1st ep was great.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 July 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I'm digging this. Not much of consequence has happened and I have no idea where it's going yet (and no idea what the elevator pitch could've possibly been), but I appreciate its slow unfolding. I can't imagine it lasting more than a single season (at least unless it becomes a sort of anthology) but I'll take what I can get while I get it.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:17 (two years ago) link
it's a six-ep limited series
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
Ah, that makes sense. Unfortunately brief but understandable.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
Oh also this show premiering prompted me to finally buy the Enlightened DVDs, only to discover that it's not just out of print but so out of print that new copies are scarce even on the secondary market. Such a shame, that show is just gonna be unceremoniously swallowed up by time.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
thank u past self for buying them on sale at HMV
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
I KNOW A LOT OF RICH WHITE FUCKED-UP PEOPLE
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
As a meditation on service industry it feels pretty sharp thus far
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
this is a pretty great turn of events
absolutely thrilled to report that this man has a star turn in the white lotus...living well is the best revenge!!!! https://t.co/YjNc64CnwF— rachel syme (@rachsyme) July 19, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link
What's bizarre about that is dude's apartment seems... fine? Like, I make a good living and that's pretty much what my Zoom background looks like, what is the great shame supposed to be here?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
watched 2 episodes tonight. A+ amazing.
― dan selzer, Friday, 23 July 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
in addition to everything else that's great about the show, Cristobal Tapia de Veer is just doing exceptional work for the soundtrack
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link
agreed. probably overdue for a devoted thread imo.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link
wait, for the show or for the composer?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
bc neither would make much sense as its own thread tbh imo
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
The former
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 04:05 (two years ago) link
ehh I don't see any point in making a thread for a show that's done in three weeks but if you want to make one, knock yrself out
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 26 July 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
i am starting to think maybe i dont like this show as much as i thought i did but cant pinpoint why
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:30 (two years ago) link
it's a little mean and occasionally gross and it was a lot moreso this episode, though i am still trying to give it good faith interpretation until we get a bit further down the path. Coolidge is clearly a tragic character whose pain is being played for occasionally cheap laughs but her general presumption of power makes it unclear whether using her as an exemplar of rich white lady is punching up or not.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
britton's character is pretty underwritten thus far and her daughter is a weird question mark. but i am compelled!
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
I experience the characters on this show as real people much much more than in most other shows I watch, not sure how much of this is down to good acting and how much to writing (and I except the characters played for laffs like coolidge's and to some extent the hotel manager)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Murray Bartlett is really fantastic, was not familiar with him
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
I feel like somebody told him "Basil Fawlty but sympathetic, go"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
the dialogue is really bothering me sometimes, characters just churn out huge chunks of exposition for reasonthe whole exchange with britton & the daughter about zahn’s dad while he’s sitting there was like weird cliffs notes or something, like “for the viewers at home who arent following along THIS IS WHAT IS GOING ON WITH STEVE ZAHN”but i also love the hotel manager & the masseuse & literally every shot of the ocean so i am still going to keep watching
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
but also i think the Britton Zahn family isnt believable as a family because theyre so quippy & blank with each otherso maybe its just a me thing with them specifically
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
xpost to ums Murray was in Looking! he’s great, that was a v good show imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
the whole exchange with britton & the daughter about zahn’s dad while he’s sitting there was like weird cliffs notes or something, like “for the viewers at home who arent following along THIS IS WHAT IS GOING ON WITH STEVE ZAHN”
See I totally bought this, the mom disclosing that information clearly not having discussed with the dad whether he wanted it disclosed, the daughter experimenting with how it feels being pretty mean to her dad but in a "come on just having fun" kind of way, set up as a companion piece to her interaction with the hedge-fund husband splashing her at the pool, which interaction said husband later explains to peeved wife as "just giving them shit"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
Looking is secretly one of the great tv shows
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
otm!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
I wonder if one reason I experience the characters as real people is that (again excepting Coolidge) I don't think I've seen any of these actors in anything before
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
i've seen basically every actor in this show in a different hbo show lol
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Looking was a great show, I forgot that he was in that. Great actor.
I love this show, partly because the last time we went to maui we stayed next door to this resort (this is the Four Seasons); we did eat over there a few times and walked through it enough for it all to be familiar.
I agree that Britton is underwritten so far but figure it might focus on her a bit more in the second half. It is hard too say what the overriding 'story' of the show is, but I kind of don't care because I enjoy the writing so much and Mike White really does write great characters.
― akm, Monday, 26 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
it always takes me a moment to register when connie britton is meant to be playing an unsympathetic character because i know and love her from her role as saint on earth tami taylor in friday night lights
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
yeah I'm kind of willing to give her character all kinds of credit because I am in love with her
― akm, Monday, 26 July 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
I wouldn't describe her character in this show as wholly unsympathetic
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
nb, i haven't seen episode 3 yet
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/mike-white-on-money-status-and-appearing-on-survivor
― just sayin, Monday, 26 July 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
yet to arrive as a cast member: molly shannon
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, my wife clocked her voice on the phone, loving her late career Renaissance.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
that nyer interview was great
ep3 was really good & hilarious imo
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
Agree the interview was really good. Fascinating that the college girls are in some ways the characters he identifies with (which makes sense, since he is, in some ways, the hardest on them.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
"we have a stylist pick them out" was a great line
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 03:42 (two years ago) link
The sound in this show is really intense
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
this made me lol
MELFI: and this tv program makes you anxiousTONY: jennifer cooler's crying, this one's fuckin mother in law showed up, and then you got the musicMELFI: what about the musicTONY: THEYRE JUST SITTING ON THE FUCKIN BEACH, WHY'S THE MUSIC SCARY?— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) August 9, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 August 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Really no more discussion? Loved this show
― Evan, Monday, 16 August 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it didn't hit the heights of Enlightened but I enjoyed it very much.Has been renewed for a second season, btw. Apparently as a season-long anthology of sorts, as the second season will take place at another White Lotus property with an all-new cast. It's more Mike White so I'll take it.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 August 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
Loved Uncle Rico as Tanya's terminally ill boyfriend.
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Monday, 16 August 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
still remember him best from Real Genius.
― dan selzer, Monday, 16 August 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
was great, but Rachel's change of heart seemed pretty out of the blue, I felt like it needed an additional scene in there. also a bit surprised they let Shane leave so quickly.
― akm, Monday, 16 August 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link