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Really liked the first 2 episodes of Silo. I read the books several years ago so I have a head start on the particulars of the Silo world and major themes. Only complaint so far is Rebecca Ferguson's accent doesn't seem particular stable scene to scene.

I like Apple's Friday Night Baseball too, no gambling ads is refreshing

i could do without the "28% chance of an RBI" stats in the corner which TAKE SEVERAL SECONDS TO UPDATE AFTER THE PITCH cmon man my mlb gameday updates in real time i'm sure apple can manage it. in general it's funny to see apple's austere braun aesthetic overlaid onto professional baseball which has always had a bit of PT barnum americana swagger to it; don't think it works really. but yes i do very much enjoy the sounds of the park between innings and the wide shot of the sunsets

Oh yeah I hate that % bug during the at-bats. I get the obsession sports fans have with statistics but that’s a real joyless meter they’ve got going.

For All Mankind is Apple too plus Pachinko

Pachinko was awesome. Hope it comes back.

Finished Jury Duty last night. So good.

"Smaller jumps, James. Smaller jumps!"

Anyone know when it was filmed? As I vaguely recognized a couple of the actors but Kenny Boy from Reservation Dogs seemed a slight risk.

My tactic is to subscribe to every service for one month only - I always cancel as soon as I’ve subscribed. Then I have an Apple TV so it’s easy to resubscribe if there’s something I really want to watch - so yeah, it’s a bit like the old Blockbuster model. The only service I never cancel is YouTube, which I have on a student subscription - my toddler watches YouTube a lot and it stops the dads.

Lol it also stops the ads

We went to watch Silo last night via the AppleTV app and it was so dark it was unwatchable. Downloaded a copy and watched it on plex, 100% better. ridiculous.

Weird, it's not the way it was filmed but how it was being streamed?

Malcolm's FTTN, probably.

I have the same problem with some Disney shows xps

My current streaming annoyance is languages. If I've just been watching an English show, then switch to watching Jubilee, it'll play Jubilee dubbed into English. So I switch the language to Hindi and turn on the subtitles, and then when we start watching Mrs Maisel, she's talking Hindi with English subtitles and we have to switch everything back. There is no "automatic" language setting. I can't find anything online to help me with this. It's really pissing me off. So mainly I just watch Jubilee on Plex.

Weird, it's not the way it was filmed but how it was being streamed?

Apparently that is it? Something to do with the stream or codec using HDR which will look like shit on a lot of TVs/lighting sccenarios. I dunno how else to explain it - the stream off AppleTV was pitch dark (the scene at the start where she's hanging from the rope in the pit). Went and sailed the 7 seas, 5 mins later loaded exact same ep/scene up on plex from a d/l and it was like night and day.

Sic - dont think it was the internet connection. I have 100mbps FTTP with 2-3ms ping.

Surely a slow connection would make shit blocky but not dark.

Shrinking is better than Ted Lasso

quit raw dogging me.

Shrinking is like a Ted Lasso S2 where they remembered to write jokes. They mine very similar territory, which might not be surprising given the overlap in writers

yeah I like it more too. by the end I thought it was a touch melodramatic, but now that I'm watching TL S3, I appreciate Shrinking having events

I was guessing at Apple playing dithered-down versions in Australia in order to be accessible for most users

(the complaints we used to get from the 13 HD TV owners in the country when iV13w was the only streaming service on the continent...)

I don't know if this was our smart TV or what, but for the first time ever we had a small chyron ad pop up in the middle of a show. We were streaming the latest episode of Succession on HBO Max and suddenly the bottom fifth of the screen popped up with an ad for Silo on Apple+. I was able to dismiss it quickly and easily, but it was annoying.

Not sure if this is discussed here, but through the first five episodes of Beef and loving it so far.

I like Ted Lasso, but this season is treading water.

Mrs. Maisel, otoh, is still marvellous.

xpost Wait, there was an ad for an Apple show on HBO? That doesn't sound right, I blame the smart TV. Make sure you have that shit locked down, there are usually toggles for sharing info, getting notifications, etc., just like a phone.

Yeah, I'm almost positive it was the TV itself, but we've had this TV for probably almost a year and never had ads pop up like that before. I need to drill down into the settings tonight.

Was going to comment on how The Other two's comedy was especially broad this season, which says a lot because the first season wasn't exactly filled with subtle dry humor. After this last one, probably no need to comment on how broad it is, it is straight up ridiculous. Fun in any case.

Just popping in to say I really love Somebody Somewhere.

I know I can subscribe to something just for a trial period. The thing is, I can't be trusted to unsubscribe. So in like four years I will see that I've been unintentionally re-upping to something I never really wanted in the first place

A me problem, I know.

― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:43 AM (six days ago)

lol, i have this problem as well, and I also don't sign up for free trials of stuff like that ... and it isn't really just you and me, a lot of people have this problem, which is why so many services have implemented this model ... it's why everything is $#.99 so that it looks like a "deal" and "not that much money" which are reasons people are less motivated to cancel ... and lord help anyone who has a full life with a bunch of other crises and obligations such that keeping track of trial subscriptions is like ... nowhere near enough room in one's brain for this. It's super insidious and manipulative and makes me angry when I think about it.

but back on topic ... does anyone else subscribe to Mhz Network?

We subscribed to MHz through Amazon a couple of years ago just to watch a couple of specific Swedish shows but let it lapse after that.

It's got a good amount of non-Anglo European crime & mystery shows that are pretty good ... Netflix is improving in this area, but I still like Mhz enough to keep going

re Apple above you can currently get a 3 monts free trial on PS4 and 6 months on PS5

i get all kinds of ads for Viaplay everywhere, all the dark nordic material one might need is supposedly there but who knows if it's good material.

been watching the Luxembourg(!) series CAPITANI on Netflix, which is a pretty solid bit of crime/mystery thus far. totally predictable in terms of setting (small town murder, everyone has secrets, there's hot ZONING action involving the mayor, maybe even some ANNEXATION) but the lead character is kind of a refreshingly unkempt prickly dude in ways that aren't the usual, the secondary lead is vv likable, and the episodes are a swift 25 min apiece.

Inspired by a Roy Wood Jr. joke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (he called Succession "Power for white people") I've started watching Power on Hulu. It's not bad — half Empire, half The Wire, very soapy, of course, and the entire cast is cartoonishly hot.

Did a free trial of the BFI Apple channel so I could watch The Third Man and hooo boy is the rest of that service dire for $8/mo.

this Last Thing He Told Me show on apple tv is stupid but enjoyable if only because it was mostly filmed in the bay area but also in Austin, and then for some reason they try to pretend that the very obvious itnerior of the SF Embarcadero Hyatt is a hotel in the middle of Austin.

I'll ask here rather than on the dedicated thread: I'd avoided Succession because it seemed like it was mostly about rich people insulting each other. We've seen the first few episodes so far, and it's entertaining and well-acted, but yeah, it is essentially just rich people insulting each other. Because it's well-made it's easy enough to stick with it, but does it develop into more than just rich people insulting each other? It's hard to believe that's enough to sustain several seasons.

Succession didn't really click for me until the back half of season 1 (episode 7 or 8) and then I was all in.

not even sure that season 1 episode 2 of succession is about rich ppl insulting each other. but yes more things happen and it does become more about character over time, and the writing is just so good

Thanks! Yeah, if it sucked outright I would just cut and run, but it seems pretty good so far.

The show is a sitcom with prestige drama acting and dna.

Has anyone checked out the Fatal Attraction series, starring Joshua Jackson, Lizzy Caplan, and Amanda Peet? (I feel like you can't reference the show without naming all leads, fsr...)

ta for the nudges in this thread re Jury Duty.
Finished it last night, and loved it.
Now I am off to read the articles linked upthread.

3min 34sec of City On Fire episode 1 was all I could take before noping out permanently. Avoid.

I wonder what's the fastest I've bailed on a show I expected to like. I know I gave Whipsmart about five minutes before stopping, but then that's a movie

Er, Booksmart

bad move

I don't think I made it through the first episode of Patriot as I realised the dark humour style wasn't gonna work for me.

i don't mind dark but i'm sort of allergic to whimsy

Book Smart was so fun, one of the better teen movies out there