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I think it's going to do pretty well at that price point.

I gotta say, $30 for two burritos? That's not right.

what's the problem? I could have bought Mulan three times over with the $100 bill I just lit on fire because a poor touched it

you gotta tip the driver, Josh.

so anyone watch raised by wolves yet?

xpost I guess I don't get delivery that often/ever.

if you were planning on cancelling disney+ after you watched mulan, and you are currently paying for it, i guess they're getting your 30 bucks either way lol

anyway did anyone talk about ted lasso itt? i can't remember (maybe even i did)

this show is a fucking delight. maybe my fave new show of 2020. sudeikis rules and the new character in episode 6 is wonderful and also in ep6 sudeikis paraphrases the greatest monologue in sports history dont at me

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dangit i forgot that was a separate thread!!

So Raised By Wolves, based on first episode, is full-on late Ridley Scott sci fi: very pretty to look at, terrible acting from people capable of better, and terribly, terribly written. And even the pretty visuals seem to be a compulation of self-plagiarism. Plus it has some incredibly shit costume design.

But in other news, we just started "Lovecraft Country" on HBO last night and the first episode is excellent. I'm looking forward to watching the new season of "The Boys," too.

Lovecraft Country has been great so far

Latest Lovecraft Country was basically a filmed LARP Call of Cthulhu, which made it great.

Ted Lasso is a treat

YES.

Latest discoveries about the work in progress that is HBO Max: adding insult to injury, the PS4 app (which is the only way I have to watch the service on my TV) only offers stereo, so it's hard to find the right volume for all these movies and shows mixed for 5.1. Explosions too loud, dialogue too quiet, etc. Other discovery is that currently there is no way to stream the extended versions of Lord of the Rings on HBO, just the theatrical versions.

you need to disable the anti-nerd filter

Peacock is pretty decent and the ads are much less obtrusive than Hulu? Color me shocked.

Watching BSG and then there's a SyFy show I missed called Ascension that I've wanted to see for a couple of years.

Ok all the Ted Lasso recs are otm, this show is a treat

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tv show with so much heart.

I know he’s Kansas, but man Ted reminds me so much of a friend from Indiana, something about that mid-western affability that really gets me in my feels

" it's hard to find the right volume for all these movies and shows mixed for 5.1. Explosions too loud, dialogue too quiet, etc. " this is almost every show now. I almost went deaf trying to watch Woke last night. The music does not need to be that loud in a 30 minute situational comedy.

I've got a fairly cheap Sony soundbar which works out well for me. Night mode + Voice mode on at the same time keeps explosions & music a bit low and boosts the dialogue just the right amount, plus the separate sub-bass can be lowered.

So we've been working our way through The Flash with our 9 year-old, which he loves but we're starting to get to the point where they are referencing crossovers with Arrow (and, presumably to come for other Arrowverse shows) and he wants to watch that too. I've read a couple things about that show being much darker than Flash and noticed it is TV-14 versus TV-PG. Is it significantly darker? Too dark for a 9 year-old?

FWIW he's seen all of the MCU movies, if that is any helpful indication of our comfort level with what he watches.

CBS All Access is becoming Paramount+ and has a limited series on the making of The Godfather lined up

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2020/09/the-godfather-taylor-sheridan-the-game-behind-the-music-paramount-1234576771/amp/

I did the Flash for a few years and we dipped in and out of Arrow; I would say it's slightly darker but it's not any darker than the Marvel films. It's maybe a little more 'adult' in the sense that a kid may not be very interested in some of the soapy storylines.

we quit watching the Flash after season 3 or 4 when it became clear that it was just going to redo the same thing over and over and over.

Speaking as someone who still grinds through all of the CW DC shows (usually with divided attention): get out now. Because, yes, they all cross over with one another and there's going to be, what, six of those fuckers airing when network TV starts up again? Luckily, they're all dumb as a rock, so you could probably get away with just watching what you want to watch but your son might have other ideas.

Get out.

Thanks for the feedback!

Haha I just saw a promo for that big crossover event show too. There is a LOT of these shows for sure. I wouldn't chose to watch them, but we really struggle to find something to watch with him that isn't a mindless Disney show or an animated flick he's already seen 42 times. We get stuck in these cycles of spending 30-45 minutes scrolling through various streaming platforms before we find something to watch, so it's been a godsend to just say, "hey, let's watch a Flash!".

That's basically what we do, too. I probably would've bailed a while ago but every so often my gf will be like 'is there a DC to watch?' and, because we just keep DVR-ing everything and because there are literally 100+ episodes/year, of course there always is (although we're somehow caught up with all but a dozen or so eps across all of the series) and we throw one on while making or eating dinner and I basically forget everything about it within five minutes of it ending.

there first few seasons of supergirl are pretty great (stopped watching that also), mainly because Melissa Benoist is really good.

Legends is the one that gets really great from middle age onwards (as long as you're happy with LGBT storylines not raising questions you don't want to answer - see also Supergirl beyond S2 and all of Batwoman, which is probably too adult anyway).

Watching week by week became an absolute slog and I got beyond sick of the soapiness they all became, but as a plaguewatch if other options have gone then it's not that bad an idea.

I quit legends right into season 2 which was maybe too early; it was entertaining but mainly because you could watch it and kind of pretend that Rory was the new Doctor, I found it pretty cheesy overall.

No, you definitely went too soon. It gets great after he leaves and S4 in particular is immense.

Did you watch avatar, the last airbender with your 9 year old?

Yeah, Legends is really the only one that got better as it went along (although the others had latter-day high points). Batwoman is the only one I couldn't hang with at all but it's also the one with the weakest lead (who has left and been replaced). I figured out a while back that the saving grace of the rest of the shows is solid leading performances (and at least one solid supporting performance). Without that, they'd probably fall apart completely.

My husband is a committed "Arrowverse" viewer, so I've seen most of these, and would rate them thusly:

The Flash and Supergirl are both enjoyable and staffed with likeable characters. I'd be perfectly happy watching them with my (entirely hypothetical) 9-year-old.

Legends of Tomorrow may be the nuttiest network series since Law & Order: SVU. Mostly kid-appropriate, but some things might go over their heads: a recent episode had the legends getting sucked into some alternate universe television reality or something and finding themselves stuck inside parodies of Friends, Star Trek and Downton Abbey. I don't remember much about the early seasons, but my impression is that the show got better after the first season or two.

Arrow is fairly dour and grim in the tradition of Nolan's Batman movies. I find the violence in it pretty heavy (or at least, I would if I were a parent), but ymmv. I find Arrow himself to be a fairly unpleasant character, and one which I can't imagine kids responding to like they would the Flash or Supergirl, but then I didn't like those Nolan movies either (can't speak to the MCU comparison, having only seen a couple of those).

Batwoman is super ugly and nasty, and not at all kid-friendly. If it helps, it is also very clearly the worst of these shows.

I don't know anything about the differences between various Law & Orders - what makes SVU nuttier than eg Community or Hannibal?

the presence of Ice T

The middle seasons of L&O: SVU frequently verged on science fiction. (See any episode dealing with "the dark web", or baroque new party drugs in use by unwitting teens, in particular.)

Or Big Boi being eaten by hyenas.

made-up party drugs seems a 100% standard trope of cop shows tbf

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Favorite current shows:

Lovecraft Country
Raised by Wolves
Woke
Quiz
The Vow
Ted Lasso

SVU and Ice T unintentionally gave us these great gifts:

https://news.avclub.com/ice-t-has-some-startling-information-for-you-in-these-f-1798283728

(saddened the main twitter account for these appears to be suspended)

from the creator of KOOL Man: The King Of Oral Love!

article and googling suggest that Tejaratchi was doing those on Tumblr, and someone else was inspired to make a twitter of Ice-T warning against bot-generated drugs?

Did you watch avatar, the last airbender with your 9 year old?

No! I've actually tried to steer him to that (because I've never seen it either), but he doesn't have any interest. We watched most of the Trollhunters series on Netflix together, which was surprisingly fun.

My husband is a committed "Arrowverse" viewer, so I've seen most of these, and would rate them thusly:

The Flash and Supergirl are both enjoyable and staffed with likeable characters. I'd be perfectly happy watching them with my (entirely hypothetical) 9-year-old.

Legends of Tomorrow may be the nuttiest network series since Law & Order: SVU. Mostly kid-appropriate, but some things might go over their heads: a recent episode had the legends getting sucked into some alternate universe television reality or something and finding themselves stuck inside parodies of Friends, Star Trek and Downton Abbey. I don't remember much about the early seasons, but my impression is that the show got better after the first season or two.

Arrow is fairly dour and grim in the tradition of Nolan's Batman movies. I find the violence in it pretty heavy (or at least, I would if I were a parent), but ymmv. I find Arrow himself to be a fairly unpleasant character, and one which I can't imagine kids responding to like they would the Flash or Supergirl, but then I didn't like those Nolan movies either (can't speak to the MCU comparison, having only seen a couple of those).

Batwoman is super ugly and nasty, and not at all kid-friendly. If it helps, it is also very clearly the worst of these shows.

Thanks! This is super helpful. He's watched the preview of Supergirl on Netflix and it sounds like that's the one he's been most excited about, but all the forced Arrow mentions keep steering his attention that way. It's less the individual bits of violence I'd be concerned about than it would be the cumulative dour tone, too much of that seems to weigh on him. What I like about Flash is the lightheartedness that balances out the more serious themes.

FWIW (deep sigh), Supergirl and Black Lightning took place in their own universes up through the middle of this past season and were completely separate from the other shows except for one crossover episode per season (and Black Lightning only crossed over for the first time this year). So those two you could pretty much watch without worrying about the rest. But now everything is all mashed together like a gahdamn KFC Famous Bowl.

Thanks, it is confusing, which is why we dipped out toes tentatively in with Flash in the first place.

Katherine Ryan's English sitcom "The Duchess" on Netflix is funny, or funny enough, if you 1) like her and 2) have patience for British mum sitcoms (like Motherland and Catastrophe etc).

Oddly enough my son has also gotten way into the latest Anne of Green Gables adaptation, Anne with an E.

Katherine Ryan is very funny imo but I can't imagine that repurposing her stand-up into a sitcom is additive to the material, or the best use of her persona. also this is not the Netflix thread, it's the "services that aren't Netflix" thread