thought Time Trap was going to be awful from the first 20 mins or so. it was great in its simple concept though, I enjoyed it.
― kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 07:40 (four years ago) link
Unorthodox was pretty good, I thought.
― DJI, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
we watched the first ep of midnight gospel last night. i understand why some wouldn't like it but i found the animation charming + amusing and i have fond memories of loveline in my teenage years so dr drew is not an instant turnoff for me. i was also extremely celebratory of the festival yesterday so i may have been in the right mood to hear a blunted podcast about drugs backtracking psychedelic + weird imagery.
unorthodox i probably won't watch but it's worth doing a little independent research since the source material from a number of years ago already was already contentious for not being a fully honest narrative and i hear the show is even worse at flattening the characters + community.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
It's true that the orthodox community (and the male members in particular) is portrayed as almost cartoonishly oppressive and clueless. OTOH...
― DJI, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
otoh who cares if we stereotype orthodox jewish men bc they're not real people anyway?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
OTOH this is a story about an abused woman escaping a shitty situation and I'm willing to allow that maybe her experience was real, and maybe it's ok that she didn't have as much sympathy for her abusers as you seem to think she should.
― DJI, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
anyone else watching zerozerozero?
― gbx, Friday, 24 April 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
Unorthodox looked bad. Apparently Luzer Twersky (aka the guy from that one episode of High Maintenance) and Moshe Kasher were working on a show with similar themes that would have been more comedic, I wish they would have made that one instead.
(otoh, my experience of the Orthodox community has been on the side of cartoonishly oppressive and clueless, though most of the actual people are good & smart & well-meaning. I don't want to derail the Netflix thread though.)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 April 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
agree it looks like and from what i've read of it sounds like exploitative crap but u know a woman claimed to be oppressed in a 2012 book and then sold the rights to a media company who made a shallow tv show out of it so we probably shouldn't criticize it too much
― Mordy, Friday, 24 April 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
Re zerozerozero: I don't think it's for me but C has been praising it for DAYS. He said it's possibly the best tv he's ever seen? Which makes sense to me bc it's a Saviano production iirc? Not that I watched Gomorrah either although I do have the book from like 10 years ago.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
what's the thread for other streaming services that are not netflix?! i want to talk about the NIGHT FLIGHT app!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 24 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more
― Nhex, Friday, 24 April 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
thank u
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 24 April 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
You didn’t even watch it, Mordy! Didn’t realize you were such an orthodox religion fan. Sorry to offend you.
― DJI, Friday, 24 April 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
update yr xls
― Mordy, Friday, 24 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
(Mordy is an Orthodox Jew fyi...so is my mother, though I wasn't raised in it)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
I was boosting zerozerozero on the general streaming thread last month, it is fantastic
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UYGmqsIFIM&feature=youtu.be
unorthodox is quite bad, pedestrian at best, but reasonably even-handed. the husband is a rounded character who is not unsympathetic
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, April 24, 2020 10:53 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
it really is, one of the best tv shows i've seen in a long time, way better than narcos (which i liked!)
― gbx, Friday, 24 April 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
alright, i'll bite.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm pretty burnt out on trafficking narratives in general—it's not something which really interests me after so many shows—but this is worth it
I have found it's easy to get conditioned to shit production values w/ most streaming content, but this also looks and sounds great, which is refreshing
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 April 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
drug trade stories are totally uninteresting to me so i really need this to be strong. will report back.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I watched the first Middleditch & Schwarz special at lunchtime & it’s v funny
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 April 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
Co-sign I laughed a lot
― Mordy, Friday, 24 April 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
Holy shit I haven’t laughed like that in months. I’m kind of a sucker for decent improv as well as people breaking and this just killed me.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 25 April 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
Have mixed feelings about Midnight Gospel, but I’m burning through this show. Get the metaphysical/LSD/psych-spiritual podcast audio being off-putting at first, but the animation is amazing and I’m enjoying the juxtapositions. It’s kinda like nothing else I’ve ever seen and I appreciate it for that alone.
― circa1916, Saturday, 25 April 2020 04:19 (four years ago) link
I would keep going after the Dr. Drew 1st ep. Probably used because he’s the most recognizable guest.
― circa1916, Saturday, 25 April 2020 04:22 (four years ago) link
Reminded me of Waking Life. A bit too chattery and not enough plot to really keep my attention.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 April 2020 04:28 (four years ago) link
I liked the visuals but a lot of the chat is like what I imagine the Joe Rogan show sounds like (and then I find out it's from a podcast and the dude is a frequent rogan guest lol)
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 25 April 2020 08:07 (four years ago) link
I've enjoyed Duncan Trussell's podcast over the years
This was a really heavy one with his mom just before she died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGeISXwC_pQ
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 April 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I feel bad, my friend did the music but I have zero interest on this one.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 25 April 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
via Vulture:
Another big takeaway from Tuesday’s earnings report was that Netflix is not currently planning to change much of its 2020 programming schedule in response to COVID-19. It’s had to shut down most of its scripted productions just like the rest of the global entertainment business. But “one thing that’s maybe not widely understood is we work really far out relative to the industry because we launch our shows all episodes at once,” Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said. “So our 2020 slate of series and films are largely shot and are in postproduction remotely in locations all over the world. And we’re actually pretty deep into our 2021 slate … So we don’t anticipate moving the schedule around much, and certainly not in 2020.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
Loved Midnight Gospel! Got better as it went along, at first I wasn't sure about it. Definitely not for everyone though.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 26 April 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
Hurrah! https://io9.gizmodo.com/exclusive-netflixs-excellent-kipo-and-the-age-of-wonde-1843028327?_ga=2.105768967.566665040.1588099343-66200155.1528932709
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
watched the first 45 minutes of chris hemsworth forearm-definition showcase extraction and while it's pretty boilerplate in plot and dialogue there is a children of men-inspired single-shot action sequence that winds its way through multiple vehicles and buildings for no less than TEN MINUTES and it's pretty amazing
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
obviously it's not really a single shot but the edits are mostly pretty slick
the director of Extraction is a stunt coordinator who got the gig after writing, choregraphing, training and camera operating a seven minute fake-one-shot fight in Atomic Blonde
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
aha, that makes senseit’s a technically impressive sequence, with hemsworth doing lots of fighting with multiple opponents in tight spaces with the camera weaving around them, must have been a bastard to shoot
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
has anyone done a listicle of all the Netflix tricky action single takes yet
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
I still think about Haunting of Hill House ep 6 a lot.
― Roz, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
in addition to being a stunt coordinator, Hargrave was Chris Evans' stunt double in Winter Soldierhttps://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a31024424/chris-evans-stunt-double-workout/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
hmm I’m going to have to watch Extraction, now
― mh, Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Watched it last night after the zoom session. It's the kind of action trash I always look forward to and then feel bad for watching afterward.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Extraction def sounds like my bag
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 May 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
it's so good and well paced + one tracking shot gives Russian Ark a run for its money.
I'm just not up for that kind of unrelenting terrible violence, it seemed closer to torture porn at times. Like I get in doses but why does anybody need *that* much of it?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 May 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, that's the line i don't cross
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 2 May 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
did you start zerozerozero yet?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link