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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The movie About Time is streaming on Netflix. It's from 2013 but I never saw it before last night. It's very sweet and well done and has a good message. It's such a wonderful movie, and Domhnall Gleeson is adorable in it.
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veni veni veni posted:A lot HBO shows in recent years have the tendency to knock your socks off right out of the gate and slowly degrade into mediocrity or crap. That's usually Showtime's MO. I think the only Showtime show that managed to stay good the longest was Dexter before it went to crap, with 4 seasons. Most of their shows only stay good for max two seasons.
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Mar 26, 2020 03:09
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I'm watching Tiger King and I'm confused in how Carol is different than anyone else. I mean...she puts the tigers in cages too... I'm on episode 3 I think right now. I think the idea is that she currently is not breeding any cats. She just takes big cats from people who can no longer handle them on their own. Whereas Joe was actively breeding cats to sell across the country, and Doc was breeding and then killing cats when they were no longer useful to him.
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Mar 29, 2020 02:36
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punk rebel ecks posted:Isn't there a way they can just release the tigers back in the wild? The problem is that they've been raised to be comfortable with people. It's incredibly dangerous to release them into the wild. It's why they are sent to sanctuaries if they can. Otherwise they're put down.
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Mar 29, 2020 04:14
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the difference between a sanctuary and a zoo? Her place and Joe Exotic's didn't seem any different from the episodes I've seen. There are only so many zoos. The show pointed out that there are more big cats kept in private captivity than there are in the wild.
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Mar 29, 2020 04:20
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punk rebel ecks posted:How are the cats at her place living anywhere close to how they do in the wild? They are in cages the size of my apartment! You're right, it's obviously not ideal. The regulation around private ownership of exotic animals is lax enough as it is in the US. There is no money in preserving great swaths of land to be able to sustain big cats that (according to the show) need 400 square miles of territory each.
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Mar 29, 2020 04:28
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SgtScruffy posted:Is Six Feet Under any good/has it held up? I've heard the finale is one of the best ever, but that's about all I've heard of it. Worth the time? I haven't rewatched it in a couple of years, but it is overall very good. There are a couple of subplots that I don't really care for, Lisa's murder and David's assault, but the show holds up. It's a great look into early 2000s life. And you're right about the series finale. I remember watching it with a friend who had never seen the show before, and those last 10 minutes had her in tears.
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Apr 3, 2020 12:56
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Medullah posted:Silicon Valley is good but Barry guys, watch the gently caress out of Barry I watched season 1 of Barry, and honestly don't get the hype around the show. It was fine, but didn't find it particularly funny. I've talked to all of my friends about it, who are all equally ambivalent about it.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:41
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The show is also almost 20 years old now. It pioneered a lot of the comedy that we've seen in the last two decades. I personally think the show peaked with season 3, and has been hit and miss since then. I appreciate though that Larry will take a few years off and come back when he feels up to it.
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Apr 25, 2020 15:38
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wizardofloneliness posted:I don't have much of an opinion about Curb season 4 overall, but The Car Pool Lane is one of the best episodes of the series. If not just on its own merits, but that episode also famously saved a man from death row. https://www.gq.com/story/how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved-a-man-from-death-row
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Apr 26, 2020 14:36
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precision posted:Check out Booksmart on Hulu. Coming of age comedy. Reminded me of PEN15 a bit Absolutely nothing like Pen15, but both are great
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May 2, 2020 16:38
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I'm on the final episode of the new Ryan Murphy Netflix show, Hollywood. I know a lot of Ryan Murphy's shows are inconsistent, but are generally still entertaining enough to keep watching. Hollywood is maybe the worst thing he's ever done? The tone is wildly inconsistent. It can't tell if it is a light hearted comedy throwback to old school Hollywood movies, or an edgy take on the racism and homophobia in Hollywood. Any obstacles any of the characters face, they are immediately resolved in the next scene. Dumped by the love of their life? They find new love minutes later. Characters are introduced setup to be important to the plot, and then immediately forgotten. All of the characters are fictional, except for Rock Hudson? Why is Rock Hudson a character? Why not!
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May 2, 2020 23:43
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I realized recently that I never got around to watching Maniac on Netflix. Is that something that's worth going back and check out? I haven't heard anyone talk about it since it was first released with a ton of hype.
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May 8, 2020 00:08
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Sir Kodiak posted:Does Schitt's Creek have a rough opening, or if I found the first two episodes pretty lousy should I call it there? Comedy is subjective, not saying others can't love it, just wondering if it's like Parks and Rec where the standard thinking is that it gets better. I wouldn't call the start rough, but they do take some time to find themselves, and the show eventually grows a lot of heart. I think that the show very easily could have become very cynical, but it went the opposite direction and became a better show because of it.
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May 8, 2020 22:30
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Im on season 3 of Mad Men and lmao at the discovery/hallucination about Don's real name being based in vengeful castration As someone who has watched the show several times, including a recent rewatch, I have no clue what you're talking about. Care to explain?
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May 11, 2020 18:09
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Punkin Spunkin posted:When Don is imagining his origins and circumstances of his birth/conception. Don's dad convinced Don's mom (a sex worker) to sleep with him without a condom saying he couldnt afford one. She warns him, afraid of getting knocked up or getting an STD: “I'm going to cut your dick off and boil it in hog fat.” (if anything bad comes of this) Thanks. I definitely remember that part, I think the joke just slipped past me. For a serious drama, Mad Men makes me laugh more than pretty much any other show.
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May 12, 2020 13:03
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The MSJ posted:The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix Excellent season one. It somehow becomes a standard teen drama despite all the satan stuff after that.
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May 13, 2020 13:04
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al-azad posted:Anybody have positive review for Middleditch and Schwartz? I laughed quite a bit at the first episode. Been meaning to go back to it.
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May 15, 2020 23:01
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Winkle-Daddy posted:I just watched the documentary Tickled on hulu last night. you really can't say anything about it as it'd give too much away. I think you can give the basic premise that it's a documentary by David Ferrier about the dark underground world of competitive tickling. It's crazy where the movie goes. He also has that Netflix show Dark Tourist which is also worth checking out.
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May 16, 2020 19:30
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Junkie Disease posted:gently caress everything, where can I stream the best of Fred Willard,(that's most his movies) Off the top of my head, Wall-E is on Disney+
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May 17, 2020 04:40
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:well no more free HBO on hulu so I only got three seasons into the sopranos. No. I get that it was revolutionary for 1999 when it first aired. But watching it for the first time with all of the quality television we have today, I think your assessment is correct, in retrospect it is pretty formulaic. Great acting, but I got bored with it, and I only finished it at the insistence of an ex.
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May 18, 2020 17:54
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feedmyleg posted:I think Lechtansi has a point, but it's more that the shorter season order of shows allows them not to feel stretched out to infinity and to have their budgets used to appear a bit more cinematic. I still think that the bottom of today's barrel is as bad as the bottom of 1985's barrel, and the peak of today is only a bit higher than the peak of the same time, and probably the average is about the same all things said and done, but a show that would get a 26 episode order then is much likelier to be tighter and more concise today. Maybe? Oh, I don't know. I think you might be giving older shows more credit than they deserve. Very few shows before the modern era actually planned out the story beyond a stray 2 or 3 episode arc. Even peak television like Twin Peaks and X-Files suffered because despite promises of mysteries to be solved, they were ultimately just pulling poo poo out of their rear end. Most everything was story of the week or procedural, and if you happened to get a good character moment, it was sheer luck.
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May 18, 2020 23:34
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feedmyleg posted:Looking through random TV lineups is always eye-opening. There was a Fast Times at Ridgemont High show?? There was a Ferris Bueller tv show starring Jennifer Aniston pre nose job.
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May 19, 2020 00:03
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precision posted:People think the average quality of all art has gone up, but they're just confusing production values for quality. Can you provide a list of older shows that prove this? That hold up across the board in terms of quality against the best shows of the last 15, 20 years? I don't think that anybody is arguing the shows today are better because they have a better budget or access to better technology. It all comes down to the storytelling.
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May 19, 2020 17:10
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veni veni veni posted:The biggest reason that episodic television seems so much better now is probably the switch from 22+ episodes per season to 8-10 episodes per season. I imagine it's almost impossible to write 22 episodes of something, every year for years and not have it result in a huge dip in quality. And to go with this, the goal isn't necessarily to get a show to at least 100 episodes to go to syndication anymore. Between streaming on demand, and the push back from content creators to end their stories when they want to rather than at the whim of the network to keep on ordering season after season, meaning they can never meaningfully wrap up a story because they have to keep it going.
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May 19, 2020 23:19
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Glottis posted:Anyone else watch Upload? I enjoyed it. I by no means think anyone would enjoy it as much as the shows I'm going to mention next, but it has similar elements to The Good Place and Superstore. It is much less zany than The Good Place (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) but has the same elements of basically anything being possible except in this case there are at least some rules. It's also got a strange sort of relaxation similar to Superstore with its random interstitials. I dunno, maybe my standards are dropping, but I'd watch more. I've avoided it because it looked too similar to The Good Place, which is strange since both of their creators come out of The Office. Also, the lead actor looks like he has zero charisma in all the commercials. But I have heard from other people that they liked it. Glottis posted:I'm afraid to watch it but probably will because she's the best and deserves leading roles Same. Lauren Lapkus is the best.
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May 21, 2020 03:45
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I'm finally watching Hunters on Amazon right now, and I was wrong to put it off. I'm really enjoying it. One strange thing though is that it takes place in the 1970s. They have all these characters who were young during WW2, but then the actors playing them in "present" day are all ancient. I suspect that what happened was when they cast Al Pacino, they were like, "gently caress, well, now we have to cast everyone else to be his age."
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May 21, 2020 04:10
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Sir Not Appearing posted:I did a little searching and the little I found says either: Speaking of, I read yesterday that God's Own Country on Amazon is missing scenes, particularly sex scenes. Amazon released a statement stating that it wasn't their doing, that it's the version that the studio (MGM) sent to them. MGM said they edited it because they thought the scenes would force an M rating on the film. Apparently though, the original version is available on Kanopy, a streaming service I keep forgetting is available to pretty much everybody.
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May 21, 2020 13:10
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They also have Studio Ghibili movies. Starting Spirited Away on my lunch break.
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May 27, 2020 17:14
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is this the first time they've been available on a streaming service? Yup, first time. veni veni veni posted:If someone has HBO now already, do they need to cancel/convert to HBO Max, or it it just done automatically? On the website I had to confirm that I wanted to convert to HBO Max. It wasn't available on my Amazon Fire Stick. My Android phone already had it updated and I didn't need to log in again.
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May 27, 2020 23:04
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Deadite posted:Why won’t HBO put Tales from the Crypt on to their streaming services? Or any of their early original shows for that matter? Are there music rights issues?
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May 28, 2020 05:04
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching the MLK assassination episode of Mad Men and im curious...does anyone feel its kinda affected by a more modern perspectice? Im not asserting it is, just asking. Oh, I don't know. Betty definitely felt more inconvenienced by it. Betty was definitely racist. Remember how she treated Carla? After the "I Have a Dream" speech she told Carla that now wasn't the time for equal rights. Then she cruelly fired Carla, who basically raised her children, because she let Glenn, who Betty had an irrational hatred of, into the house.
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May 29, 2020 13:04
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Are you referring to the road rules/real world thing? So it's not hosted by TJ Lavin? nate fisher posted:I have been rewatching the great Parts Unknown on HBO Max, and it has one of the worst intro songs. How could have Anthony approved that song? I probably would never normally like the song, but my love for Anthony Bourdain shows no boundaries. I miss him so much, and I'm so glad to finally have access to the full series. For years, Netflix only had the last few seasons.
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May 31, 2020 05:32
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beanieson posted:On my Roku HBOgo is still there and HBO Max is not yet available. I was able to install Max on my tablet and cast the video to my Tv but it’s kinda clunky and I wish Roku would get the drat app... Yeah, I have HBO Now on my Firestick, and HBO Max on my PS4 and Android phone.
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Jun 2, 2020 16:03
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regulargonzalez posted:I think in his younger days he did a lot of dancing ala Fred Astaire and so they wanted him to show off his chops during his send-off. That's exactly right.
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Clueless is back on Netflix after being absent from any streaming service for a few years. It turns 25 years old this year, and still holds up.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:What’s even the point of a host-less Unsolved Mysteries? The cheesy reenactments?
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Papercut posted:I rewatched Clueless last night and it was even better than I remember. That movie is amazing. It loving holds up 25 years later.
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veni veni veni posted:The DJ was a baffling choice. Ah yes, let’s take this good looking guy who is well off with a nice house and convince him to quit his day job to follow his lame DJ dream. So inspiring. That guy was still behaving like a frat boy at 40, so I could understand why they did him. I didn't understand the 18 year old activist. She was so young, living in a group house with friends, and had experienced nothing challenging in life. She's 18, still figuring stuff out, and seemed very driven. They didn't even do that much with her. That one baffled me. Also I've realized that as the show has gone on, Antoni has started behaving more and more strangely each season. I've realized that he's someone who is probably very naturally a very strange person, he's just more comfortable about showing it 4 (?) seasons in. He's someone who has just benefited greatly in life from being ridiculously good looking.
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Chas McGill posted:I can forgive the bad episodes because the Tyreek episode was awesome. haha, I don't know if Antoni is creepy. Just a loving weirdo.
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