know
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Watched the first episode and not sure why it would get Cats level reviews. Bit of a Vikings/Last Kingdom vibe but with added monsters & magic - big, gory hand to hand battles and court politics & intrigue (and a few cheesy/bad monologues)Maybe it goes tits up in subsequent episodes
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
a tv adaptation of a video game is bad bc you didn't like the [critically acclaimed] game it was based on
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I've actually since seen a few more balanced reviews. One big complaint is how, at least at the start, it goes full GoT in the boobs and blood department.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
i am aware but the ppl i was responding to were talking about the game
― Mordy, Friday, 20 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
2020: in which people on the internet complain about a streaming episodic series based on a game based on a book being too derivative
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Another game adaptation which shows how terrible game writing is.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 20 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
My calculus isn't hard:
1. Ressentiment over game loved by other people.2. Henry Cavill is IIRC kind of a garbage human (not that I followed every twist and turn of his utterances so I may be missing context).
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Friday, 20 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
does this have more or fewer boobs than his previous pulp tv show, The Tudors?presumably more blood, although they got up to beheadings on that one
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
wait is the witcher series specifically based on the game's interpretation of the books and not just the books?
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
I think just the books, but absolutely influenced by games because it’s the pre-existing visual narrative adaptation
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Two episodes in and no boobs in sight but more beheadings than you could shake a stick at xps
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Wait, I could have sworn one review I read said the boobs were front loaded in the first episode, and that there were seven (!) naked ladies! Yeah, the catty EW review (F) is where I read that:
Anyhow, the pilot also features two rough-and-tumble princesses (Freya Allan, Emma Appleton), a wizard (Lars Mikkelsen), and totally gratuitous full-frontal female nudity. There are seven naked women in the first episode alone, Darren. Seven! I… think I’ve seen enough?
https://ew.com/tv-reviews/2019/12/20/netflix-the-witcher-review
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 December 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Im not sure how groovypanda missed it but yes, that scene was very "we can be hbo too!" To its credit it was more backgrounded than in similar scenes on GoT, but still completely gratuitous
I'm two eps in and liking it ok, but it seems they're trying to get through a lot of plot in a short amount of time. I would want it to move slower, thus far
― Vinnie, Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Actually yeah I remember now. That was early on in the first episode and I was half watching as finishing off some work stuff. There's also a very bad sex scene in the first episode but both actors are fully clothed.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
so it IS based on the game then
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Finished Don't Fuck With Cats last night despite it being utterly worthless
Hated it not because I was squeamish or "triggered" but as a piece of journalism or as a documentary with ostensible artistic merit, either way a failure
All the nuance, sensitivity, and sense of context of a CBS News special but since it's on Netflix, it's getting way more attention than it deserves
I don't do a lot of true crime but is a lot of it as glib as this was? Jesus fuck
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 22 December 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
TIL there is a remake of Jacob's Lader
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
so apparently if you have a modern TV and install Netflix as an app, it stops 17 seconds into the credits of a movie and shows literally ten minutes of ads for Netflix-made TV shows, and doesn't go back to the credits afterwards? is there some kind of hidden setting you can change to make it finish the film?
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
are the credits not still there in a little "picture in picture" window? you should be able to navigate to it with your directional keys on your remote and hit enter
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
nope, it started playing a trailer for The Witcher, with three little windows inset of The Witcher and 6 Underground and something else
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
the default assumption in the apps is definitely that people do not watch credits and that you are going to immediately watch something else. I think the idea is that the ads are suggestions for what you watch next — it’s not an interruption, it’s the assumption you are done with the movie so there’s no reason it’d just back to credits since it’a not a commercial breakI haven’t seen that behavior but I have seen a littletimer pop up as credits roll and if you don’t click quickly then it jumps from movie viewing to promo mode
― mh, Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not that bothered by a default assumption (assuming that someone at Netflix audits each movie to make sure there are no scenes mid- or post-credits, or bloopers*, or images of any kind, or text jokes, or deliberate use of music or w/e). But it should be possible to tell the app that you do want to watch the whole flick.
* except if it's Being There, in which case the blooper should absolutely be excised
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
there is definitely someone at Netflix auditing every movie for every tiny microgenre, as well as for that sort of thing (which is how "skip credits" at the beginning of TV shows on Netflix works so well - someone is actually keying in timecodes of this stuff)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
(which is how "skip credits" at the beginning of TV shows on Netflix works so well - someone is actually keying in timecodes of this stuff)
nah, I've seen that on Big Mouth
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
you've seen what on Big Mouth?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
"skip credits"
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
regardless of whether it's the usual credits or a bespoke one that ties in to themes or events of the episode
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Right. all I'm saying is that your assumption is correct - someone at Netflix is auditing all of that and adding metadata about when credits begin and end to every movie and tv episode.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
if a character is introduced in the opening credits and repeatedly speaks in them, then reappears through the post-credits part of the episode, imo it is pretty poor auditing to offer a button to skip the credits
if an animated show has drawn a 30-second sequence specifically for one episode, imo offering a "skip this sequence" button might as well be offered at any point in the episode as from 1:30 to 2:00
― insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
gotcha. yeah I've only ever seen it done when the credits are just literally the same thing every time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
xp but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
btw Bigmouth S3 is, imo, a significant step up, "Do The Thing" and the cell phone episode were great
― sleeve, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
but I WANTED to skip Coach Steve singing "Changes"!
ha ha :D
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
I love that show but Coach Steve is a truly disturbing individual lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
Amazon do the skip closing credits thing but in a much more infuriating way as it'll automatically start the next episode within about 3 seconds of the credits starting running.
I've also noticed that if you're watching two episodes in a row on Netflix, the next episode will start after the 'previously on' section but at least will usually play all the closing credits before switching. I think these features also vary from device to device and pretty sure there's an auto play option in your account settings that you can uncheck if you don't want it to do it
― groovypanda, Monday, 23 December 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
Yes the Netflix app on the amazon fire stick attached to my tv no longer gives me the option to watch closing credits. You can either watch trailers while the credits play in the left top corner or go back to browse main menu only.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
It does the same on the all4 app but the picture in picture credits box is even smaller. Incredibly frustrating. The shot playing under the closing credits to the last ep of Catastrophe were pretty crucial but you couldn’t see them.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
I started The Witcher. These things are always so weird that they shoehorn female nudity in like everyone is so hetero male gaze-y even in fantasyland.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
Like, that wizard is danish, don't tell me he wouldn't have a couple of young nubile men in his thought harem.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
The John Mulaney Sack Lunch Bunch is so good. And Gyllenhaal !lert! for certain people.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Season 2 of "You": this show is still bonkers and amazing. Joe is the dumbest serial killer on TV.
― Roz, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Sack Lunch Bunch is sooo weird, and aimed at ... I have no idea. But Jake deserves an Emmy.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
It's like, a kids show for people who don't have kids? Mulaney doesn't have kids?
I started watching the second season of You yesterday while rowing and I rowed 10k without even realizing it. It's just filled with great, bad decisions everywhere.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
I loved Sack Lunch Bunch, and also have no idea it's for. But I'm about Mulaney's age and have no kids, and found it weird and charming, so maybe me?
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
yeah, same. I don't have kids (slightly older than mulaney) and I thought it was great. I loved the chess and the NYC segments.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Trying “You” again but it makes my skin crawl like a Larry Clark movie.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
I should put in here that I am very, very terribly late in discovering Schitt's Creek. I didn't know what to expect but such terrible people made so lovable. Everyone is so good in it. I just finished season 4. It has been our thing to watch over breakfast.
― Yerac, Sunday, 29 December 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Yah it’s a great comfort food show
― championship winning vibration (Spottie), Sunday, 29 December 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link