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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.

Lol Von Dutch was a nazi sympathizer?!

doesn't surprise me since people into that brand reek of racism to me

Eh, the original dude had nothing to do with the brand, and I think part of why the trend cratered was that stuff about him coming out (I haven't seen the doc, but I remember all this from the time). I didn't like those douchey hats either, but I don't think there's a connection there...

Von Dutch’s artwork was the basis of the brand - the brand font and the flying eyeball. He didn’t copyright his work so anyone could use it. This guy Ed was selling Von Dutch patches at some clothing trade show and this drug dealer and his protégée took one look and were like yeah that’s gonna sell (the hats came way later). Ed was supposed to get a cut of the business but allegedly got screwed over so later on he revealed that he had a deathbed letter - never seen before - written by Von Dutch that basically said he didn’t want to live in a world full N******, Jews and Mexicans, and that hitler had the right idea. He gave an to some Orange County newspaper who published it.

The designer they took on in the last few years - who took it from a workwear brand for surfers etc, to more of a glittery pop culture, mtv style brand - went on to design the Ed Hardy brand.

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

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I really think the show's heart is in the right place so I feel bad saying it but it's pretty lame a lot of the time. Astonishing cast, tbh, but the tone misses. I hesitate to suggest it was trying too hard but I think it does. It seemed as if it was trying to fill the space vacated by Schitt's Creek but it was nowhere near as funny nor anywhere near that show's level of earning its heartwarming moments, pathos, relationship heartbreak, etc.

yeah the nate storyline on ted lasso really went nowhere, plus he was redeemed by falling in love with a girl, big eye-rolling whoop. We also learned absolutely nothing about his girlfriend other than she was Polish, and she went from ignoring him one second before suddenly deciding she liked him back. huh?  

for the other characters, I feel like they had some good ideas about where they wanted the story to go but forgot to write a bunch of scenes in between e.g. i appreciated that keeley ended up choosing herself over the two dudes fighting over her, but there was little to no explanation about what exactly happened between her and roy. and almost every big decision made by the characters this season happened offscreen - nate quitting his job, the team deciding to take him back, ted deciding to go home, etc. 

Meanwhile on the state of things. Some good quotes in here:

https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html

“The entire industry,” says the director Steven Soderbergh, who has been navigating structural changes in Hollywood since 1989’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape, “has moved from a world of Newtonian economics into a world of quantum economics, where two things that seem to be in opposition can be true at the same time: You can have a massive hit on your platform, but it’s not actually doing anything to increase your platform’s revenue. It’s absolutely conceivable that the streaming subscription model is the crypto of the entertainment business.”

Quality content on Netflix. Search string “how to”. Top results include documentaries on building a sex room, becoming a dictator (complete with hitler picture), and fixing a drug scandal. Wtf

re Ted Lasso

this season was definitely a strugglebus, arbitrarily sending all the characters off in weird directions & inventing conflict where there was none etc, it all got a bit weird. But i do still like watching it, i think mabe just bc of the goodwill built up from s1i guess. there’s nice bits here and there still.
i did like the jamie/roy friendship that started up in amsterdam w the training & bike riding. also seeing jamie’s bizarre relationship w his mum lol (and his hilarious childhood bedroom)

The cast and acting are all top-notch, just have no idea what went awry with the story (stories) this season. It's like they literally lost the plot. There were a bunch of delays, right? Maybe it was a covid casualty, and they were left with limited time with the cast, or the cast all together or something like that, and developed all this stand-alone secondary story stuff as a stopgap only to struggle to tie it all together again? But the key disappointments were, yeah, separating the cast to no appreciable gain, and the amount of conflict (and resolution) that took place off-screen, or, worse, for no reason at all: Roy breaking up with Keeley, Nate's heel turn, etc.

Brett Goldstein and Brendan Hunt were also making Shrinking at the same time?

Along with producer/showrunner Bill Lawrence - as I understand it, he was the big loss from S3, and explains why all the storylines went haywire.

the bar was pretty low for me, I found it fine. It was dumb but also cute enough. I didn't mind most of the schmaltz. When the Sound of Music thing happened I threw the TV out the window but other than that, whatever.