Second season of Dark is now up
Took me a while to remember this terrible generic title was actually something I've been waiting for.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 21 June 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
my mom asked if I thought she would like dark mirror and i felt compelled to mention the pig fucking so i think she's gonna pass
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
I’ve always advised ppl not to start with that episode. Tell her to try the Jesse Armstrong one?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
start with the one that is about fucking your buddy in street fighter vr
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
start with Be Right Back
― dan selzer, Friday, 21 June 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
start with San Junipero. stop when it's over
― Simon H., Friday, 21 June 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Most charitable take in Easy is that given that we constantly have scenes in film and TV that model how to rape or assault someone, we have few models for a scene about how consent works, or how specific kinds of negotiation work.
I don’t know. I’m a big Rohmer fan and it feels like Rohmer to me.
And the bonus is that the Chicago locations aren’t dressed or renamed. It makes sense that the 90s art-school grads (Maron and his friend) would hang out at Rainbo and Quimby’s, that the unicorn would be a Wiggleworms teacher, that Beverly neighbors would get paranoid about a package thief, and so on. And the details about beer, permits, neighbors, sex work, cartoonists, and so on feel spot-on instead of simplified for the sake of plot.
Didn’t like the third season as much, but really dig most of the rest.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 June 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
of all the various repeated characters, I have to admit I liked the Maron episodes the best I think.
― dan selzer, Friday, 21 June 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
they have this couple in an open relationship and literally every woman the dude hooks up with, including his wife, is like ten times more attractive than him, and usually way younger.
To be fair, the show starts with her not wanting (understandably) to fuck him anymore.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 22 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah - was going to point that out.Easy really suffers from uneven acting skills. I struggled to watch the episodes with the brewers in particular because the acting was so bad.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 22 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
This Trinkets show is alright even though almost all the acting outside the lead (Briana Hilldebrand, who was in Deadpool) is terrible.
― akm, Sunday, 23 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Aggretsuko season 2 was so good. Somehow, this cartoon about a death metal karaoke-loving red panda managed to be funnier and more relatable than 90 percent of sitcoms about single girl working life in the city.
― Roz, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
i just binged both seasons of marcella in a couple of days bc i'm just in that kind of mood but the ending of s2 might have gone a bit wtf. why did she do that thing to her face??? how did that cop dude find her??? "yeah alright you're clearly nuts but come work for us"??? was surprised with how the custody thing played out - thought she was gonna change her mind and help tim against jason. and whyyyyy was mark spying on her???
Rav is a babe btw.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
i watched the first season of Dark about a week before the second season came out, and even a 5 day lag was too long and i had trouble following the story. fuck knows how i'll manage when s3 comes out.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 08:26 (four years ago) link
This might help.
Then again, it might not.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
I liked the first season of Marcella but I had to drop it a couple of episodes in season 2. I was like, wtf is this bullshit.
ohhhh, I was wavering on whether to watch season 2 of Aggretsuko. I should just do it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Marcella also dresses like I do for work and I kept questioning on whether she was supposed to be frumpy.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
netflix is getting rid of the office for your own good, you people have a problem— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) June 25, 2019
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
I am always surprised how beloved Friends is all over the world (like how many people watch it over and over). I haven't watched it since it was first on tv. Maybe I should.
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
no don't do it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
yeah, I have never felt the desire. Another person (Italian millennial) was just telling me how he has watched it three times over now.
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
I find it to be a very effective soporific. I've used it on more than one occasion to send me off to dreamland when I was suffering insomnia.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
Sometimes when I am around someone will ask me where I am from and I will say US and then New York and they always go "FRIENDS!" no one says "SEINFELD!" or some other show.I also had a japanese roommate once who would only watch Friends, baseball and South Park.
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
I didn't like Friends in its initial run but I've seen a couple partial episodes while on the elliptical machine at the gym this year and it's... ok? I mean, it doesn't have the really insipid laugh track-baiting of Chuck Lorre sitcoms and it's almost quaint to have a show that *does* have a laugh track and isn't cynical
― mh, Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
I'm never gonna rep hard for it because it is pretty MOR but I think it holds up, and moreso if you watch it as a serial rather than just disparate episodes.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
friends is good when it doesn't lean too hard on schwimmer's schwimmer-iness
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
imagine if netflix got the rights to newsradio and got everyone to watch newsradio instead of friends. mostly i wish newsradio was streaming somewhere.
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
I wholeheartedly concur even though I own it. My brother just started watching it recently and got hooked. Would that everyone had the easy opportunity to do so.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Primark (uk cheap clothes emporium) is selling F*R*I*E*N*D*S tshirts now and i keep seeing people wearing them, often young kids. it's odd.
― koogs, Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
xpost a couple of seasons of NewsRadio were on Sony's Crackle service a while back
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
wrt Friends it's been interesting to see it from today's perspective. Ross is a sociopath.Matt Leblanc and Lisa Kudrow are excellent comedic actors
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Hate to say it but friends is better than newsradio
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
i am enjoying everyone being "ACTUALLY it's pretty GOOD!" about the most popular sitcom of all time
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
There are many most popular things that aren't pretty good, so it does seem worthy of note.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
yeah, i mean big bang theory is the most watched sitcom of the last decade at least and it's basically unwatchable.
i want to love newsradio - ignoring the forgettable joe rogan and unlikeable andy dick it has a great cast (dave foley is one of my favourite comedic actors ever, what can you say about phil hartman? etc.) - but it's a fair to middling 90s sitcom to my eyes and ears. better than mad about you, not as good as frasier.
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
NewsRadio is so good, it veers off in such weird directions from it's base standard 90s sitcom setup
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Totes bogus take, jim. Totes bogus to the max.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Now I am looking at lists of the most popular, watched, profitable sitcoms of all time, realizing I have never watched a lot of these. Like any Chuck Lorre ones or Modern Family, Raymond, Raymond-like shows. I made fun of my spouse for watching all of Big Bang Theory but supposedly he watched for the caltech adjacent jokes.
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Called the "King of Sitcoms" during the 2010s,[4][5][6][7][8] he has created and produced sitcoms including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, Mom, and The Kominsky Method.
omg first against the wall
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Lorre is only redeemed by having worked on Roseanne.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
let's be real, all sitcoms are bad except for the first five seasons of Cheers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I've never been more ashamed of my parents than i was when i realized they habitually watched two and a half men
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Wow, Dharma & Greg is a show I have not thought of in years.
Do sitcoms become dated the fastest of any kind of entertainment?
― jmm, Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/two-and-a-half-men-finale-review.html
i highly recommend reading about what happens in the 2 1/2 men finale
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
is this seriously what 2 1/2 Men was about??? I kind of want to watch it now if I ever get a bacterial/viral infection in my brain.
― Yerac, Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
― na (NA), Thursday, June 27, 2019 9:25 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark
holy shit
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
in fairness to chuck lorre charlie sheen was a real anti-semitic POS to him in public statements at the time he had his little implosion so it's understandable that he was bitter but what a nihilistic finale to a show that ran for 11 years
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
wrt Friends it's been interesting to see it from today's perspective. Ross is a sociopath.
this is not today's perspective
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
ross isn't really a sociopath he is just quite typical of the male romantic hero of the 90s - mopey, jealous, sad-case dickhead. it's instructive to remember that while the cast of friends are gen x the creators and writers were more baby boomer, and the social mores and attitudes really reflect that (not that gen x didn't also have a similar tolerance for awfulness in their romantic heroes - see ethan hawke in anything).
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Ross was definitely being written as a non-hero and terrible person by the second half of the series, it's just that his friends and family couldn't quietly and slowly ostracise him as they might in real life bcz the actor was still one of six leads
dude pursued and dated one of his underage students
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link