

I was not aware of the depth of his involvement until just now. I kind of assumed it was Adlon's show from the beginning and CK used his clout with FX to get it on the air. But yeah, for the first two seasons it was absolutely a creative partnership.

The Patient (therapist Steve Carrell imprisoned in cozy wood paneled basement by desperate serial killer patient show on Hulu) seems intriguing enough, despite the maybe silly premise and choice of lead.

At basically 20 minute episodes doled out once a week with cliffhanger-y endings, it seems like a reaction to glutton TV shit and I’m not yet sure it’s clever/good enough to warrant what I can see as being a frustrating rather than tantalizing roll out. We’ll see!

i watched the first two. have no idea what to think of it yet other than i guess ill keep watching cos its short and easy.

xpost half-hour shows blending comedy and heavier stuff - Brockmire yes and add Catastrophe

Catastrophe was amazing for that, and all the more amazing because they knew when to just stop.

I almost turned off The Bear after the first episode because I was getting Uncut Gems stress vibes you all talked about, but glad I stuck it out. It's calmer than that most of the time and very well written and acted, one of my favorite things I've seen this year

yeah i really loved it and i hated uncut gems.