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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.

this is really good. best thing i’ve seen in a while.

(SR)

No big spoilers here, just vague descriptions...
I finished "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" - the acting was good from Donald and Maya (I watched because I loved the series "PEN15" so much) and it was a treat to see Parker Posey (probably my favorite moment of the series was when Parker was cheering Donald and Maya on from the helipad as they flew away), but I can't get over some major things about the series:
** It is really hard to empathize with people who are murdering people in cold blood for reasons that are completely unknown to them (i.e. they aren't necessarily doing this to "save the world" or whatever, like a James Bond-type spy) purely for the money.
** Then, it doesn't seem congruous when they seem to react emotionally to aspects of their jobs. For these jobs, I would think there would be intense psychological screening; for such work, you really need true psychopaths. Jane's sociopathy is brought up, but not convincingly to me.
** Their abilities are also incongruous - very competent at times, and incompetent at others. And bad skills of deduction (to serve the plot) - like "Oh no, someone is trying to kill me, I'm going to just assume it is X who is trying to kill me without any evidence."

enjoying house of ninjas on netflix. its fun! about a family of lovable ninjas. the little kid is so adorable! he's not a ninja though. yet. even their cat is cool.

nice to see that resident alien is on netflix now. don't have to watch stinky peacock commercials. will watch more of that tonight.

House of Ninjas was really good, yes.

SAG Awards in 19 minutes on Netflix. The Bear is gonna sweep.

billy eilish looks nice. her brother's tux probably cost a million bucks but he looks boring. tan france looks awesome. the queer eye guy.

ciara's dress is insane. she's like an M&M S&M diva.

first bear win. this is a way more chill awards show than other ones. kudos netflix.

yay, ayo!

I don't really get The Bear

Pedro Pascal winning was a surprise!

As with the Golden Globes, I’m salty about The Bear being in the “Comedy” category.

i forgot that julian sands died :( too soon!!

i also totally forgot that his body had been picked apart by vultures and coyotes by the time they found it.

Elizabeth Debicki winning instead of Sarah Snook is also a surprise! She was great in The Crown

i kinda thought the little culkin was gonna win. so, no succession acting winners.

I'm glad Lily Gladstone won instead of Emma Stone. I think Sandra Hüller gave the best performance of the year in Anatomy of a Fall, but she wasn't nominated

Yay! Northern Exposure is finally streamable (Prime).

i'm watching The Floor. don't judge me! if its good enough for rob lowe its good enough for me.

My kids love that

in this age of social isolation its sad how many people have said that they are NOT there to make friends.

I binged the majority of Death and Other Details today (still two weeks/three eps left to come out). I’m glad to have watched the majority in one go as it made the whole thing zip along a little more. Not a perfect show but generally fun. (Though the most recent episode with the extended flashback was also by far the worst episode).