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The Tick season 2 just dropped on Amazon Prime. Early reports suggest it is quite excellent. I liked the first season a lot so I'm excited.
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If anyone liked season 1 of The Tick I can heartily recommend season 2. It's great so far and as I get near the end, I think it's getting even better - episodes 7 and 8 are my favorites so far (haven't watched 9 and 10 yet).
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Apr 6, 2019 11:59
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned Insecure during the HBO talk so far. Insecure is stupendous.
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Apr 11, 2019 07:18
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veni veni veni posted:I’m rewatching party down for the first time since it was still airing and it’s still so good
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Jun 29, 2019 12:58
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MrXmas posted:This list is missing The Handmaiden and Parasite
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Oct 29, 2019 07:33
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Starks posted:Thinking of asking my book store to only sell me novels in one-chapter increments so I don’t get ahead of my boys in the book club
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Nov 27, 2019 13:56
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ozmunkeh posted:It’s a Saturday morning kids’ serial about space pew pew battles. As long as you don’t expect anything other than that it’s perfectly fine. 12 year old me would have loved the poo poo out of it. I got to the prison episode and haven’t picked it up since. Not because it’s necessarily bad but because I don’t feel the need to see anymore, it’s not like there’s some complex story I’m going to miss the ending to. The acting is real loving bad though.
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Jan 9, 2020 01:21
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I'm like, very late to the party, but Ramy (on Hulu) (for which the lead just won a Golden Globe) is absolutely fantastic. One of my favorite TV shows. There's a second season coming this year and I am now very excited.
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Jan 14, 2020 05:23
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Human Tornada posted:Do you like R-rated Batman & Robin (1997) mixed with bad 90's Sci-Fi Channel original series? Because that's what the show felt like to me, corny and graceless, but I seem to be in the minority on this one so give it a shot I guess.
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Feb 28, 2020 05:11
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Atlantics is good, yeah. I think it could've done more interesting stuff with its premise (it sort of goes out of its way not to say as much interesting stuff about gender and sexuality as it could've) but what's there is great.
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Feb 29, 2020 06:07
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Terriers is one of those shows like Party Down or (sue me) Firefly which was too good for this awful world and so it died long before its time. But what little we got is beautiful and precious. Anyone into neo-noir owes it to themselves to check out Terriers. It's kind of on the same wavelength as Veronica Mars but instead of neo-noir mixed with high school drama set in not-San Diego, it's neo-noir straight set in actual San Diego.
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Mar 3, 2020 05:53
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Mover posted:Yeah Devs is REALLY good so far. Love me some Alex Garland Glottis posted:Definitely enjoyed the first couple episodes of Devs, but it's poised to go off the rails in existential pseudoscience artsy stuff, for better or worse.
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Mar 10, 2020 04:22
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Tainen posted:I watched all the episodes of Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina & Annihilation) new FX show Devs that have been released so far and it has been fantastic. Garland wrote and directed all the episodes so if you are a fan of his previous work you will be into it.
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Mar 24, 2020 05:36
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I'm a little late to the Ramy talk but it's one of my favorite TV shows of all time so I figure I should say that yes, it's sort of a BoJack thing where the protagonist is a deeply awful person, but unlike BoJack Horseman, which is interested mostly in like, fame and Hollywood and existential crises and stuff, Ramy is interested in things like conservatism and liberalism, religion and sexism, Islam, America and immigration and racism, etc. If you go in looking for a redemption story you'll end up so frustrated that you write an interminable screed which is effectively just a plot summary without failing to realize that, yes, you are just describing the TV show you watched, not actually explaining what's ostensibly wrong with it. It's also often hilarious (especially S1) and season 2 episode 9 made me cry harder than any piece of media since Schindler's List. So, I would recommend it wholeheartedly as long as you aren't turned off by shows about bad people. (For what it's worth, I think the show is very good about, on the one hand, exploring why Ramy is such a terrible person, and on the other hand, not being at all didactic. It's a very compassionate, nuanced, subtle exploration about the ways in which someone like Ramy can end up deeply hosed up and terrible because of who he is and the cultures he belongs to. In two entire seasons there's only one tiny part where the show gets very slightly didactic, and that's when Mia Khalifa, a Muslim former porn star, cameos as herself, so I can forgive the show for being a little less subtle when it's dealing with a real person's life.)
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Aug 23, 2020 06:11
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Search Party is amazing.
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Sep 21, 2020 02:52
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John Yossarian posted:I've been watching Party Down on Hulu recently, I forgot how good it is.
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Sep 25, 2020 03:02
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I've also seen people complain that it changed a lot of the source material (the novel) in ways that are kind of upsetting if you liked the book, but I had never even heard of the book I think so that wouldn't be a consideration for me.
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Sep 27, 2020 04:51
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Here to reiterate that Search Party is amazing.
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Jan 12, 2021 03:30
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OldSenileGuy posted:I've only watched the first season, but you're spot-on with the insufferable millenials comment. I still can't tell if we're supposed to hate these characters or not. I can deal with them when they're doing interesting stuff like (s1 spoilers) investigating weird cult poo poo or sneaking through a mansion in montreal, but whenever the show detours into their bullshit personal lives/struggles I zone out.
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Jan 19, 2021 08:04
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Nihonniboku posted:Yeah, I've never really enjoyed any Ghibli movies that weren't done by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:16
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RCarr posted:God drat that looks terrible
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Feb 18, 2021 05:49
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Glottis posted:I know you're joking but honestly people would benefit from going back to the old timey method, which is finding a single critic that has the same taste as them and just following their advice, rather than depending on some weird amalgam of reviews that is usually misinterpreted
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Apr 21, 2021 16:43
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One Cut of the Dead!
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May 27, 2021 05:40
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Plan B, which is streaming now on Hulu, is pretty funny.
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May 29, 2021 14:39
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Plan B, which is streaming now on Hulu, is pretty funny. Also, Shiva Baby (available for rent/purchase on a bunch of streaming sites, free nowhere I think) is really good if you basically want a Jewish comedy version of Rachel Getting Married. It's one of my favorite movies I've seen in a long, long time.
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May 31, 2021 04:48
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I just watched Inside and I also think it's great. One of Burnham's biggest themes in all his work is the persona he presents and its relation to who he "really" is. There's a good bit about this in Make Happy (also on Netflix) for instance. But it's really at the forefront of Inside and I think it's impressive how much he reinforces that visually (like with the projections of himself) and in that skit about the reaction video. Nothing about him ever strikes me as fake or inauthentic in terms of the emotions he's presenting, but it's true that it's all a performance and maybe for some people anything that's a performance will always come off as fake. Burnham himself worries about this and worries that his whole life is fake, really (that's part of what the bit in Make Happy is about) so, do with that what you will. For me, at least, I appreciate how meta all of his stuff is. He clearly thinks about these things a lot and works to make that thinking come across. At least he's wrestling with the authenticity in a thoughtful way, rather than trying to ignore it, like lots of performers do. I think that's why a lot of standup rubs me the wrong way. Like Burnham it's a weird mix of performance and authenticity but unlike Burnham it just asks you to ignore (and hopes you don't think about) authenticity in the first place.
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Jun 5, 2021 09:07
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The praise for Burnham makes me sad that more people haven't seen his show Zack Stone is Gonna Be Famous. It was excellent and sadly only got one short season, but that's the risk of being a scripted comedy on MTV in 2013. The whole thing is available on prime for $10, I really recommend it to everyone if you want more of his style of comedy with heart.
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Jun 5, 2021 14:28
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If anyone has Mubi I believe Shiva Baby is streaming on it. It's quite good, if you ask me.
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Jun 13, 2021 11:03
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Simone Magus posted:turns out, people just don't wanna go see bad movies
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Jun 15, 2021 18:36
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Junkie Disease posted:Loki just became real good
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Jun 17, 2021 06:42
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mcmagic posted:I actually like it but OMG is the CGI bad.
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Jun 28, 2021 03:14
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A MIRACLE posted:It looked cold to me in that movie. They depicted her going south to like Wyoming as a warmer climate
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Jun 28, 2021 04:45
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I don't know if everyone will love Soderbergh's latest, No Sudden Move (HBO Max) as much as me, but it's one of the best movies I've seen in a while by my lights, so it comes highly recommended. Moves at a nice clip, great period setting, a stupendous cast, and plenty of intrigue. The plot's played pretty close to the vest so if you like to watch movies with one eye on your phone or whatever you'll have to resign yourself to never knowing what's going on.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:25
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leekster posted:Is this the Criterion Channel and Mubi thread as well?
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Jul 14, 2021 09:03
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Escobarbarian posted:jesus ultra city smiths is amazing
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Jul 25, 2021 01:45
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I'm three episodes in to Ultra City Smiths and I think it's the sort of thing that everyone should watch an episode of just in case they like it, because if it's your jam it's definitely your jam. Absolutely from the same guy as Patriot - he has a real distinct voice, it seems. I'm definitely going to track down his third show, Perpetual Grace Ltd. since I'm definitely on this guy's wavelength. He's like a mutated third Coen brother.
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Aug 16, 2021 15:34
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Carwash oval office posted:Has Annette already been talked about to death? I watched the first half last night and have some questions.
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Sep 8, 2021 03:23
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tweet my meat posted:I loved Atomic Blonde because it told a very John Le Carre esque spy story with the more modern John Wick sensibilities. In my opinion, it nails the spy action formula better than just about any other movie. It's not as dry as a pure spy movie, but it isn't just pure action and spectacle like a Bond or Mission Impossible flick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYtGJGp-9hA
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Sep 13, 2021 08:23
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magiccarpet posted:Paradise Hills is a very pretty movie to watch. Its all high fashion and Emma Roberts does her best Natalie Portman.
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Sep 14, 2021 17:14
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We just call that Prebop and Postbop.
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