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Squid Game article above, VIP 4 more confirms his hamminess than justifies the quality of his acting. Not that I was expecting great acting, but each of the VIPs seemed to base their character on the emperor in the "Heavy Metal" Richard Corben segment.

Had the same negative reaction as man alive to the main character, though he somewhat redeems himself with his early game performance, and will hopefully emerge a better person. Watching last two episodes tonight. The Battle Royale comparisons are apt, but I loved how episode 2's game changer separates SG from BR.

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link

whoa I didn't realize that was Geoffrey Giuliano as a VIP.

akm, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link

I cant recall if Ive kvetched about this before here or on another thread but for the love of motherfuck what is Apple TV+ problem with the GAMMA in their shows?

We tried watching the first 2 episodes of "Invasion" and every single scene was at best dim, and at worst "lit by a moon and nothing else" pitchblack. granted we were watching in daytime but Ive never had this issue with anything but Apple + shows. It feels like an asthetic at this point and a fucking annoying one.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link

I do know that Apple+ is more prone to crashing or failing to load than any of our other streaming services. Also, it and Disney occasionally have these annoying audio pops. I looked it up once and an explanation I found is that the shows/signals are mixed for 7.1 sound, so if you have an older amp or one not quite up to current specs it sometimes does that when it's decoding or whatever it is it does.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link

When I had Apple+, it would occasionally freeze then restart my TV. Also, the closed captioning regularly lagged, or froze then rushed ahead to catch up with the dialog.

blatherskite, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link

yeah it's a real p.o.s. at least on my roku tv

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link

i couldnt even get the app to work on my mother's FireTV a few weeks ago, it would open and immediately crash. No idea why. works fine on one of my FireTVs and obviously is fine on the apple TV devices we have.

akm, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link

Need to come in here again on Goliath. I think this season might be the best ever. Less repulsive wackadoo stuff than S2, more burrowing into families and interpersonal rivalries and how the past never lets you go. I have never seen a lusher looking show. I feel like every shot they're challenging their future selves: "top THIS!" The rain, the neon, the smoke, the darkness, the warm glows of the city, the long rides hanging off of trolley cars. BRUCE DERN. Nina Arianda continuing to MVP her way through every episode. The pulpy moonshot legal strategies. It's exhilarating and crazy and great. And look I'm not going to lie I now have a couple of Tania Raymonde movies downloaded why well it's not because of their IDMB scores okay

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link

Agree, fourth (and final) season a major improvement on the third, which I hated. Thornton's dream sequences in this one are kind of annoying, but it does look incredible (and they busted out the music from The Conversation!) and the villains are great across the board.

but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link

I think it goes S4 > S1 > S3 > S2

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 October 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link

Watched Ep. 1 of The Flight Attendant, and started Ep. 2, but bailed once it became clear that she was gonna keep having dull, expository conversations with the dead guy. Also couldn't see how they were gonna sustain interest in that thin-seeming premise for 8 eps. (...and it was renewed for S2!?)

juristic person (morrisp), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link

The Flight Attendant is actually pretty good, but it's about as one-and-done a thing as I can imagine. The idea of a second season is absurd.

but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 November 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link

Speaking of heavily “inspired by” theme music (and graphics), check out that show’s opening titles side-by-side with Mad Men’s!

juristic person (morrisp), Monday, 1 November 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link

i loved the flight attendant even though it was pure trash. zosia mamet worth the price of admission, ihibidtae

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link

Finished Y the Last Man tonight...it wasn't great or even very good TV, but it was good enough that I wish it had gotten another season to winnow out some storylines and get focused. The last episode seemed to be taking it back closer to the comics.

Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link

Tried to cancel my Shudder free month, and they gave me another free month. Feels like I just got free tix to a Cartilage Head show.

adam t. (abanana), Friday, 5 November 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link

Use it to watch amazing Hong Kong gangster thriller TRIVISA please.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link

Yeah the Flight Attendant was great actually. Surprised they are going to milk another season out of it but maybe it will shift focus (it will have to)

akm, Friday, 5 November 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link

I decided to give Squid Game another chance. Once I got past the maudlin and cliched character setup, the actual game segment is very well done and compelling, but tbh I found the red light green light scene extremely disturbing, like to the point that I woke up still thinking about it and felt very unsettled. I'm kind of torn between wanting to see what happens and just not wanting to watch any more, because I have such limited free time now and I don't know if I feel like having that kind of experience.

There were also a few minor things that bothered me probably more than they should have -- for example, the trader guy obviously could have declared personal bankruptcy, so they tried to write their way around that by somehow implicating his mom's little shop? This made no sense, why the fuck would a guy trading in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars worth of futures even bother to put his mom's little fish head business up as collateral, it would barely get him anything. And why was a guy trading at an investment bank putting up personal collateral at all?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link

Similarly, I don't know Korean divorce law, but something felt very hack about the whole "This guy upstairs studies law and says you can get custody if you can support the child." That just sounded way too simplistic to me - did they mean that he could get partial custody and then block the other parent from moving to the US?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

What I thought was great, however, was the level of visual storytelling, which I thought stood out even among some of the better prestige tv shows.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link

also Tracer otm upthread, missed his responses to my last post until now. Also like PBKR's point about how as a critique of capitalism it seems to fall a bit short (although obviously I haven't finished it out).

Also, just kind of wondering now if there is some kind of gotcha audience fingerpointing going on -- "See, YOU are the voyeur, YOU enjoyed watching people get gunned down playing a game," and it's like, nah, I really didn't, it fucked up my whole day and now I don't think I want to watch anymore.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 6 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link

Michael Haneke's Funny Squid Games

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 November 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link

this is ancient but my wife went back and watched Friends from College which I had avoided because I heard it was so terrible and it is not really terrible at all, dunno why everyone thought these people were such outlandish assholes in the first season, they are not half as bad as Seinfeld. Keegan Michael Key wears on you but he's meant to be annoying. It's not like, amazing television but it was entertaining enough.

akm, Saturday, 6 November 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link

Only Murders in the Building was a fun, fast-paced watch. Excellent cast, a lot of actors I love that I don't see much anymore. except for Selena Gomez, who I've never seen act before and don't hope to again

Vinnie, Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link

Oh, I just noticed they're making another season, so I guess she'll probably be in that, huh

Vinnie, Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link

Sprangg Breeaaaaaaak forever

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link

one of the best films of the century TBH

akm, Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link

otm

Only Murders was v enjoyable, am so glad its getting a season 2!

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link

Narcos Mexico is back. Couple of episodes in, it feels very much like Narcos.

Mule, Sunday, 7 November 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link

anybody watched Impeachment? with Beanie Feldstein and Clive Owen??

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link

I invited them both but Clive couldn’t make it

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link

lol

groovypanda, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

this week's Invasion was somewhat tense

groovypanda, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link

Seeing lots of recommendations for Invasion - how good is it? Like, Expanse good (i.e. unmissable) or Colony good (i.e. very missable but pretty good fun)?

Also loved Only Murders - it reminds me of the sort of late 80s/early 90s comedy that we use to endlessly rewatch on VHS. Definitely feels like something you could watch twenty years from now and still enjoy in a low-key way (if the world still exists)

I don't really get the Serial theme plagiarism issue - the plinky-plonk piano on the bottom is similar but the dominant theme on top is completely different. Besides -- the plinky-plonk sounds ripped off from Harry Nilsson's One anyway (or a dozen songs like it)

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 November 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link

I have no dog in the fight, but "One" and a million other things are just piano marches (God Only Knows, Day In the Life, etc.). The Only Murders theme (like Serial, I guess?) is a particular sort of melancholy/spooky/menacing minor key march with touches of exotica. Both good themes, imo! I've never heard Serial, but I never skipped the Only Murders credits.

(Only Murders, btw, gets docked a few points for adhering too closely to Ebert's Law of Law of Economy of Characters, just as Maid of Easttown avoiding it gets extra points.)

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link

I got spoiled by some headline way before watching it, so I couldn't tell how obvious (or not obvious) it was. Didn't affect my enjoyment though!

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link

Invasion is OK, but it relies on a lot of people not asking/doing obvious things to propel the plot.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link

Only Murders took a moment to get going then was really good. Our kids almost bailed after first episode and then were glad they stuck with it.

that's not my post, Monday, 15 November 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link

Yeah, Invasion is definitely not Expanse good but it's very watchable and has some excellent moments amongst the more mundane ones xps

groovypanda, Monday, 15 November 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link

This season of Love Life is great. Jessica Williams' character is certainly someone one could fall in love with.

akm, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link

Agreed. I liked the first season but liked this one more. Both had moments of like "uh, that's now how life works/that's now how jobs work" or whatever, but the first season had more of that, and the second season was probably funnier.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link

We saw the first episode of Midnight Mass and loved it. Granted, I really like Flanagan, and have seen (pretty much) all his movies, but for no good reason skipped the last two "Haunting" series. This one seems like it will hit the spot, though. I love the idea of a filmmaker's particular metier being Stephen King adaptations and things that seem like Stephen King adaptations.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link

MM is v v good. Check out the first Haunting for sure. YMMV on the second.

Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link

I think I saw the first ep of "Haunting," and it was good! I can't remember why I didn't continue. Probably because my daughter and primary TV watching partner binged the rest without me, lol.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link

I thought Hill House and Bly Manor were decent enough but nothing super special, both had a few good moments and an ok way to pass the time, but Midnight Mass was much better.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link

S3 of Doom Patrol was all-up amazing. Michelle Gomez as a f-ed up irascible time traveller who may or may not be a good guy? YES PLEASE.

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link

Literally watched the first episode of that last night so glad it sounds good

groovypanda, Thursday, 18 November 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link

First two seasons were surprisingly solid (went in expecting to hate watch a facile perversion of the Morrison material), glad to hear the third continues the trend.

Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link

yeah i am only a few episodes in but a+ so far

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link


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