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xp I remember it being fairly bad/awkward, even at the height of my teenage Hartley fandom.

Simple Men was filmed almost entirely in the Houston/Galveston Island area, which blows my mind.

Who'll Stop the Rain is a really good, grim post-Vietnam thriller. Fits right in with Cutter's Way, as ian said, but also Night Moves, The Conversation, a few others. I read the book, too. Very good; I've always meant to read more by Stone but haven't.

Two more big faves.

I can't remember if I've seen Simple Men before, I'll have to give it a try. I was in Galveston a few months ago and I could see it being a good backdrop for a film. The downtown area feels frozen in an earlier time.

Night Moves is great. sort of a Jimmy Buffett-ish Chinatown, at the end. i really admired the chutzpah of that ending, just only leading to more questions we'll never know the answer to.

I really like the way you can use Letterbox (with the premium tier - doesn't cost much) to filter your watchlist to individual streaming services you have, or all of them at once.

This has been a gamechanger for me. It took me a while to build out a watchlist, but once I got a few hundred titles on there, being able to filter by service was so useful. I hated scrolling through lists of "new this month on Netflix" or "50 best movies to stream on Hulu" bc there was so much shit I didn't care about, and finding something worthwhile to watch felt overwhelming.

Everybody in this thread do yourselves a favor and watch Cinnamon on Tubi. It's a rural crime thriller — kinda Blood Simple meets True Romance — with an almost all-black cast, including Damon Wayans in a not-really-comedic role (he's very good) and Pam Grier as a matriarchal crime boss (she's terrifying). One of the best things I've seen all year.

I was in Galveston a few months ago and I could see it being a good backdrop for a film. The downtown area feels frozen in an earlier time.

Check out Red Rocket. It's filmed in Texas City and Galveston and since it's a Sean Baker movie it's very you-are-there with the sound design (constant freeway noises, booms from the oil refinery)

I've watched 11 out of 12 episodes of the final season of Ted Lasso. I was really expecting this season to fully jump the shark based on the negative feedback I've read about it (including on this thread). Sure, it never reclaimed the level of season 1, but this hasn't been so bad other than rushing Nate's redemption at the end.

Honestly the fatal flaw of the whole series happened in season 2 when they turned Nate into the villain. That felt like a betrayal of season 1. But of course by s3 they're committed to navigating their way out of that pit. Perhaps if the show had gone for one or two more seasons, or if it had old-school 20-episode seasons, Nate's arc would have felt more believable. But his turn away from Ted was has jarring as is eventual return.

Of course I haven't actually watched the finale yet so maybe I'll come back here and say otherwise later tonight or tomorrow. But it sure seems like they've telegraphed all the final beats of the show and I don't really anticipate any major eyerolls to come. I'd be surprised if they were to, uh, surprise me.

We've been watching that Danish series "Ragnarok" since last year or whenever the 1st season was and I was mildly enjoying it. Til I noticed this week that the IMDB rating for the finale, after a consistent 7ish average, is 3.6 - fark that is low.

I stupidly looked at the reviews to fathom why and accidentally got spoiled, and hahaha oh man. Oh man. I am wondering wether I should tell my other half, or just wait for him to find out.

Sorry, Norwegian. Well whatever.

i watched the 2 seasons of The Cleaner on Britbox. that show is semi-sweet! maybe even bittersweet. but i also laughed out loud more than once. there are some weird episodes.

Christ I couldnt get thru one episode of that show! Maybe it got better after the first one?

its a weird show. his character is weird. he is a happy mondays fan in it after all. helena bonham carter! she's in the first one, right? she's weird in it.

xp a friend convinced me to finish Ted Lasso, I wasn't intending to watch the final season after the very unfunny S2. S3 recaptured some of the funniness, with more focus on soccer again. Episodes still too long but I enjoyed it fine

I was so disappointed when we started watching season three of Warrior to see that they've ditched all the lovely real sets and real streets for shitty, shitty green screen, just like they did with Perry Mason right before it went to live on a farm. Oh well.

they did Warrior in South Africa, right? that first season was so cool.

They did. And it really was. So cool. Even the Irish accents were pretty good.

i love that ublock origin takes all the ads out of tubi. they are owned by fox corp so i have no moral qualms.

I tried the Cleaner but couldn't rreally get into it.
I absolutely LOVE, however, Greg Davies in Taskmaster, viewable on Youtube.

Taskmaster rules!

he does some funny stuff on the cleaner. and there are some really weird moments that i enjoyed. but i wouldn't expect anyone to stick with it. life is short. so much to stream. i will look for taskmaster. i don't really know him from anything. the episode with his ex-girlfriend and the episode with the kid shamen and the episode with the Q/conspiracy guy...i'll remember them. and the influencer one! it is totally an older dude raising his eyebrow at youngs but still...i found it watchable. and funny.
shakin' stevens appearing as the lead singer of a shakin' stevens tribute band called SHAKING STEVENS. that was worth the time it took to get to it right there.

He also has a sitcom called Man Down, which comes and goes from streaming services (I'm sure you can watch it on Channel 4 with a VPN from the US). It's a bit of an acquired taste, but if you get into it, it's very, very funny. Also features everyone's favourite, Mike Wozniak, and the excellent Roisin Conaty. For extra bittersweetness, I think it was the last thing Rik Mayall did before he died, too.

Has a very strange Mark Hamill cameo as well.

For me it doesn't find its feet properly until near the end but the episode where Roisin gets married brings me deep joy every time.

The Cleaner is a remake of a German TV show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Scene_Cleaner_(TV_series)

yeah i am gonna watch the german one on MHz at some point. i think they have it. can't believe they haven't made a netflix american version. such a simple premise and you don't need a big budget.

i still need to watch 10 seasons of The Octopus and all the Tatorts first though...

i still think about both the Swedish and UK versions of Humans. quite a bit actually. they were different, and got more different as they went on, but both really good and both deserved more series imo. i never rarely rewatch anything but i might go back in.

oh i forgot but maria and i are watching *SURVIVE THE RAFT* on Hulu. it's pretty fucked up. as reality competition shows can be. they try to get trumpers and trans people and people of color to kill each other but they mostly don't. its watchable though.
i just love the idea of a pitch meeting with the Discovery Channel. "so, tell us a little bit about your idea." "SURVIVOR ON A RAFT!" "okay. we'll sign you up for one season and see how it goes."

i started watching the Lifetime series *Phrogging: Hider in My House* on Hulu and I'm not even done with the first episode and my review of the show is: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

its frightening. so creepycrawly. its nothing like my fave movie Bad Ronald.

i can't remember the last time a reality show freaked me so bad. its the stuff of childhood nightmares is what it is.

i cannot recommend Painkiller on Netflix after finishing it last night. it's like three different series in one, and only one of them is any good at all (the one with Taylor Kitsch as an addict). The framing device is clunky and stupid (and fictional, so shoehorning in a personal story with the investigator is...pointless) and Matthew Broderick conversing with his dead uncle Sackler goes on entirely too long and is dumb. Complete waste of time.

I only made it one episode into Painkiller. Maybe two, I forget.

Now I'm watching Burning Body, a Spanish (from Spain) show about a female cop whose boyfriend, also a cop, disappears, and I won't say more than that because it's pretty dark, but worthwhile so far. I'm two episodes in with six to go.

Gilligans island on Tubi

My current TV diet:

Just finished: Foundation and Ted Lasso

Weekly watching: Invasion and Ahsoka

Binging this weekend: Mrs Davis

Reality trash: The Traitors (US) and Below Deck Down Under

Falling asleep to: The Other Two

Theater Camp on hulu is p funny, a nice little 90 minute romp

rough patch in my viewing but I'm finishing them all because TV seasons are so short and maybe the next one will be better -

Justified: the one with Olyphant's daughter - not good! Strip away all the sense of place and replace interesting characters with a cartoon villain and stock Punisher sticker cops whose names you don't even know and it doesn't work for some reason

Only Murders In The Building Season 3 - lost most of the good bits of Martin/Short/Gomez interacting and replaced it with wacky musical theater, not good

Fargo Season 4 - too many characters, too unfocused, Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzmann completely miscast

What We Do In The Shadows still rocking, though.

Mrs Davis is so gloriously daffy and chaotic.

Theater Camp is great, we caught it in the theater.

Ha, I KNEW that Amazon Prime pushing Freevee content with ads upfront on their browse pages was a bellwether for this: "Amazon is bringing ads to Prime Video and will charge you to avoid them" :
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/media/amazon-prime-video-ads/index.html

note that this will be an additional charge on top of what you already pay for amazon prime video.

since Peacock already has a double tier like this (one with ads, one without), and I thin Netflix is starting this too, I fully expect this approach to start rolling out to all of them. These services are not sustainable on subscription revenue alone I guess.

Just as I've been deciding which ones to cut loose of... Netflix is definitely going, Hulu might be going too (though if it does it'll take Max with it, so I don't know).

i cancelled disney+ after finding out that it was being made available to me with Hulu, I'm not sure for how long I double paid for these things. Max I get for free via AT&T, shame it sucks so much now. Netflix would be an easy one for me to ditch but my wife watches lots of things on there. Ditto Hulu (we sprung for Hulu Live, but I think I'm going to scale that back, because we don't ever actually watch anything live). holding onto Paramount until we finish Twin Peaks but then I think I'm going to start up on the new Star Trek series I've been avoiding.

Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, Max, Paramount+ (and the aforementioned Peacock) all have ad-supported plans already, just FYI

Bold move for Prime where they have so little worth watching.

Exactly. Also the difference here sounds like ad supported will be the default; in other cases, those are lower priced plans.

Yes, for sure… was just responding to your point about an ad tier “rolling out to all of them.” It’s there already for most (I think Peacock keeps certain content reserved for premium subscribers).

Peacock had (or has) three tiers - free for everyone, subscriber only content with ads and then no ads.

I’m still paying $5 a month for no ads so my mom can watch the Yellowstoneverse but after Poker Face and the resort series I have no idea what’s even on it.

Oh I guess all the Premier League games that’s pretty cool if I was ever awake at 6am to watch.