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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

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 5, 2023 3:13 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.

A few weeks later, Peacock pulled the plug on Schur’s TV adaptation of Field of Dreams even though it was deep into preproduction. “They just changed their mind,” says Schur. “They didn’t want to spend the money anymore.” He notes that the project will have one lasting artifact, perhaps the ultimate monument to Peak TV’s unfulfilled potential: “We built a baseball stadium in a cornfield in Iowa that’s still sitting there as we speak.” They built it, and nobody came.

Vulture article is good so far, so much of the streaming model seems unsustainable (at least as far as making non-trash content).

"Peak TV's unfulfilled potential"

What was the potential exactly?

BJ & The Bear reboot

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.

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yeah this (and as josh echoed) is the real problem, there were a couple times i rewinded like did i miss something? felt like a lot of what should have been the "big scenes" didn't exist

yeah i noticed that too

Season 3 of Warrior will be on Max June 29. If you haven't seen it it's basically a combination of Kung Fu, Deadwood and Banshee, and it fucking rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dEEKEzglw

I like this dumb 'based on a true story' show on peacock.

warrior is very fun

If you liked True Lies, FUBAR is an 8 hr spiritual cousin. Dad and daughter discover they’ve been hiding CIA jobs from each other and loved ones, must collaborate on saving the world while reconnecting. Tom Arnold cameos, sarcastic quips and wackiness aplenty. Stakes don’t feel high, but the cast has decent chemistry.

Did anyone watch Dead Ringers on Amazon? I’m halfway through and enjoying it. I never saw the Cronenberg movie so I don’t really have any sense of where this will end up.

i didn't watch it yet, I heard it was excellent. the cronenberg movie is also excellent, no idea how much they have to do with one another though, I assumed the series used that concept as a launching point and probably went in another direction. I unreservedly love Rachel Weitz so I should get on this, two Rachels is better than one

Weisz..if i love her so much I should probably learn how to spell her name.

She’s great in this

I watched five minutes of the first episode and went “oh, oh no”

I got to the end but it was a real chore. Far too much going on, twice as long as it needed to be and I really didn't understand which one the core story was supposed to be.

I watched five minutes of the first episode and went “oh, oh no”

lol is that good or bad?

on a different horror tip, I just finished and really liked Gannibal - Japanese rural cannibalism series on Disney+. Apart from the people eating, thought it was pretty effective re: the creepiness of living in a village where everyone is all up in each other's business.

Mrs Davis was an absolutely wild ride. Unreserved recommendation.

Japanese rural cannibalism series on Disney+

I love how Disney's thing of having I think Hulu's catalogue in Europe makes sentences like this one possible.

The other two continues to be totally ridiculous and better and better.

Polish action mom movie is better than the J-Lo action mom movie. imho. (they are the same movie. i'm guessing the Polish one came first? on netflix.)

I'm sure if I went back to watch the first season of The Other Two, I wouldn't even recognize it compared to the show it's become (and I love the current season)

I don't even remember but I'm pretty sure it wasn't as totally broad and off the rails as it's become. It's so much dumb fun right now though.

The final season of Mayans MC is currently streaming, one episode per week, on Hulu. I blasted through the first four a few months ago so I'm riding with it to the bitter end. No lies, this is a seriously weepy telenovela disguised as a hardass crime drama. This gang of violent bikers, perpetually at war, spends an incredible amount of time hugging and crying. One dude's big subplot is him trying to pull his elderly mother out of her depression after he's had to put her in a home! It's a seriously rich text in the "crisis of masculinity" genre.

how many episodes of The Rehearsal should I watch before I dive into the thread?

lol is that good or bad?

It was a lot of gory childbirth scenes, I was not prepared

how many episodes of The Rehearsal should I watch before I dive into the thread?

probably all of them

Ted Lasso finale was a bit of an anticlimax, and that ridiculous sound of music scene really annoyed me. There is no way any team of red blooded footy players would WANT to do that let alone herd cats enogh to get it that well chorepgraphed I know shut up Trayce its just a TV show.

I think Ted Lasso is the new Hamilton in the way that it’s so passionately loved and hated

but i loved that the choreo was pulled straight from the movie! i enjoy that they’re such dorks about musicals

lol me proving Keyes point

I'm just a cynic haha! It was in the spirit of the show, to be fair.

TBH when they walked out with the boombox I thought it was gonna start blasting Peter Gabriel and they'd all beg him to stay or something lol.

there are 54 seasons of chopped on hulu. i've made it to season 3. everyone is so sweaty! and bleeding. and hair everywhere. whatever happened to hats? one guy with floppy hair was actually complaining about his hair in his face and how much he was sweating. ever hear of a....hat? maybe they don't let people on reality shows wear hats. so that we can see them better. i'd rather have hats! it must be really hot in that studio.

woman making a salad with a bloody finger..........................................................oof.

Chopped has existed for 14 years and for them to have 54 "seasons" just kinda makes one boggle. They are averaging three or four seasons a year, across varying sub-brands and platforms.

Every one of us will eventually get our turn to make a meal out of Sweet Tarts, braised lamb, vermouth, and dried crickets.

I joke but I did randomly spot an ex-gf's brother as a contestant on one episode. Which I would've assumed was statistically unlikely until I learned the '54 seasons' factoid.

I started watching Alex vs America, it's kinda like Chopped but a bit more chill and tasteful. More of the cooking shown, blind judging so it's not about contestants presenting their story or whatever, much less fighting over ingredients and equipment, etc.

Old Lunch: not so long ago I heard a lecture from someone critiquing academia for its hiring priorities (i.e., administrative bloat vs. actually paying adjunct instructors). The speaker said something like "at this rate, in six years, every man, woman, and child in New Haven will be a Deputy Assistant Provost."

Sometimes I think about that in the context of reality shows. As Journey once reminded us, "Some will win, some will lose." But statistically speaking, eventually we will all either be handed a rose or be asked to pack our knives or get voted off the island. Or we will "make it work."

Theoretically I am still in the running to become America's next top model, if only because I haven't been eliminated yet.

Alex vs. America is fun for her and Eric Adjepong's chemistry. Even when AG voices her "I'm in over my head" doubts, her techniques and gamesmanship (doubling down on every mandatory ingredient) make for success. She's only placed third once, that I remember, and never lost.

She says she has no input on the theme, so curious how much the producers are aiming to test her. Like Beat Bobby Flay, seems like when there's no direct expertise, knowing the theme's framework/criteria allows her the ability to triumph.

I definitely appreciate the contestants and judges for not all being the usual incestuous Food Network choices.

I watched Too Cool To Kill (2002) on a plane and I fuckin loved it. I don't know if it's available on a streaming service.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16254308/

Now I am biased because I had a crushing headache which entirely lifted midway through the movie, after which I fully communed with the loveliness of every aspect of reality, but I do think the movie would have pushed my buttons anyway. Slapstick, sentimentality, innocence, joy, cartoonishness. There's a Stephen Chow kind of vibe. Strangely when looking this up to link it I discovered that it's essentially a Chinese remake of a Japanese movie called "The Magic Hour" (2008) .. a discovery that is honestly kind of jarring..