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Watched the first one last night and thought it was alright. Loving Timothy Olyphant's wardrobe and nice to see him not being Raylan for a change

his “now” silver fox look with the scarf was v funny

I loved the book and thought the first two episodes were fine. My gripes were the same as for Minx and other period shows: everyone’s clothes looked brand new rather than lived in, and not enough people had unflattering 70s hair—it should all be bigger. Though maybe that would look too distracting, like the show was trying to goof on the 70s with bad wigs. Everything in general seemed too clean and curated.

I didn’t think the fictional singing/music sounded that much like 1970s music, though I couldn’t articulate why.

I tried watching it and lasted maybe 10 minutes. As soon as they wanted me to believe the Doors were still playing small clubs in 1968 (they were not — they had graduated to arenas) I was out. I'm not some insane pop-culture trivia pedant most of the time, but it's a "brown M&Ms" sort of thing — if a show purportedly about rock history gets something that basic wrong, they're gonna shit the bed in a hundred other ways before the end of Episode 1.

I don't think it's exactly about rock history. It's about rock mythos. I don't know how successful it is, just watched the first one and thought it was entertaining enough. I'll watch another.

had low expectations since reviews were middling but I really like Shrinking- Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams are both great and hilarious on it.

in terms of bill lawrence shows, it's kinda feels like the midpoint between Scrubs and Ted Lasso - neither as wacky/sentimental as the former nor as earnest or sweet as the latter.

As soon as they wanted me to believe the Doors were still playing small clubs in 1968 (they were not — they had graduated to arenas) I was out.

Ha, I thought the same thing, and noticed the Byrds were still styled in short hair and suits as though it were 1965. I felt like the title card should have read 1966 rather than 1968.

Seems like S2 of Russian Doll got a colder reception than S1 but after the first episode I am psyched for Natasha Lyonne spending more time in Ed Koch's New York.

is the netflix app super fucking janky on anyone else's smart/roku TV or just mine? takes forever to do anything, like even move around the app or pause a show, crashes very easily, etc

we have an older tv but none of the other apps seem to have significant issues

Yes our old and cheap TV can't even run Netflix sometimes, but has no prob with the other streamers.

I don't know if you have a stand-alone roku device but when we had trouble like you're describing we replaced the roku device. doesn't make logical sense for it to be an issue with only one streaming service but that's what happened with ours.

netflix’s app is kind of resource intensive on the platforms I’ve used

Netflix is the only service where I get degraded resolution often

Was there any discussion of 'The Dropout' anywhere? just finished it, thought it was well done except for the usual thing of glossing over details that I would've found interesting (e.g. what they were actually doing/working on for all those years, what tests they were faking, what specific lies they were telling - a few examples were given then never gone back to. I have read the book which is why I remember the list being endless).

i was surprised by how much I liked it!

Yes! It was exciting! I have adopted <that voice> permanently now btw

yes the Dropout was easily the best of these scammer docudramas that have been on recently (I liked the WeWork one too)

i think they were smart to focus in more on elizabeth herself, since the source podcast does seem to do that - that way it doesn’t retread the detailed ground of the documentary series & book, you just get a slightly shifted, zoomed in version

plus more room for drama

casting naveen andews as sunny was great but also sooo upsetting! that he has to play that dickwad after me crushing on him in Lost so many moons ago

also Seyfried was pretty amazing. I didn't even recognize Andrews at first

seyfried was great, i was v impressed

yes the Dropout was easily the best of these scammer docudramas that have been on recently (I liked the WeWork one too)

Thought the Dropout was great, attempted to watch Super Pumped (about Uber) - I lasted about 15 seconds, was literally unwatchable to me.

casting naveen andews as sunny was great but also sooo upsetting! that he has to play that dickwad after me crushing on him in Lost so many moons ago

I'm enjoying Daisy Jones and the Six which manages to be both stupid and watchable at the same time

agree!

I've actually waited my whole life for History of the World Part 2, and now my penis itches.

i havent watched it all yet & it’s kinda 50/50 but seeing Lincoln yell “STEPHEN DOUGLAS’ DICKHOLE” was v worth it

Cocaine Bear, which I guess is just for rent now, thoroughly entertaining and a surprise reunion of three stars of the Americans.

I'm enjoying Daisy Jones and the Six which manages to be both stupid and watchable at the same time

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Indeed. Also the oldest 20-somethings I've ever seen.

billy is such a self-defeating dork, it is very enjoyable to watch him grump through every story beat

This Lindelhof 'nun vs the big bad Algorithm' show on Peacock looks fun, too bad I won't have Peacock

Anyone else here want to join in on a watch of Three-Body: a 30-episode adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem? I was completely pulled in by episode 2 - the first 20 minutes of which spin through existential physicists, pool balls that leave the solar system, someone shooting at two-dimensional life, and turkey scientists. Much of this is in the book, but I think I might like this more.

Non-committal NYT review: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/television/three-body-review.html
Watch for free on Rakuten Viki: https://www.viki.com/tv/39255c-three-body

Is there a hate-watch thread for Daisy Jones and the 6 yet? The comedy stylings of Timothy Olyphant alone should require one.

didn't know about Mrs. Davis. I'm down for it.

xpost i’ll start one!

ok go here for Daisy Jones talk

Fever Dogs and Tambourines maaan - Discuss DAISY JONES AND THE SIX here

I'm intrigued by Three Body, but that is a lot of hours.

Been paying for YoutubeTV for my mom and they just raised the price to $73+tax and stripped out yet another channel recently (MLB Network), she asked me to cancel. Downloaded Comet TV, Tubi and Pluto for her afternoon background noise needs and I'm surprised at how not bad the offerings are on those.

FreeVee is not bad in that regard too

Australian streamer BINGE just decided to introduce ads for paying customers, so fuck them

Britbox has just updated its Goodies catalogue to now include all episodes. Including some rather risque scenes I swear I dont recall seeing on the ABC in the 70s. Mind you, I dont know how it ever flew as a kids show down here to start with.

I love how the shows come with a "comedy standards were different back then lol sorry if this shit's offensive" warning at the start.

A big feature of the Goodies' first tour was showing scenes that had been cut out of the episodes in Australia thirty-five years earlier.

Ha, thats a great set of info!

NEWSREADER: Its speed was estimated by various witnesses to be somewhere between twenty and six thousand miles per hour. [These pictures were taken by a Swedish amateur photographer. (shot of nude girl)]

This was the one I watched this morning. I was like WOAH I do not recall a naked lady in any episode before.

um...

#45, Cunning Stunts - 5 cuts.

Loved "Cunk on Earth," which will forever have a place in my heart for calling the Titanic the world's first single-use submarine. Haven't checked to see if any of her other series' are streaming here ...

I watched a bootleg YouTube of "Cunk on Britain" last night and it was equally or more amusing despite my unfamiliarity with that country.

maybe TED LASSO (2020-) has the weight of expectation on it now which is not a good place for such a slight show but i was not in love with S03E01. i could see the writing on the page. everyone little quip machines. the conflict spelled out in mile high letters.

To me the episode felt like an unnecessary "welcome back" episode. Like, here are these people and what they have been up to, as if anyone watching the third season of the show needs that. But it was otherwise fine.

I got an ad for Ted Lasso on YT the other day and literally the only dialogue was someone saying "I love you guys so much", show sure ain't shy about leaning into its reputation.