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Escobarbarian posted:Life In Hell probably has better political and social commentary than Pratchett’s work tbh Your obsession with hating pratchett would be comprehensible if you had read his work. Can't you see how insufferable it is to have someone constantly dunking on a beloved (and tragically dead) author when they haven't even read his stuff? Like drat brother, save it for JK Rowling
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“Constantly dunking on someone” = saying one time you never tried to get into their work because you hated the fanbase, and then making a joke a different time after another poster brought the discussion into this thread for some reason
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The only thing I remember clearly about disenchantment is "live prude girls"
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Considering it's been like 15 months since the last season ended, and the last 15 months have been....not fun, it's not so suprising that it's hard to remember what happened. That was a whole pandemic and insurrection ago.
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Ok this season is good actually. I like when it’s not just all sitcom plots in Dreamland and they actually travel and do stuff
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Man, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are SO GOOD in Wandavision.
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Most of us have the common courtesy to not relentlessly profess that something is overrated trash if we haven't at least engaged with it. I cannot, I literally cannot understand how this is a controversial stance.
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muscles like this! posted:Man, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are SO GOOD in Wandavision. I know, right? The performances are fantastic. Simone Magus posted:Most of us have the common courtesy to not relentlessly profess that something is overrated trash if we haven't at least engaged with it. Like I said I said one thing in another thread that wasn’t even a diss on the author, and then I made one joke in this thread. How does that correspond to “relentlessly profess”
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The new season of Disenchantment is pretty good! I don't think anyone is going to consider it the new Futurama - a lot of the jokes are still very hit or miss and the characterizations just aren't its strong suit, but it's gotten way funnier at least and it looks great. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the final season though, since no one seems to be watching it.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MaskedDancerFOX/status/1349748173535911943 I guess Patty Hearst turned em down
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Hakkesshu posted:The new season of Disenchantment is pretty good! I don't think anyone is going to consider it the new Futurama - a lot of the jokes are still very hit or miss and the characterizations just aren't its strong suit, but it's gotten way funnier at least and it looks great. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the final season though, since no one seems to be watching it. I've been watching it, but the problem is it leans into big arcs that just clearly terminate due to lack of writer interest, so nothing gives the impression there's a reason anything happens. It tries to straddle two options and doesn't excel at either as a result.
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Josh Lyman posted:Ted Lasso is as delightful as everyone says. It reached out to my cold black heart. I just wish it wasn't an Apple TV thing because I have to faff about streaming from my laptop web browser to my TV because there isn't an Apple TV available for it, pah.
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Sentinel Red posted:Only watched the first two eps but he's so nice that I want the team, the club, and the whole borough to be smashed into the Thames by a kraken for being mean to such a lovely, lovely chap. Well, apart from Keeley and the girl nutmegging in the park. I feel you’re going to enjoy the remaining episodes.
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I'm not usually in for marvel stuff but every time I read or hear something about Wanda vision, more questions start bubbling up in my head. Fine, I'll watch the drat thing
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I watched 4 episodes of The Stand and it's trash garbage and I refuse to watch anymore.
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Josh Lyman posted:I watched 4 episodes of The Stand and it's trash garbage and I refuse to watch anymore. I dunno. First ep was fun.
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one of the guys from impractical jokers is on 13 monkeys right now and i think that the woman from schitts creek should be on impractical jokers but in this character
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muscles like this! posted:Man, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are SO GOOD in Wandavision. I never cared for Vision in the movies because he just seemed lame but I am 100% turned around on him now after just these two episodes.
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Emily Hampshire is one of the greatest things about 12 Monkeys, if not the greatest.
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Yeah, she's definitely my favourite of the pack. Also some stuff really changed quickly and I dig it. Cassie is the grimdark badass now. edit: she's like "i'm not a time traveller, but is from the past, and has already gone back to the past then back to the future again" Khanstant fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jan 16, 2021 |
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Gonz posted:Emily Hampshire is one of the greatest things about 12 Monkeys, if not the greatest. One of the few contrarian hills I'm willing to die on in TVIV is that Jennifer Goines is nothing but a walking plot device that would end the show if she ever gave a straight answer to literally any question asked of her. She's River Tam minus Joss Whedon's fetishes.
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howe_sam posted:One of the few contrarian hills I'm willing to die on in TVIV is that Jennifer Goines is nothing but a walking plot device that would end the show if she ever gave a straight answer to literally any question asked of her. She's River Tam minus Joss Whedon's fetishes. Hey look it's that guy who hates joy
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I could have used 20% less Jennifer Goines throughout the series. Though I have the same complaint about Brad Pitt in the movie.
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Oh hey it's spreading
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Rhyno posted:Hey look it's that guy who hates joy Joy's great, I'd just had my fill of that specific character type when I got around to watching the show.
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YOU ARE THE THIEF OF JOY
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Josh Lyman posted:I watched 4 episodes of The Stand and it's trash garbage and I refuse to watch anymore. I'm going to stick with it if only because King wrote the final episode and had intimated that he wanted to do right by a character he felt he short-changed in the book. The rest though? A really good cast trying hard to make some bad material work. I'm never going to understand the decision to structure it the way they have. Also: https://twitter.com/EricVespe/status/1350161689619144708?s=19
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First two episodes of Mr. Mayor were fun, but it really found its stride this week I thought. Plus the trademark Tina Fey 20 Jokes a Minute mean it’s a sitcom I’m actually laughing with, rather than just thinking something is amusing.
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I enjoyed the Danson/Hunter and Moynihan storylines (except for ending an act with Danson saying “Sproing”, but whatever) but I was a little more mixed about the Vella Lovell storyline. Obviously it’s early days and they’re still figuring out the characters and what works, but having her character make such a shift personality-wise, especially in a way that doesn’t feel like it plays to Lovell’s strengths, felt very weird to me.
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EL BROMANCE posted:First two episodes of Mr. Mayor were fun, but it really found its stride this week I thought. Plus the trademark Tina Fey 20 Jokes a Minute mean it’s a sitcom I’m actually laughing with, rather than just thinking something is amusing. Psyched for that. I’ve been rewatching 30 rock over the past month and god drat does that frantic style+hiring great writers work out well. That style also makes for a more consistent season-to-season thing, which is where sitcoms usually poo poo out. When you’re dropping that much stuff so fast the misses just kind of fall under the radar and you remember the hits; so even when you’re out of ideas no one can tell.
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DrVenkman posted:The rest though? A really good cast trying hard to make some bad material work. I'm never going to understand the decision to structure it the way they have. Wasn't it originally written for ten episodes, and after the ten episodes were written, they were told to condense it into nine episodes? I thought I had also heard that after the series was shot, they then edited some more down after the coronavirus outbreak started.
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EL BROMANCE posted:First two episodes of Mr. Mayor were fun, but it really found its stride this week I thought. Plus the trademark Tina Fey 20 Jokes a Minute mean it’s a sitcom I’m actually laughing with, rather than just thinking something is amusing. I liked this third episode more but it still is a bit too easy to see Liz and Jack in these roles. Establishing that relationship between danson and scraggly helped a lot. Is there a 12 Monkeys Thread? I just need somewhere to remark on things like "Ramse sounds like Bender half the time" or "lol Ramse own son owned him for being an evil pro-bad-future jerk."
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Wife and I started watching Bridgerton and this Duke of Hastings guy might be the most handsome dude I've ever seen. I'm starstruck every time he's on screen.
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You want to talk about handsome TV dudes there's Abubakar Salim (Father from Raised by Wolves.) He has the kind of face that you would see on classical statues.
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C-Euro posted:Wife and I started watching Bridgerton and this Duke of Hastings guy might be the most handsome dude I've ever seen. I'm starstruck every time he's on screen. a very horny tv show
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So HBO Max added the Adult Swim show Hot Streets and something kind of weird is that for the first season they don't have the episode that was aired as part of a special event.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:a very horny tv show We're two episodes in and it feels pretty non-horny for a Shondaland joint. But everyone keeps saying that it's horny so I'm sure it picks up.
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Does a Vampire Cop have to still get permission to enter a house if it has a warrant?
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Started watching Servant. Only a few episodes in, but I'm liking it a lot more than I expected to. Have no idea what is actually going on, but love the atmosphere. Also really appreciate that it's a prestige drama streaming show that keeps its episodes under the half hour mark rather than bloating them to hour-plus. muscles like this! posted:So HBO Max added the Adult Swim show Hot Streets and something kind of weird is that for the first season they don't have the episode that was aired as part of a special event. I noticed that Check it Out and Tim and Eric Awesome Show on HBO Max each have only one of their two special episodes.
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Man, somehow Disenchanted went from being a medieval Futurama to being animated Game of Thrones real fast. Edit: like seasons 1-5 GoT, you know the standard disclaimer
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