if that were the content of the whole show for like an hour, i would reup that amazon prime now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 12 August 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
I was just reading an AVClub feature Jimmi Simpson couldn't stop talking about The Patriot (which he's on?).
9. Who is the most underrated person in your industry right now?JS: Underrated is a little too specific. I would say underexposed is Steven Conrad. He’s a writer-director-creator. He’s been writing for years and years very successfully—Pursuit Of Happyness was him—a bunch of cool movies. He did Walter Mitty. But he started creating television recently, and he created a show for Amazon called Patriot, which I’d literally never heard of until I read the script for Perpetual Grace, which is his show that I’m on now. So I read the script for Perpetual Grace—was floored. One of the best scripts I’ve ever read. And I couldn’t wait to meet the man, the men: Bruce Terris and Steve Conrad both wrote Perpetual Grace. They said to watch Patriot first. I’m like, “The Mel Gibson movie?” And then I find out, no, it’s a series on Amazon.And I watch it, and I’m just floored. It’s visionary. Not just the writing, the execution. It’s like your favorite directors of all time, like Kubrick, and Paul Thomas Anderson, and Michel Gondry, who have these innate abilities to communicate their style so completely, but somehow it feels effortless. You don’t feel like you’re being pushed to just absorb something. It feels like you’re watching a piece of art. And it connects to each person differently.And so you can’t ask a critic about him who’s not over the moon about Steve Conrad, calling him the next phase in television creators. But, in general, most folks—the public—don’t know about him as much as they should. Luckily, I’ve become very close friends with him, and creative partners to a degree, and so I’m going to keep doing whatever I can to keep showing people how amazing Steven Conrad is. He’s more amazing than I’ll ever be, so just being next to a genius like that is good for me. And I feel lucky. And I think other people should feel as lucky as I do, just by getting to see his stuff.
JS: Underrated is a little too specific. I would say underexposed is Steven Conrad. He’s a writer-director-creator. He’s been writing for years and years very successfully—Pursuit Of Happyness was him—a bunch of cool movies. He did Walter Mitty. But he started creating television recently, and he created a show for Amazon called Patriot, which I’d literally never heard of until I read the script for Perpetual Grace, which is his show that I’m on now. So I read the script for Perpetual Grace—was floored. One of the best scripts I’ve ever read. And I couldn’t wait to meet the man, the men: Bruce Terris and Steve Conrad both wrote Perpetual Grace. They said to watch Patriot first. I’m like, “The Mel Gibson movie?” And then I find out, no, it’s a series on Amazon.
And I watch it, and I’m just floored. It’s visionary. Not just the writing, the execution. It’s like your favorite directors of all time, like Kubrick, and Paul Thomas Anderson, and Michel Gondry, who have these innate abilities to communicate their style so completely, but somehow it feels effortless. You don’t feel like you’re being pushed to just absorb something. It feels like you’re watching a piece of art. And it connects to each person differently.
And so you can’t ask a critic about him who’s not over the moon about Steve Conrad, calling him the next phase in television creators. But, in general, most folks—the public—don’t know about him as much as they should. Luckily, I’ve become very close friends with him, and creative partners to a degree, and so I’m going to keep doing whatever I can to keep showing people how amazing Steven Conrad is. He’s more amazing than I’ll ever be, so just being next to a genius like that is good for me. And I feel lucky. And I think other people should feel as lucky as I do, just by getting to see his stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 August 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Oh, wait, the show was just canceled?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
he's on a new show from the creator of Patriot
― na (NA), Monday, 12 August 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
oh damn that sucks it got cancelled.
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
the technical talk in patriot is amazing. that scene where he has to bluff his way through that speech? and i didnt like season 2 as much as season 1, but still, it was good.
― just sayin, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
yeah s2 of prime is a downer after s1. still pretty good but doesn't hit the highs of the first season. and they clearly were expecting to have another season based on how s2 ended.
― na (NA), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
There's a new stand-up special by Jim Gaffigan that's pretty funny if you like him (I do). Somewhere in the middle he does 10 straight minutes of jokes about horses, and by the end of it he's actively ridiculing the audience for being annoyed by all the horse jokes.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
it's a soap but I really love Made In Heaven
― Dan S, Thursday, 22 August 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
vegemitegrrl recs have *never* let me down. just finished red oaks and jfc that show. the writing in general overall, but the way Nash puts his part over was SO effing wonderful. and Paul Reiser as asshole with a heart was really well played
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
isn’t it great!?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
yay! another Red Oaks fan! wonderful from beginning to end and love how they let characters develop
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Josh Meyers is a great example he could have just stayed a douche but he really loved her and was sweet in his way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Red Oaks is one of my favorite shows ever. The character arcs are beautiful. And some really great endings to episodes - the series ending in particular.
― SA, Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
look at this unbelievable horseshit
New trailer for Jon Krasinski in Amazon’s ‘Jack Ryan’ series. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/r5lvmHjLXW— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) September 5, 2019
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Tom Clancy's ghost is smiling.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Ugh. I actually liked the first season in a mindless sort of way, but that's bad news.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
"I can't go to Yemen - I'm an analyst!"
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
lolll thats really bad.
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Jim Goes to YemenJim Goes to Venezuelathis show is suuuuuuuper dumb but I will prob still watch it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 September 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
Same.
― DJI, Friday, 6 September 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
nuclear... venezuela
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
jim has really been carrying the can for some vile politics over the last few years, huh
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Jon Chudinski
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 6 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
but man, Patriot! was bored working from home last week and watched the entire first season bc of this thread. loved it. sad to hear it was cancelled.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 6 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
this show is suuuuuuuper dumb but I will prob still watch itotm.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 September 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Is anyone else watching Carnival Row? For a show about faeries, it is relentlessly gray and grim. I think Ornaldo Bloomps was badly miscast. The scene where the wizened store owner jerks him off was pretty good though. Is it worth watch the last few eps?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 September 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
Saw one ep. Felt like Peaky Blinders with fary wings/steampunk, does it get beyond that?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Not really
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
Undone from BoJack creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg debuts today and looks great
― groovypanda, Friday, 13 September 2019 07:43 (four years ago) link
The Jawbreaker doc isn't what I expected, feels more like an overview for people who haven't heard of them.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 15 September 2019 06:53 (four years ago) link
been watching good omens and halfway-enjoying it out of residual affection for the book--but it's bad. i can't imagine watching this show without having read the book. the kids can't act, neither can the witch. tennant looks bored (by design, but still) and it manages to waste jon hamm, of all people. but michael sheen is delightful, makes the whole thing almost worth it.
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
the visuals are so frenetically busy underneath her that it undermines her casual delivery from what might otherwise play as deadpan.
this is it. i understand the need for a narrator in adapting this book (it always reminded me of hitchhiker's guide in that regard), but they shoulda just gotten jim dale!
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
watched the first 10 mins of a Charlie Chaplin documentary on there just now. it was not good.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
went back up to check the Good Omens talk and
One of the episodes of Good Omens has the intro 25 minutes in. That's just not on.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:47 AM (three months ago)
nobody tell dowd about Monty Python ok
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
― groovypanda, Friday, September 13, 2019 12:43 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i unsubscribed from amazon bc fuck em (no judgment) but i desperately need people to tell me if this show is good
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
yeah it's pretty good.
― akm, Thursday, 19 September 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
Carnival Row looks abominable.
― akm, Thursday, 19 September 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
Haha, I forgot I still had a few episodes left of that. It's not very good.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 September 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
xps Finished Undone and thought it was excellent. It's only eight 22 minute episodes so not a huge commitment and well worth tracking down
― groovypanda, Thursday, 19 September 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
it's cool to see/hear Odenkirk insomething again given the interminable delay before the next Better Call Saul season
― akm, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Agreed, but he’s stayed busy - was in Long Shot, is in the Alexander / Karazewski Dolemite biopic that’s out in two weeks, and though I haven’t seen it & probably never will, is on the US remake of No Activity.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:03 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i have only watched one episode and its v good and also it takes place in my city and thats kinda cool 4 me
― i'm not a garbageman i am garbage, man. let me handle my garbage, damn (m bison), Monday, 23 September 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
I watched Serenity last night to see if it was really as bad and batshit as the reviews I read said it was and it was actually worse if you can imagine. In a just world it would end the careers of everyone involved.
― akm, Monday, 23 September 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Saw the Death doc. Was pretty generic, but a good overview of death metal's origins and evolution.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 September 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
xpost I heard the How Did This Get Made ep, and ... woof.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 September 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
I’m kind of enjoying Swamp Thing - though the ‘baddie’ is boring.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 4 October 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
(And the baddie is one of those old people who look like a young person in ‘old’ makeup)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 4 October 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Goliath s3 is out, I guess? Will check it out
― mh, Friday, 4 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
Hope it doesn't go off the rails like season 2 did.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 5 October 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link