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Morrisp I'm watching Fatal Attraction but not expecting much, basically just giving it time cause I'm in love with Caplan

Lmk if it's worth checking out!

Sweet Home was one of those I got an ep 1 taster, jumped to watching the final ep in full, and felt satisfied. The Uncanny Counter series, though, enjoyed walking through the entire set.

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.

― omar little, Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:34 AM (five days ago)

yeah ... season 2 is a bit different but still good.

Apparently The Idol screened at Cannes:

“The Idol,” or 50 SHADES OF TESFAYE: A Pornhub-homepage odyssey starring Lily Rose Depp’s areolas and The Weeknd’s greasy rat tail. Love that this will help launch the HBO Max rebrand, should slot nicely next to House Hunters!

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 22, 2023

Funny, I like Euphoria but I drove by a billboard for this show earlier today and saw "from the creators of Euphoria" and I instinctively felt I did not any more of that in my life.

Have liked Silo so far (I read the books though). Laughed that we spent an entire episode about a woman fixing a generator (I really liked that section in Wool though iirc).

Horny trashy TV 100% slots in next to the Waco Magnolia freaks tbh.

Have liked Silo so far (I read the books though). Laughed that we spent an entire episode about a woman fixing a generator (I really liked that section in Wool though iirc).

― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Monday, May 22, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I caught up on this show over weekend. I'm enjoying it too although I am hoping it will get more complex as it goes. It's making me miss The Expanse with all its talk of the lowers, uppers, and mids inside this system. But it doesn't have half the political intrigue of that show.

Yet!

i was stoked for Silo but i didn't finish the first episode. it was very drab, grimy dim.. the dystopia felt too obvious. would you really want to raise a kid in this gloomy hell? idk

even given the alternative?

xp it’s all they know!

true

look, you're stuck in a silo. there are no shows on tv. there's no tv. all the computers are broken. the most popular (only) show is a view screen purporting to show the outside of the silo, and one of the views is just corpses. maybe someone writes a book but all of their life experiences are 1. living in the silo 2. reading books from before people were in the silo

you might as well have children if you win the child-having lottery

Yeah its been 144 years, thats multiple generations, they wouldnt know. Also the Judicial (I assume) have been changing/burying the story.

would you really want to raise a kid in this gloomy hell?

I mean, people are still having babies today IRL...

lmao yeah we’re in the silo

The Diplomat is pretty decent but I think a series starting the CIA station chief would be even better.

The new HBO Max (MAX) has eliminated writer/director credits in their interface in favor of a vague "Creators." This is what Raging Bull currently looks like. It's so fucking over. pic.twitter.com/gPveQ469GB

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) May 24, 2023

Starring Frank Vincent

Seth Rogan/Rose Byrne show Platonic on Apple TV is delightful and good

In the last season of Breaking Bad, pretty hyped to rewatch Justified before the new miniseries

I’ve been slowly, over the last year or so, watching all 11 seasons of Shameless. Finally watched the finale last night. It was by no means a flawless show but it somehow never fully jumped the shark either, even as it threatened to at many moments.

The one thing that really irks me about the finale though is that they spent multiple seasons looking down their noses at the encroaching hipster gentrifiers, but then they’re all standing in the street and the entire family spontaneously starts singing in unison… “The Way We Get By” by Spoon.

watched the Smartless: On the Road series; it’s pretty fun if you enjoy those three (Bateman, Arnett, Hayes)

The Diplomat got pretty bad over the last 2-3 episodes

There's a good French movie called In His Shadow about two Senegalese half-brothers living in a housing project. It's superficially a crime movie (the older half-brother is a gangster) but a whole lot of it is some really strong, emotional family drama. Worth checking out.

watched the Smartless: On the Road series; it’s pretty fun if you enjoy those three (Bateman, Arnett, Hayes)

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, May 28, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I like each of these guys on their own (up to a point at least), but I find their podcast insufferable

The Diplomat got pretty bad over the last 2-3 episodes

― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, May 28, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I didn’t think it got that bad although it was a weak cliffhanger.

We just watch the 5 available episodes of Silo—-and what’s bugging me is that when they shut off the generator there was an obvious glitch in the screen room where the outside looked all green and lovely. And even though the cafeteria was packed with people, no one has mentioned it two episodes later.

That bugs me too

judging from their technological level in the silo, none of them know how the screens or cameras work so it might just do that occasionally

pointing to the chip on a handheld camcorder and saying the ownership or understanding of circuits that small gave me a big “hmmm” moment

I've been wondering about that glitch too. We first saw that footage on the hard drive found. Then we saw it when whatsisface went outside - but, I noticed we only saw the view from his helmet. Which he then took off and died.
Then we saw the glitch in the "window".

Is it possible the green tree version is actually the fake?

Good Place entering final season - erasing Chidi's memory to erase his ex, sure... but why not then just fill him in on what's going on instead of pretending he's just another person?

It’s fuzzy now, but I do remember the show juggling a bit with that particular conceit in the last few seasons. The big “twist” in the middle of S1 was one of the greatest things I’d ever seen a show do, and it was a (mild) bummer that they couldn’t quite sustain it all the way to the end… no spoilers, of course (and not that I remember it well enuff to spoil anything). Still such an awesome show though – I should rewatch it sometime.

I’m a couple episodes in, and will probably keep watching, but the dialogue in Class of ‘09 is kinda bad sometimes. It’s not what I would call a “good” show but I’m interested enough to see what happens.

I’m a couple episodes in, and will probably keep watching, but the dialogue in Class of ‘09 is kinda bad sometimes. It’s not what I would call a “good” show but I’m interested enough to see what happens.

Yeah, it's reasonably compelling as sci-fi procedurals go. Brian Tyree Henry's very good, of course.

Haha I guess the marketing for that show is terrible because I had no idea there was a sci-fi element to that show

the 'Bama Rush documentary is kind of interesting but feels like a missed opportunity.

I watched the Dahmer show on Netflix and I’m really grossed out by it. Not simply by its content (which is gross) but it really talks out both sides of its mouth for the whole show. It’s creators claim it’s meant to humanize the victims and draw out the systemic racism and homophobia that helped Dahmer to get away with his crimes… but more often than not it’s just a creepy show whose protagonist is a killer. There’s even a whole episode about who gets to profit off of this story, and whose voices get to narrate this story… as if the show is not committing all the violations its characters lament.

On a recent flight, I occasionally glanced over the shoulder of a passenger in front of me, as she sampled various Paramount+ programming on her seatback TV (sans subtitles, so I only had the visuals to go on):

(a) the first two episodes of "Mayor of Kingstown," which seemed to blend disturbing scenes of violence with shots of Jeremy Renner grimly getting into and out of a car;
(b) several eps. of "Seal Team," which looked corny and boring as hell; and
(c) "Criminal Minds: Evolution," a show that I understand some people appreciate on a "campy fun" level, but which looked to me like straight-up murder p0rn.

It drove home what TV can be like when you stray outside the "critically acclaimed & buzzworthy" lane...

I'd be fairly curious to know what effect the pervasive bleakness of much of today's televisual offerings has on the psychology of today's viewers.

I couldn't even look straight at some of the Criminal Minds sh1t, man... I don't know how ppl can watch that stuff

(b) several eps. of "Seal Team," which looked corny and boring as hell; and

A pale imitation of the Unit without any of the weirdness that made that entertaining.

finally finished Ted Lasso season 3 what a fucking piece of shit, bafflingly poorly written, all over the place tonally, just a giant spaghetti bowl of unrelated plotlines

the nate stuff? what the fuck? he become a "good guy" again out of the blue then his redemption story is picking up jock straps again while they give Roy the job??

the shit with Danny turning all violent during world competition

Keely's plotlines were all over the place and for what?

dumb dumb dumb

we kinda forgot to finish the season awhile back and i hope my kids don't remember tbh

Didn't mind the finale, but after such an erratic, often terribly unfocused season, it felt like it was rushing to tie up its various (mostly pointless) plots and characters. A waste, really.

I've not seen the finale yet but the whole Nate storyline has been really sour and pointless.

Caught up with a couple of older docs on Hulu that were pretty good:

The Curse of Von Dutch - I’d vaguely heard of this brand but maybe it didn’t make it to New Zealand? Fascinating story of the seriously fucked up stuff (drug dealing, cartel connections, hit men, murder) going on behind the scenes of building the company. Lol Von Dutch was a nazi sympathizer?!

The Donut King - a refugee from Cambodia who built a donut empire on the West Coast. He sponsored hundreds of Cambodian refugees after the Khmer Rouge was overthrown, trained them and got them set up to run their own donut shops. Lots of first person accounts of that time period in Cambodia. Not a subject i knew much about so really interesting. So funny (not really) to hear Ford and Carter consistently talking about the US being a nation of immigrants, and welcoming Cambodian refugees. So opposite of what we hear today.

I've seen the latter, it was really interesting.