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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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lmao

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.

and i like when his old team makes fun of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhv7bgmz64

I've canceled my Netflix and Hulu subscriptions, but added Max (which I used to have through Hulu) through Amazon Prime. Just watched Leave the World Behind, which was OK though I would have appreciated fewer swooping, rotating drone shots.

It's on Netflix, how did you watch it(?)

My Netflix subscription doesn't run out until February 1. So I'm watching a couple of things in the meantime.

Lamb is on Prime. It's super goofy watching a toddler with a lamb's head:

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slightly less goofy, the line in the last Reacher episode: "next time, get a hotel"

i watched the holdovers on peacock and it was kinda boring and not funny and i couldn't believe how much paul giamatti looked and acted like a cartoon character and there were moments where i thought it was trying to be a parody of inspirational movies but then i kept realizing that it was supposed to be taken seriously. i struggled to finish it. i might have fast forwarded through the last 20 minutes to get the weepy goodbyes out of the way. i could see it being a homage to forgotten t.v. movies of the 80s. except it would have been paul dooley, lance kerwin, and conchata farrell in the 80s. also that one dumb kid's fake long hair was really distracting. they need to start doing AI on fake hair in movies.

aw! i really liked it

It really looked horrible and I couldn't believe how many people seemed to be falling for it. Maybe they didn't go to East Coast US prep schools in the 80s and thus didn't know how shitty those kids (and their teachers) actually were. I spent two years in a Catholic boys' school in NJ and it wasn't anything to be nostalgic about. One of the priests got murdered some years later — he'd left the priesthood and moved to Las Vegas and a guy he'd molested as a teenager walked up to his front door, rang the bell, and when he answered, shot him. Make that into a movie.

Kinda tough to sell that to the Christmas audience

Maybe they didn't go to East Coast US prep schools in the 80s and thus didn't know how shitty those kids

you'd be surprised a lot of Americans actually didn't go to East Coast prep schools in the 80s

I liked it. (shrug emoji)

PS I went to an East Coast prep school in the '80s.

i liked that it was a quiet unshowy xmas movie about grief & love & unlikeable ppl who had stories to tell, and i love paul giamatti always & unreservedly

its not like i’m building a shrine to prep schools & shitty rich kids by liking it ffs

also i was feeling very bummed this christmas season and it had a vibe that just kinda made me feel a bit less bummed

FIVE STARS

IN YR FACE

I thought it was great and the shitty nature of the kids and the teachers is explicit in the movie.

Kinda tough to sell that to the Christmas audience

No place like home for the holidays.

Just watched the trailer for 3 Body Problem and one thing I'll say is that choral covers of Radiohead songs make me roll me eyes.

I'm glad you liked it, VegemiteGrrl!! I can see why people like it. I didn't hate it. I just didn't feel anything. It felt flat to me. One episode of Reservation Dogs (take your pick of many) has uplifted me/inspired me/cheered me more. and made me laugh way more. about the very same themes too.

The Offer was a total Hollywood fairy tale but very entertaining and a great cast

i should have hated The Offer but it was so ridiculously smoothbrained that I weirdly loved it (but cannot defend it in any way)

Right? I must have posted about it in this thread... such fun trashola

(the portrayal of Rob't Evans was truly awesome)

I want a spinoff where my chubby bois Frances and Mario solve crimes together

though I suppose for Juno Temple it's only the second most smooth brained show she's been on, I found her very charming

Northern Exposure is streaming on Prime, scared to find out my favorote series (for the first 2-3, I petered out after a while) as a kid is actually terrible.

we re-watched Northern Exposure a few years back. still awesome though last season wasn't great except for the final episode of the show. give it a go.

Death and Other Details on Hulu - “set among the glamour of the global elite”… pass

but - Mandy Patinkin! i’m gonna check it out for sure

Just watched Bottoms as an Amazon rental. Really fucking funny — a Heathers for the 21st century. Highly recommended.

Bottoms, dir. Emma Seligman, with Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri

I think Bottoms is coming to Prime soon-ish.

Bottoms was much better than I expected from the reviews.

Curious about Monsieur Spade, True Detective and the Mandy Patinkin thing, but they kinda look they might all fall under "pretty good not great".

I'm on the third episode of Deadloch, I can imagine it might start running on the spot as it goes along, but it's incredibly good fun and the mystery is a pretty good mystery! There's such a lot of attention to detail (place, character, how people spend their time), it feels like a real place without seeming like icky "world-building". The characters feel heightened, but also real, which is another hard trick to pull off - it's the perfect smart/dumb tightrope walk.

Season finale of Reacher was pretty disappointing. They tried to stretch 15 minutes of plot out to 40 and it really, really drags.

whole season was pretty bland. really missed the small town charm/characters from season 1

Haven't watched the finale yet but I'd rate this season below the first Tom Cruise movie (and maybe the second but I'm pretty hazy on that one other than vaguely remembering that Robin from How I Met Your Mother was the co-star).

Feel like a helicopter with a minigun lighting up a Queens junkyard (shortly after multiple buildings explode) might be national news, the show about the 6'7" MP-slash-Jason Bourne drifter got too ridiculous.

I'm curious how close to the book this season was.

I'm curious how close to the book this season was.

Which reminds me that the credit at the beginning of every episode never fails to crack me up:

BASED ON THE BOOK HARD LUCK & TROUBLE BY LEE CHILD AND HIS CHARACTER JACK REACHER

So...Reacher helped write the book?

The Damned United is on Tubi for a while

i watched a bad movie called The Baker on Hulu and then later i was watching Fargo and i kept expecting to see characters from The Baker because that is how my streaming life goes. one thing streams into another. i think i'm done with the new Fargo season. i'm halfway through episode 6 and it just gets clunkier and less fun and more pointless. which is sad cuz i will always love JJL doing her best Hudsucker voice. that movie was all the way back in 1994! where does the time go? i've been a fan of hers since the best little girl in the world. that was 1981. i'll bet i've seen 30 JJL movies.