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look honestly i’ve only seen one ep and never read the book (love Gibson tho)
i’m just thrilled to watch a show that fucking STARTS and is exciting & interesting & doesn’t dick around for two episodes establishing literally everything

Man I mentioned Peripheral 3 days ago does erryone have me on mute ;_;

Hey does anyone have thoughts on a show called Peripheral?

i watched 15 minutes of it and I'll never watch it again.
no, just kidding; will watch soon.

"I have not read the book and we'll see where it goes but it's pretty well-established that you can't have a time travel plot and make sense."

it's not really time travel though so don't worry about it

yeah isn't this the one where they are trying to predict The Algorithm like a few seconds in advance?

here, I made a thread:
THE PERIPHERAL - our stub contemplates the Jonathan Nolan/Lisa Joy show based on the book by William Gibson

xp - that's Pattern Recognition IIRC (or Zero History, the three Blue Ant books blur together, I've only read them as a set)

the peripheral, a bit like the show Devs, is about the ability to look into the past. you're not actually traveling into it though; but you can influence it, but doing so creates an alternate timeline. That by itself kind of addresses time paradoxes.

at least, that is how I understood the book. I really liked the Peripheral; much more so than the Agency which just dragged.

Devs was nonsense too! Which is fine, but it was also boring.

ok well I disagree with that assessment

he missed his daughter

iirc

Good news her!
https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/the-roku-channel-saves-nasim-pedrad-chad-season-2.html

I think the "Weird" Al movie may be perfect.

First half was a lot better than the second, which had long stretches with no laughs. I did like the concept though, and how various true bits of his life story still ended up in it. Love Weird Al and UHF is an all-time classic for me, so I was still happy to see this

I think I was in the right mood for it, but I appreciated the (relative) lack of laughs in the second half. I think that's because it toes the line so well and plays the biopic parody just right. I feel sort of that way about the Christopher Guest movies, too; he pulls it off so well that it sometimes stops being funny.

I should add that even during the quieter stretches of the "Weird" Al movie, when I did laugh they were honest laughs, and I *never* laugh during movies. Or rarely. I think it was just the right kind of deadpan stupid done in just the right way. Like, the surprise Doors parody? I thought that was great. The whole notion of his parodies being original songs? Never got tired of that gag.

Anyway, he's a national treasure, put him on money.

Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing was awwwwwwesome

“Weird” sounds good…. but it’s only on Roku? wut

why aren't Netflix Originals on Hulu

Yeah Weird Al movie was awesome. Pitch perfect, reminded me a bit of Walk Hard, except with some true parts!

Dan Rad has aged into delightul weirdo so wonderfully.

xp I've never heard of a Roku Original, but guess I need to get out (or stay in) more. I thought Roku was just a piece of hardware

this is their first major foray, expect more
they also bought up all the quibi programming

presumably to destroy it forever

Loving Los Espookys.

Cool, didn't realise there was a second season and really enjoyed the first.

Key: the "Weird" Al movie is *free* on Roku (with ads). And I saw Al himself encourage people to download it.

Roku's working on it. In the meantime there's VPN (Very Probably No) way to watch it legally. I'm sure you have a TORRENT of other questions, but I have to move along, sorry.

— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 5, 2022

We've been watching that Amy Schumer dramedy on Hulu, "Life and Beth." It's mostly really well done, but I also find it kind of smug and indulgent, like a bunch of semi-autobiographical indie movies all at once, only spread out over 10 hours. We still can't tell if it's been taking place over several days or several weeks or several months, and we don't know if that disorientation is sloppiness/laziness or intentional.

I can't recall all the specifics myself, but I did really like it and hope there's a new season on the way. I know she has a huge contingent of haters, I can't agree with them.

I think there is a second season coming, yeah. I'm not really a hater of hers (though the first ep of the new sketch season suuuuuuuucked), but you're right, a lot of people are (including both of my daughters) and I can't figure out what she did wrong (being "not funny" or whatever doesn't count, because most comedy is not funny).

there was an accusation at some point of stealing material, I think, which gave the masses the go ahead to hate her for everything (whether she was the one who did that, I don't know; she works with writers and it could have well been one of them). also her being related to Chuck Schumer and being jewish doesn't help with certain demographics on the internet.

Tough way to learn both your daughters are antisemites, Josh… I know you thought it was just the one.
(j/k)

lol I wouldn't be surprised if my kids didn't like her because she identifies as Jewish but that's as far as she goes. They'd be, like, we're not doing all this Jewish shit just so someone can come along and say they're Jewish without putting in the work, man. Just this morning the one was complaining about Daniel Radcliffe identifying as Jewish, or more specifically, as a "Christmas-tree Jew." Whatever, Harry Potter.

Inside Amy Schumer continues her streak of being funny about 2/7 of the time and being smug and indulgent about 5/7 of the time. But the funny bits are good! Sketch comedy is fucking hard. They really need to get rid of the interstitial bullshit and those TERRIBLE songs at the end of each episode.

Isn’t that most comedians? What is it they say, don’t go into comedy just because your friends say that you’re funny? (RIP, Dr. Morbius)

I think all comedy is hard, but in my opinion there is no excuse for pre-recorded sketch comedy to have such a shitty hit to miss ratio. it's telling that as shitty as SNL typically is, at least the prerecorded bits are pretty consistently great.

I mean, if you can only manage two out of every seven bits being funny, then maybe you don't have anything funny to say. Because there are plenty of funny shows that can be funny every episode. I say this as a fan of her first three seasons, which I want to say were more consistently funny.

Dan Levy’s cooking competition show Big Brunch is up on HBO — it’s quite lovely, even though there’s $300k up for grabs its surprisingly chill & friendly & cuddly

the stakes are odd, in that they are seemingly all experienced chefs having to cook many iterations of .. brunch? but i like it. judges are v fussy but also handwavey in their criticism, the vagueness can be annoying but whatever

and Levy is a good host. it’s like lowkey David Rose hosting like i keep waiting for him to say “IF YOU SAY “FOLD IN ONE” MORE TIME”

Lost Bullet was one of the best things I saw last year — a French crime movie heavy on car chases and amazing hand-to-hand combat — and there's a sequel out this weekend, Lost Bullet 2, that pulls the extremely smart move of picking up basically the morning after the last movie ended, after which there are a few time-jumps, but the car chases are even better and the fight scenes are fucking stunning. There was one scene where the "hero" beats the shit out of three other dudes in a kitchen and living room that actually made me jump in my seat. Both movies highly, highly recommended.

Both are on Netflix, btw.

hell yeah, thanks. I have been in the mood for some La Femme Nikita type shit

Watching Inside Man now so you don’t have to.

Oh, god, that was terrible. I didn't even mention it here. If it had been more than four hours long I definitely would have bailed.

Did working with Gatiss break Moffat? I've been curious about Inside Man...

Almost at the end, but yeah just would have bailed in the middle of the previous episode if there were any more to have to suffer through.
(xp)

I liked Stanley Tucci and Dolly Wells, but not much else about this.

Come on over to the MUBI thread, where THE KINGDOM is live!

xpost lol i also thought Inside Man was terrible and wish i'd bailed early. so many stupid decisions

Maybe they will get some notes and improve for a Second Season? Nah, hope not.

Fleishman Is In Trouble is the story of recently divorced 41-year-old “Toby Fleishman” (Jesse Eisenberg)

Jesse Eisenberg playing a 41-year old (and presumably being in his 40s?) feels so wrong.

No discussion of A Friend of the Family on here? I thought it was excellent, with Jake Lacy reaching impressive levels of creepiness.

this spanish show If Only is a steaming pile of garbage