The woman lead in set it up was very charming.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up?
shh. we don't want somebody up in here posting about "good faith" all the time
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
scottish horror/thriller Calibre looks good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yaSYAk2KU
I'm not sure it's on stateside.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
ooh i like that guy!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
which one?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
Watched W Kamau Bell: Private School Negro but didn't get through it. Dunno, his energy was pretty all over the place and comedy is so subjective, like I can handle that from Bamford or whatever but yeah, he had some good stories and was sincere but the stand up comedy hit to miss ratio on Netflix is pretty off.
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
the hit/miss ratio on everything on Netflix is whack. You really have to question the judgment of the producers and commissioners.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
their largest viewing audience numbers wise is millenials, so they seem to cater to that demographic and lifestyle, but like god was that kathy bates pot show terrible
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
hit/miss ratio on movies & broadcast n cable tv isn't too good either!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 2 July 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
I just watched the hell out of SECRET CITY.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 2 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Just watched End of the F***ing World finally and thought it was fantastic.
― dan selzer, Monday, 2 July 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.
I'm not quite sure what I think of that ending.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
Holy shit. Why did I avoid GLOW for so long???
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
xpost <3 glow is the best! we have a thread for it too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
marcella s2 is definitely pushing things into some questionably lurid territory.― tylerw,
-- spoiler alert -- was that the ending with her being 'rediscovered' as a hobo under the bridge ?if so, then yeah, we are entering a "Marvel Origins" universe for S3 that I am not sure I will give a shit about.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
I got through like 2 episodes of Marcella, winning combo of both unremittingly bleak and howlingly stupid
veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience
yup, totally devastating
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
lol at the end of marcella season 2, geez louise. yes, that's the ending. just stupid. kind of too bad — i generally like the actors, but the whole thing is ridiculous.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
new joel mchale season is up!
― maura, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
Anyone else watched/watching The Forest? It's really silly (the wolf!) but diverting all the same,
Also watched Dark which pretty much had me up until the final shot.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Enjoying The Forest now, thanks! Kinda wish the wolf would eat Virginie.
― mick signals, Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Jeph Loeb cosplayed as Akira Yoshida to promote Iron Fist at SDCC
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DigrWzOUwAAHKxF.jpg
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 21 July 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
why did I ever wait so long to watch Glow?!
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
I watched that new movie Extinction last night. Hmmm. At least the big twist explained why everyone was so stupid (and the eye makeup was distracting) in the movie.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
I'm watching Glow for the first time, too, although slightly less enamoured. It's fine, but I dunno: a brilliant, idea, but Marron, in all his dishevelment, is kind of indicative of the 'will this do?'sense of a lot of the writing.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
it kind of bumps along, plot-wise, but the individual characters and the spectacle were enjoyable enough for me to keep watching
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Glow rocks. Just embrace it.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 28 July 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
having one of the main characters be a kind of try-hard very normy person who just can’t figure out how to break through, and comes off that way, works pretty wellthey over-telegraph it right at the beginning with the “I don’t know if I love or hate you, you’re attractive one moment and repulsive the next” speech but it works
― mh, Saturday, 28 July 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Enjoying Dark Tourist more than I expected, it's more Louis Theroux than Vice
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 28 July 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
i was a big fan of tickled but couldnt get into dark tourist
― just sayin, Monday, 30 July 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
but then again, tickled was just such a crazy story
HFS, The Bleeding Edge documentary on the non-testing of medical device tech is body horror that leaves Cronenberg way back in the rear view mirror.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Don not be tempted by Kristen Bell into watching “like father” as I was. It is absolutlely abysmal.
― akm, Sunday, 5 August 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
I watched that new movie Extinction last night.
If you were going to watch a try-hard "what is real, man" SF on Netflix I would pick The Signal over Extinction -- it is not "good" per se but just more effectively disorienting -- acting/writing just so-so in both
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 5 August 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Been watching The Staircase. Bit of deja vu, until I realized I had seen the original 8 part doc almost 15 years ago, but remembered very little, and what I remembered wasn't in the Netflix series (so far), which I believe is expanded with new episodes (I presume distilled down from two sequels to the original doc series?). Anyway, crazy true crime doc.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 August 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
neil brennan 3 mics was one of the best stand ups on netflix in awhile
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
it does, and i did! i think they crammed a whole lot of life into those 32-minute episodes. it flies by, really. super enjoyable. hoping for more.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
xpost - yeah i thought it was really good.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I ended up loving Glow (S1) - those last few episodes were kind of beautiful. Looking forward to S2.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 August 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
disenchantment has dropped, my expectations are middling tbh
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 August 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
It is not good.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 17 August 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
So, no one else watched Extraordinary Interiors or whatever it was called?
― Yerac, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
I just started watching Red Oaks recently on Amazon Prime & its way more enjoyable than it has any right to be imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Oh, I love Red Oaks. It has a weird feeling to it. Like instead of it just being 80s it feels more like cult 80s, last in nielsen ratings but should've seen better.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
Red Oaks is so great!Comes to such a nice end too, not corny but affectionate, I really love those characters
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
i could watch wheeler & misty hang out forever, they have such great chemistrymy only mini critique is that Paul Reiser’s character’s daughter ie the not-Molly-Ringwald love interest has all the charm of an ironing board so far. but everyone else is great.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the daughter sticks out to me. She kind of reminded me of the female scientist student from Real Genius but lacked any personality.
― Yerac, Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:02 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently it gets better (and is likely to improve over years like its predecessors) but i couldn't get through 10 minutes of the first episode.
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
https://news.avclub.com/netflix-is-breaking-it-off-with-michelle-wolfs-the-brea-1828430766
the break was terrible on the whole (utterly utterly obsessed with its own country on an international platform) but the joel mchale show was really well done. pretty disappointed about this.
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link