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Time for Episode 2 of The Special Agent Doug Matthews Happy Fun Time Hour 
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Feb 11, 2020 04:41
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muscles like this! posted:Avenue 5 is definitely getting better as it goes. The first two episodes were pretty blah but three and four were a lot of fun. I'm enjoying it a ton, and I love the premise.
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Feb 11, 2020 04:43
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I love the premise but the first few episodes were very underwhelming for me. That said I've kept watching and this last episode was by far the best and had some great lines. I know if the show figures itself out it has all the talent to be something fun. I wish I hadn't watch Aniara for the first time so recently though. That's the bleak movie version of this show, and I keep being reminded of it.
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Feb 11, 2020 07:38
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New episode of Outsider was good, kinda explained a little.. i think?
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Feb 11, 2020 07:44
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Dubs v. Subs is the worst Supreme Court case because it completely ignores the quality of the acting in the dubs and the accuracy of the translation in the subs. I’ve seen both used as reasons why Americans are a bunch of idiot philistines. And sure that’s true, but it doesn’t help.
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Feb 11, 2020 07:49
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zoux posted:I didn't see Birds of Prey but I guess I wasn't the only one lol Ignis posted:Sex education got renewed for a third season 
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Feb 11, 2020 08:39
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I'm on episode two of McMillions and it feels like the whole story could have been told in a single one hour episode. I don't get how they are going to stretch this out for six episodes.
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Feb 11, 2020 10:07
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Oasx posted:I'm on episode two of McMillions and it feels like the whole story could have been told in a single one hour episode. I don't get how they are going to stretch this out for six episodes. That's funny, I find it fascinating and wish the series went on longer than only 6 episodes...and I don't even like McDonalds. OTOH also just binged Locke and Key and hoo boy it's bad. I kept watching because I usually like Carlton Cuse shows (Lost, Colony, Jack Ryan) but this was tepid with uninteresting characters. Avenue 5 aka The Love Boat In Space is fun in the same manner as Veep - there are so many gags, even if one doesn't work they move on to the next joke so fast it doesn't matter, and sometimes when it works there will be a string of funny lines in succession and the laughs pile on each other. And while some hate him, Josh Gad's character kind of reminds me of the loud, obnoxious boss from The IT Crowd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQpgHOXxQoY&t=181s
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Feb 11, 2020 12:30
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See, as well-written and performed as Veep is I never found it particularly funny. The Thick of It has a much higher rate of jokes, a more frantic pace, and is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, but Veep always felt like a step down in comparison. I've read others saying that Avenue 5 is a similar step down from Veep. And that's just a bummer because I love me some Iannucci, especially his earlier more surreal stuff. Iannucci doing Starship Titanic with Hugh Laurie should be an absolute home run for me, but the trailers really turned me off and even the most enthusiastic goons feel like they're making excuses for it. Hopefully there's a second season that irons out the wrinkles.
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Feb 11, 2020 12:38
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Oasx posted:I'm on episode two of McMillions and it feels like the whole story could have been told in a single one hour episode. I don't get how they are going to stretch this out for six episodes. I dunno I feel like all the information so far has been pretty necessary, and I like hearing interviews from pretty much everybody involved Then again I've watched the 15 hour Ken burns Vietnam thing twice lol
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Feb 11, 2020 12:42
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feedmyleg posted:Iannucci doing Starship Titanic with Hugh Laurie should be an absolute home run for me, but the trailers really turned me off and even the most enthusiastic goons feel like they're making excuses for it. Hopefully there's a second season that irons out the wrinkles. I just straight up love it. It's less Spaceship Titanic and more Fyre Festival, but the methodical revelation of exactly how hosed they are, and in what ways, is a big part of the appeal. Plus it's fun to play Who's The Saboteur.
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Feb 11, 2020 12:44
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I doubt Quibi will last a year, but this is still exciting https://twitter.com/SCVSHERIFF/status/1226996833047777281?s=20
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Feb 11, 2020 14:45
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So I guess Beverly Goldberg isn't returning to Reno?
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Feb 11, 2020 15:24
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I think a lot of the issue with Avenue 5 is that it's completely unlike the shows/movies for which Iannucci is known. For example, not a single person has been referred to as a sex toy of uncommon or dubious construction.
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Feb 11, 2020 15:27
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Croatoan posted:So I guess Beverly Goldberg isn't returning to Reno? https://twitter.com/thomaslennon/status/1227236317781585921?s=20
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Feb 11, 2020 15:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3E6pXC9l8 IMO the 90s have the worst aesthetic of any decade in American culture. Worst music, worst clothes, worst cars, worst colors, worst everything
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Feb 11, 2020 16:07
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I 100% agree. That being said, it's just on the edge of so bad it's good. While I'm not going to incorporate any of that aesthetic into my own life, I can somewhat appreciate its beige, frumpy tackiness from afar.
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Feb 11, 2020 16:08
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zoux posted:I think a lot of the issue with Avenue 5 is that it's completely unlike the shows/movies for which Iannucci is known. For example, not a single person has been referred to as a sex toy of uncommon or dubious construction. What's that film. The one about the loving space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's loving hosed his sister. Lego. They're all made of loving lego.
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Feb 11, 2020 16:14
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I was age 10-20 in the 1990s so it's the era I grew up in, I guess as a fish doesn't realize it's surrounded by water, I didn't realize I was surrounded by trash until I did an X-Files rewatch a few years ago and so many shoulder pads and Saturn cars and terrible giant cell phones and pagers and baggy clothes. I think part of it is that 90's people felt entitled to the future but we weren't there tech-wise so you had all these try-hard future crap electronics and TV shows and stuff that just couldn't pull it off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwzaoIgDXA Oh also dutch angles and that frenetic editing style with grainy black and white video
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Feb 11, 2020 16:15
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zoux posted:IMO the 90s have the worst aesthetic of any decade in American culture. Worst music, worst clothes, worst cars, worst colors, worst everything What The gently caress is this wrongheadedness?
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Feb 11, 2020 16:22
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Yeah ska is amazing!!!!
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Feb 11, 2020 16:25
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howe_sam posted:What The gently caress is this wrongheadedness? Songs comprised of nothing but orchestra hits.
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Feb 11, 2020 16:42
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Yeah but the 90s gave us this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I
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Feb 11, 2020 16:58
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Unironically agreeing and liking the last 3 posts. You will claw my bad 90s music from my cold, dead hands haters.
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Feb 11, 2020 17:12
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Look there are absolutely some fantastic 90s tunes, like “Kiss from a Rose”. But mostly it’s trash, like “Kiss from a Rose”.
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Feb 11, 2020 17:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MzbLQBeR9Y Dunno what the contrivance is to bring Edgar Allan Poe the Hotel into this series, also don't care.
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Feb 11, 2020 17:49
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Hm. Not sold. I liked a lot of the first season, but mostly because it leaned into the detective aspect of the story. That looks like it's more about action and gun porn than anything noir-inspired. The first season got ridiculously anime like 3/4 in so I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but bummed that this looks more (generously) Ghost in the Shell than Blade Runner.
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Feb 11, 2020 17:58
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It's not really fair to blame the 90's for being the award pimply teenagers compared to the 80's gods of music. Anything would pale compared to that.
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Feb 11, 2020 18:48
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All those boy bands: the 90's
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Feb 11, 2020 19:09
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The 90s gave us My Bloody Valentine - Loveless. Can't be all bad.
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Feb 11, 2020 19:14
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2nd episode of McMillions was great but yeah I found myself missing Agent Doug. It reminded me that scene in Office Space where they're talking about how mobsters are a bunch of neanderthals and how can these idiots be so good at crime? Inspector 34 fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Feb 11, 2020 20:10
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feedmyleg posted:Hm. Not sold. I liked a lot of the first season, but mostly because it leaned into the detective aspect of the story. That looks like it's more about action and gun porn than anything noir-inspired. The first season got ridiculously anime like 3/4 in so I guess it shouldn't be surprising, but bummed that this looks more (generously) Ghost in the Shell than Blade Runner. I’m at work so I haven’t gotten to watch the new trailer yet, but I’m not nearly as hyped for season 2 as I was for season 1. The more they leave the books behind the less I care, because the new material was by far the weakest part of season 1.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:16
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Awkwafina’s show is so bad jesus
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Feb 11, 2020 20:17
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I don't care for Awkwafina's schtick. Also she started to become popular at around the same time as Bojack did the Awkwafina abortion music video and I couldn't figure out what one had to do with the other. Also also Bojack picked that name as a satirical shot at stupid Hollywood self branding but irl this was also happening at the same time. What was the show or movie where she played a quirky convenience store clerk? That was my first exposure to her and I was like "this sucks" zoux fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Feb 11, 2020 20:20
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It still confuses me that Sextina Aquafina was never voiced by Awkwafina Anyway I’d only ever seen her in small parts before The Farewell and obviously I knew that was a departure from her usual stuff but she was still very good in it e: oh yeah her voice in Dark Crystal is fantastic too
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Feb 11, 2020 20:23
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Josh Lyman posted:Yeah but the 90s gave us this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuL5jyCHOw
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Feb 11, 2020 20:26
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zoux posted:I don't care for Awkwafina's schtick. She was the GameStop clerk with Paul Scheer in Future Man
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Feb 11, 2020 20:47
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I have hope for Avenue 5 drastically improving as it goes because the last thing he did (Death of Stalin) was loving incredible
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Feb 11, 2020 20:48
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He also just did that David Copperfield movie which I haven’t seen yet but also seems not very on-brand for Iannucci
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Feb 11, 2020 20:54
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Escobarbarian posted:It still confuses me that Sextina Aquafina was never voiced by Awkwafina Her old music videos are super fun. It was awesome when she then started popping up in things, and she had a show on an online network I never heard anything of other than the commercial for their shows. I’m sure it’s gone now. She’d be a good snl host.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:55
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