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yeah i just watch ep 1 last night! it’s fine so far … always with these modern ones its too many ppl not enough monsters for my liking

unperson, i feel like you'd like MY NAME on Netflix, but maybe you already caught it.

having never seen a single episode i just watched S2E01 and S2E02 of SCHMIGADOON! (2001-) and i fucking love it! i don’t know how it manages the precarious balance between whimsy and snark like it does but it absolutely pulls it off imo (where a show like mrs davis absolutely did not, also imo)

Have also just watched the first episode of Monarch (and also with my son).

Wondering if Kurt & Wyatt Russell will be father and son or play the same character in the different timelines, which seems more likely given Wyatt being in the 1950s one

a: the latter

I think the latter

Chimp Empire on Netflix totally sucked us in, great stuff - a nature doc with a Game Of Thrones plotline

the Killer was...only ok

Reviewers didn't really like the Korean crime movies BELIEVER and BELIEVER 2, but I thought they were great. Bleak as fuck, savagely violent, maybe a little convoluted but filled with great performances, especially the villains. On Netflix; recommended.

Anyone watching the Love Has Won doc on HBO? It’s one WTF moment after another.
mother god (Amy Carlson)
- drinks non stop because she carries all of humanity’s pain and alcohol is medicine
- brings home one bad boyfriend after another because she loves humanity and is taking on these ppl who are “in their lower” in order to protect everyone
- shouts,screams, demands things, abuses her disciples because that’s not actually her, it’s one of the Galactics* she’s channeling and they’re not as kind and forgiving as mother god is

*the Galactics are other supremely important spiritual ppl who are on a council in a starship. They include Robin Williams, Elvis, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe and trump.

I have not watched this yet but you have convinced me I must

Same

“Just looking at the lifetime of Marilyn Monroe…”

An episode of The Bear we watched last night (the flashback/“family dinner” episode in S2) may be the single worst episode of television I remember ever seeing (at least in proportion to its “ambition” and the acting talent involved)… just a total trainwreck! It fails on every level, IMO, in a way that the (highly uneven) series only hinted was possible…

“I wanted to see what the hoopera was about”

That seems to be a very divisive episode of the Bear. I liked it myself.

Xp lol I’m glad someone else caught that too.

starting on season 2 of Stranger. Just a genuinely interesting and almost placid show, even moreso in this second season. So far centered around a drowning incident that will wind up (seemingly) being used as fodder in a complex jurisdictional battle between the prosecutors and the police, with hints of other past cases that maybe used as well. It's a show centered so much around the murky interpersonal connections of various people we've met (and yet to meet) that it can be difficult to get a handle on things but it's fascinating. You're also thrown without explanation into the Korean judicial system, and you're kind of treading water figuring things out along the way. Which is exactly something I enjoy; it's similar in that respect to the French series Engrenages (aka Spiral.) Though while The latter is a highly tense, emotional, fast-paced series, this one is so methodical and finds its own slow pace and sticks with it (the scenes where they begin to zero in on the parties who are apparently inadvertently responsible for the drowning is great internet sleuthing!) It's a show where things are in fact happening fast but the pace does not ever get within the realm of frenetic or anxiety inducing.

I liked that episode of the bear though that type of dinner is very familiar to me in some respects, coming from an extended family of Chicago alcoholics, including one tense party that memorably ended for me by wandering out onto the back porch and finding my aunt's depressed, inebriated CPD detective cousin (gregarious and friendly earlier) holding his service revolver in one hand and iirc a whiskey in the other and, upon seeing my face, saying "don't worry, I'm a cop." The alcoholism and simmering anger were more pronounced than I've seen irl but it's unfortunately not as far off from the reality in some respects. No fork throwing or house destroying ime though.

Xp lol I’m glad someone else caught that too.

i liked in the love has won doc that mother god and father god would go into “conference” (?) w the galactics where it looks like they are sleeping, but, no, assuredly, they are in conference

Fourth Father God is funkiest yet.

“The hippies got it wrong!”

Guy is playing a cheap blue-green untunable kid’s guitar! How can this not be scripted?

Galactics picture is like some kind of pollable pizza parlor montage.

Sorry, just1n3, seems like you created a monster.

Love Has Won, HBO cult documentary

Thanks! Was thinking the same.

Just watched the Please Don't Destroy movie on Peacock. I'm quite a big fan of their little SNL videos. I find them consistently funny. The previews of this felt like it was that being stretched out in a Harold and Kumar style so my hopes were really high.

It was cute but not nearly as funny as I'd hoped. There was however at least one moment that made me laugh so much that I nearly had a medical emergency. I was sick a few days ago and threw up so much that I pulled like every muscle in my abdomen so it hurts to cough or sneeze or laugh too much. And a little over 10 minutes in there was one stupid joke that just killed me and it hurt so much that it made me just laugh more which hurt even more and then I was like hyperventilation and trying to explain to my wife why I was laughing like that and just found myself wheezing out phrases like "I don't even know why I sound like this. I can't stop".

Anyway, despite that, it's no Harold and Kumar. If you like the SNL vids you'll probably like this ok. I had really high hopes though.

I’ve never seen anything Mike Flanagan has made - not a judgement, just haven’t gotten around to him - but stumbled upon this just now and found it interesting.

https://www.tumblr.com/flanaganfilm/716047738374160384/mr-flanagan-id-like-to-ask-a-question-and-i?fbclid=IwAR2kFbePNpzS3PZxBFeETaSqwMdeOAFzib9UWoIa38tdwXEnzEC4azzvHRo

Interesting. His work is always interesting , sometimes the shoes are great and sometimes they’re really annoying but usually fun. Discussed above but after Usher, which was ok, we went back to midnight club and I found we liked it better than any of the other series but were dismayed to learn that it wasn’t picked up and had to read an interview with Flanagan to find out what would’ve happened. It’s still a good and pretty complete season, just explains a few things. Thought it was weird that Netflix would say no to the next season of that and then go ahead and produce usher.

It will have had to do with contracts that gave Flanagan et al more money for a S2

Because there’s no such thing as reruns anymore, nor the residual payments that go with them, streaming contracts are usually structured so that cast & crew are cheap for S1 but then earn more with subsequent seasons

that movie he references in there, Before I Wake, is really good btw, Kate Bosworth aside.

The Donut King - a refugee from Cambodia who built a donut empire on the West Coast. He sponsored hundreds of Cambodian refugees after the Khmer Rouge was overthrown, trained them and got them set up to run their own donut shops. Lots of first person accounts of that time period in Cambodia.

We watched this (on Hulu); it's definitely recommended...

I’m slow I guess but it wasn’t until episode three of MONARCH that I realized the third guy from the 1950s scenes grew up to be John Goodman in Skull Island movie & first ep of this show

Criterion Channel has a nice deal right now, $75 for a year so $6.25 per month. Considering I still go to a video store and pay $5 to rent a disc, and often get "director section" stuff- this seems like a no brainer I guess.

Is it as awesome as I think it will be? Catalog shows nearly 2000 movies- but looking through that includes shorts and music videos and stuff. Are titles that are released in 4K actually stream in 4k too? And while I'm asking, there IS a difference between a 4K disc and "4K streaming", right? Most 4K stuff I stream looks good. The handful of 4K discs I've watched look AMAZING.

Another way to look at it is it's my girlfriend and I going to 2 movies together, lol

I don't believe they stream anything in 4K. I believe the 2000+ number is features -- the permanent collection alone is 1600+ items, and they license hundreds more. I think I saw somewhere that the total number of streamable elements, including supplements, commentary tracks, trailers, etc is over 5000.

The Channel is the best thing on the streaming landscape by a million miles and a bargain at twice the price, so yeah, $75 for a year is... yeah, do it.

ok i started a Monarch thread

Ole Jack Burton goes MUTO hunting: MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS

Anyone been watching A Murder at the End of the World?

I'd seen it come up on Disney but hadn't realised it was The OA's Marling/Batmanglij behind it. Definitely going to watch

I've been waiting for all the episodes to come out, though the marketing copy is not very enticing - "a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker named Darby Hart"

we've been enjoying A Murder... watching as the eps come out. sure the lead character is a Gen Z amateur sleuth/hacker but don't let that put you off. Vibe is a bit devs/ex machina with a locked room murder mystery and a good parallel plot backstory.

First episode of Blue Eye Samurai is free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm73ma6Ibcs

Shows recently abandoned after 2-3 episodes: Bosch Legacy S2, Peaky Blinders, Bodies

For the abandoned shows, no interest in just skipping to the final episode to see the resolution? I've done that on a few lengthy Netflix mystery/Korean series.

My folks are going through Extraordinary Attorney Woo now and liking it. Watched an ep (guy sleeping with mentally challenged girl, prosecuted for r@pe) and liked that it didn't go for the easy solution. We all watched Move to Heaven together, and still rave about how good it was.

The Gray Man - what if you added the worst Marvel CGI to the Jason Wick Identity

I’ve been enjoying Murder At The End Of The World in parts but it does feel like Corrin and Dickinson are doing very good work with sub-par material.

I’m really enjoying it but it’s also kind of stupid. Which isn’t that far off from how I felt about the OA. An incredible mix of a lot of really cool and good ideas…and a lot of really dumb ones.

Marling isn't in this one is she? Her acting is largely what made the OA work for me.