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I was about to ask if Tom Cruise was in one of them blasting into a steep climb

when you got streaming video service content like Tom Cruise in them, you can’t lose

“I'm taking a ride with my best friend” - The Last of Us on HBO (2023)

Made a thread for The Last of Us

Speaking of, I know it's HBO and therefore par for the course, but can I just say how much I appreciate weekly serialized dramas? People got so used to entire seasons dropping at once, but week by week is just such a better way to experience a show, and it feels like maybe the tide is finally shifting back. It gives you something to anticipate, it allows people to catch up, you can have spoiler-free conversations and discussions because there's not someone that stayed up all night watching the whole thing, you can actually let things settle in a little before the next episode, etc. Releasing an entire season of anything all at once is just such a dumb model, especially if you want to build a subscriber base. Though glancing at the thread title, maybe it's just Netflix that's been notorious for this, and aside from Stranger Things Netflix hasn't released much to capture TV nation's attention?

Yeah I think a lot of people have realised this and the pendulum has definitely swing back to weekly releases.

I like it, reminds me of waiting for the X-Files episodes as a child.

We binged through the excellent Slow Horses and suddenly realised we'd run out of episodes, on a huge cliffhanger. Enjoyed the anticipation and waiting.

We are also struggling to get through Bad Sisters because there's so many episodes and they all seem like variations on a theme -- might have been more likely to watch it week-to-week.

I don't think it's a hard-and-fast rule, my partner and I loved binging through rented DVDs of The Wire and Veronica Mars, etc, back in the 2000s. And it's nice to whizz through shorter shows like Russian Doll.

Even Netflix seem to be splitting up seasons more

I only watch one episode of a show every 2-3 nights but I prefer dropping them all at once or waiting until they're all out if I have to.

came to it late but really liking Physical.

I prefer all-at-once, like Milo, and will wait for a season to finish before I start watching, unless it's something with little to no continuity, like Atlanta

Watched first ep of "Last Of Us" and thought it was a phenomenal take on apocalyptic tropes until the time jump. Checked out from that point on.

Just watched it as well. I love that "what's happening?@?!?" stage of zombie/apocalypse movies/shows. All i could think was well, this is certainly better than Fear the Walking Dead.

Pre- or mid-apocalyptic stories tend to be more interesting than post- IMO unless you're A Canticle For Leibowitz (though I guess that's a set of pre- apocalyptic stories).

There's a trilogy of detective novels about a cop working in the last six months before an asteroid demolishes Earth that would make a great TV series but nothing has ever come of it.

What’s it called?

The Last Policeman

That was a great trilogy. ILB content …

Those books were fun. Reminded me of the movie Last Night...no question of survival, just about how people were spending their time.

see also reasonably heart-breaking Australian film THESE FINAL HOURS

That was a curious lil film that one. I liked it.

i watched 10 minutes of goldman with my partner and she made me turn it off. i will try again at some point.

lol we watched the first episode tonight and when it was done, my wife, beaming, goes "I have no idea what's going on, but I love it already!"

yeah, my girl doesn't work that way!

Tried one ep of Night Court reboot. could not with it. Canned laugh tracks just sound so dated these days.

Paul T. Goldman, wow what a finale.

I caught 30 seconds of Night Court and it had the most shockingly bad overdubbing of dialogue since a fourth tier Godzilla vs. movie.

I feel like the industry has "forgotten" how to do multi-camera sitcoms, or something... like the institutional knowledge is gone

The Conners is 9x better than Roseanne, but it’s not like there were ever more than two really good American multicams running at one time ever

This place is so great at highlighting shows like Paul T. Goldman - only on episode 1 but it's already the best.

If it were on Netflix it would be all over social media

it’s not like there were ever more than two really good American multicams running at one time ever

Hmm… maybe no more than two per night!

yeah Paul T Goldman was something else. first off I can't believe Woliner made this over 10 years; that wasn't really clear to me until like the 4th or 5th episode. I was pretty convinced Paul himself was a put on for the first several episodes and then finally realized oh shit, this guy is actually real. Finally, I think the show managed to avoid doing the thing that lots of people criticized the Rehearsal for: it doesn't really treat the central subject with disdain, even when he sometimes deserves it.

i'm at episode four and it seems like they're treating him with near constant silent disdain? Lots of cutaway shots to that effect. I think i hate this? Need to finish to be sure.

Tulsa King is perfect.

Except Bred2Buck should have been a cowboy gay bar.

finished Goldman and yeah i think i hate it. feels like unnecessary platforming of a damaged and frankly horrendous guy designed to manipulate and string along the viewer. the "truth" of the character is beside the point and its triumphant closure of "hey i grew as a person along the way because TELEVISION" is cynically false. lampooning this paltroon is fish in a barrel.

it's like the anti-Rehearsal to me.

We've watched three episodes. We like it (so far) and, no joke, literally just talked about it as the reverse "Rehearsal" last night. It's definitely ... unique. We didn't think he could be real, either, but looked on Amazon and indeed, there's his book, with reviews as far back as 2011. Then again, I am the proud owner of this book:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61y0U3F7F3L.jpg

Everyone should proudly own that book.

Syfy is wildly overestimating how much FROM THE MIND OF DEAN DEVLIN makes me want to tune in to The Ark

JFC, I'm going to go the distance on Tulsa King. Lilyhammer + Sons Of Anarchy is some mobius strip equation that somehow is compellingly dumb.

OTOH, French micro-budget sci-fi Missions is solidly dumb. It's about the first spaceflight to Mars and 20 minutes into episode one you have: 1. a mystery set-up about a tragic event in the early space program, 2. A race between the privateer mission and NASA's, 3. A complex diagram on who in the crew is sleeping with whom, 4. Who on the crew is depressed, existential, voyeuristic, and/or psychotic, and finally 5. kill off the Captain and strand everyone on the Martian surface without any fuel.

The show is a*l*m*o*st there in making the most out of it's limited resources - some of the cgi looks legit great, but goddamn this is the most unpleasant and shrill crew to hang out since Sunshine. It may get the boot.

Swedish crime series Snabba Cash is on deck.

I tried with Missions but it got steadily dumber. None of these people would have made the first cut on whatever space program they’re working with on that show. I think I bailed on like E05

Doom Patrol (and Titans) latest to be axed by WB but both current seasons have "definitive" conclusions apparently.

Snabba Cash is really good. I started out watching it as a study aid, and while it wasn't that helpful in that regard, it's a solid striver-turns-to-crime-and-gets-corrupted story.

1st 3 episodes of Electric Dreams (Amazon Prime) have been pretty solid, I have all the PKD short stories but didn't specifically recall these, total blurring of reality shit like prime PKD, well done from my viewpoint

Think those were on Ch4 a few years ago, liked them but possibly I lost interest by the last few. Might revisit.

I revived the Kidding thread (Michel Gondry, Jim Carrey, Catherine Keener, Frank Langella) but that's been great, I don't know what we're going to watch after that.

It's annoying that HBO Max has some shows we like that have new seasons that finished airing months ago in the UK, but apparently have no imminent plans to post them in the US (like Ghosts). Something weird is going on with Miracle Workers too, where it was supposed to air a few weeks ago, the first episode went up outside of the US, but then got pulled and delayed.

i started a thread for Poker Face so plz come & enjoy w me over there

cant link bc phone but it’s called Truth Truth Bullshit: Thread for Poker Face etc

Exhibit A for why it's worth watching all manner of stuff: Extraordinary is shockingly, surprisingly good!
Well written, well acted, good high concept. Basically Wild Cards: The Comedy. Weirdly touching and well considered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtyxmTRABs

Man, "Paul T. Goldman." There's a lot going on with this show, and a lot of meta facets. But in the end one big takeaway I made was contextualizing QAnon nuts, and how some of these deluded dead-enders get driven down their respective rabbit holes.

xp I watched the first ep. of Extraordinary and thought it was cute and kind of clever - but didn’t think the jokes were actually funny, either in content (a lot of them took the form of, “this is a type of joke that you will recognize”) or timing/delivery. It also seemed to lean into a particular “cringe/frankness” comedy trend that feels played out(?) Maybe I’ll give it a second go; the ending was nice.