2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread

oh wow that’s cool

yeah i listen to the Ringer’s Prestige TV podcast & they had an email from a listener who was an EMT doctor who said they never watch medical shows but that they watched The Pitt & said it made them cry & they were surprised by all the small details they got right - that was what made me think abt checking it out

My daughter has been taking nursing classes in advance of going to college for a nursing degree. We watched a few episodes together, she digs it but says it's reminding her of the times she has spent in hospitals, working and shadowing.

At the other end of the spectrum, I'm watching a bit of that Fire Aid broadcast right now. It's like one long giant epic super bowl halftime performance.

Like, they just had Anderson Paak and Sheila E backing Dr. Dre.

And now Joni Mitchell.

I just turned it on and watched a very off key Stephen Stills followed by an off key Graham Nash. Now a mostly insufferable Pink.

It all has the feeling of some of the worst Grammy broadcasts that just indulge every bluesy jam rock whim.

Rod Stewart! :D

idk i’m digging it mostly

i’m an easy mark for stuff like this

well.. until John Mayer
barf

First episode of Paradise was pretty enjoyable.

Certainly intriguing but no idea if it'll deliver on the set up

everyone on Chopped says that people think "out of the box" instead of "outside of the box" and i wonder if this is why i hear this in other places on t.v. now. Chopped changed the phrase! okay it might have just been societal osmosis.

"It's like one long giant epic super bowl halftime performance."

i watched a nirvana thing that was bad because all the singers were terrible but then i felt bad because it dawned on me that they were probably all from LA and it was just a nice thing to do even if it meant singing good songs badly. well, the first three. i didn't watch dave grohl's daughter sing. and no offense to joan jett who is quite obviously joan jett and it was kinda cool to see the producer of the Germs album singing with one of the Germs.

they did the same set 11 years ago because all the singers are from Cleveland

especially Lorde, who was replaced by Grohl's daughter yesterday

St. Vincent makes a pretty decent Kurt replacement IMO.

yeah! i would love to hear her do a full set w the band

otm it would be the best way to keep these 3 busy

my friend lance from kindertrauma dot com told me i really need to see Smile 2. who knew!? i didn't see the first one. but he really loves the sequel and i trust his judgement. creepy smiles do creep me out. that's why i didn't watch the first one.

his reviews of recent horror films are always interesting, I like getting the perspective of someone who loves older horror on current releases

its fun when he writes about old movies that we saw at the movies in the 80s or that we watched on VHS together. we saw so many movies later in philly in the late 80s and 90s too after i moved there from where we grew up. he says he still goes to the movies once a week in philly.

this is his year-end list:

https://www.kindertrauma.com/unks-year-of-horror-2024/

I seem to recall the first season of Night Agent was kinda dumb but still enjoyable. Two eps into the new season it’s definitely dumb but so far not very enjoyable.

smile 2 is great!!!!

Longlegs is on Prime at the moment. Didn't love it, though some stuff on the post-2005 horror thread is making me reconsider a few things. Loved the scene in the barn with the disinterring of the doll. Am going to be thinking about that for a while...

I liked the first half better, felt like it got worse the more it explained things.

Aye, agree with that. I didn't want a ramped-up ending either though. Not sure where it could have gone. Endings are *hard*.

i watched the movie Organ Trail and its really good if you like snowy movies. i do. its a violent movie. and now i'm watching the really snowy finnish crime show called Freezing Embrace. it's good so far. and really snowy.

this week all i have watched is first 5 eps of The Pitt and ER reruns

i could probably assist on a tracheotomy iirc

i’m watching a shit tonne of shetland. i don’t know what heroin they put in it because this is truly shit tv - people appear and disappear at the transactional requirements of the plot, you have repeated and identical back and forth segments to indicate that they have travelled by car, boat or plane (presumably all filmed at the same time) and scenes where each person takes a turn to explain what’s going on and their thought processes. and yet here i sit like an absolute outpatient, lapping it up. dreadful auld crap, god help me when i run out of series. might have to go up there and rack up a body count myself.

so sick of perez’s donkey jacket.

her mixed tartan shirt that makes my eyes hurt

i'd not watched it before the recent bbc1 showing (s10 i think) but itv3 are repeating them on saturday nights (5.3 and 5.4 yesterday).

both this and rebus (Drama repeats) both used the 'pencil rubbing on a pad' trick in the same weekend.

you could move on to Vera after Shetland and eventually be sick of Vera's hat.

inspector lewis and/or endeavor are where its at for me personally

both this and rebus (Drama repeats) both used the 'pencil rubbing on a pad' trick in the same weekend.

i've just set a season pass for Endeavour when i saw the pilot was showing

i don’t know what heroin they put in it

The good heroin. (Seen every season.) I do recommend VG's Lewis suggestion which I would do myself except I've already watched it all recently, so.

Endeavour is more like demerol (vs heroin)

people really like sabrina carpenter. she's like a pocket monster. is she 4 feet tall?

i support doechii winning things.

her dress is insane.

sabrina carpenter fever. best pop vocal album. over billie and all those other people.

beyonce. best country album. she finally did it, folks. she has surely done it. the queen of america.

Khruangbin on the grammys.

benson boone. he's a pistol.

holy toledo. Doechii....

i don't need a lot of teddy swims or shaboozey in my life. jesus, teddy swims. i don't think i'd heard him. he's like a nightmare country ceelo green. i think he had his phone number tattooed on his face so that he wouldn't forget it.

you need to see chappell roan right now! haha. she's cool.

aww, her cool hat fell off.

she read this really long thing about how labels should pay for health care for developing artists.

diana ross looks really cool.

Thanks for pointing out Kindertrauma upthread - his top 10 article was nice to read, I definitely share a lot of taste with him