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do we need an Usher thread? i’ve only watched one ep but omg i am IN

I just finished it, it's great - not as good as Midnight Mass imo but solid. and excellent casting as always, I hope Mark Hamill becomes a Flanagan regular!

xp yes please start one, then we can discuss spoilers etc

i will watch anything but i couldn't finish the new jennifer lawrence comedy that is totally just a lame 80s summer sex teen movie made for netflix. but if you ever need to see jennifer lawrence really naked that is the movie for you. in a non-sexual way. she beats up a group of teenagers on the beach while naked.

I couldn’t believe that was real. She’s A-List right? Horny teen comedy should be the domain of TV actors looking to break out.

I saw some of that scene, I think censored, on some site recently and I honestly thought it might have been a well-done deep fake. (It probably is essentially that, but maybe done with her blessing and studio budget.) I can't imagine why she would do it.

maybe she owns the movie. that would make sense. $$$.

Believe it or not, that J-Law film is a full-on studio film that was in theatres over the summer!

Co-produced by J-Law & Bob Odenkirk's wife, Naomi!

its sucks really bad. and i think you all know what my standards are for film. there are so few laughs. its depressing when a comedy can't make me laugh.

It was pleasantly funny, I thought. Not great but not terrible with some solid laughs

that maneater part in the restaurant though....oof.

i really wanted to see that when it was in theaters, I thought the trailer was hilarious, but I'll bet all the funny parts were in that trailer. I will absolutely watch it on Netflix and not care about how terrible it is though.

bezos really needs to spend some of those billions and figure out live streaming. i can't watch american feetball like this! what are we, savages?? i feel like i need to break out the rabbit ears.

Feel like the TCM section on max (formerly hbomax! Formerly hbo now; formerly hbo go) - watched the asphalt jungle last night, a fine sterling Hayden noir, with early Marilyn Monroe too. Also Out Of The Past is up there, one I’ve seen and love.

Last Stop Larrimah on HBO is a really great doc about a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, Australia - a man and his dog go missing and all kinds of drama comes to light.

Was looking some stuff up on IMDb, and discovered that King Vidor's Our Daily Bread (1934) is apparently streaming on FreeVee!?!?

this Beckham documentary by Hugo from Succession is great

like, i could not have cared less about david and victoria beckham and this doccumentary made me like both of them a lot; also it's fun to watch soccer games condensed into just the exciting bits

I'm watching the Moonlighting pilot on Hulu (the show has some heat online, thanks to its resurfacing there). I loved the series as a kid, haven't seen it since then. It's a good pilot – you can see how they had the concept nailed from the beginning, and there are some fairly good action scenes for a TV show. Bruce Willis's schtick is really annoying, though! Oy...

I honestly think grew up with a slightly warped idea of "masculinity," thanks to these smug, wiseguy a-hole characters who were big in the '80s. (Not that I ever exactly acted like that, but still.) All better now, though!

Anybody watch Upload? They’re about midway through season 3 now. It’s goofy but every episode probably has at least one silly moment that makes me laugh.

If you can stand the most Australian of Australians, Deadloch on Prime is a great watch.

seconded - well-constructed, funny murder mystery

It's a good pilot – you can see how they had the concept nailed from the beginning, and there are some fairly good action scenes for a TV show. Bruce Willis's schtick is really annoying, though!

I watched the pilot, too, and it was OK — like, you could feel the writers trying really hard to move past the 70s model of detective shows and into something "new, for the '80s!" But honestly it wasn't that different from, I don't know, Hart to Hart or something. I know it got better, because I've seen later episodes. But honestly, now I want to watch old episodes of Remington Steele (which was on first) to see how that holds up in comparison.

Yeah, the Wikipedia page mentions both those shows… I never watched either of them.

I remember the “meta” aspects of Moonlighting (talking to the camera, etc.) having such a big impact on my sensibility back then… I don’t know how far into the series they start doing that, though.

I remember when they did an episode in Iambic Pentameter. Not sure Hart to Hart ever tried that.

Apparently there was a celebrated dream-sequence episode shot on b&w film (so that the network couldn't chicken out and air it in color).

Conwoman Camille Brand (Whoopi Goldberg) becomes a national hero after accidentally preventing the assassination of a politician. David and Maddie decide to cash in on the publicity by giving her a job. A crooked policeman (Judd Nelson) spends much of the episode pursuing and attempting to arrest Camille. The episode ends with an extended sequence in which the characters wander right off the show's set into other parts of the studio, and several members of the show's production crew appear on camera as part of the plot resolution.

Anybody watch Upload?

I stopped paying attention partway through season 2 but I think it’s a reliably enjoyable show

Getting deep into Better Call Saul - I tried a couple of times before and didn't get into it but part of the way into season 3 I'm pretty sure it's better than Breaking Bad.

I thought that for a while, too. I don't now, but still a classic show.

Seeing some high praise for Blue Eye Samurai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1yQn17lbE

Might be enough to renew my Netflix account.

seconded - well-constructed, funny murder mystery

Thirded - it's everything that a project codeworded "Funny Broadchurch" could be (and it's a very dark humour)

I've been watching the latest season of Upload, its still pretty good, got a lot of good chuckles out of me.

i don't think i ever finished the first season for some reason

Deadlock was ok. "cop too stupid to follow the law" is a joke I never find funny. See also The Heat.

anybody else watched The Boys spin-off Gen V?

I quite liked it, less heavy on the satire than The Boys and more of an R-rated CW superhero/teen drama.

the final episode hints that it's going to be more integrated with the main show's plotlines though, which bums me out because I thought it did well at establishing itself as its own thing. such is the nature of superhero franchises, I guess

Ooh I loved the Boys, thx for the rec!
Thanks to all the film noir pages I follow on instagram, I have joined in noirvember. Last night watched Hangover Square which is bonkers and borderline silly but has a great ending and a great supporting feline actor.

Gen V was very good. At times better than the Boys.

Bodies on Netflix - guess it's their new hit series but the first episode was not great.

It's fun and worth watching. It's like Dark but less complicated. Still a total plot hole mess, but enjoyable.

I tried with E01 but it dragged for me. there were some dodgy English accents amongst the police that kinda hampered those scenes

I've become a big fan of the guy who plays the jewish detective from the 40s, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. He was in the Great and Queens Gambit as well. Very charismatic. Plays Brian Epstein in an upcomming movie. Gonna be a star.

His was one of the accents I thought was dodgy, but actually he was born and bred in London! Lol I dunno. Maybe because he was trying for a broad kind of East End accent - more working class than his own. I see he's playing the Duke of Buckingham in a new version of Three Musketeers which I suspect he will excel at

I've been enjoying Scavengers Reign on Max. Recommended if you enjoy stuff like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Fantastic Planet, and the comic art of Moebius. It follows people who have been shipwrecked on an alien planet as they make their way through an endless maze of bizarre and creepy wildlife. It can be pretty gross at times but also has many moments of serene psychedelic beauty and a killer synth-heavy soundtrack.

Thank you for reminding me of that! I've seen it recommended several times, and each time I forget about it, except for that there was something on Max that was recommended.

I tried Bodies but everyone in it is so weird-looking (the detective in the future looks like a child with premature aging disease) that I couldn't hang. Plus, the plot was a mix of not-thrilling mystery and tired detective-story cliché. Oh, the Victorian guy is a closeted homosexual? SHOCK.

Currently watching Midnight Mass and 30 Coins, both of which are really good but are causing me to have a weird "why is this shit working on me? I haven't been inside a Catholic church in 30 years" reaction.

bodies was terrible thin gruel, v comic book adaptation (nothing against comic books, but adapted they are invariably feeble).

i watched it all anyway.

Hair loopies and some nice Kyoshi Warrior makeup, if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJKJW_XU90