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It's ok Trayce, I think rob alluded to it before I even did!

The standalone ep of Mythic Quest's first season is indeed great, and the highlight of season two. I've only seen two or three of S2, plus the quarantine episodes, but I was surprised how glad I was to dip back in again. Not that it's hilarious or anything, but the characters are interesting enough that I'm at least modestly invested, which is more than most shows.

It's definitely overall a minor show, but yes both standalone eps (plus as Trayce said the Backstory! follow-up) were impressive, and I'd be excited to watch something different from this team, especially an anthology series, especially if Big Head is in it.

I have been cracking myself up with "I'm a wolf! hooooooooooooowl" due to Connor Smedley flashbacks

i’ve finally started watching Dave on Hulu
am only 3 eps in but i like it a lot!
dave & gata were on desus & mero recently (which got me to check out the show) a commenter said the show was like “Atlanta” but California which feels kinda otm
esp w some of the deeper stuff coming up
not as full-on surreal tho

Reservation Dogs is great so far. Really funny cast, good writing. Some magical realism that feels a tiny bit stale but the cast is pulling it off charmingly.

yeah i love it! the kids are so fkn good

Yeah, first ep of Reservation Dogs was OK. I know he's not necessarily the prime mover, but it felt very much like one of Taika's movies. Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit ...

I take it that Reservation Dogs is at least funnier than Rutherford Falls?

That show was a comedy pit. This one is more breakeven.

Beats the shit out of Ted Lasso 😉

confirmed funnier than rutherford falls

more like Rutherford Fails

it wasnt bad, just a bit ~too~ chill

Is there no white lotus thread

weve been using the “Enlightened” thread bc its mike white

Christmas episode of "Ted Lasso" was exactly what people criticize the main show for, x2, but ... it's a standalone Christmas episode, so very par for the course for any show, and still pretty good. I guess the story is that at the relatively last minute the show was given 12 episodes this season, not 10, so the writers had to come up with two more standalone episodes that fit in with what they had already written and (perhaps) filmed, and this was one of them. Noted in a few pieces that the Christmas/holiday episode used to be a the standard of every show, but they're relative anomalies in the on demand/streaming world. Of course Rick and Morty just had a Thanksgiving episode a couple of weeks ago, so maybe that is changing.

The Ted Lasso episode was a large amount of saccharine and I was 100% here for it

i thought it was kinda perfect as a christmas ep

If it made people happy that's great but agreed it was definitely a "x2" version of what I was saying upthread. Like there was a whiteboard in the writer's room with a giant list of everyone's ideas for what would be "so cute!" to do for an xmas episode and they said screw it you know what we'll do them all.

The new episode of Reservation Dogs is the best one yet. Hilarious.

xpost At the same time, nice twist for the teased kid to actually have repulsive, disgusting breath. Roy's "I think you're dying" response was perfect comedy.

That entire sequence was hilarious

so funny. also the premise of them going door to door to find a dentist was like “wait what” but also VERY christmas episode

ted’s skype xmas gave me feels
i have been doing skype xmas for 20 years & it is still weird & disheartening

Skype Xmas was very accurate

I want to like this Brand New Cherry Flavour thing. It starts really promisingly, kind of a Blue Velvet type thing but after a few episodes it's fallen into the trap of so many Netflix supernatural things where it's not especially scary or unsettling, instead ramping up the camp and becoming something more like Buffy or whatever

I watched Lazy Susan on Amazon Prime

Please do not repeat my mistakes

I'm 4 episodes into Brand New Cherry Flavour and still enjoying it. Salazar and Keener are ace and I always love seeing Sikowitz in things.

Definite Lynchian/Cronenberg vibe to it but also enjoying the campness/humour xp

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f2h57g5QpI

Never heard of brand new cherry but see it’s from the guy who made the Channel Zero series which was surprisingly good at times.

it looks great, haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

First two seasons of Channel Zero have been quite good - the plot of season 2 got stretched pretty thin but making 6 watchable episodes from a copypasta is a feat.

Starting the starring David Cronenberg Shudder series tonight I think.

z watch Channel Zero?!

what's the cronenberg series?

re channel zero, I liked the first season, Candle Cove, I loved the second, No-End House, never saw the third, Butcher's Block, and very much liked 4, the Dream Door.

Slasher: Flesh & Blood. I don’t know anything about it except that Cronenberg is involved tbh.

In and Of Itself is certainly engrossing and affecting. I spent a lot of time later thinking about how he did the big trick (the letters) and I think I figured it out which made it a little less special but it's not really about the technical artistry of what he did but how people respond. And I'll never not be blown away by stupid card tricks too.

― akm, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:38 (six months ago)

Man, the second and third episodes of Reservation Dogs are sooooooo good.

omg yes! Gary Farmer was SO freaking good, it was an awesome ep

and the owl w the blurred out eyes made me lol

regarding Reservation Dogs- “...all the directors and writers are Indigenous, and Indigenous people are involved at every level of production. It’s a genuine, one-of-a-kind breakthrough.”

I grew up spending summers on a small reservation in Southern California where my grandma lived and it's crazy that there are still so many similarities.

good thread about the show

Looking for #ReservationDogs coverage from an Indigenous perspective? Here’s a thread that will be continually updated: pic.twitter.com/tG8XeZTSO8

— ᏎᎷ ✨ (@justsheavassar) July 30, 2021

i'm only one episode in but it's clearly great. the FX house style makes this feel a lot like Atlanta to me?

Yes!

I've seen that comparison here and there, and there are some loose similarities, but I dunno. Atlanta is about more or less often infantile adults in the real world, but this one is (of course) about kids in a very specific, more isolated location, which gives it a pretty different, more innocent perspective, and that warped perspective is key. For example, I assume for all the "gang" beefs and drama, no one is actually at risk of being killed in this show, and the kids themselves are often hilariously (and accurately) clueless about stuff. I do love all the little details here and there, not just (more or less) in-jokes like the owl's blurred out eyes, but I also caught an empty Lactaid box in the background of one scene (I think 80% of Native Americans are lactose intolerant). I love that the kids (like most Jewish people I know, fwiw) all share a language (figurative if not literal) and experiences and cultural traditions while essentially living "secular" lives. Like coming across a discarded deer carcass, of course their instinct is to throw it in the trunk for later, because duh, backstrap. Even though it's a terrible idea, because duh, kids.

MVP (among many) right now is the goofy spirit guide.

I was prepared for a lot more animal gore at the end of this episode: I figured the obvious gag would be for them to tear all the legs off the deer carcass at the end when they were all yanking on it at once. Kinda glad they didn't go that route.

The two rappers, Lil Mike & FunnyBone, have a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSry_L6b05s

love those thuggish ruggish guys

Ive only seen the first episode but my native-descended lactose intolerant wife (whose mother and brother are also horribly lactose intolerant) lost her shit at the lactaid. I also liked the use of 1491 as a house number.

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