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Hakkesshu posted:Has anyone seen or even heard of Motherland Fort Salem? The synopsis says ""An army of witches train to combat terrorist threats" which I would assume would at least be entertaining in a stupid way but this is literally the first I've ever heard of it. zoux posted:It's....weird. It's very much a show aimed at tween/younger teen girls, but it's also about graphic depictions of battlefield trauma where these witch cadets are thrown into meat grinder situations. So, you'll have an episode where all the boys from the Boys Witch Academy go to the Girls Witch Academy for a sexy dance but the B-plot is about one of the cadets getting resurrected through necromancy and tortured for information. I watched about half of the first season, it's not great but it's better than you would think. It's like Full Metal Jacket mixed with Step Up.  This is the greatest promotional poster ever made
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Shageletic posted:hey does anyone have a good example of a comedy that has someone saying something ridiculous offscreen as the character onscreen tries to pretend its not happening. Feels like its a gag that's been done a bit, and I'm trying to remember one, but the only one I can remember is the one in the IT crowd when someone founds out someone is transgender while someone else is giving a press conference, and that is probably one of the worst scenes imaginable. In Swingers, when John Favreau is paying the Pink Dot guy, Vince Vaughn and another character are doing lispy "gay" voices and pretending to hit on him from the other room.
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Aug 12, 2021 21:57
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Brock Samson posted:DAVE - I started crying for GaTa. Then I realized where he was and I REALLY started crying For real that finale was a journey. For some reason I've watched two season and never bothered to learn anything about his actual act, but I looked up some of his freestyles after this finale and holy gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzgjglZqS3Y
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Human Tornada posted:In Swingers, when John Favreau is paying the Pink Dot guy, Vince Vaughn and another character are doing lispy "gay" voices and pretending to hit on him from the other room. Jesus christ. This isn't what I was thinking of but its pretty funny, nsfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNTSUY75E5o and there's this small bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKDPLQAwoAg&t=61s wish i could remember what i was thinking about!
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Aug 12, 2021 22:40
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Is better call saul still coming out? Where is this new season?
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Aug 12, 2021 22:42
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Final season is next year. Also Bob Odenkirk collapsed on set a couple weeks ago, so...
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Aug 12, 2021 22:43
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There's like no good shows again this year...
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Aug 12, 2021 22:47
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Tenzarin posted:There's like no good shows again this year... Very inconvenient of Odenkirk to have heart problems and a global pandemic to occur
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Aug 12, 2021 22:50
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I can’t keep up on all the shows I’m watching.
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Aug 12, 2021 22:57
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You should get a TV tracker app!
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Aug 12, 2021 23:05
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Tenzarin posted:There's like no good shows again this year... I'm loving The White Lotus, The Good Fight, Evil, Ted Lasso Liking Mythic Quest and Mr Corman
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Aug 12, 2021 23:05
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I have rewatched this series more than any other HBO series (BoB would be second). It is just accurate and funny as hell.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:25
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Escobarbarian posted:You should get a TV tracker app! I use one! It’s a big list on there.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:26
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm loving The White Lotus, The Good Fight, Evil, Ted Lasso How is Mr Corman? I like JGL, but it just doesn't seem like it has a big "hook" from everything I've seen of it. Interestingly, it's also the first Apple+ show outside of Ted Lasso that I've seen ads for on regular TV.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:55
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Started watching White Lotus and I think I hate it? Do all these people end up exploding at the end or is it just a constant slow roll of these folks having minor problems? edit: Hates a strong word, it's mostly just very boring. edit2: Nevermind, read the rest of the eps synopsis on Wikipedia, seems miserable without catharsis. Khanstant fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 00:16
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Whelp, LOTR s2 is ditching New Zealand and is going to film in the UK instead. Apparently part of it was that the mostly British cast weren't very happy about the whole "stuck in NZ" thing due to COVID.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:06
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Why would you want to be trapped in a beautiful country with no covid when you could instead be in the UK
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Aug 13, 2021 01:11
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muscles like this! posted:Whelp, LOTR s2 is ditching New Zealand and is going to film in the UK instead. Apparently part of it was that the mostly British cast weren't very happy about the whole "stuck in NZ" thing due to COVID. lol that NZ gave them a massive tax credit worth over 100mil because "It would be good for tourism!"
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Aug 13, 2021 01:22
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:lol that NZ gave them a massive tax credit worth over 100mil because "It would be good for tourism!" Legislatively passed a bunch of union busting laws just for LotR
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Aug 13, 2021 01:23
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It's really impressive just how thoroughly the LotR trilogy and especially the Hobbit trilogy turbofucked New Zealand's economy and did incomprehensible damage to the country's unions and workforce.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:27
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:lol that NZ gave them a massive tax credit worth over 100mil because "It would be good for tourism!" Its not even going to be like the movies where they left a bunch of stuff behind because they're shipping all the show sets to the UK.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:31
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muscles like this! posted:Whelp, LOTR s2 is ditching New Zealand and is going to film in the UK instead. Apparently part of it was that the mostly British cast weren't very happy about the whole "stuck in NZ" thing due to COVID. Things were much more heathery in Beleriand
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Aug 13, 2021 01:43
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The LOTR franchise is like a parasite on New Zealand, lmao Anyway, watching this Malice at the Palace documentary on Netflix and it's really good!
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muscles like this! posted:Whelp, LOTR s2 is ditching New Zealand and is going to film in the UK instead. Apparently part of it was that the mostly British cast weren't very happy about the whole "stuck in NZ" thing due to COVID. Based on how good The Green Knight looks, good.
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God it’s so weird to see someone else playing Bill Clinton, that man’s face has been on television for my entire life and it’s just a little surreal to see someone playing him (seriously, obviously there have been hundreds of comedic impersonations). Ditto with Hillary, they’re just so recognizable that it’s gonna take a minute or two to adjust. Rest of it looks great, Drudge and Coulter look perfect and I can’t wait for Eichner and McKinnon to really embrace their inner scumbag. Feldstein is a great actress and will probably kill it. I just listened to the season of Slow Burn about all of Clinton’s many scandals and it really gave me a new appreciation of what an awful shitbag Bill Clinton is so I’m really hoping this is a good enough show that his PR guy has to put out a statement condemning it
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Aug 13, 2021 02:37
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It took until episode 4 of The White Lotus but it occurred to me that the musical style and cues sounded a lot like the UK Utopia. Turns out they have the same composer. Not sure if I should be ashamed it took me 4 episodes, that I got it at all, or it means the composer has a limited range.
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DC Murderverse posted:God it’s so weird to see someone else playing Bill Clinton, that man’s face has been on television for my entire life and it’s just a little surreal to see someone playing him (seriously, obviously there have been hundreds of comedic impersonations). Ditto with Hillary, they’re just so recognizable that it’s gonna take a minute or two to adjust. They pulled it off with OJ so I’m hoping it’s the same here. I never caught S2, but drat I’m so hyped for this.
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Chairman Capone posted:How is Mr Corman? I like JGL, but it just doesn't seem like it has a big "hook" from everything I've seen of it. . Wait, that's a TV show? How is there enough meat on those bones? That screamed 2hr movie to me when I watched the trailer.
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Aug 13, 2021 05:59
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Whilst I'm looking forward to new ACS, I can't help but feel they stretched the definition of "Crime Story" a little far. Is lying under oath about an affair really that big of a deal? Or is there more too t than that?
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Looten Plunder posted:Whilst I'm looking forward to new ACS, I can't help but feel they stretched the definition of "Crime Story" a little far. Is lying under oath about an affair really that big of a deal? Or is there more too t than that? Clinton has been credibly accused of sexual assault a couple times by women who aren’t Lewinski and that’s gonna play a part here like it did in the 1990s But also yeah the impeachment is important because the people in charge of investigating could have nailed him down for actual crimes but were so blinded by partisan rage that they assumed that every wild hair they got was equally important. they basically created a situation where the public stopped caring about what he actually did wrong because it became a partisan position rather than an apolitical fact-finding, all thanks to Ken Starr Which is quite relevant here in 2021 because the Republicans basically took the Clinton strategy with Trump and it worked pretty well because Trump’s impeachment was viewed in a similar way. It is an incredibly American crime story.
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm loving The White Lotus, The Good Fight, Evil, Ted Lasso Tenzarin posts messages like that a lot, they're just whinging and will say they've never heard of half of your shows. They're a low effort troll poster.
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I did not realize that Schmigadoon! was only six episodes, but i guess this is the kind of show that works best in small doses, I hope we get a second season.
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Looten Plunder posted:Wait, that's a TV show? How is there enough meat on those bones? That screamed 2hr movie to me when I watched the trailer. I'm quitting Mr Corman after two episodes. Too whiney and sad sack and it definitely feels like it should be a movie.
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Josh Lyman posted:It took until episode 4 of The White Lotus but it occurred to me that the musical style and cues sounded a lot like the UK Utopia. Turns out they have the same composer. Not sure if I should be ashamed it took me 4 episodes, that I got it at all, or it means the composer has a limited range. Or it means that composer has a signature style and is capable of being both familiar and different at the same time.
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Khanstant posted:Started watching White Lotus and I think I hate it? Do all these people end up exploding at the end or is it just a constant slow roll of these folks having minor problems? Same. It just didn't work for me. A whole bunch of unhappiness and tension for characters I didn't find myself caring about.
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I've watched about half of the first season of Ted Lasso, and it's remarkable how little the show seems to care about its own premise. I thought it was going to be about an American football coach learning how to coach soccer. Because that's a completely insane situation, for an American football coach to be coaching soccer. But no, no it's mostly about mean Brits dealing with a sunny optimist. Barely anything at all about the inherent insanity of the club hiring a random coach who knows nothing about the sport and how crazy he would be to say yes to it too. I'll probably keep watching it because it's very pleasant. Not very funny for an ostensible comedy but you can put it on like a warm sweater.
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Aug 13, 2021 15:00
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gently caress yea Ted Lasso is good poo poo.
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PostNouveau posted:But no, no it's mostly about mean Brits dealing with a sunny optimist. Barely anything at all about the inherent insanity of the club hiring a random coach who knows nothing about the sport and how crazy he would be to say yes to it too. I feel like this gets slightly touched on more in the second half of the first season and the second season so far (mainly with a few characters actually pointing out to Ted that for the team whose life this is, that winning maybe is important also) but yeah, not a major aspect of the football show. That being said, one reason I was really reluctant to start watching Ted Lasso was because I thought it was going to be something like Parks and Recreation and I think there's enough genuine range of human emotions in the characters (and Ted himself when we as viewers can see him with his guard down) that it prevents it from feeling like the saccharine overload/Leslie Knope Worship Circle that P&R became for most of its run. Also I think Ted Lasso's use of football is still probably more vital to its plot than politics was to P&R.
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