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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.

"Lol my husband is STILL haunted by Fire in the Sky"

it's genuinely haunting!!

i would have loved to see that in a theatre and not know it was coming.

I knew the Travis Walton story and saw Fire In The Sky in the theater on opening night. I think the entire audience (including myself) was traumatized

Fire In The Sky deeeeeeeply classic

fire in the sky traumatized 9yo me and therefore i love it. i think it was also where I first learned about lie detector tests - I remember being very fascinated by a machine that could tell if you were lying lol

Finally watched The Bear on FX Hulu. Liked it a lot - storylines, the acting, the music,

Painkiller. I didn't really know the details about the oxycontin scandal so this was pretty informative. Overall I might have preferred a straightforward doc, and yeah it was a bit silly (very silly at the end) and a bit drawn out in places but the dramatisations maybe helped stir the emotions a bit. I'm annoyed though that it posed a question at the start (how did they depose Richard Sackler), underscored it in the last episode when Edie's lawsuit was settled, then never answered it.

Dopesick is much better than Painkiller, but better again is reading Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe.

yeah i figured, i'll add it to the list along with american prometheus!

"Dreamland" is also a really good book about the American opioid crisis, a good on-the-ground companion to Empire of Pain, which is of course primarily a supervillain origin story.

Thread got me checking out some of that abduction scene from Fire In The Sky on YT. Holy shit, glad I stuck by avoiding that film when it came out. Despite getting pretty into UFO/alien/conspiracy stuff at the time that film came out I had the feeling I should file it away with Communion as a hard No.

it would make a great double feature with Communion.

If you've read Dreamland, be sure to check out Sam Quinones' latest The Least of Us about the shift to fentanyl

"Tubi is now watched as much as a top 5 cable network"

Wild.https://t.co/ihDowjHUH5

— The Schlocketeer (@schlocketeer) September 6, 2023

A streaming service you don't have to pay for that mimics the format of traditional tv? It'll never work.

I listened to Quinones on Marc Maron's show last year, really liked what he had to say, def. need to read both of those books. I feel like he's been received with a side eye by some progressives, at least in the bay area; he came to SF recently and I know what aghast at what was going on downtown. there's a pervasive idea that addiction is a symptom and not a cause of homelessness and people seem to think he is firmly in the latter camp. I think it's more complicated than that.

I did find a critique of Quinones on UCSF's Homelessness and Housing Initiative site, which only looks at all this through housing and rent affordability. Implying that being a drug addict in West Virginia is easier than being a drug addict in California because the rents are less seems myopic. If you haven't read either book, I'd go directly to The Least of Us. The charges are against capitalism itself: Big Pharm of course, cartels, the global supply chain, and every institution that contributes to "shit life syndrome" - all of which contribute. If anything, folks should listen to Maron's interview.

Halfway through the final season of Top Boy and so far it's not falling prey to the usual flaws of final seasons. They've only killed off one character we were supposed to care about, and they've disposed of a Special Guest Star that I was fully expecting to develop into a Big Bad with surprising speed.

Bought a blu-ray set of Rockford Files, so I'm all good, better in fact. When it was on prime it was through some free streamer service (not Tubi, but something like it I guess) and there were commercials.

I have come too far in my damn life to deal with commercials, I am never going back to that if I can help it.

oooh bluray rockford? nice

Tubi is great, it doesn’t just mimic cable it mimics kind of shitty ‘90s basic cable with a wide array of sci-fi and horror movies you’d never think to watch otherwise.

I like Tubi for letting me swiftly ffwd to the end of a horror movie if the poster art is better than the film or if I just want the ending. Some other streaming channels have mandatory ads once a film has started.

Posted this on the Garner thread too... YouTube user Cosmic Iguana has been posting full episodes of Garner's 1971 series Nichols. Co-starring Margot Kidder and Stuart Margolin. It's set in the early 1900s so it's kind of a western but there's also motorcycles. There's a little of Maverick and a lot of what becomes the Rockford character. Cool show. Kidder is great. Here's the pilot, I think Iguana is up to episode 19 of the one and only season