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Hughmoris posted:Is FX's Legion worth getting back in to? I watched Season 1 and enjoyed it but I think I recall that the quality jumped all over the place in later episodes. Don't care about the plot. Don't care about the characters. If you can do that, watch it and you'll love it. It's an extremely entertaining experience. Season 2 tries to get wacky while holding onto a thread the whole way through but doesn't manage to find its footing along the way. Season 3 just plain goes wacky and refuses to care about footing at all. Do not care about the plot; there are multiple threads that just fray away into nothing or are resolved in uninspired, unfulfilling, frustrating, convoluted, and astonishingly stupid ways. Do not care about the characters: they'll perform stupid actions, say stupid words, and fail to understand what logic, empathy, loyalty, mental illness, and intelligence are. While it aired, there were some audience theories that were outright desperate to pull the narrative in different directions which, at the end of the day, were never proven or disproven by the completion of the series. Don't bother theorizing as you watch, you're probably wrong and it likely won't get answered. And sadly, there's nothing that tops Season 1's Bolero scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V89QyxIPxD4 Which I still consider one of the best scenes in television history. Otherwise it is an audio-visual feast. Most of the best bits already got posted here as YouTube clips so, uh, hope you didn't watch those. Noah Hawley makes it obvious that he'd rather be directing music videos than TV shows. Plenty of the set pieces are gorgeously inspired in their creation. There's a stand-alone episode that could make you cry. All the acting is exactly as good as it needs to be, which is why the actions being acted out could make you yell at your screen; you believe they exist enough that it pisses you off when they do dumb poo poo. The cinematography is appropriately odd, the musical choices are on point, and, mild non-plot spoiler, Jon Hamm does some narration that is supremely excellent. Let us know what you think as you watch it! I'd lurk this thread more just for that. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jun 15, 2021 |
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Jun 15, 2021 05:12
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Alan Smithee posted:So uh batman dont eat pussy https://twitter.com/DC_Animated/status/1404609612150542339
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Jun 15, 2021 09:14
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MechaSeinfeld posted:I’m loving Raised By Wolves but lol at the rapist going super saiyan after getting Android blood in his head. incredible costume design on that guy though
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Jun 15, 2021 20:45
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Farouk is the protagonist. Change my mind.
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Jun 16, 2021 03:10
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Sekhmnet posted:Happy Endings is incredibly rewatchable; it does get a little sillier in the 3rd season but I still love it. Max's momentary deer in headlights reaction to Penny and Alex wearing wig helmets is amazing.  Escobarbarian posted:e: also the use of Horizon Zero Dawn footage was really really weird  It actually took me out of the show a bit, including other missed jokes like the fact they separately named their expansions Zeus and Hera, the fact Zeus showed zero gameplay, and the fact Hera was just trying to be Second Life (which for anyone who used to play Second Life got a chuckle out of the line "it's impossible.") It feels like the writers and editors are dropping the ball on some really good wink and nod jokes in favor of just pushing the dramatic aspect. I don't know why I want simple references like "what's with the greek god naming trend?" or "Zeus didn't show any gameplay other than the inventory screen" or "It's not impossible, Second Life did it!" but it'd sure make the show feel more like it knew the context it was portraying instead of slowly listing off into becoming the next Silicon Valley. Either that or I just really want the show to subtly acknowledge that it knows what it's doing when it's showing us footage from real video game as a stand-in for their own game. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Jun 18, 2021 20:14
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How'd Reno 911 end up?
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Jun 18, 2021 21:05
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I liked tonight's R&M. The crotch swinging reminded me of that Gorillaz music video.
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Jun 21, 2021 10:40
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Pfft looking forward to those Succession numbers when that returns.
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Jun 21, 2021 21:49
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I don't want to watch this show but this is adorably real.
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Jun 22, 2021 07:15
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Gonz posted:On the Blacklist, one of Red’s enemies shot Elizabeth Keen through the loving heart before she could find out who Red is, and immediately prior to the central conceit of the show about to be revealed to her.
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Jun 24, 2021 11:32
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Azhais posted:The first time they killed her off the following two episodes were some of the most horrible lovely episodes of TV I'd seen in a long time, and I basically said if they're gonna make me sit through those episodes she better be dead. I haven't watched since, did anything interesting happen in the interim?
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Jun 24, 2021 21:35
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/succession/status/1412471414716653580
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Jul 6, 2021 23:06
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I'll admit that I watched the first episode last year and, despite loving the creators, found Wellington Paranormal to be... lacking... in some respect. Maybe it gets better but that first episode didn't grab me enough to watch the rest.
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Jul 12, 2021 22:44
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GreenNight posted:Well, news on the Dexter front his sister is back within his head for the series
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Jul 15, 2021 00:02
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I watched Black Widow on Monday and after doing so the first thing out of my mouth was "Jeez, Yelena (Florence Pugh) kinda stole the whole movie, huh?" A friend then reminded me that this film is supposed to be the hand-off of the Black Widow title from ScarJo to Pugh so, yeah, makes sense.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:12
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You ever go watch something from your childhood and then realize you forgot you were haunted by a question for years only to now be haunted by it again? That has happened to me and I felt the need to share it with someone so how about this thread? I mentioned the old game show "Debt" in another thread and decided to go watch a little bit and reminisce about the old times. I was getting through the title sequence when... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7CSDgwKMc&t=20s "Let's meet today's contestants," says Wink Martindale. But wait... something is off here... I don't remember him saying the word "contestants." Oh jeez, am I having a Mandela effect moment? Hold up, let's check out the same sequence but from a later season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1EUUL4YVc&t=22s I knew it! At some point, Wink started saying, "Let's meet today's contestaaiiii." But... what the gently caress is a contesti? That's not the plural of the word contestant. In fact, it's not even a word at all. What's going on here?! And now I am re-haunted by the question, why did he change to saying contesti, a word that isn't even real?
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Aug 30, 2021 21:36
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:43, and I concur. Between The Rocketeer, Career Opportunities, and Dark City a few years later (where she is arguably even MORE beautiful), she was one of my two '90s celebrity crushes. And she's still glorious on Snowpiercer today, even when she isn't all glammed up.
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Aug 31, 2021 21:45
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muscles like this! posted:So, the second episode of this week's What We Do In the Shadows was a tour de force performance from Kayvan Novak. Because this talent is the motherfucker who did the Doovde skit from decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QBHukn8Qm8 Spoiler for episode 1 of the new season: Yes, the VCR joke is a loving callback to the Doovde skit.
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Sep 4, 2021 09:13
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Cojawfee posted:Enterprise theme is unironically good. Also it's wild how Enterprise went from "awful, will not watch" to "kinda hilariously bad but also really good" thanks to Alex Kurtzman being a complete idiot and ruining Star Trek via Discovery and Picard.
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Sep 5, 2021 02:28
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DC Murderverse posted:End of an era. Fake Edit: I just guessed that they weren't already airing these quality shows, went to check the schedule, and nailed every single one. Only addition I'd make (cuz I assumed it was still on) is Metalocalypse. gently caress it, add Frisky Dingo while you're at it. BOOSH!
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Sep 6, 2021 11:36
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Looten Plunder posted:I haven't played it (is it even out?) but his performance in the latest Far Cry game looks super fun.
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Sep 12, 2021 09:52
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It warms my heart a bit to see the outpouring of love for Norm, I always thought of him as more of a niche comedian. To me, he was, and will probably for the rest of my life be, the funniest comedian ever. I got to see him a few times front row when he was at his best. He gave me a wink when I shouted out a funny answer to a question he was, of course, asking rhetorically. I also got to see him when he was at his worst, hopped up on bennies so bad he had mush mouth. Not even the Red Bull helped that night. He did some "take a photo" stuff after a show one time and instead of doing the usual "get it over with" stuff celebrities do, he wasn't paying any attention to the guy taking our picture and just wanted to talk to me. He said I reminded him of Edward Norton. I'll always remember him as the guy who would make David Letterman, probably my second favorite comedian, laugh hard enough to choke. Okay I didn't mean to make this a eulogy but I'm gonna miss the guy. gently caress.
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Sep 15, 2021 06:51
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Gaius Marius posted:If Kim and Jimmy don't end up together and happy I'm going to personally kick Vince Gilligans rear end.
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Sep 20, 2021 10:29
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Cojawfee posted:I still have no idea how the hell they made 26 episode Star Trek seasons in the 90s.
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Sep 30, 2021 21:40
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Escobarbarian posted:Foundation is so loving dry and that’ll appeal to a certain set of sci-fi fan but I’m definitely struggling with it. I did like the stuff with Empire in the third episode, but then the Terminus stuff was sooooo dull. As for Sepinwall's new take on Succession, that's a massive win for me. One of my very good friends who shares many TV tastes with me unfortunately cannot bring himself to enjoy Succession for essentially the same reasons Sepinwall couldn't. Not only that, but he is a die hard Sepinwall enthusiast, watching anything that Alan watches. I'm excited to see if this changes his mind. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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Oct 4, 2021 10:29
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Open Source Idiom posted:Some of us haven't read the books. Also I was exaggerating what is shown in the scene for comedic effect. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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Oct 4, 2021 10:40
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Escobarbarian posted:I hope your friend does start watching Succession also I'm so hype for the new season... I hope it's 100% done so I don't get a mid-season strike break on my hands. howe_sam posted:He's also the showrunner.
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Oct 6, 2021 23:36
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Gaius Marius posted:I'm just gonna say it, Better call Saul is the best TV Drama of all time, and people will be studying it decades from now Mind you, I 100% understand why they did it the way they did it and I'll never fault them for it, the opinion is purely on my expectations of what I want out of the television I want. That particular point is just a sore spot for me, is all. Now I kinda wanna dig up my old posts to remember my thoughts on the matter. In any case, it's still probably the best TV Drama of all time because if you asked me to name a TV Drama that was perfect from start to end, I probably couldn't.
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Oct 7, 2021 09:29
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bull3964 posted:Foundation was renewed for season 2...... apparently in November of 2019. Gaius Marius posted:As was Jimmy letting go of his grief when he realized Howard was destroyed by Chucks death, Jimmy was emotionally distraught as he thought he was the only one who cared enough to actually help Chuck, even as chuck held him back and tried to destroy him. When he realizes Howard also cared enough, he didn't have to carry that, imo unwarranted, burden any longer. 
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Oct 8, 2021 10:27
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Open Source Idiom posted:I feel like this post is kind of ambiguous -- are you talking big budget blow outs like Game of Thrones/Westworld, or something more like The Wire/The Sopranos/Deadwood? Plenty of good TV out there depending on the angle you want. Unless you mean "worldwide phenomena spawning watch parties and thousand page thread discussion" which, well, no. I don't think that will come again for a while.
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Oct 11, 2021 05:49
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Cojawfee posted:Even though I know it will be funny, I still can't watch those videos because of how cringe they are.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:55
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Mu Zeta posted:Foundation is also tedious. They've done a really annoying thing twice now where an episode ends on something interesting and then the next episode completely ignores it. This entire season feels like it's stretched out bullshit.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:52
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GreenNight posted:What the hell is up with November. Here is all the poo poo I want to watch that starts I had actually looked at my calendar earlier today and after Succession didn't have anything to watch until March (Orville) so I felt like I was missing something.
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Nov 2, 2021 09:45
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Just to clear some air about the new Dexter season: It's being run by the guy who did the first 4 seasons (the good ones... and 3) and, as far as I have read, is supposed to be a "redo" for "the end of the series." As in, this is the final season. Edit: I just read that Michael C Hall, as of August, doesn't know 100% if there won't be more. At least they're going in with a self-awareness of how badly the original series ended. That's, apparently, the entire reason they came back to it. I'm certainly curious to see what that does. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Nov 3, 2021 00:15
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I had to look it up... this is hilarious. Dude never ran any shows before or after those 3, just producer and writing roles on very few others. I was going to comment on how television poison lasts that long but he's had so few gigs, I almost feel sorry for the guy. He really needs to find a different job.
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Nov 3, 2021 12:00
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Chairman Capone posted:I'm still really surprised that there was no Star Wars character in Kingdom Hearts. Back in 2012 I was absolutely sure we'd see that within a year or two.
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Nov 3, 2021 21:33
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I watched the new Dexter. It wasn't bad! The best part about it is that, because they're in the wintry New York (filmed in random Massachusetts locations, though,) Michael C Hall no longer has his lovely spray-on orange tan and most of the lighting outdoors has a nice "outside the Matrix" blue shade. There are a couple moments in the episode that are "laugh when you're not supposed to" but I think they did a decent job of hitting the mark on "serious vs goofy" that was lost after season 4.
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Nov 9, 2021 04:13
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Arist posted:Anyway, yes, the death of Osama bin Laden was kind of a huge deal in American culture back when it happened, in a way that frankly feels completely surreal nowadays
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Josh Lyman posted:Now that Foundation is over, would anyone recommend watching it? I know it's gotten mixed reviews. I feel asleep during the first 2 eps when they premiered. Watch episode 1 to see something awesome and leave it at that.
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