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Big Mean Jerk posted:Now that Alex’s actor is a sex pest and Bobbie hasn’t had much to do this season, I nominate Amos for Best Expanse Character This Season Thus Far. I'll go on record saying that one of the biggest mistakes this show ever made was the casting of Marco Inaros. That guy is loving terrible for the importance that his character has. Makes me wish they just replaced him with Anderson Dawes and cut the whole Naomi's son bit. There's no world in which I believe people would be rallying behind this loving loser. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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The new season of Disenchantment is pretty good! I don't think anyone is going to consider it the new Futurama - a lot of the jokes are still very hit or miss and the characterizations just aren't its strong suit, but it's gotten way funnier at least and it looks great. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the final season though, since no one seems to be watching it.
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muscles like this! posted:Amazon has announced Invincible will premiere March 26th. Standard Amazon release schedule, three episodes to start, weekly after. I still don't know what they are expecting to happen with this show. Surely it's just gonna get canned immediately.
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Azhais posted:Why's that? Because adult-focused dramatic animation rarely ever does well in the west. And they haven't really been showing off what the show actually is (namely the gore) so I can imagine a lot of people being blindsided by that. Maybe they're banking on some The Boys crossover appeal but I doubt it's going to happen. It's not like the comic even has a huge fanbase.
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Yeah Invincible is ostensibly a teen comic in the way a lot of 90s comics like Spawn were teen comics.
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It looks fine, I'm more interested in it now that Whedon is gone.
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We never dissected anything in Danish schools and I don't think it would be particularly useful for anyone to go through that exercise.
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IRQ posted:Final Space is getting close to overcoming my assumption that it was a Rick and Morty knockoff. I don't even dislike that show, just didn't want the Kirkland signature brand Rick or whatever. So it's definitely not that? It's more of a seralized kinda thing, there's an overarching plot. It's a decent show, and very pretty, the main problem is just that the main character is absolutely insufferable and it isn't actually very funny when it wants to be.
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muscles like this! posted:I was thinking today about how I get annoyed when a show I've been liking gets retooled halfway through its first season/between first and second. So I was wondering, has there been a show where being retooled actually made it better? The examples I can think of are all worse. Parks & Rec?
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I have been watching The Office for the first time and I have no idea what the intro for that show wants to convey. The music is bad and doesn’t fit and the random clips from the show don’t tell you anything about the characters or the tone of the show. IDK, it just stands out to me as a particularly lazy and generic intro.
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Chris James 2 posted:It's A Sin, Russell T Davies' new miniseries about a group of friends living during the AIDS crisis, is on HBO Max right now Not sure what to take from this since I thought Years and Years was unbelievably terrible. At least he's going for a very serious topic this time so I assume his worst tendencies are kept in check. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Article says he's EP so he has at least some involvement.quote:“I told them, ‘Look, I had, I had my shot. Godspeed, take it in whatever direction you want,’” he said
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I like this season but then I liked the last season too. It's a show purely about mood, basically nothing happens in an episode other than Ian McShane going to see some weird new god and doing his Ian McShane schtick, and also there are scenes with Ricky Whittle. Oh that episode focusing on Dead Wife was good. I'm honestly shocked it got a third season with these production values because surely no one is watching it. It's a shame they could never keep any actors around for completely avoidable reasons. I will not be surprised or upset when it is cancelled. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Isn't there some weird Tolkien estate rights situation where they can set it in Middle-Earth, but they can't use any established characters or stories for adaptation? So it can't be about the ring forging, I think. I'm sure they will find some way to finagle it in there regardless.
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Yeah, that’s the thing, I don’t know that there is anything specific implied with that Kumail tweet, just maybe stop pinning a lot of hopes and assumptions onto people you will never know outside of brief instances of media.
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Season 4 is so weirdly ambitious and it keeps up the density of the jokes, it's definitely worth watching, and almost at the level of season 3 in my opinion. Unfortunately, the fact that they could never get the scheduling right really does hurt it, and the obviously green screened actors is legitimately one of the most distracting things I can remember seeing in a show. As has been said, season 5 has almost no redeeming qualities, and the green screening/obviously ADR'ed lines are even worse than in season 4. I do like the actual ending, though. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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LionArcher posted:Watching the unnaturals on Netflix. Shows kind of nuts. Good cast. 2 episodes in glad it’s apparently been renewed. This does not appear to be a show that exists
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What the heck is this just a show based on Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
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Holy poo poo, I never expected Warrior to get another season, that's a great surprise. Everyone should watch that show, it's fantastic.
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The point has been made before about how some rich black creators are using the plights of the lower classes as a form of exploitation media that appeals to white people more than anything, in order to market themselves as being hugely progressive. When Judas and the Black Messiah, also by black creators, came out there was a similar article (I think from the same author, actually), about how it’s using black history as essentially a series of aesthetic vignettes without getting at the root of the problem, and mainly being about black suffering without much point to it other than to downplay the real history in favour of turning it into a pop culture prop, essentially. It calls to mind the reasons why Dave Chappelle originally ended Chappelle’s Show. I cannot speak to how big of an issue this is in general, but I certainly understand why you wouldn’t want high profile black stories to just be about suffering and endless racism, especially when real trauma and white supremacy is still happening in the real world right now and you’re using that imagery to puff up your story about how the devil is racist. I don’t know that I agree that you should not tell these kinds of stories as part of a larger black oeuvre, but I can understand how frustrating it is when there’s essentially an entire genre that thrives in it. It’s a difficult issue to tackle because I’m positive that something like Them will resonate with many black people regardless, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. It certainly makes me more interested in actually checking the show out with a very critical mind going in.
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Yes, I also don’t agree that it doesn’t induce empathy. But so much of this problem is rooted in the insane mess that is the current discourse landscape so it is bound to get big punches like that thrown at it.
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Apr 15, 2021 14:03
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You know what show is good, The fuckin' Knick. I recently started it and it's just some next level poo poo, obvious content warning if you don't like a lot of very explicit surgery but man this show has given me Deadwood vibes in the way that like no other show since then has.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Dude, I know I said it last night, but The Nevers just had a loving awesome action scene, and you could a lot worse to watch it besides. It's really loving enjoyable. The Nevers is pretty decent but still full of extremely cringey Whedon-esque dialogue. I hope the show gets the chance to become its own thing now that he got kicked off it.
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It's not a great show from a writing standpoint, but I do have to get Netflix props for improving their productions a lot, it looks really good and is actually really well-directed compared to absolute drek like Cursed from last year or the incredibly cheap look of Witcher.
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If you want a show about conspiracies, fuckin Counterpart. It's a prime dad show I think. Edit: Also it's very old at this point, but Rubicon is an underrated gem. Both shows were cancelled before their time but they do have mostly proper endings. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 15:01 on May 2, 2021 |
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Everything about the Nevers is pretty good except for the dialogue. It really depends on your tolerance for characters who are 80% quips.
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I know Graham Linehan sucks rear end but gently caress is Father Ted not on there
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Michael is terrible and keeps being terrible, but I am still surprised by how well that show holds up having never watched it before, and also how prescient it is in a lot of ways. There are definitely a lot of Trumpisms in that character, and also it shows just how blatantly and nakedly Corporate just doesn't care about people and how it continually ruins lives. The little arc about the mom & pop paper company shutting down because of their corporate espionage was heartbreaking to watch, and it was SUCH a small aside. That's the kind of stuff that elevates it for the modern day, I think. When it gets into big weddings and babies and and has to have its sugary sweet sappy moments it's less tolerable for me at least. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 8, 2021 |
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The latest episode of The Nevers had an interesting twist where it is revealed that everything is happening because of aliens from the future and like half the episode took place in post-apocalyptic London with an XCOM style paramilitary squad I wish the show was better, because it's got so many neat ideas, I just don't think much of it is very well-executed. Hopefully it can survive beyond Whedon, because he wasn't credited on this and it was probably the best episode. Edit: Apparently that was the half-season finale and we aren't getting more of it for a while, great. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 17, 2021 |
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May 17, 2021 20:36
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Musk showing up in Rick & Morty and them making a bunch of really lame Elon Tusk jokes is definitely the nadir of that show (so far)
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Slamhound posted:The Wire is absolutely copaganda and the entire point is that individual cops can’t be held responsible for the system and when individual cops are at fault the you have to trust the system. I have no idea how you can watch that show and think that at any point it says that you have to trust the system Edit: I think there's a conversation to be had about whether or not it's interested in any kind of solution, and whether or not every cop inside the system is culpable, but comparing it to the West Wing is way off the mark. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 15:11 on May 18, 2021 |
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Slamhound posted:The cops are the system. How does that escape you? Does every cop have to be culpable before they’re considered bad? I'm not gonna argue about politics with you in this TVIV thread, but the show does not depict the system as anything less than completely busted, nor does it excuse the actions of any bad actors in there - the cops aren't the system, they are one part of it, and any good intentions in there are constantly quashed by how busted everything is, to the point where one of the main characters has to invent a serial killer to get anyone to care about actual murders. It's also worth noting the clear distinction between homicide detectives and beat cops, which is also something that is a core part of showing how busted the system is. No, it doesn't really suggest that abolition should be the ultimate goal, but calling it copaganda is absurd. Nothing is solved by giving an impassioned speech and appealing to intelligence like what constantly happens in West Wing. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 18, 2021 |
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Slamhound posted:Not wanting to argue about politics while taking about The Wire is absolute bullshit. ???? How does it absolve anyone? I just said they are a part of the system, but the point is that all the different groups don't have the same agency within it. There are people trying to make it better, but they can't - is your point is that every single character should be portrayed as a murderous racist just because they are police? No one does whatever it takes to get the job done because the job isn't loving done by the end of that series. Hamsterdam doesn't fail because it's a bad idea, it fails because the system doesn't allow for its existence. You are extremely good at making it seem as if you have not watched this show at all.
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Sorting Algorithms posted:And Simon being an embedded reporter with the police is where a lot of the stuff from his shows comes from and it absolutely colors his perceptions in favor of the cops. Its why both Homicide and The Wire have scenes about the police terrifying a criminal into thinking a copy machine is a lie detector so they can bully them into signing a confession and present it as a piece of police ingenuity and criminals being dumb, because its a thing that actually happened that he witnessed and walked away admiring. Sure if you somehow watched that scene and thought "wow that was a cool thing to do" instead of "wow this is a hosed thing to do"
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Slamhound posted:Why should David Simon stop tweeting? The same reason you should stop posting
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Simone Magus posted:Please don't tell me Dave Atell is a horrible right wing sex monster now, when I was 15 watching a dumb American get drunk in random cities was amazing to me I can't say what his politics are, but he definitely seems like a guy who would absolutely be friends with Joe Rogan.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I said last year Jim and Pam were the only reason I made it through the first season, and they still make the series for me; when I picked it back up, Ryan became a favorite. The minor characters (Kevin, Stanley, Creed, Toby, Jan, the warehouse staff) don't get a lot of screen time, but are fun. Combining all of them and their communal struggle against Michael's idiocy (which is occasionally sympathetic, as I'm seeing right now in Money), Dwight (who I'm coming around on in S4) and, later, Andy (who should just shut the gently caress up) has given the show enough of a charm to keep going in spite of the negative. I’m up to season 7 and there is definitely a precipitous drop in quality because it starts focusing a lot on Andy and his love interest. I have no idea if they are trying to recreate the Jim/Pam thing but it sucks rear end and every time they spend a significant amount of time on it it is absolute poison
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, most recently), but they're few and far between. 
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