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another fave of mine on Mubi was *America As Seen By A Frenchman* from 1960. so good and so hilarious. French title: L'Amérique insolite.

Does Warrior get, like, good good? I watched the first few episodes and it's enjoyable, love the fight scenes (so much better than anything in John Wick, jeez). But there's also a lot of bad on-the-nose dialogue and authentically Cinemax gratuitous sex scenes, more Peaky Blinders than Deadwood.

Warrior is pulp but i found it entertaining and fun to follow. Not unlike my fave Hell On Wheels, another show that most people here probably haven't watched? i shouldn't sell you smart people short. Who doesn't love colm meaney barking orders on a train?

I need to try Hell On Wheels. I tried another one — Damnation? A Western about a town of women? Lasted maybe half of one episode.

Does Warrior get, like, good good?

I mean, if great fight scenes and hot people having sex isn't your idea of "good television" we may be having two different conversations.

Hell On Wheels is good

Ha, yes we are.

Hell On Wheels starts good and just gets gooderer. some of my favorite stuff is the west coast railroad building in the later seasons.

i think one of the reasons i'm watching the first season of Barbecue Showdown on Netflix is because I kinda like seeing black and white southern people cooking together! it makes me believe in a better world. people brought together by meat. the way god intended. i mean these folks are SOUTH south. everyone becomes more likable too as the season progresses.

also now i want a scuppernong i ain't never had one!

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All seasons of 24 are on Hulu so we decided to start watching and WOW the writers did the female characters so dirty. Half are villains and half are always fucking up and causing problems.

There is always a point in each 24 Season where it’s clear the writers are snorting crank

There's also a point at which Kiefer's character justifies torturing a suspect because "There's no time" to do anything else.

this is the best 24 scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Tt6wxHgS0

24 is an offensive show.

wrt Amazon I would blow up Netflix to save Patriot

woah - just looked it up 24's first episode aired November 6, 2001....I always assumed it was part of the ugly reaction to 9/11 but it must have been in the can by then.

Ooh looks like both seasons of Yellowjackets just showed up on Paramount - good news since I don’t subscribe to Showtime.

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I think they actually delayed the first season of 24 a couple of months because 9/11 had just happened.

The pilot episode involves a plane getting hijacked and blown up IIRC so yeah, it was delayed.

Lmao thank you Tracer

The other scene that justifies 24’s existence is the beginning of the second season where Jack straight up murders a suspect in custody so he can deliver the dude’s severed head to a terrorist as part of his cover story, just absolutely ridiculous stuff

he gets results

THERE’S NO TIME (commits war crime) GET KIM TO SAFETY (commits another war crime, murders love interest)

I like how he begins each season brooding over the events of the previous season and then immediately snaps back into war crimes mode

His default setting is to commit atrocities and be sad, sometime simultaneously

I think you might like Azor if you haven't seen it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 15:16 (yesterday)

brilliant movie, probably due a rewatch.

To be fair, there aren't a lot of movies or TV shows where the plot is "everyone is sensible and makes lots of good decisions."

I once tried to write a spec script where the premise was "here is a show where the main characters are well-intentioned, and make utterly no bad decisions ever."

There's a reason you haven't heard of it.

Odd, since so many shows are Competency Porn--i.e. this person is the greatest Doctor/Hacker/Lawyer/Detective etc., though of course you need a bunch of idiots standing around them to make it interesting.

Lol, otm.

I think that was Roddenberry's edict on TNG and the producers and writers rebelled (DS9 is explicitly a rebuke against "In the future all humans are well-adjusted and make great decisions") until eventually they were making torture porn like 24 and Enterprise.

speaking of competency porn and ott action and bad ideas i was watching some dry cop procedural and i thought of a bela tarr-like epic movie where there is an insane hong kong/john wick ultraviolent battle at the beginning which ends with about a zillion henchmen hacked and shot to death. that's the first ten minutes and 3/4 of the budget. the next 7 hours and 50 minutes is nothing but the cops identifying all the henchmen and calling their next of kin and making arrangements for the bodies to be shipped to families around the world.

i am the worst scenario writer.

John Wick, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

For years I've wanted to write a novel where the characters are basically Brett and Parker from Alien, except nothing exciting happens, they're just banging around in the basement of their spaceship, bitching about their co-workers and why they deserve a raise.

poor communication skills is basically the root of 90% of all TV drama. misunderstandings that can be easily explained except for the fact that the misunderstood character allows the one who's misunderstanding to leave the room in a huff, then remains in the room looking sad and not explaining themselves (cue six more episodes until the resultant drama paste is resolved.) it's one of the most annoying things.

24 is just an insane show of course, i'm not sure anyone escaped alive. they really did do the female characters dirty. poor audrey raines, michelle dessler, whoever michelle forbes played, jack's wife, jack's mistress, whoever annie wersching played, david palmer's wife, shohreh aghdashloo etc etc

yeah, but what about Tony?

i never really watched 24. i wasn't a big kiefer fan. it was a clever idea obviously. during plague i debated watching 24 or alias. i'd never really watched either much.

one thing about 24 was that it was, beyond the CTU sets, a pretty cheap-looking show. the fate of the world hinging on a lot of action taking place on deserted suburban streets and in empty warehouses.

it was cheap and awful but somehow it just kept you fuckin hooked. in some ways it reminds me of Line Of Duty. just when you thought it couldn't get more insane, it would go so much further.

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i enjoyed queen of the south on netflix and i noticed that they had the original la reina del sur and boy oh boy here i thought queen of the south was crazy! i don't really watch telenovelas but maybe i should. not that i will ever watch every episode of la reina del sur.

some of us have……

@mark s

misunderstandings that can be easily explained except for the fact that the misunderstood character allows the one who's misunderstanding to leave the room in a huff,

Big pet peeve of mine. I also hate when someone’s like, “Mom, I need to tell you something—”; and the mom cuts her off, “Oh good, I need to tell you something…” and that cuts off the revelation that would have resolved everything.

For years I've wanted to write a novel where the characters are basically Brett and Parker from Alien, except nothing exciting happens, they're just banging around in the basement of their spaceship, bitching about their co-workers and why they deserve a raise.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, June 28, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I've always wanted to write sci-fi book about the crew of starship traversing the galaxy in search of life beyond earth... and they never, ever find any.

Boldly going where no man has gone before... and collecting space dust.

Feels to me as if such a book has already been written

Feels to me as if such a book has already been written

― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, June 29, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I’d read it! (Since I’ll never write it)

Ooh looks like both seasons of Yellowjackets just showed up on Paramount - good news since I don’t subscribe to Showtime.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, June 28, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I didn’t realize this when I posted yesterday but apparently Showtime is now fully included with Paramount+, for no extra fees.

There are loads and loads of shows I wrote off long ago because I never had any intention of paying for yet one more service. Now I guess I need to figure out what I’ve been missing!

Price is actually increasing to $11.99/month.

Out of curiosity, does Paramount have Kidding on there, or is that (fantastic) show still consigned to the void?