it's probably the marvel thing that I find most interesting/best, although the Trish character... maybe it's a problem of bad casting for that.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
oh and going back a long ways because I just saw this thread. Dear White People is very good. I like the show better than the movie I guess? Start at the beginning, season 3 was kind of throwaway which they do meta address otm.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
I should give Ainori Love Wagon another try.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
I'm kinda curious about this Dude Lets Flats show ... would a non-British person be able to appreciate it?
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
tt: "Say 'yes, watch it, don't be put off by my stupid comments'"
― imago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
which American TV shows are people in other countries not able to appreciate?
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
football
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
Baseball.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
xp - I would imagine there are plenty of American shows about American things that people in/from other countries don't find interesting/don't give a fuck about. Idk -- like, I honestly find Seinfeld annoying because it's so much about NYC and I have never lived there and I kinda don't need to be reminded of the self-importance of NYC, which I can envision non-Americans thinking about America as a nation.
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
the office
― na (NA), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
i'm kinda surprised IASIP is popular elsewhere
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
I like baseball (go Rangers, I guess?) and I started watching Brockmire, which seems like it might have legs. Will see where it goes. I do like most TV.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
there are a lot of american shows that don't translate well.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
fyi we just began S2E5 of SE and it opens with the words "I don't get it" "You're not meant to, it's surreal"
:)
― imago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Seinfeld's funny.
The Mike Schur seasons of The Office are a really well-done ensemble sitcom with a genuinely warm & engaging wt/wt.
Always Sunny is a sitcom about terrible people being horrible to each other, like Bottom or Mother & Son or Fat Pizza or most of Galton & Simpson's writing. It's one of the most common sitcom premises!
Brockmire S1 worked absolutely fine without knowing anything about baseball. (Azaria makes his completely reprehensible character far more likeable than the types of rapey oafs who cross from sports commentary into general public awareness in Australia.)
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
I didn't find Seinfeld funny. It seemed like self-absorbed people from NYC having awkward NYC moments. I base this opinion on having watching parts of two episodes. Sorry, that is just how I feel.
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TtkPa5T.jpg#24 - Last Week Tonight (HBO) - 60 points, 8 votes
Hello, buglers! John Oliver has a weekly show, "Last Week Tonight"
Last Week Tonight on YouTube Website
Last Week Tonight on HBO Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8bJb8biZU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
we got him
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L5IOxQt.jpg#23 - Veep (HBO) - 63 points, 10 votes
A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP
Veep on HBO Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCTJFLv78s4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
23 - Veep (HBO) - 63 points, 10 votes24 - Last Week Tonight (HBO) - 60 points, 8 votes25 - Great British Bake Off (Channel 4, Netflix) - 60 points, 7 votes26 (Tie) - Sex Education (Netflix) - 60 points, 6 votes26 (Tie) - True Detective (HBO) - 60 points, 6 votes26 (Tie) - Years and Years (BBC, HBO) - 60 points, 6 votes29 - Jeopardy (ABC) - 58 points, 7 votes30 - Catastrophe (Amazon) - 55 points, 7 votes31 - Steven Universe (Cartoon Network) - 50 points, 5 votes32 (Tie) - ContraPoints (YouTube) - 45 points, 6 votes32 (Tie) - Dark (Netflix) - 45 points, 6 votes32 (Tie) - Derry Girls (Channel 4, Netflix) - 45 points, 6 votes32 (Tie) - High Maintenance (HBO) - 45 points, 6 votes36 - Broad City (Comedy Central) - 45 points, 5 votes37 (Tie) - Corporate (Comedy Central) - 41 points, 6 votes37 (Tie) - Pen15 (Hulu) - 41 points, 6 votes39 - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) - 40 points, 6 votes40 (Tie) - Desus and Mero (Showtime) - 40 points, 5 votes40 (Tie) - Gentleman Jack (BBC, HBO) - 40 points, 5 votes40 (Tie) - The Expanse (Amazon) - 40 points, 5 votes43 - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX) - 40 points, 4 votes44 - Silicon Valley (HBO) - 38 points, 5 votes45 - The Good Place (NBC) - 35 points, 5 votes46 (Tie) - Kingdom (Netflix) - 33 points, 4 votes46 (Tie) - Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4) - 33 points, 4 votes48 (Tie) - Game of Thrones (HBO) - 30 points, 4 votes48 (Tie) - Pose (FX) - 30 points, 4 votes48 (Tie) - The Dragon Prince (Netflix) - 30 points, 4 votes48 (Tie) - Tuca and Bertie (Netflix) - 30 points, 4 votes48 (Tie) - Veronica Mars (Hulu) - 30 points, 4 votes53 (Tie) - 63 Up (ITV, UK) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - Bosch (Amazon) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - Euphoria (HBO) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - Queer Eye (Netflix) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - Repair Shop (BBC, Netflix) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) - 30 points, 3 votes53 (Tie) - This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC) - 30 points, 3 votes61 - SB Nation's Chart Party (YouTube) - 28 points, 5 votes62 (Tie) - Documentary Now! (IFC, stream on Netflix) - 28 points, 4 votes62 (Tie) - Ramy (Hulu) - 28 points, 4 votes64 (Tie) - Brockmire (IFC, stream on Hulu) - 25 points, 4 votes64 (Tie) - His Dark Materials (HBO) - 25 points, 4 votes66 (Tie) - Big Mouth (Netflix) - 25 points, 3 votes66 (Tie) - Dear White People (Netflix) - 25 points, 3 votes66 (Tie) - Rick and Morty (Adult Swim, stream on Hulu) - 25 points, 3 votes66 (Tie) - The Boys (Amazon) - 25 points, 3 votes66 (Tie) - Truthpoint (Adult Swim, Stream on YouTube) - 25 points, 3 votes71 - Infinity Train (Cartoon Network, stream on web) - 25 points, 2 votes72 - The Witcher (Netflix) - 20 points, 4 votes73 - Jessica Jones (Netflix) - 20 points, 3 votes74 (Tie) - GeoWizard's Mission Across Wales (YouTube) - 20 points, 2 votes74 (Tie) - Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey (Netflix) - 20 points, 2 votes74 (Tie) - Nailed It! (Netflix US) - 20 points, 2 votes74 (Tie) - Too Old To Die Young (Amazon) - 20 points, 2 votes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
around the time Trump became the GOP nominee Oliver's shtick crossed over from funny to tired as fuck for me and it never improved from what I've caught since
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
final season of veep was mostly good, but the finale was one of the better sitcom episodes i've ever seen.
earned a vote from me.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
tbh that goes for pretty much all late night comedy, although for some reason Jimmy Kimmel is still kinda funny
xp
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
i found oliver's schtick went from repetitive to endearing to me. prolly because I am exhausted as fuck with everyone else's bullshit.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
I am amused about how high one of my (our) shows is going to be.
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
Hai
― imago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
:D
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Veep was my #5 I think. Every time I thought about that final season it rose up my ballot. Phenomenal show with an extremely satisfying arc and v glad it rose above John Oliver. The rare show with 5+ seasons that never truly dimmed at any point, too
― imago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
konbanwa!
― Yerac, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
the writing on Oliver's show is so far ahead of regular late-night shows that I don't get how Colbert isn't too embarrassed to do his 'monologue' every night. whoever writes the A Closer Look segments for Seth Meyers is presumably working in an office on their own, as they have a decent structure and more to say than facile appearance and ignorance jokes, although they do have to stay on a "let's let off steam at 1am" tone instead of laying out how the actual functions of a government being hollowed out for authoritarianism is (*checks notes*) alarming
dropped out of Veep midway through the first LA season, dropped back in for the final year and it had improved substantially
Sorry, that is just how I feel.
not arguing with your own opinion! just saying that's how it read to people on the other side of the planet - it was a big success in Australia, ran in repeats year-round on the station that had rights to the bulk of it. (Started on a different network, and later seasons were first-run-only on FTA.) Netflix last year paid c. $600 million for global rights from 2021, up from the $130 million Hulu paid for US rights in 2015, so we can all breathe easy that Steve Bannon will be kept in double shirts through the next presidential administration there's presumably research showing other countries have been able to follow it before.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
that never truly dimmed at any point, too
lol xpost
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Colbert's monologues were always pretty good in the beginning. I still watch every so often and it's a mixture of decent and "maybe all the writers were sick today"
I like Seth Myers' Closer Look segments (well, my wife likes them more, I probably wouldn't watch 'em on my own) and yes they're good though Myers has such a weird delivery, he talks so fast and trips over himself a lot but I still like him
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
All I know of John Oliver is the recycled stream of quotes recited by one of my 9-year-old students. I think I like it best that way.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
That’s not to say anything either way about John Oliver, I just recommend recycled TV news.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
whoever writes the A Closer Look segments for Seth Meyers is presumably working in an office on their own
turns out nearly - it's a former producer for Chris Hayes on MSNBC who writes the scripts overnight (eg from 8pm to 4am), edits to Meyers' notes at the office during the day (9am to 4pm), the writers' room do punch up after rehearsal in front of an audience at 4;15pm, main dude rushes new updates into script if relevant news breaks before taping at 6:30.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 14 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
Like Oliver's long-form delving, love the stunts, but his delivery never transcends the material. Jon Stewart and Colbert could make me laugh even with weaksauce jokes. And I'll take Sam Bee's writing team over the other Daily Show alumni.
― forgotten even to the sea (Sanpaku), Friday, 14 February 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
Still none of my 6 picks have shown up, although I expect to see 5 of them.
― Chris L, Friday, 14 February 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
I don't know why but I find Oliver almost unwatchable, my parents love him to death but I just find it an unbearable smarm exercise
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 14 February 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link
yeah one of my favorite people hates the schtick (oliver) but I have grown quite fond of it.
― Yerac, Friday, 14 February 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
I like him but tend to watch his videos when people link them rather than week by week so I have no clue how many I saw in 2019 and how many of those were even from 2019
― Vinnie, Friday, 14 February 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
I still like him, but he suffers badly from presumed-male audience syndrome. All of his jokes are directed at men, and there are a looooot of dick jokes. It doesn't offend me, but it is a strangely exclusionary editorial voice for him to adopt.
― trishyb, Friday, 14 February 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
Also, I find Dark funny. Especially the relentless rain. It can't not be a joke.
― trishyb, Friday, 14 February 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sIkXyF7.jpg#22 - Unbelievable (Netflix) - 65 points, 6 votes
Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television
Unbelievable on Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIkUzkbzQk
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
All of my top 3 have placed, so the rest of this roll out will be me off to the side quietly shaking my head.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SZU0N8w.jpg#21 - When They See Us (Netflix) - 65 points, 7 votes
Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread
When They See Us on Netflix Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F9n_smGWY
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GxKaYHC.jpg#20 – The Righteous Gemstones (HBO) - 68 points, 9 votes
The Righteous Gemstones
The Righteous Gemstones on HBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS89h7P_nZ8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I wasn't wild about the tidy ending to s1 but overall this was my favorite Jody Hill thing since early Eastbound
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ei5gcph.jpg#19 - Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 (Netflix) - 70 points, 6 votes
"Break up caused by meat! Break up caused by meat!" - The official TERRACE HOUSE thread
Terrace House:Tokyo 2019-2020 on Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VueM03-5sCI
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
There it is
― imago, Friday, 14 February 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
to my shame, i avoided the 'hard to watch' acclaimed series of last year. chernobyl, when they see us, unbelievable, etc.
definitely planning on checking out the former two sometime this year, might need some selling for the latter.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link