which, in a way, is a much more honest take than a certain Sorkin show
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Ok a Jonah/ Splett ticket would be one that I’d commit voter fraud for, I’m not even kidding.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Thursday, 25 July 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
Jonah immediately going off script to be belligerent and the entire wife/sister thing is so good
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
I'm still waiting for that one intern who was fired for the data breach to exact her pound of flesh.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Finished the sixth season. It's weird that as awful as Selina is, I still find myself rooting for her.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
thinking about the final moments of this series in re: tom hanks
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Lots of talk about Armando's second HBO sitcom, Avenue 5, over in the Silicon Valley thread.
Ave 5 definitely got funnier and more apparent in its satire as it went along - the first couple were dire - but never really took off, and absolutely never found a tone that supported what it's doing. The building of multiple incompetencies and frustration of the less-incompetent characters has a Thick Of It feel, but the vibe never escalates within the scenes. It's like they're letting the jokes breathe for audience laughter, but without a laugh track in the show, it just means they never get momentum.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
idk i really liked it? it doesn't hold up to his previous shows (i'm watching thick of it again right now in fact) but i like that the setitng allows him to create some of the most absolutely fantastically horrifying moments he ever has, in a way that veep and thick of it can't. the extended airlock sequence had me rolling. josh gad is SO GOOD in this, which shocked me as i've never really given him a second look in anything else. laurie's rapidfire code switching is remarkable. and of course zach woods' weirdo nihilism. i could definitely do with fewer important passenger characters (the two husbands don't really accomplish much as characters, nor does jessica st clair's character, as much as she is a delight), but if this show kept descending further and further into absolute existential dread i'd be satisfied.
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
it's like standard ianucci + sex house + space
i really liked it. the airlock scene had me howling
also, is the pope's face in the shit actually trump? i think it is
― gbx, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Avenue5/comments/ff0u42/the_turd_face_is_trump_right/
― groovypanda, Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:03 (four years ago) link
It was obviously JP2 for me, but without watching it again I'm not sure I could find the reference pic.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link