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I am curious how different I'd feel about season 2 if I had been able to watch it all at once rather than week by week, but having watched season 2 it also doesn't leave me interested to rewatch it.
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Binging helps with pacing issues in general. A weekly show has to be structured in very specific ways to not start dragging. On a binge an off-track episode is just a speck, in a weekly release it means the audience goes an incredible 2-3 weeks without development.
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It’s really weird to me in retrospect that there was no interaction between Nate and Dr. Sharon. She seemed to interact with everyone else on the pitch.
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Oct 18, 2021 07:55
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At least the streaming services are pretty locked into weekly releases, and don’t have the “mid-season” break that a lot of network shows have. Just looked back at Good Place (as that was the last show I watched on TV weekly): Season 3 had a stretch that was November 15, December 6, then January 10. A brutal wait.
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Solkanar512 posted:It’s really weird to me in retrospect that there was no interaction between Nate and Dr. Sharon. She seemed to interact with everyone else on the pitch. Makes sense though, he's concerned he looks weak and going to therapy is still perceived as weakness to a lot of people. It's not like the rest of the team wouldn't know he'd gone, even if what he talked about was kept between him and Dr. Sharon.
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https://twitter.com/appletv/status/1451243133031915521?s=21 Very cool (watch the video it’s funny as hell)
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Had no idea Mr. Quest season 2 was out.
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They spent so much money on weird shots in Invasion. Its cool but... drat.
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apatheticman posted:They spent so much money on weird shots in Invasion. Also, its pretty funny that one of the main characters is based on a US military base in Kandahar province woops!
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Oh poo poo. Max Richter did the soundtrack for Invasion?
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Oct 23, 2021 03:56
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See is utterly absurd but I love it.
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Morning Show continues to be weird and not very good although at least we got a break from Aniston’s terrible, horrible character this week I feel weird about scenes like the one where the girl unfairly yells at Chip. I’m not sure what purpose it serves. Yes, some people are stupid and annoying and direct their anger in the wrong direction. Is pointing that out the only goal? It’s kind of a flimsy attempt at both-sidesing an issue that doesn’t really deserve that treatment.
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I watched the first episode of Acapulco and I enjoyed it but I'm really growing tired of every comedy on TV+ having to be 'uplifting'.
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Does Invasion get better? Just watched the first episode out of boredom and I’m pretty sure I came out more bored at the end.
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VideoGames posted:I have been very poorly so took time to watch all of season 2 of Ted Lasso while recuperating and I thought it was ace. It was not content to be more of season 1 and did some interesting and different pathways. I just finished season 2 and I absolutely agree with all of this. While the tone clearly shifted I didn't think the quality did at all - but looking at some other reactions in this thread I think watching it all back to back rather than weekly helped a lot. Everything (especially Nate and Ted's journeys) felt like a very natural continuation of season 1. As much as I enjoyed Beard's episode I think you could make a case for cutting it and using the time to flesh out the Nate and Ted situation a little more. Maybe one or two scenes where Nate is clearly looking for Ted's support and approval but Ted's too distracted by his own development to notice? Although that could have run the risk of implying that Ted was dropping the ball or being selfish when really he was just letting Nate fly and (wrongly) believed his work was done. I could also have used a little bit more focus on the football itself - there was a lot of telling rather than showing about how the club was doing. Every few episodes we had Jeff Sterling point out that Richmond was on a winning/losing/drawing streak but I feel like more of that could have been on the screen - which would have allowed some of the players a bit more time to shine. As someone who lived in Stratford for three years I naturally despise West Ham and its (incredibly loud) fans so season 3 will be fun. stev fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 24, 2021 |
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I like how invasion took the Martians arriving from War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise and dragged it out to 20 minutes of people standing around in a LI suburb coming up with dumber and dumber explanations.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Does Invasion get better? Just watched the first episode out of boredom and I’m pretty sure I came out more bored at the end. I haven't watched it yet but judging from the reviews, no.
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I am getting to the end of the third episode and it feels like someone was shooting 4 different shows and edited them together and added dialog after the fact to try and make something.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:14
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I guess aliens weren't enough of a conflict so they added two comically lovely people as characters.
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VideoGames and stev are my bros!!!! my bros!!!!!!
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Boris Galerkin posted:Does Invasion get better? Just watched the first episode out of boredom and I’m pretty sure I came out more bored at the end. There's someone on twitter called Spaceshipper who really loves slow burn stuff and even they said Invasion was too slow.
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Television can be fast and about nothing in particular, or it can be slow and dense. So much crap TV is just slow and about nothing -- and let's be honest, most "slow burn" television is exactly that.
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I just feel that Game of Thrones broke all the writers/show runners to think that what made GoT popular was the huge number of characters, places and different plots all going on at the same time. Ignoring the fact that GoT was popular as it was fantasy murder porn. Have one main plot with a group of characters that are developed and the audience is invested in and expand from that. A good example of that is the early seasons of The Walking Dead until that also devolved into GoTitus.
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Is Invasion at least worth watching for Sam Neill?
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BigPaddy posted:I just feel that Game of Thrones broke all the writers/show runners to think that what made GoT popular was the huge number of characters, places and different plots all going on at the same time. Ignoring the fact that GoT was popular as it was fantasy murder porn. Have one main plot with a group of characters that are developed and the audience is invested in and expand from that. A good example of that is the early seasons of The Walking Dead until that also devolved into GoTitus. It's way older than Thrones; The Walking Dead was doing it before Thrones anyway (and in TWD's case it largely seems to have evolved out of a way to keep budgets crunched). LOST was doing it before all of them; particularly by the time the show had reached its third season, when you start seeing the characters defined into subgroups and rarely leaving those groups. The fourth season codified it into literal faction "conflicts". But ultimately there was very little crossover between the various groups of thinly written characters. But, I mean, it's also a process fundamental to soap opera, it's only that As The World Turns doesn't pretend that the characters are on different continents. Basically, none of this is new.
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tofes posted:Is Invasion at least worth watching for Sam Neill? I’ve only watched the first episode and I’d say no, unless you really want to see him cosplay a god fearing cop.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I’ve only watched the first episode and I’d say no, unless you really want to see him cosplay a god fearing cop. Doesn't he get killed in the first episode? I never watched beyond that but I got the impression that someone just handed him a bag of money to make a small apperance.
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Just give me a Roy Kent and Jan Maas buddy comedy
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God Foundation is such a weird show.
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I love that Ted Lasso is such a positive show that it's inoffensive to the worst people in the world. https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1453752691868438533
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Chairman Capone posted:I love that Ted Lasso is such a positive show that it's inoffensive to the worst people in the world. It's very easy to some of those scenes in particular would resonate with lovely people: Ted repeatedly interrupts his boss, against her wishes, to have private meetings with her wherein he gives her personal gifts and asks her questions about her personal life. She says no but he hears it as a yes that's yet to happen. TBH it's classic male entitlement. Throw in some of the Sam/Rebecca stuff from season 2, and you get the sense that the writer's room doesn't really understand work power dynamics.
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Alex Levy still the worst TV character of the past few years but this episode ain’t bad
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Escobarbarian posted:Alex Levy still the worst TV character of the past few years but this episode ain’t bad Really? I think she's loving hilarious and such an absolute trainwreck. (Not seen the most recent episode)
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She’s such a ginormous piece of poo poo to everyone and the show genuinely doesn’t seem to realise it. It wants us to have sympathy for her but she’s so loving horrible!!!!
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Oh MAN the end of that episode
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Foundation is moving at a snails pace, I really wish they didn't feel the need to drag out the story so much.
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Aren't they trying to drag it out to 80 episodes?
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Maybe they're trying to get it cancelled but place enough framework so that it will be picked up again in 1000 years. Prestige TV is ending....it's.... inevitable.
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Is it just me, or is The Morning Show just cargo cult prestige tv? By that I mean everything that you have to spend money on (talent, lighting, sets, etc) is there, but the writing is uneven as hell, character arcs go all over the place or just vanish, important moments are incredibly heavy-handed, the opening is meandering and pretentious as gently caress and so on. Maybe it's just me.
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