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what’s the machine in the kitchen on mr and mrs smith

i'm kinda tempted to watch Couple to Throuple on Peacock...don't mock me. also kinda tempted to watch Project Runway Junior! it must be winter. my brain is asleep. more than usual. (i've been watching the latest seasons of hell's kitchen and the amazing race on hulu. both great seasons! and the challenges are very challenging too. more high-stakes feel to both shows. which are fake and staged and edited to within an inch of their life but still thrilling sometimes miraculously!)

Just finished watching The Night Agent, which was preposterously dumb. Like, if the Amazon Jack Ryan show starred a randomly selected teenager who'd been hit in the head by falling masonry, instead of the guy from The Office. Every single role was filled by asking "we can't afford that person, who can we get?" There's gonna be a second season, but I have zero interest.

i'm kinda tempted to watch Couple to Throuple on Peacock..

find a torrent of the old Showtime series Polyamory: Married & Dating IMO

Peacock isn't going to make it nearly trashy enough to be fun

started on Deadloch and it's really good. An actually intriguing mystery with a shitload of excellent characters and local color.

Just finished watching The Night Agent, which was preposterously dumb. Like, if the Amazon Jack Ryan show starred a randomly selected teenager who'd been hit in the head by falling masonry, instead of the guy from The Office. Every single role was filled by asking "we can't afford that person, who can we get?" There's gonna be a second season, but I have zero interest.

Not surprised there will be a season 2. I'd never heard of it, but it was the most watched Netflix title (measured by hours watched) for the first half of 2023.

Or maybe I'd heard of it, but confused it with The Night Of.

omg Night Agent was the most smoothbrain shit i have watched in a while

and the lead reminded me SO MUCH of that squareheaded baker Jamie from GBBO season 10

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F08%2FGBBO-Bakers-S10-Jamie-1080-740x740.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=84967a222719b16dce7da910d5c3a44a8d063142fabb2073ea08996c55aef9fb&ipo=images

Mr & Mrs Smith on Amazon Prime is very very good - lotta Atlanta alums for maximum good + weird vibes

We just finished E2 of Mr & Mrs Smith. Very good so far. Still not going to pay Amazon an extra $2.99/mo to go ad free. They only has one set of ads before show started so that’s acceptable if they have to do ads.

Yeah, I've watched three episodes of it now and only had one 15 second ad before episode 2 started. Don't know if that's how it should be or whether there's still teething problems with them implementing the new system.

And definitely some Atlanta vibes during the show itself.

Just had my first 'ad' experience (I'm in the UK). Eh, annoying but not *too* intrusive. Bullshit ads, of course.

what’s the thing in their kitchen?!

if you really want to get your heart pumping watch Naga on Netflix. scary camels! such a cool movie.

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

Did anyone watch Fisk? Looks promising

Tokyo Vice came back for a second season; they posted the first two episodes and I watched both and...I'm out. The first season was pretty good, but this time it's slow and boring.

In better news, Warrior is now on Netflix, so any of you who haven't seen it should absolutely check it out. The first two seasons are better than the third, but they're all worth watching.

I heartily reccomend Fisk if you like dry absurdity Aus comedy (cf Utopia, Rosehaven, Deadloch etc)!

But, I'm a big Kitty Flanagan stan, so.

Thanks Trayce we loved Deadloch will give Fisk a try

Dry absurd Aussie comedy is a yes

First episode of Constellation has a “4 hours of story in a 10 hour package” vibe.

Criminal Record on Apple is entertaining so far. Peter Capaldi as a cop who is impeding cases and hiding something, and Cush Jumbo as a younger cop fighting against him who is also morally tainted. Finale is in a few days.

I'm enjoying Criminal Record but I am going to be REALLY pissed if the finale reveals that Capaldi is not as bad as he seems to be.

FreeVee might be going away?

https://consequence.net/2024/02/amazon-freevee-shutting-down/

Amazon has already said it isn't happening. However, if it did and they could collapse all the stuff on FreeVee back into Prime, even with their ads they might have the best across the board streaming catalogue.

AMC+ sucks for movies. I subbed because it was the same price as I was paying for Shudder anyway + Mad Men + Halt & Catch Fire but the two movies I’ve watched on there (Terminator, The Thing) are cable edited with cuts meant for commercials.

I've been annoyed with various software issues on almost all the streaming services. Disney for a while, I think because they stream 7.1 audio, anything less, audio-wise, may be prone to weird pops and clicks. Amazon at various times has been prone to crashing a few minutes in; it might also be an audio thing. HBO, it's slow as hell, and lately for no apparent reason a few things we've watching have been massively magnified to a comical degree; you have to kind of quit and come back to it. I think part of the problem is that so many people are streaming these things so many different ways on so many different devices. "Smart" TVs, computers, tablets, phones, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc., each of which seemingly decodes things differently. And at the same time, these services are so bare bones, and seemingly unwilling to spend the money for a consistently optimized experience.

I love how disney (using the app + chromecast) takes about ten seconds to register a click on the 'go back ten seconds' button.

This is highly specific, but does anyone use a Fire Stick, and notice that the Home button doesn’t seem to work anymore? You have to keep pressing the Back button to back out of apps. This happens across different remotes, and I’ve tried troubleshooting (there’s a setting that is supposed to enable “Home button” if it’s not enabled), but no dice.

Amazon’s UI has taken the lead for being annoying as shit. Trying to scroll through options and everything has to expand and then start auto playing.

ugh hard agree, i hate it!!

I hate all of the autoplay stuff, there's gotta be a plugin to kill that

omg, Bottoms on Amazon Prime. i'm only 10 minutes in and i think i have a new favorite teen comedy. plus, ayo edebiri, america's new favorite person on earth. she kinda rules.

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

i actually have to force myself to stop watching because maria isn't home and she really needs to watch this with me. omg, munching beaver at wesleyan, she is going to die.

we started watching resident alien on peacock and that definitely has some funny moments. i apparently have an unlimited capacity for fish out of water alien stuff? why do i find it so funny? its every cliche every time. also that black cop gives me pause. if he's going to be the butt of every joke i might bail. but his deputy is so good. i looked up that lead guy and i kinda remember him from firefly but my memory is bad now and he has literally been in - counting voice acting - 60 movies and 60 tv shows!! does he ever sleep?

Bottoms for me was, um, unpleasant.

Bottoms was unexpectedly gruesome but entertaining.

Mr & Mrs Smith was fine, but the whole thing with Paul Dano’s character being the “hot” neighbor??? In what world would he ever be described as hot???

Kind of expected this, sadly:

Like Aang’s air bending, the original 22-minute series felt effortless in its top-notch character arcs, worldbuilding, fight choreography, and wit. It managed to balance lighthearted road-trip capers, edge-of-your-seat thrills, and heavy subjects like familial trauma and the moral cost of war. This version, on the other hand, is weighed down by stiff acting, slow pacing, robotic dialogue, touch-and-go CGI, and more exposition than an army of earthbenders can handle.

https://kotaku.com/avatar-last-airbender-netflix-review-live-action-1851279574

I hate all of the autoplay stuff, there's gotta be a plugin to kill that

You can turn off the autoplay in the settings, but not the stupid expansion stuff.

First episode of Constellation has a “4 hours of story in a 10 hour package” vibe.

I was really enjoying it until the last ten minutes when it went all wanky. Going to give it one more episode.

The expansion thing makes scrolling so totally unpleasant.

We gave Constellation one more episode. Spoilers for episode 2: Once she gets back to Earth, I don't really care what happens. I'm obviously supposed to be intrigued by the multiple dimensions or whatever, but eh. I think it wants to be space-Dark, but it's not pulling me in so far. otoh, the reviews say it gets a lot better later on.

"Kind of expected this, sadly:"

so depressing that people felt the need to ruin something so lovely twice! its cruel. i hope someone tells future generations of kids to only watch the animated show because its perfect and beautiful. oh well. people. they are good at ruining things for money. its a gift they have.

i just saw one of those career-encapsulating oscar commercials on t.v. for paul giamatti and this is definitely one of those cases where i saw a different movie than the rest of this crazy country. i honestly couldn't tell if paul giamatti was doing an snl parody of a paper chase guy or what. it was so over the top to me. the gyrations his face made...omg. i much preferred that mr. show college sketch with lenny of lenny and squiggy fame as the professor. its shorter and funnier and also ends in sadness. to bring it around to this thread - i don't go on movie threads on ilx anymore - you can catch that sketch in higher resolution on MAX! do you think jesse eisenberg watched the holdovers and saw that kid and thought: "that totally would have been me 10 years ago..."

come to think of it, bob odenkirk would have been way better as the sad teacher in that movie. he even does a sad teacher show now. streaming on AMC! to bring it back to this thread. and based on a funny book that i read ages ago. a funnier wonder boys if you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_9qBhuXt0

Keep forgetting to try that Odenkirk series

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla is on Max now. Gonna watch it this weekend.

Great idea, thanks for the tip!

this would have been so beautiful... pic.twitter.com/dPB7T6BukQ

— james hennessy (@jrhennessy) February 24, 2024

watched Bottoms with Maria. that was fun and goofy. and i appreciated the dumbness. smart/stupid isn't easy to pull off.

"I have seen several reviews that describe Bottoms as some version of “delightfully dumb.”Do you take that as a compliment?"

"I do. There’s so much beauty and wonder to making and watching a dumb movie or a dumb show. I love absurd humour where the plot doesn’t make sense. I think, particularly for queer audiences, we deserve to watch something dumb where we don’t have to think too hard and can also see ourselves on screen. It doesn’t have to mean more than trying to have sex or whatever. My co-star Ayo Edebiri has talked a few times about how everything is political and therefore being dumb and stupid is a political act. We made an active choice to make a dumb movie. And that feels good to us."

also: hearing "complicated" really hit the spot in an unexpected way! go canada!

Finished Scavengers Reign. It's the most compelling thing I've seen in some time - gonna watch it again.