Actually just Clooney & Wyle
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/george-clooney_0.jpg?w=612
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 July 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
It's quite funny to see so much chat on my Twitter timeline about The Last Czars, as if it in some way compared to The Crown. In fact it's a pretty cheap dramatized documentary of the type that BBCs Two and Four have been slinging for years, complete with actors from Casualty, Corrie, and Still Game.
― trishyb, Saturday, 6 July 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
And a Rasputin who apparently spent a lot of his life living in Sheffield
― nate woolls, Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
i imagine pushing that docudrama thing by netflix was a delayed response to the Romanoffs on Prime which really didn't generate all that much buzz (I liked most of it)
― akm, Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
I had to give it up after the second instance of Simon Geebag Montefiore voicing over Rasputin fingering someone.
― trishyb, Sunday, 7 July 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Finally got around to a handful of I Think You Should Leave episodes. I love it! A bunch of it is obviously inspired by Tim & Eric and Mr. Show depending on the sketch in question, but I like the fact that they generally unfold in weird unpredictable ways. To the point that you wonder how they wrote it (unless there are varying degrees of improv), because otherwise there would probably have to be a lot of trust in Tim to make it work beyond the base premise/script.
― Evan, Monday, 8 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
i watched a couple of episodes of that too and was perplexed by the abundant usage of the term "mud pie"wtf
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 8 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
That seems to dissipate after the first episode or two.
― DJI, Monday, 8 July 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
I Think You Should Leave made me seek out Detroiters which is maybe better and definitely...sweeter? for lack of a better word
― gbx, Monday, 8 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, July 8, 2019 10:44 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
See this falls under Tim & Eric. They had certain recurring names for things in their universe that would show up in multiple sketches like "pep-pep".
Mud pie seemed a little forced for sure.
― Evan, Monday, 8 July 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Loved the Tim Heidecker sketch. I've definitely met people like that before. They just expect everyone to have a niche knowledge base or they pretend that just to fabricate situations where they appear more intellectual and superior. Maybe I'm thinking of certain ilxor conversations!
Best thing about this show is the way they have the "straight man" characters suddenly buy into the crazy somewhere along the line.
― Evan, Monday, 8 July 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Oh! I remembered which sketch I had in mind- the one about the ideas for car features... I mean that must have looked terrible on paper, but I feel like they pulled it off! So odd though.
I guess as someone who's proposed unconventional ideas for things that conceivably work as imagined in my head but are really hard to sell when described and are therefore scrapped, I'm very impressed.
― Evan, Monday, 8 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
please feel free to discuss the show on this thread i made for it: i think you should leave with tim robinson
it is probably the richest most rewatchable sketch comedy show i've seen since mr. show (admittedly i have yet to watch detroiters)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 8 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
also
yep!!!!
oh, thanks! Will bring it there.
― Evan, Monday, 8 July 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
detroiters is a sitcom, not sketch, brad, but you should definitely watch. lots of the weirdo energy of ITYSL shows up in the local news segments and ads in detroiters.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
it's the best show I've ever seen. Somewhere between The Wire and Deadwood.
― dan selzer, Monday, 8 July 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, July 8, 2019 9:32 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol i looked it up afterward and nearly corrected myself. also my friends from michigan were raving about those segments and ads when it was on the air
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 8 July 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
The serie on Versace is pretty ace if you realize half it is made up. 🙄
― nathom, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
watching the Korean palace intrigue + zombies series Kingdom and it's very good, looks amazing and has some interesting twists on the usual zombie genre tropes. also it's only 6 episodes long (w/a second season coming at some point) so it doesn't overstay its welcome and stretch the story too thin.
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Yeah, surprisingly good, that one
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 July 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
I just watched Booksmart not knowing anything about it. I really liked it.
― Yerac, Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
I kind of liked that Thom Yorke thing, despite not really being a Radiohead guy. Sort of reminded me of Holy Motors?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Is "Booksmart" streaming anywhere yet? Thought it was still in theaters.
― o. nate, Friday, 12 July 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
the world is not the united states of america fyi
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
(it's been on netflix in France for about a fortnight. Shaft 5 went on euro netflix about a week after it lurched awkwardly into US cinemas too)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
^^^It's showing up as a netflix presents in france xpost. Is Shaft also a new movie? It is also on netflix in Chile. I thought it was a weird new netflix series.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 08:36 (four years ago) link
Shaft is the fifth movie in the Shaft Cinematic Universe, and the third to be called Shaft, despite there still being several unused titles from the novels. It is still in theatres in the US, came out a few weeks ago.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
This was a timely article on why so many people watch Friends. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-revealing-reasons-that-people-visit-the-friends-building?fbclid=IwAR290_cnuk_iYJhb_sVEk0Gi5JN7CtHD47fa_EnqXX6l6HddpUpGWdCFPgs
― Yerac, Friday, 12 July 2019 09:27 (four years ago) link
The new Shaft movie got an extremely brief UK cinema release recently, as well as some extremely negative reviews:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/13/shaft-review-samuel-l-jackson-jessie-t-usher
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 July 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
Can anyone recommend any good kids shows?
Mine are working their way through the dubbed "Go! Live Your Way" at the moment and it's driving me insane.
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 July 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
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― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
you're making it worse
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 July 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
“It’s just nice for younger people to see what life was like,” she said, as if describing Pompeii. “Before we just had, like, devices all the time, and we were always on iPads and stuff.”
Feel like this article pretty much cracks the code re: the popularity of Friends among the younger set. Something in that arena, anyway. Imagine never knowing a time before people were constantly absorbed in some handheld device or another. Depressing af.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
yeah before that we were just regular old self-absorbed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 12 July 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Meeeemories
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
I feel like Shaft hasn't even come out in the the US yet. Or maybe it did last week? Anyway, digital release anywhere in the world means it's now on the bay of pirates.
― akm, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
It came out June 14th and flopped so hard it wasn't even around for the July 4th weekend in a lot of areas
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 12 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Oh y'know I think I totally conflated the new Shaft with that Superfly remake that I remember seeing advertised but about whose actual release I have no memory whatsoever.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
superfly was last year
― maura, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Hilda is fantastic
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
that Superfly remake was actually decent
― Nhex, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
The Shaft remake was at a “Blues Brothers 2000” level of ill-conceived.
― omar little, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Everyone please watch Mean Streets!!!
― calstars, Saturday, 13 July 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
that director, he's goin somewhere
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 July 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
new shaft was awesome
― adam, Saturday, 13 July 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
pvmic but i am totally and immediately hooked on Blown Awayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb3zq_VRJ3Q
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 14 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Just watched S2E1 of Dark - what a way to end an opening episode. Despite watching a youtube season 1 recap i couldn't remember who half the characters were, but by the end i was extremely desirous that this shit be directly injected into my veins.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
pvmic but i am totally and immediately hooked on Blown Away
All I needed to hear was "Good morning, glass blowers!" I am on board.
― trishyb, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
but do they make bongs on that show?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link