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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Season 8 started airing like a month ago. Oh I thought I was on the last one, this is good news
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Junkie Disease posted:The Third day The Third Day was my biggest surprise, since I watched it on a whim without knowing anything about it and thought it was great. For me it's gotta be Raised by Wolves though. As far as new stuff goes. I won't count the Expanse because it's been around for years even though I just started in the last month, otherwise that would tie with RBW or maybe even beat it out.
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veni veni veni posted:The Third Day was my biggest surprise, since I watched it on a whim without knowing anything about it and thought it was great. Where is Raised By Wolves? Someone at work was saying it was weird and excellent but I can't figure out where to watch it. e I just realized it must be HBO max, isn't it
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Yeah. It's peak weirdo sci fi and very divisive, so you might love it or hate it depending on what you want out of it. Obviously I am in the love it camp.
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veni veni veni posted:Yeah. It's peak weirdo sci fi and very divisive, so you might love it or hate it depending on what you want out of it. Obviously I am in the love it camp. I absolutely loved the world building they did with it.
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Dec 19, 2020 14:11
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Raised by Wolves is weirdo scifi driven by mystical allegory and it owns. Its very much Prometheus/Covenant Ridley Scott territory and is mostly about setting up this crazy story where the idea is "what kind of insane poo poo would have to happen for a new religion to form on a planet newly inhabited by humans"
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They should have called it Mormons in Space
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promising carl posted:They should have called it Mormons in Space I’m sorry, Battlestar Galactica has that concept covered.
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Edward Mass posted:I’m sorry, Battlestar Galactica has that concept covered. Also the Expanse has space literal space Mormons.
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Edward Mass posted:I’m sorry, Battlestar Galactica has that concept covered. I'm still steamed about that awful twist
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Watched the Euphoria special and oh boy did Zendaya and Domingo Coleman put on an acting clinic. I can understand why people might dislike the episode because it is very preachy and does away with the flashy cinematography of the series and replaces it with an hour long conversation between two characters in one location but it worked for me, especially the final 10 minutes.
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Tainen posted:Watched the Euphoria special and oh boy did Zendaya and Domingo Coleman put on an acting clinic. I can understand why people might dislike the episode because it is very preachy and does away with the flashy cinematography of the series and replaces it with an hour long conversation between two characters in one location but it worked for me, especially the final 10 minutes. Yea I thought it was amazing. Don’t go into expecting a typical tv show episode. Its basically a clinic on depression and addiction, and it’s really well acted.
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veni veni veni posted:Also the Expanse has space literal space Mormons. I love how bemused the Belters were at the Mormons being mad their ship got stolen. Like, they literally couldn't believe the Mormons were so naive as to think they'd get to keep it
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I'm 2 episodes into Sweet Home on Netflix and it's a lot of fun. It's like a Korean version of REC, except people don't turn into zombies but Monster Mash. Really energetic direction and way more budget for the monster effects than I've honestly seen in awhile.
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I'm 2 episodes into The Flight Attendant and I can't help but feel like this is secretly a PSA against alcoholism.
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Josh Lyman posted:I'm 2 episodes into The Flight Attendant and I can't help but feel like this is secretly a PSA against alcoholism. For sure. Every time I drink, I get pulled into a murder mystery.
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Josh Lyman posted:I'm 2 episodes into The Flight Attendant and I can't help but feel like this is secretly a PSA against alcoholism. I thought the show was fun for three episodes... then it went on for another five It’s does have one of the best title sequences in a long time though.
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Josh Lyman posted:I'm 2 episodes into The Flight Attendant and I can't help but feel like this is secretly a PSA against alcoholism.
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Dec 20, 2020 06:48
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Okay I finished marathoning The Flight Attendant and I HAVE THOUGHTS. Kaley Cuoco’s character was really pissing me off about halfway through and I was mad at the show for transparently trying to make the audience like a lovely character by casting someone who looks like Kaley, but I actually bought into her redemption arc. Rosie Perez is a piece of poo poo who needed to join a book club or something. When we first met Buckley, he reminded me of Penn Badgely. Funny that he turned out to be Penn’s character from Her. Good show, would recommend.
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Josh Lyman posted:Okay I finished marathoning The Flight Attendant and I HAVE THOUGHTS. Speaking of. I don't understand what the whole point of Rosie's character's corporate espionage subplot. It had nothing to do with the rest of the show, and just seemed like reason to justify casting Rosie in such a thankless role.
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Dec 20, 2020 15:41
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The HBOMax app on Roku has crashed on me 5 times today. It's never while watching anything, at least, but loading pages is a dice roll.
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Tainen posted:I thought the show was fun for three episodes... then it went on for another five I read the description and thought it sounded interesting, but immediately assumed it was a movie and lost all interest when I found out it was a show. This has actually been happening to me a lot with streaming services lately. 45 minutes into Ratched I realized I was watching the first episode of a TV show and not a movie, then promptly turned it off.
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after all the gushing reviews and hype around Chadwick Boseman's final live-action performance, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is... fine. Viola Davis is absolutely superb, but Boseman unfortunately feels like he's playing to the audience in a way that accentuates the overall staginess of the production, though I don't think that's ultimately his fault.
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Dec 21, 2020 03:00
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The Wilds is interesting but I don’t know if I can handle this much teen angst.
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veni veni veni posted:The Wilds is interesting but I don’t know if I can handle this much teen angst.
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I just finished The Wilds last night and it's definitely the lamest cliffhanger I've ever seen. I think either the point where Leah found Nora talking to the camera in the tree or when she fell into the hole would have been a decent breaking points. Or if episode 10 was a few minutes longer and she was mid-escape and left us with her running toward civilization and wondering if she would make it. As is, it feels like they looked at the footage and said "oh, crap we're 15 minutes over. Let's just cut it here.
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Sir Not Appearing posted:I just finished The Wilds last night and it's definitely the lamest cliffhanger I've ever seen. I think either the point where Leah found Nora talking to the camera in the tree or when she fell into the hole would have been a decent breaking points. Or if episode 10 was a few minutes longer and she was mid-escape and left us with her running toward civilization and wondering if she would make it. As is, it feels like they looked at the footage and said "oh, crap we're 15 minutes over. Let's just cut it here. I kind of saw it as the writers were really into olympics. But instead of diving, more like figure skating commentators: "The viewers are starting to wander here, Francis. They may be reaching for the remote bu... OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT TWIST?" ... "DOUBLE TWIST" ... "Wait for it, the crowd will never see this coming... TRIPLE TWIST!!!" I was watching it in a window while working through some refresher courses. 2 coworkers with me, our chat window has basically been a running count of how many crimes are being committed, with the early realization that the "research" team really thinks they're going to weasel out of this one by blackmailing minors to keep their mouth shut.
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Dec 21, 2020 17:45
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Small Axe is so good its crazy. It looks absolutely beautiful too.
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The HBO Max app runs like booty on a TCL 6 series Roku TV btw.
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mistermojo posted:Small Axe is so good its crazy. It looks absolutely beautiful too. I thought the first one was very slow and a lot of the accents are bad. But the direction was great and I was planning to give it another go once all of them came out because I’m a big Sir Steve McQueen fan. Still, a movie miniseries? What a madman.
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teagone posted:The HBO Max app runs like booty on a TCL 6 series Roku TV btw. I'll have to check what model mine is but it's easily the least stable app I've had on it.
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HBO always has the worst apps regardless of platform. I haven't checked it on my 6 series Roku TV but at least the PS5 app is a lot faster than the PS4 one was so I'm just using that.
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I've never had any issues with the AppleTV one. Now if we're talking about the Amazon Prime app.... that thing is a piece of poo poo.
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There’s nothing worse than the Hulu app right now, it’s borderline impossible to find anything and they actually got rid of all the “new and coming soon” tabs.
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Hulu in general is just hot loving garbage in terms of UI and UX. I only use mine on a computer since I have a "with ads" version that is free with my Spotify. Computer lets me block ads.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There’s nothing worse than the Hulu app right now, it’s borderline impossible to find anything and they actually got rid of all the “new and coming soon” tabs. I mean, I'll take "badly organized" over "crashes constantly." (Also the presentation of the old Looney Tunes is such that the last gag won't even finish playing out before the screen shrinks to tell you what's playing next.)
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Maxwell Lord posted:(Also the presentation of the old Looney Tunes is such that the last gag won't even finish playing out before the screen shrinks to tell you what's playing next.) I'll even take that over "just jumps to a next episode" like netflix does. A lotta shows got some dope credits music! But that's also been a problem with TV shows forever. As an example I don't think I ever heard the credits music for Invader Zim until those DVDs came out. They always shrink the credits down to a third of the screen and scream "COMING UP NEXT GOT 4 EPISODES OF SPONGEBOB"
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There’s nothing worse than the Hulu app right now, it’s borderline impossible to find anything and they actually got rid of all the “new and coming soon” tabs. No, the PS4 HBO max app is worse. You can't renew your subscription on it, even if you're signed in and have payment method on file. If you press down on the d pad to scroll, it will usually get "stuck" scrolling down. This problem has existed for a year, despite the app getting updated every week and being on version 50.04. Yes, fifty. It's a garbage fire
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I’m watching Enslaved on a free Epix trial and it’s a mixed bag, being that the subject is interesting but it’s really bogged down by feeling like a Samuel L. Jackson vanity/tourism project. Are there any other good docs on the North Atlantic slave trade on streaming atm?
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