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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.

i like peacock because it also runs project runway (which just finished a good all stars season) and their original programming has been pretty good (the dumb series with kaley cuoco about serial killer podcasts was entertaining). it has this john wick miniseries starting too. I think it provides fairly good content for the price which is still fairly cheap.

I used to get Peacock for free through my Xfinity internet plan, but that finally ended a couple of months ago. Guess I will subscribe when Top Chef or Poker Face comes back.

CBS has started showing edited Yellowstone episodes as part of their strike lineup.* Is Yellowstone even Yellowstone without the profanity, nudity, and toned-down violence?

*Not the first time they've done something like this: back during the '07-8 writers strike, my Dad was telling about seeing the dumbest show the night before, which he began to describe to me because he forgot the title, and it was CBS showing edited Dexter episodes.

These services are not sustainable on subscription revenue alone I guess

Even if you have no interest in football, BS High on HBO is an incredible documentary, the closest you'll get to being in the room with a true sociopath

This Amazon news is some real bullshit. It's the only service I currently pay for, but there's no way I'm kicking in extra. At this point I don't think there's a single streaming service that's worth it. Maybe it's best to just dip in and out for a month at a time when one gets a handful of things to watch.

Yeah, no qualms with them introducing lower priced subscriptions with ads but if Prime starts putting adverts in the middle of movies/shows I watch, I'll be cancelling my subscription.

Amazon Subprime MOARLAIK

i almost don't even mind ads (sometimes) but my experience with how it worked on freevee was that it would just insert an ad while someone was mid-sentence, it was incredibly disruptive and annoying

That's my experience too, a bit like the ones on YouTube. They're just spaced a certain amount of time apart rather than at the end of a scene/act whatever.

i watched the first episode of Captain Marleau on MHz. she might win the quirky detective prize. lots of people try to out-Monk Monk but Marleau might do it. that show Astrid that i watched is too heavyhanded with the autistic rain man thing. its feels a little embarrassing. but someone with severe asperger's would have to watch and tell me what they think. Will Trent creates its Monk character via trauma which feels like cheating! i did watch the whole season of that though.

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yeah, very frustrating when it's for an older show that already has natural spaces for commercial breaks and they just ignore them.

i watched the first two episodes of The Bastards of Pizzofalcone but the angry cop who hit his wife scares me. i hope he gets help. don't know if i can keep watching him be mean. though i guess its making a point about cops and violence. like the woman cop who goes home to the horrible husband and difficult - autism again? - child and can't talk about her horrible murder days to anyone.

Freevee ads were terrible when I watched nuBosch - very old school streaming where it was the same ad over and over for a fake brand toothbrush only available on Amazon or Liberty Mutual over and over. Reminded me of Hulu ads in the early days.

Tubi seems more like basic cable in terms of variety so it’s less intrusive.

basic cable never had the movie selection that tubi has! so many cool movies.

i watched the first two episodes of The Bastards of Pizzofalcone but the angry cop who hit his wife scares me. i hope he gets help. don't know if i can keep watching him be mean. though i guess its making a point about cops and violence. like the woman cop who goes home to the horrible husband and difficult - autism again? - child and can't talk about her horrible murder days to anyone.

― scott seward, Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:32 (two hours ago) link

He sucks, but his wife is not gonna put up with it. I dunno how much you get in the first couple episodes. They're long episodes.

Despite all my talk about how I hate cops and shows and books that lionize cops, for some reason it is easier for me to enjoy when they are not in the US. I don't think this show lionizes cops particularly, but it's borderline in some ways, because the cops are still the heroes. I find that I care about the characters a lot, because they are all shown to be really human, and their struggles and relationships with their families and each other are really well written imo. and that helps too. But it's still a weird borderline case.

The books were written specifically (iirc) w/ the 87th Precinct novels by McBain in mind - half criminal stuff, half life and family cop stuff. Maurizio de Giovanni's DEFINITELY better than McBain at showing the cops as flawed and often kinda shitty people.

on that other thread you mention sandford books as being pro-cop i think? but i always think of davenport and flowers as lone wolf types who just want to go get crazy killers. they never spend that much time with other cops. they don't feel like cops.

my dad just read a recent book of his and the main character is davenport's adopted daughter Letty. kinda curious how a 79 year old man writes a young woman for an entire novel. might read it. haven't read one in a long time cuz they got tired.

Lol, it takes some chutzpah for Amazon to say ads will allow it to “continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time" after wasting, what, a billion dollars on that Lord of the Rings show that no one wanted?

jesus, i totally forgot about that lotr show! did anyone watch it?

There's going to be five seasons, a billion is for all five

I watched it and would continue if I still have Prime, but it's real bad

on that other thread you mention sandford books as being pro-cop i think? but i always think of davenport and flowers as lone wolf types who just want to go get crazy killers. they never spend that much time with other cops. they don't feel like cops.

In fact, Davenport spends a lot of time talking shit about regular cops being incompetent thugs and/or lazy bureaucrats, if I remember right (I haven't read any of those books in a few years).