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muscles like this! posted:It moved over to Peacock but you have to have a pay subscription for the entire series. wtf? Peacock, a pay subscription, has separate pay subscriptions for certain shows? edit: Okay it looks like it's same as hulu was, pay $8 to unlock all the shows +no ads. Given the state of streaming I was completely ready to believe that they are adding content $ tiers for their most popular stuff.
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Ugly In The Morning posted: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. It's aged extremely well in a lot of parts, not so much in others.
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Rhyno posted:So was he cleared of being a sex pest then? I've lost track. Being the super-mega Times Up guy who professed to doing a huge amount of research to write a book about modern dating who freely admits he kept grinning while pointing to his junk and said "hey are you gonna blow me now?" during a first date he never ascended to true sex pest status and dodged the calls for cancellation. It's more of a personal choice about someone who's private life was disclosed and they did gross things but didn't commit crimes, so you have to decide based on that.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:11
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Khanstant posted:Felt the same way about that Space Force show. How did so many funny people make something so bad? I have a hard time understanding why people think its funny. Either Steve Carrell was doing a terrible job thinking it was great, or the writing and directing for his role was so bad he didn't put up a fight and just did as he was told. The whole "stick it to both sides Congress" scene has aged phenomenally poorly as well given the current climate.
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I can't remember how long ago I started but I finally managed to drag myself through the last season of Grimm. Overall? Maybe, just barely a 7/10 being very generous to the back 1/2 of the series. You really do have to just quit thinking about how Portland is basically the center of the magical world in terms of crime and significance of events. It's like how the town in Murder She Wrote had a murder rate 100x the national average. Seasons 1/2 are excellent casual serial network fantasy. It's not offering anything complicated or deep and there are more then a few god awful lines in most episodes but it's got an overall charm and wonder to it. Early on there's a real fun mystery feel as the viewer and cast discover the secrets of the monster(Wesen) society. There's obviously tons of references to European folklore and myths, much later on they get into things like the Chupacabra, but the major bulk of it is Western European themed folklore. The show went off the rails pretty hard since the writers didn't really plan out their meta plot; one of the frequently mentioned macguffins across multiple early seasons just stops being talked about at one point and never appears again. Some characters seem like they were the writers/favorites because they just get shoehorned back into the plot with almost 0 foreshadowing. Very often there are scenes that exist to give them more to do, like building up a side plot, that are completely forgotten about within a few episodes. By the 20x time Nick goes to ask his Wesen friends about some mysterious event and they dramatically look at each other and say "no, it couldn't be, that's impossible" before finding a book that explains in great detail what the monster of the week is you've definitely abandoned the hope the show is going to magically improve. The cast is the only reason to stick with it. The chemistry of Nick, Hank, Wu, Renard, Monroe, Rosalee, and somewhat Juliette are what keep the show engaging. Juliette suffers from some very poor writing and directing because I've seen that actress in Supergirl as Lois Lane and she does a much better job. Claire Coffee is pretty inconsistent which I got the impression was the writing because when she had to act well she could, but there were some lines that just couldn't be made good. I did benefit from having watched most of Grimm when it aired, so I was familiar enough with season 1-4 and the first chunk of 5 to have it on in the background and not be missing any details. The rest of S5 and S6 were new for me and just kind of baffling how many times its felt like the writing was the equivalent was "gently caress it, scripts are due" Now I deserve to finish up a better show, so its on to Vikings, which I stopped watching after the sack of Paris episodes. pentyne fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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Mu Zeta posted:All billionaires do that thing where you get blood transfusions from young men to keep rejuvenated logic doesn't track because she looks better now then when she was on seinfeld. similar to Gillian Anderson some women just age into jaw dropping attractiveness.
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4AdFD3E2ok I've made jokes about stuff that like for video games but for a CW teen soap opera that doesn't seem like remotely enough time to cover what happened. Just a detailed breakdown of straight and gay relationships in The 100 would take minimum 2 hours, more like 6 if also including the fan-base reactions and insanity.
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Babylon 5 was genre defying at the time because no one though a long running serial series would find an audience in the days before DVR. The conventional wisdom was any 22 so season show needed to have mostly self contained episodes, maybe 2 parter mid season finales. From a writing and story telling perspective it was/is pretty unmatched by any contemporary shows and even today a lot of new sci fi/fantasy shows can't pull it off as well as they did either from cancellation dangling over their head or assuming spending a ton of $$$ on sfx makes up for nonsense plot. B5 benefited immensely from JMS having to stretch the budget as much as he could, and many of the main cast are the kinds of people who'd get minor recurring roles or where difficult to employ but still phenomenally hard working actors. Going by the standards of the time then and even now few if any of then are "leading cast" material on paper. Ex. Richard Briggs (90% deaf had to read lips to follow other actors) basically memorized entire scenes he was in so he'd be able to hit his queue perfectly. That level of insane dedication to the job was apparent in everything he brought to the show. Mira Furlan (rip) was coming straight over from the war in Bosnia and was basically learning English at the same time she was doing the show. Andreas Katsulas could effortlessly hold his own against Patrick Stewart during his Star Trek guest roles and brought the same intense Shakespeare energy to B5.
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Jan 27, 2021 07:13
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Escobarbarian posted:A Teacher - Hulu show where Kate Mara is a young teacher who fucks a student. Didn’t watch this one but it seemed to be generally well-reviewed, if considered a little slow. Reviews seem to make it out like it handles that dynamic as hosed up as it really is from the student's perspective. Since Mary Kay Leternou it's always been "lol lucky dude" but the reality is they are victims of an abuser in a power dynamic and it fucks them up massively wrt their understanding of healthy sexual relationships. Obviously now social media notoriety makes the guy a figure of renown with other guys but it's the equivalent of every time you meet a rape victim you go "oh yeah, you got raped a bunch of times, how was it?"
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Jan 28, 2021 02:51
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zoux posted:Don't you want to be a part of the Zeitgeist its being rebranded as Zakgeist
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Jan 29, 2021 15:00
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Escobarbarian posted:Kim’s Convenience good It's way better then I expected. The parents in it are easily the stand out stars of the show.
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Feb 8, 2021 13:54
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Digital Jedi posted:Look forward to that. He really does love wrestling and has a passion for it. He had a great first match in WWE with then Stardust and had a amazing match in AEW with Christopher Daniels. Even took some nasty bumps. That PPV match with him blew away everyone who was expecting another "celeb guest" match that is very clearly super scripted to avoid injuring the celebrity. Amell did a flying tackle off the top turnbuckle onto the two opponents who were outside the ring.
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Feb 9, 2021 09:49
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Lid posted:I accidentally clicked on tviv standards and practices which hasnt been updated in eight years and the last rule was dont post about my little pony. God this forum outlived the birth, peak, and death of that entire era. Its funny because there's nothing really specific about the actual show that made it bad, moreso then any of the other similar kids cartoons that developed a adult following then or now. It was entirely the internet fans specifically the bronies that made the subject toxic.
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Feb 10, 2021 12:45
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DrVenkman posted:Yeah I get the general grossness of dissecting cats to begin with, but it's not like production killed them first. No one got forced, everyone got paid. Seems like a non story to me. It's understood the dead are used for educational and training purposes, not used as a prop to make a TV show look more real. Doing that is tasteless, gross, and really undermines the central idea that dissection as a learning method is supposed to be somewhat serious and respectful of the animal and meant for a actual purpose beyond entertainment.
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Feb 10, 2021 13:47
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EL BROMANCE posted:I had to laugh at the TVLine article Can't wait to see my boy Ponce de Leon back on the screen.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember around the same time there was also the 30 Rock "What is this, the local?" but that seems to not have had the same lasting power. probably because some broke brains lost their mind screaming it was a racial insult
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Ugly In The Morning posted: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. Specifically, Kenneth says it when 3 black characters get on the elevator, and despite literally all the context in the world, like Kenneth being a G rated buffon, other non white actors in the shot etc. some people insisted he was making a derogatory racial remark other then a corny joke about making too many stops.
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IRQ posted:SG1 didn't get retooled, the closest you could call that would be the cast changes years in. Also it was perfect from the jump, so I'm confused. Atlantis pre-Jason Momoa is practically a different show. They tried so hard to make Lt Ford a thing for an entire season before giving up and just making a Teal'c like character.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:13
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MiddleOne posted:Legends of Tomorrow had one of the worst first seasons of all time, then in season two they completely flipped the tone. The only thing The Last Ship qualifies for is the garbage dump that was a trash show made by and for trash people.
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Looten Plunder posted:At least El Camino is a sequel yeah, but Ricky Hitler was in the flashbacks
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Open Source Idiom posted:Disney Plus the last 5-10 years of tech have been like them trying to speed run all the mistakes and gently caress-ups of the past ~80 years of traditional media. 30 years of cable packages and cost bloat all getting compressed down into a few years of every network trying to make its own streaming service and expecting people to be willing to pay $12 for 15 different apps.
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socialsecurity posted:I've been watching a bunch of standup on Netflix, a mistake really. 95% of it these days are comics complaining about "cancel culture" and "bloggers" nonstop it's petty and pointless. Sebastian Maniscalco being a stand-up "star" is all I need to know to avoid any special that looks like the hook is "smug white male comedian" That brand of humor can go die in a fire.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:14
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DurosKlav posted:You would need to find some really amazing team captains for it to work. A large part of what makes the show work is Lee Macks quick wit and David Mitchells ranting. Also the comedy scene here in the US seems to a be a whole different beast than the one in the UK. Outside of working the clubs comics there get a lot of tv shows or panel show appearances to make a name for themselves, theres nothing really like that here. Like series 5/6 David Mitchell is talking about his flat in London he shares with roommates. This was well into the worldwide success of Peep Show. The culture of panel shows just doesn't exist in America because you aren't going to get American celebrities to do that kind of thing. They'd basically have to tap and recruit any American comedians working the EU circuit and try and entice all the Canadian/AUS comedians to come to LA to film a single episode of a show. Re: the US "comedy" scene, it's pretty much 90% white male douchebag comics who are either alt-right or play the truth in the middle card.
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Lurdiak posted:Panel shows aren't even any good in the UK i have no idea why people keep trying to import them. Love to see D-list comedians scrambling to come up with a quip when presented with randomized prompts. It's like amateur improv night, only everyone's too lazy to stand up. Since they cancelled Buzzcocks I think Mock the Week & HIGNY are the only shows going on nearly 20 series, I'm pretty sure they get all the prompts ahead of time to come up with material. HIGNY isn't even a comedy show it's more like a news discussion with occasional jokes.
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My So Called Life was supposed to be a foil to Beverly Hills 90210, but they are both so impossibly 90s TV it's kind of gets lost in the nostalgia. Freaks and Geeks is still a banger though.
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Mu Zeta posted:When I was in middle school there was one girl that had a playboy tattoo on her belly and she sure loved to show it off Feel like even in the 90s someone would call CPS over a middle school kid showing off their tattoos.
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Davros1 posted:Speaking of cop shows, I don't think there's ever been a finer "Gotcha" than this: I was all set to watch for 10-15 sec and click away if it wasn't timestamped to the the reveal but it's so goddamn good I watch from the time stamp until the end.
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Mar 18, 2021 03:22
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Rhyno posted:"He's one of the good ones" right? "well it's nice but they can't just let anyone come over, what if they are terrorists?"
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Timby posted:There is absolutely no limit to the amount of psychological damage she did to Alana ("Honey Boo Boo") and her other children--I think even the South Park guys have said they feel terrible about the jokes they made about Honey Boo Boo--and it's absolutely disgusting to see a network trying to normalize her. Mama June lost custody of her to the girl's older sister after the meth charges, and now the new series is all about her redemption story. I think by this point A&E or TLC whoever would air a docu series about a "ex"-pedophile who decided to try and live an aspirational Christian life, with tons of dramatic stingers and cuts of him glancing or staring at children playing nearby if they thought it would make money.
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I watched S4 when it came out and kind of liked it, then a while back after season 5 was out, started a rewatch of the whole series, and the jump from S3 finale to episode 1 S4 was so jarring I stopped watching. S4/5 is practically a different show. Even the greenscreen/fake actors wasn't as hard to digest as the shift in the writing and humor. It was trying so hard to be Arrested Development S1-3 humor but it just kept missing the target. Their more original ideas/plots went off a lot better, but they spent so long on the Micheal knows sea law joke (a reference to a single line from nearly 15 years ago) it was clearly just smashing the "everybody remember this classic bit?" button multiple times an episode.
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zoux posted:Because Levar Burton would be the best Jeopardy host He's on the list of people who if accused of being sex pests would truly break my heart. Pretty sure he took no salary or payment for Reading Rainbow because he thought encouraging childhood literacy was so important. I think he even financed it himself early on.
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Mu Zeta posted:The first ~40 episodes or so of DS9 and TNG are kind of bad with a few outliers. I think "Duet" in the first season of DS9 is a hint of what the show can do. The Trek series in general seem to be cursed to have a S1 that is far weaker the the following. From TNG all the way to Disco, the show just picks up so much when they relaxed and stopped freaking out trying to be a "star trek" show too hard.
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Mu Zeta posted:After Kim's Convenience and Warrior were cancelled at the same time I thought asians on tv was over I'm convinced the CBC is just a state funded way of keeping actors employed in Canada and sitcoms are literally made and cancelled based on a roll of the dice. Or you get Corner Gas, which everyone in Canada loses their loving minds over it, and not a single other country has the slightest interest in it.
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Mu Zeta posted:Why aren't Hollywood actors ever a normal conservative or even an orange county conservative. They always have to be batshit like Steven Seagal or John Voight. I think Adam Baldwin was pretty disgusting on twitter too. At least Chris Pratt is smart enough to stfu most of the time. Because the normal conservatives don't make it their sole identity. Nick Searcy is pretty conservative, more of a rude rear end in a top hat then a Q nut, and one time casually mentioned that hey, maybe being a known conservative cost him acting gigs at some point but he was fine with it, whole nature of the beast industry of acting. Right Wing media went nuts pushing story after story about Hollywood liberals and Searcy had to issue a follow-up along the lines of "who loving cares? there's a million bullshit reasons you don't get hired, like resembling the casting director's childhood bully, it's not a fair industry" He still goes on about the "commies" in Antifa but that kind of seems like more angry old man stuff then talking about how the deep state has already killed Biden and secretly replaced him with a Trump puppet.
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Sirotan posted:They are making another Downton Abbey movie, but this time with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Release date of December 22. The first movie was expected to be a niche film and make maybe $50-60 million. It almost cracked $200 million for what was not much more then a very expensive and glitzed up version of the original show. If this one does anything close to the same it'll probably get a 3rd movie.
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Vanderdeath posted:Mr Selfridge was weirdly one of my favorite Masterpiece Theatre shows to watch aside from Poirot and the 80th season of Death in Paradise. Mr Selfridge was amazing and Piven did a great job in it, but BBC TV is usually not a big $$$ or celebrity jump off unless it becomes a worldwide hit like Downton Abbey. Even shows like The Bodyguard barely move the culture needle for more then a few weeks.
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Edward Mass posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l05pR_4wUKw Stephen Amell loving loves wrestling.
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feedmyleg posted:I think he shot himself in the foot by going to a new network and making the same show. Like, he could drop the baggage of Late Night but... kept the terrible monologues and stiff canned interviews? He mixed it up a bit with pre-taped segments, but overall it felt more tired than innovative. Stuff like that was where he shined and its a shame he stuck with the talk show format for so long. His side content, like the office skits, and the world tour travelogues, became the most entertaining things he did by far. The rest was just a lot of standard late night fare you can see from anyone, he didn't really bring anything exciting to the table. When he scaled down his show majorly in the last year or show, the leather jacket era, that seemed like more then anything a sign it was either gut his budget or get cancelled, and he's probably retiring now because he's tired of fighting the network for money.
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Mulva posted:It's basically "gently caress capitalism". That's the plot. It never stops being the plot. Consider how much capitalism sucks and eventually it'll all come back to you. The well to do highly successful future characters have a scene where they, as massively successful young people, have finally paid off their "birth debt" and thus no longer have to worry about being sent to a prison factory where they assemble the future iPhones all day while living in an 8x8 cell for the rest of their lives. Its implied the worlds richest man is disgusted with the whole thing and he tried to invent time travel in order to kill himself as a child before he invented the miracle tech that changed the world into what it became. Except maybe he didn't, and time travelers have been part of society for millennia, or they haven't. Something something space Marines eventually. It's real good.
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