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muscles like this! posted:Interesting twist is that the reunion special will also involve Janet Hubert, the first Aunt Viv who left the show on not so good terms. Sounds like she isn't in the main event but they did record a thing where her and Will Smith sat down and talked. I thought she was extremely embittered and like, hated the show. Most of the episodes I saw were with her tho, so she's the Aunt Viv I remember
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Looten Plunder posted:Came across this trailer last night. Appears to be starting this weekend. Sepinwall liked it. https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/1300784359981699074
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Although it's not airing in the US until October 29th, Deutschland '89 (or Deutschland '83 - Season 3) is only a couple of weeks away from release in Germany, Austria, Japan, India and Australia (September 25th) if any Yankees likes to source their TV illegitimately.
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esperterra posted:is this another obligatory gay chloe sevigny moment b/c i've never heard of this before now but i am here for it same. The music for that trailer not being the standard trailer music was very refreshing on its own lol ^^^ OH poo poo SERIOUSLY?? I thought wed have to wait for another year or two!!
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Looten Plunder posted:Although it's not airing in the US until October 29th, Deutschland '89 (or Deutschland '83 - Season 3) is only a couple of weeks away from release in Germany, Austria, Japan, India and Australia (September 25th) if any Yankees likes to source their TV illegitimately. Oh poo poo. I feel like I'm literally one of five Americans that watch and love this show. It's the best companion to The Americans. Also, speaking of The Boys, season 2 episode 4 is so hosed up. Unrelated question: has there ever been a TV show where a dude sucked his own dick?
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Mu Zeta posted:Oh poo poo. I feel like I'm literally one of five Americans that watch and love this show. It's the best companion to The Americans. At least two different Ryan Murphy shows, IIRC. Mischa Collins in Nip/Tuck, and I think there was one other...
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Looten Plunder posted:Although it's not airing in the US until October 29th, Deutschland '89 (or Deutschland '83 - Season 3) is only a couple of weeks away from release in Germany, Austria, Japan, India and Australia (September 25th) if any Yankees likes to source their TV illegitimately. Deutschland '83 was loving amazing. If you liked The Americans it hits exactly the same notes.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Mischa Collins in Nip/Tuck
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Mu Zeta posted:It's the best companion to The Americans. Whilst I agree, it's also confuses the hell out of me to no end. -I keep forgetting they were Russians in the Americans and they're Germans in this. -The stuff in Africa is was confusing as hell. Were the countries they were "liberating" from Apartheid allies to the west or enemies of the west? -I keep forgetting that East Germany and West Germany are completely different from East Berlin and West Berlin (seriously, how was West Berlin actually a thing?) -I don't understand how the East German propaganda machine was so well oiled. How were the West seen as "fascist" when West Germany consisted of a bunch of allies that just took down the fascist Nazi's. -I don't understand how the East Germans didn't see themselves as anything but Soviet pawns, and do something about it. The people in power in the show just sitting there, looking at how amazing the West is, how happy the people are, while they eat their stale bread and boiled cabbage and think "yeah, this ruse we're running. It's totally working and totally worth perpetuating/fighting for. Let's keep doing it for another 40 years, the Ruskies seem to know what they're doing".
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Netflix put up a new show last week called Away? Hilary Swank on a Mars expedition?? Anyone check it out? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_(TV_series)
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Mu Zeta posted:Also, speaking of The Boys, season 2 episode 4 is so hosed up. Unrelated question: has there ever been a TV show where a dude sucked his own dick? There's an episode of Workaholics where they follow a coworker around and spy on him going down on himself.
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Hakkesshu posted:Netflix put up a new show last week called Away? Hilary Swank on a Mars expedition?? Anyone check it out? From what I've heard it's a bunch of Earth drama regarding the crew on the ship (like each episode is focused on some home problem for each crewmember) with the occasional backdrop of them going to Mars. I watched the first episode and it was full of the usual non-dramatic drama crap (omg! is Hilary Swank going to be pulled from the mission? or stay behind cause her husband is sick? stay tuned and find out!) and couldn't be bothered
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:There's an episode of Workaholics where they follow a coworker around and spy on him going down on himself. Ronnie from American Dad did it even earlier I think
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:There's an episode of Workaholics where they follow a coworker around and spy on him going down on himself. I don’t remember much from Workaholics but it’ll be hard to ever forget that guy’s delivery of “You gotta be big though” and the ending montage of them all trying to do it.
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Finished star trek season 6 + the first ep of season 7. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself after I finish tng. I heard most of the movies suck and the rest of the series after aren't as good
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The Klowner posted:Finished star trek season 6 + the first ep of season 7. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself after I finish tng. I heard most of the movies suck and the rest of the series after aren't as good watch ds9 and pretend the franchise ends there
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The Klowner posted:Finished star trek season 6 + the first ep of season 7. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself after I finish tng. I heard most of the movies suck and the rest of the series after aren't as good I like Generations though that opinion is not generally shared. DS9 is loving great, though. And The Orville is some quality methadone if you’re looking for a fix.
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The Klowner posted:Finished star trek season 6 + the first ep of season 7. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself after I finish tng. I heard most of the movies suck and the rest of the series after aren't as good DS9 is the only great Trek property
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Generations is my favorite of the TNG movies, it feels like a movie-length episode which is fine by me. First Contact is pretty good too, and the rest are complete garbage trash fires.
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Never forget https://mobile.twitter.com/devtesla/status/1132101053929984000
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I keep blocking it out but none of you will let me forget
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Sirotan posted:Generations is my favorite of the TNG movies, it feels like a movie-length episode which is fine by me. First Contact is pretty good too, and the rest are complete garbage trash fires. That's pretty much the reason I'm not sad we didn't get any DS9 movies.
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Didn't realize HBO was dropping two "Raised by Wolves" episodes a week and only budgeted enough time to watch one of them last night. It still has a lot of opportunity to go off the rails, but goddamn if I'm not completely captivated. Mainly, I don't get a feeling like there's much padding in the episodes at all and while it's not like there's a bombshell reveal constantly, the world building they are doing is fantastic. There's a lot going on, off the top of my head what I like: "Marcus" and "Sue's" love for Paul even though they murdered and replaced his parents. "Marcus" and "Sue" have the #1 goal to survive and will do anything they can to that end, but ONLY what is necessary and never it veers into sadistic territory. You have a hard time feeling they are truly bad people given the situation they've had to deal with. Then, you compare that with the real family of those children looking out for their own safety rather than trying to rescue them. Hunter is more worried about the status that his parents give them rather than worrying if they survived Mother crashing the ark. Tempest's biggest regret about the ark crashing is not being able to face her rapist before he was put to death. Tempest not wanting to carry her rapist's baby to term but then having a breakdown after killing a monster that turns out to pregnant. The overtones of gender roles imposed on the androids as Father is feeling inadequate compared to Mother since he's not a WMD. Father wanting Campion to slaughter the monster for food to harden him up after we see Paul's reaction in being presented with the pet mouse in the previous episode "Please don't make me kill it." Mother being completely and totally terrifying while knowing she will not harm the children no matter what. You really get the feeling she would die for them if she needed to even if she stole all of them and nearly committed genocide of the human race as a result. The main stuff I'm worried about them pulling off is the mysteries surrounding Kepler 22b. Why are the creatures only emerging now? What's down those big pits. Where did that monument in the desert come from. What's manifesting the voices. I'm just worried that those reveals are going to be shoehorned into a story which so far seems to be about what defines family and how radicalization can tear that apart. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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I like it because it's the kind of bonkers scifi you almost never get outside of books or comics
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That's terrible, but the part of that storyline that sticks out in my memory as even worse is that Sam Waterston's character correctly deduces that bin Laden has been killed based on nothing but a tweet by The Rock.
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I love this because it is legitimately the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I mean...the handshake...
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zoux posted:Never forget warning: lengthy historical lecture imminent Looten Plunder posted:(seriously, how was West Berlin actually a thing?) Then the antagonism between the Soviet Union and the Allies starts taking shape, so the Allies agree to consolidate the American, British, and French Zones into a singular "Western Germany", which, for organizational purposes, includes merging their various subdivisions of the capital into West Berlin. Because it's in the center of Soviet territory, West Berlin rapidly becomes a problem for the SU, because anyone trying to escape the stagnating economic situation or political oppression has a much easier time doing so through the national capital than trying to go through miles of countryside rife with military patrols. But the SU can't actually just annex W. Berlin, because it's officially foreign soil, and doing so would literally start World War 3. So in '48, Stalin opts to deny all overland access to the city through the Soviet Zone for resupply (the Berlin Blockade) in the hopes of just starving the Allies out and forcing them to abandon the city on their own volition. Instead, what happens is the Allies start providing essentials exclusively via air freight (the Berlin Airlift) until Stalin backs down and re-opens the roads and rail lines in 1949. Then both sides spend the next several years giving each other ugly looks until the Soviets build the Berlin Wall in 1961 to act as a military border and prevent further emigration from the East to the West. Looten Plunder posted:-I don't understand how the East German propaganda machine was so well oiled. How were the West seen as "fascist" when West Germany consisted of a bunch of allies that just took down the fascist Nazi's. Looten Plunder posted:-I don't understand how the East Germans didn't see themselves as anything but Soviet pawns, and do something about it. The people in power in the show just sitting there, looking at how amazing the West is, how happy the people are, while they eat their stale bread and boiled cabbage and think "yeah, this ruse we're running. It's totally working and totally worth perpetuating/fighting for. Let's keep doing it for another 40 years, the Ruskies seem to know what they're doing". i don't know what to tell you about the Africa stuff- I've never seen Deutschland '83, so I don't know what countries they're specifically getting involved in, nor is my knowledge of Cold War-era Africa sufficient to give even a brief shakedown of who was aligning themsevles with who. I just know that a lot of the apartheid poo poo was deeply rooted in the same racial theories and attitudes as outright Nazism, and why any mention of Rhodesia is a bigass red flag of neonazism/white supremacy poo poo. Argus Zant fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Argus Zant posted:
The Stasi was also quite possibly the most brutally effective secret police ever, so if you didn’t like what was going on you basically never said or did anything about it, because it was incredibly likely they would find out. They had informants basically everywhere.
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Yeah, it should also be remembered that oppressing and subjugating the citizenry is only half the purpose of secret police organs like that- the other half is being a constant reminder to the government itself that anyone who isn't completely committed to the party line can be quietly removed at a moment's notice. Even if you had doubts about the long-term validity of what the Soviet Union was championing, you kept those thoughts to yourself, because regardless of how high up in the chain you were, saying anything within earshot of the wrong person was a great way to get unpersoned.
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Had an absolute prick of a day, but goddamn if Ted Lasso can’t 180 my mood in a heartbeat.
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Just mentioning again that Ted Lasso is a delightful show. best thing on Apple TV by far.
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The scene in the locker room before the game in the latest episode was fantastic
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Argus Zant posted:i don't know what to tell you about the Africa stuff- I've never seen Deutschland '83, so I don't know what countries they're specifically getting involved in, nor is my knowledge of Cold War-era Africa sufficient to give even a brief shakedown of who was aligning themsevles with who. I just know that a lot of the apartheid poo poo was deeply rooted in the same racial theories and attitudes as outright Nazism, and why any mention of Rhodesia is a bigass red flag of neonazism/white supremacy poo poo. Let me give you an idea how bonkers it is, and why I was so confused. Plot Point 1 An East German ex-Stasi handler and East German mole are aligned with the ANC in South Africa fighting apartheid and want to do an arms deal with the South African army (presumably the South African army are anti-apartheid???) But in order to do this, they pose as West Germans to get the West German trade guy to sign the papers for the weapons and sell the weapons to the South African general (so they had to pose as West Germans because West Germany is also anti-apartheid????) But then they find out the weapons will be used to blow up a power plant in Angola which is next to an orphanage where the mole character has been staying while in exile from Germany so the deal goes south and they instead try and sell the weapons to the Angolans That deal goes south and the weapons instead get sold to Libyan terrorists, who subsequently have a plan of bombing a West German Hotel. (presumably Libya is Anti-West, but why are they interested in European terrorism????) Plot Point 2 East Germany buys an old civilian cruise ship in order to smuggle arms to South Africa, bypassing UN sanctions. (I'm confused as to why East Germany is concerned with complying with the UN??? But maybe it less about pleasing the UN and more about stopping them being intercepted. But if the UN are anti-South Africa, that presumably means they are pro-apartheid at this stage, which makes the arms deal with the South African army in plot point one confusing. Anyway, it's a good show, you should check it out (especially when it appears you're a fan of the time period).
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Roughly speaking, what you're missing is that at this point in time South Africa was very much for apartheid, and the west was more or less aligned with the South Africa government because they were not communists. However, South Africa was also an increasingly isolated state because of apartheid and there was growing pressure on Western governments to cut ties with South Africa, which lead to things like boycotts and sanctions. Western governments liked South Africa because they weren't communists and had valuable mineral wealth, but they had to do so at arm's length because the white South Africans who ran the place were high order bastards.
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Moonbase 8 trailer, new sci-fi comedy show from A24 and starring Tim Heidecker, John C. Reilly, and Fred Armisen as astronauts training for a moon mission: https://twitter.com/timheidecker/status/1304812459165769729
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I love, like or appreciate all these people and it's up to you to figure out which for whom. I'm cautiously optimistic
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Thank goodness, Doom Patrol has been renewed. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/doom-patrol-season-3-renewal-hbo-max-1234767034/ Now we are just awaiting news on Harley Quinn.
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bull3964 posted:Didn't realize HBO was dropping two "Raised by Wolves" episodes a week and only budgeted enough time to watch one of them last night. Yeah I'm really digging the show. It's ambiance and world building is the best I've seen in a long time. I'm looking forward to the inevitable appearance of "extinct" giant snakes, seeings how Father found the shed skin of one when he was trying to go into the hole.
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