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Yeah, someone mentioned that in the thread, but even aside from that I just love seeing people go all-in on dumb conspiracy theories despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Watched two episodes of Avenue 5 this morning. It's a great idea with an amazing cast but... I dunno, I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong. Terrible direction and editing? Hugh Laurie's and Josh Gad's characters are the only ones the viewer gets any sort of background on via dialogue. If a viewer hasn't read about Avenue 5 in the media before hand they won't ever get clued in on what the deal is with Ethan Phillip's character. It's like they shot everything and gave it to a concussed intern to string together in the editing room.
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Fabulousity posted:Watched two episodes of Avenue 5 this morning. I didn’t like the first episode much because Josh Gad’s character is such a cliche “moron constantly making everything worse”. I’d rather have the problems arise more organically than “dipshit who thinks he’s a genius fucks everything up”.
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I rewatched the first two episodes with a friend this week and i found myself laughing a lot more than I did when I first watched them. I have a feeling this is a show that's going to grow on people.
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Fabulousity posted:Watched two episodes of Avenue 5 this morning. Episode 3 of Avenue 5 had me actually laughing out loud a few times, the first 2 episodes were like....ok, but not great and I was watching for the Armando Iannucci pedigree for whatever reason every single joke landed in this one. It's like the first 3 episodes were supposed to be a 1.5 hour premiere or something and I was watching the actual wrapup of the pilot, I really didn't think the first 2 were that great either outside of Zach Woods
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I didn’t like the first episode much because Josh Gad’s character is such a cliche “moron constantly making everything worse”. I’d rather have the problems arise more organically than “dipshit who thinks he’s a genius fucks everything up”. I think this is a big part of what the show's talking about. Idiots who think they can out argue physics, but who are actually stuck in a (mostly) hard sci-fi story. Hence Judd ordering people to "fix" the time delay, or all the jokes about the coffins, or the idea that passengers would rather have a hot crew than a competent one. I'd been thinking for a while that maybe Ethan Phillips had deliberately sabotaged them, but now I'm wondering if the artificial gravity is completely broken because it needed to "be like Star Trek" rather than use actual science? It's been pretty fun playing guess the saboteur. Like I said, I was leaning towards Ethan Phillips trying to create a disaster so he'd look good when saving them, but now I suspect that maybe Matt (Zach Woods) is just deliberately trying to make everyone as miserable as possible, so who even knows.
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My friend made a supercut of every time Joe Pera introduces himself https://youtu.be/pgJstoQR0kg
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SimonChris posted:
It's so easy to fool people these days
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Escobarbarian posted:My friend made a supercut of every time Joe Pera introduces himself https://youtu.be/pgJstoQR0kg Joe is so wholesome. I love him. I'm watching season two now but episodes 9-11 are locked and require a cable provider login, which I don't have. Some of the previous episodes were temporarily locked while it was airing, so hopefully these will be unlocked too eventually. I guess I could just buy those three but I don't really want to do that either. This is a real dilemma right here.
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Finally got to finish Sex Education season 2. I thought it was better overall than season 1, but I already miss the clinic stuff. I always have trouble trying to explain this show to people but usually just say that it's cringe personified but in like the best way possible. Also thanks to this thread have got back into Hannibal. I forgot how just gory that show was for a network show.
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Futurama: still p good, I miss it though it ended before it got a bit too poo poo
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There’s a bit of a dip in quality but there’s still decent stuff in the Comedy Central seasons. The actual finale is really sweet and well done. Yeah I enjoyed it the whole way through but I thought it suffered for not having to work around censors and relied a bit too much on pop culture to cover Still good the whole time though
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Futurama pulled off a rare thing by having a great finale, coming back, then having another great finale.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Futurama pulled off a rare thing by having a great finale, coming back, then having another great finale. Three finales, even! “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” and the last bit of Into the Wild Green Yonder both work as decent potential finales.
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Finally finished The Americans. V good finale. When it premiered, I said it was a show for another time, that China was now America’s biggest foreign threat. I was wrong about that, but I wasn’t wrong about how great the show would be.
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The Americans finale was absolutely perfect And I'm glad that despite a lot of people guessing that ending for years, the showrunner didn't change it out of spite
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Fabulousity posted:Watched two episodes of Avenue 5 this morning. I am loving it so far. I think it's better watched with friends, but for me I love the sense of endless dread brought on by additional (preventable) incompetence. The Captain getting mad at everyone for the very thing he was doing seemed an apt mirror for our time, made more palatable by the fantastical setting. Excited to see where they go with this and it is filling my ~30-minute show~ slot quite nicely. RBA Starblade posted:Futurama: still p good, I miss it though it ended before it got a bit too poo poo  Time to re-re-re-re-rewatch Futurama.  Disenchantment is growing on me more and more, as well. Had some Futurama references in the latest season, hoping they can keep ramping up the quality.  precision posted:The Americans finale was absolutely perfect D&D's spectacular implosion and loss of a billion (?) in projects has hopefully served as fair warning: stick the landing or  .
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In general I'd be hard pressed to name any show that executed itself as well as The Americans. I think it beats out BrBa, Deadwood, all of them. It was a real honest to god epic that kept to a fantastically small number of main characters and presented a real growth to them all. And of course Phil and Liz were just so well cast
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Time to re-re-re-re-rewatch Futurama.
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Do we have a Korean tv thread? 'cause "Crash Landing on You" is pretty good.
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Just saw an ad for a show starring Al Pacino about a group of people getting together to hunt Nazis and it looks like it'll be fairly interesting (if for nothing else than for how upset the Nazis are going to get over it existing). Is there a thread for it already? EDIT for the ad: https://twitter.com/huntersonprime/status/1222217777815048193 Some Pinko Commie fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Feb 3, 2020 |
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NYT Op ed piece dropping an Actually, saying Goop's Netflix show is bad is problematic article. quote:When Netflix announced the trailer for Gwyneth Paltrow’s “The Goop Lab” in early January, the media and #medtwitter made dire predictions for both the streaming service and for humanity itself. The show would surely promote “dangerous pseudoscience,” peddle “snake oil,” and be “undeniably awful for society.” Longtime Paltrow critic and health law researcher Timothy Caulfield was among the many opiners who warned on Twitter of the “spread of health misinformation” and the “erosion of #criticalthinking.” Other relevant hashtags included #PostModernDarkAge and #saynotogoop. How dare you say that drinking bleach to cure autism is bad
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That article is profoundly stupid in many ways For one thing, Aleister Crowley, Michio Kaku, Terrence McKenna, and Tim Leary weren't women, so the casting of "woo" as a feminine trait (or as being gendered at all) seems... spurious
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Or well I guess they can just say that the patriarchy has co-opted the feminine woo, lol
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zoux posted:NYT Op ed piece dropping an Actually, saying Goop's Netflix show is bad is problematic article. There's a really good podcast that I strongly recommend called "The Dream." Season 1 is about MLMs, and the current season is about the supplement industry. The one thing I had never thought about for the whole "alternative medicine" thing, is that science and medicine has been very male-focused. This has made a lot of women feel that doctors don't really understand them, and that's why they've turned to alternative medicines with dubious claims of effectiveness.
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Josh Lyman posted:Was that op-ed written by Marianne Williamson? Wellness grifters don't like it when you point out wellness is a scam
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Sure she sold a porous object that can become infested with bacteria and lead to septic shock and death but there's no verifiable cases of that specific thing happening so no harm, stop being so anti- feminist, gosh.
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Is it because I'm older and cynical or do Superbowl commercials suck a lot more now than they used to I feel like that back in the day, Superbowl ads were like the only regular source of memes and so people's enjoyment of memes (and let's be real, we all love memes) maybe overshadowed how stupid the commercials are. Now everything seems like it's trying to be poignant or an obvious attempt at going viral. Tide just ripped itself off from last year. zoux fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Feb 3, 2020 |
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:posts an opinion: precision posted:I'll never understand why goons are so enthusiastic about praising Sandler any time he does something vaguely decent.  precision posted:Opinions, I know, how do they work 
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zoux posted:Is it because I'm older and cynical or do Superbowl commercials suck a lot more now than they used to I recall in the 90's there were a lot of one-offs, and otherwise special commercials you'd only see during the Superbowl. These days it feels like they're just premiering their new ads for the year because you'll see them again over the next few months, unless it's overly controversial for some reason. Weirdly enough, last night during the short stint I watched before I started nodding off was nothing but local ads, the Rick and Morty ad, and one for Fox Nation.
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I think it's more a side effect of marketing just getting more out there in general, so the superbowl commercials don't stand out as much.
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Recent years have had some iconic/memorable/well made/at least funny ads, I think this year just especially sucked.
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zoux posted:Is it because I'm older and cynical or do Superbowl commercials suck a lot more now than they used to IMO it's because we're all getting older so we're not the 100% target demographic anymore. As for last night some were funny but others were not. TONS of jingoism (Thanks Trump!) The one ad that got me jazzed was the Disney+ Marvel shows preview. I think we got to see USAgent's back walking onto a football field and WandaVision looks exactly like I hoped.
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Sirotan posted:Recent years have had some iconic/memorable/well made/at least funny ads, I think this year just especially sucked. I can't think of any, but I can still remember the Pepsi pigeons Danger Zone commercial.
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Nike probably won the Super Bowl advertising this year, as a bunch of us thought the intro video was going to be a Nike commercial, but wasn't.
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It's like the schmaltzier the commercial the more likely it's going to be a bank or insurance company. At least there weren't any ghosts of dead children reminding me that little kids die sometimes so maybe life insurance for them isn't such a bad idea. What was the "typical american" one yesterday, was it a truck commercial? All I remember is "typical americans showing up where they're not wanted" over an image of a troop and I was like "whoa drat" but it was just another "troop surprises loved ones" deal.EL BROMANCE posted:Nike probably won the Super Bowl advertising this year, as a bunch of us thought the intro video was going to be a Nike commercial, but wasn't. Yeah it was just the NFL sucking its own dick, I don't think you need to advertise for football during the Super Bowl guys.
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