https://i.imgur.com/TO5dvDR.jpg#77 (Tie) - Bluey (Disney +) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 voteBluey - Spectacular Australian kids cartoon (in the US on Disney +)
TrailerSample EpisodeWebsitehttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/bluey-the-coronavirus-and-the-weirdness-of-little-kidshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/arts/television/bluey-cartoon-dog-australia.htmlhttps://geekmom.com/2019/09/12-reasons-why-you-will-love-bluey/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/21/bluey-how-australia-fell-in-love-with-a-cartoon-blue-heeler-puppy-and-her-family
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
do want to see that
― imago, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
Videogame Dunkey is a comedy YouTuber focused on video games and game-adjacent culture who produces fairly complex and rigorously produced videos. He recently took a meta heel turn toward the dark side of content and his channel now navigates between creative shitposting and game reviews.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RQLedlZ.jpg#72 (Tie) - Videogame Dunkey (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 votegame-related lolz of some fashion
Thank You Dark SoulsI’m Done Making Good VideosBest of 2020Websitehttps://www.polygon.com/2020/12/7/22160005/dunkey-youtube-among-us-minecraft-trending
never know how to feel about comparing YT vids and scripted shows on the same list, but dunkey is always solid and his recent cyberpunk video is basically the ur-text on the subject as far as i'm concerned
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
And now a dark girl-power soap opera dramedy on Netflix about a pair of teens with guns.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NzPMIzz.jpg#72 (Tie) - Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 voteNetflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://deadline.com/2020/10/teenage-bounty-hunters-canceled-netflix-one-season-1234591514
Taskmaster is a panel comedy show hosted by British actor Gregory Davies in which celebrities are tasked with executing unlikely feats of legerdemain as part of a pseudo-reality show. Reggie Watts acted as a host for the single season US adaptation in 2018; 2020 saw its tenth successful season in the UK.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rIoCDIX.jpg#72 (Tie) - Taskmaster (Channel 4) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 voteRolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number
TrailerFull EpisodeWebsitehttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/15/taskmaster-review-a-delightfully-daft-diversion-from-the-world
It looks like I'm the Mayor of the Umbrella Academy? I watched both seasons last year, but even if I'd seen the 1st in 2019, I wouldn't have scored it as highly in that year's poll.
It's an adaptation that thrives the further it gets from the source material - everyone in the first season might as well have nametags that say "I dealt with a profoundly unpleasant upbringing by <fucking off to the moon for 4 years / becoming Batman / destroying trust in the life I created / getting fucked up on literally anything to hand / time-travelling past where I had to deal with it / dying horribly / pushing it ALL DOWN INSIDE>" - no-one's entirely shaken that off in the second season, but it begins by throwing them all far away from each other, and seeing what orbits they fall into when they return. When they first all stand in the same room again, one of them asks "I know this is impossible, did we all get sexier?", and they did*, the actors and the writers both seem more comfortable in the roles - plus they all have better hair*
Oh yeah, what's it about? 20ish years ago, 43 children were born on the same day in exceptional circumstances. One man adopted as many as he could get his hands on (7) and raised them as a superhero team. Things went variously off the rails, and the first season starts with them gathering after his death. The second season involves being stranded in different parts of the 60s, assassinations, (unrelated) tragic Swedish assassins, and the threat to the nuclear family. But, mostly, it's about the emotional moire whenever two of the family are trying to come up with the same solution to the same problem.
*apart from the 50 year old man trapped in a teenage body
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
This is not entirely representative, but nothing is
https://www.facebook.com/nxonnetflix/videos/593359904876663
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Taskmaster seems like the kind of thing I'd profess to avoid but might actually enjoy if I was made to watch it
― imago, Monday, 8 February 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
NXIVM (/ˈnɛksiəm/) was an American sex cult that engaged in sex trafficking while claiming to be a multi-level marketing company. Based in Clifton Park, New York, a suburb of Albany, the group claimed to offer personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs" of large-group awareness training.The company has been widely described as a cult,and was shown in court to have been a recruiting platform for a secret society called "DOS" in which women were branded and forced into sexual slavery.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/k4eDKeX.jpg#72 (Tie) - Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (Starz) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 voteNB: Top Starz❀ the cult of: ➥motivational speakers ➥life coaches ➥personal growth gurus ➥new-age charlatans ➥AWESOMENESS FEST
TrailerWebsitehttps://www.vulture.com/article/nxivm-docuseries-the-vow-seduced-uncover.htmlhttps://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/nxivm-keith-raniere-wellness-scam-sex-cult-848439/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/nyregion/nxivm-cult-keith-raniere-sentenced.html
Thank you for the compliments upthread!
With baby and all that jazz I'm sorry to say that my time watching tv - even with the lockdown - was very low this year, so I didn't vote but this poll will surely serve me as a guide to catch up!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
Death to strategic or challops voters
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/3zpHYzhLV3ZzW/giphy.gif
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/c4iNJcI.jpg#72 (Tie) - Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons! (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 voteThe incredible austerity of D&D in 1980should i start playing D&D
Sample ClipWebsitehttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/nov/29/gamers-back-under-dungeons-and-dragons-spell
i made it about halfway through the nxiivm thing. i thought it was only gonna be 4 episodes which seemed about perfect but it just. did. not. end.
and another network made another doc about it too yikes.
― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
fun art by moka
Though he came to acclaim as the co-creator of the seminal animated shows Dr. Katz and Home Movies, Loren Bouchard’s most undeniably successful work is the cartoon family comedy Bob’s Burgers. In 2020, BB notched its tenth and eleventh seasons and 200th episode.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5Vh9hhT.jpg#71 - Bob’s Burgers (FX) - 15 points, 3 votesBob's Burgers
Comicon TalkSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/bobs-burgers-characters-watch-episode-200-1234597901/
also available on Hulu
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
I really should get around to watching more than a few episodes of BB at some point since Home Movies is an all-time classic.I wonder if they would've made it to 200 episodes if they'd stuck with the original premise of a family of burger-slinging cannibals.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
Not quite a website and not quite a streaming program, Jon Bois' 20020 represents something unique on our countdown: it’s the sole instance of (sort of?) interactive fiction that we voted in.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/S35OA2t.jpg#70 - 20020 (SB Nation) - 16 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote
Websitehttps://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21557878/20020-questions-and-answershttps://www.wired.com/story/20020-online-fiction-football/https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/11/review-17776-20020-jon-bois-futuristic-football-speculative-fiction
(on retrospect, i don't know that IF is as accurate a term to use here as "multimedia fiction" is, but I'd need someone who read the piece to confirm.)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
OK
1. Why was I the only one to vote for She-Ra when I didn't even nominate it, HMMMM???? Famously I loved the last season despite being entirely indifferent to the everything that came before it -- the emotional payoff of my favorite character (also their haircut) turned me around completely on the series.
2. Who was the other Oxventure voter?! The campaign where they help their paladin through a series of trials is hilarious, if only for "Charismatic Cheat Friends".
― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Comedy rapper Lil Dicky parlayed his celebrity, skills and connections for a starring role in an FX niche signature specialty: the overly-personal, half-hour bio-comedy with elements of magical realism.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vL8vY3V.jpg#69 - Dave (FX) - 16 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 voteYour Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television
TrailerSample ClipSway in the MorningWebsitehttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-vulgarity-and-vulnerability-of-davehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/arts/television/dave-lil-dicky.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/26/lil-dicky-dave-burd-interview-sitcom-jewish-rapper
Sorry ILX, but I am never gonna watch a show starring Lil Dicky
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
your loss
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
everyone keeps telling me that it's a good show but yeah it's hard to get past the lil dicky of it all
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
the linked sway in the morning freestyle prob shouldve placed in 77 top tracks list (2019) also imo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
Next up is the eighth official television spin-off of the Star Trek universe (The Orville notwithstanding) and the second to spotlight the beloved Next Generation Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nL8lL1q.jpg#68 - Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 voteNB: Top CBS All AccessStar Trek: PicardThere's a guy in my office wearing a Jean-Luc Picard Tie. What action should I take?
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/arts/television/star-trek-picard-review.html
20020 was my #2. Unbelievable storytelling and synthesis of fact and speculative fiction. Boot it up on your phone and get scrolling. Jon Bois is the best
― imago, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
I'd call it less interactive fiction than...like...a website that's also...a story? That you scroll through at your own speed?
― imago, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
With video bits and visualisations?
Uh, I'm pretty certain that the Jon Bois thing has been on my 'read this when you've got a spare day' list for, like, multiple years?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link
Oh okay, never mind, it's the sequel to that, sorry.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
I really should get around to watching more than a few episodes of BB at some point since Home Movies is an all-time classic.
Bob's Burgers is one of those shows that's never not enjoyable but also never really feels compulsory. My own feeling is that there's a vital spark in Dr. Katz and Home Movies which isn't really there. But maybe it's just that there's a shtick to Bouchard's work that I'm now on my third time seeing. Certainly the performances in BB are great.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
I mean, just from my cursory viewing of BB it seems to be lacking the 'funny people just loosely riffing in the recording booth' vibe of the former two, but I could be wrong.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
Ethan Hawke on reading The Good Lord Bird:
The magic trick that author James McBride does by telling the story through 14-year-old Onion's point of view is he lets you laugh about it. He writes the humanness into it, as opposed to kind of a political angle. It's not self-serious, and yet it's full of tremendous heart. ... McBride finds a way to make it a healing experience to look at systematic racism, the wit of his writing is so compelling. And so when I finished it, I just felt hellbent on a mission that getting this story into our culture so that it's easier to talk about some of these things.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/V8KiBnW.jpg#67 - The Good Lord Bird (HBO) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 voteethan hawke is john brown and daveed diggs is frederick douglass in the showtime miniseries THE GOOD LORD BIRD
TrailerSample ClipWebsiteDesus and Mero Interviewhttps://time.com/5895308/good-lord-bird-showtime-review/
Our second back-to-back book-to-prestige-TV-miniseries adaptation is a too-of-the-moment alt-history Philip Roth novel imagining what 1940’s America would have become if Charles Lindbergh became president. Spoiler: it's fascist.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/p3MirEE.jpg#65 (Tie) - The Plot Against America (HBO) - 18 points, 3 votesPhilip Roth - Where to begin?But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more
TrailerTuturro, Ryder and Boyle discuss antisemitism and eugenicsWebsitehttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/plot-against-america-hbo-review
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
“the sic rule.” As your author is American, the listed provenance and linked website for each show is predominantly going to be for its streaming home in the United States,
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ tbf
Please specify primary network/streamer that it aired on.― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, December 18, 2020 9:08 AM (one month ago)
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, December 18, 2020 9:08 AM (one month ago)
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
loved the good lord bird and hawke's performance. that desus and mero interview is very enjoyable, thanks for linking it.
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
Last one for today; check out my dope finishing move off the top rope!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
I've started watching History of the Mariners. The bit early on where they say "who cares, baseball is boring" got me laughing out loud. So did the team's brilliant scheme of resizing the batter's box.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
Just finished HTWJW myself. Ah man. Incredible
― imago, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
cough cough where are you watching it?
― kinder, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
i can think of 'one two three' places you can see 'movies'
― imago, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
The finale murdered me but I think the refs' dinner is the Oscar pick sequence
― imago, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
Glad everyone is loving HTWJW. I watched it just after voting and it definitely would have been very high on my ballot otherwise. The background shots throughout are just wonderful and the celebrity cameo in the first episode was amazing, especially as it's not even referenced and I was left wondering whether he even realised until later who it was
It's coming to Sky Atlantic in the not too distant future
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
We cough coughed the first episode to check it out, and it really was quite something. I'm not sure the husband will be into it. He does not like uncomfortable comedy.
We also found ourselves watching twenty minutes of Congo last night on Film 4 just because they talked about it in The Dress Up Gang.
― trishyb, Friday, 26 February 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
I was doing a mental inventory last night of all the shows where I'm waiting for new seasons:
Better Call Saul - first on most lists, I suspect.Big Little Lies - think there's another one on the way.Atlanta - caught up in time.Ozark - one more, then call it a day, please.Stranger Things - I'll watch because I'm come this far; not excited.Killing Eve - ditto.True Detective and Homecoming - in development, I believe.Dead to Me and Flack - indifferent, but I'd continue.
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
You all are the best for alerting me to the existence of the Dress-Up Gang. I am not much of a comedy watcher nowadays but I could watch 10 seasons of that show and hope somehow they can produce more of it (I know it was a minor miracle the show even aired)
Also, I May Destroy You was as good as 10 #1 votes suggests
― Vinnie, Sunday, 30 May 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Thanks to ILX for getting me to watch Giri/Haji, which was fucking amazing!
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 May 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link