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Open Source Idiom posted:Watching Extracurricular based on Esco and esperterra's recommendations in the thread, but I gotta ask, did anyone else find the official Netflix subtitles to be really quite poor? The grammar's atrocious, to the point where some sentences flat out don't make sense. Extracurricular is an extremely weird show already so it never caught my attention.
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OldSenileGuy posted:If you haven’t watched Cobra Kai yet, then what the hell are you waiting for? It’s the most ridiculously over the top fun show I’ve seen in years. I'm going to add to this that Karate Kid 3 had the absolute best Rifftrax since it's an absolutely insane movie.
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Simone Magus posted:Devil was pretty good Is that the one with the elevator...?
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Holy poo poo is episode 1 of Ted Lasso wholesome.
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Ted Lasso is like the anti-soap opera. It's just sweet and charming all the way through.
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Started watching Search Party since it's all anyone is posting about anymore. By episode 3 I was all 'how does this show have multiple seasons' but by the season finale it was more  .
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isaboo posted:Yeah. How it all unfolds is bonkers. Reached the S2 finale and  How have I never heard about this show before??
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Wow season 4 of Search Party sucks. EDIT: To clarify, I think I might just be allergic to drawn out kidnapping and abuse plots with no end in sight. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Inspector 34 posted:I never thought I wanted a Chantal episode but it's kind of amazing. I hate it and I hate the producer for not grabbing the director by the ear when they suggested doing it. How has a show I had never even heard about until a few days ago managed to succumb to its own hype. I have a lot of issues with this season.
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Season 4 ruined the show for me.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Ahuh. HOWEVER! You wouldn't have known about it unless you read the posts by the people watching Season Four. I flew too close to the sun.  Is there going to be a fifth?
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All reality shows are rigged.
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muscles like this! posted:This week's The Expanse: lol at how they wrote off Cas Anvar loving incredible, very unintentionally hilarious. The quick wrap-up scene with Holden too like wow. Might as well have been the Poochie-scene jesus. Ahahahaha. Dear future showrunners, just re-cast.
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The Guest is such a good and underappreciated movie.
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Sirotan posted:Do not watch that clip if you've never seen The Guest bc it spoils basically the entire movie. The Guest is truly a hidden gem.
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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. Legends of Tomorrow had one of the worst first seasons of all time, then in season two they completely flipped the tone. I guess The Last Ship kinda qualifies.
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Dark Matter had an absolutely awful first season. Bad season-plot, bad directing and embarrassing action scenes. The Pilot especially. It got better in season 2, it might even have been good in season 3. But season 1?
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Anyone have anything good or bad to say about Mr. Mayor with Ted Danson? I literally just learned it exists at all.
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I have to say I love how distinctively on brand UK-television Behind Her Eyes is with their HBTQ representation. Literally just Sherlock all over again. I'd call it offensive if not for this being one of the stupidest shows I've watched so far this year.
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No all dubs suck. Multiple audio tracks is something the entire production has to be structured around for the end-result not to be very mediocre. It's also easier in some mediums than others.
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Simone Magus posted:It sounds like it was written by an "aspiring rap battle star". Almost on purpose? Eminem?
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Feb 26, 2021 15:36
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Haha oh my god. The infamous oppression olympics scene in Ginny & Georgia is so much better in context. Still very hammy, but motivated hammy.
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mistermojo posted:the thing I don't understand about The Shield is why Vic needs money for his kids so badly. Wasnt he involved with the gangs and getting his cut? what happened to that? it doesnt really show him wasting money on anything I'm glad Breaking Bad addressed this.
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Anyone watch Warriors (2019)? I'd never heard of the show until yesterday and the first episode was very good. Reminds me a lot of Banshee with the way it styles action and drama. Linking it in case anyone is curious as the show is pretty much ungoogleable with its name: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5743796/
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https://twitter.com/saeedtaji/status/1372949606204649483 Dean Norris continues his role as most cursed actor in TV.
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I don't remeber on which threads recommendation but I've been watching season 1 of Columbo and wow. It's like the anti-murder-mystery. Every episode goes like this. You get to see the culprit kill the victim and cover up the crime in extensive detail. Then Columbo arrives at the scene, intuits who the likely culprit is within minutes and then spends the remaining 60 minute run-time feigning ignorance while antagonizing and terrorizing the murderer.  It's great!
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bull3964 posted:The Strain was not good TV, but it was fun bonkers TV. Last season though!
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Arist posted:I'm a little bummed that this means they probably won't be in theaters though. Theaters still exist?
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Made For Love feels like a budget direct-to-streaming movie broken up into episodes and sucks. I genuinely feel I wasted my time in watching it. While the premise is very creepy most of the comedy lands flat and it just goes nowhere. Do not watch.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TheWrap/status/1379476058429399043 Holy poo poo what were they thinking.
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muscles like this! posted:MST3K Kickstarter is up I feel this kind of production style is completely out of date and a wasteful use of money. A lot of that money has to be going to stuff that isn't actually very important to the quality of the end-product like I.P. rights, actors and sets. 350 000 $ an episode reeks to me of a bloated production process that is unwilling to prioritize. You can't and you shouldn't run TV-budget without being on TV, it's not sustainable. The format is entirely, A: Good writing B: Good delivery And everything else is fluff that can and should be skimped upon. But hey it's not going to be my money so who cares. Clearly a lot of people want to give this another shot. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Looten Plunder posted:I just watched the trailer and have a question. I'm going to assume based on the above comment im correct, but the person playing Chad is/was actually a girl yeah? Is it a Pen15 style thing where it's just a creative choice or did TV just get a whole lot more liberal by casting a trans person? No...? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1840659/?ref_=tt_cl_t1 I'm very confused. Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Nah that's Nasim Pedrad, who was on SNL 5 years ago or so. This is her show, so it's a pen15 thing yea People liked Pen15?
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Open Source Idiom posted:Get out while you still can. Haha, that bad?
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ShakeZula posted:This feels like a surprise. Guess I'll have to finally watch S2 Great! Discovered this show just the other month and it's fantastic.
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Hakkesshu posted: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. I think there's definitely something here with portraying the whites of the era as cartoonish monsters with an edge of 'look how bad things used to be' which absolves the racism of today. The show portrays the in-your-face racism that everyone is comfortable with criticizing and dis-associating with. It's a strictly apolitical approach to the issue. Plus, you have the constant almost fetishistic portrayal of race-hatred and race-violence that brings it all way over the top. Just off the top of my head, what is going on with the ghost origin story and what was going on with the cat in the bag sequence. Extremely gratuitous. It honestly feels ten years out of date in today's political climate. Like what is the whole weird cop sideline? They sideline having a white savior (by the main cop just being nice on account of being bribed) but they then still drift into this weird territory where the police are actually better than the suburbanites. Like imagine the same story but in contemporary America, the main cast would be dead by police before the end of the second episode. I enjoyed Them, but it's a very dumb show with in my opinion very little to say.
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Arist posted:I haven't seen Them and don't plan to. Everything you guys are saying makes total sense but still, going "if you enjoyed this show at all you have a lot of anti-black poo poo you need to unpack" is... silly? Very silly.
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Personally I feel like the bare-minimum if you're going to make an american show or movie where race violence is the central focal point of the story and setting is that, A: You can't be afraid of being political B. There is no white savior character in the story C: You haven't made almost all your white characters into monsters in skin-suits Because otherwise it's just another Green Book, Crash or 12 Years where the audience can just disassociate from the awful behavior of the non-black characters and revel in the drama, hate and/or violence being portrayed. Like is said earlier, it becomes fetishistic when pushed past a certain degree. The horror motif in Them almost feels like an excuse to show extreme violence on screen. If you're not making the audience question themselves and you're not questioning the power structures of today, why are you tackling this topic through the medium of entertainment at all. It's not like it can't be done. I complained in the streaming thread about this years Two Distant Strangers being overly allegorical and having an inherently goofy framing device but it didn't fail on any of the points above. It knows what it wants do and it is better for it. When it emphasizes violence it does it for a reason beyond shocking and titillating the audience. No one has even mentioned yet how the show has a white HBTQ character seemingly just for set-dressing. Just disappears from the show in the final act. No arc, no resolution, just ah he's gay and now he's driving away. Them is an okay TV-show, but artistically speaking it is popcorn and I get why some are disappointed. It could have been much more.
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