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I was sort of hoping Schmigadoon! would be good because my family (though not I) loves musicals, but I have a hunch it is not good. The trailer was perhaps 100% laugh-free, and that's what they're hoping will get you to watch it.

(Btw, knowing the concept, I'm calling it now: The only way to leave the magical musical town of Schmigadoon is to find true love, which I predict will turn out to be ... a true love for the town, ending with the protagonists deciding to stay. That's how these stories, from Local Hero to Pleasantville, always seem to end.)

okay now I'm kind of glad there wasn't an S2 of Lovecraft Country

I enjoyed this Gossip Girl review (haven't watched the new show)

I just watched it, it is not great, but I am still going to watch the whole thing anyway.

(the main issue is absolutely that all the characters are so far charmless, particularly the female ones; no one has the charisma Leighton Meester did, who was adorable even when being a fucking nightmare)

Schmigadoon looks both deeply unfunny and incredibly cheap.

Brigadoon-related? HISSSSSS.

The Other Two finally back on Aug. 26 on HBO Max

I happened to look that up recently - glad it’s finally back! Loved the first season (especially the sister character).

Definitely going to watch this this weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkqy5QntGQ

Finally, macca speaks about his life in music

I hope they go into his pre-Wings stuff.

We Are Lady Parts is lit

We loved it.

The Mysterious Benedict Society is a very good kids show

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.

Paramount+ seemingly runs on rubberbands and a hamster wheel, the interface is sooooo slow

Disney+ finally wised up and made their “Search” UI a grid of letters rather than a single line you had to scroll thru back & forth.

Goddamn, Mr In-Between ended on a note! Presumably the series is done, I don't know what they do from here.

Anyone else sometime struggle with darker/night scenes?

Had to completely black out the room to watch final Fear Street movie last night and Disney+ also seems pretty bad. Think it's more to do with the streaming than tv settings eg first series of Mandalorian I didn't have Disney+ so torrented and on those files certain dark scenes are much clearer to see than they are if I watch them through Disney+.

It's a problem I've had for several years now...I assume the studios do it intentionally to save on costs. It is particularly bad in Game of Thrones.

Yeah but this seems to be a problem with the quality of the stream rather than the actual content - you can see what's going on in some of those Mandalorian episodes much more clearly if watching the downloaded torrents compared to streaming it direct from Disney+

does it look blocky and pixelated?

No, defintely not a bandwidth issue.

Bit of googling has found loads of threads on Reddit and elsewhere about it with various solutions so will try some of those later

Aren't the torrent sources ripped from stream? Why would they look different, TV vs PC output?

Goddamn, Mr In-Between ended on a note! Presumably the series is done, I don't know what they do from here.

yea its done, Scott Ryan has said as much - for him, this is something he's been involved with for years and years, he wants to do something else now.

I too have had many rants about How Bloody Dark everything seems to be lately! I dont think its apple or netflix specific - i think its intentional asthetic?

The Macca/Rubin show was way more entertaining than I thought it would be.

I’ve only watched one episode, but I love it. Rubin is such a gentle interviewer.

yeah its great so far

Started Betty last night on HBOMax but have to say the first episode didn't hold my attention, just not in the mood for poor acting mumblecore tv I suppose; does it get better?

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.

Mostly

Started Sasquatch on Hulu, so far so good.

I'm watching Warrior on HBO Max and wow, it is some ripe trash. Lots of fun in its way, though.

i kinda like it & hate it at the same time

betty is really good, imo, but i also loved the first episode so...

xps

My wife loved the first season of Betty but hated the second.

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.

Really? I don’t mind

1. Figuring out what shows would show up on my homescreen wasn't intuitive.
2. Streaming a show keeps buffering on my laptop (PC, natch), but when I switched over to my PS4, it started the episode from the beginning.

The HBO Max "can't effectively rewind or FF" glitch is driving us nuts.

I'm just finishing up Friday the 13th: the Series on DVD and have started watching War of the Worlds: the Series because I wanted something with a similar late-'80s cheesy genre vibe, and then yesterday it occurred to me that these are both series created for syndication by the company called Paramount in the wake of their success with Star Trek: the Next Generation, and now that the company called Paramount has its own streaming service, I wonder if these shows are viewable on said service? Well, the unsurprising answer to that question is why I continue to support physical media!

AFAICT, Paramount only ever made a tiny handful of scripted syndicated shows, an even teenier handful of which were syndication-only (they picked up Webster and Viper when they were cancelled by their respective Big Three networks) and which (one would think) don't have any sticky rights issues that preclude their inclusion on the streaming service. Of that teeny-tiny handful, it looks like only the Star Trek shows are on Paramount Plus. Whither Madame's Place, Paramount?!?!

I have now watched all of the Gossip Girl reboot so far and can conclude that it is bad. And not bad like the original was 'bad' as in a guilty pleasure, but bad as in it is horribly written, badly acted, and stupid. The main problem being that not a single character on the show is even remotely likable, even in a 'bad' way, they are just poorly written, badly acted, and weird. The lead, the influencer, shifts her attitudes toward her sister three times an episode but is never convincing. Maybe Zoya's dad is alright? The teachers are stupid, the kids are interchangeable and lame... just ugh.

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace on amazon…..

+1

wonderful

Classic

Spamming my new, thread, started to avoid spamming a slightly less new one, about an excellent show that is currently on Amazon Prime: COUNTERPART: Alternate History w/ Creepy Cold War Vibe

My god the Apple TV+ interfaces suck.
Really? I don’t mind

1. Figuring out what shows would show up on my homescreen wasn't intuitive.
2. Streaming a show keeps buffering on my laptop (PC, natch), but when I switched over to my PS4, it started the episode from the beginning.

― Action Bell (Leee), Monday, 26 July 2021 23:41 (five days ago)

I love how when you’ve watched a movie on HBO Max and left like a minute of the credits unwatched, it still shows up in “Continue Watching?” with a sliver of the progress bar left to go.

Like this is basic stuff that other streamers already solved, they didn’t need to start from scratch