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Use it to watch amazing Hong Kong gangster thriller TRIVISA please.

Yeah the Flight Attendant was great actually. Surprised they are going to milk another season out of it but maybe it will shift focus (it will have to)

I decided to give Squid Game another chance. Once I got past the maudlin and cliched character setup, the actual game segment is very well done and compelling, but tbh I found the red light green light scene extremely disturbing, like to the point that I woke up still thinking about it and felt very unsettled. I'm kind of torn between wanting to see what happens and just not wanting to watch any more, because I have such limited free time now and I don't know if I feel like having that kind of experience.

There were also a few minor things that bothered me probably more than they should have -- for example, the trader guy obviously could have declared personal bankruptcy, so they tried to write their way around that by somehow implicating his mom's little shop? This made no sense, why the fuck would a guy trading in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars worth of futures even bother to put his mom's little fish head business up as collateral, it would barely get him anything. And why was a guy trading at an investment bank putting up personal collateral at all?

Similarly, I don't know Korean divorce law, but something felt very hack about the whole "This guy upstairs studies law and says you can get custody if you can support the child." That just sounded way too simplistic to me - did they mean that he could get partial custody and then block the other parent from moving to the US?

What I thought was great, however, was the level of visual storytelling, which I thought stood out even among some of the better prestige tv shows.

also Tracer otm upthread, missed his responses to my last post until now. Also like PBKR's point about how as a critique of capitalism it seems to fall a bit short (although obviously I haven't finished it out).

Also, just kind of wondering now if there is some kind of gotcha audience fingerpointing going on -- "See, YOU are the voyeur, YOU enjoyed watching people get gunned down playing a game," and it's like, nah, I really didn't, it fucked up my whole day and now I don't think I want to watch anymore.

Michael Haneke's Funny Squid Games

this is ancient but my wife went back and watched Friends from College which I had avoided because I heard it was so terrible and it is not really terrible at all, dunno why everyone thought these people were such outlandish assholes in the first season, they are not half as bad as Seinfeld. Keegan Michael Key wears on you but he's meant to be annoying. It's not like, amazing television but it was entertaining enough.

Only Murders in the Building was a fun, fast-paced watch. Excellent cast, a lot of actors I love that I don't see much anymore. except for Selena Gomez, who I've never seen act before and don't hope to again

Oh, I just noticed they're making another season, so I guess she'll probably be in that, huh

Sprangg Breeaaaaaaak forever

one of the best films of the century TBH

otm

Only Murders was v enjoyable, am so glad its getting a season 2!

Narcos Mexico is back. Couple of episodes in, it feels very much like Narcos.

anybody watched Impeachment? with Beanie Feldstein and Clive Owen??

I invited them both but Clive couldn’t make it

lol

this week's Invasion was somewhat tense

Seeing lots of recommendations for Invasion - how good is it? Like, Expanse good (i.e. unmissable) or Colony good (i.e. very missable but pretty good fun)?

Also loved Only Murders - it reminds me of the sort of late 80s/early 90s comedy that we use to endlessly rewatch on VHS. Definitely feels like something you could watch twenty years from now and still enjoy in a low-key way (if the world still exists)

I don't really get the Serial theme plagiarism issue - the plinky-plonk piano on the bottom is similar but the dominant theme on top is completely different. Besides -- the plinky-plonk sounds ripped off from Harry Nilsson's One anyway (or a dozen songs like it)

I have no dog in the fight, but "One" and a million other things are just piano marches (God Only Knows, Day In the Life, etc.). The Only Murders theme (like Serial, I guess?) is a particular sort of melancholy/spooky/menacing minor key march with touches of exotica. Both good themes, imo! I've never heard Serial, but I never skipped the Only Murders credits.

(Only Murders, btw, gets docked a few points for adhering too closely to Ebert's Law of Law of Economy of Characters, just as Maid of Easttown avoiding it gets extra points.)

I got spoiled by some headline way before watching it, so I couldn't tell how obvious (or not obvious) it was. Didn't affect my enjoyment though!

Invasion is OK, but it relies on a lot of people not asking/doing obvious things to propel the plot.

Only Murders took a moment to get going then was really good. Our kids almost bailed after first episode and then were glad they stuck with it.

Yeah, Invasion is definitely not Expanse good but it's very watchable and has some excellent moments amongst the more mundane ones xps

This season of Love Life is great. Jessica Williams' character is certainly someone one could fall in love with.

Agreed. I liked the first season but liked this one more. Both had moments of like "uh, that's now how life works/that's now how jobs work" or whatever, but the first season had more of that, and the second season was probably funnier.

We saw the first episode of Midnight Mass and loved it. Granted, I really like Flanagan, and have seen (pretty much) all his movies, but for no good reason skipped the last two "Haunting" series. This one seems like it will hit the spot, though. I love the idea of a filmmaker's particular metier being Stephen King adaptations and things that seem like Stephen King adaptations.

MM is v v good. Check out the first Haunting for sure. YMMV on the second.

I think I saw the first ep of "Haunting," and it was good! I can't remember why I didn't continue. Probably because my daughter and primary TV watching partner binged the rest without me, lol.

I thought Hill House and Bly Manor were decent enough but nothing super special, both had a few good moments and an ok way to pass the time, but Midnight Mass was much better.

S3 of Doom Patrol was all-up amazing. Michelle Gomez as a f-ed up irascible time traveller who may or may not be a good guy? YES PLEASE.

Literally watched the first episode of that last night so glad it sounds good

First two seasons were surprisingly solid (went in expecting to hate watch a facile perversion of the Morrison material), glad to hear the third continues the trend.

yeah i am only a few episodes in but a+ so far

Only Murders in the Building was a fun, fast-paced watch. Excellent cast, a lot of actors I love that I don't see much anymore. except for Selena Gomez, who I've never seen act before and don't hope to again

― Vinnie, Saturday, November 6, 2021 7:04 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah she was bizarrely wooden - also is that her regular voice/accent? i think it's real but it felt really stiff and stilted like she was "doing a voice" kinda?

overall was fun and honestly, there's a part of me that was a little struck by how old steve martin and martin short are and just wanted to enjoy them while i can

I love the two of them but the rest of the cast is so bad that we stopped after a few episodes.

Martin Short also playing a very convincing ageing Hollywood sexual predator on MORNING SHOW

yeah she was bizarrely wooden - also is that her regular voice/accent? i think it's real but it felt really stiff and stilted like she was "doing a voice" kinda?

I haven't seen anything else she's acted in but many people have pointed out that her voice changed after she got lupus, which is a bit sad. Still find her miscast, she doesn't have good comic delivery

Martin Short also playing a very convincing ageing Hollywood sexual predator on MORNING SHOW

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, November 18, 2021 6:23 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The role he was born to play.

i seem to remember her being alright in Spring Breakers. I don't remember her voice though. I only saw about half of this series, my wife watched them all, but I really liked what I saw. She's not an amazing actress but she seemed ok for what it was, same with the rest of the cast.

yeah i thought she was well-suited to play a jaded over-it hipster

First episode of Wheel of Time was...ok?

Parts of it a.bit cheesy but also parts of it really good.

Looks incredibly expensive obviously.

that's def selena gomez's real voice

xpost That finally prompted me to update the thread title:

who in this bitch reads robert jordan? -- The Wheel of Time thread

Ah nice one. I did search but couldn't find anything

We've been catching up on "1971," and it's good, but there are of course some weird omissions. Like, where's Zeppelin? You'd think even in the context of the series they'd warrant a mention, especially with Zep IV/"Stairway to Heaven." Or Funkadelic, and "Maggot Brain?" And of course Bowie warrants some time, but his biggest impact was the next year, imo, 1972. They could have just alluded to what was imminent.

Anyway, it's good and not meant to be comprehensive, but missing Zeppelin is an odd one, especially when they lard on the praise for the Stones in 1971 as the biggest band in the world. If anything it was the beginning of the Stones' artistic peak/decline.

yeah i thought that was weird too

Zeppelin have their own massive documentary that just came out so I figured that they just didn't license any footage.

ah, that makes sense

Moby Doc