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there's an obvious and inappropriate flirtation between the fifteen year old kid and his mother's second in command that is unnecessarily and gauzily shipped here as it is overt in nature; i presume they make out in the current episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAymxuU8UOs

now I'm really looking forward to this

I lost interest after four episodes.

Monsterland on Hulu is excellent. I want to read Nathan Ballingrud's work now.

I've only seen the first episode but it was very good. Went in a very unexpected direction, then did it again. How many episodes have you seen and are they all as good as that one?

Has anyone seen the first two episodes of Luca Guadagnino's "We Are Who We Are" yet on HBO? It sounds interesting to me, and I liked reading that Tom Mercier is in it (next to Zhao Tao in Ash Is Purest White, his performance in Synonyms in 2019 was my favorite of the year, and a first-time film role)

― Dan S, Tuesday, October 20, 2020 7:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I made it about 15 minutes in. Found all the characters grating, unlikeable and bailed.

I also don't really like this guy's directing at all - except for the enjoyably weird Suspiria remake - so it was probably a useless gesture on my part to try and sit with this.

I've watched the first two, and yeah, the lead character is extremely unlikeable. Maybe he'll win me over idk

Quibi is being shut down. It was announced on the same day that they released the TV apps.

a historic media failure that will be taught in the future, presuming we ever have classes in person again.

I just signed up for a 10 year subscription to Quibi yesterday 😭

Guess that wasn't the wisest use of my child's college fund after all.

Quibi seems like something created by the Cinco Corporation.

the golden arm thing... was that real?

Anyone watching the Ethan Hawk/John Brown show? Is it any good? It's on ... Showtime?

i just checked. it was real

i kind of feel sad it’s gone. it’s good that someone was funding bonkers b-movie ideas.

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I heard the beginning of Marketplace on NPR yesterday, and they started with a rhetorical question: "how could anyone blow through $1.6 billion in less than six months?" And I swear I thought it was going to be about the Trump campaign.

TV is expensive

I could have run a network into the ground in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the money.

the only quibi thing i watched was that Princess Bride special which was v nice & funny but the plaform itself was always kinda dumb-seeming

American network TV content budgets are something like $8M

lol sorry I mean $8B

and all the streaming services spend at least double what Quibi raised:

https://observer.com/2019/10/netflix-disney-apple-amazon-hbo-max-peacock-content-budgets/

Seriously the amount of money that Netflix, Amazon, Apple etc are just throwing around casually is mindboggling

Meanwhile, soup kitchens

On the other hand, cooking shows.

Give a man some soup and he eats for a day. Give a man several streaming services, and he can watch lots of shows of people competing to make the best soup and probably forget he's even hungry in the first place until he wakes up in the morning and just pours himself a bowl of cereal, which is really a kind of soup, if you think about it.

Streaming cookery shows is the poor man's supper.

Netflix & Circuses

'cereal, which is really a kind of soup, if you think about it.'

WHAT IS SOUP?!? pic.twitter.com/iTlxmBEYWU

— BBC Scotland (@BBCScotland) March 30, 2019

Katzenberg is NOT wasting any time investing more into mobile content:

This new pay-to-listen outlet is setting up as a news and politics service, with six original and exclusive podcasts ined up, starring Laura Ingraham, Soledad O’Brien, Gretchen Carlson, Mike Huckabee, Andrew Gillum, Marc Lamont Hill and Buck Sexton. (Hill and Sexton will launch a podcast together.)

Rosenberg is quoted in Axios saying, “We’re like that next version of satellite radio. The digital version.”

The new company is reportedly seeking more investment, and aspires to offer 50 shows by next year.

Lol good luck to them. Incredibly competitive space and those are some really disagreeable people

My first instinct this morning was to download the Borat movie to watch tonight, but then I remembered, oh yeah, I pay for Amazon and it's included.

sorry just saw this question: "I've only seen the first episode but it was very good. Went in a very unexpected direction, then did it again. How many episodes have you seen and are they all as good as that one?"

I've seen all of them except for one which I fell asleep during (which my wife said was the saddest one). They are all as good as that one, more or less. Some are better than others. None of them are bad. I think it's a pretty remarkable collection of stories.

Also Kaitlyn Dever from the first one pops up a few more times throughout the series as the one connecting thread.

Do Mike Huckabee stans know how podcasts and digitial subscriptions work? The average age of his Christian network viewer can't be below 65.

Also Kaitlyn Dever from the first one pops up a few more times throughout the series as the one connecting thread.

OK, this more than anything else has sold me. Thanks!

Sofia Coppola's movie with Rashida Jones and Bill Murray is pretty much what you'd expect it to be. It was entertaining enough for 90 minutes; did feel rather slight though in some ways.

just watched the first ep of MONSTERLAND on Hulu. very well executed, kaitlyn dever is an absolute beast. i've read LAKE MONSTERS and knew more or less what was coming and it was still sufficiently gutting that I'm going to need to pause before going back in

yeah it's a very very well done anthology series and Kaitlin Dever it turning into one of my favorite actresses; between this, Undone, and Booksmart she's had a great 12 months.

sorry, unbelievable, not undone. to many un shows.

BTW, ignore the weak reviews, I found The Craft: Legacy, entirely entertaining. We watched it immediately after rewatching the Craft and IMO it compares favorably.

Maisie Williams's HBOMax show isn't bad? Lightweight but occasionally amusing.

is anyone watching The Undoing on hbomax?
it’s very annoying but with v nice houses & clothing

i hate it so much but nicole's coats are great. also it completely diverges from the book it's based on

is the book worth reading? i may investigate.

I enjoyed the first two episodes when it was all a bit intriguing but it's been pretty run of the mill since then.

The Undoing is both absurd and completely gripping. Nicole certainly has the 'beautiful extremely rich white woman married to a psycho' role buttoned up for good. It's still very hard for me to buy Hugh Grant as a secret psycho but I guess that's part of the point.

Other HBO Max things I liked well enough: extremely english shows "Two Weeks to Live" with Maise Williams and "I Hate Suzie" with Billie Piper.

the anna kendrick rom com sit com "love life" was kinda ok

The Undoing is, as far as I've seen, hilariously over the top and enjoyable. the new yorker review (which i didn't bother reading) labelled it 'Empty Life-style Porn' and i was like, duh, of cours ethat is the entire point.

And Maura, yes, Nicole's coats gorgeous and after talking to my cuz abt one specific one and how i was wondering how costume designer picked it, came across this in a Guardian piece on Suzanne Bier the director
The Undoing takes place in New York’s winter and, at least on social media, the most controversial outfit has been one of Grace’s coats. It’s double-breasted, chameleon green with a ruffled texture almost like astrakhan – and yes, a hood. There’s a strong Scottish Widows vibe. Bier and Sejlund had it made specially for the series. “We wanted it to be beautiful and majestic, but also something that I hadn’t really seen anybody wearing,” says Bier. “Maybe we should make a clothing line!”

good to know it's 'diverging completely' from the book since I spoiled it for myself after episode one. still feel like it might wind up in the same place though.

Obviously I know the answer is $$$$$ and who is willing to pay for what, but I still find it fascinating to see where shows land on streaming. Like NBC finally launches their own streaming service and Seinfeld, arguably one of the network's top five sitcoms (if not shows), is coming in 2021 to.... Netflix.