What are the classics of the 21st century thus far?

Aliens might start with Planet Earth.

i'm more of a bicentennial man myself.

than an A.I. man.

same movie really.

Re: treating TV episodes as discrete works of art, I think it's totally valid but I seem to have more trouble with doing so myself the less an individual episode stands on its own as an independent work. Long-form narrative just sorta becomes a single, blurred single unit in my head, and there are moments that stand out but rarely single episodes. I personally tend to revere single episodes of, like, sitcoms and more procedural-y shows (like choice ST:TNG eps, or that first season Homicide ep with the araber). But I would by no means balk if someone with a brain capable of remembering single episodes were to champion a small piece of the larger pie.

This is probably because, since the advent of the season-long DVD box set, watching six straight episodes of a show has become my preferred method of watching TV by a country mile. Similar, I guess, to how I prefer to not just dip into a novel for an hour here and there.

i hope the aliens like party down. any one episode of that show is a treat. any single episode better than the hangover or a zillion other recent comedy movies too.

I often wonder if there is some distant planet that is home to some technologically superior aliens that have been watching us for years and they love our movies but think Drive Angry 2>>>>Citizen Kane.

i'm glad that after much disgreement with scott seward itt the two of us can bro up over our love for party down

i still think about the sopranos all the time. one big difference between the sopranos and shows like breaking bad and sons of anarchy is that i think david chase hated the soprano family from the beginning.

p sure that in the future major film studios will each only release one multibillion dollar budgeted film a year and that everything else will be on-demand or w/e for the various smaller screens, making the delineation between tv and movies really fuzzy/irrelevant, esp as things like commercial breaks get phased out.

does danny mcbride hate kenny powers?

killer ryan posts itt fwiw

doubt it, especially given the way the character was softened/redeemed in the last season (xp)

did they really do that? i disapprove! stricken from the halls of classics now!

yeah i wasn't happy about it either

this is a good other thread to mention deus ex in

wolf hall trilogy is obvs a major masterpiece

Oasis 2006 compilation album 'stop the clocks'