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Anybody watching Jesus Christ Superstar? It's a pretty great show, but I would have thought a controversial choice for Easter. It pointedly doesn't include a resurrection ... Also black Jesus with John Legend playing him, which I would think would piss off a lot of the usual suspect. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Timby posted:I remember it airing two years ago. Legend and Dixon are both excellent, but most of the other casting is pretty naff. Yeah I didn't know it was a rerun. Dixon was loving great. I thought Sarah Bareilles was really good too.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is it bad this actually makes me want to watch it? It's Star Trek so you can skip the first season
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Apr 13, 2020 15:43
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"The Great" is excellent. It reminds me of Iannucci in that it's loving hilarious while deal with bleak reality.
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May 16, 2020 05:50
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MiddleOne posted:Anyone watch HBO's The Great? I hadn't even known its been released if not for an errant cellphone ad. Yeah it loving rules. Everyone should watch it. It's a fictionalized version of Catherine the Great's rise to power. The main thrust of the first season is she arrives in Russia to marry the emperor with naive dreams of benevolently guiding Russia into modernity with all the new ideas that are buzzing around Western Europe. When she gets there, she finds out nearly everyone in the Russian court is a dumb prick, and she starts plotting a coup. I think the thing that takes it from good to excellent is that they don't fall into the trap of making Catherine the stereotype of a hyper-competent woman struggling nobly against the patriarchy. She makes a bunch of dumb mistakes, and her compatriots have their failings as well. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 18:11 on May 18, 2020 |
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May 18, 2020 18:05
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I'm sure Batwoman will be great without Batwoman.Escobarbarian posted:jesus CHRIST the reveal at the end of episode 6 of The Great The reason why Marial's family got demoted to serfs? Rules.
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May 20, 2020 00:35
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May 20, 2020 18:47
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Iron Crowned posted:I didn't see anything wrong with the current Hulu interface Never had an issue with it. The new one doesn't look all that different either.
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May 20, 2020 21:19
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Escobarbarian posted:Finished The Great and I liked it a bunch but think it probably should have been a 30 minute show. Also I was disappointed I didn’t get to see Peter loving die. Gotta save something for for Season 2! Also they've changed the history so much that I don't see any reason to kill him off. Just have him hang around as a powerless washout. He's funny, the show would be worse without him.
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May 20, 2020 22:16
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Argue posted:Haven't started on it yet, but they changed history? As in the big events played out very differently? Or do you just mean that they took a few liberties for the sake of comedy? I don't know much at all about the actual history, just a Wikipedia scan, but the changes appear to be for story structure's sake. They condense Catherine and Peter's relationship a ton. They were married 18 years with 2 kids before he became emperor and then she coup-ed him 6 months later. In the show, she arrives to meet him for the first time and marry him after he's already become emperor. This allows them to do a lot of fish-out-of-water stuff and for Catherine to come to learn what a prick Peter is slowly. I'm sure for comedy's sake that everyone is much, much more awful than they were in real life too. The show's title card bills it as "an occasionally true tale", so they're upfront about it being pretty fictionalized. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 19:03
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Chairman Capone posted:John Krasinski sold off Some Good News. It will now air on CBS All Access and no longer star John Krasinski. Alright I'm no TV executive, but hear me out here. I don't watch this thing, but I assume the reason people are watching it is because of John Krasinski. So, follow me here, if you pay a shitload of money for barely an idea, you should keep John Krasinski in it.
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May 22, 2020 00:44
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:John Krasinski is a CIA asset anyway, gently caress him. I watched the first episode of that Jack Ryan show, and the heroes help kidnap and torture 2 guys on barely a shred of a reason, and they turn out to have been right to do so, and I never watched another episode.
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May 22, 2020 00:48
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muscles like this! posted:What We Do in the Shadows was renewed for another season. Dope
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May 23, 2020 00:08
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Gripweed posted:I found an old history channel special about the Oak Island Mystery Hole and was like, yeah I'll watch some goobers try to dig a hole. That "season one" on the cover is a bit ambitious though, I thought. They aren't gonna be making a season two of the goobers investigating a hole show, I thought. Well ... so what's at the bottom?
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May 23, 2020 16:39
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Not gonna lie, if they animated some Art Bell call-ins and aired it at 2 am I would be incredibly there for it. You can't just give away ideas like this, man.
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May 23, 2020 18:26
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Lurdiak posted:Today's sitcoms have the opposite problem, where cast members just vanish and the show inexplicably keeps going without them. What's the weirdest of these? I never watched the last season of That 70's Show, but didn't Topher Grace bail but the show kept going? Not a sitcom, but Grey's Anatomy went on for like a million years and may still be going as far as I know. Did the titular Grey leave at some point?
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May 23, 2020 20:18
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Glenn Howerton was going to bail on Always Sunny but opted not to between seasons. They wrote his character out and everything. Oh yeah, they even had an episode with Mindy Kaling as his replacement to make fun of shows replacing characters.
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May 23, 2020 20:27
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The Nova Scotia Business Initiative pair for like Half the show’s costs in 2018. Probably makes keeping it on the air a no-brainer for the network. After reading up on the show a bit, I'm picturing Canadian government agents sneaking in every night for 7 years and sabotaging their effort to dig a hole.
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May 24, 2020 21:13
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swickles posted:While a lot of current and last 15 years of Simpsons isn't great, I would like to see select episodes put up against the classics in a blind way, viewed by people who haven't watched and grown up on it. There are a couple episodes that stand out, and there are a lot that are written by pretty accomplished TV writers that I think would be considered good, but the prism of "Simpsons now bad" is a strong one. I know Megan Amran wrote an episode that was the highest rated in several years. I just wondered if you dropped it in the middle of the classic years (references aside) if it would be viewed in the same way as its surrounding episodes. Nah, even the good ones from the new seasons aren't in the same ballpark as the classic ones. The Megan Amran one would be the worst episode in like Season 7.
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May 25, 2020 20:41
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DaveWoo posted:Yeah, the newer episodes, while mostly fine, kind of have this sense that they're just going through the motions - I can't really think of much that was original or memorable that they brought to the series overall. The Late Philip J. Fry is probably the standout from the Comedy Central revival. That one's up there with the best of the early run. I'm having trouble thinking of any other really good Comedy Central ones off the top of my head. The series finale is quite good but not great.
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May 25, 2020 21:05
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Gripweed posted:That's a good episode but it's marred by the fact that the emotional core is built on the Fry/Leela romance. An d the Fry/Leela romance is terrible. Probably the best episode of the series, the one where Fry switches hands with the robot devil, is also based on their romance.
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May 25, 2020 21:32
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OldSenileGuy posted:Most of the Comedy Central episodes are decent, but the bad ones are REALLY bad. I remember That Darn Katz, Yo Leela Leela, and the Butterjunk Effect as stand-out really bad episodes. And somehow all the anthology type episodes in the revival were absolutely terrible. Wish they had just done more Tales of Interest. Ditto. The Tales of Interest were always fun. I don't think the other anthologies were too bad, except for the Saturday morning cartoon one, which was such a pile of poo poo that they broke their streak of ending the season on an anthology because it would have been the series finale and they could tell it sucked too bad to let the show go out like that.
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May 25, 2020 22:13
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GreenNight posted:So Upload. I thought it was great. That guy also seemed like a good escape plan for the main dude not be stuck under his girlfriend's thumb anymore, but he never even asked. Seemed like he had fortunes to spare. feedmyleg posted:Wow. Y'all weren't kidding about The Great. It's weirder, darker, and more compelling than I was expecting based on The Favourite. Both great, but The Great is way more my jam. Yeah it rules
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May 26, 2020 06:32
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TheAardvark posted:I think the only way it's likely to happen is if one or more of the other cast members decide not to continue after the first dies. And even then it'll only happen if there's enough backlash about mass recasting. Disney actually has a strong financial incentive to cancel The Simpsons. The syndication deals with the Fox affiliates were "you can have syndicated episodes cheap as gently caress as long as new episodes are airing." Once the show stops making new episodes, Disney gets out of those contracts and can renegotiate for much, much higher rates with those affiliates or their competitors in the same markets. Plus it would allow them to clear the creative deck and get rid of the people who have been driving it into the ground for 20 years or so. I think it's likely over the summer they announce the next season (the last one on the contract) is the last season.
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May 27, 2020 21:50
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MorrisBae posted:They should just go back and make the "Krusty is actually Homer and Bart finally embraces his father as his hero" ending that they envisioned after the first few seasons, and don't explain a goddamn thing Also Marge's hair hides a pair of Life is Hell bunny ears
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May 27, 2020 21:57
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zoux posted:But what's going to happen is a self-fellating hour-long parade of every single minor character and guest star the show has ever had They're all expert witnesses in the trial of the Simpson family. Except for Apu of course
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May 27, 2020 21:59
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J-Spot posted:That may have been true at one point but I can't imagine it's still the case. My local station has it running at 2:30am now and I'm sure they'd be fine ditching it if not for the fact that they get it cheap. Yeah they were talking a few years back about splitting future syndication deals into "eras" where you'd pay only for 10-year chunks of The Simpsons.
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May 27, 2020 23:07
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muscles like this! posted:I just got done watching part 2 of Gourmet Makes Choco Taco and had to laugh at how even while filming at home Delaney still did a walk on (well, Skype on) while Claire was working. I liked how she got it done in like half a day and was like "what the gently caress am I doing in the test kitchen?"
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May 29, 2020 02:58
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Argue posted:Just finished The Great, and I really enjoyed it. I know it's only loosely based on the true story but I read up a bit more on Wikipedia, and assuming we're all still alive next season, I expect that Nicholas Hoult will still be around playing the 4 impostor Peters that popped up after his death. I'm guessing the next season will start after the coup and Peter's fate will not be revealed from the get-go, leaving us to wonder if Catherine merely had him secretly imprisoned like early conspiracy theorists were saying. Oh my god, that would be so loving amazing
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May 30, 2020 21:14
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Alhazred posted:The effort spend on making Snowpiercer into a generic procedural is almost impressive. Better not make a show about how oppressed people rising up is good. Apparently people like it? I assume the main message is "We can all pull together no matter the class dividing lines!" and then nothing materially changes for the poor people. That pretty close?
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maeO6Isb_So This was very entertaining. I had no idea the History Channel was doing this.
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Edward Mass posted:The History Channel was pretty much founded on shows about Hitler and World War II. Yeah, I remember the docs he talks about that glorified the Nazi war machine, but these Hunting Hitler people are something else.
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Jun 1, 2020 21:39
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muscles like this! posted:I know that a lot of people don't mean it that way but it is kind of troubling how often fiction writers will do stuff where Nazis win WWII or are still around and they have all kinds of advanced super science like somehow being Nazis mean that we'd go to the Moon faster or something like that. According to that youtube, Germans today use the Nazi names for their super science projects, "Wunderwaffle," as an ironic slam on something that seems like bullshit tech.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember when I started watching Mad Men, I kept wondering when Kristen Schaal was going to show up again. I had no idea she was in the pilot. Haha, that one's gotta sting even if you have a great career afterward.
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The last season was pretty good. I think you can break the plots into: - Apocalypse misadventures - Tandy is a dick And the episodes in the first category are good but the episodes in the second category suck. Overall, I think they maybe should have gone a bit more traditional apocalypse show. It's fairly aimless because the characters are all drunk or self-absorbed so no one tries to rebuild society in the slightest way. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jun 5, 2020 |
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Please help us out! My wife and I need a new show to obsessively binge-watch together. We recently finished Travelers and Happy Endings, and we're having a harder and harder time finding something fun that we both like. The Great. Watch The Great.
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Someone noted in another thread that in the first appearance of Elmer Fudd, he was a wildlife photographer, not a hunter. Seems like a slam dunk to just return to that 
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Jun 8, 2020 16:22
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STAC Goat posted:This has absolutely nothing to do with TV but this is the only Chat thread I post regularly in so I have no clue where else to ask. Just start a thread in GBS so they can tell you exactly what kind of dildo it is.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:25
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STAC Goat posted:I hate reddit and GBS so I'm taking Timby's invitation. Sorry, thread. Base isn't flared enough. You're gonna get that stuck.
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Is this the right place for YouTube drama? Because Bon Apetit is having a real one today https://twitter.com/sarahmanavis/status/1270069650060083207 lol only the white people are getting paid CondeNast is garbage
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