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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)

Whoops, apologies (I gotta stop doing that)

Since I'm here – I will vote in yr poll, forks!

I'm gonna mount the Nokk and swim past all you haters

I did it again! omg

In my defense, I'm v bad at using computers

that part is becoming clear lol <3

I wuz keeping this tab open (to everyone's detriment)

Back (for real) to mention that I watched the beginnings of a bunch of recent comedy series pilots (on Hulu) last night... the experience def. did not leave me feeling like we're living in the "Golden Age of TV" :/

But then I also didn't feel guilty dipping back to 2014, to continue my rewatch of You're the Worst – one of my favorite shows of past decade (S1 is even better than I remember it... each episode is so well written & directed, they're almost like little movies)

IMO the "golden age" has been over for a while. I'd pick the success of Game of Thrones as the clearest turning point: a (initially) well made, lavish show that turned out to be intellectually hollow and not remotely worth re-watching.

I lost interest after the third season (or maybe halfway through) but the first two seasons of YTW are so good.

The best shows post-Golden Age (aside from The Expanse) have been comedies IMO. YTW, Brockmire, Atlanta, Catastrophe, Fleabag, etc..

yeah I meant to add that I don't think comedies really fit the Golden Age narrative all that well anyway (what were the major Golden Age/prestige comedies? all I can think of is Louie, which no)

That one season of Louie that ended with the Eszter Balint storyline was, I thought, one of the best seasons of a show I'd ever watched (but, yeah... I know, Louie).

I also agree that great comedies have always been hard to find.

South Side.

yes! South Side is so good!

It is really good and I love that it doesn't try to do too much, it is happy to be really really really excellent at doing the thing that it does, which, now that I think of it, maybe IS trying to do (and succeeding in doing) a lot.

Insecure was pretty good for a while (I guess that's a comedy?), though maybe a little less so toward the end...

Great to at least decent comedies from 2021 imo: Agua Donkeys, AP Bio, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, Buffering, Chad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fisk, Flatbush Misdemeanors, Ghosts (UK), How to with John Wilson, I Think You Should Leave, It's Always Sunny, Joe Pera, Kim's Convenience, Motherland, Mythic Quest, PEN15, Reservation Dogs, Rick and Morty, South Side, Staged, Starstruck, Ted Lasso, Teh Other Two, This Time with Alan Partridge, What We Do in the Shadows, Work in Progress.... of course, what you consider to be a comedy may vary from me.

The Great was great too.

My personal feeling is it may not be the Golden Age of TV, but it could well be the Golden Age of TV title sequences (which, ironically, are easier than ever to SKIP through).

nothing beats peacemaker

agree

yes.

yellowjackets though is the first time in years where i've actively sought out the theme tune cause I wanted to listen to it on repeat.