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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.

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Third and final season of Top Boy is coming soon (early September, I think).

This musical sub-plot of Only Murders in the Building is pretty tiresome.

I really liked the first two episodes – it felt like they found a fresh spin on the whole concept – but I sort of tuned out in Ep. 3... (also, Selena's character feels weirdly undefined or "what do we do with her this time around?")

i liked that gal gadot spy movie on netflix. lots of fun. and a flying gal gadot. its really really long. i mean it felt like it was 4 hours long but it couldn't have been. it never ends. but i liked it anyway! silly. fun. gal gadot. did i mention gal gadot?

Heart of Stone. Plot makes zero sense but, yeah, flying Gal Gadot.

it's a weird movie!

It absolutely smacked of trying to set up a franchise with the premise being entirely Flying Gal Gadot. It was incredibly silly and I've almost entirely forgotten the plot already (I watched it last weekend)

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.
― rob, Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Kit Connor is one of the few actors of any age working who can play sweetness.

Heart of Stone: first half is a lot better than the second half. The second half drags, gets incredibly silly, and left me feeling embarrassed for all concerned in this sorry film.

I'm actually mad about the second half because there was a brief window when, for as silly as Heart Of Stone is, it actually seemed that it could have been a good movie.

So wait, she has superpowers(?)

No superpowers, but she has a variety of plot devices and gadgets at her disposal which launch her into and keep her involved in increasingly ludicrous and often airborne stunts.

Flying Gal Gadot was maybe the worst thing about Wonder Woman 1984, against stiff competition

they should study that movie in a lab. so bad. and talk about endless! had to check twice to make sure bela tarr hadn't directed Wonder Woman 1984.

I bailed like 30 mins. in

(re: WW84)

I couldn't finish WW84 either, even though a high school friend was involved in the production (hair/makeup) and it was hailed as doing a pretty good job of recreating my youth (Northern Virginia 80s mall culture). It should have been my sort of thing but simply wasn't.

You obviously hate wonder women

Party Down is on vanilla Hulu for another couple days.

WW84 wrapped around to so-bad-it's-good for me, not that I want to watch it again. Definitely too long

don't remember anything about it, possibly because I watched it during the pandemic

Gal Gadot is a terrible actor and I do not know why she keeps getting roles.

she is very pretty

I’ve only really seen her in WW, but she seemed fine to me there (and that first half hr of WW84, but she wasn’t the problem…)

She was fine in the first WW. Then it became rapidly apparent that that slightly wooden, awkwardly-accented delivery wasnt the Diana charater, its just HER.

Well I guess if Ahnold was able to build an action-hero career under those circumstances…

arnold has kind of a monotone but he’s got some nuance in how he deploys it

I have a pipe dream of DC making one of those alternate-universe movies, starring America Ferrera as Wonder Woman (…but maybe I’ve said too much).

Gal Gadot movies generally do well at the box office.

movies like with Gal Gadot in them

Correct, big budget spectacles from established franchises aimed at international markets. Same reason why Tom Cruise, also a terribly wooden actor imo, Channing Tatum, the Rock, etc. keep getting roles. They are proven quantities.

Gal Gadot is a terrible actor and I do not know why she keeps getting roles.

She's awful, and that whole film is awful, and Jamie Dornan and Alia Bhatt and Sophie Okonedo all deserved better. There's a weird bit in it where they're all in a van and someone says to Gal Gadot "Slow down, are you trying to kill us?" and she says "the exact opposite, actually!" And this little exchange is delivered like a joke, like witty banter, but there's no joke, it's not banter. And all the dialogue in the film is like that.

Tom Cruise

c’mon now… you may not be a Cruise fan, but the dude’s not in this category

(Also. it’s kind of funny in general to be like, “these handsome/charismatic/likable actors only get roles because people go to see them!”)

Why,i mean she's a producer and was the first star attached to the project.

Love Sophie Okenedo in Slow Horses and just about anything she is in. Okenedo was with Gadot in Death on the Nile (where I though Gadot was fine) but then again, who wasn't.

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Tom Cruise

c’mon now… you may not be a Cruise fan, but the dude’s not in this category

― Cone of uncertainty (morrisp), Monday, August 21, 2023 7:50 AM

Oh, I agree. I think Tom Cruise does a good job and probably Gadot does not. Just an example to make the point about why actors get roles.

The Peripheral now not getting a second season apparently due to delays from the strike

RIP, heaven needed a nonsensical glossy techno thriller

Now I can be 100% at peace with giving up on that show midway through, and not questioning my decision when a new hype cycle comes through

Aw I was enjoying that show!

xpost lol same

Anyone else watching the "Telemarketers" doc on HBO? It's pretty nuts. Basically an epic amateur whistleblower tale belatedly unearthed and brought to life by the Safdie Brothers. Third and final part comes out tonight.

its been awhile since i felt compelled to quickly watch a 6 or 8 episode series on netflix but i LOVED Guns and Gulaabs so much i had to keep watching. and then i did the same with Giri/Haji (Duty/Shame) and i kinda didn't even want that one to end cuz i liked the characters so much. i was a little afraid that the cockney gangster guy was going to be too guy ritchie for me but he was fine. i don't know who will sharpe is but i thought he was great as rodney. he really reminded me of some desperate people i have known. the actor who plays yuto mori was almost too hot for the screen. hubba hubba. and taki mori was possibly the cutest person to ever grace a television. and i always love to marvel at kelly macdonald's nose. so many angles and sides and slopes. an uncanny nose! i liked the design of both of these shows. visually. very cool.

the Guns and Gulaabs directors have shows on Prime called Farzia and The Family Man and i would watch both but i don't do Prime.

oh and also there is something sorta unusual that happens toward the end of the last episode of giri/haji that i can imagine people either liking or not liking but it to me it was just so beautiful at that moment. i almost cried. i could cry thinking of it! part of me doesn't really want to read reviews of it though. reviews suck and suck the life out of stuff.

this is not yet on Hulu, but will be in two weeks: Theater Camp! saw it at an actual movie theater last night and it's 100% delightful and fun. Really great low-budget indie written, directed by and starring molly gordon (claire from the bear) along with others. Everyone should watch it.