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Anyway, yes, the death of Osama bin Laden was kind of a huge deal in American culture back when it happened, in a way that frankly feels completely surreal nowadays
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Maybe I'm misremembering, but isn't The Newsroom the show that starts with a speech that involves Boomer-rear end Jeff Daniels shouting at a college student--people who potentially weren't even old enough to vote in the most recent election--about how "kids these days" are, in fact, the shittiest generation and how everything loving sucks and, surprise twist, the U.S. isn't really all it's cracked up to be, and somehow that's because you young people are loving idiots? I love the part where he's working with his ex and does all sorts of hosed up gaslighting things to her in order to woo her back.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 01:35 |
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howe_sam posted:A little racy? They stuff a corpse into a suitcase! I’d forgotten about that. Didn’t that have like brutal crunchy/ breaking sounds? I need to watch that again. Most boomers I’ve met, especially Americans, don’t really freak out with violence. Show em some boobs tho and they start frothing at the mouth. Never understood that. It’s old but if your mom likes Sci Fi have you tried Babylon 5 from the 90s? Graphics are dated but plot and characters are so drat good. In America it’s on HBO Max. I got one awesome grandma who loves the Orville though I’m not 100% she really gets Bortus and Klyden. She thinks they are a cute alien couple and it’s funny to see her laugh along with it. She also likes AEW wrestling and she thinks Arn Anderson is a young hottie. I hope I’m that cool at 80. Probably not.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 01:44 |
Edward Mass posted:As someone who was in college when Osama bin Laden was killed, it was kind of a big deal. Then again, I was 22 years old, and had grown up with a real-life boogeyman. Looten Plunder posted:In fairness, this and one or two others are the most egregious and meme-worthy examples. Not trying to defend the show and say it's not bad, but it isn't consistently this bad. I was in college too, same age, in Texas. Not saying nobody had a reaction, just I don't remember it and my main peers didn't give a poo poo. If they had finally caught George Bush, that'd be cause for celebration, but AFAIK that monster is still out there painting portraits of his victims to give to the family of his victims, kind of his serial killer calling card but he does it in public smiling.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 02:13 |
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Having seen the recent result of the climate change summit, this Newsroom clip is actually pretty on those nose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 02:18 |
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swickles posted:Having seen the recent result of the climate change summit, this Newsroom clip is actually pretty on those nose: this is why michael hated him
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 02:29 |
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E; wrong thread
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 02:34 |
Matt Zerella posted:this is why michael hated him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmOqPFyJPw
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 02:40 |
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all this talk about the newsroom led me down a youtube rabbit hole of Chapo clips on sorkin and i completely forgot about their remake of The Newsroom theme song https://youtu.be/rCw9MyzALow
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DogsInSpace! posted:I’d forgotten about that. Didn’t that have like brutal crunchy/ breaking sounds? I need to watch that again. Yeah, the sound design for that scene was gruesome.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 03:04 |
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Newsroom was just ripping off John Cena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maL6gq6qME
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 03:56 |
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zoux posted:Here's why it's important to separate art from artist I remember him getting into an argument on Twitter with someone on whether or not Bruno Sammartino beat Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds for the WWWF Heavyweight Title.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 05:03 |
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Arist posted:Anyway, yes, the death of Osama bin Laden was kind of a huge deal in American culture back when it happened, in a way that frankly feels completely surreal nowadays
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 07:57 |
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DaveKap posted:Not as surreal as being in elementary school and stopping class to watch the OJ Simpson verdict. PSHAW you kids these days. When I was in elementary school I got to see a space shuttle blow up on live TV
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 12:18 |
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Look kids, it's a teacher getting to go into space! Oh nooooo hmmmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqzMMNrQQI I thought this was gonna be a lovely biopic but it looks like it's just about the sex tape stuff and the guys who stole it. Much more interesting. zoux fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Mindy Kaling has a new HBO Max show - The Sex Lives of College Girls. First two eps dropped this morning. Looking forward to seeing if it’s any good. Also a reminder that tomorrow has the premieres of: Cowboy Bebop (Netflix, complete season) The Wheel of Time (Prime, first 3 episodes) AND The Great s2 (Hulu, complete season)
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:02 |
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Discovery season 4 hits today too.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:05 |
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Not if you’re outside the US, they pulled their Netflix deal and are waiting until they launch Paramount+ in other territories before they premiere it there lmao. V bad decision imo
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:09 |
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TorrentFreak will undoubtedly be running a story about how it's "the most pirated show of the month", and nobody could have possibly seen this coming.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:15 |
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Looks like some creators/writers behind Superstore and Happy Endings are banding together to make a show about The Last Blockbuster starring Randall Park: https://deadline.com/2021/11/randall-park-blockbuster-video-store-comedy-series-netflix-from-superstore-duo-david-caspe-1234876166/ There's definitely some nostalgia to mine there.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:34 |
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I hope they bring on Paul Scheer in some capacity, his stories of working at Blockbuster as a teenager are so absurd and hilarious.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:01 |
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Hughmoris posted:Looks like some creators/writers behind Superstore and Happy Endings are banding together to make a show about The Last Blockbuster starring Randall Park: Happy Endings/Blockbuster/Randall Park... yeah I'm sold on that alone. Never really watched Superstore much, it didn't grab me but intended to go back as people seemed to like.
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Escobarbarian posted:Mindy Kaling has a new HBO Max show - The Sex Lives of College Girls. First two eps dropped this morning. Looking forward to seeing if it’s any good. Reminder for US folks that Amazon publishes their stuff midnight UTC, so "The Wheel of Time" will likely be up at 8pm eastern tonight.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Happy Endings/Blockbuster/Randall Park... yeah I'm sold on that alone. Never really watched Superstore much, it didn't grab me but intended to go back as people seemed to like. I was wondering if people liked it or not haha, nbody I know in real life is remotely interested. I remember seeing an episode when it came out and was like "oh this is literally The Office at WalMart instead" and ignored it after that. Dunno why I started watching it again but I really liked it, even though it very shamelessly copies Office beats a little too often sometimes. I liked the union stuff especially and am retroactively surprised something so openly pro-union was airing on regular old times TV. I liked the balance they found between goofy-sitcom shenanigans and real-world bleakness of their positions.
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swickles posted:I hope they bring on Paul Scheer in some capacity, his stories of working at Blockbuster as a teenager are so absurd and hilarious. Scheer was one of the talking heads in the Netflix documentary The Last Blockbuster. Lauren Lapkus was the narrator, too. The documentary's actually not that bad. Makes a good pairing with the Amazon documentary on Netflix.
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Khanstant posted:I was wondering if people liked it or not haha, nbody I know in real life is remotely interested. I remember seeing an episode when it came out and was like "oh this is literally The Office at WalMart instead" and ignored it after that. Dunno why I started watching it again but I really liked it, even though it very shamelessly copies Office beats a little too often sometimes. I liked the union stuff especially and am retroactively surprised something so openly pro-union was airing on regular old times TV. I liked the balance they found between goofy-sitcom shenanigans and real-world bleakness of their positions. Superstore definitely had writers who served time in a Superstore. One of my favorite reoccurring gags was the interstitials of customers doing very customer things while inappropriate music played over the loud speaker. It's something you really appreciate when you're stocking and discover a melted, leaking quart of ice cream stashed behind school supplies, while a song with a poppy beat about loving plays overhead.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:06 |
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The reason I actually watched any episodes of it at all was because NBC and LG had some weird deal back in 2016 where they would share some content in 4K on an app they had, as the market started emerging. Superstore was one of very few shows on there, I have no idea if those 4K versions ever ended up anywhere else but I've never seen them.
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Iron Crowned posted:Superstore definitely had writers who served time in a Superstore. Yeah, Superstore is a comfort show for me. Something that is easy to watch, or can leave on in the background while doing other stuff. It especially hits home having worked retail, and I think they did a good job of portraying working during lockdown last year The customer cutaways were awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIPPTsON-n8
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Iron Crowned posted:Superstore definitely had writers who served time in a Superstore. I love those silent gags more than anything on the show, they're fantastic. I notice new ones every rewatch. Perfect 5 second storytelling. Hughmoris posted:Yeah, Superstore is a comfort show for me. Something that is easy to watch, or can leave on in the background while doing other stuff. It especially hits home having worked retail, and I think they did a good job of portraying working during lockdown last year Yeah it's in my comfort "background noise" TV show rotation with 30 rock/office/parksrec/community. I've never worked retail, actually I'm incapable of passing the personality tests to get most corporate jobs so if they got that test, II can't work there. However, service industry has a lot in common so there was plenty to relate to.
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:34 |
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American Downton Abbey is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBuU32B8PI
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# ? Nov 18, 2021 23:34 |
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Khanstant posted:I love those silent gags more than anything on the show, they're fantastic. I notice new ones every rewatch. Perfect 5 second storytelling. I worked at Best Buy for 13 years. That show triggered my PTSD and I'm not even kidding. Brought back some memories of when I was insanely depressed. Still a hilarious show but holy poo poo did it hit.
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Mu Zeta posted:American Downton Abbey is here Where Downton Abbey starts with the Titanic sinking this one should end with it.
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 01:25 |
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I just found out tubi has original programing and one of those programs is an animated show about 3 stoners from the 60s and their cat waking up from a magically induced weed coma in 2020 that stars John Goodman, Woody Harrelson, Tiffany Haddish, and Pete Davidson called The Freek Brothers.
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 02:05 |
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Is that animated by the knights of the dinner table guy
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 02:16 |
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Mu Zeta posted:American Downton Abbey is here Wonder if it'll end up like Beacon Hill.
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 02:44 |
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bull3964 posted:Reminder for US folks that Amazon publishes their stuff midnight UTC, so "The Wheel of Time" will likely be up at 8pm eastern tonight. This has in fact happened
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 03:17 |
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I don't know anything about The Wheel of Time but the first episode wasn't grabbing me so I turned it off for now.
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 03:33 |
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Quick take.
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# ? Nov 19, 2021 03:59 |
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https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/earthworm-jim-animated-tv-series-1235114624/ Groovy
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know anything about The Wheel of Time but the first episode wasn't grabbing me so I turned it off for now. if you turned it off before halfway through, i'd finish the episode. it picks up.
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