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Looks like same arguments and stuff (and the gals seem to have aged much “better” than the guys):

Time to go back to where it all began! Join the groundbreaking original cast of @RealWorldMTV as they return for #RealWorld Homecoming: New York streaming March 4 on Paramount+ https://t.co/HeU74uKEh0 pic.twitter.com/JJUJbtVniO

— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) February 26, 2021

Where’s the Road Rules reunion?

I think a lot of those folks appeared in later cycles of Challenge / The Gauntlet and shit like that.

(Season 2 of Road Rules was great – the one with Christian, Devin, Effie, Emily, and Timmy.)

I don't even remember Road Rules before the Challenge era to be honest.

Today I learned that George Wendt is the maternal uncle of Jason Sudekis.

must've inherited his face-punchability from his father's side

https://eggwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jason-sudeikis-dancing-red-tracksuit-4.gif

re iCarly above and Sam not being in it: "what - really?? she's the reason I liked the show (as an adult waaaaay too old for it). that kid was funny"

"Jennette McCurdy, 'iCarly' star, has quit acting and resents her career"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/entertainment/jennette-mccurdy-icarly-quit-acting/index.html

sounds like she primarily acted to help her family out and now she's like 'fuck that'

Cool

stop trying to make paramount+ happen

"I ultimately quit after my mom passed away, because with her death kind of died a lot of her ideas for my life, and that was its own journey and a difficult one for sure," McCurdy said.

The whole experience led her to say: "I resent my career in a lot of ways," and left her feeling "so unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt like it was the most just cheesy, embarrassing" thing.

that is a commendable amount of perspective for someone in her position (or anyone, actually). good for her

Hopefully she'll look back with a different perspective on the role someday (and not feel embarrassed); she was funny and did good work.

Trying out Par+ now. To answer Josh’s question: sadly, Beavis and Butt-head does not include the videos.

The movie selection is so ratchet... clearly much of the good stuff had been licensed out. There’s Grease 2 and Grease Live, but not Grease (etc.). All three Godfathers are there at least.

The first episode of the Real World thing is good. They could have half-assed it, but it’s a real production. If you liked the original, you’ll dig it.

(This app also has some prime Nineties Nicktoon nostalgia, if that’s your jam. As for me, I’m firing up “Daria”...)

i'm sure this has been asked before but surely there's already a meta-service that accepts login details for all these OTT providers and scrapes them into a single interface?

...you mean Roku? (I half jest; are you talking about a web interface?)

Amazon Prime (Fire Stick) also lets you search most of them from the main/Home area.

(I think the AppleTV app also does this, but I don’t use it.)

Watching “Rocko’s Modern Life” with the kids – everything about the aesthetic is so insanely “‘90s.”

Apple TV does that for some things but not everything. Netflix doesn’t make their stuff available to the Apple TV app.you have to go into Netflix app to find anything in yhere.

As mentioned, Roku's search app is fairly good for this

it’s been awhile since i used my Roku stick. it used to be discrete apps iirc.

"Fake Famous" was an OK doc, but think the third (or fourth) doc I've seen this month that ends with the arrival of Covid shutting things down.

It turns out Becky from The Real World was in spiritual communication with John Lennon (including songwriting assistance) from 1987 to 2002.

There was a season 5 of Ballers and it is on HBO Max and it is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Entourage looks like The Sopranos in comparison.

xpost loool that was so very

it's amazing how everyone on the real world turned out exactly like you'd imagine they would

ty for the insistent recommendations of Patriot itt, that show was amazing. agree with whoever said it had one of the best depictions of depression, and it was just genuinely surprising and funny throughout. it's hard to think of anything else that combines such warmth with such darkness and humor

xp I wouldn’t have predicted the turn that Eric took, but it makes total sense.

I’ve been rewatching the original series; it’s still such a pleasure / so much fun.

xpost Yeah we finally finished Patriot and the perfect balance of warmth/bleakness just cannot be overstated. People doing horrific things and being put through horrific ordeals side-by-side with some of the coziest, chummiest depictions of bonhomie I've ever seen on tv. Cool Rick's day-long bachelor party was just great, such a cool hang with people genuinely enjoying one another's company. And then some shit goes down, naturally. But walking that tightrope without the show ever becoming tonally jarring...masterful. Contrasted with something like Search Party, which failed on that count imo and proves that it takes a skilled hand to pull off a balancing act like that.

i could have sworn there was a patriot thread but apparently not

i need to get through the second season still

Patriot depicted the not-so-banality of evil in a way that gets to the crux of why we have so much cause for despair as a society, yet have hope that human individuals may redeem themselves, but without letting individuals off the hook for personal failings

and also highlights the absurdity of the whole enterprise

i could have sworn there was a patriot thread but apparently not

What's good on Amazon Prime Video

I dunno if this is the right thread as its on SyFy but has anyone else seen Resident Alien? Alan Tudyk is great at ridiculous physical comedy and it is delightfully silly.

We stalled out after a couple episodes. Is it worth continuing?

A friend who reviews TV thought it lost the fun and cozy feel of the comic.

I havent read the comic so cant compare, and I'm a Tudyk fan so may be biased but he's absurd and slapsticky in a way I enjoy.

There was also a cheeky Firefly callback when hes telepathically talking to an octopus in a tank who is voiced by Nathan Fillion.

I was into it right away though, so if you werent, maybe it isnt yer bag.

It has flaws but when it's good it really is great, mostly Tudyk's work.

Also just started Patriot, what a phenomenal show. Just finished episode 8.

You guys are killing me, I'm going to have to watch it now.

it is cool

Felt like watching Indiana Jones the other night. And of course, even though the franchise is owned by Disney, the rights remain with Paramount, who had been licensing out to Netflix, but now have their own bullshit service, so if you want to watch Indiana Jones you need Paramount+. And I'm sure that'll be true for the next thing I randomly feel like watching. Fuck all these services.

Josh, it makes you mad every time that you happen to decide that whatever movie you're interested in ought to currently be licensed to a streaming service that you happen to be subscribed to, at the moment it occurs to you to watch that movie. This continues to not be how anything works! It's like deciding on Monday that you want to watch Temple Of Doom on Friday, and sitting down to turn the TV on that night and flicking through the channels expecting to find it.

(It's cheaper to buy a DVD box set of all four Indiana Jones movies than it is to buy downloads of two of 'em fwiw)