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it's all conveniently shown barely offscreen

our broadcast standards are pretty messed up in that you can do nearly anything as long as it's not directly shown

did hannibal come out around the same time that GoT started really owning television? I think NBC was willing to take a risk with standards and practices to try to compete with pay cable with this and it didn't really pan out so we get This Is Us instead.

it ran 2013 - 2015 and apparently GoT started in 2011, so.. maybe?

objectively this makes sense, but having just started watching GoT a couple months ago, I'm having trouble mentally reconciling it

Supporting evidence:
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/game-of-thrones-hannibal-do-we-need-so-much-shock-and-gore-on-tv-30287064.html

I am constantly surprised at how popular GoT is. I read all the books before the series came out (they were ok) but half of the episodes put me into 20 minute nap mode where I wake up just in time for the ending.

I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway, and a tv-show was able to survive if it had a niche audience and a good co-production deal. And all of a sudden you get three seasons of Hannibal. I really think tv is the medium with the biggest amount of crap, and the largest space for weird art to pop up all of a sudden.

I'm kind of tempted. It's 12 quid for the whole thing on Amazon, a pound per disc.

itt i learned about hannibal the series

guess i'll check it out

would highly recommend that, if you have a television or viewing device that's modern era, making sure you watch it in high definition

I have no idea if it was just the imagery of the series that made me pay attention to detail or if more detail was taken in filming (suspecting both) but it looked absolutely amazing in high definition

guessing that someone with a giganic home screen could chime in and complain/praise the 4k transfer if such a thing exists

I kinda think Hannibal is just one of those deeply weird things that happens from time to time. Serial killers were in, known properties were in, NBC was in crisis and nobody watched anything anyway

That reminds me that during the '07-'08 writers strike, CBS (IIRC) was reduced to airing sanitized Dexter reruns as filler programming.

Hannibal, eh? Maybe it's time. I taught Psychology to a girl last year who said that Hannibal was what got her into it. Like others I kind of assumed it was a regular crime thriller show, but I didn't expect to see you all going so crazy about it.

The third season is getting so silly. Delicatessen. Even the snails.

yeah, that first episode is amazing. third season is much more out of control but it pays off.

Just finished Dirty John

i liked the podcast but was kinda lukewarm on the show & didnt finish it. did you like it?

Has anyone who is lamenting the cancellation of One Day At A Time actually watched the last two seasons? Rita Moreno continues to be hilarious, but everyone else is just so cringeworthy, and the relentless, clumsy shoehorning of wokeness (are hoarders really a protected class now?) into every episode got pretty old.

Xp

Never got round to the podcast. I thought the show was ... well, I really enjoyed it. It was pretty low rent and over dramatic, and I think it would have been better to do a more realist take on it, but: the whole story was so fucked up I really liked it anyway and clapped when the younger daughter has her moment of glory at the end.

It was also a vastly better depiction of the stalker trope than 'You', a show which made me feel a bit sick

Any love for After Life? Love Gervais and he’s great in this

I saw a Roy Chubby Brown tweet praising it and that confirmed me in my descion to avoid it like the plague.

Watched the first few episodes of Turn Up charlie and it’s worth continuing with.

Watched After Life yesterday and today. Vacillated between thinking it was terribly cheesy/hilarious/affecting and really liked it by the end though it seemed pretty z-grade in parts.

Triple Frontier is like Very Bad Things meets a shitty Peter Berg movie about Navy SEALs.

Whole lotta dumb men in that movie

the trailer for After Life was so bad i will never give it a chance

I watched the first episode out of morbid curiosity

I will not be watching another

Anyone watched any Love, Death & Robots?

Looks interesting

^^Watched the first four - quality varies given it's an anthology series, but so far so good.

The third episode "The Witness" was the only one I found really disappointing. Beautiful animation let down by terrible plot and "look how edgy I am" content.

My favourite was the second ep "Three Robots" - funny and charming post-apocalypse humour. Would have happily watched a full series of it.

All of the episodes are blessedly short btw - about 10-15 mins each.

Watched the first three last night. Took me about halfway through the first one to realise why it seemed so familiar. Second one was a Scalzi short story.

The animation certainly varies. First one felt like a cutscene from a video game but second and third were much better styles.

I put Turn Up Charlie in my queue last night and was thinking I would give one episode a try. Is that what Idris Elba has been promoting recently? It seems like such a weird vehicle for him.

Okay, Hannibal is not for me. Some of the acting is pretty great and it's visually compelling, but I was four episodes in and not finding much to keep me interested in the storyline (I watched every British and American crime drama on TV with my parents for about ten years, so probably suffered from over-saturation of the genre), plus it required so much suspension of disbelief that this was all happening in our world to the point of being very distracting. I dislike things that pile catastrophe on catastrophe and this was doing that an awful lot. Maybe it evens out later on, but I think mostly I am just too impatient to wait for suspense to play out.

There's plenty of Terrace House and Queer Eye to fill the Netflix televisual void until the summer season gets going.

it evens out after the first nine or so episodes and becomes a different show

but also idk if you’re not in by ep 3 maybe it isn’t your thing (i’m rewatching it now and having such a good time)

Hmm...maybe I can be patient for that long. Does the journalist character go away or undergo some major rewriting? That was a severely off-putting element. (P.s. sorry for not posting in the Hannibal thread)

I don't know. I found it engaging enough at first, but wanted it to step outside of its genre conventions much more than it was doing.

I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to like Hannibal, but, while I understand how the set-up would lead you there, approaching it as a crime drama set in reality isn't quite right. It's a horror universe, maybe even a supernatural one, though that might take longer to become clear than I remember.

I haven't watched Turn Up Charlie yet, but I've enjoyed Elba's genial sitcom In the Long Run, which streams on CBC here so I'm not sure where to see it elsewhere.

Is that what Idris Elba has been promoting recently? It seems like such a weird vehicle for him.

The DJ who acted on 2.4 Children, AbFab, Crocodile Shoes and The Office, and created & starred in In The Long Run?

heard when he raps he writes for himself, no ghosty

giggled at that line tbh

re After Life : I realise RG is not for all here, but I wanted to see how he approached this topic.
and, to be honest, he absolutely hit the nail on the head for me.
so many aspects of the story were so close to my own situation it was spooky.

Oh, I guess I only became of aware of him first from The Wire and then Luther. I didn't realize he was doing lots of british sitcoms before. I don't remember him from abfab at all.

I kind of hated the Freddie Lounds character too but then realized I was just annoyed by her hairstyle. Her and Abigail wer giving me some serious Anne Shirley vibes.

Hannibal not for me either , too gross

hulu not netflix, but Shrill is worth a gander. Aidy Bryant is great and the show mostly manages to spin all its plates at the same time and try some new things. Last episode explicitly does not stick the landing but it's like 2 1/2 hours so you can get in and out fast. Will watch s2.

I had to ask my spouse twice if it was ok to watch an episode of Hannibal while we ate.

xp at the very least shrill deserves appreciation for bringing this up:
https://www.glamour.com/story/what-shrill-gets-right-and-wrong-about-the-morning-after-pill-weight-limit

I didn't realize he was doing lots of british sitcoms before

The Office was American, and after The Wire (but before Luther); In The Long Run was last year.

no reason why anyone would remember he was in AbFab without happening across a repeat after he became well known. I'm definitely mad that I can't find the speaker-headed avatar/logo thingy that he used to have on the myspace for his DJ bookings though.

I am looking up some of these things that were mentioned upthread. Crocodile Shoes 1996 "Jo-Jo", ABFab "Hilton" in a 1995 episode, and he played the "parachute instructor" in 1994 in 2.4 Children. I am humbled for not knowing these iconic roles.

did Jimmy Nail's throat nodules die in vain