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watched Happy As Lazarro on Netflix. that there is some magical realism. it probably would have helped to know more about the bible watching that. maybe. i'm guessing. quite a film no matter how you slice it.

It’s been a few years but I really loved that film!

Likewise. I need to see more Rohrwacher.

I like the idea of Martin Freeman as a US national treasure because that means he's your problem now (I do like him as an actor, but boy does he have some Takes).

You should hear him go on about the Sackville-Baggins.

oh i was being a little silly there. just such an odds & sods cast for that show. (he would like that reference, right, cuzza 'im bein' a mod hooligan or whatever.)

Il Buco on Mubi! So great. What a great movie. That film would make a cool double feature with Happy As Lazarro! For real. They share some sensibilities. But man oh man does that Il Buco director show off. What a show-off! And his name. You'll never guess his name. Michelangelo Frammartino! See, he's showing off. Even with the name. It's a great name. Both these movies make life look more magical.

i gave that movie 5 stars on my ltrbx. and not just for the sweeping vistas or cow-herding antics. it was mostly the cave. the cave did me in.

Hulu's Welcome to Chippendales with Kumail Nanjiani is some quality TV.

yeah that was a good series

yeah i dug that one too

It helped that I didn’t know any of that story before watching; not the Stratton connection, nothing. It was completely surprising to me.

I knew that was coming but was surprised they went there so suddenly

I knew the whole story going in because my bf's podcast had done a story on it a few years earlier lol.

Watching a Hulu doc about an app called HQ Trivia—which was apparently a big deal for a few years, and yet which neither my wife or I (both fairly plugged-in) had ever heard of; to the extent we wondered if this was some kind of “spoof” doc about a nonexistent thing.

Ha, I watched that. I also had never heard of HQ but my partner had. Decent documentary for something that completely passed me by at the time.

HQ: the free trivia quiz live tv show app with real cash prizes that is not dystopian at all

i watched the first episode of Copenhagen Cowboy by NWR on Netflix. don't know if i will continue. it was fine and looked cool as usual but i just really hate anything brothel/sex slave. i always get some of that in any crime shows i watch but they are just one episode. i just wasn't cut out to work vice. its too depressing. i re-watched Once Upon A Time In China on Criterion the other night and had forgotten about the part where the 13th aunt gets kidnapped to be sold as a sex slave and even that disturbed me. and yet for some reason i really liked that movie Sucker Punch? humans are contradictory. NWR also has that brutal horror director attitude even though he makes action/dramas. maybe he should just make horror movies. i still watch horror but i mostly look for movies now without tons of torture/degradation/etc. life is hard enough. even the revenge action/horror movies a la I Spit On Your Grave or whatever now seem like they are 65 minutes of torture and 25 minutes of revenge. (and yes i did just watch High Tension and Martyrs recently but those are different somehow. more fucked up in a dream-like way.)

I'm A Virgo is so refreshingly weird and funny and sweet and I feel like I haven't heard anybody talking about it

Creamerie is so good. Hope they get another season. It's basically Y: the Last Man but in New Zealand and good.

can I bitch about Amazon Prime's "freevee" here? It's great they have a free tier with ads, fine. But I don't think you should have to watch the ads if you are alrady paying for Prime. I suffered through the Tower records documentary (All Things Must Pass) last night (it is great) but just cuts randomly away for interminable weird ads mid-sentence. Tried to watch Spaced a few weeks ago and the editing for ads was so terrible it was unwatchable.

and they seem to be pushing stuff on Freevee really hard. Like it's a huge amount of their content now.

i'm going to go out on a limb and say that Amazon is using Freevee to make more ad revenue. The old Freevee backdoor sneakaround gambit. It's textbook Amazon.

I watched the Big 4 on Netflix and it was insane and cool. and nuts. I would watch it again.

I honestly liked watching Jury Duty on FreeVee because the rhythms of pre-streaming TV commercial breaks are like, a part of my firmware, and it did a nice job approximating them in length, frequency, and variety of ads. Just needed some promo of other Amazon Originals or exclusive new releases, and a ten-second teaser for the 11:00 news.

I accidentally started watching Kids In The Hall on freevee instead of prime once and all the ads were for like legos and other toys. Meaning the algorithm read "kids" and went "I know what to do here!".

I've either streamed or, prior to that, watched DVD sets for so many years now that the FTA vibe with loud, constant ad breaks is so vile to me now, I can't bear it. Like if I'm at my parents house and they have their usual habit of "turn tv on then immediately leave room" I'll turn it to a non-ads channel or turn it off. No one notices or cares. WHY DO THEY PUT IT ON.

Went the distance with Transatlantic, but even then I'm not sure if I can recommend it. Vaguely based on the true story of the group in Marseilles that helped European intellectuals and artist emigrate out during WWII, its weirdly paced and clumsily shifts from slapstick comedy to serious WWII drama seemingly at random. It's a mess, but everyone in the cast commits to it so it's oddly compelling. I was going to give up on it when suddenly a representative of not-IBM shows up in episode 3 and hangs around Marseilles, recruiting Americans with Vichy ties to come work for not-IBM because not-IBM wants to do all of the evil things we know the real-IBM did. It was one of those times where you think the series could go off in a better direction, but you know how it goes when what you want to happen is far better than what actually does.

the reboot of Takeshi's Castle on Prime, it's fun for the whole family! Two episodes in. Absolutely the most absurd thing out there now.

Season two of Good Omens has a character own a record store in central London and everyone comment how quixotic this is as no one buys vinyl anymore. Also very weird sound mixing.

i'm going to go out on a limb and say that Amazon is using Freevee to make more ad revenue.

not so much a limb as part of the main trunk that is visible and accessible to all...

Heartstopper unexpectedly destroyed me last year; I'll watch the second season tonight.

Res Dogs, WWDITS and Only Murders all at once, good times

otm

almost forgot about Only Murders!

I've been working my way through S1 of Only Murders, might be a bit too slow for me, I was expecting more laffs.

Do you like your Beats?

It took about half the first season to click for me.

i think it has a very cozy vibe
it’s not a laugh-a-minute show though
just warmly funny along the way

Watching S3E1 now, it’s hilarious…!

Finished Jury Duty, and my outstanding question is if it was a union production? Because it seemed like the actors may have been working hours beyond a standard workday.

Considering the presence of SAG actors, I assume it was a union production.

I recall one of the articles linked above goes into details such as the cast needing to pretend to eat lunch in front of Ronald (because they secretly ate earlier), which struck me as odd but was probably to comply with union rules.

Has anybody watched This Little Show of Mine, the (frustratingly hard to Google) comedy starring, written, and directed by Ellyn Daniels? I watched the first two episodes on Prime* and enjoyed them, but I can't tell if I'm biased because it's set in & filmed in the city where I live.

*I think it's on Apple TV too, and you can watch the first episode on YouTube

I liked that William Gao in the first season of Heartstopper had a haircut that made him look like the Little Dutch Girl.

Second season of Heartstopper feels a bit padded to me so far--I've read the graphic novels, and it seems like they're trying to stretch the story out to make space for more seasons--but its still a delight.

Mrs Davis was so good for the first few episodes and then I just drastically lost interest. I tried a couple more times and nope. The stakes just evaporated for me. Buncha stuff about Jesus and a fake pope, and some shoes... Am I just not hip enough for this show? What kept me trying was Betty Gilpin, who is just an extraordinary actress. Such a pleasure to watch her do her thing. She finds about 10 extra moments in every scene.

I really enjoyed the first few episodes of this too (some interesting ideas floating about about AI and religion) but the wackiness got a bit excessive after a while.

i found the same too, it sort of wears out its wacky welcome after a while, though i think i got behind which didn’t help my mood— the vibe works better if you do a few of episodes back to back i think

i dunno about binging the whole thing tho, that feels like “you took too much maan” scenario lol

i feel like reservation dogs is making a case to be discussed as one of the greatest shows of all time (for me at least)

Second season of Heartstopper feels a bit padded to me so far--I've read the graphic novels, and it seems like they're trying to stretch the story out to make space for more seasons--but its still a delight.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko)

I didn't mind the expansions, especially the limning of Isaac's asexuality.

I was a little worried early on that the focus was going to stay on Nick's halting coming out(s), but I ended up liking the overall shape of the season and, echoing Alfred, the attention paid to the whole cast.

I also liked that by the end of the season Nick emerged as the group's kindest, most empathetic, and wisest member, and that that could be attributed to both his inherent nature and to the support the others gave him, allowing him to avoid some of the more brutal treatment the others received when navigating things more on their own.

Not to long ago in this thread I mentioned how I really liked the first season of Invasion, and most folks here who chimed in took the opposite stance.

I rewatched it over the weekend in anticipation of the new season starting next week (I think it's been two years between seasons??). And while there are a few plot quibbles here and there, I still think it holds up really well. I really like how slow it is--[spoilers if you're only now starting to watch it] the fakeout protagonist of the first episode, the sheer number of episodes showing people dealing with a crisis without ever understanding the cause, and not even showing the aliens in any kind of explicit way until the sixth episode. I just really loved that a show with this simple of a premise turned out to be essentially a slow burn show.

The quasi-supernatural elements weren't as strong. There's a scene in the first or second episode where Aneesha's son starts screaming because he hears voices in his head saying "Wagu" over and over again. But no one else has this experience. And even as we learn of the telepathic connection that Caspar has with the aliens, the plot never returns to Aneesha's son possibly having a similar connection. And then in the penultimate episode where Caspar realizes he can communicate with them, all he says is... stop. And lastly I was a little confused by the reveal of Mitsuki still in the space station near the end, and the questioning of whether or not she was somehow an imposter the aliens had devised. Admittedly I was not fully paying attention... but this seemed both too far-fetched to really be her, and too far-fetched that the aliens were that sophisticated linguistically. Anyway its pleasures far outweighed its flaws in my opinion. I'm excited for the new season and I truly have no idea where it's going to go.