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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.

(and also their films, Another Earth and the other one I watched, the name of which I can't remember)

I gave the OA a generous amount of time, I think. But the plot revolving around herky jerky dance moves just lost me. And I say this as a terrible dancer in a family of very good dancers, who own a dance school.

Dance movies/shows are, of course, a genre of their own. By longstanding tradition they need an audition scene where the judges are initially skeptical but they are gradually won over by an unconventional performance.

The OA might be commended for using this trope, but fails because it makes absolutely no sense.

Been watching the original Kamen Rider on Tubi. The influence of Silver Age Marvel v patent on it - our hero's powers thrust upon him by a shady organisation alienate him from his previous life; in the first two episodes a friend mistakenly thinks Kamen Rider is responsible for her father's death, very Spider Man.

The plots are very basic but I dig the frequent close ups, dark environments and psychedelic trickery to give the series a trippy feel. Soundtrack slaps too of course. The Batman (lol) from ep2 is truly gross and unnerving.

Looking for a sci-fi series because it's too soon to rewatch The Expanse and lol
"#512 of 607 on
The 600+ Best TV Shows Of The Last 5 Years" (The Pact)

The 600 best shows of the last five years? So this is the 102nd best show of 202X? Really selling me here.

I think I saw the BBC production of China Mieville's The City & The City listed on Tubi but I can't really imagine how they filmed that without being too ridiculous.

I saw that, it was ok.

Is there an existing/preferred thread for sharing our (or critics’) favorite TV shows of the year?

there's this: Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

but I wouldn't mind seeing a year-end thread like the movie and music threads that are started every year

May December, wow

Year-End Best of TV 2023

I tried to come up with a punny Succession-derived thread title but I choked.

May December, wow

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm)

indeed

best performance of natalie portman's career.

The OA might be commended for using this trope, but fails because it makes absolutely no sense.

Wow I guess SOMEONE didn't understand the psychic octopus

I've forgotten everything about that show - I remember liking it despite being nuts but everything I recap about it now makes it seem like I'd hate it

Kinder, I promise that I will strive to better understand the psychic octopus.

(Put that in the category of "sentences I thought I would never have to type. But here we are.")

I tried to come up with a punny Succession-derived thread title but I choked.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, December 3, 2023 11:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

fuck on!

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.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, November 3, 2023 11:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

My son is a big fan of Breaking Bad and El Camino. He started watching Better Call Saul and made it to about halfway through season 3 before giving up declaring it 'Boring'. I keep telling him his on the precipice of when it starts getting really good but he's not buying it :(

There are a bazillion Better Call Saul memes that will always beckon an impressionable young viewer back.
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