enjoyed that new show US which just finished on BBC1 but it was bugging me that I couldn't work out who the young him was.Just looked it up, found out who the actor is and it's the guy who plays Fitz in Agents Of SHIELD or at least did for a number of series.Just watching through series 7 of that and he's not around. Only thing is he looks like he lost weight or something.Was wondering if i knew hinm as a younger actor somewhere, guess i just about do.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 September 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
oh yeah going to have a new Lovecraft Country tomorrow.Have been really enjoying that.Hadn't looked up the ethnicity of the writer but thought i had heard that there were black writers reworking the notoriously racist Lovecraft's tropes
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 September 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
Hadn't looked up the ethnicity of the writer but thought i had heard that there were black writers reworking the notoriously racist Lovecraft's tropes
You're looking for Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom, which is excellent.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 20 September 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Fitz' absence was odd in the final season but seems like it was his choice/schedule and not the producers' xps
― groovypanda, Monday, 21 September 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Not Lovecraftian is fair, even the book mostly feels like a series of broader pulp comic/novel scenarios than Lovecraft. Makes a good hook, though, I guess.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 21 September 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link
Raised by Wolves is just the most innovatively dumb show. It's mostly holding my attention out of sheer astonishment in its lack of interest for logic/character development/clarity of idea but keeps me held rapt in shock watching each weird curveball and new stupid story development. Not liking the current plot? Then how about we add ghosts! Lots of ghosts! The killer android matriarch not doing it for you? Let's put her in a VR hologram and have her pursue a sexual relationship with her human hacker/maker! Good guys are bad guys and bad guys are good guys and the good guys who were pretending to be bad guys are now bad guys for real except maybe they're secret good guys? Depends on which episode you're on! And let's make this guy Space Jesus!
The acting among the show's leads is mostly excellent but the red shirts are pure throwaway characters. All of the kids are exhausting to listen to, less because of their skills and more about them being drastically underwritten. It's impossible to care about anyone; the scripting and plotting are knotty and nonsensical nearly beyond belief. There's an unironic reading of the line “Make love to me like a great man.”
The show generally looks very expensive but the consideration and execution of its expensiveness is predominantly horribly realized and results in mugwump/alien baddies and shitty grey bodysuits and the lamest potential architecture and tech design.
I have three episodes to go and can't imagine why/how this got renewed but I am sadly fully onboard this garbage scow. It's a prestige cable b-movie inflated to blimp size and set out to careen wildly through the Grand Canyon. Wheeeeeee!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
btw veg, Ted Lasso isn't bad! Slowly plunking out an episode every few days.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
:D i call that a win
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
so turnabout being fair play, i need to ask if you've seen brockmire.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
i have not
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Imagine Ted Lasso turned up to 11 with Hank Azaria in the lead and instead of wholesome sweetness, it's fucking filthy. Secretly one of the best shows of the past decade and well worth hunting down. In the USA, all four seasons are on Hulu.https://www.hulu.com/series/brockmire-8fccfdbc-f77c-4647-9132-59f24606bb7fhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47VjZiIKmaA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
^ that's the first episode of the second season.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Just caught up with The Expanse which is thankfully set up for another season but I wish wasn't disposing of characters I like.
Also just finished season 1 of Umbrella Academy which I hadn't been aware of until very recently. Have season 2 set up.
Also Agents Of SHIELD which I'd watched a couple of episodes of at the start of the year and then hadn't got the space to dld further episodes of so only just watched. Pretty good, shame it's gone now.Think I may not have finished season 6 for some reason either.
Finally got to see I May Destroy you which was great. Hope there's more coming or the cast get more stuff going on.Michaela Coel needs to be commissioned for more writing if this story did end there.
& got about 3 episodes away from season 2 of the Terror and didn't complete.Think I even had more episodes on file since the start of the year.
So basically catching up on part watched things from pre Lockdown not sure why it's taken til now other than storage space. That and changing over to listening to podcasts and attending online things more. May be wanting to catch Lovecraft Country that triggered watching more stuff.
Now wondering if I missed anything else over the last year that I would normally have grabbed.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 27 September 2020 05:21 (three years ago) link
Brockmire declined from season to season but that just means it went from 5/5 to 4/5 over four seasons.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 27 September 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
the original Brockmire bithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95P3DTYxqg
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 27 September 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
I have a fantasy of Hank Azaria doing a Rockford Files-style throwback cop show - dressed exactly like Brockmire.
lol at Brockmire getting the Godfather quote wrong (he says "Barzini's a pimp" but it's "Tattaglia's a pimp").
hmm - reading up on this, this could be my next thing to watch. like the concept.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
Amanda Peet co-stars in the first season and she's as good as Azaria.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 27 September 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
"Whoa - knowledge and assumptions! Those are like Loggins and Messina. They seem similar, but time proves one of them to be completely worthless."
k, I'm sold for the long run
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
you won't be disappointed. I think the final season is prescient and amazing but I think i'm in the minority.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 September 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
anyone here seen the mid-'90s show nowhere man? been thinking of seeking it out after really enjoying bruce greenwood's performance in exotica
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 28 September 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
there's an ilx thread about it but it sucks
Final 30 minutes or so of this week's Lovecraft Country was wild (and amazing)
Probably my favourite show this year
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
I didn't like this one quite as much as the last two maybe, but it was amazing. The scene where she is floating in space was incredible.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
yeah dug teh Sun Ra speech bit of Lovecraft Country .& Hypolyta turning into the heroine of her daughter's comic I take it.
Wondered where the Amazons vs Confederates thing was supposed to be but had been thinking Amazon training had been supposed to be her dipping into a real situation. Which it possibly was. Or is the set up a reference to an existing story?
Oh & the stellar hoop skirt was something else.
really want to see where it ends up next week, hope she returns enlightened or should I feel better that she's gone on to a place of self fulfilment. Afro futurism though, cool.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
watched the first three eps of utopia (2020 amazon) after only finishing season two of utopia (2013, whatever british channel it was on, channel 4?) a few weeks ago. the differences in plot have me genuinely wondering how much of the british one i just forgot? (gf is watching uk one now tho so i at least know the entire premise for ep1 of US version is different)
anyway us one seems ok but so far not convinced it needs to exist/they shouldn't have just made the uk one more available instead
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
that said i am ALWAYS happy to see Desmin Borges in anything (even if his character in this one seems far dumber than his uk counterpart)
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Nu Utopia (what little I saw of it before bailing the eff out, anyway) is one of the worst shows I've seen in a very long time.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
xxpost - Yeah, that Hippolyta episode divulged pretty wildly from the corresponding story in the book, but that's not the first time the series has done so and I think the show did a much better job of getting around to the same essential point re Hippolyta coming to terms with everything she gave up to serve the travel guide. I think the Amazon thing was making explicit the link of her character's name.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
xp re: Utopia.
Turning a formally distinctive conspiracy mystery into a sociopath road-trip with exposition dumps & social commentary was a bad move. Gillian Flynn has fallen in my estimation.
Looking forward to the HBO mini The Third Day, which shares showrunner/writer, director, and composer with the original Utopia. Ep 3 of 5 aired yesterday.
― Voulez-vous un coup d'etat, ce soir? (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
ooh thanks for bringing that to my attn, will check it out!
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
looking forward to Zeke with a Beak
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RM2ERZymiJ0
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
So as of September, these are the best things I've seen this year:
Work in Progress (Showtime)Joe Pera Talks with You (Adult Swim)Desus and Mero (Showtime)High Maintenance (HBO)Better Call Saul (AMC)Brockmire (IFC)The Last Dance (ESPN)The Dress Up Gang (TBS)Ramy (Hulu)What We Do In Shadows (FX)All Gas No Brakes (YouTube)I May Destroy You (HBO)Looney Tunes Cartoons (HBO)A House Through Time (BBC 2)Bluey (Disney +)PEN15 (Hulu)Escape at Dannemora (2018, Showtime)Country Music (2019 – PBS)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 1 October 2020 05:39 (three years ago) link
hat Third Day looks interesting from seeing the first episode tonight. Obvious reminiscence of Wicker Man etc or possibly suggestion of limbo.Will see next episode soon.
Anything else I've missed recently?Phoebe Waller Bridge thing about yanks on trains?Trying to catch up with things I didn't get around to d/ld earlier this year.
Watched the first episode of Star Trek Lower Decks which I hadn't heard of before. Attempt at Rick & Morty or something type humour within the Star Trek universe, not sure if it fully works.May give another episode a shot.
Have been enjoying Harley Quinn though which I think is more successful.Very potty mouthed and gorey which it seems to trade on.
― Stevolende, Friday, 2 October 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
Recommend staying with Lower Decks- it takes a few episodes to get funny. I was deeply nonplussed by it initially but I super love it now & it regularly makes me snort laugh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 October 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
Phoebe Waller Bridge thing about yanks on trains?Assuming you mean Run, I thought it was terrible. Might’ve made an okay movie but it did not justify being dragged out into a series. It did make me wish Archie Panjabi got more work
― rob, Friday, 2 October 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Yeah I watched a few eps of Run... I could take or leave it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
Run looked like the kind of thing that would have worked better as a 90-minute movie. I canceled my HBO subscription before watching any of it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
yeah definitely felt more like a good movie romcom
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
Another vote for sticking with Lower Decks xps
― groovypanda, Friday, 2 October 2020 06:45 (three years ago) link
ted lasso really frickin stuck the landing
― Clay, Saturday, 3 October 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
A perfect season of TV.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 3 October 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
bloody beautiful
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
i knocked out the last six episodes of Ted Lasso on a binge and yeah, it's good. Had some issues though: the terrible terrible music, an inclination toward mawkishness that's mostly but not entirely held in check by the writing, the predictability of the character arcs. BUT! Worth watching, worth recommending and I will be waiting for next season. NB: the guy who plays Roy was also a lead writer on the show and is the writer/co-creator of the new AMC show Soulmates.https://www.vulture.com/article/brett-goldstein-ted-lasso-soulmates-interview.html
You know what I'm not looking forward to a second season of is Raised by Wolves. I've noted on this thread already how gleefully dumb and baldly aspirant it is in attempts at parable and deep meaning but it has gone completely off the rails into crazy town.
Here's some last episode spoilers for you: the pregnant android gave mouth birth to an evil flying leech baby so the other android (who is in love with her) took the whole family on a suicide crash mission into a bottomless pit in the whistle-shaped spaceship... but it didn't work because they went through the molten center and ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE PLANET and emerged in the jungle where the androids ran away and the giant leech baby flew off into the clouds. Space Jesus, who was left for dead in the prior episode but revived and killed a bunch of holy warrior after eating an android eyeball and tripping balls, appears to have mentally sent his crazy to his child - who is not actually his child because he and his wife killed his parents and stole their faces and have raised this kid for years - because the kid suddenly knows that his mother is an imposter (because god told him) so he shoots her in the belly and runs away into a barren landscape with no one but a magical white mouse to keep him company. This sets up a cliffhanger where the multicultural cast and gutshot woman can now look to a white twelve year old boy to lead them and protect them from the religious zealots, ghosts and devolving cavepeople that are hot on their trail and yes I KNOW this sounds awesome, that's why i'm watching it but they've been making it weirder every episode and I'm kinda exhausted with its cocaine sci-fi ravings.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
The most recent episode of Lovecraft Country was OH MY GOD great
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
i regret opting for Raised by Wolves over Lovecraft Country and will rectify that shortly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Lovecraft Country is pretty much already in my all-time next-level top tier.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
I seem to be blown away every week by Lovecraft Country. Final 5 minutes this week were *chef's kiss*
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
Other Recent Watches:- Spitting Image 2020: Puppets doing the news? What will they think of next? (this was okay)- Earth to Ned: Puppets doing talk shows? What will they think of next? (this was not okay)
First Episodes on Deck (i wish i had better focus for anything these days):We Are Who We AreThe Third DayFargoNeXtTiny WorldSoulmatesMonsterlandThe Good Lord BirdWalking Dead: World BeyondHonorCobraDepartureFlesh and BloodGangs of LondonThe Trouble with Maggie ColeWarriorA Wilderness of ErrorThe VowDesThe Plot Against America
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link