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Is Shadow & Bone worth watching.

First season was mostly pretty fun (outside of the superficial treatment of racism), but the finale was particularly momentum-killing. I don't have Netflix anymore so can't say anything about the second season.

I also thought the first season of Shadow and Bone was enjoyable fantasy, aimed at a teenage audience but not cringy like a lot of shows in that vein are. will report back on S2 soon

Halfway through the second season of Shadow & Bone and it's still fun but they definitely seemed to have upped the violence this season

Thought Shadow and Bone S2 was a bit slower but picked up in the last three episodes. And yes, more violent

The Billy Crudup retro-futurist show on Apple+ - 30 minutes that feels like two hours.

Anybody try that new Great Expectations adaptation? I was prepared to skip but then I saw Olivia Colman is in if so now I’m curious

The brains behind that one is Stephen Knight, who was the guy who brought us Peaky Blinders and rogue heroes sas, I’m not a fan but ymmv wrt to that style.

I watched one episode of Bad Sisters and it’s great, will be watching the rest ASAP.

lol peaky blinders dude doing great expectations, wonder if he'll use the south park ending

That’d be Steven* Knight actually

I got all the way to season five of Peaky Blinders before I quit, some of the acting held up for me but it’s just a real joyless slog.

colman only really sneaked in at the end of episode 1, and we've not seen the big messy room yet (my favourite bit)

i only meant to watch the first 5 minutes, ended up watching it all

I enjoyed Rogue Heroes. Was a bit OTT in places but unlike Peaky Blinders it was fun xp

Latest Ted Lasso episode had that weird 70s Italian guy pretending to sing in english as a song in the background! I recognised it right away by its stompy beat/brass stabs.

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Watched Spin Me Round on Hulu, a very silly movie that's seems like it's trying to nail a certain late '80s/early '90s tone maybe, and is pretty enjoyable due to the crazy cast (Ben Sinclair, Tim Heidecker, Molly Shannon, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Zach Woods, Ayden Mayeri).

i watched s1 of Only Murders In The Building and I'm pissed off that "Tim Kono" being an anagram of "Im Not OK" wasn't any sort of clue.

YMP: thats the one!

If anybody besides me has not yet seen Jordan Peele's NOPE, it is now streaming free on Amazon.

"free on Amazon" lol

The great Adriano Celentano. Françoise Hardy tells a story of being in a song contest with him and, upon learning he hadn't won, Celentano instantly getting in his car and driving straight into a wall.

when I learned about him people were calling him "the italian Serge Gainsbourg". I'm mostly happy watch videos of Rafealla Carra dancing.

Yeah, an imperfect comparison I'm sure but I gather in terms of stature it tracks. Quite enjoyed watching Celentano play a 19th century gangster in a Sergio Corbucci film.

Dan selzer i think you were the person who turned me on to "prisencolinensinainciusol"? I love it so much

I still think my favorite show, the one I most relate to, is Looking (2014-2015), which is now on HBO. It creates a very real and believable sense of time and place for gay people and their friends living in San Francisco

After months of ambivalence I finally started watching The Patient. It certainly goes by in a flash - I started it yesterday and am already halfway through. That’s entirely due to its potboiler structure—short chapters with cliffhanger endings. Wise to make the early episodes brief as this premise will ooze into tedium if allowed. On the other hand it’s all a little more 2-D than it ought to be. I get that General Hux is supposed to be kinda opaque but it’s coming off as simplistic.

Did we discuss Swarm anywhere? (The Donald Glover show, not the German sci-fi one.) I'm five episodes in and it's quite a ride so far, kinda takes the satire and weirdness of Atlanta and pushes it into disturbing. Was surprised to see Billie Eilish have a sizable role in an episode, apparently her acting debut. Also really like the fake Beyonce songs they made for the show

I've watched most of this, fairly entertaining but weird. I did indeed enjoy Billie Eilish, she makes quite a good cult leader. Seeing that the last episode takes place in Atlanta, any chance that there's a crossover with the other series?

Sadly, no 2nd season coming for "Three Pines" on Prime. Happily, have read all the Louise Penny mysteries now and loved them.

I want there to be an Atlanta Cinematic Universe

The show certainly feels like it is in that cinematic universe

First couple of episodes of the new season of Dave (on Hulu) were pretty strong (& funny)

Watched the Navalny doc in HBO today—worth watching for the middle section when they figure out who attempted his assassination and how they did it. Really a mind blowing scene.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, February 12, 2023 7:59 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

cosign. going in I had only cursory knowledge about Navalny as an opposition leader and that there was an assassination attempt. the doc is more of a crime drama and than a political drama.

Started watching The Night Agent. This scene in the house in the first episode is so dark, I might as well be listening to an audio book.

i watched the first ep of that & felt sufficiently ambivalent about watching more. it just felt like a boring stew of all the usual tropes? and that lead guy kinda reminded me of Jamie from Bake-Off
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The first scene on the train had me thinking about the vastly superior The Bodyguard from a couple years back. But that’s probably an unfair comparison.

anybody seen BEEF (2023)?

^ Plan on watching it soon

The Navalny doc starts off a bit telling-not-showing for my tastes but yeah, the middle section of the movie to the end makes it worth watching. Just insane

First episode was decent xp

It's got really good reviews and Wong and Yeun are excellent so looking forward to seeing more

Ok i tore through three episodes of Night Agent yesterday and was enjoying it. It’s not the peak of the genre by any stretch but it’s paced well.

Today I started up on episode 4. I don’t know if being away from it for a day broke the spell, or it was like this all along, but suddenly all I can see are its flaws.

Of course I will still watch it to the end.

HBO Max is changing its name to...Max

seemingly combined with Discovery Plus which some kind of reality show service?

It's all very dumb.

assuming this is an attempt to get us to pay more per month for cooking shows and Dateline knockoffs

Seems kind of circular because Cinemax began its life as a premium pay-per-view offshoot of the subscription-based HBO service.

As HBO grew as a prestige brand, Cinemax (plus its Max-branded offshoot channels) became a relative backwater - the place you went for dumb explosion movies and soft-core erotic thrillers. For a while it was the go-to channel for seeing partial nudity.

Now the HBOverse wants to reappropriate the Max brand? Okay. Nudity is no longer as scarce and thrilling as it once was, in the dens and family rooms of my childhood. (Not to say that we even HAD those channels when I was growing up.)

xp At least for now, it's the same price as HBO Max. I'm sure there will eventually be a pricing increase (but then that would probably happen anyway)

Seems like they're going to keep edging away from prestige-y original shows, most of their big ones are winding up (Succession, Barry, Curb, etc) or canceled, will probably drop it soon enough.

Time Warner is renaming its streaming service HBO Max to Max.

It’s a good move. The “HBO” brand is associated with some of the worst content ever: Sopranos, The Wire, Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, Deadwood and Silicon Valley.

Good riddance. pic.twitter.com/p7ZD93rkAS

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) April 12, 2023

They should bring back Max Headroom as a spokesman

Point made elsewhere: "Settling on the name Max not only feels lazy, but has created something that will be nearly impossible to Google."

I still have the Cinemax association in my head--so when I see "Max Original" on something it communicates "low quality."

So glad they're finally embracing the often-overlooked artistic legacy of The Girl's Guide to Depravity

In my headcanon this is a New Coke move, where they rebrand just to un-rebrand to make the audience feel like it has control, therefore inspiring greater brand loyalty than before.*

* = Yes I know that's an urban legend about New Coke, but it feels like it could have been true, because these days nothing matters lol