2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread

movies, television, cable, games, videos, podcasts, music, ANYTHING streaming on ANY streaming platform.

i just want to know what people are seeing/watching/hearing and what they think. and i want to go to one place. in a casual way. so sue me!

but no DVDs or movies you see when you go to THE CINEMA. that way the SERIOUS film people can have their own fun. there is a film sub-baord. make it a thing again!

if you think something should have its own thread, start one! its a free countr....oh wait. if enough people love it or hate it they can talk about it there.

and there you have it.

i just wish i had remembered that the Roku Sports channel was showing the X Games all weekend. I love the X Games! oh well. i'll watch the reruns.

also, Go Eagles.

okay, i'm going back to Chopped. the one chef who had cooked for Kissinger and Lucian Freud had one whole finger of her glove filled with blood and she was still cooking. Ewwwww!

I watched the four episodes of The Pitt that are currently available on Max and they were OK, but I don't know if I'm gonna remember to watch the next one when it pops up on Thursday. ER + 24 = not as genius an idea as its creators thought.

I actually think The Pitt is getting richer as it goes - which is not what my expectation was. There were definitely moments in the first couple episodes that felt like clumsy track-laying (eg, when will the victims of the school shooting show up?). But now onto episode 4 I’m getting more comfortable with the characters and I think Noah Wylie is really holding it down.

Noah Wyle should have kept going with The Librarians

I watched a couple of the documentary shorts that were nominated for Oscars. Two that I watched by coincidence made a *perfect* double feature and a highly recommend watching them back to back in this order:

First, THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA, on Netflix - about the first woman to play in the NY Philharmonic starting back in the 60s, on the occasion of her retirement after 50+ years. She is so humble and knows her role as a bassist in the orchestra.

Its made all the more compelling if you then switch over to YouTube to watch INSTRUMENTS OF A BEATING HEART, about a second grader in a Tokyo school who *desperately* wants to be in her school band as a percussionist. She is so adorable and the doc is very compelling, especially for something as mundane as small children doing a school assembly performance.

Watching both docs takes less than an hour and they both make the other richer and more inspiring. A real highlight of my day.

thought about watching Gladiator 2 on Paramount+ but then i make the mistake of watching the whole trailer and it all just looks so phony baloney with the cgi and everyone's face is all digitally smoothed and colored...bleh. i kept thinking that one guy was harry pooper. the young guy. i have no idea who he is. he looks like harry pooper. the only people i even recognize are denzel and the mandalorian. i had no idea who pedro pascal was until he was seemingly everywhere and world famous. i guess after mandalorian. i didn't even know he was in game of thrones until the other day. i didn't watch narcos. maybe he got famous from that. he must have switched agents at some point because he was in stuff for years and years before narcos.

He got famous for the Last of Us.

really? that seems so recent. i thought it was star wars people who made him famous. i did not love the last of us. it did make me watch the walking dead again though. with maria and cyrus. that was fun. until negan shows up then i stopped.

Will def watch that Japanese short, thanks.

I liked Chopped best when I used to watch it at the gym with the sound off, much more relaxing without their dumb music cues.

Pascal was def famous before The Last of Us. I first heard of him when he was on The Mandalorian -- never saw it bc I don't care about Star Wars, but it seemed like a big deal at the time. But he was also on Game of Thrones before that.

Which you already said! (I was skimming too fast.)

Pascal attracted attention for being on Game of Thrones, then he was on Narcos on Netflix. Then the Star Wars thing was sold as "starring that guy from Game of Thrones and Narcos!" And by The Last of Us, people knew his name.

Watched Alien Romulus. It’s well-made but doesn’t really add anything new to the franchise. Just feels like a rehash.

he's not young. his credits start in 1999. talk about working it. good for him. he seems nice. not that exciting to me but a lot of leading men now seem generic to me. hollywood leading men. maybe its easier to CGI someone if they have a really normal face. at least he has an interesting backstory what with his family being a part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. and then...tragedy struck...

"Two years before Pascal's birth, the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, leading to the country becoming a military dictatorship.[12] Both of Pascal's parents were listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime and the family eventually fled Chile when he was nine months old,[12] after seeking refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago for six months."

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I haven't watched Romulus. I'd probably like it. I don't care if its a lesser Alien movie. They all kinda are after the first three. Phil Tippett, the director of one of the greatest American movies of the 21st century, Mad God, did the stop motion rat in Alien: Romulus. HOW WAS THE RAT, PGWP?

The rat was nice.

It’s definitely not a disappointing movie - it’s exciting and tense and all that. You’ll like it if you like Alien movies.

I watched about half of Romulus and I don't even remember a rat. Maybe it showed up later.

i should watch it. i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason. now that its on netflix.

i would see some of these at the movies but the guy who bought the local theater is trumpy. its unfortunate. its good that someone took on the old heap of a movie house but on the other hand... i don't want to go there. they showed 2000 Mules there.

Pascal's real starmaking turn was being in a viral gif with Nic Cage IIRC

all of a sudden everyone knew his name. it seemed like it anyway. like olde-tyme hollywood. he probably got invited to a lot of swanky parties. does he have to hang out with george clooney now at Lake Como. with matt damon.

i'm watching american football right now and i like the ad where doja cat lurks around a taco bell.

i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason.

Very, verrrrry skippable. (But I am the only person on earth who hated Fury Road, so.)

oh i liked fury road. i like movies that never stop moving. that have forward motion.

i know its easy to make fun of tom brady but he is such a nothing broadcaster. he's no tony romo! he's so meepy.

Romulus is EXTREMELY disappointing; it’s a load of crap.

post malone/shane gillis beer ad is a big noooooooo. i never want to see shane gillis's grinning head.

but by what standard, james? is it even good as pulpy horror fun? cuz i'm fine with that.

my standards aren't very high anymore. but i do stop watching stuff a lot if it looks too dumb. it has to be pretty dumb or just low-budget filler that is boring. there is a lot of it out there. i want to watch good stuff.

i'm still watching the Eagles win but i'm also watching amy sedaris on david letterman. man, you don't see the likes of her anymore. unless its her. she would go full weird on national t.v. i'm also watching tom green on all the late night shows a long time ago. crazy. amy can make me laugh hard! not too many people can anymore. don rickles. her. some others.

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

I liked Furiosa better than Fury Road, it's 25% less '90s music video.

Furiosa is good - it's not as good as Fury Road, but then nothing is. But it does recognise that funny dumb Chris Hemsworth is the best Chris Hemsworth.

I’m on my little kick of watching things that were nominated (after watching almost no movies all year), and starting with the movies that are free to stream. Therefore I’m getting in those films nominated for best visual effects (Alien) and now costumes—Gladiator II, since most of the prestige films haven’t hit streaming yet.

I don’t think I ever saw the first Gladiator so I dont have the baggage of comparison. Nevertheless I had low expectations for the sequel but it was better than I expected it to be. I doubt I’ll think about it much but it was a nice way to spend an afternoon.

Romulus is not good fun, it's mostly incredibly awkward callbacks to better scenes from the earlier movies. It really is terrible, and in a really small, scuzzy way, not even terrible and preposterous on a grand stage like the two idiotic Scott Prometheus movies.

gotcha.

Many xps Pascal was a known actor before LoU, but after he became a subject of celebrity media, which is a different thing.

fun thing about Pascal is his friendship with Sarah Paulson, it's really sweet.

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses? i finished binging it and wanted to continue in that vein. tried day of the jackal but it feels very slow and cheesy.

I think people are split here on The Agency? or maybe its just me who got bored of it. I really liked the first episodes and then it just dragged for me. didn't love the characters that didn't help.

I liked the first season of the Night Agent on Netflix. I've canceled my subscription but there's a second season now.

i liked that first season of The Night Agent on Netflix even though the lead guy is kind of a generic dud. it was still entertaining spy stuff. more action-y though. maybe more Tom Clancy territory.

great minds...uh...think alike! haha!

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses?

I enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And just started Black Doves, which seems promising.

i saw that the Recruit has a new season starting on Netflix and i can't remember if i even watched the first one. i probably did. and forgot all about it.

i want to go back and watch old stuff. MI-5 and the like. loads of stuff i've never seen.

Berlin Station looks kinda cool but i think its one of those odd ones that isn't streaming on the stuff i have. mgm+ or apple+ or something.

Xpost recent spy shows. Black Doves was good. However if you missed The Americans, highly recommended to see that instead

The Diplomat is sort of a spy show. That one is good.

I thought The Agency was skillfully made, but every now and then I remembered it was about the US trying to maintain control over the world, which was a bummer. I wonder if I'd like the French original better.

thanks all. maybe i'll give black doves a shot. or maybe i'll rewatch the greatest spy tv show of all time (patriot)

And they get it all wrong

Which is fine! Usually! It’s understandable! But the diplomat just gets it wrong in very specific ways that drive me insane

The Diplomat is a very fluffy soap opera with political intrigue as the throughline. It’s funny that it has good acting and all the trappings but the real plot is how quickly the main character’s husband can figure out who she’s banging

Keri Russell, if you ever fall out with Matthew, and I hope you don’t because you’re a cute couple… call me

The Diplomat is a very fluffy soap opera with political intrigue as the throughline. It’s funny that it has good acting and all the trappings but the real plot is how quickly the main character’s husband can figure out who she’s banging

This is definitely part of it but I like that she—and all the characters, women especially—are just really fucking competent and smart and no one questions it and she is never crying about the boys she likes or whatever.

I haven't started this new season yet but the Diplomat is dumb af and also fun

I just figure that every show or movie based on government work is pretty inaccurate, mostly because government work is boring to an audience.

Definitely not watching the show for its realism

I undersold the intrigue but I feel like it spoonfeeds the metaphors, even. The bit where she wasn’t comfortable in certain clothes for several episodes was an obvious lead up to “oh, she will have to dress for the new role” and I’d actually texted a friend about how awkward the whole bit was

fell for the red herring. [Hidden text. Click to view]

I just figure that every show or movie based on government work is pretty inaccurate, mostly because government work is boring to an audience.

The most accurate film about government workers with clearances in and around Washington DC remains Burn After Reading.

First couple episodes of "The Lowdown" were indeed pretty fun. The Elmore Leonard vibes run deep. Ethan Hawke ... what an odd actor, is there anyone else that can pull double duty as both lead and character actor?

I wanted to like it - I like Sterlin Harjo, I like Ethan Hawke, the idea seemed like a good one - but it really didn't click for me. I gave up midway through episode 2.

we like it, whoever is playing the daughter is killing it, she's very good

she was in Skeleton Crew on Disney+, she’s excellent!

The Parenting. Really dumb horror comedy from snl writer on HBO. Good dumb fun for Halloween season.

I watched the first episode of The Chair Company, and in theory it sounds like a great premise, but I just don't know if I can bear it.

the chair company is two for two so far, best show going

yeah im completely on board w chair company so far

I described it to a coworker as a serial plot that's a wrapper for a series of Tim Robinson-style sketches.

The entire bit with the men's clothing store salesperson in episode 2 stands out as something that could have been slotted into ITYSL

i watch all the top-shelf True Crime trash and nice to see the Severance cast again with Patricia Arquette in the Murdaugh Family and Michael Chernus killing it as John Wayne Gacy

looking forward to Adam Scott Ted Bundy

i pointedly do not watch true crime reenactment things but i saw that theres a jonbenet one for some reason w melissa mccarthy playing the mom

The Chernus Gacy is pretty good as far as these go - better than most imo

I prefer Laurence Olivier's version.

Is Welcome To Derry any good? I had no interest in watching 6 hours of It and It 2.

I enjoyed the diet Safdies thriller miniseries White Rabbit with Jude Law & Jason Bateman.

Partner put on the first ep of Boston Blue, mainly because its got Burnham from Star Trek in it.

We lasted 10 minutes and then turned it off. I have never watched such plot-by-numbers cliched rubbish before. Its like it was written by an AI. It almost felt parodic.

Chair Company on the other hand is right up my alley, though I'm yet to watch ep2. Its definitely the cilantro of TV styles - you love it or hate it/dont get it.

xxpost milo - i watched the first episode and it was okay? not too bad?
I’m pretty King-pilled, so ymmv though.

it does run into some of the ongoing difficulty w King where once you commit to turning crazy shit into visuals it cheeses out a bit

It has a good Kingian vibe but it’s hard to tell yet if it’s trying too hard and will just be a sort of frankensteined photocopy of things I already like, or if it’ll pull it off and do something interesting

that one sad-faced short kid was pretty good

opening scene was kinda wild - felt very Kingian in that way where it’s like it keeps levelling up and up and up in gross ways and it feels like it will never stop
(the fucking LIVER was a good/gross/weird touch)

I assume it will start out interesting then fall apart which is what happens with most King adaptations (see Castle Rock, which wasn't even that long ago)

Thought the first episode was pretty good. Was thinking the kids were more or less facsimiles of the kids from IT but was *not* expecting that ending which made me then think perhaps it was a deliberate tongue-in-cheek move as they knew they weren't going to be around for long.

Short kid was very good so surprised if that's it for him. And did lol at the Paul Bunyan statue newspaper article

i think i’ll start a thread bc i know i’m going to want to keep talking abt it

started watching Nobody Wants This

I think a solid cast and some interesting characters are hamstrung by some of the weaker character writing and the plot trying to balance serious underpinnings with absolute fluff which doesn't quite gel

welcome to derry thread here

Welcome To Derry: HBO IT prequel show aka “ITT we talk about IT” or “Down here we all reboot/float/etc”

Been re-watching Snowfall on Hulu. A very strong series about the rise and fall of a drug dealer introducing crack to 80s LA with CIA backing. But I took a break from that tonight to watch the movie Talk To Me on HBO, an Australian movie about some teenagers who figure out how to talk to the dead and turn it into a party trick until it all goes very wrong. Gonna watch the directors' new movie, Bring Her Back, this week, probably, because TTM was really good.

Both those films were too much for me! I'm easily frit by horror stuff, but that director really does it, Aussies have great horror chops.

guilty pleasure: Old Dog, New Tricks on Netflix - a grizzled country veterinarian adjusts to a new job in a fancy pet superstore

quality animal content

in Spanish and subtitled, also a plus

I watched the first ep of Down Cemetery Road (Apple) - i thought it was kind of naff? Good ppl in it but very overcooked & contrived. Not for me.

I am liking Down Cemetery Road though I agree there are some naff bits. Spoilers through ep3: It doesn’t really make sense why the protagonist is so interested in this case. They even accentuate that in the second or third episode—like *really* why is she invested in this? Though by the time she has that realization I suppose she’s in too deep. There are other moments like that—like the twist about her hippie neighbor—though that starts to make sense later when you understand they were surveilling the house. And now the reveal that this guy helping her is the girl’s father and was the target of the bombing? Still a few things that don’t make sense to me but the show has been diligent about explaining its odd twists rather quickly.

Anyway, I really like Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson’s performances so they are elevating the show to something more compelling. I’m really enjoying it but recognize it would be trash in lesser hands

are we doing a pluribus thread or what

First two episodes of Pluribus were a wild ride. I was lucky enough to go into it without knowing anything about it other than Rhea Seehorn was in it and just so many levels of wtf, coupled with sinister, unsettling moments but also plenty of humour

Seehorn is a national treasure and being a Gilligan show the cinematography is obviously gorgeous.

Also feels like it could be more akin to The Leftovers than some Lost mystery box type show. No idea whether he can deliver on the set up but should be a lot of fun finding out.

i think we should!

I'm really looking forward to it, though I keep thinking of that "Mrs. Davis" show that came and went, another recent head-scratcher that was built around a different often criminally overlooked, underutilized actor. But "Mrs. Davis" had Damon Lindelof stink (even though it was supposed to be good?).

Pluribus spoiler thread

I watched that Kim Kardashian show that’s been getting world’s-worst reviews and it wasn’t a disaster, which was disappointing. None of these critics have seen a Ryan Murphy show before? It’s a bit like one of those Instagram reel accounts the repackages 30 second segments from TV dramas with a sparkly filter and a new soundtrack, except much much longer.

That sounds discombobulating and nauseating and gross

The finale of The Lowdown was very satisfying. That was a great show.

amen! i love it when a show is such a good hang. harjo is so good at this shit, it’s crazy

Killed By Lightning is actually good, which is quite shocking seeing that it is a N*666*x production.

The movie Sovereign, starring Nick Offerman as a sovereign citizen and Dennis Quaid as a local police chief, is on Hulu now and it's really good if unsurprisingly bleak.

Death By Lightening I meant.