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Good to hear as wanted to watch it but reviews have been pretty mixed xps

AHS was too camp for me. Ratched is just right. Gorgeous visually. Serial killers, monstrous medical procedures, drug addiction, sex overload. Really bothers me, though, that they picked a 45 yr old for the lead role??

Ryan Murphy has long been obsessed with sticking Sarah Paulson in everything as prominently as possible.

I know it's standard issue by now, but I'm getting pretty tired of the prequel/origin story model. I'm trying to think if I've ever seen something, from my childhood to now, that really made me wonder "how did so and so get to this point?" Maybe not even "Star Wars" when I was a kid, and that started in medias rex.

agree 100%. I rmde so hard at the Ratched trailers, but my roommate started watching it, and lo and behold it was good, imo

the one review I read was not good (vanity fair), so this is good to hear as I was kind of looking forward to it, even though I'm really sick of Ryan Murphy and his short attention span these days. I like Sarah Paulson a lot but she is kind of getting to a point of over saturation; it seems like she's in everything now. Take some time off!

(on the other hand, good for her since women her age normally stop getting cast in anything)

I heard her interviewed on the radio the other day, and she acknowledged as much, and was careful to say as bad as this pandemic has been for so many, she professionally is happy to have an excuse to take a break.

t/s: "How Nurse Ratched got that way" prequel vs Castle Rock "How Annie Wilkes got that way" prequel

HBO is available on Roku

Ah okay....I'm using my sister's account and I just added the channel, I guess that makes sense that she has a non-cable subscription

thanks yall, I do see an hbo channel. I had previously subscribed until early june of last year right after GoT ended and I and millions of others probably cancelled but had no idea what happened with the max and now etc since

But it doesn’t work if your HBO sub is through your cable provider. So afaic it’s not available, I’m not paying double through Amazon

This is also incorrect: if you had the HBO Now app, it has just dropped the "Now" from the icon and is otherwise unchanged. If you didn't already have the app, you may need to create an account on the HBO Max website, and then use that account to log into the maxless app (and if your cable provider includes Max, you can stream the Max content from another device).

yeah, it works if you just bought direct through HBO prior
but i'm cancelling my sub now because of this dumb shit anyway! well done HBO!

HBO Max has made scrolling through their movie selection much funnier - from 'romance' and then a few dozen forgotten '80s and '90s movies and a couple of recent ones to a few dozen forgotten '80s and '90s movies, a couple of recent ones and Masculin-Feminin and the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Not seen Ratched, it may be great, but she's not some Norman Bates figure needing a prequel. She's a petty tyrant of the kind you get in every workplace.

Norman Bates' prequel took up 90 seconds at the end of the film and was fairly unnecessary even then

why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bS2qRi1mcg&

Ratched is a pretty much a season of AHS but with out anything supernatural.

I guess next The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is going to be a six episode miniseries on Starz?

It's weird, we got HBO Max (free with internet plan) and Disney+ and Hulu a while ago to get us through the pandemic and I just realized I had completely forgotten Amazon Prime Video even existed, it never occurs to me there's another streaming service I could browse through to see if there's something I wanna watch.

I like The Boys, though the three episodes I've seen of season two have just been okay.

Saw that Peacock and Roku are on friendly terms now.

I just realized I had completely forgotten Amazon Prime Video even existed, it never occurs to me there's another streaming service I could browse through to see if there's something I wanna watch.

We'll be waiting for you over in the Bosch thread...

eephus here you go: What's good on Amazon Prime Video

Trying to keep up with what's on eight different services isn't worth it. Click on one randomly and see what they have to offer. Stick with that show until you finish it, repeat with new service.

too normcore for me

i prefer to start 5 shows on five services, eventually forget about them all or what platform theyre on and watch Hill Street Blues reruns instead

T0rr3n7zzz dood

we do that too lol

Peacock seems to have a bunch of good movies on it

Peacock starting a politics channel featuring the Majority Report w/Sam Seder

Also saw that it has daily msnbc and cnbc content

Monsterland on Hulu is excellent. I want to read Nathan Ballingrud's work now.

Ugh at Black Narcissus remake. Jimmy Rodgers is turning over in his grave.

An adaptation of the novel, made by the BBC.

Really enjoyed David Byrne's American Utopia on HBO Max. I saw the concert back in 2018. Spike Lee did a brilliant job filming the show. But, hey, I'm the right demographic, old guy who loves the Talking Heads.

saw the show live
unbelievably clever staging

I need to watch this. I (thought) I had absolutely no interest in it, but I loved the performances from SNL.

for some reason I thought that was going to be on Netflix because I was under the impression Lee did some development deal with them

Looking forward to watching that. I saw the show, from the front row, in SF, which was amazing, but we couldn't see the back of the stage or really anything that wasn't happening right up front so this will be good.

I was also at the SF show. Tons of fun as a live performance. Being able to see everything from different angles (lots of great views from a camera looking directly down onto the stage and from views seemingly on stage with the performers) adds a different dimension.

Has anyone seen the first two episodes of Luca Guadagnino's "We Are Who We Are" yet on HBO? It sounds interesting to me, and I liked reading that Tom Mercier is in it (next to Zhao Tao in Ash Is Purest White, his performance in Synonyms in 2019 was my favorite of the year, and a first-time film role)

I've been watching it and it is... something? I appreciate its unwillingness to clearly delineate a plot but many of the character arcs (especially for the adults) are telegraphed so awkwardly and unbelievably that it takes me out of the moment. The kids are basically all worth watching, even when they are badly written. Kid Cudi is a very bad actor. Everyone is super horny in really mannered ways. All sorts of cock on display.

ok, based on your description I'm now looking forward to watching it

more prosaically: it's about a US military base in Italy and the twin societies of the adults and their high school age kids with an emphasis on all their sex lives and shifting gender definitions.

there's an obvious and inappropriate flirtation between the fifteen year old kid and his mother's second in command that is unnecessarily and gauzily shipped here as it is overt in nature; i presume they make out in the current episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAymxuU8UOs

now I'm really looking forward to this

I lost interest after four episodes.

Monsterland on Hulu is excellent. I want to read Nathan Ballingrud's work now.

I've only seen the first episode but it was very good. Went in a very unexpected direction, then did it again. How many episodes have you seen and are they all as good as that one?

Has anyone seen the first two episodes of Luca Guadagnino's "We Are Who We Are" yet on HBO? It sounds interesting to me, and I liked reading that Tom Mercier is in it (next to Zhao Tao in Ash Is Purest White, his performance in Synonyms in 2019 was my favorite of the year, and a first-time film role)

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I made it about 15 minutes in. Found all the characters grating, unlikeable and bailed.

I also don't really like this guy's directing at all - except for the enjoyably weird Suspiria remake - so it was probably a useless gesture on my part to try and sit with this.

I've watched the first two, and yeah, the lead character is extremely unlikeable. Maybe he'll win me over idk