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we watched all of Taskmaster.... twice

This will not tide you over for long but there was a New Year special yesterday!

New episodes of the exceptionally wholesome Old Enough now on Netflix UK.

Apparently Kaleidoscope has a structural gimmick, which is that you can watch the episodes in any order (except for the finale which they want you to watch last).

Here's an article discussing it and recommending potential episode sequences. (It seems that when you bring the show up on Netflix's site, it offers you the episodes in random order (with the finale last, of course).

Ooh... I'm up for a gimmick like that.

Fleischman is a weird show, the pacing alone (waiting 6 episodes to provide some perspective from the female characters, possibly to prove some sort of point of Eisenberg's lack of empathy and blinkered perspective?). But I liked a lot of bits, and it's been sticking with me because I happen to be the exact target demographic (nearly 41 year old Jew, with friends who are going through some not dissimilar marriage issues).

I hadn't felt too compelled to check out Fleischman as I feel sort of (perpetually?) saturated on neurotic New York Jew content, but as I too am a nearly 41 year old Jew with friends going through marriage issues, you have piqued my interest, Jordan.

Not new content, many of you have likely already seen it, but I just finally got around to Station Eleven and it was really fantastic, highly recommend!

the waiting 6 episodes to get to Rachel's story is a pretty big part of the point of the series, and I felt it was effective.

two episodes into Kindred and liking it a lot so far, I think it's the only Butler book I haven't read and I only vaguely knew the plot, so it has been exciting!

Enjoyed “Don’t Worry Darking” which popped up on HBO. It takes a bit for things to get and start getting weird, but once it does it’s pretty good. Not a wholly original idea (no spoilers), and it gets a little messy at the end. Some great details though. Might rewatch to look for “clues” in the first two thirds. Hard to talk about w/o spoilers.

I watched an episode of Kaleidoscope and it was replacement-level hip heist show. About as good as an episode of, say, Leverage. I'll watch a couple more.

Don’t Worry Darling is… fine! I agree with reviews I’ve seen that describe it as a mid movie with nice cinematography and sets that was overshadowed by the hype cycle and cast/crew drama

the Harry Styles acting was not great but Florence was good as usual

Prime’s Three Pines is great. Based on Louise Penny’s mystery series. Alfred Molina, excellent as the compassionate Inspector Gamache, and a fantastic supporting cast with well-treated plots focusing on missing indigenous girls, residential school abuses, etc. Has a nice vibe of Northern Exposure meets Midsomer Murders. 8 eps of four 2 part mysteries, plus an overall arc which may be a fifth book’s plot? She’s done 18 books, and the series ends feeling like a second series should be confirmed soon.

Watching the second season of Old Enough (Japanese reality show where parents send their four- or five-year-old children on errands by themselves) and at the end they catch up with the children as adults, which is weird and somewhat off-putting. Not all that into it, honestly. The older format was better.

How long ago were the little kid segments filmed??

The first two episodes were filmed in 1991 and 1994 respectively, and then they visited with the adult versions of the kids 15 or so years later, so the first kid was 22 and working as a mechanic, and the other two, a boy and a girl who were partnered up for a task, were working as a nail artist and a low-level editorial staffer at a sports magazine.

Huh, I thought they were much more recent (only saw a few clips).

Some of them are — I believe there were some episodes from the first season that were filmed in the 2000s.

although it sometimes seems, at its weirdest moments, like a low-budget Atlanta, South Side continues to be one of the most entertaining and brilliant shows.

Yeah I like South Side too

Watched the first episode of the Nathan Fielder-esque Paul T. Goldman from ace comedy director Jason Woliner on Peacock. Definitely recommended if you like Fielder, John Wilson, et al.

I checked out the White Noise movie adaptation (I liked the novel as a teen). Gave it 20 mins. or so before bailing – it just didn’t seem to be working (…or at least it’s another case of “Not For Me”).

(Maybe I wouldn’t dig the novel either at this stage in life, idk)

I like the novel, but I have yet to read one thing that would indicate that the adaptation is anything other than a disaster.

South Side is great, highly critically underrated and better imo than Sherman’s Showcase

The second half of Old Enough is recent videos and don't have the revisited segments. A couple of them are maybe my favourites between both series.

Due to a lot of personal highs and lows (physical rehab, going out to live events post COVID, neighbor trauma where i'm living, severe anxiety and multiple minor maladies), this was an off year for my viewing habits. I missed completing dozens of "important" shows this year that I'm sure I will like a lot when I get to them (among them Andor, Interview with a Vampire, Better Call Saul, Pachinko, Reservation Dogs, The US and the Holocaust, Heartstopper, Severance, Traumazone) but I still watched the entirety of upwards of 50 series. Too much television!

Here's my year end top 19 in no particular order. I will rep the shit out of any/all these so AMA.
Noting US channel where available and whether its continuing:

• Slow Horses s1/2 (Apple, renewed)
• Single Drunk Female s1 (Freeform, renewed)
• Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead s1 (Paramount, renewed)
• I Love That For You s1 (Showtime, not yet renewed)
• Our Flag Means Death s1 (HBO, renewed)
• The Rehearsal s1 (HBO, renewed)
• She-Hulk s1 (Disney, not yet renewed and it seems unlikely)
• This Fool s1 (Hulu, renewed)
• Marriage s1 (BBC, not yet renewed)
• Only Connect s17/18 (BBC2/YouTube in US, presumably will run forever)
• Barry s3 (HBO, renewed)
• Peacemaker s1 (HBO, renewed)
• Bluey s3 (Disney, renewed)
• Joe Pera Talks With You s3 (Adult Swim, aired at the very end of 2021 which is close enough for me, canceled unjustly)
• Sort Of s2 (HBO, renewed)
• Bust Down s1 (Peacock, not yet renewed and the untimely death of the excellent Jak Knight makes me wonder if they can bring it back but boy is this show both fucking good and overlooked)
• South Side s3 (HBO, not yet renewed)
• We Need to Talk About Cosby (Showtime, miniseries)
• The Kids in the Hall, s6 (Amazon, sounds like if it's not renewed by Bezos they are going to do another season somewhere regardless)

truly an odd time when there was a Kids in the Hall season and I didn't hear about it until now.

It was really good and it's easily accessible! More full frontal nudity than you're expecting!

Well, now President Keyes will be expecting it

No one can be prepared for Dave Foley’s dick.

Can anyone who has watched past episode one of The English answer a question for me - does the writing get better? The giant gap between great looking and shit writing is taking me out of it.

Episode 1 is by far the worst. I wouldn't say it ever gets great but it gets much much better.

i really couldn't get past the first 15 minutes

The first 15 minutes are by far the worst 15 minutes of the series.

lol, why the fuck would anyone do that?

"the appetizer is made from fox shit but the dessert is to die for"

Lol

Thanks for the shit avoidence!

idk i like it

I checked out the White Noise movie adaptation (I liked the novel as a teen). Gave it 20 mins. or so before bailing – it just didn’t seem to be working (…or at least it’s another case of “Not For Me”).

I generally like Baumbach and Driver, but this movie just didn't work (though I did finish it)

"The Pale Blue Eye" is an impressively close adaptation of the novel. I enjoyed it. Harry Melling as a geeky, campy E. A. Poe jumps right off the page.

Oh, you read the novel?

I did

Finished Kaleidoscope; I watched it more or less in chronological order. You're "supposed" to watch the episode with the actual heist last, because the final scene is supposed to serve as a punchline, but I didn't. There are two post-heist episodes, so I watched those last. All in all it was...OK. It wanted to be The Usual Suspects but was really more on the level of a USA Network procedural. The end was impressively bleak, though.

yeah the gimmick really seems like its only selling point?

like ok cool i can “watch it out of order” but there is literally nothing compelling about the show otherwise. i’m not even sure i want to watch ~more~ than one episode.

i’d rather nap through a cbs procedural than this halfbaked whatever

When I posted about Kaleidoscope upthread I was intrigued but I admit when I learned the gimmick my interest immediately faded. Haven’t watched it.

i was hoping esposito might elevate it

yeah i thought the same but even he can’t elevate mediocre gruel like this

if Veg doesn't like it I won't bother... :)