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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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My wife said she heard about a good new documentary on Amazon called "The Garden." Except it's on HBO. And it's a reality series, not a documentary. And it's called "The Garden: Commune or Cult?" And it's no doubt part of that HBO CEO's strategy to dumb down and cheapify all content. And I watched about 20 minutes of it and it's the usual band of immature Burning Man rejects and their dumbass notions of cyber-punk hippie utopia for an audience of Tik Tok dumbasses, and I noped out immediately.

I mentioned it on the Love Won thread… it’s a highly silly and low-rent series, basically a “reality show” where they find prepper types to visit the commune and decide whether it’s a “cult.” We watched all six episodes of “S1” (for clarity, it’s on Max, and was produced by the Discovery side of the house, not the HBO side).

One of the guys they find is so heavy & out of shape he can’t even walk up the hill to the commune (they have to pick him up in a truck) or set up his own tent… then he snipes and insults them for the day or so he sticks around. It’s kind of funny

Watched the first episode of Murder at the End of the World - it's not bad but there's something off about it, the dialogue is stilted like YA was adapted for adults.

also my hero, the FIRST woman to be a hacker... cut to 32 year old. This is '80s haxor erasure

Couldn't get through the first episode of Murder at the End of the World and after reading some spoilers of the next few episodes, I'm not returning.

There's a movie on Netflix called Reptile; I watched it last night. It's a pretty solid modern noir with a good cast — Benicio Del Toro is the lead, but he acts like he's aware of the other actors in the room and you can understand everything he says, and Eric Bogosian and Alicia Silverstone are also very good in it. Justin Timberlake is in it, too, but he's kind of aging badly, not unlike DiCaprio, which is interesting to observe. Worth checking out.

I have watched a fuckton of godawful christmas movies on netflix in the past four days, I feel like I've had a lobotomy

Speaking of, I have a friend that swears, SWEARS, that "Daddy's Home 2" is the "Johnny Dangerously" of the 21st Century.

I don't know what any of that means but I agree

I watched a full movie whose denoument was Brandy flying in a hot air balloon in memory of her dead kid, dragging Heather Graham through the sky in a sleigh

I also watched Katie Holmes get EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED in a filmic adaptation of the book beloved by crank American housewives of the 00's, the Secret.

it's probably more accurate to say that these movies were on the TV, while my wife recovered from RSV and looked at her phone, and I sat on the couch high and contemplated suicide

we're two episodes into murder at the end of the world, stoked for the disappointment now.

It keeps getting better, and worse, at the same time. How is that possible?

And I have to say Children of Men is a top 5 movie for me and I've long considered myself a Clive fan...but Lissy's Story was really bad and I'm on the fence here, other than not being able to stop thinking how much he looks like New Order's Stephen Morris does these days.

Watched all of "Bodies"... it's not that good.

feels like a mistake to have named a show "Bodies" right after a movie called "bodies bodies bodies" came out. find another word.

Should I watch The Notebook on BB1 tonight? Will it help me understand the world better?

the ryan gosling/rachel mcadams romance film? it will help you understand the minds of women who were 16 years old in 2004 better

I'm liking Bookie on HBO, decent sitcom. Fascinating how Chuck Lorre mastered the old-school three-camera sitcom format, but with this and The Kominsky Method shows he can do something cinematic without a laugh track as well.

Yeah, Bookies is not bad. It won't rank among my favorites of the year but it's solid.

The Anton Corbijn documentary on Hipgnosis is now on UK Netflix. I liked it a lot. Oddly for such visual subject matter, a lot of what worked most effectively about the film for me was Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell simply talking to camera. Trigger warning: Noel Gallagher interview extracts.