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Yeah, why hold off?

We watched a couple of more episodes of Rutherford Falls, and they were soooooo frustrating. It's such a good concept, with some actually radical (or at least compelling) ideas going on, but it's so stiff and zip-less; no one has any chemistry. If other ensemble shows are any indication, maybe it'll pick up or gel in season two, but right now we can barely slog through season one.

As Kilar, who imposed the day-and-date HBO Max policy, negotiates his payout to leave, the studio looks to be negotiating a return to theatrical-only windows by Dune's release in September.

xp yep, that's my take too

yeah same

watched the first ep of Girls5eva and it has enough of the "30 Rock methadone" feel that I'll try another couple

(Kimmy Schmidt had its own distinct verve and manic energy; Great News was watered-down with human relationships we're meant to care about; Mr. Mayor feels like everyone's paralysed with fear of catching COVID, not just in the distanced staging*, and multi-millionaires writing jokes about how a multi-millionaire is out of touch with the needs of regular ppl makes those jokes suck (plus writing them about the specific needs of citizens in a city you don't live in weakens the premise further); this seems frivolous enough + an excuse for Richmond to write more songs that it might end up better than MM.)

Latest episode of "Mare" was a pretty impressive riff on "Silence of the Lambs."

Also, this most recent ep is almost "Murder on the Orient Express"-level in its everyone-did-it vibe.

It's such a good concept, with some actually radical (or at least compelling) ideas going on, but it's so stiff and zip-less; no one has any chemistry.

haven't watched but the promos look terribly unfunny. I will check out Girls5eva at some point but I don't know, I feel like I haven't vibed with a new comedy series in a long time. feels like we're in a weird transitional phase where shows are trying to pivot to a kinder more humane tone while still actually being funny and it seems like a lot of shows I try out can't make that leap work

I'll watch every sitcom on the air if it means killing the Chuck Lorre era

re: Mare, I wasn't really expecting that story line to get resolved so quickly, but I was glad to see that my prediction that the two major storylines were not connected was correct.

Girls5eva is a worthy successor to 30 Rock and Kimmy and although the methadone comment applies to the first few episodes, by the third or fourth it stands up on its own. Anyway, some of us are plotting about it here: GONNA BE FAMOUS 3GETHER - The GIRLS5EVA thread

Plotzing, rather.

Super cool these are the companies buying all the film libraries https://t.co/maWngCoLRC pic.twitter.com/i3ikE9aBWq

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) May 18, 2021

"content" != "films"; HBO Max has tons of older films, there's no way the majority are from the '10s (those graphs, if accurate, must be lumping everything together, from docs to comedy specials etc.).

Also, Netflix & Amazon haven't bought any film libraries afaik (and if Amazon were to buy MGM, it would presumably have a bunch of new library content that would shift those bars).

Netflix has been utter dogshit on that front since they first started streaming.

SUPPORT PHYSICAL MEDIA

I love the idea of supporting physical media but, uh, even if you want to stick with that it's getting increasingly more and more difficult.

I had to stop in Best Buy the other day to pick up a phone case for my wife, noticed the Blu-Ray/DVD section has been shrunk to about 1/8th of the size it used to be - tiny and completely disheveled/disorganized. I could be wrong, but instant flashbacks to what their music section looked like the last year before they eliminated CDs completely. Our local Target also went through a COVID era remodel, their movie section is less than half of what it was before, with most of the space given over to their ever-expanding shelves of Funko Pops and other movie/TV culture ephemera.

Which isn't to argue that there aren't other methods, just saying that the average Joe switching over to majority streaming is already changing how the big boxes are stocking physical film/TV releases.

Did anyone watch Made for Love (HBO)? It was pretty funny & good imo. I didn't even hate Ray Romano like I normally hate Ray Romano.

xp I mean yeah, the home entertainment market has taken a nosedive.

"content" != "films";

yes

Yeah, it's tough to support physical media by shopping in an actual store these days, but there are dozens of boutique labels and tons of mail order options. It's a small but thriving market if you have the patience to seek stuff out.

Did anyone watch Made for Love (HBO)? It was pretty funny & good imo. I didn't even hate Ray Romano like I normally hate Ray Romano.

Yeah, it's tough to support physical media by shopping in an actual store these days, but there are dozens of boutique labels and tons of mail order options. It's a small but thriving market if you have the patience to seek stuff out.

Oh of course, it's just going to become more niche. I get it, just pointing out some parallels with the CD market (which of course is not direct apples to apples) semi-collapse. Smaller companies will step up and fill in some holes, assuming they can squeeze physical rights out of the streaming titans (still a big if, at this point), but the bigger companies will point to decreasing sales at big box stores as a data point to say, "see? no one buys DVDs anymore, why should we make 'em". See that mostly, sorta, kinda debunked rumor about Warner killing physical releases next year.

I started up Mythic Quest again and hadn't realized they released a couple of special eps in the meantime, the first mid-quarantine, the second last month. Both were quite good, I think, with the first one one of the funnier Zoom episodes I've seen this past year.

Oh, I missed the second one. Agree that the first one was one of the only good Zoom things from last year. Maybe the Apple connection helped?

Did anyone watch Made for Love (HBO)? It was pretty funny & good imo. I didn't even hate Ray Romano like I normally hate Ray Romano.

I don't think it lived up to its interesting premise. I wanted it to go harder in the crazy direction, like how Sorry to Bother You did, but it got more mundane. Falls back on certain jokes way too much. But I did like some moments, liked the characters, the music cues. And it's a quick watch. I could see it improving if given another season

Thanks to everyone that recommended Patriot, it's great!

No fun searching for a show called Them (better than The or And, I suppose).

Someone I used to work with urged me to watch it. One episode in: creepy.

Ray Romano is good. He was great in Parenthood.

The Zoom Mythic Quest ep was very sweet esp the ending with the Virtual Rube Goldberg. I loved it.

Patriot thread: What's good on Amazon Prime Video

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Just finished the first season of Patriot - was fantastic.

Loath to start the second one as have heard it's rubbish.

d'oh - I meant to link to the Patriot discussion in the expanded thread.

For a show that already piles on the everyone-is-guilty-of-something grimness to a ridiculous degree, the fake-out with the little kid on "Mare" last night was some cheap bullshit.

Oh, and I just read the AV Club recap, and the writer's take (not just re: the aforementioned) comes to a totally different conclusion than I did when it comes to not just who-done-it but who-done-what. But I forget how to put on spoiler tags.

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Yeah this last episode of “Mare” was a letdown after the previous weeks. The entire gummy and vodka meltdown was ridiculous. Not invested in side plot with daughter and college radio dj gf unless said gf is *in on the murders*.

Is there only one episode left?

Still thinking that there must be some sort of Guy Pearce reveal otherwise it seems a very bit part for such a well known actor

Guy Pearce drinks out of a beer bottle weird. Like a donkey.

yeah this week was weak. siobhan’s breakdown felt cheap to me too, and I generally like that character

omg, I don't think I've ever noticed that 'show formatting help' link!

Anyway, I doubt Guy Pearce has anything to do with anything, but I wouldn't be shocked if he was guilty of something else, like everyone else. Doubt the daughter and/or gf have anything to do with anything else, either, beyond closure. (There's one episode left.) I assume the way it wraps up is Bearded brother is the father and he convinced his bro to kill Erin; bearded brother (Jeff?) is the one that, off screen, told his wife that his brother was the father, but of course I assume he was lying to her and he's the real dad. I still have no idea what Lil' Glenn Danzig has to do with anything.

Bearded brother is the father and he convinced his bro to kill Erin;

john? I don’t think it’d make sense that he went to billy about it and had him confess, would it?

confess to him, that is

You unspoiled my spoiler! Anyway, just in case I think it makes sense to me. My guess is John knocked her up and manipulated his brother into killing her, or at least helping, and then (as we saw) pressured him into confessing. Conspicuous things we don't know, or at least assume: we know John was having another affair, but it's never been revealed with whom. We (and his wife) just assume it's with the same person, but that's never been confirmed. Also, we are told Billy is the father by John's wife (Mare's friend), but she only knows that from John as well. Then the next morning, when Billy was going to go to the police, that's when Jeff suggested the spontaneous fishing trip. So I think Billy obviously had something to do with her death (covering up? being told he did it when he was drunk by Jeff?), but I think Jeff is the big bad. Why else would he want to pull a fishing trip Fredo with Billy? Unless the twist is that the gun is actually Billy's, since we only assume once again that Jeff put it there.

i think i follow your drift, but you stopped calling him john and started calling him "jeff" about halfway thru your post

anyway, seems like a strong possibility that john is the mastermind if not the outright murderer. billy had some kind of relationship with erin, and his propensity to get blackout drunk makes him a likely scapegoat and makes him willing to believe john when john tells billy that he's guilty.

has someone on the internet created some kind of family tree for this show? i have absolutely no idea how billy & john are related to kenny & erin

I *think* Billy (USA hat) and John (beard) are brothers, and Kenny (handlebar mustache) is their cousin. Erin is the daughter of Kenny, but the ... second cousin (?) of Billy and John.

i knew billy and john were brothers, and yeah i guess cousin is the relationship that makes the most sense vis a vis kenny