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zoux posted:Hey, 13 new MST3K episodes on March 4. Though I'm skeptical of this gizmoplex thing... Is it the same cast and crew as the Netflix revival? And what is it on now?
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It's the same robots and Jonah, it seems, and I think they're releasing it independently?
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Dec 7, 2021 15:32
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nate fisher posted:True but I guess goes back to a discussion we had earlier about how they are no dramas airing currently that are truly at that top level of prestige TV (or are we just to spoiled by the golden age of HBO/AMC that it is harder for a show to reach that level?). I would argue possibly The Crown comes close, and the other show I would guess that is close is Better Call Saul (which I haven't watch at all, but I plan to before the final season) from what I heard. Oh yeah The Crown is a good contender, which I thought I would never had said before I watched the show. Just really engaging and ambiguous storytelling that changes things up on an episode by episode basis. Short story structure, another similarity with Mad Men. Lambasting the rich or the powerful isn't why a TV show is great tho. I'm not looking for TV to teach me politics or give me fake sense of schadenfreude or whatever. It is a plus tho, and a sign that the creators are smart and incisive.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Is it the same cast and crew as the Netflix revival? And what is it on now? They're mixing things up. So there's going to be episodes with the Netflix cast, episodes with the live show cast and then Joel will be doing one episode and then finally one episode with everybody together.
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Here's Joel describing it last yearquote:Jonah Ray is set to resume the role of yellow-jumpsuited test subject Jonah Heston, teaming with robot friends Tom Servo (Baron Vaughn) and Crow T. Robot (Hampton Yount) to lampoon the bad movies sent to them by mad scientists Kinga Forrester (Felicia Day) and Max (Patton Oswalt). While the faces and voices will carry over from the most recent TV iteration of MST3K, the show is preparing to turn away from the binge-release model of the Netflix seasons. New episodes will roll out individually on the Gizmoplex. So probably an app that you pay $5 bucks a month for muscles like this! posted:They're mixing things up. So there's going to be episodes with the Netflix cast, episodes with the live show cast and then Joel will be doing one episode and then finally one episode with everybody together. Who's the live show cast
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zoux posted:
https://mst3klive.com/cast/ Basically a bunch of people you probably haven't heard of but they're pretty good.
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Do they do robots too?
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Beforeigners season 2 started on HBO Max, by far my favourite Scandinavian time travel police procedural and this season it seems to be bloody Jack The Ripper as one of the main plotlines. Season 1 was great and had one of my favourite twists ever when it was revealed Alfhildr had traveled back to the Viking age from modern times as a child and then came back here as an adult as both 'aha, this explains a lot what happened so far' and 'oh wow, this opens up a million new possibilities'.
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CeeJee posted:Beforeigners season 2 started, by far my favourite Scandinavian time travel police procedural and this season it seems to be bloody Jack The Ripper as one of the main plotlines. Well holy loving poo poo. I’d never heard of this show, but that’s one hell of a pitch.
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Dec 7, 2021 19:51
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Same. New to me but it sounds pretty fuckin' cool.
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zoux posted:Do they do robots too? I mean, Mystery Science Theater 3000 without robots is just RiffTrax.
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I bounced off of Righteous Gemstones the first time I watched it, dunno why, loved everyone in it, hate televangelists, like, it was weird and I still don't really know why it didn't click the first time. Put it on yesterday and finished it today and holy poo poo, I keep remembering random bits and laughing to myself. Mostly scenes with Judy, particularly the dark scene where she confesses some things to BJ. Backed by when he tries to romantic movie her back: "I'm nothing like that guy, I would never cry when I shot!" I know everyone already did their laughs at this a year+ ago but I finally caught the van.
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So, I went through both seasons of Pen15, to see what all the fuzz was about. I kinda hate it?
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muscles like this! posted:https://mst3klive.com/cast/ I saw the MST3K live show a few years ago, and it was really fun. Not least of which was seeing Joel back to playing "Joel" and riffing on a movie. The rest of the cast were different, but they were fine. Also, Joel had a great exchange with the audience that I still remember: Joel: Okay, we're going to have some Q&As from the audience. First audience member: How could TV's Frank and Dr. Forrester possibly have kids? Joel: I see why you're confused, they didn't have kids with each other. Okay, end of the Q&A.
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Khanstant posted:I bounced off of Righteous Gemstones the first time I watched it, dunno why, loved everyone in it, hate televangelists, like, it was weird and I still don't really know why it didn't click the first time. Put it on yesterday and finished it today and holy poo poo, I keep remembering random bits and laughing to myself. Mostly scenes with Judy, particularly the dark scene where she confesses some things to BJ. Backed by when he tries to romantic movie her back: "I'm nothing like that guy, I would never cry when I shot!" That's great, the RG thread is a lot of fun during the season so now you can join in. I went through all of the McBride/Hill shows a couple of years ago and Gemstones is easily the most complete, least "Danny McBride" series they've done. Walton Goggins, my god. John Goodman is putting in some Emmy level performances as well, he's so good.
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muscles like this! posted:https://mst3klive.com/cast/ I saw what I believe is the most recent live tour before everything shut down, I have nothing but high hopes for Emily. She only had one small part where she got to riff, but it worked well for me.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I saw what I believe is the most recent live tour before everything shut down, I have nothing but high hopes for Emily. She only had one small part where she got to riff, but it worked well for me. They're now doing a live show that it is all Emily and she does a great job. It helps that the movie is nutty as all get out.
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zoux posted:That's great, the RG thread is a lot of fun during the season so now you can join in. Why on earth would anyone want less Danny McBride in their Hill/McBride show  RG is good, but it’s a very different beast from Vice Principals or E&D. I’ll watch it, but I don’t think I’ll ever revisit it as often as the other two.
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muscles like this! posted:They're now doing a live show that it is all Emily and she does a great job. It helps that the movie is nutty as all get out. Awesome! It's funny that MST3K works better on paper for me than it does in reality, but the live shows are just so much fun with the energy of a crowd. Plus it really helped that the one I saw was right in my wheelhouse - No Retreat, No Surrender.
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RiffTrax shows in theaters are the same. The crowd makes it.
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Matt Zerella posted:Anyone who finds any kind of empathy for anyone in Succession is telling on themselves. I can't tell if this is a joke or not. It's not hard to empathise with the characters in Succession. Walking the tight rope between "these people are monsters but I empathise with them" is the fundamental thing that makes the show a success.
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GreenNight posted:RiffTrax shows in theaters are the same. The crowd makes it. Yep that was my first experience, the MST3K Rifftrax reunion. My friends had some spare tickets and invited me along, and I was like... "Sure, why not" thinking it would be fine enough. Laughed my rear end off the entire time.
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Looten Plunder posted:I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Everytime they highlight how abused the kids were the empathy spikes up, then you realize how lovely they are to everyone but their abuser, empathy goes down
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I finished Cowboy Bebop and I liked it. I haven't seen the anime, so I don't know how that compares, but the live action version was fun to watch. If they do a second season, I'll keep watching.
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Shageletic posted:Everytime they highlight how abused the kids were the empathy spikes up Not just were, they still are. There is so much trauma there. They're completely broken.
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Chairman Capone posted:The latest How To with John Wilson has an amazing inadvertent crossover with the subjects of another recent HBO documentary series. Holy poo poo, this was crazy. Also, everyone else in the show is legitimately insane as well yeah? The Bang! guy, the "eating 60 year old MRE" guy. Who the gently caress are these people?
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Shageletic posted:Succession is a swerve and subversion of what you tradionally see in depictions of the rich going back to Dallas, bc all these rich motherfuckers are incompetent. And that's a def a very rare in American media. This matches with why I like Succession. Everyone on the show is hilariously incompetent except for the dying patriarch who is an out-and-out monster. He's incompetent now because age has hobbled him and the kids he has raised are all worthless. It is very funny seeing them flair around. I loved the scrooge scene where dude lost his kids presents and hates his wife's gift and is obsessed with impressing nobodies. It reminds me of every Kennedy-school-of-business social climber I've ever met. Very funny. Just rich people losing their mind because twitter let's them experience criticism they've never experienced in life. But as a funny tv show. Billions S1 was fun, I haven't watched it after that. It definitely is in love with wealth and power in an ugly way. Fun TV, abhorrent morals. TV doesn't need to have a moral to be fun but you can really only take it so far before it gets icky.
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Khanstant posted:wait, SteveMRE is in the new season? nice! I just googled him, and no, this is a completely different MRE eating Youtuber. Update: Here is the video he made of the meal he ate with John. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcJTFnPfpI Looten Plunder fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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I'm coming up on the final half of The Americans last season now, what a stressful and intense show. Every season has felt perfectly plotted and well-made, but there's always am extra heightening when I know I'm watching the final season of a heavily drama/story based show. So many plans and confrontations that all feel like they could come to a head at any moment, I'm really excited to see how it wraps up by the end.
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Listening to Mrs. Seabass trying to figure out some of the brigading with these People's Choice Award winners was a treat: https://www.eonline.com/news/1312257/peoples-choice-awards-2021-winners-the-complete-list I didn't expect Never Have I Ever to mount the appropriate ... "campaign"?
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I forgot how wild the Peoples Choice awards are, that first movie list itself is incredible by itself. Then as soon as I think I know the demographics voting, wham Chelsea Handler with a win.
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Toast King posted:I'm coming up on the final half of The Americans last season now, what a stressful and intense show. Every season has felt perfectly plotted and well-made, but there's always am extra heightening when I know I'm watching the final season of a heavily drama/story based show. So many plans and confrontations that all feel like they could come to a head at any moment, I'm really excited to see how it wraps up by the end. Please post your thoughts on the finale.
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a really cool thing about the show "Barbarians" on Netflix is that the Roman soldiers speak Latin. Haven't really seen the Latin thing anywhere else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojC-zTXSAsY
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Toast King posted:I'm coming up on the final half of The Americans last season now, what a stressful and intense show. Every season has felt perfectly plotted and well-made, but there's always am extra heightening when I know I'm watching the final season of a heavily drama/story based show. So many plans and confrontations that all feel like they could come to a head at any moment, I'm really excited to see how it wraps up by the end. As Capslock said, please post your thoughts on the finale!
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I'll report back soon, I'm done for the night but have the final two to go. My partner who watched it all before me wants to get in on these last couple of episodes too.
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Watching Will Sharpe's new HBO show with David Thewlis and Olivia Coleman, Landscapers. Gorgeous looking show, but my god i wasn't prepared for how miserable it was. Also pretty sure it took a potshot at Fargo ten seconds into its run time and that made me laugh a lot.
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New Pen15 episodes dropped and we watched the first 3. It's still such a funny and heartfelt show. Great stuff.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Watching Will Sharpe's new HBO show with David Thewlis and Olivia Coleman, Landscapers. Gorgeous looking show, but my god i wasn't prepared for how miserable it was. Really weird and cool first episode
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nate fisher posted:True but I guess goes back to a discussion we had earlier about how they are no dramas airing currently that are truly at that top level of prestige TV (or are we just to spoiled by the golden age of HBO/AMC that it is harder for a show to reach that level?). I would argue possibly The Crown comes close, and the other show I would guess that is close is Better Call Saul (which I haven't watch at all, but I plan to before the final season) from what I heard. Better Call Saul is good and well-written, but I think it is over-rated simply because it is more of an adult story than Breaking Bad which is shares a lot of characters with. Looked at in context of stuff like Mad Men/Deadwood/etc it isn't as impressive because it still has a very small world and, unlike Breaking Bad, isn't always that compelling. There are many episodes, especially later on, when I was captivated - but there are just as many where my reaction is just mild interest. It also lacks a strong comedic thread like Mad Men has which keeps you always enjoying it even if the plot doesn't matter. BCS is surprisingly uninterested in trying to be funny except occasionally, so it has even bored me at times. Just for example, in most episodes Mike and Jimmy's storylines will not intersect or even reflect on each other in any way. So a storyline starts to get going and then you cut to something totally disconnected for a 5 minute high concept sequence before anything even happens. I don't know if people remember how irritating Breaking Bad good be when it slowed down. Episodes of Walter just stewing, because things can't progress in episode 4 of 13 this season. Having said that, BCS gets pretty consisently better as it goes along in terms of being 'thrilling' so the lack of spark and small world of it doesn't feel as obvious. It has more meat to it than BB but still not enough and too much limp material to be considered a really great show for me. roomtone fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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