i wish i liked angie tribeca as much as i liked police squad... there's just something about it that makes the silliness boring to me
― a simba man (Will M.), Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
it's worth restating that the OJ: Made in America documentary is excellent and I say that as someone who lived through it and wished desperately it would go away. This is good filmmaking.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link
Halfway through love it so far
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Sunday, 19 June 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
And I too was fine never hearing about it again in my life.
i only got half it in Aus, with way less tv coverage & i didnt fully get who he was at the time, like the level of celebrityover time i've gleaned more & more but this is like a college course in oj 101, it's so *comprehensive*the contextualization is so good
ie i wasnt aware of the teenage girl that got shot by the korean grocery store worker, stuff like that
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 June 2016 06:21 (seven years ago) link
First ep of The Night Of was a good watch
― Number None, Monday, 4 July 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
I had to stop it about 15-20 mins in when [SPOILERS I guess] our very dumb hero accidentally stabbed the doomed girl in the hand.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 4 July 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
_Mordy wrote this on thread Conventional Mealy Mouths: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 5 on board I Love Everything on 25-May-2016that argument only makes sense if your self-conceptialization is entirely as a lone independent actor - in which case one solitary vote does not participate in any meaningful way in the political process. however *there is such thing as a society* and we are not just independent actors but part of large collectives of self-interest, identity and affiliation and the only reason why NY is a stable blue state is because there are a whole bunch of "independent actors" who go and vote and make it that. you have to be dripping w/ self-aggrandizement to not understand that your participation in the vote matters not bc you alone get to make the decision but bc /you/ collectively do. i wonder if other countries have this "your vote doesn't matter" argument or if it can only exist in the context of america's radical cult of individualism._
that argument only makes sense if your self-conceptialization is entirely as a lone independent actor - in which case one solitary vote does not participate in any meaningful way in the political process. however *there is such thing as a society* and we are not just independent actors but part of large collectives of self-interest, identity and affiliation and the only reason why NY is a stable blue state is because there are a whole bunch of "independent actors" who go and vote and make it that. you have to be dripping w/ self-aggrandizement to not understand that your participation in the vote matters not bc you alone get to make the decision but bc /you/ collectively do. i wonder if other countries have this "your vote doesn't matter" argument or if it can only exist in the context of america's radical cult of individualism._
― Quarter measures (sunny successor), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
I haven't seen it but my wife is raving about some French show called the bureau
― Heez, Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WQw3PxYpF1Q
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
^ exactly what i was about to mention haha
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
anybody want to speak for or against "The A Word"? Starts in America in a week.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJvWVl2KKM
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
I think it is very trite and dull shite. Autism is a spectrum condition that also effects women, all racial groups + social classes and they also grow into adults - the cutesy middle class boy with autism causing much hand wringing thing has already been flogged to death.
― calzino, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I only saw the end of it and it wasn't very good.
― kinder, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
mmm. that's what i was afraid of. Just saw "Life, Animated" and it had the same issues: treating the best case scenario like a brave fight against the odds and ignoring the vast majority of diagnosed individuals without the resources or the support necessary just to get by.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
― Heez, Thursday, July 7, 2016 7:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm gonna guess you mean le bureau des légendes (starring matthieu kassovitz, about an undercover agent coming back to normal life after a stint in syria) rather than the french take on the office (starring françois berléand, lived a very short life). couldn't agree more about bureau des légendes though, it's really great.
― Jibe, Friday, 8 July 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
I watched the first episode of The A Word and felt no need whatsoever to continue with it. As pointed out, dull, trite, middle-class woe-is-me selfish parental agony bullshit. It might have got better, but I doubt it.
― ailsa, Friday, 8 July 2016 10:26 (seven years ago) link
I started watching A Very Secret Service (Au Service de la France/Frankreich Gegen den Rest der Welt) over the weekend and soon burned through the whole series as it's absolutely delightful. A sitcom about France's Secret Service of the early 60s and their struggles with colonialism, international relations and France's place in the world, and the changes to France both post-war and the modern age; it's really well made and frequently laugh out loud funny.
At 20 odd minutes an ep (and there are only 12) you owe it to yourself to give at least the first couple a try but even if it's not sticking it's worth going as far as ep 5 (the CIA one).
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Monday, 11 July 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Working my way through Nathan For You - the first season was patchy but second is flat out hilarious so far.
― chap, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
He's so off puttingly weird.
Started watching Orphan Black.
― Mordy, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, July 4, 2016 2:10 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Richard Price, John Turturro = I'm in
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
xpost You may have to push through parts of s3 of Orphan Black when you get to it but s4 makes up for it in spades.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
I thoroughly enjoyed Orphan Black season 1, thoroughly didn't enjoy the hugely sloppy and eliptical s2, haven't watched any more.
― chap, Monday, 11 July 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
same here
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 11 July 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
yup
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Monday, 11 July 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Kind of like Casual on Hulu. Not groundbreaking and mildly irritating at times and reminds me a fair amount of Transparent without the trans aspect, but it's watchable.
― akm, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
has anyone watched The Path on Hulu? Saw it pop up on some best TV shows of 2016 list and hadn't even heard of it.
would have thought a new Jason Katims show with Aaron Paul would be getting more buzz
― Number None, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I watched it. It starts off slow but gets rolling by about episode 3. Definitely worthwhile if you're at all fascinated by cults.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 11 July 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Monday, July 11, 2016 12:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
watched the first two, its goodsomewhat hard to see gandolfini as the turturro role, wonder how much it was changed?didnt realize its 8 eps, looking fwd to it all summerdetective dennis box is a great character name
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 July 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
second season of Difficult People clicked for me so I went to Billy in the Street; it's great
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 22 July 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
Currently catching up on Shameless, which I had mistakenly pegged as Married With Children but with more tits and profanity 'cause cable; turns out it's a surprisingly dark and perceptive comedy-drama about how to survive against all odds, but turns into a show about how living in constant white-trash survival-hustle mode totally fails to prepare you to live among people whose lives have been even incrementally more privileged than yours.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 22 July 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Just starting on Stranger Things, The Night Of, and catching up with, of all things, Community.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 22 July 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
loving The Night Of! first time i've watched a series in real time in a while, and the wait is beautiful and agonizing
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 22 July 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
Trayce I've just been watching s7 of Community. Didn't really feel it although it had some good lols
― kinder, Friday, 22 July 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
damn, The Night Of seriously went off the rails
― Number None, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
I haven't watched the latest ep yet, but despite it being absolutely unconvincing fluff - i've enjoyed it up to now.
― calzino, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
there's one plot thread I'm not too into, but it's otherwise an interesting game that's not any less convincing than most procedurals, especially the really formulaic long-running series that tend to elide some of the ambiguity this show is into
I do keep screaming "the cat! follow the cat! there's a clue there!" at the tv, though
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
the gal and i are watching The Wire front to back and just started season 4, so I'm behind on almost everything.i'm watching episodes of bojack horseman as i fall asleep. it's not very good but i keep trying.
Otherwise, the current and forthcoming ten are:Difficult PeopleBilly on the StreetAdam Ruins EverythingFull FrontalYou're the WorstEric AndrePBS NewshourInside Comedy
Backlog of the moment includes: Night Of, Mr. Robot, Great British Baking Show, a gazillion american experiences about presidentsGonna try Gomorrah.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
The direction of The Night Of has been disappointing, but the characters and performances keep me in it.
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
Looking forward to the return of You're The Worst soon.
Currently watching Humans on Amazon; it's pretty good, certainly better than Ex Machina.
Also watching season 2 of The Strain on Hulu, because sometimes I like to fill my brain with garbage.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Season 3 of The Strain starts this weekend!
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
I know; that's why I'm trying to catch up! I'm not sure what the delay period will be between new episodes airing on FX and showing up on Hulu - I think it's eight days, though.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
Are they adding them during the season? afaik fx shows only appear as a complete season much later
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
ohh yay am looking forward to The Strain coming backit's fun monster candy
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
i still like The Night Of but yeah the first few eps were very intriguing.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
I caught up on season 2 of halt and catch fire a month or so ago, looking forward to season 3 starting... what, tonight?
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
The Night Of - good finale. Stone's speech was good, and the kitty on TV cracked me up.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:11 (seven years ago) link
I was so glad that they went for a low-key finale, it was looking dicey for a few weeks there.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
I have finally settled into Braindead & am really enjoying itIt's v silly but I dig it.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link