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Velma sounds like the worst thing ever. Who was dying for a dark gritty Scooby reboot ffs

Last of Us - if it spreads through biting, how did Nana get infected and show signs so early in the day?

I wuz reading that it spreads thru breathing spores, but they didn’t want to get into that in the show and have actors wearing gas masks? idk

Giving it a couple more episodes but mostly felt like I’d rather rewatch Children of Men.

In the game it spreads through spores. Not sure if that will be in the show or not but when they were escaping in the car, Joel's daughter said Nana had been going to the city for treatment and probably got infected there

Yes, there was dialogue to that effect in the opening escape sequence.

Have a feeling this show will need its own thread. (Though the game already has two!)

Should Poker Face have its own thread? (I'd argue yes.) One more trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmozhMRbmA

"i'm not gonna watch the last of us "

may I ask why?

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, January 16, 2023 3:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

no big reason, i don't watch a lot of tv shows these days (more movies), my wife wouldn't want to watch it bc it's too dark, i didn't love the video game, just generally not my kind of thing

xp definitely

Watched the first episode of the Nathan Fielder-esque Paul T. Goldman from ace comedy director Jason Woliner on Peacock. Definitely recommended if you like Fielder, John Wilson, et al.

No one else is watching this? It's gotta be the most interesting series currently airing. Goldman is a nerdy, vaguely creepy insurance adjuster from Florida who spammed a bunch of directors on Twitter with his self-published true crime tale about getting ripped off by his ex-wife, and the show follows a semi-fictionalized Woliner's efforts to earnestly adapt the goofy source material (with Goldman starring as himself) while gradually unraveling Goldman's lies. Features several familiar character actors politely dealing with Goldman and dutifully trying to bring the caricatures in his story to life. The last of 6 episodes premieres Sunday.

The great @jwoliner has created a spectacular television experience. An insane story told in an insane way. It’s called PAUL T GOLDMAN and it premieres today on Peacock

— nathan fielder (@nathanfielder) January 2, 2023

I scrolled past it because the blurb I saw sounded like true crime.

re: Goldman - definitely "good", but I'm glad it's ending next week bc it's so unpleasant for me to sit through, the title character is such a loser

also it didn't have to be six episodes

The guy who plays Robert Evans in The Offer is great... his performance is really reason in itself to watch the show (if you're at all into the Bob Evans schtick).

The contrast btw. the well-known quality of The Godfather, and the quality of this show, is pretty amusing. But it's very watchable...

i watched 10 minutes of goldman with my partner and she made me turn it off. i will try again at some point.

Jets have been coming into land particularly low over my house today, and I keep seeing that one shot from The Last of Us premiere in my head…

(guess I sort of de-spoilerized that backwards, sorry)

I was about to ask if Tom Cruise was in one of them blasting into a steep climb

when you got streaming video service content like Tom Cruise in them, you can’t lose

“I'm taking a ride with my best friend” - The Last of Us on HBO (2023)

Made a thread for The Last of Us

Speaking of, I know it's HBO and therefore par for the course, but can I just say how much I appreciate weekly serialized dramas? People got so used to entire seasons dropping at once, but week by week is just such a better way to experience a show, and it feels like maybe the tide is finally shifting back. It gives you something to anticipate, it allows people to catch up, you can have spoiler-free conversations and discussions because there's not someone that stayed up all night watching the whole thing, you can actually let things settle in a little before the next episode, etc. Releasing an entire season of anything all at once is just such a dumb model, especially if you want to build a subscriber base. Though glancing at the thread title, maybe it's just Netflix that's been notorious for this, and aside from Stranger Things Netflix hasn't released much to capture TV nation's attention?

Yeah I think a lot of people have realised this and the pendulum has definitely swing back to weekly releases.

I like it, reminds me of waiting for the X-Files episodes as a child.

We binged through the excellent Slow Horses and suddenly realised we'd run out of episodes, on a huge cliffhanger. Enjoyed the anticipation and waiting.

We are also struggling to get through Bad Sisters because there's so many episodes and they all seem like variations on a theme -- might have been more likely to watch it week-to-week.

I don't think it's a hard-and-fast rule, my partner and I loved binging through rented DVDs of The Wire and Veronica Mars, etc, back in the 2000s. And it's nice to whizz through shorter shows like Russian Doll.

Even Netflix seem to be splitting up seasons more

I only watch one episode of a show every 2-3 nights but I prefer dropping them all at once or waiting until they're all out if I have to.

came to it late but really liking Physical.

I prefer all-at-once, like Milo, and will wait for a season to finish before I start watching, unless it's something with little to no continuity, like Atlanta

Watched first ep of "Last Of Us" and thought it was a phenomenal take on apocalyptic tropes until the time jump. Checked out from that point on.

Just watched it as well. I love that "what's happening?@?!?" stage of zombie/apocalypse movies/shows. All i could think was well, this is certainly better than Fear the Walking Dead.

Pre- or mid-apocalyptic stories tend to be more interesting than post- IMO unless you're A Canticle For Leibowitz (though I guess that's a set of pre- apocalyptic stories).

There's a trilogy of detective novels about a cop working in the last six months before an asteroid demolishes Earth that would make a great TV series but nothing has ever come of it.

What’s it called?

The Last Policeman

That was a great trilogy. ILB content …

Those books were fun. Reminded me of the movie Last Night...no question of survival, just about how people were spending their time.

see also reasonably heart-breaking Australian film THESE FINAL HOURS

That was a curious lil film that one. I liked it.

i watched 10 minutes of goldman with my partner and she made me turn it off. i will try again at some point.

lol we watched the first episode tonight and when it was done, my wife, beaming, goes "I have no idea what's going on, but I love it already!"

yeah, my girl doesn't work that way!

Tried one ep of Night Court reboot. could not with it. Canned laugh tracks just sound so dated these days.

Paul T. Goldman, wow what a finale.

I caught 30 seconds of Night Court and it had the most shockingly bad overdubbing of dialogue since a fourth tier Godzilla vs. movie.

I feel like the industry has "forgotten" how to do multi-camera sitcoms, or something... like the institutional knowledge is gone

The Conners is 9x better than Roseanne, but it’s not like there were ever more than two really good American multicams running at one time ever

This place is so great at highlighting shows like Paul T. Goldman - only on episode 1 but it's already the best.

If it were on Netflix it would be all over social media

it’s not like there were ever more than two really good American multicams running at one time ever

Hmm… maybe no more than two per night!

yeah Paul T Goldman was something else. first off I can't believe Woliner made this over 10 years; that wasn't really clear to me until like the 4th or 5th episode. I was pretty convinced Paul himself was a put on for the first several episodes and then finally realized oh shit, this guy is actually real. Finally, I think the show managed to avoid doing the thing that lots of people criticized the Rehearsal for: it doesn't really treat the central subject with disdain, even when he sometimes deserves it.