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meanwhile, the whole special is on youtube.

god, Easy is such a weird show. occasionally compelling, but half of it feels like clumsy product placement for Chicago microbreweries and coffee roasters. and i feel like every episode ends with a close-up of someone's face as they unhappily accept their adult decision to stay in a relationship. i feel like i have a pretty good idea of Joe Swanberg as a guy in his mid-30s who is married and likes craft beer and also would like to sleep with other women.

and that episode with the South American couple had such a weird tone, very rapey.

that was my least favorite one. i still haven't watched the rest.

i think i stopped when i saw the next one start cuz i saw marc maron.

lol all those comments scaring me off

the rest are Maron sleeping with a college student, one half of Garfunkel & Oates having a threesome with Orlando Bloom, a kind of nothing-y one about actors, and Hannibal Buress playing it straight as a journalist writing about Dave Franco's underground brewery (featuring a truly silly amount of product placement for Half Acre/Dark Matter/Revolution/etc). yeah.

I was kind of into the idea of watching it but I think I just lost my motivation

Is ilx's own Jeff visible in the background of any beer-related scenes? Seems essential

i had no idea the businesses in that show were real. my knowledge of chicago is basically...windy...oprah.

the first one made me wince in that "please don't tell me this is what being married to me is like..." kinda way. but i'd like to think that i'm not that bad.

also, just the shlubbo married or dating good looking woman is way too common on netflix. also, all lesbians are really hot.

i dunno, i still kinda liked the slice of life thing. i would tell people to watch the first three episodes anyway.

the wince/cringe thing with straight couples in comedy/drama has kinda ceased to be interesting to me. it's rarely done well. i can take it in a stand-up routine or something blissfully insane like 30 rock. there is some movie on hulu with a million people in it all about texting and the internet and masturbation and its such an unfun cringe-fest. i think todd solondz and neil labute still have a LOT to answer for. it usually just feels like a shortcut/shorthand for universal truth about ennui or dread or frustration. people know what people are like. dig deeper, schlubbo. or write better.

"Easy" just feels like it ropes in every millennial cue and trope possible. It was enjoyable to watch at times but laughably on the nose.

i think todd solondz and neil labute still have a LOT to answer for.

i cant even think of specific reasons but this feels v much like a truth bomb

Neil LaBute has a post-apocalyptic vampire show coming out on SyFy

is something I just found out the other day

13TH is on Netflix, yes?

yes.

i think one of the bleakest shows i've seen recently is The Super. so bleak. bleaker than Hoarders. just misery with no redneck comic relief a la Cops. or at least the ones i saw didn't have it. The Super himself is some sort of psychological terrorist. He's every authority figure ever in one guy. i couldn't take too many episodes. if you like artless and sad cinema verite reality t.v. i highly recommend it.

seriously might be one of the worst and most abusive shows i've ever seen. which is saying something. just one guy yelling at people with all kinds of problems episode after episode. and its all about how HE is the one suffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QszBNVHEqYg

every super has a fucking martyr complex

if you like artless and sad cinema verite reality t.v. i highly recommend it.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty this is amazing

she kinda reminded me of a motivational speaker at times or maybe even an old susan powter infomercial. but in a good way! she had so much control over her voice and body and it was impressive.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:03 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i got the same vibe and could only stomach about 12 minutes of this. reminded me a bit of megachurch preachers too, so broad and well-drilled. when the third hashtag was put up as a subtitle to a gag i had to check out. can see why she fills big rooms tho. like @girlposts has 6M followers, that kind of thing.

it does get better. but i guess you will just have to take my word for it. she sets up her girly girl routine to lead into a long thing about feminism, etc, and its actually pretty cool.

i watched an earlier special called War Paint on Youtube and i liked it even more. there are some really crazy bits in that one.

i tried an earlier one too, maybe that one?

she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all

i gotta say i thought the john mulaney specials were hilarious

"she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all"

see i totally laughed when she did a routine about the sarah mclachlan spca commercial and then brought her dog out onstage and sang the sarah mclachlan song. i like her funny voices too. plus, she does this weird long bit about wanting to be a witch pharmacist at cvs and its not typical stand-up at all. more like creative writing. so, i give her an A for effort.

she writes a LOT for one show. must be pages and pages of material.

i will check out john mulaney too though.

"Easy" makes Chicago look so lame I really hate it

it makes it look like a semi-suburban college town.

chicago, that sleepy little town

tbf whole swathes of chicago do kinda look and feel like a semi-suburban college town

f u expat

that's part of its appeal!

The criticisms of "Easy" are all valid. I kinda like it though

it's watchable. i like the format best.

i thought the episode w/ the rape was actually quite good albeit extremely sad & upsetting because it was about something & i thought had a kind of purposefulness the other ones lacked but i might be giving it too much credit just for that

maybe its an elementary point, though

I watched the first Iliza Shlesinger special, War Paint. I remember her leaning extremely hard on her airhead-woman voice and her ability to convincingly imitate a goat. If you took those parts out I think there would be about five minutes left over.

just one guy yelling at people with all kinds of problems episode after episode. and its all about how HE is the one suffering.

in re: the super, yeah I didn't watch season 1 ep 1 first, but that one is rough esp where he like returns to visit the cleaned-up house and demands the woman be grateful to him cuz of how much money he spent; some other eps have nice glimmers of hopefulness idk I still like it

def found Easy uneven & agree w a lot of the crit above but generally did like the format/concept

Vikings is kinda the better Sons of Anarchy.

― scott seward, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:16 PM (six months ago)

just started watching this ... trying to come up with a better nickname for it than Johannsons of Anarchy

Easy definitely suffered from watching High Maintenance at the same time, for me.

ugh god Mascots is so incredibly stale and sad

. i gave up on Mascots after maybe....15 or 20 minutes? it's better if we just remember the good times.

We made it 45 or 60 min in and then gave up.

hot take: Christopher Guest's work as a director is mostly bad

nah, though it is tbh fairly cruel and snobbish

wat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tobXqP5NXo

Mascots was kinda bad but cheap laughs were had

Goliath (Amazon prime) is a stupid fun cartoony legal drama. Billy Bob Thorton is a burnout lowlife lawyer who takes on a weapons manufacturer represented by the the megacorporate firm he started with William Hurt, who is severely burned. An Armenian real estate agent and a coked out hooker help him out, and everything is sunny and feels like it might share the same SoCal universe as Terriers (RIP)

yeah that barry thing is very wat but A+ on the music