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Last Chance U basketball was really great (and heartbreaking!)

i picked up and knocked out Motherland in a week, so I appreciate your run there.
I'm currently finishing the last season of Friday Night Dinner which has been so stupid and so meta and so occasionally painfully funny.

Last Chance U Bball is a LOT but it's close to the best tv i've seen this year.

Anyone watching Loki? I avoided winter soldier, assuming Wandavision was an outlier like Legion was (and Im not an MCU nerd so a lot goes over my head with this stuff) but Loki is great so far! Hiddleston and Wilson have great chemistry and comic chops together. The set design is fantastique.

chit-chat starts at this post: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase 4 & Beyond (and a chance to change your vote)

I seaarched for a better thread but missed that one!

Sweet Tooth is surprisingly good, the first Netflix series I'm actually going to finish in years.

Somehow my bookmark fell out of that MCU thread months ago… I missed Josh’s big “Why do they call him Spider-Man?” riff.

Luca was charming and beautifully animated, even if the premise seems overly familiar

Anyone watching Loki? I avoided winter soldier, assuming Wandavision was an outlier like Legion was

Legion is extremely good, but it's not MCU.

Sweet Tooth kind of fell apart over the back half and felt rushed. I wonder if the pandemic screwed them up or something.

First episode of Loki actually reminded me somewhat of Legion xp

Color keying and consumes/props seemed similar.

Luca was good - very Ghibli for Disney, reminded me of Kiki’s Delivery Service I guess

Watched that yesterday with the kids. Started off feeling it was all a bit Discount Pixar but was pulled in by the time it ended

I guess it’s not “streaming” (is there a thread for… regular TV?), but did anyone watch the premiere of Kevin Can F**k Himself? It’s interesting - a little heavy (heavy-handed?). Not sure how it’ll play out over a full season.

Streaming on peacock app.

Speaking of traditional TV vs. streaming, an interesting article on TCM: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-06-22/tcm-fights-to-keep-classic-film-alive-on-tv-in-a-streaming-world

I'm only two episodes into For All Mankind, but I'm really enjoying it! Space! Alternate history!

yeah i think it’s great

I’m well into season 1 of For All Mankind. Enjoying it as well. Though sometimes it feels a bit like they are trying to jam in as many cultural conflicts as they can.

Should have recognized but didn’t the excellent Michael Dorman (Gordo in this, played the lead role on Patriot).

Gordo is my favorite character. All the pathos & heart, everything he goes through. Really great.

I think that's the next show for me to check out, sounds very much like my thing

I'm sure Apple TV has some stinkers but the two shows I've watched from there so far (Mythic Quest and Ted Lasso) were both excellent, felt very well planned. As if Apple went into this thinking "hmm let's just do the opposite of Netflix"

Morning Show was good imo, it is also on Apple+

For All Mankind didn't have a very interesting take on speculative fiction, the Soviets should have built colonies on the moon or something.

Agree re Morning Show and Mythic Quest.

We started watching that Stephen King one last night with Clive Owen in it, watched literally 5 mins and turned it off, it was weird and morose.

...Liseys Story. It gets less than 6 on IMDB lol so we werent alone.

Just tried the first episode of The Knick on HBO Max (speaking of Clive Owen). Didn't make it to the end. Had prestige stink all over it, wallowing in gratuitous gore and squalor, and frankly I was bored.

I liked the first season ok but never bothered after that

I liked the Knick! But yeah I have only seen one season, just forgot to watch it, maybe got bored after Clivey started with his speed habit thing.

Kinda stuck on liseys story even though I don’t think it’s very good. And I love Clive, children of men is a top 5 movie for me, but his American “accent” in this is pretty questionable.

The thing with FAM for me is that I know so little about the space race that a lot of I catch myself wondering if all the developments have basis in reality or if it's the show making things up.

certain recurring characters are real, like Deke Slayton the head office guy (aka Frank Sbotka from the Wire) , Werner Von Braun, Thomas Paine the administrator

Deke was irl on the ground at Houston for Apollo 11 riding comms with Armstrong, Baldwin & Collins. he was a big part of the apollo missions & one of the original Mercury astronauts

two main Apollo 10 astronauts Baldwin & Gordo are fake - but stuff like their bar hangout is real

thats what is great for me as a space nerd, is it is very grounded in the reality of those times but just sets off on this new thought experiment within the same reality

even the wives & the way they look out for each other, the lead astronauts wife is the Head of Wives etc, that is all very legit

how similar is 'for all mankind' in tone to 'the right stuff,' also known as the best movie ever?

it’s of a piece, for sure

distant neighbors, long lost cousins perhaps?

oh AND they bring in some great stuff later with the Mercury 13, the irl women astronaut program

For All Mankind didn't have a very interesting take on speculative fiction, the Soviets should have built colonies on the moon or something.

This seems a weird complaint to make about a show which features the Soviets building colonies on the moon.

Do they? My bad, I found it pretty dull so I was probably only half watching. I do remember the giant rocket launching from the ocean at the end, though.

yeah there was a literal space war on the moon with people shooting people and shit on both sides lol.

Well ok not *quite*, but still.

I tried the This Is Pop on the Brill Building and it felt like a total mess: the "in four songs" billing only very vaguely lived up to (they don't even explain what the Archies were), so much time spent on silly reconstructions. The focus on not exactly top shelf talents like Neil Sedaka and Andy Kim, which I guess you could spin as giving less critically lauded writers their due tho cynically I'd also say they probably couldn't get Carole King or Neil Diamond; at any rate if you're gonna go that way I'd have prefered full eps on them, this way it's just a weird mishmash that assumes you know a lot already. Linda Perry being a rockist bore. Are the other episodes like this too?

oops I guess that's netflix sorry

I’ve been meaning to check that out, too bad to hear it’s a mess…

I've seen 4:

Boyz II Men was a topic I knew nothing about and didn't feel like I knew much more afterwards.

Autotune I really enjoyed, but would probably have preferred a doc with the guy who invented it more than T-Pain's wife's view on his career.

Swedish Pop was fine but probably in the same vein as you say the Brill Building one was.

Pop Country shies away from all the big topics and should have been probing why Taylor Swift abandoned country or Carrie Underwood went back to it. The nub of a good idea around "authenticity" not pursued enough.

We just watched the Britpop episode—it was somewhat superficial (with some questionable framing), but enjoyable/entertaining. Lots of good interviews.

i liked the swedish one but tbf i only watched it because it had jay mccarrol of nirvanna the band the show as the lead and honestly if you haven't, all of you should just find a way to watch nirvanna the band the show (given the context i feel like i should say it has nothing to do with curt kobain btw)

The Brill ep has some interesting stuff, but it’s also kind of a mess.

I had the panicky 'don't know what to watch' thing on Sunday (with a hangover) and stuck Black Summer on. I made it through 4 episodes and jesus, it was awful. Zero budget (driving around an endless suburb, looking for a stadium that appears to be like Kafka's castle), rubbish grumpy zombies that can't smash windows, dreadful script and acting.

I quite like me some low-budget zombie/horror action too. Is there anything better than this on streaming at the moment?

Black Summer is so much better than overwrought nonsense like The Walking Dead. That said, I've watched more of the new season and I think they went too high on the level of nonlinearity and narrative challenge. There are moments where I enjoy it as an exercise in vibe and others where I'm like "this is a TV show and I would like it if I knew who the people on the screen were and what they're trying to do," which in S1 I always did.

Agreed that the Walking Dead is overwrought but it does deliver - set pieces, some proper jaw-dropping horror in places. Black Summer just seemed to not be doing anything particularly well but you've made it sound like I should persevere. I'll give it a couple more episodes, cheers.

Any good horror(-y) series to recommend to my mom? Big fan of the X-Files, Stephen King in general, she liked the House on Haunted Hill series up to the very end.

Channel Zero looks like an option but I'd have to subscribe to Shudder for her.