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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Patriot is a masterpiece and if you haven't seen it yet you should be ashamed. You disgust me.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011


Why would anyone do this :psyduck:

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

PriorMarcus posted:

It's been removed. So... what was it?

Youtube super star making ad-money off a suicide victim.



EDIT: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42538495

MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 2, 2018

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

less laughter posted:

because they already had a show called Dark

Which is one of the weirdest shows I've ever watched and we really need to talk more about it.





Like how about the first episode seems like some vaguely police procedural kinda of thing and then episode 2 is the adventures of Toilet Demon.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

I'm also going to the a shotout to The End of the loving World. It is astoundingly good.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

In season 3 Lovesick continues to be an intriguing dive into the increasingly terrible hairstyle and facial hair decisions of the male lead.




Oh, and there's also some romance and drama stuff too and it's pretty good. Why am I the only one watching this again?

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

PriorMarcus posted:

Channel 4 is very bad at advertising so I think it did very badly over here as people assumed it was Skins but with a killer. That's why I've not given it the time of day.

Luckily it's nothing like Skins to which I say thank god as someone who didn't get off that tire-fire until the beginning of season 4.

PriorMarcus posted:

I'd never even heard of it until it hit Netflix. Guess this is what I got for not watching any live TV anymore.

Welcome to 2018.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Skins is the archetype case of a show that bought way too much into its own hype.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Escobarbarian posted:

This is completely unrelated to anything but man why do people always bring up that scene in The Wire where they just say "gently caress" or variations thereof as one of the best TV scenes of all time? It's....not good. Especially when you consider how many other great Wire clips there are.

It feels human. That's not something that can be said for TV and cinema portrayals of crime scene investigations which are all either highly stylized or quip-oriented.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

This Is Us fails because it's just so extremely repetitive. It's the actually shameless take on Shameless.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Lurdiak posted:

So now that I'm done with The Good Wife, I need a new procedural or legal drama to keep my nervous system intact. I tried watchimg Midsomer Murders, but so far the pilot is sapping my will to live. And it's 100 minutes long.

Any recommendations?

Go back to Midsomer Murders and jump straight into season 9 or whatever.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

http://people.com/tv/aziz-ansari-statement-report-sexual-encounter/

quote:

In September of last year, I met a woman at a party. We exchanged numbers. We texted back and forth and eventually went on a date. We went out to dinner, and afterwards we ended up engaging in sexual activity, which by all indications was completely consensual.

The next day, I got a text from her saying that although “it may have seemed okay,” upon further reflection, she felt uncomfortable. It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said.

I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture. It is necessary and long overdue.

Well, at least there isn't any doubt about it anymore. :smith:


Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

Donald Glover would break my heart.

Considering what he has spent the last decade rapping about I think it would have happened already if that was the case.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Escobarbarian posted:

Worst thing about that crappy apology is that the story is such that he can likely get away with just that

One of my female friends was doubting the authenticity yesterday (something about how the way it was re-counted didn't seem plausible to her(???), how he doesn't look like a rapist, how the finger thing sounded too ridiculous to be real) but his response crushed all her doubt so who knows.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Shageletic posted:

Welp.

So I've been sans Netflix for most of 2017. Caught up with Death Note and Dear White People which I found to be both delightful. What else did I miss in the legendarily bad year of 2017 on the plaform?

The Punisher (Yes an actually good Marvel show for the first time in years), She's Gotta Have It (one of the weirdest shows of the year), A-typical (cute show), Ozark (Arrested Development, the drama take), etc.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

raditts posted:

Kinda sucks since it is a legit good show but I don't think I'm ever gonna watch it again.

I still hate Kevin Spacey for ruining Baby Driver for me

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

STAC Goat posted:

Its problem is its perfectly delightful but then once it finally starts to get kind of meaty the season just ends unresolved like theres a bunch of episodes missing.

Santa Clarita Diet takes a good cast, a novel premise and a few good opening episodes and proceeds to poo poo-all with them. It's like a reverse Bojack Horseman.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

The best shows of all time are:

Dexter
Under the Dome
Containment
Marvel's Inhumans
I want to say... The Flash?

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Wheat Loaf posted:

What, no Heroes?

I knew I was forgetting something

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

I think we all know that the best show of this decade and retroactively every decade that came before it is and was the Eric Andre Show.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Josh Lyman posted:

Why would you even drink red wine on a first date? It stains your teeth and lips smdh

If that is enough to ruin your date then your date wasn't going anywhere anyway

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

lelandjs posted:

Yup. After Casino Royale fixed how Bond interacts with and acts towards women, they threw it all down the shitter in Skyfall. It's not my only issue with the film, but it's a big one.

Well it's biggest problem remains that it's just not a very good movie

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Edmond Dantes posted:

I'm trying to remember what I think is a series... but may be a movie... or a videogame?

It's sci fi, with ships that jump, and said jumps are controlled by... a woman? who's in a pod a la Minority report; I remember her waking up suddenly and yelling "Jump!" and the ship jumping, but that's kind of all I have.

Did I just mix up a bunch of stuff and hallucinate it?

Sounds like the parody-take on Homeworld.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Vegetable posted:

Is the TV show anywhere near as good as the movie

e: Referring to Dear White People

It's better.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

raditts posted:

Yeah, his hurp durp goon stereotyping doesn't even make sense in the case of DC shows, because those usually get the best reception in season 1 when the show is fresh and they have a lot of ideas to draw from before it settles into a groove.

Person of Interest is one example of a show where the goon consensus seems to be that season 3 is the best of the run.

It might just also be that this goon consensus theory is idiotic. Just might.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

whowhatwhere posted:

I'd say it's about right for the CW superhero shows, but can't really be generalized to a Theory of TVIV Fandom.

Perhaps it works to describe soapy teen-oriented genre dramas (the above, The 100, Teen Wolf, Pretty Little Liars, Riverdale, etc)?

It really doesn't.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Wheat Loaf posted:

I thought Big Little Lies was a miniseries and didn't think miniseries tended to get second seasons. You know, I assumed they were finite by definition?

At least it's not going be as bad as 13 Reasons Why season 2.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

LadyPictureShow posted:

Can anybody explain why they find Eric Andre funny?

Can anyone explain why they find anything funny when we really boil it down?

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

muscles like this! posted:

Happy! got renewed. Although unless this week's finale ends on a cliffhanger I'm not sure where they could go with a second season.

No premise is allowed to be both popular and one-off anymore.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

For the guy who's struggling to get into Banshee, it's biggest problem and biggest strength is that it really is all style and no substance. I don't even mean that in a bad way, but it can get tiring if it's not what you're in the mood for because unlike something like Spartacus it's just very one-note.

Also I just want to re-iterate for the third year in a row that Shameless is a bad show that should have died years ago and I don't know why I or anyone else is even watching it. At no point does it ever commit to any kind of real development and it's always dipping over into self-parody whenever the writers find themselves out of their comfort zone. Every one of the last 4 seasons repeat the formulae of introducing a bunch of interesting premises and then going nowhere with them or forgetting about them altogether.

MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jan 31, 2018

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Rhyno posted:

Counterpoint: Emmy Rossum is beautiful and I want to marry her.

If you want bad entertainment with Emmy Rossum front and center then you'd really get more money for your buck watching the Phantom of the Opera movie adaptation.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

I'd argue Phantom of the Opera is worse than DBZ on the sheer merit that it is actually trying to not be bad.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Are you insinuating that Gamer was not a masterpiece? :colbert:

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

DivisionPost posted:

No, power through, the last episode is good, I swear.

This is cruel

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

After two grueling years I got one of my best friends to get into Bojack Horseman, my life is complete.

quote:

Am I a good person?
Please
Tell Me
Diane

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Escobarbarian posted:

Wow and they’re not even onto the good episodes yet

I know right??? :swoon:

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Sinteres posted:

Fascinating as in 'how the gently caress is this going to be watchable?' maybe. Cranston carried that show on his back, which is why Better Call Saul is at its worst when it tries to be Breaking Bad without Walt instead of the Jimmy show.

Mike is not a character that work with a lot of exposure, I wish the showrunners would start getting that.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

DivisionPost posted:

Yeah, if I’m not falling asleep to MST3K (4 times out of 5), I’m falling asleep to Retsuprae, Rifftrax, or TieTuesday videos.

The Rifftrax of Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn is the ace up my sleeve if I'm really having trouble falling asleep.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Wow that sure was a season opener from izombie :stare:

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Shageletic posted:

So is that a show a one season wonder?

Yes, god yes. Don't watch season 2.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

What I learned after watching TNG is that the best Star Trek show is Stargate.

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