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I really did not enjoy the Y the Last Man premier - felt like just an incredible misstep as far as a way to start a show. Felt like hours of changing the channel, flipping through random network shows. "Oh good, another vignette of uninteresting people being boring." Do the next two episodes get any better? Also - is Rick and Morty bad now? The horse-sperm episode was bad enough I turned it off part way through and walked away.
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Sep 18, 2021 15:23
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False posted:I really did not enjoy the Y the Last Man premier - felt like just an incredible misstep as far as a way to start a show. Felt like hours of changing the channel, flipping through random network shows. "Oh good, another vignette of uninteresting people being boring." Do the next two episodes get any better? That’s the low point of the season for sure, the rest was better except maybe episode 7 which was pretty not great.
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Sep 18, 2021 15:32
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I kinda bounced off Y after three episodes. Was hoping for more "Y: the last man" and less "designated survivor"
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Sep 18, 2021 16:14
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Watch Creamerie instead
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Sep 18, 2021 16:14
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The end of this season of Rick & Morty was very good and kind of signifies a shift in where the show could go if they follow up on it properly.
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Sep 18, 2021 16:34
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False posted:I really did not enjoy the Y the Last Man premier - felt like just an incredible misstep as far as a way to start a show. Felt like hours of changing the channel, flipping through random network shows. "Oh good, another vignette of uninteresting people being boring." Do the next two episodes get any better? I watched the first three episodes and it stays boring. I'm done with Y.
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Sep 18, 2021 19:23
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Mu Zeta posted:I watched the first three episodes and it stays boring. I'm done with Y. Apparently it picks up again in episode 5, from what critics have said. But yeah, I thought episode 3 was a total bust, and episode 1 was a very strange adaptive choice.
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Sep 19, 2021 01:12
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False posted:Also - is Rick and Morty bad now? The horse-sperm episode was bad enough I turned it off part way through and walked away. That one flipped the odometer to "so bad, it's good" for me...
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Sep 19, 2021 01:38
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:How many episodes should I give person if interest? I like the concept but the first couple haven't really grabbed me I was skeptical because Person of Interest seemed like a generic "dad show" until I got to Season 1, episode 7. That's when I knew things were going to get really interesting, and they did. I think the next couple dragged after that, but at some point between episodes 10 and 12, it started ramping up and becoming the good show it eventually became.
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Sep 19, 2021 03:51
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Family Guy hasn't been good in a long time but this is really the end of an era. https://twitter.com/theavclub/status/1439303346444115978?s=21
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Sep 19, 2021 04:18
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Agent 355 is the only thing remotely interesting in Y the Last Man.
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Sep 19, 2021 05:29
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False posted:Also - is Rick and Morty bad now? The horse-sperm episode was bad enough I turned it off part way through and walked away. I never thought it was great but it was dark fun for a while. In season 4 there was that episode with the masturbation dragons or whatever it was and I felt like I was watching some terrible youtube video parody of a children's show trying to be as obscene and disgusting as possible. There's ways to do that and be funny but I just felt like I was watching something a dirty man had cooked up in his dank room that shouldn't have been seen by anyone. Anyway I went back when season 5 started and the glow seemed to be totally gone. Just a bunch of mean spirited horseshit. Although come to think of it there's an episode in season 1 where Morty gets raped by a magic bean, so it was really always like that.
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Sep 19, 2021 07:05
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MiddleOne posted:Better Call Saul, for all its strengths, has a real problem with overindulgent editing and just generally poor pacing. If you think it's bad on the binge, just imagine watching it one episode a week. Never skip anything! There are constant visual and thematic echoes and parallels throuhout the plotlines in BCS and on the long view it all intertwines.
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Sep 19, 2021 08:26
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There is this South Korean show The Squid Game just on Netflix which asks the very important question "what if The Genius was also Battle Royale ?" and goes from there. Only one episode in and it's pretty wild.
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Sep 19, 2021 09:16
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Evil: As usual I have no idea what's going on or what motivates anyone other than the core trio, but I'm strangely enjoying it
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Sep 19, 2021 14:50
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Argue posted:Evil: As usual I have no idea what's going on or what motivates anyone other than the core trio, but I'm strangely enjoying it They're clearly building to some sort of reveal with Cheryl, and I'm very excited for whatever the gently caress it'll end up being. Am I right in thinking that her doll is her equivalent of Leland's therapist?
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Sep 19, 2021 15:28
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Remember when Amazon was spending a fortune on prestige shows like Matthew Weiner's The Romanoffs and the Woody Allen series. Are they going to hire Brett Ratner next?
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Sep 19, 2021 17:19
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CeeJee posted:There is this South Korean show The Squid Game just on Netflix which asks the very important question "what if The Genius was also Battle Royale ?" and goes from there. We put that on yesterday and ended up binging the whole thing (and we tend to pace how many eps of something we watch in one go). I'm a little conflicted about how it ended, and some of the side plots were a little eh, but otherwise I thought it was really great.
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Sep 19, 2021 18:53
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There are so many combined death game and gambling survival stories in japanese and korean fiction at this point that I genuinely can't tell if Squid Game is original or a rip-off. Either way, it's the most fun I've had with the concept since watching Kaiji Ultimate Survivor a lifetime ago. Obviously it's more on the survival game end of the spectrum but it's a lot of fun.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:06
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Billions continues to be brilliant and underrated.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:47
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You know, The Nanny totally holds up, at least up to where I'm watching. But is it me or does it look like, gauzy? And I don't think it's a transfer quality issue, even when originally airing it always looked very de-saturated and kinda blurry. Looks like a soap opera but shot at 24fps. Is it just me?
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Sep 19, 2021 23:48
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Nope, a lot of 90s shows look like poo poo because of taping on video, and of course pre-HD. Its why there are all things AI projects to make HD versions of various 90s sci fi like Farscape and Star Treks, because there is nothing to remaster.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:54
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swickles posted:Nope, a lot of 90s shows look like poo poo because of taping on video, and of course pre-HD. Its why there are all things AI projects to make HD versions of various 90s sci fi like Farscape and Star Treks, because there is nothing to remaster. I mean Friends started a year later and it looks way better and sharper, but I do think it's that the Nanny is all pastels and light colors while Friends is a little bit more colorful at least in clothes because it's the most whitebread show ever.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:58
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There's plenty to remaster for Star Trek, they just refuse to do it.
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Sep 19, 2021 23:58
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Calaveron posted:I mean Friends started a year later and it looks way better and sharper, but I do think it's that the Nanny is all pastels and light colors while Friends is a little bit more colorful at least in clothes because it's the most whitebread show ever. Friends was filmed on.. film and not tape. 35mm I think.
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Sep 20, 2021 00:00
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LionArcher posted:Billions continues to be brilliant and underrated. I remember trying that show out and other than Paul Giamatti O face the other thing I drew from it was all these ppl are terrible and wondering why I should care about them. Also felt like they were really drawing things out even in the few eps I watched
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Sep 20, 2021 00:05
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Sekhmnet posted:Friends was filmed on.. film and not tape. 35mm I think. Most shows of the era were shot on film and edited on tape. The Nanny, though, was definitely shot on video (probably Betacam SP), I remember it being a crown jewel for CBS at the time because it was so cheap to produce. And, yeah, Friends was shot in Super35 from the get-go.
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Sep 20, 2021 00:11
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The last season is kind of bad, after they get together it really loses all it's forward momentum and ends up leaning far too hard on guest stars
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Sep 20, 2021 00:29
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Watching Chicago Party Aunt and it’s quite impressive how instead of writing jokes, it’s just references to the aforementioned city that nobody outside it’s inhabitants will care about.
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Sep 20, 2021 01:16
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LionArcher posted:Billions continues to be brilliant and underrated. I don’t know. I like it as a guilty pleasure, but it is nothing more than that no matter how hard it tries to be prestige television. The Chuck vs. Axe is to the point that it is just annoying this many seasons in. Axe keeps getting worse, and now it is impossible to route for him no matter the situation. I was hoping they would try new things (they did for a season), but I guess they will circle that drain until it is over.
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Sep 20, 2021 01:21
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EL BROMANCE posted:Watching Chicago Party Aunt and it’s quite impressive how instead of writing jokes, it’s just references to the aforementioned city that nobody outside it’s inhabitants will care about. As someone who lives in Chicago I guarantee we don’t care either
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Sep 20, 2021 01:26
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Sumo posted:As someone who lives in Chicago I guarantee we don’t care either We can all join together in seeing it as a complete dud then!
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Sep 20, 2021 01:37
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nate fisher posted:I don’t know. I like it as a guilty pleasure, but it is nothing more than that no matter how hard it tries to be prestige television. The Chuck vs. Axe is to the point that it is just annoying this many seasons in. Axe keeps getting worse, and now it is impossible to route for him no matter the situation. I was hoping they would try new things (they did for a season), but I guess they will circle that drain until it is over. I like it because it’s showing at this point the corrosive nature of all of capitalism, but not in the obnoxious way that’s Succession does to make people feel better that the ruling class are all idiots. One of the things that makes Chuck interesting and incredibly annoying, is how he’s constantly talking like he’s auditioning to be a modern-day Hamilton. But the truth is, I know a lot of extremely well educated academic elite types that talk in a similar manner, and that think they are the superior ones to the those they “protect” and or “rule over”. The flipside is the ruthless but far more common approach that Axes and the others take. As the seasons have gone on, everybody has become less likable, in this last episode alone sort of shows that anyone in that orbit basically becomes tainted by the obsession with capitalism. In fact, the only reason Axe is likable again is because he’s finally admitted he has feelings for someone that is a good pairing for him. On the same side, Taylor who’s been an anchor of morality until recently has lost it, but the underlings people around them are finally painting a clear picture that all of its bad. Really, it’s taking a much more realistic view of the entire system while not overdoing it. I would say it needs one more season and then ends though. It can’t keep going too much further.
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Sep 20, 2021 01:45
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I don’t understand that post. Do you have any burger analogies you could use instead?
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Sep 20, 2021 01:47
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Escobarbarian posted:I don’t understand that post. Do you have any burger analogies you could use instead? You okay Esco? :3
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Sep 20, 2021 03:08
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Open Source Idiom posted:You okay Esco? :3 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903088&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=16#post517861646
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Sep 20, 2021 03:25
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If you have to explain the joke, Emmys, it's probably not great. But thank you for explaining who Cedric's three TV wives are.
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Sep 20, 2021 03:37
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The Emmys moving Limited Series to last is looking real dumb in retrospect. Gee, I wonder if Mare of Easttown is gonna win after winning literally everything else in Limted Series, what suspense.
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Oh hi ConanCapnAndy posted:The Emmys moving Limited Series to last is looking real dumb in retrospect. Gee, I wonder if Mare of Easttown is gonna win after winning literally everything else in Limted Series, what suspense. If it's like the Oscars, they will screw it up in spectacular fashion.
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loving Hamilton wins over 846 and Inside. Can't say i'm surprised, but still dumb as hell.
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