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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.

Watched the first ep of the new season of Invasion. Huge lols at getting Mitsuki suited up, walking her to the door of the alien ship, and only then training her how to use the suit and saying “you should know that every single person who has done this came back with severe neurological damage.” I guess when the boss is a clear Elon Musk caricature, that’s how they’d run things??

I considered watching Giri/Haji but the trailers really didn't sell it. Maybe now that Warrior is over I'll check it out.

you should watch Guns and Gulaabs too! very funny. and tons of action too.

I don't think Giri/Haji fully worked but had a few cool ideas that set it apart from similar shows. Like the ending. Not much of a time investment so it's worth a watch

they both do that same streaming t.v. time thing that so many action/drama shows do. where it will say *5 weeks ago*, *5 minutes ago*, *10 years ago*, etc...

when i like a show it doesn't matter. if i don't like a show that much i always want them to get on with it already. but i understand why people do it so much now and its not because of pulp fiction. its because people have the time to do it! you are basically making an 8 hour movie. you have time for lots of stuff.

Giri/Haji was probably too ambitious or had too many characters and that can make a plot lumpy (even though the basic plot is basically: bring brother home) but then again i loved the 4 generation car ride at the end with the baby so i'm kinda glad that they overstuffed things. you never stay in one place long enough to have someone wear out their welcome.

Season 2 of Bastards of Pizzofalcone (streams on Mhz) ended with a bang and the third season is really great. I'm not done yet but I'm really loving it. There is some griping about the arc of a certain detective, but I think it's very powerful. Anyway I like it a lot. The characters and their relationships are what really make it special imo.

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.

Guns and Gulaabs is great. Love me some Rajkummar Rao.

Couldn't see it mentioned anywhere here earlier but I just caught up with the 1st season of Dark Winds from last year, and it was great - gripping drama and really respectful and interesting angle on the Navajo/Dine culture.

I really wanted to see that when it first premiered, and now apparently it's one of several AMC shows that are gonna be temporarily shown on Max in October and November, so I'm finally gonna get a chance to see it.

2nd season is also a quality view. Haven’t read the Tony Hillerman books, but will someday.

Didn’t know there was a second season. I thought season one was okay. I kinda wished it were more… prestige-y? If that makes sense?

It did occasionally feel low in budget. All the interior car scenes were really clearly greenscreen! But the acting is fantastic. I love Zahn McLarnon, he was great in Fargo.

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.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 27, 2023 12:58 PM (three days ago

I watched all 3 episodes in a row a couple of nights ago. Its brilliant.

cyrus and i watched telemarketers last night. pat pespas is such a star! joaquin phoenix wishes. such a captivating speaker is some weird way i can't figure out.

I have only watched the first episode so far, but I worked for that company in the early 90s. Not the New Brunswick office, though — I think it was in Edison. And it wasn't as cracked-out as it was by the mid-2000s. But it was definitely crooked as fuck.

whoa!

I wondered where it was going to go after the first episode and the direction it took was good. scott otm about Pat

Um, anyone watch 'Trap Jazz' on Hulu?

i worked at a telemarketing place in the 90s, in knoxville. big flashbacks. we were on the up and up compared to the outfit in this series but people still did all sorts of things. our job was to sell subscriptions to the local newspaper. there was this one guy who'd just make up crazy lies. he sold more subscriptions than anybody and actually got the performance bonuses that nobody else sold enough to get. i'll never forget his phrase: "if you subscribe with me today you'll become what we call a full route subscriber. what does that mean? well it means you get advertising supplements with lots of coupons, you'll get special holiday editions of the paper... it's our premium product." and of course everybody got ads and coupons and holiday editions of the paper, so he wasn't actually lying...

You were in the presence of A Telemarketing Legend

we had these little yellow cards with the first part of the phone number written out, like 555-55__ and then the rest of the card was 100 two-digit numbers, from 00 to 99, and you just called... each... combination. you'd x out the misses, the out of services, the fax machines, the no answers, and once in a goddamn blue moon you'd hit, and you'd circle that one. i think it maybe happened to me three times in the entire time i worked there. they didn't give me my last paycheck until i threatened to write a letter to the national labor relations board.

the job footage was kinda nightmarish. the job itself looks like death to me. but the people were fun!

Thanks to Elvis T for recommending the Korean cops vs gangsters show MY NAME on Netflix. Two episodes in and it's pretty incredible. Shades of infernal affairs/New World (it's one of those "informant caught in the middle" shows) and maybe even some John Wick mixed in there. Really great acting, absolutely no idea where it's going at this point, and it looks amazing.

Congratulations this is the worst idea of all time https://t.co/NJMuO4EVTk

— eve6 (@Eve6) August 30, 2023

I'm watching this great though grim Dutch short documentary called "When A Gabber Dies" about uhh... when a hardcore gabber fan dies. It is on Youtube! Turn on the captions, for english.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiDMlFycNrw

Tbf, they already know where they are, and streaming service ads are already often hyper localized/user specific. But the idea that 99.9% of any of CNN's perpetual "breaking news" is important enough to interrupt the show I am watching to *escape* the news is a hoot.

I want a comment thread running next to each show I’m watching

I've only watched 1/3 of the Wayne Shorter documentary on Amazon (it's 3 episodes, the first one is 75 minutes and the next two are an hour each) but so far it's fantastic. It goes from his childhood up till right around the time of Bitches Brew and him leaving Miles Davis's band, and instead of making you hate him like most suck-ass music documentaries in this post-Behind the Music hellscape we live in, this one will make you want to listen to nothing but Wayne Shorter for a month.

oh will def watch that, thx

greatly enjoying S. Korean series Moving on Disney+ - an odd but deftly executed mix of family drama, high school superhero rom-com, and gritty spy/assassin intrigue. It’s about a group of superpowered retired spies and their children (who have also inherited their abilities) living in hiding until a mysterious assassin comes to take them out. Idk how they do it but SK shows are so good at mixing genres and shifting tones, the production team on Disney’s Star Wars/Marvel shows should take notes imo

riyl the MCU but also if you like ultraviolent John Wick-style action, and also if you like To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before lol

That sounds cool, will check it out

We're watching American Born Chinese also on Disney+, based on a graphic novel that I enjoyed many years ago. Liked the first few episodes and felt it captured what I liked in the comic but then there was one episode that absolutely dragged and it hasn't really recovered. Will stick it out to the end though

The Peripheral > One Piece > Wheel of Time > Witcher

Just in case anyone is keeping score about tv shows that make no got damn sense

I dunno, Peripheral and WoT seemed followable enough to me? Certainly compared to Witcher which was bollocks-out wtf.

To reiterate, the Witcher is really spectacularly bad. It's kind of compelling, how utterly terrible it is, despite being mostly okay to look at. But it is impressive in its commitment to making exactly zero sense.

It makes Wheel of Time seem profound in comparison, which is saying something. Because Wheel of Time makes _almost_ zero sense, while also being pretty good to look at when you're a little bit drunk and folding some laundry.

Xp Trayce is right

yeah Witcher got progressively more confusing, i felt like I was having a stroke trying to follow the last few episodes of this final season

We just saw the first episode of the Schwarzenegger doc on Netlfix, and it's great.

greatly enjoying S. Korean series Moving on Disney+

i just realized this is on Hulu not Disney in the US, in case folks are looking for it. seems it's also both streamers' biggest Korean hit globally and getting comparisons to squid game (in terms of popularity)

My daughters weren't feeling it, and I had mixed feelings going in, but I greatly enjoyed the first two EPs of Adventure Time spin off Fionna and Cake. Strong Kiki's Delivery Service I-am-adrift-in-a-disenchanted-adult-world vibez. Also nice Cheers tribute.

i posted this on criterion thread but i am excited that the criterion channel has all the hal hartley this month. i have been really jonesing for trust and the unbelievable truth. haven't watched them in years and they were never streaming anywhere. #genxgrumpsunite

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Oh that’s great. I rewatched them both a year or so back.

lol I think I watched 'trust' 10 times in a single week back in the day.

It's been so long since I've seen any of his movies that I literally can't remember anything about any of them other than "Henry Fool" has a lot of vomiting in it (spoilers?).

I was digging the Rockford Files on Amazon and they took it off! What the hell am I going to watch while folding laundry now? I tried 80's columbo which suuuuuucks. Trying Murder She Wrote out but... I dunno.

Apparently it's on Roku now?

https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/05563706a56153f6b5875d438940f68c/backlash-of-the-hunter

xxp I feel like Hartley has been somewhat memory-holed, no doubt in part due to the somewhat limited availability of his films on home media over the years. (Also he kinda fell off, but that's a different story & matter of opinion...)

Anyway, both Unbelievable Truth and Trust are must-revisits. I wrote about my re-impressions on the Hartley thread (which I'm sure you don't need to run over and check out).

(...whoa, just looked, it was four (4) years ago that I did that; thought it was more recent)