Mystic Quest Raven's Banquet on Apple is... okay? I'm a sucker for video game centered sitcoms. The delivery is pure Always Sunny and the acting is pretty solid but it's predictable as hell and generally never gets past third gear.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
Gentefied, on Netflix, is pretty good. Smart and funny and none of the characters are total assholes whom only the writers find sympathetic.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 22 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Beforeigners, on HBO Europe, is a car crash of SF-themed procedurals (Alien Nation comes to mind) - not particularly great, but compellingly not bad either.https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/review-time-travel-and-murder-combine-in-hbos-riveting-beforeigners-series/#p3
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
I'm going to be re-activating my HBO subscription next month for the second season of My Brilliant Friend and am definitely planning on watching Beforeigners.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 February 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
Have watched the first episode of Beforeigners and I'm in
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 08:57 (four years ago) link
Thanks to whichever one of you recommended Stath Lets Flat. It's been a while since I saw a cast so thoroughly, convincingly dedicated to hilarious idiocy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
Anyone else (still) watching Briarpatch? I'm really enjoying it.
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
Yes! Really good so far!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
josh how are you watching stath lets flat?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
i was curious to try it but didn't invest any energy into figuring out how to watch it in the u.s.
I downloaded it from some BBC forum. Wasn't a torrent, was a direct download, and it took forever to find a place that was sharing it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
huh ok
― na (NA), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
i don't think it's been discussed here but I'm going through the first season of Home on Channel 4 and it's enjoyable and well-written and well acted and often quite funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8KEVWmd88https://www.channel4.com/programmes/home
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed both series. Skirts just the right edge of preachy, but doesn't maybe hit as many comedy points as the commissioning staff might have been promised.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
Run was... okay? Coasting on casting imo; not much happening at all. I'll try once or twice more.
Insecure's first episode leaning a little too heavy into soap opera and recycled storylines. I love love love Issa Rae though and am willing to put up with a lot just to get the parts with her doing physical comedy.
New season of What We Do in the Shadows basically picks up where they left off, which is to say it's pure fun without much friction or deep engagement but well worth anyone's time.
Brockmire is secretly the second best show on television right now, behind Better Call Saul.
Slowly going through the first season of Summer Camp Island which is a must for anyone who misses Adventure Time. NB: do not watch more than two 10 minute episodes at a time.
Desus and Mero locked up at home is really the only remote talk show worth a shit in the midst of this plague. Julia has ended up being a major element in the show's structure, she's kinda becoming the Robin Quivers of the 2020's
Three Busy Debras is okay. Beef House is not.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 17 April 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
The first episode of Run was interesting in the sense that I'm curious to see where it is going to go next.
Beef House is likely pointless, but hilarious.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
I want to be mad at Devs because it bears a very strong resemblance to a project I was developing/writing, but I can't, because it's really fucking watchable.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 April 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
I would have watched Run if it was a 90 minute movie. A series? Forget it.
Agree re Insecure. Not great out of the gate, but I'm already along for the ride.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 20 April 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
kinda feel like that about Devs. after ep 1 i’m like, okay i get it. not sure i need 10 episodes of low-rent spyjinks and this guy pining for his daughter.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 April 2020 08:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's not that kind of show really. Also, only 8 eps!
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
It’s not what kind of show? hmm 8 eps is better than I was thinking. Still think it would have made a better movie.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
The kind of show that focuses on "spyjinks" or thankfully spends THAT much time on the grief angle. Mostly it's a playground for Garland to toy with pet themes and get real weird with it visually
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Devs and Dispatches from Elsewhere are shows I've mostly enjoyed moment-to-moment while being generally unsure of where they were going or whether they were ultimately going to add up to anything of substance but I think I've ultimately come around to and will give a thumbs-up to both.
(P.S. It's been a little weird watching Devs and Westworld in tandem as the current season of the latter is exploring territory very similar to the former.)
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
I thought Devs stuck the landing, unlike a lot of other high-concept limited series I've seen
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Ok well I’ll probably watch. the “themes” have been extremely on-the-nose so far tho. And very.... earnest
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
A friend agreed with me that the coda to Devs fell a little flat. I like Garland's films/show and I'm very into work where the resolution is less than total, but he often crafts a lot of tension that seems to evaporate at the end.
Basically it feels like every one of his stories should end with the protagonist burning a building down and walking away.
― mh, Monday, 20 April 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
I'm also very corny and enjoy the Jonathan Nolan/Lisa Joy dumb-smartness of Westworld. The newest season feels like a mash-up of the prior seasons and his previous show, Person of Interest, which was at times a little boring but surprisingly unpretentious in its presentation, although as a prime time major network show sandwiched next to crime dramas that may have been a requirement.
― mh, Monday, 20 April 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
this is probably a good place to mention that what we do in the shadows is back and the first episode was incredible
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 April 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
i was so unsure about dispatches from elsewhere when i started it but i'm really in love with where it's gone
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
great characters/performances, full of twee bryan fuller energy (ymmv) but toward increasingly abstract purposes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
lmao the more of it I watch the more I hate it, it's sort of impressive
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
it seems like a show you would hate
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
I mentioned this on its thread but it doesn't help that in a lot of ways it feels like a more expensive, much less enjoyable Lodge 49, on the same network that just killed it
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
or really like a show that any reasonable person could approach and say "oh, no thanks"
but since the end of the game i've been absolutely enraptured xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
well i do still need to see lodge 49
yes, you should!
― mh, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
I will allow that Eve Lindley is delightful
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
i didnt know that it was a Fuller showi may check it out!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
Fuller's not involved but it sure is twee
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
oh fuller ~energy~ i see nowhmm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
oh yeah sorry didn't mean to mislead
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
goddammit brad:)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
I figured the tweeness would make ILXors gag. It ain't that fuckin twee, tho, really. Some solid, affecting moments and the leads are v good.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Brad is otm about Fuller energy btw (although I guess 'Fuller energy' as a blanket term must now somehow account for Hannibal, as well, so I'm not sure if it's misleading in this case). I've been thinking as we watched that I might recommend Wonderfalls to my gf as a follow-up.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
Yup, this. Episodes 1 and 2 saw Molly and Issa both literally telling the other one some variation of "You know you don't have to go through this drama, right?" But it's still great fun and, given where we're at, poignant to watch Issa's crew interacting.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
even hannibal has that fuller energy, it is just running beneath all of the gnarly shit. it's part of why season three is so... unlike anything ever made
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
IDK about that Dispatches finale. There were some intersting elements but I feel like if you're gonna go in...that direction you kinda need to have a fresh angle on that direction to stand out from the million other times projects have gone in that direction.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
I just read about it and yeahhhhhhh no thx
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
lmao that was pretty indulgent
show was still a pretty fun ride
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
Over the past two seasons, I've completely lost the thread of Better Things. It's gotten entirely too self congratulatory and fatuous and isn't hitting anywhere near me... which is fine obviously, not everything is for me.
If it's for you though, 92Y is doing a livestream conversation with her and Mario Cantone tonight at 5pm EThttps://www.92y.org/archives/pamela-adlon
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link