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Does Search Party get less mean? Because holy poo poo these people are loving awful three episodes into season 1. Like, I'm down with terrible people if they're funny (HIMYM, You're the Worst, it's always Sunny, Archer) but like gently caress man. So much comedy isn't so much funny as it's, these people are loving terrible. Maybe slightly less than you, so you can both feel better about yourself and laugh, even though ever one of these people you would never want to talk to again after going on one bad date with!
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Nundizo posted:Donald just posted this to his instagram story Well that just bumped up to top 3 most incepted show to come. (Wheel of Time and Last Of Us are the other two).
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Feb 13, 2021 02:11
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Watching the unnaturals on Netflix. Shows kind of nuts. Good cast. 2 episodes in glad it’s apparently been renewed.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:48
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Escobarbarian posted:I think they mean The Irregulars Yep lol. Late night typo
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Apr 14, 2021 22:45
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A bunch of creatives on twitter are jealous/mad at how much they are spending, and joking about how if they only had 10 million what they could do with it. I personally am more worried wish some of that budget will go to the superior book series they've bought, Wheel Of Time, which requires a big budget to do right anyway.
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Apr 17, 2021 02:26
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GreenNight posted:I just don't give a poo poo about fantasy shows that takes place 1000 years before what I've already seen. LOTR, GoT. And also has one of the greatest fantasy series endings of all time. (As in Sanderson and Jordon actually stuck the landing, which is nuts.) GRRM never will and that's kind of funny.
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Apr 17, 2021 22:56
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MiddleOne posted:Nooooo Well poo poo. Will be hard to watch persons of Interest again anytime soon.
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Apr 17, 2021 22:57
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muscles like this! posted:I assume this is especially true with some of those later books where basically nothing happens. This is book 10. It’s book 11 on that gets very good again, and the last two are up there in quality of the first 5.
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Apr 18, 2021 07:53
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SimonChris posted:Having finished Shadow and Bone, I think my main problem with the show is that they have combined plots from two different book series, and one is way more interesting than the other: The support cast ( and very Tropy prisoner love story with very loveable actors) are so drat good. Main chosen one has very good chemistry with both love interests which is nice, but the general being who he is does a lot of the heavy lifting with his acting too.
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Apr 26, 2021 23:52
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Hughmoris posted:It's been 10+ years since I read any of the books... but that is not how I envisioned Lan. That said, my mind is open and I'm excited to see what they come up with. If they don't gently caress it up (and at least with the cast they've done a killer job) this will be better and bigger than GOT. Because this actually has a good ending and much, much better character arcs.
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Apr 30, 2021 02:07
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Prodigal son has been canceled at Fox. The quality per episode was drastically varied, but for a trashy show about serial killers and profilers it was definitely fun. Kind of sad about this one. It was the perfect show to catch up on a Saturday after skipping it for a few months if you were bored and cleaning the house.
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May 11, 2021 00:51
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Keyser_Soze posted:that's what the Blacklist is for kill me Blacklist only has 2 good actors. PS has like 5.
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May 11, 2021 01:55
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nate fisher posted:The guy saved The Expanse, so I give him a pass for all the other garbage (mostly) they have made. Wait he didn’t renew The Patriot for season 3…. pass revoked On the other hand, upload got a second season I think, and then was that a charming show that everybody seem to have forgotten about after it was over.
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May 11, 2021 17:00
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Simone Magus posted:I get it, but at the same time, lol. Especially if it just tanks It has Pike in it and a ton of young very good actors who at least one or two are going to blow up from it and a huge budget (but not so insanely big as LOTR) and out of the three fantasy shows it has the best world building and arguably the best "chosen one" story ever written, and the weakness of the books (over detailed scenes, books 7-10 needing an editor the stupid braid/skirt/smoothing/crap everyone always brings up) will not be filmed. Now the Lord of the rings show has some great writers working on it, but WOT has a far more interesting story to tell than LORD OF THE RINGS the prequel. And the online fantasy fans are freaking pumped. It also has at least half a dozen battle/scenes that could make Avengers Endgame seem quaint if filmed properly. (And if they get to them).
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May 21, 2021 02:13
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Hacks is the latest case of a good show that is mislabeled as a comedy. It’s trying to straddle that fleabag line, but doing that is loving hard and while the writers are good they’re not as talented as PW. Hollywood creatives are very depressed about a lot of things and most of them went to the same 6 universities and its starting to… show with a lot of the writing for a lot of these new shows. Smart is stunning as always though.
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Jun 12, 2021 09:43
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EL BROMANCE posted:I liked it. Having Ava fall into the same rash reactionary behavior in the finale was a little annoying. Cmon character development!, I look forward to next season. Oh, I like it. Everyone involved is good. Good to great even. It’s just not as good as it thinks it is.
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Jun 12, 2021 17:45
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Escobarbarian posted:I’m not 100% sure what that means, but I did like the final couple eps, even if they hit very familiar beats. I think 5-6 were probably the highlight, though. Yeah it was a little glib. I’ll expand. First, I agree with you five and six are probably the highlight. There’s a growing trend on entertainment industry is Twitter to call out things about equality and equity and balances on show writing staffs etc. but what is often not noted, and a few of the older show writers are actually now calling it out, is the fact that where the industry is looking for new writers who have “new” voices is from the same five or six universities they’ve always hired from. They’re just now hiring one or two women/people of color from those places. The problem with this is that it still gives a very similar voice, even if it’s from a different perspective. If you look at Eva, she feels written almost like a parody of a young white woman writer that’s on Twitter too much. They didn’t even mention her age of 25 until I think episode five? When they did I was shocked. Because she constantly comes off as somebody who is about 30 and burning out of the industry, and somebody who’s about 21 right out of college. Now the actor playing her is doing a great job, it’s the writing that just comes off as… inconsistent. The last episode smart says to her, “you’re too good to quit,“ and I just didn’t believe it. She was funny, and she was witty, but I didn’t believe that she was some towering new voice of comedy. Smart on the other hand, absolutely feels like a living legend of a female comic. I harp on the writing, because it’s the same problem that academia has. It’s a relatively small group, and aside from evangelical Christians, I’ve never been around a group that is so convinced that they know what’s best. To a lesser degree, I would put TV writing in a similar category. Of course the most unrealistic thing about the show was that she bought a townhouse in LA at 25. Even if she was starting to be staffed on TV shows at 20, as a lower level comedy writer I don’t believe she should be able to afford it even after five years, unless she was incredibly frugal and smart with her money. The character that she’s being portrayed as does not have those traits.
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Jun 12, 2021 18:37
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SamBishop posted:Jesus Christ, you couldn't be more right. Zero to a billion interest just because of him. I don't even normally give a poo poo about most casting, but I've been neck-deep in Reddick lately because of work and he is aural crack. I hang on his every word. If he did an Avery Brooks impression, I'm pretty sure it'd be some kind of mass hypnosis video. Dudes pretty cool. Sober, engaged to the actress who plays castles daughter from the show castle (Molly something). Pretty funny on Twitter.
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Jun 12, 2021 22:10
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Why is Ted Lasso not as good this season? Like some of it is doing well, but at this point Roy Kent is being written as a fantasy fan girl boyfriend more than a person? Ted dealing with his poo poo is fine but should have gotten there an episode or two ago, the team aspect seems super backseat to every episode focused on the love relationships... It's not terrible, but it's not the A+ it was last season.
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Sep 11, 2021 00:32
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Billions continues to be brilliant and underrated.
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Sep 19, 2021 20:47
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nate fisher posted:I don’t know. I like it as a guilty pleasure, but it is nothing more than that no matter how hard it tries to be prestige television. The Chuck vs. Axe is to the point that it is just annoying this many seasons in. Axe keeps getting worse, and now it is impossible to route for him no matter the situation. I was hoping they would try new things (they did for a season), but I guess they will circle that drain until it is over. I like it because it’s showing at this point the corrosive nature of all of capitalism, but not in the obnoxious way that’s Succession does to make people feel better that the ruling class are all idiots. One of the things that makes Chuck interesting and incredibly annoying, is how he’s constantly talking like he’s auditioning to be a modern-day Hamilton. But the truth is, I know a lot of extremely well educated academic elite types that talk in a similar manner, and that think they are the superior ones to the those they “protect” and or “rule over”. The flipside is the ruthless but far more common approach that Axes and the others take. As the seasons have gone on, everybody has become less likable, in this last episode alone sort of shows that anyone in that orbit basically becomes tainted by the obsession with capitalism. In fact, the only reason Axe is likable again is because he’s finally admitted he has feelings for someone that is a good pairing for him. On the same side, Taylor who’s been an anchor of morality until recently has lost it, but the underlings people around them are finally painting a clear picture that all of its bad. Really, it’s taking a much more realistic view of the entire system while not overdoing it. I would say it needs one more season and then ends though. It can’t keep going too much further.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It was a bad episode on its own but it also was slotted in right as everything really got going and it just killed so much of the momentum of the final episodes for a bit. It was this absolutely baffling misstep in an otherwise really good season of TV. And it's why season 3 of Stranger Things is arguable the best or at the very least a strong second season, and makes me very happy for the next season.
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Sep 24, 2021 21:19
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:john Mulaney does the same thing and people are cool with him apparently, Hollywood is a land of contrasts Chris also killed or abandoned pets that he didn't like got old. And his church bullshit is bad. I have family that goes to that kind of church. Modern born again Christianity in this country is basically a terrorist organization. If you could purge just those type of pastors, the planet would be a much better place.
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Sep 24, 2021 21:23
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Midnight mass is so good.
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Escobarbarian posted:Well, the scripts might be bad. Everything else will probably be killer, though. It’s Craig M who really doesn’t want to gently caress it up (he has talked about it on script notes) and druckman is writing it with him so… no, I doubt it. On the other hand I was sure that season 2 of Ted lasso would be great and the writers are solidly loving it up, so…. LionArcher fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Sep 27, 2021 22:07
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AceOfFlames posted:Boxleitner isn't and you can be sure he's going to demand a piece of this. And he’s a right wing major chud so it’s not even really acting for him. He and Mr. Garibaldi would regularly show up on the Michael savage show. Garibaldi even ended up guest hosting for Michael savage at one point before becoming a talk show host on his own right. Stoked about b 5 though. JMS is legit an awesome writer/geek.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:10
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:There was apparently some executive who personally hated JMS and B5. That person has now retired, which is why it is suddenly on HBO in HD and now getting a reboot! He hasn’t left his house in like 2 years because of COVID and is just an On the spectrum writer nerd. He’s kinda awesome honestly. He also didn’t get nearly enough credit for writing strong women they were multi dimensional in the 90s when everybody was fawning over josh Wedons writing of women
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Sep 27, 2021 22:14
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I mean, it’s still good. But season 1 is lightening in a bottle great. Season 2 already has a half a dozen major flaws including a borderline (or just straight is ) a racist stereotype, a hugely problematic romance that is so tone deaf I can’t believe they didn’t see it’s lovely, and when that wasn’t enough they just threw in a boring love triangle because they don’t know what to do with two or three of the characters.
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Sep 27, 2021 22:41
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Are you talking about the Dutch guy? The psychologist. She’s great, but there’s a common trope that poc teachers in media refer to as “magic n word character”. I was not worried about the trope too much, but as the show has gone on she’s getting closer and closer to that, here to help everyone who’s white/main characters and then ride off into the sunset on her magically/umbrella-bike.
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Sep 27, 2021 23:33
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Medullah posted:Evil is a fuckin weird rear end show The Kings really are good at writing lead women who are truly unlikable. By the end of the Good wife she was the worst, and it only took two seasons to do the same with Evil. Edit. This is not a criticism. It's actually impressive, and the actors are doing a killer job with weird as poo poo material.
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GreenNight posted:Topless women. But not very male gazy at all.
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Oct 6, 2021 01:00
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Anybody watch Dave C’s new special?
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Oct 6, 2021 07:31
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I want y the last man to get more seasons to fix their issues.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:42
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Hawkperson posted:I've only watched the first ep, what's the issues and is it worth continuing Y and agent 355 is the best plot line in the show and holding down the episodes. The rest of the plot lines are.... not nearly as good.
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Oct 9, 2021 01:35
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OnlyBans posted:Is Chapelle wearing a Vinylon suit in this special? I think so. Trans creators at Netflix and others are on Twitter wanting them to pull the special.
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Oct 9, 2021 06:41
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Mu Zeta posted:There was a golden age of nerd shows where Lost, Heroes, Veronica Mars, Stargate, and Battlestar Galactica were all airing at once and they were actually kind of good. I swear at one point my Fridays was 4 hours of Stargate and then Battlestar. And Mondays was Lost and Heroes. Save the cheerleader, save the world Also the jack Bauer power hour.
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Oct 12, 2021 09:15
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Shageletic posted:But the Wire, Sopranos and less closely linked, Mad Men, are the best shows that's ever been on TV. And Mad Men ended a decade ago If you're a boomer sure, but what if I've watched all of them and would only put the Wire in that list for myself? Taste is subjective and all that. I'd honestly take the Good Wife over the Soprano's. I mean poo poo, I would argue there's limited tv show runs (The haunting of Hill house, Watchman, Queen's Gambit) that should be on the top 20 list because they are very, very good at what they are, and do it more efficiently than a lot of the older shows that have more "prestige". I haven't even gotten to Halt and Catch Fire, and am still behind on seasons of the American's, two other shows everyone say land well. TV as a medium evolves. There is just in general more good stuff today than 20+ years ago. Except kids shows, because nothing now is as good as Gargoyles or Batman the animated series. Also, "best shows" lists always focus on Drama. If we're talking comedy, in the last fifteen years we've got Community, Don't trust the b in apartment, Happy Endings, not to mention parks and rec and the office as strong contenders for best comedies ever, or at the very least on the short list.
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Oct 12, 2021 22:02
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Mu Zeta posted:Batman TAS is great stuff but I think Avatar and Korra surpassed it especially if you're an actual kid. I forgot about those. Okay those are right up there too. Korra's got enough issues (and I like it) that it doesn't beat Batman, but Avatar probably ties it for sure.
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Oct 12, 2021 22:14
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Hawkperson posted:Gravity Falls and Ducktales 2017 are pretty fuckin good too Gravity Falls I'm biased against because I know stuff about the show from behind the scenes. (Love the first season though). Ducktales I have not watched.
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Shageletic posted:I'd agree on this, but then again it ends somewhat ambigiously in its second season and didn't get the chance to finish as strongly or thoroughly as Made Men or the Sopranos. Again, opinions. I think Queen's Gambit was a very good character study of a fantasy style character, and did several things with relationships/friendships very, very well. The music was fantastic as well. The Sopranos is great if you're a boomer who likes character study's of gangster poo poo, and has very weak female characters. But again, that's my opinion. And Watchman sure as hell stuck the landing.
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