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BetterLekNextTime posted:So anyone watching the last season of Dead to Me and expecting it to be more zany dark comedy and less a meditation on grief miiiight be disappointed. I don't want to spoil but it's really counting on the audience to be fully invested in the friendship between the two leads. For what it's worth I though the last episode worked pretty well on an emotional level even if there are a lot of ludicrous loose ends plot-wise. It almost felt like a disconnected fantasy. If the show had leaned into the surreal much in the previous 3 seasons I'd even suspect we were supposed to assume its fantasy but it's just not that kind of show. The season was kind of a challenging watch and I'm still working out how I feel about it but I didn't hate it. I know someone who's late husband died 2 months before the show started and watched specifically for the grief stuff and she loved the ending.
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The wife and I blasted through S1 of White Lotus over the last couple of days, and holy poo poo is that some amazing TV. One of the best written, acted, and produced shows that I've seen in a long time. Was there a S1 discussion thread? Finished it last night and now all I want to do is talk about it and see other takes on all of the craziness.
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There was a TVIV thread for Season 1.
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In the end I went for a cop show. I am going through Southland. Real solid, with excellent character development. It also has one of the most annoying cops in a tv show, joining the ranks of infuriating shitheads like Shane from The Shield or Herc from The Wire. I hope Dewey dies. But the censorship is baffling. I am watching on HBO Max. Season 1 was fine. In season 2 they started bleeping "gently caress" and one episode put an honest to god mosaic over dead lady's face. One "gently caress" was uncensored for some reason. And now season 3 has no bleeps again. Just weird.
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Finished Wednesday the other night and was surprised to find it... good? I was expecting it to be just entertaining à la Sabrina or Riverdale, but it managed to be significantly less schlocky. Jenna Ortega made a great Wednesday Addams and the writing was pretty snappy throughout. A couple episodes did have a glaringly unearned tie ups to the threads of a couple supporting characters, feeling like a few key scenes to complete their arcs had been left on the cutting room floor, but nothing too egregious. Some of the writing hinted at message of stopping a cycle of violence and retribution that maintained the division between outcasts and normies, which unfortunately didn't get much follow up. It'd be neat if they do explore it in another season, but I suspect they'll fall to the temptation of dialing up the schlock.
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sad question posted:Can someone recommend a good medical show? Stuff I watched:
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I don't know how old you are but there's always M*A*S*H. It's a bit uneven quality episode to episode and holy wow the misogyny is kind of insane at times from a 21st century perspective but it's a classic. M*A*S*H nails a lot of the medical feel, in the same way that the best episodes of Scrubs capture the feel of medical training.
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anatomi posted:The Kingdom Legit answer
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Rewatched the first two seasons of Atlanta before watching the final two. A really super well written show with great characters. My main gripe, and I'm guessing one of the reasons why they ended it, is that they were getting to the point where the main storyline was basically secondary to the standalone and single character side story episodes. I'm guessing that Donald Glover wanted a bigger sandbox to play in. Either way....really good show. But don't be expecting much with closure or anything.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Rewatched the first two seasons of Atlanta before watching the final two. A really super well written show with great characters. My main gripe, and I'm guessing one of the reasons why they ended it, is that they were getting to the point where the main storyline was basically secondary to the standalone and single character side story episodes. I'm guessing that Donald Glover wanted a bigger sandbox to play in. Either way....really good show. But don't be expecting much with closure or anything. The first, second, and fourth seasons are Donald Glover's masterpieces. The third can be skipped entirely.
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I’ve been rewatching Girls for the first time since college and I’m astonished at how good it is.
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I can't really watch shows in which I dislike the main character like in Girls. Same goes for Vikings. Ragnar is such a lousy selfobsessed oval office which make me lose the will to watch the entire show untill the end, eventhough it's an overall good show
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emo-ignorance posted:I’ve been rewatching Girls for the first time since college and I’m astonished at how good it is. I never watched the entire thing because most of the characters wore me down. But it brought about an absolutely brilliant SNL sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njs7TFQ0b2s&t=2s
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Rewatched the first two seasons of Atlanta before watching the final two. A really super well written show with great characters. My main gripe, and I'm guessing one of the reasons why they ended it, is that they were getting to the point where the main storyline was basically secondary to the standalone and single character side story episodes. I'm guessing that Donald Glover wanted a bigger sandbox to play in. Either way....really good show. But don't be expecting much with closure or anything. Its like David Lynch meets Monty Python. Its perfect.
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sad question posted:In the end I went for a cop show. I am going through Southland. Real solid, with excellent character development. It also has one of the most annoying cops in a tv show, joining the ranks of infuriating shitheads like Shane from The Shield or Herc from The Wire. I hope Dewey dies. Before I finished reading this sentence I knew which annoying cop you were referring to. quote:But the censorship is baffling. I am watching on HBO Max. Season 1 was fine. In season 2 they started bleeping "gently caress" and one episode put an honest to god mosaic over dead lady's face. One "gently caress" was uncensored for some reason. And now season 3 has no bleeps again. Just weird. Southland was originally on network TV (NBC, then they canceled it after Season 2, then TBS picked it up for the remaining seasons). That may explain some of the weird censoring.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Lots of good actors, and very creative designs even if the visual effects are dated. The stories aren't ones that are common in American media. Worth checking out. The whole series is on archive.org
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h3r0n posted:Its like David Lynch meets Monty Python. Its perfect. We're on season two and it really is an amazing show. The appearance of a certain vehicle in one episode was one of the greatest call back/sight gags I've ever seen, I laughed so loving hard.
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Buttchocks posted:Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Lots of good actors, and very creative designs even if the visual effects are dated. The stories aren't ones that are common in American media. Worth checking out. The whole series is on archive.org Oh man, I love the visuals. The puppets are the entire point of the thing. Do they have the second series as well, the Greek one? So cool.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Oh man, I love the visuals. The puppets are the entire point of the thing. It is also there, and very good! Wouldn't be Jim Henson without cool puppets.
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At some point recently HBO added From the Earth to the Moon to HBOMax. It's a solid miniseries that was released shortly after Apollo 13 and has a ton of well known faces. Definitely recommend any space fans to give it a watch.
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Andor and Atlanta. I've watched a bunch of other things but compared to those, it's all loving trash.
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Meatgrinder posted:Andor and Atlanta. I've watched a bunch of other things but compared to those, it's all loving trash. Andor is as good as people say?
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Random Hero posted:Andor is as good as people say? Best thing to come out of the franchise to date.
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It’d still be great if it wasn’t Star Wars.
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Meatgrinder posted:Andor and Atlanta. I've watched a bunch of other things but compared to those, it's all loving trash. Add another "A" show: Abbott Elementary
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Andor has great performances, a good story, and the production designer from Chernobyl who went absolutely nuts building and dressing sets so everything looks real. Even if you don't do Star Wars, it's still an excellent show about fascism is bad and you should watch it.
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Does it matter if I haven't watched Kenobi or The Mandalorian to watch Andor? I literally know almost nothing about the various tv series. I have seen the movies.
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Tsyni posted:Does it matter if I haven't watched Kenobi or The Mandalorian to watch Andor? I literally know almost nothing about the various tv series. I have seen the movies. Nope, completely standalone.
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Tony Gilroy, the creator of the show, has said in interviews that he doesn't give a gently caress about Star Wars as a franchise. It's part of what makes the show so accessible. First couple episodes are meh but it ramps up quickly from there.
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I like Star Wars just enough to watch their live action shows, mostly because Mandalorian season one was so drat good. Boba Fett and Kenobi were both trash so I wasn't even gonna bother with Andor until people kept talking about how good it was. I didn't much care for Rogue One. Andor is the best media in the entire franchise. I wasn't sure about it until the big action setpiece of episode 3 but holy poo poo. It's basically just 4 movies about fascism and retroactively makes the entire franchise better by upping the gravitas of everything happening. Edit: I've been rewatching the Avatar shows. Just finished Airbender. One of the best shows ever produced. I have no idea how it ever came about, especially on Nickelodeon. It rides the line of episodic and serial storytelling perfectly. A cohesive narrative from start to finish that comes together at the end beautifully. Started Korra up again, which is gorgeous with maybe the best animation of any American show ever. Too bad it's bogged down by the characters, who are just neither as fun nor as compelling as anyone in the original show. Excited to get to season 3 when the stories go from "good" to "fantastic" though. MokBa fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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i bet the people who are extra vocal about not liking Andor are extra okay with the real world fascism the US is plunging into
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I don't like that Disney made it
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Andor is pretty good and certainly the best SW show but it’s nowhere near Atlanta, or many of the other best shows of the year like Saul, Severance, Rehearsal, etc. People like to ascribe a lot of depth to it that isn’t really there (or suggest it goes full-tilt into exploring themes it actually only barely scratches the surface of) because they’re so used to SW stuff being dumb as hell that one being actually reasonably thoughtful has them losing their poo poo. There’s a lot of good side characters but Andor himself is still basically a nothing character and Gilroy can claim that’s intentional all he wants but he’s still the protagonist and titular character of the show and that’s still a huge huge issue You should still watch it though
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I watched the first three episodes of Andor and it’s OK. But compared to everything related to Star Wars since 1984 it may as well be Casablanca. I may finish out the series, but I kinda wanna binge through Willow this weekend instead.
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Back to more cool new things: Pantheon (AMC+) - US anime. It’s so good. A stacked voice cast. A bonkers premise. Absolutely one of the best new shows this year. Season 1 is only 8 episodes and will not waste your time. Go in blind, you won’t be disappointed. Another 8 episode season 2 is already in the hopper too. Edit: if you must have a synopsis: a tense thriller where nothing is as it first appears. Really nails a feeling of paranoia and dread. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Dec 2, 2022 |
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I enjoyed Andor and Wednesday. I watched all eight episodes of the latter in less than 24 hours. Last night I made a mistake and watched the first episode of Willow. That was some serious horseshit - D-list garbage that looks like it was filmed at the local Renaissance Fair. The dialogue is painful.
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Klaaz posted:I can't really watch shows in which I dislike the main character like in Girls. Same goes for Vikings. Ragnar is such a lousy selfobsessed oval office which make me lose the will to watch the entire show untill the end, eventhough it's an overall good show it took me multiple attempts to get into breaking bad because everyone seemed so lovely with no redeeming features
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Klaaz posted:I can't really watch shows in which I dislike the main character like in Girls. Same goes for Vikings. Ragnar is such a lousy selfobsessed oval office which make me lose the will to watch the entire show untill the end, eventhough it's an overall good show Ragnar was pretty fun, though
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Robobot posted:I watched the first three episodes of Andor and it’s OK. But compared to everything related to Star Wars since 1984 it may as well be Casablanca. For what it's worth, I was also a bit ambivalent on Andor for the first few episodes. But I stuck with it and I thought it improved dramatically from an already decent start around episodes 5-6 and onward. It's not just the best SW thing in a long while, it's also a genuinely good show on its own merits without having to grade on a curve.
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