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I stumbled across the dumbest tv show on Discovery Channel: Man vs. Bear. The concept is dumb enough (can you out-bear a bear?) but what really pushes it over the edge is the contestants. It's all (male and female) bros who talks about how they are natural alphas who's hobbies are deadlifting cars and getting in barfights and they smack talks the bears for some reason.
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Alhazred posted:I stumbled across the dumbest tv show on Discovery Channel: Man vs. Bear. The concept is dumb enough (can you out-bear a bear?) but what really pushes it over the edge is the contestants. It's all (male and female) bros who talks about how they are natural alphas who's hobbies are deadlifting cars and getting in barfights and they smack talks the bears for some reason. It's Discovery just doing bear pro wrestling then? I guess it was inevitable.
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Jan 25, 2020 14:42
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All I knew about Man vs. Bear was the title and I thought it was some kind of survival competition show with contestants against Bear Grylls, now I want to see people dropped in survival situations while being chased by Grylls in a bear suit.
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Jan 25, 2020 14:47
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Oh that bear. That's not as fun. Unless the vs part is him making them drink his piss and eat rotting animal carcasses for no reason.
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Re: Hannibal Chat -  Alhazred posted:I stumbled across the dumbest tv show on Discovery Channel: Man vs. Bear. The concept is dumb enough (can you out-bear a bear?) but what really pushes it over the edge is the contestants. It's all (male and female) bros who talks about how they are natural alphas who's hobbies are deadlifting cars and getting in barfights and they smack talks the bears for some reason. McSpanky posted:All I knew about Man vs. Bear was the title and I thought it was some kind of survival competition show with contestants against Bear Grylls, now I want to see people dropped in survival situations while being chased by Grylls in a bear suit. Wait so do they fight a real bear or Bear the humanperson? Because one sounds needlessly cruel and the other just sounds dumb...
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Jan 25, 2020 17:05
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McSpanky posted:I know I mention this every time someone Hannibal comes up but, Dolarhyde's faked suicide in season 3 is incredibly hosed up and I can't believe they got it to network uncensored. Like I was in legit open-mouthed shock. Few horror movies ever affected me like that. The scene where the guy escapes from the color wheel body mural and peels his skin off his face is loving gruesome and I was also shocked that made it past the censors.
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I’m not sure anything tops Katz’s death for me. It’s so cold and gruesome and the way it’s revealed is incredible. I genuinely dislike thinking about it because it’s right on the edge of my comfort level with gore in tv/movies. I’m not squeamish by any means, but Hannibal often skirted that line because it never shied away from it. A lot of shows do bloody stuff but it’s all quick flashes just to leave an impression. Hannibal would focus on stuff for solid minutes in horrifying detail.
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Jan 25, 2020 19:57
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Rarity posted:Women aren't obligated to give men attention hth that's not the point I was making. It doesn't matter that she's a woman, she could have been a guy and it wouldn't have changed the meaning of the scene I'm talking about. He was trying out different hairstyles for his avatar and was showing it to someone whose opinion he must have valued (seeing as he didn't show it to the scumbag next to him) and she brushes him off, doing exactly what Bing did to her. Her gender doesn't matter in this instance, it just demonstrates that everyone is lovely and tunnel-visioned
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Jan 25, 2020 20:50
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:Hannibal was really, really, instantly gory in way I haven't seen on network TV since. I associate the Lecter character more with Mads now than I do with Hopkins. Mads played Hannibal like he was the loving devil. And I have no idea how Fuller & Co. got away with a fraction of the gore that was presented on a network broadcast.
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Jan 25, 2020 22:21
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Lily Aldrin, worst human being ever or worst human being ever
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Gonz posted:I associate the Lecter character more with Mads now than I do with Hopkins. I listened to Blank Check's recent episode on Silence of the Lambs as part of their Jonathan Demme series and I liked their comparison that Mads is the devil while Hopkins is a vampire. Also that Silence of the Lambs isn't actually very gory but that we've had almost three decades of every big crime procedural on television copying it while trying to push the envelope and going big and lingering on ever detail of the aftermath of a crime (fancy CGI zoom-ins and cross-sections, fetishistic portrayals of traumatized victims, monologuing killers going on about how good it feels and how monstrous they are) so Hannibal was a product of reaction to that. Another point I really like was the way that Clarice's relationship with Hannibal is him as a mentor compared to him and Will Graham being partners. The theoretical fourth season of Hannibal with Lee Pace playing Buffalo Bill could have been really good but at the same time it would be so different from everything the show had built up that I don't really lose sleep over what could have been, especially considering that Fuller himself was more interested in doing American Gods to the point where he actively declined immediately starting production on a fourth season with Amazon because he wanted to jump ship to his new show. Considering that Mikkelsen's film career has slowed down a bit and Fuller has been booted from every project he's started since then and everyone involved with the show speaks so highly of the experience I honestly wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future they were able to make a one-season revival/miniseries to wrap it up.
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Jan 26, 2020 01:39
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Just realised that this thread had an entire discussion about recent good time travel shows and we completely neglected to mention Dark. Dark rules. Watch Dark.
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Jan 26, 2020 01:54
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Open Source Idiom posted:Just realised that this thread had an entire discussion about recent good time travel shows and we completely neglected to mention Dark. I haven't watched it yet. If it's not filmed in Canada is it really a time travel show though?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Re: Hannibal Chat - I don't think they fight anybody. Its a dumb ancient warriors thing where they do competitions and compare the results. Open Source Idiom posted:Just realised that this thread had an entire discussion about recent good time travel shows and we completely neglected to mention Dark. I thought about mentioning it but I haven't finished it yet GreenNight posted:I haven't watched it yet. If it's not filmed in Canada is it really a time travel show though? Yes
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Jan 26, 2020 02:20
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Dark is so good
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Dark IS so good.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:41
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gently caress. Ok. I just started the first episode.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:53
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Shrill season 2 came out the other day and it's just as funny and sweet as the first. Annie is smart and honest and insecure and vulnerable and I can't help but fall in love with Aidy Bryant.
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Jan 26, 2020 03:02
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Also for Dark they've been up front about having everything planned out for 3 seasons (which it was renewed for) so there's no worries about it ending up unfinished.
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Jan 26, 2020 03:05
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Random trivia question for you keepers of knowledge. I'm looking for a Friends episode that had a scene involving Rachel and Chandler. Something happened in the office and Rachel basically said she'd lie and tell all the Friends that Chandler had a big dong. Next scene is at the coffee shop and Phoebe tells Joey the rumor, and he quickly shoots it down. Any idea what episode that is?
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Jan 26, 2020 03:19
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The One With The Cuffs. e: it's s3 or s4 i believe
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Jan 26, 2020 03:27
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esperterra posted:The One With The Cuffs. You're a wizard! Thanks!
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yw, my extensive Friends knowledge is my And by shame I mean joy bc Friends owns.
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Jan 26, 2020 03:33
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Shrill season 2 came out the other day and it's just as funny and sweet as the first. Annie is smart and honest and insecure and vulnerable and I can't help but fall in love with Aidy Bryant. Only seen the first episode so far but it was very enjoyable.
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:Hannibal was really, really, instantly gory in way I haven't seen on network TV since. the first time i was like "holy poo poo how did that get on network TV" was the angels in the 3rd or 4th episode, but the single most horrifying thing I saw during that show was Hannibal making Mason Verger eat his own face in gruesome detail, and the most shocking moment is vivisected Beverly in glass.
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Jan 26, 2020 05:42
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That last one made me think of The Cell in the best way possible. I wish Tarsem Singh would work on another TV show, he did that Emerald City one but I never watched it tbqh.
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Jan 26, 2020 05:57
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esperterra posted:That last one made me think of The Cell in the best way possible. The Cell and The Fall were both him largely just ripping off modern installation art, I think he ran out of things to plagiarize and between that and Eiko Ishioka dying he just went "welp I guess I'll just do edgy fairy tale retellings til I die"   
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Jan 26, 2020 06:06
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Hannibal owned so much. I really need to rewatch that. The real house they used for Hannibal's house is just a few blocks away from me and I go out of my way to walk by it whenever I can and gawk and remember how gorgeous they made it look in Mizumono Dark is also very good but I'm just waiting until the final season is out to get back to it. There is way too much going on in that show to not watch it for an extended amount of time between seasons and actually remember everything you need to remember.
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Dark is great but it took us 3 tries over a long time to really get into it but once we did we binged it all. The biggest barrier was being sober and/or pay attention enough to remember who was who. In the old thread someone posted a chart of the timeline and characters and it was helpful. Yo Esperterra, do you know anything about Fran Drescher's upcoming Indebted series?
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pahuyuth posted:Yo Esperterra, do you know anything about Fran Drescher's upcoming Indebted series? Heck yes I do!
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Sleeveless posted:The Cell and The Fall were both him largely just ripping off modern installation art, I think he ran out of things to plagiarize and between that and Eiko Ishioka dying he just went "welp I guess I'll just do edgy fairy tale retellings til I die" You do know that cross-sectionals existed before Damien Hirst, right? e: I didn't notice who I had quoted. I apologize for engaging.
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esperterra posted:That last one made me think of The Cell in the best way possible. I watched it because of Singh, but couldn't make it through the second episode. It was just boring.
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I'm watching some scenes from The Witcher to see if it's for me and, man, I far prefer the sort of fantasy where using magic requires spell-casting. When it looks like superpowers it's pretty lame. In one of these modern fantasy shows I'd love to see a good depiction of someone reading a spell off of a dang scroll for once.
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feedmyleg posted:I'm watching some scenes from The Witcher to see if it's for me and, man, I far prefer the sort of fantasy where using magic requires spell-casting. When it looks like superpowers it's pretty lame. In one of these modern fantasy shows I'd love to see a good depiction of someone reading a spell off of a dang scroll for once. Some day I'll get my Eternal Darkness miniseries off the ground
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McSpanky posted:Some day I'll get my Eternal Darkness miniseries off the ground Make sure you do it on Amazon Prime, so Alexa can start turning the TV off in the middle and stuff like that.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:28
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Anyone else running into super long Youtube ads? Like I was just watching a video and when it went to an ad break it went into a 44 minute video that was just the first episode of that new Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist show. Who is going to stop watching the video they were watching to watch an entire episode of a TV show?
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Jan 26, 2020 22:40
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I had the same one a week or two ago.
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Jan 26, 2020 22:50
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It's a marketing gimmick I've seen a couple of times now. Also by nature of the way YouTube ads work there's probably an actual YT video that it redirects to if you click on the ad. They just want a small percentage of viewers to do that.
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muscles like this! posted:Anyone else running into super long Youtube ads? Like I was just watching a video and when it went to an ad break it went into a 44 minute video that was just the first episode of that new Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist show. Who is going to stop watching the video they were watching to watch an entire episode of a TV show? Very bored and very stoned people make up a decent percentage of YouTube viewers. Also, turns out Witcher good. I really like the tone—it's way campier than I would have expected, though tastefully so. Just enough of that 90s Raimi TV attitude bubbling under the surface but without going too broad.
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