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I finished Black Sails but it doesn't pay off enough for me to recommend it. And early seasons were mandated to have tons of unnecessary sex and nudity, like GoT. ymmv may vary on that

unnecessary sex and nudity

I do not understand this phrase.

I did say ymmv

Big non-surprise but Fallout officially renewed.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fallout-renewed-season-2-amazon-1235975879/

Anybody here fuck with Hazbin Hotel? I enjoyed the hell out of it. I heard about it from my middle schooler, who is probably a few years young for it, given the dark sex and drug content. And the level of sexual joking is probably 40% more than usually appeals to me. But it has very catchy, heartwarming songs, and a feel-good storyline.

Rushomancy has brought the show up on a couple of other threads, but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it.

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I've never played "Fallout," but we've now watched two episodes of the show. It's ... OK. Good acting, solid FX. It's so self-consciously strange, though, that I can feel my wife debating whether to watch or cut n run in real time. I sense she'll sit through one more, and if episode three doesn't snag her, she may move on.

i'm a little torn about continuing as well. and i too have watched the first two episodes.

might just continue with The Expanse instead and go back to Fallout at a later date. things are getting good in season 2 of The Expanse.

i did take that little Baby Reindeer break and watched that quickly. thank god those episodes weren't 40+ minutes each.

is anyone else going to watch Baby Reindeer? i almost felt like starting a thread for it after watching. it gives you a lot to talk about.

Costas Mandylorian (Leee) at 11:38 18 Apr 24

I've heard that its humor is the kind of try-hard edgelordy stuff that's kept me at arm's distance from even sampling the pilot (which I believe is on YT).

I'm three episodes in scott xp

Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times

I like profanity and think it is often very funny, but at the same time, I rarely use it in real life and I'm also sometimes really conscious about its use in music and movies and whatnot. It often just seems so lazy to me, enlisted not even for shock value but as a placeholder for something much better or more clever.

"Kind of enjoying it but it's very uncomfortable (and excruciating) viewing at times"

oh i definitely squirmed in my seat. but it definitely has that forward momentum that makes you want to keep going. for something that is not a horror movie it gets to fear and panic in a way that a lot of horror movies never get to.

i don't need anything excruciating i'd rather watch columbo

I stopped the first episode of Fallout after 15 minutes or so (right when the attack on Vault 33 began) and last night I just skipped to episode 2 and watched it all the way through. It was a little better but I still didn't like it enough to continue.

was the action sequence in episode 2 of Fallout supposed to deliberately evoke the turn-based combat of the first two games? Cos it was so clunky and laboured

Show is ok so far, but the pacing seems off generally

"i don't need anything excruciating i'd rather watch columbo"

yah, fair enough. i get it. i went on a serious monk/columbo binge last summer.

baby reindeer is definitely not for everybody. but it can also be really funny! i mean the guy IS a comedian. those jarring juxtapositions of tone are what make it so..uh..jarring.

we've been watching a lot of Monk lately!

Fallout is definitely going for broad and cartoony. if it weren't so insanely violent and bloody i would say it was for kids. but maybe that's just what kids watch now. i mean younger kids. not teenagers.

i've been watching the French Monk too. i'm always up for a quirky cop.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gamtpgrZL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

people should definitely get on Baby Reindeer though

it's gonna be topping lots of EOY charts for sure

Late Night With The Devil is streaming on Shudder. It was… fine. The Creepshow PBS episode was better.

I'm tentatively intrigued by this adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is apparently an entirely Latin American production, shot in Colombia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG45GfgD2JU

It'll be 16 episodes long, release date TBD.

We are halfway through S2 of The Expanse. It is so good. There are a few actors you wish would be a little better, but the effects look great, not overdone or cheap looking, space combat is terrifying, and the plot is leisurely in the best way. The setup with the mormon ship was so long game! Characters generally act like human beings instead of plot advancing props. I really love this show.

we are still enjoying it as well. maria is a little worried that Holden's face might start to wear on her. it is punchable at times.

16 Apr 24

It happens about 10 minutes into ep4 so not really way into it, and isn't actually the focus of the story at all (though it does play into the plot considerably) - so is it really a spoiler? Really?

Just watched Baby Reindeer in two sittings. One scene with the father had me in floods. Kind of impressed he fessed up & used some of his genuinely awful early career jokes.

Brutal stuff.

Can't decide if we'll like that or not. Don't want anything genuinely harrowing unless it's also really funny...

It's billed as a dark comedy-drama but there's not many laughs to be had. It is excellent though.

It’s excruciatingly honest. He doesn’t hold back from revealing his own fucked up behavior. But yeah, it’s pretty dark, and ep 4 is absolutely harrowing.

i started a thread for Baby Reindeer. felt like it needed one where people could spoil away. also, it can serve as a support group after watching the whole thing...

we are still enjoying it as well. maria is a little worried that Holden's face might start to wear on her. it is punchable at times.

― scott seward

i think i had a concern that Holden was going to wind up being a sort of tedious Jon Snow type, but as the show goes on there's a lot of humor w/his character and a kind of weary heroism that works. part of the joke of Holden of course is people view him as a heroic figure and it being thrust upon him again and again is something he finds kind of annoying.

i think over time the show really develops primarily based upon the relationships between the characters, so many of them have very specific dynamics with other individual ones that are well thought out and deeply felt and often vv funny.

I never really warmed up to Holden, but all the other characters are good enough for me to look past that.

Holden = Zeppo basically

if Zeppo was constantly losing his shit and yelling at everyone

haha true

y'all are going to make me re-screen the Expanse, I think it's been long enough to feel fresh

Holden is the void at the center of the show, but as such he has enough black-hole gravity to more or less hold it together. Every other character is more interesting and entertaining, for sure.

just a reminder in case you have thoughts:

I am done withoiiu...The Official Netflix Baby Reindeer Thread (with tons of spoilers - beware)

I'm reading the Expanse series now, I've finished the third of nine novels and very much enjoying it. I love Holden and Naomi Nagata and Amos and Alex. My favorite ancillary characters so far have been Chrisjen Avasarala, Bobbie Draper, Anna Volovodov and Clarissa Mao. I'm wondering if the Holden portrayed the show is the same one I'm picturing from reading the books

I've avoided watching the series so as not to spoil the stories, but I guess it's ok to watch season 1 at this point? I'm not sure if the seasons follow the books

there’s a thread for the books

The Expanse novel series thread WARNING TV SPOILERS

There's a few changes to the show to make it work in that medium, but otherwise fairly faithful to the books xp

And yes, you're fine to watch the first season now

and the second season as well

I'm wondering if the Holden portrayed the show is the same one I'm picturing from reading the books

i've only read the first two books but imo despite his Jon Snow-ish tendencies, Holden actually comes across a bit better on the show than he does in print (where he's mostly a well-meaning but reckless himbo who everyone wants to sleep with)

Yeah the book Holden didn't quite match my expectation based on the show Holden (I watched the show before reading the books), whereas most of the other characters line up pretty well. But it's not a problem, just a small change

Was the Kyle MacLachlan deaging in Fallout supposed to be terrifying?

I watched the first episode of A Man In Full tonight, and I have thoughts.

1) Who thought an adaptation of a Tom Wolfe novel from 1998, that nobody much liked back then, was a good idea in 2024?

2) There's an old saying that if you owe the bank $100,000 and you can't pay, you've got a problem, but if you owe the bank $100,000,000 and you can't pay, the bank has a problem. Given that, the plot to this thing — which hinges on a bank attempting to get back $800 million they loaned Jeff Daniels' character — feels kinda silly. He, and he is absolutely the villain of the piece, could just tell them to go fuck themselves, that he'll see them in court or at the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first, and that would be that.

I guess I'll give it one more episode, but Daniels' Southern accent (the story takes place in Atlanta) suck-diddly-ucks.

you couldn't pay me to watch A Man In Full! i still feel bad that Jeff Daniels had to be on that abysmal Newsroom show and that was in 2012! that's how long i feel bad about Sorkin badness.

started watching Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar on Netflix and lemme tell you people if you want to test out how good your television looks and sounds then watch that show. it is a doozy. 10 stars. there is no MID about it. Prestige television is back and it is better than ever. though i haven't finished the first episode yet. i kinda just want to watch over what i already watched. and i want to hear that first song again. and i want the soundtrack.

It can't be worse than seeing Jeff Daniels naked ass while he's pumping away during a sex scene in his 9/11 miniseries.

oh god that thing was unwatchable even without that. he really needs a new agent.

live-action City Hunter is not great. on Netflix. in case you were wondering. it feels old. that whole slow motion bullet's-eye-view thing certainly does.

No one will be surprised to hear that Idea of You (anne hathaway harry styles fanfic movie) is not good at all yet was compulsively hate-watchable