Hahah. Well... happy to be a tourist in that department and appreciative of those who put in the work and do it well so I can feel those things on my couch.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
word! that's how I'm feeling this show too. it's v v good
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah my wife digs this show a lot but I think she’s only laughed once per episode
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
your wife sounds pretty hot
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
that Nathan Fielder anatomy video seems exactly like the kind of thing this show is a welcome antidote to. Levels of Irony accepted (sadly, not gladly) but, really, why would you make that film? I realise it's to make more people watch HTwJW but it seems to work against it in a very bad way.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
just kidding dude, that's a joke like how Nathan did that whole nubile young men staying at his house bouncing on his trampoline creating content for his business joke thing in that cajunsunday posted. Nathan doesn't want to violate our tweens and I'm not interested in your wife
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
^ xpost btw
why not
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
Thought the Nathan anatomy video was pretty good and kinda the only way I could see that dude making a “promotional video”.
― circa1916, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
sir, if you'd like to take this conversation about your wife offline, just send me a webmail, we'll get it going I promise you
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
fuck! that was an xpost btw goddangit
― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
can we keep these other people out of the john wilson thread who is actually good please
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/how-to-with-john-wilson-finale-interview.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
How is your landlord doing?She’s good! I don’t know if I can tell you exactly what she’s doing because it might be a spoiler for season two. I haven’t been greenlit or anything yet, but just in case.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
otm - i love how just as it was getting crushingly heavy at the end, he pulled it all back with the perfectly stupid "SHRIMP NIBBLERS ARE BACK" shot
yeah that was amazing
finale was great. got me super emotional too
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNsx_NyNOU
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
nathan is gonna look 55 in his early thirties
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
He's 37
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
my point exactlyyou absolutely have to watch that video btw
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
yeah he doesn't look prematurely old he just doesn't die his hair the way everyone else in the biz does
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
wow this vid takes a pretty weird turn doesn't it
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
you gotta diversify
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
criterion release of john wilson when
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
"I feel like the other guys don't like me as much as you do" was a little too on the nose
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Mama update https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgU4hSjCX2/
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I finally watched the first episode Saturday night, it was great. I don't know what I was expecting, it definitely wasn't what I got but I loved it. I really liked the serious turn at the MTV spring break.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 December 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
Officially renewed!!!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
:D
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
fuck yeah!!
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
how 2
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
2 how 2 to
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
how-whit, 2-whoo
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
super excited for this to become the global phenomenon we all know it to be.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
Based on his description of his process I wonder if it's more challenging for him to make episodes now. Remember he said he will pull footage from archives spanning years. The non-masked pre-pandemic footage is going to stand out more going forward. From clip to clip everyone may be or may not be wearing masks so it could be disruptive ...or maybe not I don't know!
― Evan, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
i feel like he can pull this off with the right resources and it's HBO so i imagine they'll support him. he could probably do this for ten years for a tenth of the cost of one episode of game of thrones.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
lol much less than a tenth but yes your point stands
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
excellent interview on office hours today
― tomorrow, Thursday, 10 December 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
could probably make entire episodes out of 2-3 year old footage really
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 December 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Watched Joe Pera’s show for the first time today and it’s great. That said, dismissing How To as some weak mix of Fielder and Pera (as mentioned above) is some reaching, superficial bullshit. Faux naive narrator is really the extent of it?
― circa1916, Saturday, 12 December 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/how-to-with-john-wilson-offers-a-martians-eye-view-of-homo-sapiens-habits
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
i can break down how the similarity runs deeper than faux naive narrator but depending on how far you are into joe pera it might have spoilers
e1 of jw (the ‘how to make friends’ one) is superficially a documentary made by a nerdy guy about social conventions, but once it gets going becomes transparently about his recent breakup and social anxiety
similarly, s1 of jp starts out superficially presenting itself as a public access style show depicting life in a small town in minessota, but as it’s gets going it’s clear that he each episode is a transparent reflection of joes psychological state and what’s going on in his love life, his strained friendships and relationships, career
i don’t like the jw show as much as many of you do, but it’s not a bad thing that they share this quality of ‘stretching a documentary medium away from its “subject“ and toward the psychology of the social awkward narrator’. it doesn’t make jons show derivative. and there’s obviously tonnes more going on in it than just this
obviously there are hints of this in Nathan for you too
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
i can't stand the pera show and i really like this one. not sure why. fwiw i think jw could actually make his narration good instead of obviously deliberately awkward and the show would be just as good (and by my lights, better)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
all adult swim shows are pish is how I break it down to an extent
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
the second season of Joe Pera was my favourite TV thing this year :'-(
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Joe Pera rules obv
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
interesting points flopson, I hadnt really considered the similarities in form like that.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
the granddaddy of that mode afaik is sherman's march
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091943/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
you're forgetting shoah
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
not too much accidentally personal whimsy in that one iirc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
you gotta wait for the fifth hour
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link