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I’ve been rewatching 30 rock this last week and I forgot how funny this show is. Every episode has at least one all-time greatest level moment.
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TheAardvark posted:I somehow managed to never hear that Warrior was from the same guy as Banshee and it took like.. 3 minutes to just know, oh, this has to be by the Banshee people. Is everyone as intensely unlikable as Banshee? I couldn’t get into that show because everybody sucked so much.
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Jan 4, 2021 13:31
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Escobarbarian posted:I don’t mind His Dark Materials in general but I do find it really boring at times. Season 2 was an improvement for sure - the Lyra/Will stuff was great - but it took until towards the end for me to really enjoy any scenes with Coulter or the witches, and then I thought the finale was a step down from the preceding episodes. I really hope they’re given the budget to properly portray the really crazy poo poo in book 3. Is Lin Manuel Miranda still being a charisma black hole in the second season? He was awful in S1.
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Jan 4, 2021 14:18
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Hughmoris posted:I've never seen Hamilton, and I never heard of Linda Manuel Miranda before the Hamilton craze started. Someone described him as “painfully Theatre Kid” and it was one of those things that instantly gave words to how I feel about the guy. It’s like this painfully forced enthusiasm.
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Jan 4, 2021 18:41
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I love letterkenny even though I went into it expecting to hate it. I’m from a (non-Canadian) hick town and that definitely helps, they really nail that particular setting.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:34
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Escobarbarian posted:My main issue with Letterkenny is that the very first scene in the very first episode is about 50 times funnier than anything else in the show. The rest is still pretty good though Oh my god yes, that first scene was perfect. I went in with low expectations but that scene had me cracking up within the first 30 seconds. I like S1 a lot, with the exception of the fart episode.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:01
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I can’t stand Gail, I get her whole thing is just being an over the top horndog but she feels really over the top in a show full of over the top broad strokes type stuff. I will say that even when the show isn’t hitting the highs it’s still great background noise while I’m doing something else.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:31
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Trailer Park Boys started strong but I haven’t enjoyed anything past like S4.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:58
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What’s Discovery +‘s Mythbusters and How It’s Made selection like?
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Jan 4, 2021 21:07
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Yeah, I really enjoyed Solar Opposites. It was a little rough, but what first season of a comedy isn’t?
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Jan 7, 2021 06:57
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Gonz posted:It's no Rick & Morty It isn’t and I’m glad, and I say that as someone who likes Rick and Mitty. It’s way less unpleasant. Like, the aliens and most everyone around them are terrible people but it’s a way more enjoyable terrible than Rick and Morty’s steady moments of depressed misanthropy.
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Jan 7, 2021 07:01
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zoux posted:Isn't the 100 prequel just "the news" I was hoping that got cancelled, trying to keep up with all the twists has been hard lately.
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Jan 8, 2021 22:40
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I watched the first two episodes of Mr Mayor tonight and liked them, but is it just me or does it look insanely cheap compared to 30 rock? Everything seemed off a bit somehow.
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Jan 10, 2021 11:16
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Iron Crowned posted:I liked the two episodes of Mr Mayor that I saw. Call me Kat was bad, but when you compare it to some of the sitcoms that dropped last year like Carol’s Second Act or Bob Hearts Abishola it was Citizen Kane. That said, the only reason I even finished the episode was because my remote needed batteries and I didn’t feel like dealing with that.
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Jan 10, 2021 22:24
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Timby posted:Bob Hearts Abishola actually dropped in 2019 and it's almost certain to get a third season because it's cheap to make and gets stupidly high viewership numbers. I checked after I made that post, they both dropped in 2019. At least Carol’s Second Act got cancelled, but those shows were some of the worst TV I had ever seen.
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Jan 10, 2021 22:38
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It was almost impressive how bad both those shows were. I only watched the first episode of each because they aired in a block, but it was a car crash I couldn’t look away from. Easily the worst television since Allen Gregory.
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Jan 10, 2021 23:57
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isaboo posted:Sure, why not. I like the Equalizer stuff. Denzel's movies were fun. Regina King would be perfect in that role.
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Jan 11, 2021 07:02
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galenanorth posted:
What thread is that? Got a link? I love that kind of stuff.
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Jan 11, 2021 20:53
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bull3964 posted:The difference for the over 30 crowd is that we didn't have those events injected directly into our veins with 12 different versions of commentary coming at you simultaneously with half of them being conspiracy theories. I think the first major news event like that for me was the Boston Bombing, where I was mainlining news from the GBS thread.
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Jan 11, 2021 22:01
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bull3964 posted:Widespread smartphones have only been a thing for about 12 years. Really crazy to think about, just a little over a decade of having everything at your fingertips all the time. Smartphones were a thing 12 years ago but I wouldn’t call them widespread til 2012 or so- I can’t find it now but there’s a graph of smartphone adoption rates over time and there’s a huge spike in the early 2010’s.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:03
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Vanderdeath posted:
Cake rules but gets a ton of poo poo because by being easy to cover bar bands and the like overplayed the hell out of their songs in the late 90’s-2000’s.
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Jan 12, 2021 10:00
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Chairman Capone posted:Yeah, both Rudy and George W. Bush had their political careers and public images saved by 9/11, only for the war on terror to then eventually grind them down. I don’t know anyone who thinks he was a good president, just like “man, we thought he was the worst a president could possibly be and ohhh boy we were wrong”. Giuliani wasn’t well liked in NYC even after 9/11 (especially considering he was the reason hundreds of firefighters died compared to like fifty cops) and I know a ton of people that are happy they get to see him blow up his undeserved reputation and face possible time in the clink.
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Jan 12, 2021 19:18
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EL BROMANCE posted:First two episodes of Mr. Mayor were fun, but it really found its stride this week I thought. Plus the trademark Tina Fey 20 Jokes a Minute mean it’s a sitcom I’m actually laughing with, rather than just thinking something is amusing. Psyched for that. I’ve been rewatching 30 rock over the past month and god drat does that frantic style+hiring great writers work out well. That style also makes for a more consistent season-to-season thing, which is where sitcoms usually poo poo out. When you’re dropping that much stuff so fast the misses just kind of fall under the radar and you remember the hits; so even when you’re out of ideas no one can tell.
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Jan 16, 2021 20:35
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swickles posted:Man, somehow Disenchanted went from being a medieval Futurama to being animated Game of Thrones real fast. I liked Disenchantment quite a bit more than the average watcher but had no idea a season dropped for like 2-3 days. Is Netflix kind of just abandoning it to die?
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Jan 17, 2021 19:04
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JollyBoyJohn posted:
That’s a pretty standard season order, isn’t it?
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Jan 18, 2021 23:12
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:oh wait is tin star that show with tim roth? I tried it because Tom Roth is great and it was soooo bad. Points for greasing that kid at the end of episode one though, I didn’t see that coming.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:48
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abelwingnut posted:just watched the first season of the leftovers. Oh man, go find the thread for the first season, so many people on here hated it. I’m another one that loves the first season, though all three are great in their own ways.
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Jan 27, 2021 19:03
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Every Lindelof show thread will for sure have a contingent of people convinced the show is going to be a mystery box that just strings along plot reveals. The Watchmen thread had the same thing, where people were convinced it was going to end on a cliffhanger for a season 2 despite everyone involved saying “it’s one self-contained season”.
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Jan 29, 2021 01:19
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STAC Goat posted:I don't think its limited to Lindelof. Its just a thing now with viewers trying to outsmart the show they're watching and not get swerved. So for every correct Westworld guess there's 3 crazy rear end Breaking Bad theories. There’s a certain amount of antipathy to it with Lindelof shows because some people are still real mad about Lost.
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Jan 29, 2021 01:23
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Oh my god they are doing a documentary series on Netflix about Elissa Lam and Cecil Hotel! One of the creepiest unsolved death mysteries I thought it was mostly solved, death by misadventure during a manic episode
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Jan 30, 2021 17:01
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Mu Zeta posted:There's a new Danish language HBO drama on Feb 1st about the SA goon that killed Kim Wall in the homemade submarine. The interesting thing about the show is that unlike most crime shows it goes out of its way to not glorify the killer. I thought the goon was just friends with the submarine guy, not the actual submarine killer. That looks real good though, definitely going to watch it.
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Feb 1, 2021 01:55
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There’s absolutely some trapped child souls in the balloons in that last photo.
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Feb 5, 2021 23:41
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Mu Zeta posted:Thanks to Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience I now know that Canadians pay for something called a "hydro bill" and whatever it is it's not water. Electricity. Canada does so much hydroelectric that they just call power “hydro”
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Feb 8, 2021 07:56
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My goon history episode about the odyssey got moved up and my usual reader is busy so if you have ever wanted to honestly say you replaced Lance Reddick in a project send me some readings from The Odyssey.
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Feb 8, 2021 11:06
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feedmyleg posted:I played an elderly Odysseus in a high school production of The Odyssey, I'm sure I could pull it off. Does your production also intercut with a bunch of Gilligan's Island sketches written by a high school theater director? I mean, it might now that you put that idea in my head.
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Feb 8, 2021 14:51
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Finally getting caught up on The Stand. Wow. This show is loving bad. So many desicions in it are just completely baffling.
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Feb 9, 2021 04:59
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Matt Nix like the burn notice guy? gently caress it, I’m in.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:09
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IRQ posted:Are normal people generally ready to get back on board with asoiaf again already? I remember the backlash to the poo poo finale being pretty huge. I found it hilarious how everyone I worked with went from being unable to shut up about GoT to “ohh.  “ overnight. I have no idea if HBO will be able to get the enthusiasm back for their spin-offs but my magic 8 ball is telling me “outlook not good”.
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Feb 12, 2021 02:28
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Lid posted:have never heard of it until the last twenty seconds Trying to describe Bosch without it sounding terrible is very difficult because the premise is intensely generic. Everything about it is perfectly executed, though. Fantastic show.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That was a different thing, unless I’m forgetting something. “What is this, the local?” is from the 30 Rock episode where Kenneth is making jokes in the elevator. Yes. It was a joke about the elevator making a ton of stops, like a local subway. An express train would skip a bunch of stops. It’s not a tricky joke but people went nuts.
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