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I only got a few episodes in too but I was sort of liking it. It was a weird fit with Curb.

Mythic Quest should have been about Cristina Miliotti and Jake Johnson’s characters.

That episode was great, but it was like an episode from a different show.

will try ave5s01e08

i was so excited for Central Park but i barely made it through the 1st episode. I can’t handle so much EXTRA

Avenue 5 got better as it went along, but should either have an audience track, or be paced like TTOI.

What a bummer that it and Upload are both apparently stiffs.

Everything good about King Of The Hill corresponds to things that are good about Mike Judge's work, and Daniels was originally brought on as a writer, not co-creator. The US Office doesn't become its own, good thing until Mike Schur takes over from Daniels as head writer. What's good about Parks & Rec, when it gets away from the pilot that Daniels co-wrote, is recognisable in co-creator and head writer Schur's other work.

He apparently used to be a good comedy writer, and is clearly a good boss / producer, not least for letting his staff take the work in their own directions, but Daniels has never actively created anything that you like. And in the case of Upload, seems to be trying to beatjack his former protege six years after the fact (and with Space Force, though the timing is less blatantly suspicious, to jack one of the most consistently excellent and varied comedy creator / producers of the last 29 years).

Daisy May Cooper was great in A5, much of the rest was a bit forced. A handful of great scenes though (ShitPope for one).

Daisy May Cooper was one of the best things about the entire show. Shame she had such a small role

anyone watching 'the great' on hulu? it's excellent.

i dug what i saw in the first ep but my girl tapped out after like fifteen minutes so i'll have to sneak back

Ioving it.

yes, it's an astounding series. love it.

holding out for "the greatest"

in which Nicholas Hoult plays Cat Power

huzzah!

Rich, rich.

OK, there is so much stuff buried in HBO Max, but like every streaming service the search function, or at least how the movies are organized, is pretty much worthless by design. They want you to get lost in this morass of movies that runs that gamut from a huge chunk of the Criterion collection to the entire run of "Police Academy" movies. Last night I spent half an hour just going through the browse section by genre, adding things to my queue, and there is almost no rhyme or reason to what gets placed where. Often times these services will have, say, a "classics' section, and it'll be, like, "The Godfather," "Casablanca" and then ... Ang Lee's "Hulk" or something like that, and you think, man, that famed algorithm is just trolling. In the case of HBO Max, there's a similar scrambled up sensibility to pretty much every genre. (I'll have to go back and see where they put, for example, "Tanner '88.") There's also a "leaving soon" section, or the equivalent, and, curious, I clicked and there were essentially seven or eight seemingly random movies listed, with no indication when or why they were leaving, or whether they would even be expected back. Just ... useless and confusing. But like I said, some good stuff buried in there! For example, I forgot that "Three Kings" existed and how much I loved it at the time, so I look forward to revisiting,

otm, all the services are absolute garbage if you actually want to survey what they have and build a watchlist. most obviously, none of them to my knowledge have a button to say "take this movie out of the list and don't show it to me again," which would be an enormous convenience to browsers but also rapidly reveal the only shit they have that you ever want to see is the shit that's already in your watchlist.

but the easiest thing to do is just say "today is Day Zero and i don't care what they've got loaded up in the past," then keep a recurring/cookie-saved search at justwatch.com with only your services selected. then obsessively check it daily or weekly to see what's been added, add that stuff, and never go browsing again.

so they removed the guns from Looney Tunes on HBO Max? I hate guns but that's fucking stupid.

How is that even possible unless they got rid of Yosemite Sam entirely, and if they did that, how is *that* even possible.

What about canons? Bombs? Rockets!?! Elmer Fudd wabbit hunting?!

I'll check in a bit.

Just looked and there are still plenty of guns/rayguns/explosions to the face, and so on. There do appear to be some missing episodes, but I don't why they're not there.

Oh, wait, I just looked into it and it's the *new* cartoons that don't have guns, not the old ones. Talk about fake news, they only "removed" them in the abstract from the original iconic conception of, say, Fudd, who in the new cartoons apparently does not have a gun. Eh, who cares about that, I'm not going to watch those anyway.

They purposefully put tons of guns in the new cartoons, then meticulously edited them out, then replaced them with all the surplus buttholes from Cats.

yeah, I just realized this after reading the fourth story on it. terrible reporting.

Not holding out hope for a deal with Roku any time soon. I'm really tempted to cancel out of principle, but I want to hold on to HBO Now because I'm super stoked to see Lovecraft Country.

Seeing that misleading news story making the rounds the other day finally spurred me to, ahem, pull the trigger on the complete Looney Tunes Golden Collection so at least some good came out of it.

Like I mentioned, I get HBO Max for "free" with my internet plan (which is to say, paying $15 more for my service gets me the HBO service that costs $15 lol, though it's more because my really good promotional rate expired), but I think I would pay for it otherwise, as there were piles and piles of shows and movies I'd ... borrowed from the internet that I can now delete and just watch through HBO Max.

I have no problem paying for HBO Max, we've been paying for HBO Now for awhile, I just hate that I can only watch Max on my phone or laptop right now.

I had to run it through my PS4 once I remembered that that is a thing.

The Roku/Amazon thing is ridiculous but yeah, i can just watch on ps4. Actually easier to torrent than watch the way they're intending me to. Wheeeee, late era capitalism media wheeeeeeeeee!

you can also just plug your computer into your tv?

(I have a chromecast and not everything streams well, so it's our old friend HDMI and that stupid converter cable for the MacBook coming into play quite often)

i have a desktop.

was about to say, i have never in my adult life wanted my computer in the same room as the TV.

Of course I could connect my laptop to my TV with a four foot HDMI cable and that stupid ass Mac dongle, but then I’d have to precariously balance the laptop on a radiator by the TV (the stand our TV sits on won’t accommodate a laptop anywhere) plus I’d have to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to pause or pick something else to watch. Obviously can be done, but annoying as hell when there’s already a device I own that will do all this shit for me for every single other streaming service we pay for.

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was about to say, i have never in my adult life wanted my computer in the same room as the TV.

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been a long time since this was a choice that I could make ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEwo_gwO9M

More in HBO Max insanity/inanity, apparently a huge hunk of their live action DC titles will be *leaving* in July:

Justice League, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Catwoman, Jonah Hex, and The Losers, and The LEGO Batman have been added to the “Last Chance” section and are now set to depart the service on July 1.

I couldn't give a crap about these movies, but it's pretty surprising, imo, especially since HBO's defense is that they will apparently be offering these comic book movies on a "rotating" basis. So the service launches with ads prominently displaying/proclaiming superhero movies it does *not* currently have, then a big chunk of superhero movies they *do* have will be leaving only a month after the services launches? There's tons of other stuff I'm happy to watch on this service, and clearly complicated behind the scenes contractual machinations are in play, but I sort of feel like the presence of these blockbuster selling point flicks is kinda important to the service's success. And regardless, certainly feels increasingly like the service launched before all the ink and paint was dry.

Are those movies more permanently on the DC subscription service? One presumes DC's actions to wipe out Engish-language comic shops worldwide last week are because someone at AT&T wants to drive customers towards their app.

Yeah that seems, short-sighted at best, to include movies like Wonder Woman so prominently in the advertising and have it leave a month and a half after launch. I'm not going to miss any of those either, but this just seems like a botched roll-out on so many levels.

sic likely sadly otm and that explains a lot.

I'm actually not even sure that they *are* on or going to the DC U service, either! Which is also crazy.

Actually, I have no idea, but it's a dick move regardless to advertise all these DC movies, have a DC *section* on the HBO Max home page, and then move all the DC titles to DC Universe or whatever they call it a month after launch (assuming they are doing that), especially given the relatively high pricing of the service.

Less of a dick move than flat-out trying to destroy all English-language comics publishing, though, so well within capacity.

tbh I don't know what HBO Max has to do with the comic book publishing industry, but I assume all of these companies are as bad for independent shops and services and theaters and whatnot as Walmart.

DC and HBO are both content-to-consumer arms of AT&T.

All streaming rollouts will be botched going forward because no one's begging for yet another streaming service further dividing up where content is available, no one can keep track of all the services much less what's on them.

They should just bundle them all together and call it... cable television.

(DC are over 30% of the comic-shop $ business. Next month they will become unavailable outside the USA, and retailers that have survived the coronavirus downturn and publishing hiatus so far will have to buy their DC periodicals from one of two other retailers, that DC will now sell direct to.)