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Watched Red Notice with my son last week. It was quite fun and my son loved it xps

they're making a second season of 'good omens'? the series was so slavishly devoted to the book that i can't imagine what a second season would even look like

how much was gaiman involved in the first one? i know he's written for TV before, doctor who episodes, but only infrequently and this would be like 6x that.

Gaiman wrote the entire series and was showrunner on it

He and the director of S1 are co-running S2, I think, and it’s based on a sequel that he and Pratchett plotted while sharing a hotel room at a convention, but were both too successful by then to coordinate time to write

Season 2 of Beforeigners now on HBO max. S1 was excellent but stopped abruptly after 6 episodes.

Is this the thread where we discuss Don’t Look Up? Watched it on a lonely Xmas eve and enjoyed it much more that I expected to. Pretty shambolic and full of jarring changes of tone but pretty funny throughout.

Adam McKay's World-Ending DON'T LOOK UP (2021)

that movie looks like the sort of "every famous person we could con into participating" thing that would wind up bombing at the box office 20 years and/or only show up at your video store.

yeah it looks kinda like that stupid Movie 42

pass

I’d compare it more with Wag The Dog and Contagion in its own way.

ok so i started watching it bcz idk why

its not AS bad as i expected but still kinda meh mainly tho my god whyyyy the fuck is it 2.5 hours long????

Speaking of (I guess) stylish satire, I saw the first two eps. of The White Lotus last night, without knowing much of anything about it (I thought my wife was watching a movie; was surprised when the first set of end credits appeared).

It's not the kind of thing I would normally seek out or expect to enjoy, but it's definitely watchable. The cast and writing seem good enough to elevate the characters above mere "satirical constructs" (...plus, I sort of know people like that, lol). Also feels like it curdle/turn unpleasant real quick; at least it only has 6 episodes to do its thing, whatever that turns out to be.

Well, that really went somewhere. It sure knew what it was doing (and what it did wasn’t easy). Not sure I’d “recommend” it, but glad I watched it. The cast was so good…

“Sorry That Chaise Is Taken. But You’re A Very Pretty Man”: A Thread for White Lotus on HBOMax fyi

Ah… well, I’ve said my piece (lol).

Southside is brilliant. It should be much better known.

My parents are super technically inept and have a cable box / dvr with a complex remote, a tv remote only used to control volume and switch inputs, and an ancient bluray player with another complicated remote that handles streaming at a terrible resolution with very few services available. Neither of them can consistently get the tv to show what they want when they want to.

I bought them a roku for Christmas, set it up, logged into their their services and installed the app from their cable service and trained my mom to use it for like 45 minutes. She was terrified and skeptical but once it clicked she basically wept with joy and told me it was the best Christmas present she’s ever gotten because there’s only one remote that does everything she’s ever wanted with only 10 buttons. Not bad for like $80

a christmas miracle

actually, a christmas mirokule ? hm no

that’s awesome!

lol, i have had a similar experience. Now get them on plex!

Season 2 of Beforeigners is just as good as the first so far. (Only two episodes have been loaded.)

I had a similar experience except after setting up the TV and the Roku I just got an implicit acknowledgment from my MiL that it wasn’t the worst thing in the world.

We watched "CODA" on Apple. It's often sappy and has a pretty boilerplate plot, which initially kept me from getting into it. But it's really sweet and more or less won me over by the end. Some of the deaf family dynamics were compelling and new (to me), and the lead, Emilia Jones, is really solid. I guess it's a remake of a French movie, but if you told me it was adapted from a bestselling YA novel I'd believe it.

I got my Dad a Roku and he was oddly reluctant to watch any of the TV series now available to him, and after a while I finally realized he didn't understand that you can watch streaming shows from the beginning. He was thinking of it as basically another cable channel delivery system!

Yon Hawkeye fellow in Mayor of Kingstwon by Taylor Sheridan, it seemed like utter trash early on (especially when Spoiler got Spoilered) but actually developed into decency like about episode 8 or so. Why did I persevere long enough to establish that? Who knows, the mysteries of life ansuch

Also new season of Euphoria, back to reiterate that I'M OLD and don't understand the youngers

I was much more excited for the return of Righteous Gemstones, although I'm not yet sold on the continuing plot line that seems to be getting set up.

Also new season of Euphoria, back to reiterate that I'M OLD and don't understand the youngers

The general take I've seen on Twitter (based on soundtrack choices etc.) is that this show is very much an old person's look at These Kids Today With Their Depression And Their Hippety-Hop Music.

Well they played Orville Peck, is that a young people thing? I really have no clue these days...

I missed the news that the BFI launched a streaming site. Does anyone here use it?

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-british-films-stream-bfi-player-classics.html

Station Eleven is pretty good two episodes in, always glad to see Mackenzie Davis in something.

Think we talked about Station Eleven on another thread. Anyway it’s excellent and gets better as at goes along filing in the details about key characters. Last episode is this week :(

How grim or idk realistic-feeling is that show? I want to watch it but my partner is objecting on the grounds of pandemic content, which I can't argue with. We started watching a Korean sci-fi show (on Netflix, sorry thread) where water is super scarce and before they switched settings to space, it was making me legit anxious due to the plausibility

The initial societal collapse part is more zombie movie than pandemic content in the way its presented.

ha not sure if that will be perceived as better or not, but thanks

based on the first half of the first episode, i will not be watching search party's final season. They got three good seasons out of it tho!

I read the book of Station Eleven, but I remember nothing.

The show seems much bleaker and high-stakes than the book. One thing I didn't get:

Why the hell does Kirsten join the Prophet's group to go to the airport? The dude just murdered a bunch of children. Why would you trust him or anything that he says?

xpost, In some ways it's reassuring watching a show about a pandemic that's so much worse than covid (only 1 in 1000 survive the Station Eleven virs). Our pandemic timeline is bad but the virus itself could have been much more catastrophic.

DJI: I had the same thought. I mean, she stabs him almost as soon as she meets him ffs. I watched a few eps while drinking which was a bad idea as I kind of lost the thread of the Prophet/Undersea plot slightly. I mean it then all comes together/makes sense once they remeet at the airport and she figures out who he and Elizabeth are, but yeah that felt plot-drivey.

Also, is it just me or is Clark a really painfully loathesome character? Are we meant to dislike his insane need for reassurance/being liked? Because I do.

Sorry to sidetrack – we just signed up for a bundle that includes Hulu. Besides "Reservation Dogs" (which I recall folks here raving about), anything else recent we should check out on that service?

Only Murders in the Building
What We Do in the Shadows
McCartney 321 w Rick Rubin
Dave

AND remastered X Files

justified, if you haven't seen it yet.
the great
mrs. america

oh and Atlanta will be coming back so get on that if you arent already

we just signed up for a bundle that includes Hulu. Besides "Reservation Dogs" (which I recall folks here raving about), anything else recent we should check out on that service?

Terriers
Thief (FX show starring Andre Braugher, only 6 episodes)
Killing Eve (first 2 seasons only)
Letterkenny (people disagree on when to bail out — I'd say after the Wayne/Tanis relationship runs its course, but the first few seasons are some of the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life)

PEN15 and Ramy, immediately!

Thanks all!

i agree with unperson more or less completely about letterkenny btw