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I got my Dad a Roku and he was oddly reluctant to watch any of the TV series now available to him, and after a while I finally realized he didn't understand that you can watch streaming shows from the beginning. He was thinking of it as basically another cable channel delivery system!

Yon Hawkeye fellow in Mayor of Kingstwon by Taylor Sheridan, it seemed like utter trash early on (especially when Spoiler got Spoilered) but actually developed into decency like about episode 8 or so. Why did I persevere long enough to establish that? Who knows, the mysteries of life ansuch

Also new season of Euphoria, back to reiterate that I'M OLD and don't understand the youngers

I was much more excited for the return of Righteous Gemstones, although I'm not yet sold on the continuing plot line that seems to be getting set up.

Also new season of Euphoria, back to reiterate that I'M OLD and don't understand the youngers

The general take I've seen on Twitter (based on soundtrack choices etc.) is that this show is very much an old person's look at These Kids Today With Their Depression And Their Hippety-Hop Music.

Well they played Orville Peck, is that a young people thing? I really have no clue these days...

I missed the news that the BFI launched a streaming site. Does anyone here use it?

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-british-films-stream-bfi-player-classics.html

Station Eleven is pretty good two episodes in, always glad to see Mackenzie Davis in something.

Think we talked about Station Eleven on another thread. Anyway it’s excellent and gets better as at goes along filing in the details about key characters. Last episode is this week :(

How grim or idk realistic-feeling is that show? I want to watch it but my partner is objecting on the grounds of pandemic content, which I can't argue with. We started watching a Korean sci-fi show (on Netflix, sorry thread) where water is super scarce and before they switched settings to space, it was making me legit anxious due to the plausibility

The initial societal collapse part is more zombie movie than pandemic content in the way its presented.

ha not sure if that will be perceived as better or not, but thanks

based on the first half of the first episode, i will not be watching search party's final season. They got three good seasons out of it tho!

I read the book of Station Eleven, but I remember nothing.

The show seems much bleaker and high-stakes than the book. One thing I didn't get:

Why the hell does Kirsten join the Prophet's group to go to the airport? The dude just murdered a bunch of children. Why would you trust him or anything that he says?

xpost, In some ways it's reassuring watching a show about a pandemic that's so much worse than covid (only 1 in 1000 survive the Station Eleven virs). Our pandemic timeline is bad but the virus itself could have been much more catastrophic.

DJI: I had the same thought. I mean, she stabs him almost as soon as she meets him ffs. I watched a few eps while drinking which was a bad idea as I kind of lost the thread of the Prophet/Undersea plot slightly. I mean it then all comes together/makes sense once they remeet at the airport and she figures out who he and Elizabeth are, but yeah that felt plot-drivey.

Also, is it just me or is Clark a really painfully loathesome character? Are we meant to dislike his insane need for reassurance/being liked? Because I do.

Sorry to sidetrack – we just signed up for a bundle that includes Hulu. Besides "Reservation Dogs" (which I recall folks here raving about), anything else recent we should check out on that service?

Only Murders in the Building
What We Do in the Shadows
McCartney 321 w Rick Rubin
Dave

AND remastered X Files

justified, if you haven't seen it yet.
the great
mrs. america

oh and Atlanta will be coming back so get on that if you arent already

we just signed up for a bundle that includes Hulu. Besides "Reservation Dogs" (which I recall folks here raving about), anything else recent we should check out on that service?

Terriers
Thief (FX show starring Andre Braugher, only 6 episodes)
Killing Eve (first 2 seasons only)
Letterkenny (people disagree on when to bail out — I'd say after the Wayne/Tanis relationship runs its course, but the first few seasons are some of the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life)

PEN15 and Ramy, immediately!

Thanks all!

i agree with unperson more or less completely about letterkenny btw

I don't know Thief at all, should I hunt for that?

yeah “andre braugher” made me go WHA hell yes - more info plz!!

Shit, I just looked and it doesn't seem like it's up there! It was at one point. The boxing show Lights Out with Holt McCallany (the dude from Mindhunters) is up there now, though, and I remember liking that one at the time, too.

The Great, and PEN15, and Reservation Dogs are my Hulu recs.

@Trayce aw, I like Clark. You could even say his speech pretty much saved civilization. He's a pathetic character who gets to step up to greatness. I liked it. Tbf my weed consumption may have gotten in the way of my cynicism.

Huh, Thief isn't streaming anywhere in the US! I am adding to ILPLEX if anyone is interested.

How grim or idk realistic-feeling is that show? I want to watch it but my partner is objecting on the grounds of pandemic content, which I can't argue with. We started watching a Korean sci-fi show (on Netflix, sorry thread) where water is super scarce and before they switched settings to space, it was making me legit anxious due to the plausibility

― rob, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 3:05 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I made it halfway into the first episode of the Netflix show you mention and bailed. Too bleak for me right now.

I only made it two episodes into Station Eleven before bailing. The grimness + the jumping back and forth in time just got annoying.

Also on Hulu - Brockmire with Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet. The baseball stuff is just a backdrop.

Life of Crime, kind of a "7 up" style documentary that follows a group of drug addicts in Newark NJ for 40 years, is one of the most powerful films I've ever seen, cried a couple times

on HBO

I made it halfway into the first episode of the Netflix show you mention and bailed. Too bleak for me right now.

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 12, 2022 8:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

You didn't miss out. Once they get to the moon, they swap out bleak for mind-bendingly dull

Good cast, but this looks like one of those hand-wavy Black Mirror "what if something that would never happen and no one would say yes to ... happened?" things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQP4VVuyrY

Only Murders in the Building was really enjoyable (episode 7, in particular, was kind of a remarkable episode of television).

Some things didn't quite make sense – and not even having to do with the murder mystery, but more "why would he say that? why would she do that?" – as if the script / basic storytelling could have used a little more attention. But it also had some nice, creative touches. And I liked the idea of a friendship btw. people of very different ages. The cast was good, and I'm not particularly a huge Steve Martin or Martin Short fan.

Apparently Shirley MacLaine is going to be in S2? That's so awesome.

took me a while to recognizer her, but its Britt Lower from Man Seeking Woman, who I have a big crush on. Yeah that's some cast, though I'm really just watiting for Party Down.

Only Murders was great.

oh wow, mcclaine is a great choice
excited for that!

My wife has been watching What We Do in the Shadows, and I've seen good chunks of it – it definitely has funny stuff and good characters, I especially like the "Energy Vampire" guy (the episode where he meets a female counterpart was great). On the minus side, some of the jokes are kind of obvious/played out, and the faux-documentary format feels old as dust at this point (though I guess other "formats" have kept chugging along for decades, so why not). I see Paul Simms of NewsRadio fame is involved, which is a personal plus.

Anyone watched Archive81?

was thinking of checking it out this weekend

Legend of Vox Machina looks bad.

Anyone watched Archive81?

I listened to the podcast. Curious to see how it has been translated to television.

Archive81 won the coin toss between it and Station Eleven for what I watch next. Going to dig in over the next couple of days.

Station Eleven has some high points but I would not recommend it tbh.

Somebody Somewhere seems Actually Good after one episode

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that every show you loved that had a 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

This blog post seems to suggest radio royalties are actually worse for songwriters than streaming (but i dunno)