Oh okay, never mind, it's the sequel to that, sorry.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
I really should get around to watching more than a few episodes of BB at some point since Home Movies is an all-time classic.
Bob's Burgers is one of those shows that's never not enjoyable but also never really feels compulsory. My own feeling is that there's a vital spark in Dr. Katz and Home Movies which isn't really there. But maybe it's just that there's a shtick to Bouchard's work that I'm now on my third time seeing. Certainly the performances in BB are great.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
I mean, just from my cursory viewing of BB it seems to be lacking the 'funny people just loosely riffing in the recording booth' vibe of the former two, but I could be wrong.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
Ethan Hawke on reading The Good Lord Bird:
The magic trick that author James McBride does by telling the story through 14-year-old Onion's point of view is he lets you laugh about it. He writes the humanness into it, as opposed to kind of a political angle. It's not self-serious, and yet it's full of tremendous heart. ... McBride finds a way to make it a healing experience to look at systematic racism, the wit of his writing is so compelling. And so when I finished it, I just felt hellbent on a mission that getting this story into our culture so that it's easier to talk about some of these things.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/V8KiBnW.jpg#67 - The Good Lord Bird (HBO) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 voteethan hawke is john brown and daveed diggs is frederick douglass in the showtime miniseries THE GOOD LORD BIRD
TrailerSample ClipWebsiteDesus and Mero Interviewhttps://time.com/5895308/good-lord-bird-showtime-review/
Our second back-to-back book-to-prestige-TV-miniseries adaptation is a too-of-the-moment alt-history Philip Roth novel imagining what 1940’s America would have become if Charles Lindbergh became president. Spoiler: it's fascist.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/p3MirEE.jpg#65 (Tie) - The Plot Against America (HBO) - 18 points, 3 votesPhilip Roth - Where to begin?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
TrailerTuturro, Ryder and Boyle discuss antisemitism and eugenicsWebsitehttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/plot-against-america-hbo-review
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
“the sic rule.” As your author is American, the listed provenance and linked website for each show is predominantly going to be for its streaming home in the United States,
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ tbf
Please specify primary network/streamer that it aired on.― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, December 18, 2020 9:08 AM (one month ago)
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, December 18, 2020 9:08 AM (one month ago)
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
loved the good lord bird and hawke's performance. that desus and mero interview is very enjoyable, thanks for linking it.
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
Last one for today; check out my dope finishing move off the top rope!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/A1SFgSH.jpg#65 (Tie) - AEW Dynamite (TBS) - 18 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 voteAEW 2020: Take Me Home Cody Rhodes
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.theringer.com/2019/7/24/20708352/aew-wrestling-half-year-review-cody-rhodeshttps://bleacherreport.com/articles/2836546-how-aew-was-born-inside-tony-khan-and-the-elites-attempt-to-disrupt-wrestling
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
We tried getting into Bob's Burgers after finishing Adventure Time and/or Steven Universe, so while Tina, Gene and Louise as axes for personality types is urgent and key, we were very "Is this still on? Seriously, 21 minutes, what is this?"
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
That’s all for Monday on an understandably quiet day, given the poll’s low numbers at the outset. We’ll be back tomorrow with a run up to #50 but, until then, I would love to hear defense and recommendations of these shows from their voters!
#65 (Tie) - AEW Dynamite (TBS) - 18 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 vote#65 (Tie) - The Plot Against America (HBO) - 18 points, 3 votes#67 - The Good Lord Bird (HBO) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#68 - Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#69 - Dave (FX) - 16 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 vote#70 - 20020 (SB Nation) - 16 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#71 - Bob’s Burgers (FX) - 15 points, 3 votes#72 (Tie) - Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons! (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (Starz) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Taskmaster (Channel 4) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Videogame Dunkey (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - Bluey (Disney +) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - Followers (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - We Are Who We Are (HBO) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
really wished i'd checked out Plot Against America, sounds like it's right in my wheelhouse.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
:D at all the 1 vote, #1 vote ties
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I wanted to see that too and was too slow on the draw--believe it played on Prime before I signed up...I'm catching up compared to five years ago, but wow, most of these shows are obscure to me. I'm think I'm just baby-steps removed from 1995.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 February 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
I had Bob's Burgers pretty high and feel like it's a perfect TV show. it's been on forever and i feel like the quality has held steady; without having to resort to any current affairs or over the top zany new characters or humour that's not suited to the show. i'm kind of amazed they're still doing the same thing and still doing it so well – and as someone who enjoys edgier stuff, I really like their approach to pg-level humour.
xpost - Clem: I'm clearing out a few shows I never got to finish, but maybe we can synchronize our watching in a couple weeks?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
Sounds good, but I think they took it down, no?
― clemenza, Monday, 8 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
I was the other Oxventure vote. Learned about the show from the 2019 list. Lots of fun.
― that's not my post, Monday, 8 February 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
plot against america is worthwhile, i was one of the voters;
i'm a big roth fan but him doing alternative history did not grab me when i tried the novel ten or so yrs ago, maybe i'd be more into it now; the miniseries felt p tone perfect in establishing that era and the fear and powerlessness of sociopolitical occurrances/movements
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
i enjoyed Man in the High Castle and feel like it might be along those lines?
Clem - if they did, I'll find it elsewhere and can share with you, if you like.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 8 February 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
Aw, nice! Have you watched their new Blades in the Dark campaigns? The first has been the only one with the whole group (the subsequent ones have featured only two players), but Mike's role-playing for Barnaby has been exquisite.
― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Monday, 8 February 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
xpost, Blades in the Dark goes to the top of the need to watch list...
― that's not my post, Monday, 8 February 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
add me to the "Dave is actually good, I promise" chorus
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Nothing I voted for has showed up yet. Have a feeling most of my ballot will be high consensus picks, and the other two or three won't make the list
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
Seen enough of two of these to know they aint for me (disclosure they were annoying and bad) but ill check out the plot against america
― scampsite (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
I was the one voter for We Are Who We Are, so was glad I submitted a ballot. I liked that it meandered and was open-ended and mostly plotless, it seemed fitting for the two teenage characters it followed, bonding over realizing they were both queer and dealing with the resulting alienation
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
I also like that the first character it focuses on, played by Jack Dylan Grazer, is strange and sulky and kind of off-putting, and his counterpoint, Jordan Kristine Seamón is the opposite
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
OK so as noted in the noms thread Idve voted for Umbrella Academy and prob in top 5, so it would have been way up the list could I have done so :( oh well.
I've only now seen Seduced, mightve voted for it too, its pretty full on.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:27 (three years ago) link
with we are who we are: the immensely fucked up relationships of Sevigny and everyone in her sphere got downright comical eventually
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
she was completely in charge as a commander but such a mess as a mother and wife, it was interesting
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
Given Followers was my strategic number 1, put in so other people should take notice, I should out myself. This is a really interesting show about women on different stages of the fame/hype cycle and more fundamentally about what it is to be a woman in Japan today. It's a really great piece of social commentary. It's also really beautifully shot, the use of colour is really good with the saturation and intensity rising with the character's fortunes and then washing out as they fall. It makes Tokyo look so good.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
xpthe bit where jack slaps his mother around and then kinda fake nurses her was very uh.and the very corny and tone deaf seduction of kid cudi's wife by the military doctor.and OF COURSE the extremely wrong attempt by the thirtysomething to initiate a threesome with a fifteen year old.lots of weird shit in that show. i wish it was attempted with a less gauzy softcore eye... or maybe just not done at all? Still not sure if many of the choices in that show are camp or self consciously perverse or just utterly tone deaf.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
yes to all of those points, there was a lot of questionable stuff along the way
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
the teenagers ultimately had insight and made the right choices, though
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
I don't feel like I see many tv show that are very interesting. this was interesting I thought, despite being self-consciously perverse
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
i thought the first three, maybe four episodes did a good job of keeping me in but i think right around the wedding party the show took a hard turn and lost me
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
like the wedding party almost worked but not quite? and everything after that started feeling more and more removed from wherever the story was going before and getting more interested in shipping the characters like the director was playing with his barbies.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
I was reminded of Transparent, which was a show where not much happened except real life, and I was always surprised by how at the beginning of each episode I never could imagine where it was going to end up
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
maybe a fair comparison as transparent also lost me at a certain point! I'm big on maintaining a narrative thread, otherwise it's free verse.
hbo seems really invested in having at least one teenagers-who-are-fucking show in rotation at any given moment and i think this was that. among the next up:https://deadline.com/2019/12/hbo-max-orders-lena-dunham-produced-generation-to-series-1202801586/(tangentially, dunham has not had much luck as a producer lately)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
btw if you liked this show I strongly recommend Mercier as a kid from Israel who wants to become Parisian in Synonyms, where he does some outrageously good acting. Tons of full frontal nudity from him too if that's your thing.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 06:12 (three years ago) link
Obit for S. Clay Wilson: http://www.tcj.com/s-clay-wilson-the-most-influential-artist-of-his-generation/
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 06:41 (three years ago) link
rong thread, sorry!
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 06:43 (three years ago) link
Taskmaster was very good this season. Daisy May Cooper in the live words task is probably the most I laughed at TV last year.
― braised cod, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 11:38 (three years ago) link
A bit predictable, heavy on network sitcom formula and lacking some of the acid and cleverness that made Always Sunny a must-watch, I found Mythic Quest nonetheless to be a pleasant enough low-commitment binge-watch that offered the promise of a more interesting second season now that all the characters and rulesets are fully defined.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mp7b0de.jpg#64 - Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (Apple +) - 18 points, 5 votesBut 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
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mythic-quest-ravens-banquet-1276341
The main arguments for buying into Netflix's hour-long good-family-gone-bad-drama Ozark are a stellar cast and a defined arc that ends in the coming year. The arguments against are its knottiness and bleak worldview.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SL9Vxsw.jpg#62 (Tie) - Ozark (Netflix) - 19 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 voteOzark
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/ozark-season-3-review
We had terrible trouble trying to get Mythic Quest because the Apple TV kept trying to stream the 4k version, no matter how many times we told it not to do that. Bloody Apple.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
And then when it did work, it wasn't as good as it would've needed to be to overcome that initial annoyance. So I dislike it out of all proportion to its actual flaws as a programme.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link