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Royal Updog posted:Tying to binge watch a show where British People attempt to be sexy and its taken me 4 weeks thus far because British People attempt to be sexy Now we live in a post-Naked Attraction world, we don't need to try to be sexy anymore.
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Hannibal.
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Hannibal The Expanse Carnivale The Knick Are you okay with animated? If so Attack on Titan.
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Gaunab posted:My roommate is watching Survivor and I wish I could get into it but it just doesn't click with me. I think it's all the strategizing and alliances; it's ridiculous and stupid and I should be all over it but it just comes off as boring high school drama. Combine that with the "survivalist" setting and it makes the show seem more manufactured. i watched clips of the episode with the immensely short guy and the woman from the Phillippines and please tell me there is other as good content in there, I couldn't look away
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Mar 5, 2021 01:49
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Try Undone. e: also Upload e2: also Undone might be the best show i've ever seen high, so there's that advice as well.
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Mar 5, 2021 01:54
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). For comedies I would recommend The Good Place. Its hits the mystery box and and the Big Social Themes checks perfectly. If you haven't already, do not read a thing about it before starting, just start, you won't regret it.
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Netflix's Pacific Rim anime, Pacific Rim: The Black, dropped today. From the first episode it looks like it takes place in an alternate timeline than the movies as the story follows a group of survivors 5 years after Australia is abandoned to the kaiju.
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Dispatches from Elsewhere Fargo Legion The Man in High Castle
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Mar 5, 2021 03:13
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Shageletic posted:i watched clips of the episode with the immensely short guy and the woman from the Phillippines and please tell me there is other as good content in there, I couldn't look away are you referring to Survivor or 90 Day Fiance? Leif's Triumph perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgBBK1vV8k
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swickles posted:For comedies I would recommend The Good Place. Its hits the mystery box and and the Big Social Themes checks perfectly. If you haven't already, do not read a thing about it before starting, just start, you won't regret it. I cannot stress enough that you will not regret it.
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Lodge 49 checks off all your boxes fancy stats fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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I just finished watching The Prisoner for the first time, and while I'd absorbed "Number Six is really Number One" through pop-culture osmosis before I ever saw an episode (and man, those episodes of Reboot and Aqua Teen Hunger Force make a lot more sense now), having now seen them all, I actually don't really get it. That didn't seem the point of Fall Out, like, at all. And yes, I saw the number on his door, I saw it in Many Happy Returns and thought it was neat foreshadowing, not literally the only piece of evidence apart from four very strange seconds in a very strange hour. Can someone walk me through how that theory got started and picked up enough steam to be so widely reocgnized that I'd know it before I knew practically anything else about the show?
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Shageletic posted:Try Undone. drat, I was hoping no one would notice we are watching these shows high. The less gruesomeness, the better for our stoned idiot brains (Hannibal and The Knick are sadly out). Thank you for all the recommendations! These all look great.
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space marine todd posted:drat, I was hoping no one would notice we are watching these shows high. The less gruesomeness, the better for our stoned idiot brains (Hannibal and The Knick are sadly out). Avenue 5!
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). If you don't mind anime, go watch Monster. It's a solid 74-episode mystery drama series set in 90's Germany tracking a serial killer.
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Looten Plunder posted:are you referring to Survivor or 90 Day Fiance? 90 day fiance. I dont like reality shows but that blew my mind. The temerity of this 50 year old 3 foot dude just ripping apart this beautiful woman, unreal. But he gets his tho.
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space marine todd posted:drat, I was hoping no one would notice we are watching these shows high. The less gruesomeness, the better for our stoned idiot brains (Hannibal and The Knick are sadly out). You're gonna like Undone then probably. I watvhed it with my gf and its a great compromise btw us bc it didnt have any gruesomeness. Just spaced out weirdness. Its like Waking Life, the TV show. So underrated
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Paramount + has a Real World Reunion series featuring the cast of the original NYC series and now I need P+.
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space marine todd posted:Is this where I can ask for recommendations? My partner and I really enjoy two kinds of shows: weird/mystery box shows (Lost, X-Files, and Twin Peaks) and shows full of beautiful cinematography/music/Big Social Themes (My Brilliant Friend, The Young Pope, and High Maintenance). Mr Robot
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space marine todd posted:drat, I was hoping no one would notice we are watching these shows high. The less gruesomeness, the better for our stoned idiot brains (Hannibal and The Knick are sadly out). Dispatches From Elsewhere and Lodge 49 are especially good, though the mystery box parts are more upbeat and whimsical than the shows you listed.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:56
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https://twitter.com/kickitupanacho/status/1367693483188883456 Sad to see this happen but he probably has multiple tchotchke induced TBIs
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Shageletic posted:i watched clips of the episode with the immensely short guy and the woman from the Phillippines and please tell me there is other as good content in there, I couldn't look away That's a lot of what 90 day fiance is. What you were watching was one of the latest seasons of Before the 90 Days which is probably the best series for craziness since it's usually showing the couples either meeting or trying to meet for the first time. Like there are times when it's obvious the producers may set up situations or people playing asprcts of themselves up you just can't stop looking. If you have hulu I recommend watching it.
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So I've heard they're making new Beavis & Butthead for Paramount+?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:So I've heard they're making new Beavis & Butthead for Paramount+? They announced a new show with them as 40 year old dads and I think a movie was also announced. Maybe Judge will remember how to do the Beavis voice this time.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/kickitupanacho/status/1367693483188883456 Yeah this is kind of hosed.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/kickitupanacho/status/1367693483188883456
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Strange days we live in lads
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Rhyno posted:They announced a new show with them as 40 year old dads and I think a movie was also announced. He should get someone else if it screws up his throat or whatever. Not sure how I feel about the whole idea, but the last revival was great.
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Rhyno posted:They announced a new show with them as 40 year old dads and I think a movie was also announced. 40 year old Beavis probably speaks in a lower register or whatever
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I actually enjoyed the latest episode of Young Rock, the show is pretty fun when it deals with all the classic wrestlers, that should just have been what the show was about.
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Watched The Watch the other night and it brings up a question that a few adaptations have brought up, which is why you would bother to pay money for the rights to a fairly obscure property if you're going to change 95% of it.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:15
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Eh, Discworld hasn't quite broken into the mainstream but that doesn't make it obscure
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MarsPearl posted:Watched The Watch the other night and it brings up a question that a few adaptations have brought up, which is why you would bother to pay money for the rights to a fairly obscure property if you're going to change 95% of it. Because the number of people you think will pay attention to the show solely because it's Discworld (and thus money you will make) is greater than the licensing fee costs. How accurate the assumption and whatever voodoo math they use to quantify it is, your guess is as good as mine.
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Oasx posted:I actually enjoyed the latest episode of Young Rock, the show is pretty fun when it deals with all the classic wrestlers, that should just have been what the show was about. 5 minutes into the first episode I texted my friend saying he should absolutely check it out, all the old wrestling heads are awesome to see etc. At the end of the episode I had to retract my enthusiasm. Maybe it's just growing up on 80s wrestling is why that era of the show works so well for me, but it's far more interesting than the 90s stuff which to me doesn't really have a hook (I haven't seen the next episodes yet mind, so that might change).
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MarsPearl posted:Watched The Watch the other night and it brings up a question that a few adaptations have brought up, which is why you would bother to pay money for the rights to a fairly obscure property if you're going to change 95% of it. Apparently he's the UK's second best selling author worldwide with 70 million books sold, so Pratchett is definitely not minor in the UK.
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Plus, it avoids legal entanglements if a PART of your story infringes. Like, if you want to use one element and worry that using that will get you into a legal battle, it may be worth it just to license.
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The question the Watch brought to my mind is "considering Terry Pratchett is so very popular, why is getting a good adaptation of his take so much drat effort" Hogfather was really good though, Susan and Teatime were very well cast
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The things about that style of ironic, meta British writing that Pratchett and Douglas Adams use (and probably other guys that I don't know about) is that they are specifically using conventions used in novel writing to make structural jokes. You can't do that in the same way on screen, so you're going to miss, for example, the wry prose where he uses a turn of phrase literally. The plot and dialog is only part (and I'd say a lesser part) of what makes that style of writing funny and memorable. You'd have to do something that uses television storytelling conventions to get across the same sense of sardonic detachment - I don't know what that would be I'm not that clever.
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