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Mu Zeta posted:If you like Killing Eve check out Fleabag on Amazon. It's the same creator/writer and she stars in it. It's a comedy but it's pretty brutal.
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I just remembered Oscar winner Olivia Colman plays a huge bitch on Fleabag and she's great.
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I just caught up with Counterpart, and my quibbles with the finale aside, it’s an amazing show that’ll stay with me for years to come.
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CeeJee posted:It's one of the shortest binges you could possible have at six times 20 minutes and Derry Girls was an absolute delight. Fortunately it had subtitles to make it possible to follow what was being said even though they made the colossal, unforgivable error of labeling Misrilou as that Black Eyed Peas song. Oh wow this show has a lot going for it. Maybe it's because I was a teenager in the nineties, but it's pressing a lot of buttons. And yeah, Orla is an instant classic, but I think it's good that they keep all the girls - and the gay - pretty balanced in their roles. So many shows fall into the trap of making everything a straight man for "the quirky one", and end up becoming a one trick pony. Judging from the final scenes of the last episode, I think Derry Girls is aiming a bit higher than that.
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Meatgrinder posted:Oh wow this show has a lot going for it. Maybe it's because I was a teenager in the nineties, but it's pressing a lot of buttons. Season 2 episode 1 was pretty funny. I just watched it. The adults are the funniest characters by a country mile. I grew up around Irish families in Liverpool around the same time period. It's ridiculously accurate.
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Rocksicles posted:Season 2 episode 1 was pretty funny. I just watched it. The adults are the funniest characters by a country mile. I grew up around Irish families in Liverpool around the same time period. It's ridiculously accurate. Aye, the casting and writing are great. To pitch Tommy Tiernan in a "subdued" role against Ian McElhinney... Very entertaining. Side effect of binging this is I won't be able to properly pronounce "now" for weeks to come.
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Meatgrinder posted:Aye, the casting and writing are great. To pitch Tommy Tiernan in a "subdued" role against Ian McElhinney... Very entertaining. I've been saying "your man, your woman and banjaxed" since i was like 13. I'm not even irish
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Trailer for Cobra Kai season 2: https://youtu.be/N3RqajyxUco April 24th! I cant wait. If you didnt watch season 1, nows the time to binge it.
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Meatgrinder posted:Speaking of Fleabag, the second series is airing on the BBC. If you can, watch it. It is glorious. There’s a second season of Fleabag?
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Mar 8, 2019 10:43
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Trig Discipline posted:There’s a second season of Fleabag? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47374502
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That’s fantastic to hear, thanks!
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Trailer for Cobra Kai season 2: It’s me, I’m the one now binging it, The Expanse, and Travelers. I’m TVIV from 2 years ago.
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Rocksicles posted:I'm about half way through The Widow, Kate Beckinsale goes to the DRC to get to the bottom of the mystery of her husbands death. Charles Dance is in it too, it's really loving good. Just finished it, some of the parts (the blind lady in Rotterdam, Judith's backstory, Nigel) seem to have little purpose as if there was more to them which was cut but overall it was a solid show. Not at all the Kate Beckinsale star vehicle I had expected, she looked as rough as it's possible to be if you're her. The little girl soldier was a great actress, it's so harrowing to see her lug around a rifle almost as big has her and seeing she know how to use it quite well. In the seventh episode there is also a very impressive long take of a street riot with hundreds of extras. South Africa is putting out some great stuff.
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I am so happy Fleabag is back that I don’t even care that it means Waller-Bridge isn’t involved with Killing Eve s2
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Ratatozsk posted:Am I misremembering or was No, it was the episode of  where Jack had to chop Chase's hand off with a fire axe. During the live-watch thread, someone posted "OH HOLKY gently caress", and either hit the Submit button a crapload of times or had a browser error, because it resulted in him posting the comment about 12 times in a row. It seemed appropriate.
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Heavy Hands posted:Anyone watch Gervais' new show After Life? Man, scripting a "debate" where you are super-smart and your opponent is a big dummy is really cheap, whether or not you agree with the protagonist.
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Lycus posted:Man, scripting a "debate" where you are super-smart and your opponent is a big dummy is really cheap, whether or not you agree with the protagonist. So far, I completely agree. It's pretty much a standard post-Office Gervais show. Luckily there are still some alright jokes in there, and the side characters at least are likeable. But every time you can clearly tell that this is Gervais thinking he's being clever and subversive, it's really on the nose and kinda takes you out of the show.
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Mar 10, 2019 14:16
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Thwomp posted:I just caught up with Counterpart, and my quibbles with the finale aside, it’s an amazing show that’ll stay with me for years to come. Binged through season one and started season two. I was wondering if it would be like Fringe but it does a good job of building its own world. There are some flaws but is pretty entertaining. Not very funny or exciting or original but solid writing and acting. Somehow the one thing that really irks me since I have started noticing it: whenever two people kiss, there's "smooching" sounds added to it. Irritates me to no end.
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been watching yamato 2199, which i picked up mainly out of nostalgia for the original and not thinking it would be particularly good. but i have to say i’ve been pleasantly surprised: the overall plot structure is essentially the same, but the episode themes have included much meatier topics than i expected: the nature of consciousness, the humanity of adversaries, conflicts among people striving in good faith to achieve a common good, disillusionment in warfare, dignity and treatment of oppressed minorities, etc. definitely not for everyone, but if you find yourself in the mood for a cartoon space opera, it’s worth a look
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Mar 10, 2019 18:16
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I've been watching Sex Education and it's just pretty dang great.
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Mar 10, 2019 18:19
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Thwomp posted:I just caught up with Counterpart, and my quibbles with the finale aside, it’s an amazing show that’ll stay with me for years to come.
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Watched the first episode of After Life and I loving hated it. Most basic generic “depression is bad” story that’s only a way for Gervais to get away with his stupid offensive bullshit.
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Mrs. Maisel is good. Finished season 2 in a few days. The creator seriously kicked up the quality since the Gilmore Girls days. The actors make the dialogue feel so natural. It doesn't look like a bunch of actors standing around going through snappy lines. I totally believe these characters would speak this way. Also you have to be nuts to take a 2 month vacation staying at the same resort the whole time.
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Escobarbarian posted:Watched the first episode of After Life and I loving hated it. Most basic generic “depression is bad” story that’s only a way for Gervais to get away with his stupid offensive bullshit. What's stupid and offensive about him?
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Rocksicles posted:What's stupid and offensive about him? I’m a huge fan of his but he is stuck in the standard Baby Boomer “ pc culture run amok “ trap. He also has a tendency to punch down quite a bit. As annoying as he can be he still brought us Karl Pilkington and An Idiot Abroad, is I can never stay mad at him for long.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I’m a huge fan of his but he is stuck in the standard Baby Boomer “ pc culture run amok “ trap. He also has a tendency to punch down quite a bit. Well he's not wrong really, and his comedy for sure suits English/Aussie people more than anyone else.
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Jim Jefferies does a similar kind of comedy IMO without being a smug rear end in a top hat though.
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Ricky Gervais desperately wants people to think of him as edgy and boundary-pushing and a bad boy.
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Every young, edgy comedian is basically inevitably going to end up middle aged, out of touch, and confused as to why everyone's mad about their hilarious joke that went over so well 10-20 years ago.
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Mu Zeta posted:Jim Jefferies does a similar kind of comedy IMO without being a smug rear end in a top hat though. Jim Jefferies isn't English.
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Yeah I know because his accent is like crocodile dundee
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah I know because his accent is like crocodile dundee It's not a fair comparison then, English and Aussies can intermingle just fine, but Aussies are smart arses and English are sarcastic arseholes. Irish fit somewhere in the middle.
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I'm just saying comedians can be edgy and provocative and whatnot without being insufferable like Ricky Gervais
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Mar 11, 2019 06:51
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm just saying comedians can be edgy and provocative and whatnot without being insufferable like Ricky Gervais eh, there comes a point where you just realise that's who he is and like it or lump it i guess.
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Edgy comedy on Netflix is just pc pretending to be edgy. I haven't seen an actual edgy netflix special, or a lol funny one to be honest. The edgiest Netflix gets is Norm MacDonald. That guy, I don't know what the gently caress is wrong with him.
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Mu Zeta posted:Jim Jefferies does a similar kind of comedy IMO without being a smug rear end in a top hat though. Yeah just incredibly misogynistic and gross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpEQ9IlMsFw Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Trig Discipline posted:Yeah just incredibly misogynistic and gross. maybe you're missing the point.
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Maybe I'm making my own point; that Jim Jeffries is a gross fucker and you shouldn't support him.
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