2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread

oooh the second season of Mo is up?!? hope he makes it back to Southwest Houston, love seeing my old neighborhood on TV

i love the Ko$ta of doing business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkvxF5mdAg

this was funny too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk2FyT0rYss

I really enjoyed this! funny and inspirational even. but not in a stagey monologue way like on boring netflix specials where everyone thinks they are helen hayes. he's just funny and he has some good life lessons. nothing wrong with that. and he's a progressive white male southern comedian. we need about a thousand more of those if you ask me. i didn't laugh like crazy but he's always pretty amusing. for laugh out loud i would have to point out the season 1 episode 2 of shoresy that i watched last night. oh man. i had to watch it twice.
anyway, this special is better than any hulu or netflix special i've seen in a quite a while. SO MUCH better than that horrible nate bargatze special i couldn't finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btRgY8Yn2zI

Because I mentioned the Critic on here yesterday, and because it came up again some time in the last month, I thought "I should see if I can stream them anywhere" (nope) then "I should see if someone's put them all on YouTube" (yep!). Jen had never seen them so I asked her to pick a number between 1 and 22. she picked 15, so on we went with - oh god! oh god! maybe some of the others have aged well, but I don't think I'll get Jen to check any time soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8TQXrsKQs

Finished Mo and man, those last two episodes were incredible.

The woman who plays Mo's girlfriend played a very different character on Narcos: Mexico; when I realized it was the same person, my head swam a little.

starting season 2 I got confused because i watched Ramy inbtween season 1 of this and season 2 and had to remind myself he wasn't that character. Ramy has some great qualities and some frustrating ones, I think Mo's probably the better show in the end. Both pretty great though.

We just binged the entirety of Apple Cider Vinegar on netflix, because I have loved the trainwreck that was the Belle Gibson drama since before she was even exposed by the media. Really impressed by Kaitlyn Dever's Australian accent - it is REALLY rare for americans to get it right without sounding cartoonish, but she nailed it.

Loved spotting bits of my local shops. Most of the show was filmed in Melbourne.

Started watching Dexter and it's already getting worse in the second season? Thought it had at a few seasons before the decline kicked in.

The general consensus for Dexter is that the big dropoff happens after season 4, but that's largely because that season is a standout so people forget the major flaws in seasons 2/3. I don't really recommend the show to people anymore, despite having seen all the original run

a home cook competing on Chopped just said: "I'm passionate about showing my children the world through the eyes of food."

I know it was 2023(?) but I just watched Scavengers Reign and loved it. The plot was kinda tired, but I could have watched days of the planetary wildlife. I see it's not been renewed for S2.

My favorite part of food is the eyes.

I’m watching APPLE CIDER VINEGAR on Netflix with Kaitlyn Dever, about an alternative medicine scammer.

It’s watchable and Dever is good, but after so many other similar series (The Dropout comes to mind first, or in another way, Inventing Anna), it’s not really a different take. I guess it says something about recent society that so many tech- or social media-enabled scammers were able to rise to such dangerous levels of celebrity over the last 10 or 15 years.

20 years ago they just got promoted by Oprah until we could never get rid of them.

As I *ahem* already mentioned a few posts above yeah this one's based on a real story and doesnt deviate too far from what really happened - they in fact kind of merge 2 different stories. The one about Belle Gibson and her narcissist confabulation and book/app but they also slot in the story of the Dolly magazine editor Jess Ainscough who was known as the Wellness Warrior and was one of the earlier woo woo "food can cure cancer" fools who refused to get her arm amputated, lied and claimed diet cured her sarcoma, then... died of sarcoma.

Gibson STILL has not paid back a cent of the money she stole from the charity donations, nor any of the fines from the several court cases she's been dragged into, nor ever apologised.

In fact recently she was found pulling a bizarre Rachel Dolezal thing by pretending to be "adopted" by the Ethiopian Oromo community here in Melbourne, til they found out who she was and told her to fuck off.

Why she never got *jailed*, I have no idea.

Since Chinaski brought up Scavengers Reign, Common Side Effects is a new show by one of the creators with Mike Judge producing and voicing. Similarly wonky animation style, can't wait to watch it

I don't know why I hated Bosch: Legacy when I first saw it, but I did and I bailed after one episode. This week I went back to it because apparently the third and final season will premiere March 27, and the first season is... pretty good! Maddie as rookie cop is bland and tiresome, and Bosch's hipster techie assistant isn't great, but Bosch himself is still a bitter old asshole, and there are some fan-servicey cameo appearances from J. Edgar and Crate and Barrel. I'm definitely not watching the Super Bowl, so maybe I'll finish Season 1 tonight.

Made it through the first season but I bailed an episode or two into the second.

As I *ahem* already mentioned a few posts above yeah this one's based on a real story and doesnt deviate too far from what really happened - they in fact kind of merge 2 different stories. The one about Belle Gibson and her narcissist confabulation and book/app but they also slot in the story of the Dolly magazine editor Jess Ainscough who was known as the Wellness Warrior and was one of the earlier woo woo "food can cure cancer" fools who refused to get her arm amputated, lied and claimed diet cured her sarcoma, then... died of sarcoma.

Since Chinaski brought up Scavengers Reign, *Common Side Effects* is a new show by one of the creators with Mike Judge producing and voicing. Similarly wonky animation style, can't wait to watch it

LOL all good, sometimes I get paranoid people have killfiled me!

Step one to improving Paradise: no more terrible covers

Thanks for the heads up, vinnie!

i have enjoyed Copshop on Hulu. you guys didn't tell me about Copshop.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/COP_03009-H-2021.jpg

its way violent. i like whatshisface...from the computer show. halt and catch fire...the old guy.

That's on Hulu now? Nice. I had to pay to rent it on Amazon a couple of years ago. Frank Grillo is almost an automatic yes from me, which is too bad because he's been in some real pieces of shit. But Wheelman, Boss Level, Skyline, Donnybrook, Point Blank, Into the Ashes... all good.

Since Chinaski brought up Scavengers Reign, *Common Side Effects* is a new show by one of the creators with Mike Judge producing and voicing. Similarly wonky animation style, can't wait to watch it

you guys didn't tell me about Copshop.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:53 PM (four hours ago)


the OP said not to!

but no DVDs or movies you see when you go to THE CINEMA.

― scott seward, Sunday, January 26, 2025 12:58 PM (two weeks ago)

does that mean that you own the blu-ray of copshop, sic? worth it. totally ridic movie. it reminded me of an 80s low-budget indie. i love a good one building movie.

47 minutes into Omni Loop on Hulu and I have to stop. That is how long my Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri goodwill is. 47 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8w6-iJtTOY

Professional Women's Hockey League is streaming all its games on Youtube. The Montreal Victoire have the best logo (only good logo really, they all look like an intern generated them on Canva or something) so I guess that's my team.

news you can use. cheers.

I saw Copshop in THE CINEMA

Grillo beefed a lot when it came out about how the studio had interfered and curtailed the director’s vision, or something

PARADISE gets worse every week. And yet I cannot stop myself from watching.

third episode was incredibad

i still need to watch

I thought Scott was talking about this Cop Shop and was rather confused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75tpUG6bqY

lol me too

would watch...

Huh, Copshop is by Joe Carnahan? I like a couple of his movies, haven't seen the rest. He's always struck me as kind of like S. Craig Zahler or Taylor Sheridan, these tough-guy crypto-republican auteurs.

THE POPE'S EXORCIST is on Hulu now and it's fucking hilarious. Russell Crowe in full Orson Welles mode, riding a scooter around Rome (and Spain), speaking Italian (and English in a terrible Italian accent)... it's pure, glorious trash, with some surprising soundtrack choices (the story takes place in 1987). Highest possible recommendation.

I watched A Face In The Crowd on Criterion Channel with Maria because she had never seen it. I've seen it at least 3 times over the years. Everyone is so good in it. What a whirlwind. Patricia Neal is lit better than a Vermeer. It must have been a crazy movie to make. That first time you see Andy Griffith's face at the jail and he snarls like a wounded animal. Classic! I kept waiting for Andy to say that he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and he wouldn't lose any viewers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxTUOWBZIFQ

The Sly Stone documentary, SLY LIVES!, on Hulu is really, really good. I've never listened to his music much beyond the classic trilogy — Stand, Riot, and Fresh — but I feel like diving deeper now.

this channel is amazing.

"When the recipes and the most loved ingredients have a face!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw8IBCISpL0

Watched the last few episodes of Cobra Kai. Boy this show should have wrapped up two or three seasons ago. In the meantime they have redeemed every single character who was ever cast as a villain, that there weren’t enough fights to go around for everyone to get their proper taste of victory.

I've been streaming protest singer turned pop star Bob Dylan from the Internet Archive: Renaldo and Clara last week, Eat the Document today, Festival next.