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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).

Maybe I stopped reading them cuz of the psycho killer stuff then. Tbh I haven’t read one for years. I’m not great at consistency.

But I think it’s probably the same kind of edge case where the cops are flawed but ultimately portrayed as good and heroic?

Lord of the rings show was very bad

The red riding films are on Tubi if anybody cares 💁

The movie NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, on Hulu, is interesting but I wouldn't call it "good." A lot of people seem to like it a lot more than I did, that's for sure. It stars Kaitlyn Dever, whom I like, as a woman living all alone in a nice little house on the edge of a town where nobody seems to like her. One night, her house is invaded by aliens. The formally interesting part of it is that there's no dialogue — she mostly runs around the house yelping and screeching. (Which started to bug me after a while, because most people, when they're scared or startled, don't just shriek; they yell profanities. Like, if you got thrown through a wall by a telekinetic alien, you wouldn't just lie there groaning, you'd lie there groaning "Fuuuuuck," right? Anyway, I won't spoil the ending but it goes from scary to Twilight Zone-y, and I found that aspect very disappointing. But it's only 90 minutes long so it's worth at least checking out.

Has anyone watched The Other Black Girl on Hulu? I hear it is good

so the Netflix DVD service is closing next Friday. I severely edited my queue in response and ended up watching some films that I won't be otherwise able to see. Submarino by Thomas Vinterburg was pretty amazing I thought

They said they won't expect us to return our last rentals and then may gift us up to 10 additional films on the last day. I've switched to putting all-time great films on my queue. A lot of the great films are not available - Vertigo, Citizen Kane, 2001, In the Mood for Love, Beau Travail, etc, - but I've already got Mulholland Drive and Jeanne Dielmann and there are many more great films I'm hoping to get

But that is no matter. It will just be really sad to see it go. I think its closing will be a break for me. I've made a list of all of the films I had previously put on my Netflix DVD queue and still want to see, but I don't think in the future I will have the same drive to watch them or collate them in a rotating list in order of director

One nice thing they did was allow us to download a history of all of our rentals and our ratings over the past many years. I love looking at that, it is my letterboxd

Thanks for the heads up on Prime's upcoming ad insertion, I just went and cancelled it. All I'd ever watched on it was KITH and some old WB cartoons, and Ive never used the deliery service, it was a waste of money.

I would miss Reacher but the second season should be finished before they start putting in ads.

I mean yeah I think we watched the Boys as well, but tbh given a lot of the big channels arent easy to get in AU anyway we've always just sailed the sea for anything non-netflix.

Thanks for the heads up on Prime's upcoming ad insertion, I just went and cancelled it. All I'd ever watched on it was KITH and some old WB cartoons, and Ive never used the deliery service, it was a waste of money.

i think every streaming service is worth the money. i don't like to drive at night plus i have mental problems about crowds and there is only one art house movie theater near me and its all the way in amherst and they probably don't play nearly as many cool asian movies as the streaming services. and the local movie house was bought by a trumper who even showed that fake vote-stealing movie. and the only other movie theater is all the way at a mall in hadley. a hundred bucks a year for criterion or netflix? priceless!

ooh they are showing a sneak preview of Old Dads at the art house. i want to see that. coming out in october. but will probably be on netflix...at the end of october.

Reservation Dogs ended beautifully. A bit underwhelmed by the finale though, I mean, yes beautiful and sweet and funny and touching, but maybe it couldn't hit the insane highs having to cover so much and be so final? Either way, one of the best and most perfect TV shows ever created.

Physical ended...somehow. Totally strange tone and pacing, definitely felt like a rush or something. I still generally liked the show though.

after watching the riveting finale of that Survive The Raft reality show on Hulu (it wasn't very riveting and there is no way that show comes back again...) i watched Mike Leigh's *Another Year* on Tubi. holy smokes is that movie bleak! the ending is Bergman bleak. i think i might need to see it again. brutal.

i really enjoy jim broadbent in my old age. or his old age. one or the other. or both.

oh god, yeah... Another Year, that's a fuckin dark one. According to Helen it is pretty much the way life was for a lot of people.

oh wait, i'm thinking of Meantime. Not sure I ahve seen Another Year.

lol Disney Plus is still listing "Crater" as a recent release even though they pulled it from the service in July.

https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/

John Wick prequel series: not good

yeahhhh the trailer looked like worse than direct-to-video garbage, not surprised

signed up for hulu free trial to watch twin peaks: the return

god what a piece of shit this is.

i signed up for the no ads version but that doesn't stop them!

"god what a piece of shit this is."

the show or hulu

sorry, i meant hulu. i don't really feel like sharing my opinions about the return

i just started it too

I get no ads Hulu via my brother's Disney+ bundle, it's probably my favorite pay service at this point - the catalogue selection is fine-ish but FX is consistently putting out more good shows than anyone else.

There are also *lots* of great movies Hulu gets, especially non-English/"international" stuff and "elevated"/A24 horror.

the return is on hulu? It's on Paramount +. Or maybe this is a country / region difference.

Hulu improved it's interface recently and is now more like everything else, and they are all equally terrible now.

I assume the interface of pretty much all of these streaming services is shitty on purpose, I just can't figure out why. For example, we've been (very slowly) catching up on "Succession," which is on HBO. When I go to the HBO app home page I never see a "Succession" placeholder under any of the categories, and this is a show they (the machines) *know we are watching.* Yes, I can see the show under a "continue watching" header, except clicking on that gets me the last few minutes of the episode we just watched, and from there I have to pause and click down to see more episodes, and then navigate to the one we want to see next. But if I just wanted to find the home page with all the episodes? Either I'm manually scrolling through the various displayed programs, or I have to search for it, which is silly, especially for a popular in-house show.

Yeah, it feels more and more like streaming services are bending over backwards to hide "My List" or equivalent sections of saved movies/shows

oh yeah, they make it easier to see how many things drop off the service

I assume part of Netflix's never-ending churn of straight to streaming garbage stems from people just clicking on random shit they see on the home page. For sure it's hard to imagine people actually *searching* for a specific recent Adam Sandler movie, let alone the real no-name dregs of the service.

The Netflix home page is pretty decent imo. All your 'continue watching' shows are prominently shown (and easy to find unlike say Prime where you have to scroll down through loads of shit)

Plus the recommendations displayed on the home page are based on your viewing habits aren't they? So if lots of Adam Sandler movies are coming up it's because someone on your account is probably watching lots of deeply unfunny movies.

Enjoyed the first ep of Our Flag Means Death s2, sticking to their core themes of queer pirates and toxic masculinity. Glad they got to make another one.

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I have a netflix profile where I exclusively watch french-language content, and it absolutely home-page pushes whatever latest dreck they've put out (in English). so no it's not always tailored to your habits

Would be interesting to see how much content viewed on Netflix is stuff people searched for rather than clicked on on the home screen

wish you could search by year on netflix. i don't think you really can. so that i can check out the 10 movies they have on there made before 2010.

oh but also a way to check ALL the new releases for a day or week. you can never check that either. unless you go to an independent non-netflix website that is annoying.

“continue watching” and the personalized rails always do better than the editor’s picks or whatever, in every streaming service. “trending” somewhere in the middle. search used much less often than you’d think.

I imagine a lot of stuff is only on there because they have to buy packages of content