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I love her first scene:

her brother: "you're in bed at noon surrounded by bottles and pills"
her: "I'm on vacation"

she is the best character

Yah she was the only reason I watched.

I didn’t get too too much red state nonsense BUT republicans for sure love the show

Did anyone watch and enjoy Outer Range on Amazon? I’m maybe 3 eps in but it’s not really holding my attention. Something about the pacing doesn’t seem good.

After several years of not being interested in tv, I’ve been on a kick the last few weeks and I’ve surprisingly already run out of all the first-tier shows that interested me. I had to bail on LoD after the first ep because of the subtitle problem.

we watched Outer Range & it was okay but also kind of dumb, idk i couldn’t get into it

I love her first scene:

her brother: "you're in bed at noon surrounded by bottles and pills"
her: "I'm on vacation"

I was sick in the hospital over Labor Day weekend and landed on Paramount Network's series binge marathon at this scene, becoming quickly taken. It's kind of genius to do a spin on Dallas, and make the JR character a woman.

Paramount's been been good about assembling Supercuts, including this one of the best Yellowstone stuff: Beth putting down people in bars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s08DzypgnZc

First episode of "Last of Us" is solid.

yeah it’s great

Sounds intense… it’s based on a video game?

I hope this fungus-science spiel in the opening scene is purely fictional, lol…

A very cinematic one

Watched half, gotta bail, this is super unpleasant… ain’t my genre

i feel like i’m like a manchurian candidate for this genre, i slways think ugh this again & then as soon as the outbreak happens i’m like

https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/the-manchurian-candidate.jpg

Have you seen this movie? I ran into it on HBO recently, and watched it (sort of half covering my eyes)… it wasn’t 100% excellent, but was well-made and fairly compelling.

Last of Us is indeed based on a video game and (spoilers?) much of the first episode sticks to the start of the game, with a few tweaks here and there. A lot of it is indeed pretty ... not fun, but the payoff really sticks. If the show is not for you, might be worth watching a gameplay or wrap-up on youtube? Though if you made it through "It Comes at Night" you should be able to handle this.

There are a couple of similarly dark/bleak worthwhile things as "It Comes at Night" from recent years. There was a movie called "The Survivalist" a few years back, there was "Hunter Hunter" a couple of years ago ...

Did anyone watch and enjoy Outer Range on Amazon? I’m maybe 3 eps in but it’s not really holding my attention. Something about the pacing doesn’t seem good.

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I liked Outer Range. I especially liked the actor who is also in Schitt’s Creek - he is so unsettlingly goofy in this show

I watched The Last of Us and will stick with it for a few more episodes at least.

I haven't watched it yet but the fungus is a real life genus and can in fact turn insects into zombies. It also has other uses for humans, mostly medicinal but also is used in cooking.

i was aware of the video game but didn’t know the story except “a guy and a young girl, zombies” but man the plot twist partway through the first ep wrecked me

am impressed by how solidly Mazin set up the family relationship & then the outbreak without having endless dreary exposition scenes etc

Also am so glad that Pedro Pascal’s star has risen so completely over these past ten years or so, he is so fucking good

It is remarkable that this is the same guy from last year's Nic Cage goof or the shitty Wonder Woman sequel. Acting!

And yeah, Mazin, but game writer/director Druckmann is on hand, too, and the beginning is beat for beat almost the same as his game, right down to the shots, iirc.

i'm not gonna watch the last of us but bella ramsey was excellent in the movie catherine called birdy and i hope she gets other non-HBO-video-game-adaptation work

she's a little discordant as the only one that doesn't look like her game analog, but I have faith she was cast for good reason. nails the accent for sure.

Not to be snide, but is feeling like a video game really a good thing for a show? I didn’t think that what I saw was particularly well directed (Wikipedia says Ep. 3 is supposed to be really good, maybe I’ll skip to that. The overall premise does sound compelling)

there's like a dozen thought pieces about this out there

Feeling like a video game would be terrible (it's one theme of the recent New Yorker feature on Last of Us). This show does not feel like a video game, imo, it's more the game often feels like a movie. can't imagine skipping episodes, if the game is anything to go by. it's about the journey.

Since I don't play video games, the biggest risk is that people (not here, like on Twitter and Slate and blah blah blah) yammering incessantly about the game will turn me off the show.

What I appreciate about that is it serves as a reminder that even one of the best and most successful games of all time, a masterpiece that changed that landscape, is likely totally unknown to the vast majority of the population, and for them this show will be their introduction to the story. I kind of envy them, tbh! Most games don't get a show, and this is vastly superior to watching a YouTube playthrough.

Excited to watch that one, I’ve heard nothing but good things from those I trust.

Back to Line of Duty: had to lol at the irresistible Steve Arnott, he’s already proven his charm to two women in his orbit in three episodes of S2 and kinda moved on vv quickly from the first one after she [redacted].

intrigued to watch that Keeley Hawes/Matthew Macfadyen series Stonehouse now.

I'm sure the Last of Us is decent but I'm not up for a prestige adaptation of a game that itself seemed like it was supposed to be a video game version of The Road. For post-apocalyptic tv, I'm excited about the new season of Miracle Works (first ep out today I believe).

Have also been enjoying This Way Up, looking for a new show though.

Speaking of apocalyptic visions, I finally started Station Eleven which is good but heavy on portent and does a lot of the fake deepness that Hiro Murai is good at. Willing to table my opinion until I get past the halfway mark.

On the more chill tip, I am working my way through the Tega and Sara millennial origin story High School and it's slight but enjoyable.

We only made it through a few episodes of Station Eleven. It was really well done, but once they introduced prophets and prophecies etc we kind of got bored.

Station Eleven @ the apartment - beautiful, moving
Station Eleven @ the airport - zzzzzzzzzzz

"i'm not gonna watch the last of us "

may I ask why?

The airport episode was excellent, one of the best of the season xp

that was actually where we stopped watching, mainly because my wife started to find it either dull or depressing; not sure which. I need to go back and finish it.

I'll give a recommendation for the Mayfair Witches series on AMC which I'm enjoying more than Interview so far.

I can’t imagine getting bored with Station 11. The show is burned in my brain 12 months after watching it. I just love that a post-apocalyptic show’s greatest concern is the survival of art and culture—and that it takes such a broad view of what art and culture even means

intrigued to watch that Keeley Hawes/Matthew Macfadyen series Stonehouse now.

watched ep 1 of Yellowstone - “Succession w cowboys” seems pretty much otm and i think i am kinda into it? i think wide-open-spaces / horseys / cattle is kinda my vibe right now

and yeah blonde daughter is great

also no one told me 00’s direct-to-video king ie cole hauser is in this lets gooo lmao
his dyed beard is hilarious

Velma sounds like the worst thing ever. Who was dying for a dark gritty Scooby reboot ffs

Last of Us - if it spreads through biting, how did Nana get infected and show signs so early in the day?

I wuz reading that it spreads thru breathing spores, but they didn’t want to get into that in the show and have actors wearing gas masks? idk

Giving it a couple more episodes but mostly felt like I’d rather rewatch Children of Men.

In the game it spreads through spores. Not sure if that will be in the show or not but when they were escaping in the car, Joel's daughter said Nana had been going to the city for treatment and probably got infected there

Yes, there was dialogue to that effect in the opening escape sequence.

Have a feeling this show will need its own thread. (Though the game already has two!)

Should Poker Face have its own thread? (I'd argue yes.) One more trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmozhMRbmA

"i'm not gonna watch the last of us "

may I ask why?

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, January 16, 2023 3:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

no big reason, i don't watch a lot of tv shows these days (more movies), my wife wouldn't want to watch it bc it's too dark, i didn't love the video game, just generally not my kind of thing

xp definitely

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.

No one else is watching this? It's gotta be the most interesting series currently airing. Goldman is a nerdy, vaguely creepy insurance adjuster from Florida who spammed a bunch of directors on Twitter with his self-published true crime tale about getting ripped off by his ex-wife, and the show follows a semi-fictionalized Woliner's efforts to earnestly adapt the goofy source material (with Goldman starring as himself) while gradually unraveling Goldman's lies. Features several familiar character actors politely dealing with Goldman and dutifully trying to bring the caricatures in his story to life. The last of 6 episodes premieres Sunday.