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Deadloch ruled, the parody was so on point I’d momentarily dislike it because they’d absolutely nail the look and feel of one of those terrible Nordic noir shows in a transition shot or something.

Still really regretting watching an entire season of the Detective Scully and the rapist serial killer show.

my favorite thing about those shows like the Scully one is that you have these massive cases that would be on the covers of newspapers and you have one cop in a dark room by themselves trying to solve it. as if everyone on earth short of the army wouldn't be a part of the investigation. same with all those times that the lone wolf cop goes to check out the scary house by themselves and doesn't tell anyone where they are going. the absence of red tape must be infuriating for real cops at home watching these shows. or maybe its a good fantasy break for them. "It would have taken me six months to get permission to open that killer's laptop..."

i mean i know its just a show...

i swear i remember reading some interview with a cop and them saying that Barney Miller was the closest to real cop life of any show on television.

Shout out to Graham Yost. I've been watching Justified. Yost was the creator & producer. I thought I recognized the name ... turns out he has writing and/or producing credits for The Americans, Slow Horses, Sneaky Pete, Silo, Masters of Air and some older shows I don't recognize like Boomtown and The Pacific.

And Speed!

Wrote 2 episodes of Band of Brothers too, in addition to EP credits on The Pacific and Masters of the Air. Pretty impressive resume

Watched the first episode of The Jarrod Carmichael Show on Max...even with meta elements, it felt like reality TV (vs. reality), but then there's a conversation with Tyler, The Creator that feels as specific second by second as the diner scene in Heat or a key moment in an Eric Rohmer film.

Fell asleep during the first episode of Ripley.

Oh man I think Ripley has been phenomenal 4 episodes in.

Thought the first two episodes were really sloooooow but been gripped since

Anyone watched Parasyte? Seems to be generating a bit of a buzz

quite keen to see it, mainly on the basis that i've seen a lot of negative comment, including one that said they don't 'get' why Andrew Scott is considered a good actor. Now, he may be crap in this, though I doubt it, but he is clearly an exceptional and extremely capable actor - with an ability to deliver a wide variety of emotion and experience with apparently minimal adaptation. So extrapolated my violent RONG judgment to all the other negative comment as well. and now i want to see it.

it's fine and I like Andrew Scott, loved him in All of Us Strangers.

lots of the period detail in Ripley is obv CGIed to fuck, but it works

So apparently Netflix has let David E. Kelley adapt Tom Wolfe's novel A Man In Full into a six-episode series starring Jeff Daniels. It'll be out in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzMOuFR2eE

Ripley is impressive as a gesture alone: leisurely B&W adaptation in which three-fourths of episodes are about Rip walking to hotels, boarding buses, signing his name, and bumbling murders.

and two Brits as leads impersonating Americans, how clever

Where's the terrible Charlotte Simmons miniseries?

Who will play Doctor Dis?

There’s a Doctor Who Dis joke there, but I’m under caffeinated right now…

Not sure Andrew Scott would appreciate being called a Brit...

It took me a while to get into Ripley but I'm enjoying it now. It's not really how Highsmith wrote it though. Both the leads are too old, they're supposed to be in their carefree 20s (in the novel) but they're in their 40s - late 40s for Scott. Surely once in your 40s you don't still have your Dad sending emissaries out to try and get you back to the family business... And black and white seems an odd choice for sunlit southern Italy, obviously b&w is a noir signifier, but it doesn't quite seem right for the Mediterranean.

Fallout out today. Looks like it could be good

i’ve seen good reviews. but must admit seeing the movie poster as i cycled into town just now provoked a wail of WHHHHY are we making 20 year old video games into premium tv series.

the nostalgia middle aged money bet is i suspect the answer but that doesn’t seem good, in general.

I've never played any of the Fallout games and only made it about 20 minutes into the first episode of the series. Something about the kitschiness of its look (and the use of pre-rock pop music on the soundtrack) just bugged me.

the funny thing about there being a fallout show in 2024 is i'm pretty sure you can't play the fallout games on any current- or last-generation consoles

so younger gamers probably don't know the games and people who enjoy the tv show won't be able to go out and buy them, there's almost no cross-promotion options

i guess that's what fizzles was alluding to

oh maybe you can play them through the streaming services. but you can't buy the games.

i've been enjoying the new episodes of Will Trent. they're more fun! they got all that scary backstory out of the way and now everyone is just solving crimes. there is still history but its not nearly as heavy as season 1. loved the drag queen episode. i loved the nick lowe party ending! i really am becoming an old softie. i swear i used to be punk rock.

i am enjoying Will Trent - so glad u guys recommended, it’s very enjoyable & exactly what i wanted in a procedural

Fallout ep1 was pretty good
mr veg played the game, i don’t realky know it except for the look & general vague end of world retro idea but i LOVED the soundtrack & loved hearing those oldtimey songs around the house while he was playing, (the only time that has ever happened lol)

though i will say it may take me a few episodes to full grasp the overall “deal” and who everyone is … it felt a little confusing to me in places

the funny thing about there being a fallout show in 2024 is i'm pretty sure you can't play the fallout games on any current- or last-generation consoles

You can buy/play a couple of them, afaict. Fallout 4 (which is supposedly getting remastered for current consoles) and Fallout '76. This show, it's like that "Borderlands" movie belatedly coming out, just a loose-hanging IP that some corporation is throwing a lot of money at. But not every video game IP is "The Last of Us."

i love the Halo show and i know nothing about the game. i did watch some episodes of red vs. blue but that didn't really tell me much about the game.

also, as i have reported here before to stunned silence, the Resident Evil series is probably my favorite movie franchise. i love those movies. never played the games though. well, maybe the Thin Man movies are my absolute faves.

(just going to quickly mention that i watched Incredible But True a 2022 movie by Quentin Dupieux and hope nobody yells that i should take it to the Mubi and/or Quentin Dupieux thread. if there is one. i know there is a Mubi thread. anyway, its a weird movie! for fans of time portals and electronic penises. peni. penes.)

Take it to the electronic penises thread

Which one?

We’re going to get a shit-ton of video game movies because superheroes are kinda fucked-out for a while as sources for franchise-capable IP.

However, games aren’t and Mario already made a billion dollars, right?

E.T. The Game The Movie

"Known IP" is perceived to have a huge value when it comes to developing a project – studios look at everything/anything, no matter how old or marginal. It's not just about being able to sell games or comics or whatever.

sometimes someone owns the rights to something and they need to use it or lose it. it doesn't matter if anyone's asking for it.

In the case of Fallout specifically, it sounds like the game folks didn't like any of the ideas that were pitched over the years, until the Westworld guy (Chris Nolan's brother) came along.

The Spiderman Copyright Extension Universe

trying to find more K-dramas to watch. I've found STRANGER so addicting that i'm bummed it's only two seasons, i could watch Bae Doona and Cho Seung-woo methodically and slowly trying to navigate byzantine cases (and occasionally meeting for dinner) forever. there's one called AGENCY which looks interesting.

their dinner scenes are the best <3

i'm just starting Blood Free (Hulu/Disney+, depending on which country you're in) which is written by the same screenwriter as Stranger, and it's about a bodyguard recruited to protect the CEO of a company that has perfected the tech for producing artificial meat. The company is being attacked on multiple fronts - people unhappy about farming jobs being taken away, accusations of using contaminated material, hackers demanding ransom etc - and every character on the show seems to have a secret agenda.

only two episodes out so a bit difficult to judge how good it's gonna be but it's pretty intriguing so far. like Stranger, seems very plot-heavy and twisty, and again centered on two leads figuring out if they can trust each other.

I watched season 1 of Stranger, and enjoyed it, but man it could have been six episodes shorter. Is season 2 about the same in terms of knottiness? on the fence about continuing

Roz, thx for the recommendation. And I think my favorite scene between the two of them was the stairwell scene in S2 E12.

I might have enjoyed season 2 of stranger slightly more than the first,
there's a bit of a time jump but a bit of what occurs goes back to season 1 no it is a new storyline. And there's a new character, a female police captain, who's absolutely utterly fascinating in murky motivation and in underplayed performance, so much so that about 2/3 of the season in when she briefly explodes at a subordinate it's one of the most shocking moments of the entire show.

I find it really interesting, the seriousness of the emphasis placed on incidenrs which in an American show might not even make for a minor plot point, and that's kind of refreshing to me in a way. The show has a deep focus on questions of morality and resisting corruption. Obviously the big crimes in each of the two seasons are major, but it's the other parts which are more interesting in a lot of ways.