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Finally finished with Parks and Rec, still don’t think season 7 is very good. Find it amusing that, due to the time skip, Leslie is working for the Trump administration. The politics in the show certainly haven’t aged well at all. It was more ups than downs and I genuinely loved the show but wow has some stuff aged really loving poorly. Can anyone recommend some other good comedies? I basically haven’t watched any comedy shows in the last 15 years due to the fact I’m ultra picky with comedy shows. And I generally find anything pre-2012 to be borderline unwatchable.
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zoux posted:I tried to watch No Activity but I despise the gimmick .....that it’s two people talking to each other? Escobarbarian fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Mordiceius posted:Finally finished with Parks and Rec, still don’t think season 7 is very good. Find it amusing that, due to the time skip, Leslie is working for the Trump administration. The politics in the show certainly haven’t aged well at all. It was more ups than downs and I genuinely loved the show but wow has some stuff aged really loving poorly. If you liked Parks and Rec, check out Michael Schur's other shows Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:56 |
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Escobarbarian posted:.....that it’s two people talking to each other? Homie that's massively reductive
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The Jessica Alba episode is a must watch. I had no idea she was hilarious.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:12 |
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swickles posted:If you liked Parks and Rec, check out Michael Schur's other shows Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place. The Good Place is actually what got me to go and watch Parks and Rec. I should probably give Brooklyn 99 a shot.
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Mordiceius posted:Finally finished with Parks and Rec, still don’t think season 7 is very good. Find it amusing that, due to the time skip, Leslie is working for the Trump administration. The politics in the show certainly haven’t aged well at all. It was more ups than downs and I genuinely loved the show but wow has some stuff aged really loving poorly. Community.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:24 |
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Good comedies in the last 15 years: It's Always Sunny 30 Rock Workaholics Broad City Community Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Party Down PEN15 Shrill Bojack Horseman American Vandal I'm sure there are plenty others too but these all came to mind.
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Argue posted:Community. The first couple seasons of Community were good, but I felt like it quickly went up it's own rear end.
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Mordiceius posted:The first couple seasons of Community were good, but I felt like it quickly went up it's own rear end. I mean, it did, but in a good way. Seasons 3 and 6 are the two best seasons.
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zoux posted:Homie that's massively reductive How?
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The gimmick is two people talking to each other, in every scene, with no action, or, one might say, no activity. At least as far as I could get into it. Like are you arguing that that is not the show's hook or what
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Arist posted:I mean, it did, but in a good way. Seasons 3 and 6 are the two best seasons. Season 3 is when I dropped it, myself. It felt like it was more about the gimmicks than the characters. 1 is probably my favorite season.
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zoux posted:The gimmick is two people talking to each other, in every scene, with no action, or, one might say, no activity. At least as far as I could get into it. Like are you arguing that that is not the show's hook or what That’s what I said. That it’s two people talking.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:36 |
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Well, Dinner with Andre it aint
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Mordiceius posted:Finally finished with Parks and Rec, still don’t think season 7 is very good. Find it amusing that, due to the time skip, Leslie is working for the Trump administration. The politics in the show certainly haven’t aged well at all. It was more ups than downs and I genuinely loved the show but wow has some stuff aged really loving poorly. If you like 30 Rock also, I would definitely check out Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I feel like its tone is kind of a mesh of 30 Rock and P&R (though leaning more into the former, obviously). American Vandal is also great. I'll also boost I Think You Should Leave.
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Chairman Capone posted:I'll also boost I Think You Should Leave. I Think You Should Leave is great because they're 15 minute long episodes so you can blow through the whole first season in about an hour and a half. Very little investment required for such a funny show.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Good comedies in the last 15 years: Baskets. That show absolutely should not work and sounds dumb as hell on paper, but the family dynamic works so well. RIP to a wonderful show that literally no one watched
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Baskets. That show absolutely should not work and sounds dumb as hell on paper, but the family dynamic works so well. I watched it on Hulu
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Season 3 is when I dropped it, myself. It felt like it was more about the gimmicks than the characters. 1 is probably my favorite season. same except I watched the whole thing. It leaning too far into ridiculousness and gimmicks really killed it for me, but there are some a+ character driven episodes hidden amongst the mess.
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Harmon has talked about how season 1 was him trying his best to make a normal show, and seeing how the show progress I think he's someone that really benifits from some limitations.
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Zaphod42 posted:I dunno, I get like Donald Trump vibes from her where she's got no skills but has to pretend she's perfect anyways because ego. Surely on some level you must realize that this is exactly the reaction they wanted, right? Pretty much the entire online ecosystem for viral cooking videos and lifehacks is built around the fact that people are way more likely to watch and share bad ones than good ones, and Paris Hilton's entire reality TV empire was built around cynically capitalizing on all the people who want to scoff at someone acting dumb on TV so they can feel better about themselves. It's a match made in heaven.
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https://twitter.com/coherentstates/status/1222377920070479873 mmmmhmmmm
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feedmyleg posted:Is there any sitcom where any season beyond the third is the best one? If we're counting animated shows then I think American Dad was at its best around season 4 and 5. I think being thought of as "family guy but not as good" at first helped push them harder into making it the best and craziest they could.
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Sleeveless posted:Surely on some level you must realize that this is exactly the reaction they wanted, right? Pretty much the entire online ecosystem for viral cooking videos and lifehacks is built around the fact that people are way more likely to watch and share bad ones than good ones, and Paris Hilton's entire reality TV empire was built around cynically capitalizing on all the people who want to scoff at someone acting dumb on TV so they can feel better about themselves. It's a match made in heaven. I suppose. But contrary to your point, Bon Appetite rules and like everybody I know watches them now.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 22:21 |
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Well look who doesn't have to play an American founding father or a Nazi America founding father and gets to use his real accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aKSIMB0PQU
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feedmyleg posted:I'm working at a company that's going to launch something in the next month or two which has this functionality and much more. Gonna give everyone here and CineD a heads up when we're in open beta.
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Is there a thread for You on netflix? Can't find one and the title being an extremely common word makes it hard to google.
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Metropolis posted:Is there a thread for You on netflix? Can't find one and the title being an extremely common word makes it hard to google.
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Going back to good post-2012 comedies, I thought of a few more that I don't see mentioned a lot. First, Club of Crows, the first Spanish-language Netflix show, about two half-siblings working to maintain control of their father's soccer team after he dies. Despite the fact it's set in Mexico and has a (mainly) Mexican cast, the writing team was a mix of Mexican and American, which gives it a tone that's different from most other Mexican shows I've seen. I think it is really solid, but I don't know any other native English speakers who've seen it. It lasted four seasons, plus a spinoff miniseries (Ballad of Hugo Sanchez, which I would say is completely skippable) and an hourlong mockumentary (Yo Potro, which you should watch). On this topic, Sofia Niño de Rivera has a recurring role in the show and her standup specials are worth watching, too. I will also give conditional praise to The House of Flowers, another Spanish-language Netflix show set in Mexico, this time at a family-run funeral home. I would say the tone is a mix of Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies, and Six Feet Under. I say conditional because I've only seen the first season and really loved it - I feel like it was a better successor to the original Arrested Development than the Netflix continuation - but I haven't seen the second season, which as I understand had a lot more mixed reviews. The main character (Paulina) became a big meme in Latin America for her Xanax-dosed mannerisms. Her actress was also in a couple episodes of Sense8. I've seen Ingobernoble talked about here occasionally but not any of the Netflix Spanish comedies, so thought I'd boost the two I like. The last one I'll boost is Comrade Detective, which I have seen discussed around here, but figure I might as well bring it up again as a good comedy show of the last few years.
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Netflix has announced they're making a live action One Piece series. Which seems... weird.
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Rageaholic posted:I don't know but we were talking about it in here around the time it came out so I wanna read, not post! I don't have much to say other than that I liked it. With the setting change in season 2 I thought I wouldn't like the new characters but they ended up growing on me. I thought it was cool that although everyone knows NYC and LA they still tried to create a song sense of place in the show and each setting feels very distinct. I would recommend You if you liked the tone and narration in Dexter but wish it did not become stupid. Although one thing You is missing is the suspense of Dexter, yeah it's there but the main character doesn't have to try very hard not to get caught most of the time, it's just sort of assumed he can stalk whoever he wants whenever he wants. One interesting thread for the next season is Candace's threat that if she did not check in with someone every hour then compromising material on Joe would be released. She's not gonna be checking in any time soon, but at the end of the season we don't really see any hint of those consequences. I feel like if Candace was bluffing when she told Joe that she would have been like "actually that is a great idea i will set it up for real" afterwards. I did like the ending of S2 though, the fact that Joe gets his happily ever after yet can't help finding someone new to obsess over.
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esperterra posted:This is tea. I hate Lays so incredibly much. They made my favorite chips brand go out of business, and they taste like greasy kleenex.
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muscles like this! posted:Netflix has announced they're making a live action One Piece series. Which seems... weird. Ahahahahahahahahahaha, what
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muscles like this! posted:Netflix has announced they're making a live action One Piece series. Which seems... weird. I remember a post Lurdiak made in BSS about how not everything needs to be live action and how we don't need to see an actor horrifically stretch in live action cgi to play Plastic Man for the big screen.
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Roth posted:I remember a post Lurdiak made in BSS about how not everything needs to be live action and how we don't need to see an actor horrifically stretch in live action cgi to play Plastic Man for the big screen. On the other hand, in an alternate universe Carrey did a Mask-style Plastic Man in 1995 instead of Batman Forever and the world was better off for it.
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Arist posted:Ahahahahahahahahahaha, what It is also only going to be 10 episodes which means unless they really rush they're barely going to get anywhere with the story.
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muscles like this! posted:Netflix has announced they're making a live action One Piece series. Which seems... weird. After how they butchered Death Note's live action series..... yikes muscles like this! posted:It is also only going to be 10 episodes which means unless they really rush they're barely going to get anywhere with the story. WHAT? That's like, barely enough to get through Sea-King arc. IF that's the only thing you do.
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I mean, it's not like Japan themselves don't love making lovely live-action anime adaptations that cram whatever's popular into a single feature-length movie so if anything a 10 episode series is a step ahead.
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Eat (food prepared by) the rich.
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