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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... :)

I'd rather just watch Leverage by the sound of it.

Leverage is champagne tv by comparison

not to bang on (while i bang on) but it was about as boring & tiresome as that stupid Endgame show on NBC w Morena Baccarin

like all the bad shows use the same dumb template of “fascinating” masterminds & “quirky” sidekicks that you immediately do not care about & pile on thick layers of lazy dialogue & seemingly endless exposition & everyone stands around for an entire episode telling you what and who they are that by the time the episode is over you a) still don’t care and b) no longer want to continue watching

and if i’m watching this shit out of order & they’re STILL standing around telling me what and who they are then this show doesn’t credit the viewer with half a brain so uh peace

Ive only seen 1 ep of Kaleidescope (yellow) and it looks like its just 5 varied eps of "you sonofabitch, I'm in!" then the payoff? I hate that genre.

You convinced me, I will pass unseen

Fleishman was excellent, despite the ending not quite landing. One of my favorite shows of 2022 I think

Started Los Espookys. it's super original and funny, which explains why it was cancelled.

Am almost done with Kindred and it is great! It has taken some liberties though, and inserted a whole-ass plotline that isnt in the books - namely that SPOILERS AHOY her mother is also in the past and not actually dead. And also that Dana and Kevin aren't married, but met just before she started jumping, which seemed like a really weird change to make.

I think this might be one of the first times I've seen an adaptation of a book I loved, so I'm glad it hasnt been too much of a travesty.

(sorry to clarify there I mean, a book I loved and read before the show/movie was done. Never preread GoT/Foundation/Witcher/His Dark materials etc)

Kindred was really, really good, but a) I went into it without having read the book and b) having read the Wikipedia summary of the book I don't think I'll come back for a Season 2, because I liked where it ended.

Started Slow Horses (v good so far)

Also I did resume Line of Duty and so far the second season is quite a bit better than the first (which was itself really good.) Two episodes in and so far I can say S2 E1 had one of the most brutal endings you can fathom, and can I say Keeley Hawes is incredible here? Sometimes it seems like when a show is trying to play games with you, presenting a character who could be either good or bad, it feels sort of cheap. But her character is such a complicated creation, and she plays her perfectly, and I have no idea where the truth lies here.

So I guess yall would recommend it to someone who's never read any Butler?

The TV series? Yeah, it stands well on its own.

The Last Of Us getting great reviews so far. Fingers crossed

omar i’m so jealous that you’re watching LoD S2 for the first time. DI Lindsey Denton is one of the very greatest TV characters ever.

Josh, I'm still mourning Los Espookys :(

Yes classic season 2, you’re so lucky to be watching it for the first time!

Tati and Orla from Derry Girls should hang out.

Kaleidoscope was surprisingly good, posters upthread who disagree are rong (sorry, posters upthread). Although this perhaps depends upon the order in which the episodes are delivered to you. In particular, watching 'Pink' as anything other than the penultimate episode might just ruin the show for you. Otherwise, it was a well-executed experiment that was also very watchable. The heist is a Macguffin, as it's all about the characters and their attendant performers. Who were all very good (I forgot how good Giancarlo is after becoming overly-familiar with Gus Fring over the past decade+). Although if you do not vibe with them then I guess you might not vibe with the show.

I might have cut Kaleidoscope some slack if they didn’t have a prison break plot predicated on the idea that the prison doctor didn’t have car insurance that would allow him to get his windshield replaced with no out-of-pocket expenses, a supply guy who seemingly had no supply connections, or an attorney who was also a master marksman, identity procurer, and all-around criminal-of-all-trades who still managed to somehow forget to wear gloves during a jewel heist.

Basically, the show spent a lot of time pretending to be clever when it was just deeply, deeply stupid and I bailed on it after 4 episodes.

I mean, it was all just spectacle in the end but I found it to be engaging spectacle. Plot-wise, there's plenty to quibble about (pretty sure a prison key carved out of soap would not actually ever work at all, for a start). But also, for all the quibbles, they were ultimately revealed to be a band of fuck-up criminals who basically fucked everything up across the board.

Re: Line of Duty - just started S1 from thread recommendation. Thanks! Just what I was looking for.

finally trying station eleven and it's moving along nicely

I realize this is actually on network TV as well as Peacock, but am I the only person stupid enough to get mildly excited by the Night Court reboot? It's a shame so many people from this show have died; hopefully Bull make some kind of reappearance.

I saw all the ads for it during the GGs last night. I can't say I'm excited about it.

i’m here for it

eh too hard to see the basket

I was rewatching a whole lot of original Night Court last year. One of my favorites as a kid that my
parents inexplicably let me watch

we’ve been watching the old episodes here & there for the past few months - still holds up imo

i dunno what the science is behind it or how they do it but it’s just charming as hell

plus i’ll ride or die for john larroquette forever cf: uyd for life

I will never poll the best female bailiff because Flo, Selma, and Roz were all good

otm

enjoying selma currently in our rewatch but looking forward to roz & flo

Re: Line of Duty, DI Lindsey Denton wiping the floor with IA in her S2 E2 interrogation and then returning Fleming’s phone to her with an understated very hilarious “stealing is wrong, my bad” was one of her many amazing moments in that one. Honestly brilliant portrayal, Hawes is perfect at not showing Denton’s hand at all, whatever hand it is.

night court is pretty much an amazing and perfect sitcom and a real precursor to things like Seinfeld with its disregard for whether stuff was socially acceptable or not as long as it was funny; not to mention it's commitment to weird shit like the Mel Torme obsession. It makes sense that 30 Rock revisited it (which I'd totally forgotten about until recently).

I watched it as a kid (of course) but don't remember being super into it... I think Harry Anderson (R.I.P.) may have seemed kinda smug to me(?) I should revisit it....

(Keep in mind, I never missed an episode of "Who's the Boss?" either - so that's the critical lens at work here)

based on my love of Night Court there’s a standing joke with one of my friends that one year I will go see Yakov Smirnoff’s show in Branson

this joke has been going twenty years. Yakov still has a show in Branson

My friend and I used to just recount Night Court episodes from memory to each other

Night Court was one of those shows which started in such a different place too, Dan Fielding was more a serious pipe-smoking snob and the almost co-lead was a harried court clerk played by Karen Austin. It was a little closer to a Barney Miller type show than what it eventually became.

John Laroquette is the poor man's Kelsey Grammar