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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)

XPS That sucks tho. I started Rockford during quarantine times, and had to follow it from IMDB TV (now FreeVee) over to Peacock...finally settled for some DVD sets which are still pretty cheap.

xpost lol took me a while to dig up your comments on one of the half dozen Hartley threads.

Yeah, I'm kind of curious what I might think of his films now. Similarly, I wonder what revisiting Atom Egoyan would evince?

Aw, sorry... it's "The Hal Hartley thread"!

holy shit that Telemarketers series is wild, i’m def into it

Yeah, watching episode 2 right now and it's incredible.

tbh i’m in on anything with this amount of primary source footage & interviews, but also i feel kinda naive not really knowing abt this kinda scam subculture? crazy.

like the factory-level setup & reinventions

wild shit

I was a huge Egoyan fan at the time, and loved everything through the Sweet Hereafter and then I felt like he got dicey. several adaptations. Ararat was fairly good though. I don't think I saw any of the ones after that.

Sweet Hereafter is the last one I remember seeing. I wasn’t necessarily a huge fan but thought his films were interesting and well made.

“My name is Patrick J. Pespas…”

^Just watched the first two eps of that, thanks to folks here for the rec. It’s really something…

Fire In The Sky is on Max! If you have never seen it you have to see it.

Totally generic-looking genre movie from 1993 that moves along slowly and surely and then toward the end *BLAMMO* one of the scariest alien abduction scenes that you have ever seen. and its not even a long scene! but totally worth owning a DVD of the movie for.

Talk about the slow burn reveal...there is about 25 minutes of movie left when they hit you with it.

Made it to the end of Giri/Haji and was already turning against it because it started out as a reasonably gritty crime drama but around episode 3 it was leaning into a bunch of goofily earnest, Inarritu-esque "we're all connected and here's how" stuff, and then the final episode had a literal dance number. NOT RECOMMENDED.

Now I'm watching Dark Winds, a Navajo crime series set in the early 70s starring Zahn McClarndon from Longmire and Reservation Dogs as a tribal police lieutenant investigating some murders and a bank robbery. Based on books by Tony Hillerman. It's normally an AMC show, but it's on Max until the end of October, or something.

i think i gave up on Giri/Haji around episode 3 but now I am intrigued!

the rooftop dance in giri/haji is amazing and wonderful.

yeah, i loved it, but i can see unperson being supremely unimpressed by it. i think i was in a vulnerable mood watching it.

Lol my husband is STILL haunted by Fire in the Sky

I imagine people either love or hate the ending of Giri/Haji. I thought it was great, my wife thought it was deeply stupid

yeah i think i said something similar on here. its gonna be a love/hate thing.