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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.

yeah thats a good doc

Murder At The End Of The World - flashbacks good, current events bad, not sure if episode 4 is getting a viewing

ep 5 was worse imo but ill prob keep watching

started to get furious when I thought it was all going to end on a cliffhanger but there's another episode coming next week. I can't say it's compelling viewing except to find out whodunnit which is a fatuous trick I keep falling for.

I think I called it a few episodes ago. The house did it. or most of it.

We’re still enjoying the show though agree the flashback story is more compelling. Also agree with Dan S’s whodunnit guess.

i watched A Month Of Sundays on Ovid. loved it. i love Anthony LaPaglia.
i watched Afire on Criterion Channel and loved that too so much. almost watched it again. still might.
almost done watching The Eight Mountains on Criterion and loving that too. what a movie! i am full of love.
i am not loving The Last Of Us. watching with Maria. it makes me nostalgic for when i loved The Walking Dead.
also reminds me of that funny zombie show with the guy who was half human and half zombie and who was going to save mankind.
also i kept thinking that Anna Torv was my hero Carrie Coon. they should make a movie together.
the episode with Ron Swanson not as poignant as one of those good poignant standalone Walking Dead episodes.
the guy in it is the ultimate generic video game hero though! its like they made a human who looks like a PS game!
i watched The Killer on Netflix and it was pretty forgettable. sounded good on my new Sennheiser headphones though.
i actually preferred the Julia Roberts end of the world movie on Netflix produced by the Obamas. that had a few memorable moments.
but maybe i just liked the message in that movie that was: *busted cellphone = useless man* but *record collection = you get to dance with Julia Roberts*.

oh also watched The Worst Person In The World on Hulu which i liked until the end when it got a little too wrap-things-up-with-a-bow sorta.
what i liked about the first 2/3 was that i didn't know where it/she was going. but, hey, they needed an ending.

I'm currently watching a French crime series on Netflix called Blood Coast — it's about drug gangs in Marseille and a somewhat crooked cop who's investigating them. It's only six episodes long so I figure I'll hang in to the end even though it's pretty generic.

oh also watched The Worst Person In The World on Hulu which i liked until the end when it got a little too wrap-things-up-with-a-bow sorta.
what i liked about the first 2/3 was that i didn't know where it/she was going. but, hey, they needed an ending.

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I tried to finish this last year but found it unbearable. (Not because the actors or director etc were doing a bad job. They did a great job! I just couldn’t handle watching the protagonist continually light her life on fire)

also kinda hard for me to relate to someone who is not only the worst person in the world but also the best looking person in the world.

i watched barbie on hbo. it was kinda long! i didn't laugh at anything. some kid movies make me laugh. rhea perlman's voice made me misty though! just hearing her voice. i wish she was in more movies. like, dramatic movies that are good. she has such a great presence. i will leave the think-piece *toy company teaches little girls about feminism* to other people. that's above my pay grade! t-swift probably teaches them everything they need to know. about commerce and power and boys. cool costumes in barbie!

The Worst Person In The World on Hulu

xp Nothing in Barbie made you laugh(?) It’s not really a “kid” movie, fwiw (although obviously plenty of kids saw it)…

our 12 yr old son really wanted to watch Severance so we started in on that with him. we'd already watched it and it's great, def the vibe is thoroughly creepy and there are more than a couple of disturbing moments to come, but he's into dystopian stories and is fascinated with office work. doesn't want to do it, but he's interested in it.

wow, I don't remember a single things about the movie, not even if I liked or didn't like it. I recall the actor is good? Maybe there is magic realism in it?

no, it's just about a woman whose life goes sideways.

Whenever people mention movies on this thread, esp. movies that are not original to the platform, it feels like sort of a microcosm of the way streaming platforms have flattened everything into interchangeable pieces of content.

maybe related but seeing that the new Beverly Hills Cop movie was a Netflix exclusive just made it seem vv cheap and disposable already.

xp Maybe, but the Barbieheimer thing also illustrates how movies that are original to streaming services also don’t seem to capture the zeitgeist the way that theatrical releases still can/do (and Scott seeing Barbie on Max now is no different from catching it on video in the old days)?

I could totally see an Americanized version of Worst Person... happening as a prestige streaming sitcom w/Anna Kendrick or Alison Williams or Melissa Villasenor or Zendaya or somebody

Whenever people mention movies on this thread, esp. movies that are not original to the platform, it feels like sort of a microcosm of the way streaming platforms have flattened everything into interchangeable pieces of content.

Sometimes I find myself thinking of a TV series as a really long movie that I get to take breaks from.

Sometimes I find myself thinking of a TV series as a really long movie that I get to take breaks from.

When I see something new announced that looks interesting, but it's a series, I will often skip it with the explicit thought that "if that was a movie, I'd watch it." Two hours OK, 8-12 hours not OK.

i always feel weird watching old t.v. shows on dvd! it feels wrong for some reason. and i have loads of them. i tend to not watch them that way too much but i have every episode of Homicide to watch...and that cool Sapphire and Steel box...and every sledge hammer!...and manimal!

(instead i just end up watching multiple episodes of monk or columbo on peacock...)

Sometimes I find myself thinking of a TV series as a really long movie that I get to take breaks from.

the spielberg / morgan freeman evolution thing on netflix is really well done - walking with + planet earth with new science and better graphics (lion king photorealism finally put to good use) - though I have to keep reminding my older relatives which parts are "real" so maybe the graphics are too good. I find it a bit of a tease - dinosaurs always get the attention and I've been waiting all my life to see temnospondyls and therapsids and land crocs portrayed as well as this but I want more - you barely get to meet them before it's onto the next thing. such is life

Like, I spent maybe two months watching a 70-hour-long movie called "Homeland" (for example), in installments.

Which is how people originally experienced many famous novels! Dickens, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dumas, Melville, and Trollope were serialized. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brothers Karamazov.

Sometimes I find myself thinking of a TV series as a really long movie that I get to take breaks from.

This has been the worst part of the post-Sopranos 'prestige'/streaming TV world - producers forgot that individual episodes of the best shows still had self-contained plots. Four episodes into something and nothing has happened? I'm out.

OTM

Cue up the surfing Dracula bit

Milo, good point.

There was a time (back in my actual tv-watching days) when shows were more pointedly episodic. Simpsons of course, but Buffy, Scrubs, or Angel could and did make a musical episode, a silent episode, an episode where everyone was a puppet, etc.

It didn't need to be all just a continuation of the One Big Story Arc. Procedurals (L&O, CSI, NCIS, etc.) have this problem where they have to balance between one neat wrapup and the longer story arc of the characters. Some episodes strike a better balance than others. Sometimes you end up yelling PICK ONE!

Mythology won the war against Monster of the Week

Here is an Atlantic article arguing that the anti-episodic elements of long-form prestige TV actually derive from soap operas.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/06/soap-operas-influence-tv/674337/?gift=Bqi2uZtdZSXIt7UBFZp4FGTRsuHCX4fGzIHBXSzElMg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I feel like this was one of The Bear’s problems… nothing really “happened” in each episode (at least until the big flashback episode, which is when we stopped watching).

Stuff happened after that, bruv

Heard.

I think if the acting or writing and especially both are compelling, it almost doesn't matter what anyone is up to. I think of a masterpiece like Deadwood. Do people still sing the praises of its plot? It's one of my favorite shows of all time and I honestly couldn't really tell you what the plot is. However, I can tell you that the writing and acting is exemplary and that's why I would watch it again. That's also why The Bear is great, imo.

re Bear imo if you didnt finish it you dont really have much business summing up the series now do you hm

IF YOU YOU DONT EAT YR MEAT YOU CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DONT EAT YR MEAT

jk

Haha, well I’m not summing it up! Just mentioning it as an example of a show that didn’t feel very “pointedly episodic,” but more like one long, meandering thing. (There were one or two more “distinctive” sidetrack eps., like when the pastry chef went to Denmarks). I did watch 1.5 seasons…

quitters will never prosper morrisp