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Watching season 2 of Hacks, also a real fall-off from season 1. The cast are still great and every episode has some quality scenes but it feels like it’s already run out of ideas. The Parks and Rec problem: once all the characters have become humanised and likeable, the drama dies, or the drama that remains seems artificially generated. Still fun, though.

Started watching My Best Friend’s Exorcism and the acting is so bad. Everyone raved about the book but so far I can’t figure out what the big deal is with this story.

The acting was better in the book i hear

missed the news last week but The Midnight Club has been canceled :( shame, wish it had gotten half the attention that say, Wednesday, got.

Mike Flanagan talks through his ideas for what would have been the second season here: https://www.tumblr.com/flanaganfilm/702543785726558208/the-midnight-club-season-two

He's also moving from Netflix to Amazon: https://deadline.com/2022/12/mike-flanagan-amp-trevor-macy-overall-deal-with-amazon-studios-1235186302/

Fucksake. I'd kind of assumed the second season was a lock, given that Flanagan has made 4 other Netflix shows :(

We just bingewatched all of Irreverent. It was ok but trying a bit too hard - like it was some kind of weird cross between Mr Inbetween and SeaChange, with the latter's amount of twee good heartedness.
And then it had a REALLY stupid ending, like they had to finish it all off so they did so really clumsily.

Man, first episode of Andor is dull.

There are some great setpieces in certain episodes, but don't expect an action-packed romp, at least half the episodes are all talk and zero action whatsoever.

I tried it because it was supposed to be the not-action Star Wars but it was just like a guy walking around for reasons(?) and the teacher's pet security guard is going to hunt him down I guess.

I tried watching the first ep a few weeks back (when everyone was raving about the finale), and found it dull & confusing… then I saw there were 12 episodes, and it was only S1 of 2… (I haven’t gone back.)

Let's just say the security guard is in no way equipped to deal with Andor.

This one gets better as it goes. Also nice to have a properly hateful ground-level empire with sadistic bastards left and right; they eventually give the initially passive and selfish main character extremely good reason to fight back. The tension in several episodes is a vise. More SW stuff like this IMO.

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I thought the first couple of episodes felt a little directionless too tbh. I think it’s a fair comment that it doesn’t really get going until Luthen shows up on Ferrix.

Even as a Jesse Eisenberg skeptic I am loving Fleishman is in Trouble - mostly for Lizzy Caplan's schlubby mum turning up to aerobics class in her Ween t-shirt. Sad that it meant she couldn't be in the Party Down revival tho ;_;

what? NO! I'm loving Fleishman and I love Lizzy Caplan but I'll miss her in Party Down. Sad.

Flanagan may have lost Midnight Club but he's now signed up to do Stephen King's the Dark Tower, which has been so cursed in attempts at making adaptations I'll be surprised if it actually happens.

I think the original book series itself is “cursed,” lol

i never read past the first three TBH but I've always planned to

Honestly that may have been where I stopped (or maybe I read #4 as well). Even at the height of my SK fandom, I just wasn’t too into it.

I bailed at #4 and read wiki summaries of the rest, felt like that covered what I needed to get out of them.

Been really enjoying Fleishman as well. There's the sad but maybe-true recurring thing that as a doctor he's at the bottom of the status/income totem poll among all these ruthless finance people.

They’re pulling Westworld off HBOMax - what’s the point of the service if you can’t watch their recent shows?!

yeah that is weird.

this netflix adaptation of lady chatterly's lover is some porn

xpost they're canceling Minx too - huge bummer, it was such a good show. :(

also pretty fucked up because it was initially renewed earlier this year and apparently they'd already finished shooting s2

nooo :(

Yeah, the fuck? It's one thing to cancel, but to remove? What's the point of that, to avoid paying residuals? As I understand it the cast of "Westworld" signed contracts before the show was cancelled, which implies they're going to be paid for nothing, doesn't it? Related, wasn't "Tokyo Vice" given a second season? Can't imagine that happening now, that show can't be cheap.

In a few months HBO is just going to be screen saver images of dragons breathing fire

it has to be to avoid paying residuals. the show creators have signed a deal with Amazon so maybe it will move over there?

Was renewed back in June and started production last month but yeah, don't hold your breath xp

presumably Westworld and other junk will get licensed out and rotated through other streaming companies, either as a time-locked exclusive or just unceremoniously dumped on several at once

I’d guess the calculation is “are people coming to our service to specifically watch this show?’ and if the answer is no, then flipping it to another service that’d pay HBO some money is the move

As someone who was committed to seeing Westworld through to the end, I'm relieved it got canceled. It was a mess. Although I did really love the production design and the music.

I doubt it will be licensed to another streaming service, they’ll make it PPV only. $2.99 an episode, then the residuals are all on you!

Some reports suggesting it could resurface on Warner Bros' free ad supported streaming service.

Been enjoying This Fool on Hulu. Half-hour comedy/drama set in a rehab center for gang members. Michael Imperioli has a supporting part as the center's director -- fun to see him in tandem with his White Lotus character. Charming show.

one of the high points of the year for me, not least because of the inevitable ascendency of Frankie Quiñones, prior of the dress up gang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rprZmrKDq4k

I thought that show was pretty shaky at first, but got better and ended strong. Its Achilles’ heel (IMO) is that the main character is not very sympathetic…

Willow is better than I expected - it looks good, not too much shitty CGI, the YA-adjacent fantasy plot isn't too YA

did anyone watch Industry season 2? not sure i want to commit to a second season

was there anything to recommend s1? I opted out after the first episode.

"The show follows a group of young graduates competing for permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank in London." - you would have to pay me

Not really tbh. Inertia after watching first episode ?

TY thread. I bailed on last few eps of season 1. No regrets.

It's frequently quite depressing and joyless but I wound up watching both seasons in full just because sometimes the degree to which the various characters all hate each other (even the ones who are fucking, and sometimes them most of all) is fun, plus the apparent protagonist is just breathtakingly self-destructive so it's one of those "maybe it'll all blow up in their face this week" shows.

Ok, Sex Lives returns to form with Ep. 5 of S2 (phew!). Just skip Eps. 1-4, you’ll miss nothing…

does the brother ever return? I admit I missed the end of season 1 but the way he was absent from this season made it seem like the actor either quit or was fired

started interview with a vampire finally; i like it, but I'm not loving it, and I think the issue is that I just don't like the actor playing Lestat, which is going to be an issue long term if this continues to run for any period of time. This was partially true of the books in the first place, I found Louis a more interesting character in Interview. Dunno, we'll see.

we hwve a thread for Interview - if you search it’s the Interview on Showtime thread (on my phone so i cant link sorry)

join us! :D

xxxp He does not return; the actor quit or something (it was announced earlier that he wouldn’t be back).

I watched the entire rest of the season last night… It was so great. As with S1, I was bummed when it was over; I wanted to keep hanging out with those characters.