feels a lot like satire through magic realism to me tbh
― mh, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
have we already forgotten the invisible car
or, say, the entirety of that teddy perkins episode
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
I actually have forgotten the invisible car (Teddy Perkins was one of my least favourite episodes).
Maybe I'm over-explaining something much simpler: I like the real Van a lot, and hated her as that character.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I had fun with this season but understand the frustrations many have with it.
Hopefully S4 will be more straightforward.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
I loved everything about this season. It was very discomfiting, as m/l explicitly intended.
― If you were really hard core, you'd have thrown a full bottle (WmC), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I just finished Ron Brownstein's Rock Me on the Water, about film/music/TV/Jerry Brown in early-'70s L.A., and one of the things it goes into is network interference in the early days of All in the Family/Mary Tyler Moore/MASH. I take it that such a thing barely exists these days. I'm not even talking about sex or profanity, more conceptually; it's almost inconceivable you could have a show where the three lead characters are not in four out of 10 episodes.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
I don't think Atlanta's level of rule breaking would be allowed in most other places, even now. Glover(s) got special allowances from FX/Hulu.
― nickn, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
i would guess that it's less about "allowing" 4 episodes where the main cast doesn't appear, more like "lakeith is only available for 5 episodes, zazie can do 4, brian can do 6–how can we make this work?"
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
these folks are busy, and this fractured approach is probably more a result of busy schedules and covid regulations than anyone on the creative team would likely admit
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
Hadn't considered that, but it's still something to get the go-ahead; I would think most shows would just shut down (like Mindhunter did, so yes, xposts, maybe Atlanta's the exception right now) until everyone's available.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
this fractured approach is probably more a result of busy schedules and covid regulations
Yeah I figured that was the case, much like how Arrested Development S4 focused on one character at a time to accommodate busy schedules
It would be strange to hate the finale because of the surrealism, it's a show built around that. I just found the episode a lot more annoying than amusing, seems that everyone's mileage varies. I think I'd feel the same about Amelie if I watched that movie again now heh
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
I think they probably have a decent script backlog, and apparently all of this season (according to what I read) was written in 2019, when everyone was even more busy
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
It would be strange to hate the finale because of the surrealism, it's a show built around that. I just found the episode a lot more annoying than amusing
Same for me, if I've been ambiguous about that; I didn't at all object to the weirdness or surrealism, just the specific idea and the execution of it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
What was the significance of the photo in the post credits scene?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
the white guy from the beginning of the season has the same name as him?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Ah, cheers
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
We be in the city. OFFICIAL TRAILER for #AtlantaFX: The Final Season. September 15 on FX. Stream on @Hulu. pic.twitter.com/LdxidH63oI— AtlantaFX (@AtlantaFX) August 2, 2022
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
for the final season, they’re taking it back to where it all beganwait that’s still the title of the show, wtf
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
Can't wait!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 7 August 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
I was pretty up-to-date with Top 40 hip-hop in 1993, so I'm surprised I have no memory at all of Paperboy's "Ditty," which I stumbled over when I started looking into the origins of the name Paper Boi--an amalgamation, I guess, of Big Boi and Paperboy. Anyway, I started down that road because of a book I'm reading on the USFL. I wanted to know if the name was maybe a reference to an obscure corner of league history having to do with Greg Fields' nickname for a couple of teammates: "The two were heading for a meeting, and Fields looked at Kraus--who was being paid $1 million over six years--and said, 'Wellllllll, fuck--there's the big paper boy!'" Fields starting calling the two teammates "the big paper boys," and he became known as Big Paper.
Maybe the 1993 Paperboy took his name from all of that.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
I thought paper was a straightforward reference to money? (all about that paper, boy)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I'm looking for meaning in all the wrong places--I'm sure it's a straightforward as you say. (In which case 1993 Paperboy was at least thinking along the same lines as 1984 Greg Fields.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
great use of Cousteau in the trailer
― fpsa, Sunday, 7 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
in the us, the paperboy delivered your morning paper. in atlanta, paper boi gets that paper
― mh, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Halfway between, Tony Soprano, standing at the end of his driveway.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/paper.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
There were/are many rappers out there named Paperboy (with various spellings, etc).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
This will never not be hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kmT_Yv3Ss
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
yes!
― mh, Monday, 8 August 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
This has started up again--final season, right? I'm just finishing a rewatch of The Americans, will get started right after.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 September 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
Yep. We’re back!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 18 September 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
First episode was hilarious
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 08:13 (one year ago) link
last two episodes so good
― symsymsym, Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
"8 minutes"
Haven't seen the last two episodes but Alfred's storyline in episode 3 was amazing. I've been enjoying this season more than the previous so far
― Vinnie, Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
“Safe farm is there”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
That’s a keeper.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 16 October 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
I liked that they apparently bargained shoe man from 8 minutes down to 3 seconds.
― nickn, Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:30 (one year ago) link
Hahaha this episode
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
This was such a random swerve at this point in the season
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
I'm four episodes in. Liked the first two (and was glad to see all the principles back), so-so on the third, thought the fourth started slow and got better and better. There was a great line about dementia. The idea of building an episode around spite reminded me of Jerry trying to return the jacket in Seinfeld.
― clemenza, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
I guess FX being owned by Disney has had one positive outcome now
― mh, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
amazing
― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:25 (one year ago) link
googling after the episode led me to this incredible Roger Ebert three-star review of A Goofy Movie, written after the projector broke two-thirds of the way through: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-goofy-movie-1995
― symsymsym, Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
Bravo! What an episode (again)!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 30 October 2022 09:47 (one year ago) link
Not sure what to make of E5. Pleasantly weird, but I didn't really laugh.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Was that the Mr Chocolate episode?
Seem to remember lots of laughs in that one
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:35 (one year ago) link
Yeah it was. Liked that episode but found it more weird and amusing than laugh-out-loud funny. Now, episode 6... some of the most laughs I've had from this show
A little embarrassed how long it took me to realize the latest episode was not a real story
― Vinnie, Thursday, 3 November 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
Ha. It was so well crafted (and acted) though
Most of the laughs in episode 5 were at how absurd it all was but the end when Mr Chocolate loses it and screams "I shall have her! She can't be not-eighteen forever!" definitely cracked me up
― groovypanda, Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
Ha, wait -
Did a throwaway joke from the “Crank Dat Killer” episode pay off?!?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 November 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link