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Thanks to the person upthread who recommended blue-eye samurai. Well done story etc and beautifully animated.

That was probably me so I’m glad you liked it!

Hilda is back on Netflix and I somehow forgot that there was a movie before this new season so I was, and since season 2 ends on a cliffhanger I was extremely confused when I watched the season 3 premiere.

Thought Murder At The End Of The World improved for a few episodes and then that stinker of a finale completely undid that.

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Yeah the ending murder at end of the world was really weak. Too bad - they had the bones for a great show but didn’t know where to focus. Makes me even more thankful for the shows that get it right.

(back to the 'nothing happens' discussion) For Deadloch, for example, (which is great and everyone should see it), the investigation has a lot of "this fact just came to light so now we have a new suspect" / "someone just dropped the one piece of evidence that discounts our suspect, back to square one", but all the time we're getting to know the characters of the community and their interactions better, and things are still ratcheting up.

I am slogging my way through Invasion s1 and it is taking aaaaages

finally saw some cool-moving aliums though

just need a few more hours of people looking tearful or baffled

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.

And serialized movies were pretty common during the early days of film. Louis Feuillade's Fantômas (1913-14, five episodes, 333 minutes), and Les Vampires (1915, 10 episodes, 417 minutes), both of which I've seen and are amazing, are just two examples. It's a shame MGM didn't consider serializing Erich von Stroheim's Greed so it could be shown in its original nine-hour cut, but I guess by 1924 movie serials were out of style.

nah, they were still doing them in France at least by 1927 (Belphegor).

plenty of serials in the classic Hollywood sound age too but woof you need some patience for them

Feel the same about Murder at the End of the World, some cool/good ideas but also some really dumb ones, and so expository. was fine that it was the house, and on the positive side I thought mixing the son up in that was really good, some actual gravitas there, but still making Clive out as some obvious baddy weakens a lot of it. The whole show would've been better I think if Clive was more sympathetic. I know they walked that line a bit, but they had to make him the big asshole to give meaning to Lee's escape. He could've been presented as controlling without the sudden need to strangle Darby, and like, we really needed to hear his therapy session? It just dumbs it all down. We get it.

Invasion is awful. Just quit now and save yourself some time xps

Carol & the End of the World (Netflix) probably deserves it's own (modest) thread, but it will probably get lost among the current glut of apocalyptic fare. It strikes me as a clever and realistic way of depicting how certain people might deal with an imminent disaster.

^We’ve long been Martha Kelly fans, so will consider watching that for sure (…my only concern would be the end-of-the-world content being, idk, slightly “triggering” somehow)

xxpost for a minute i thought you were talking abt the 2005 Invasion w William Fichtner lol (also that show rules) — but yeah Apple+ Invasion is pretty meh

I can't believe I'm saying this but I would like a moratorium on 'end of the world' shows/movies for a while, it's all becoming a bit much

Unless someone decides to do A Canticle For Leibowitz movie/series. (And it's good.)

Sign me up.

Postman reboot asap

Other than Carol, I can't think of any other animated thing where the characters look exactly like the actors that voice them. Not sure why that's important, I guess it helps make the animation seem more real.

The actors voicing Star Trek: Lower Decks' main cast look a lot like their characters.

But the actor/character facial similarity is definitely a thing in video games, and from what I gather that's to more easily animate/translate the subtleties of an actor's facial movement to their on-screen characters.

Undone does some kind of rotoscoping for its animation so Bob Odenkirk and Rosa Salazar basically look like themselves, except when things get weird

Invasion is awful. Just quit now and save yourself some time xps

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I thoroughly enjoyed Invasion. But I seem to be alone in that opinion.

There doesn't appear to be a dedicated thread for it and I don't care to start one, but Billy Crudup continues to be a great reason to keep watching the otherwise mediocre Morning Show. The scene where he cranks up "Kokomo" in the car to brace himself for dealing with his mother was chefskiss.gif

yes! he’s so goddamn great in Morning Show. Aniston & Witherspoon are pretty excellent in it as well, i have really enjoyed the series.

Crudup's retro futurist Apple show was so disappointing.

I’m one episode into Gyeongseong Creature and it is 100% “fuck yeah!”

I often wonder if it’s time for a dedicated Korean TV series thread, but feels unnecessarily Balkanizing. Everyone on this thread needs to at least watch My Name and the others we’ve mentioned upthread

Would appreciate a list of essential k shows. Dipped my feet here and there but never found something that clicked

Rented God Is A Bullet on Amazon for $2 last night and have rarely regretted anything more. Easily the worst movie I saw in 2023: 2 hours 35 minutes of misogyny, genuinely surprising levels of gore, and a Criminal Minds-level mentality re Satanic serial killing cults that apparently roll through our world with impunity, dragging young girls into sinister black vans and then doing Bad Things to them because... well, they're just eeeeevil, don't you see? The movie's just stupid: ineptly written, portentously acted, shot with exactly zero visual flair...just garbage from beginning to end. A must to avoid.

My top 3 Kdramas:

- Kingdom: Humans vs zombies historical action in a Kurosawa-esque haunted landscape
- Zombie Detective: guy wakes up as a zombie, starts working as a private detective and tries to solve his murder/how to live as a human, also it's funny
- Happiness: "Parasite with zombies" undersells it, also it's funny and there is romance

Also worth watching:
- Moving: some discussion above I think, poignant story of kids growing up with superpowers and intergenerational trauma, also some legit beautiful soundtrack moments and some pretty extreme violence (the final third with the North Koreans was kind of pointless imo)
- Alchemy of Souls Part 1: epic fantasy about magical warrior people, lots of YA feelings and romance, some parts are legit hilarious and the world building is cool (I thought Part 2 sucked though)
- Jirisan: slice of life workplace drama x natural disaster action x ghosts x murder mystery x majesty of nature x natural park legislation; probably less than the sum of its parts but there are so many parts
- The Worst of Evil: undercover cop infiltrates a gang in 1990s Seoul, trust and mistrust among MEN, looks amazing
- Six Flying Dragons: huge historical epic about the founding of the Joseon Dynasty, cool fight scenes and surprise political manoeuvres and betrayal and tragedy

reading through my blurbs I'm thinking a bit "I wouldn't take these recommendations" but idk these all left an impression on me

Haha thanks. I also have to navigate around a skeptical wife who will cringe at the mention of zombies or .extreme violence’. Jirisan sounds like a good start!

I really don't like zombies!

in Zombie Detective it's just a weird thing that happened to the protagonist (there might not be any other zombies in the show iirc)

i love this rant

“I beg you to WATCH THE MOVIE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk-65JS8Qik

My favorite Korean show so far is Beyond Evil, which is a serial killer mystery with a fair amount of humor and some creepy moments.

The Worst Of Evil is in the queue here - can't wait!

Previously, but I suspect Elvis and I would both strongly rep for Stranger, which is an extremely slow boil type show, not without violence but mostly about the murkiness of the shifting alliances and rivalries among the police and prosecutor's office in Seoul, plus it features some fascinating interpersonal relationships. It helps if you are a patient viewer; one has to really recalibrate their expectations re pacing and what constitutes a major narrative event. It's so different from so many shows that I just find it completely absorbing. It does help that it has a pair of outstanding lead performances, including one from Bae Doona (better to see her in this kind of thing than in Rebel Moon.)

I've mentioned it before a couple times, I always have to discuss it because I feel it's probably overlooked compared to shows that are more easily digestible for audiences used to the swift and some might say overly accelerated pacing of so many streaming TV shows.

thanks for the reminder, I still need to watch Stranger

cosign re: Stranger, it’s also my favourite K-drama. Cho Seung Woo and Bae Doona as leads is just <3.

And seconding Kingdom, Moving, Beyond Evil, My Name. And while it’s overhyped and there’s no way the second season isn’t going to be a colossal disappointment, Squid Game is great too, imo.

Other K-dramas not mentioned yet which I also really liked:
- D.P.: follows a team of army officers tasked with chasing down deserters, but it’s really about bullying and male friendship and trauma in the military.
- All Of Us Are Dead: zombies again! But in high school. Very YA, and goes on a tad too long imo, but it’s a lot of fun and the zombie action sequences are incredible.
- Extracurricular: brutal, gritty drama about teenagers who turn to crime for money. Does a good job at tackling difficult topics like sex trafficking and suicide without being overly preachy or moralistic.

Reacher S2 is still fun but there's something off about it - the staging isn't as fluid, the dialogue is clunkier.

they don’t use his physicality as much in the fight scenes .. and yeah,i dunno if its the writing or that crew he has with him aren’t up to the task acting-wise. it does feel kinda stilted compared to last season

Oh no! I only just finished season one and was really looking forward to some high-quality reaching. Oh well.

I am slogging my way through Invasion s1 and it is taking aaaaages

We made it to the end of S2, but that's it for us and Invasion. So boring. Do not care about any of the characters at all. Still annoyed about Sam Neill going all out on promoting it and then getting invaded ten minutes in.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I would like a moratorium on 'end of the world' shows/movies for a while, it's all becoming a bit much

I was thinking similar yesterday while husband was watching the Monarch show on Apple+ (which seems fine, I guess, but definitely needs less family drama and more monsters). A lot of our TV-watching time -- more his than mine, admittedly -- is taken up with watching dirt-streaked people with torches climbing around in rubble.

The first couple of episodes of the new Percy Jackson on Disney are very enjoyable family viewing (my son loved it). Quite a bit of world building exposition but plenty of action too. The two main kids are excellent so far and Jason Mantzoukas is always fun to watch.

i watched Bloodhounds and Song of the Bandits on Netflix recently and liked them both. Korean action shows. if you like action. but also lots of, you know, sadness and sad flashbacks of sad past events. both are really good cliffhangers.

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It's true that S2 of Schmigadoon not quite as good as S1. The Miss Hannigan analog at the orphanage had one of the worst Oliver Twist accents I've ever heard and tbh Alan Cummings' wasn't much better. That whole plotline was just eh. The big dance number with the kids was extremely paltry compared to the showstopper from S1. But the narrator is just ridiculously gratifying to watch. And Cecily Strong was maybe even better this time. What an actress. She just knocked it out with "It's My Turn Now". Or whatever that song was called. The plot was wildly silly. In S1 it all kinda made emotional sense but this... I think for two episodes we even forgot that Josh is being hunted by the cops. Oh and I wanted every scene with the hippies to end immediately. So yeah maybe not great. But I couldn't imagine not wanting to see it.

I started watching The Crowded Room on AppleTV last night, got annoyed two episodes in and spoiled it for myself and now I'm glad I saved myself another 6 hours.

The new Reacher is just kind of *grim*. The storyline is grim, the violence feels showy & ugly and Reacher's psychopathic intensity feels forced. In the first season, the slow build of the relationships helped to mitigate some of this, whereas in S2 it's all backloaded and told through flashbacks. Still here for it, though.

Yeah, but what about when Robert Patrick said he didn't know who Sarah Connor was? HILARITY.

it was actually really stupid. but Reacher has better one-liners this season. he's a regular comedian.