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lol!

If this is half as good as Ramy I'm 100% on board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtohea4CFbE

yeah it looks really good!

Armando Iannucci is doing a HBO series about making a superhero movie... unfortunately Sam Mendes is also involved.

i have not really rated Iannucci for some time.

tbf it doesn't look as though Ianucci is especially involved

xpost!

i have not really rated Iannucci for some time.

Copperfield does an incredible job of translating Dickens' humour to a fast-paced movie, and the airlock scene in Ave5 dropping approx 90 minutes before half the planet adopted the exact same approach to a global pandemic would earn him a lifetime pass no matter how hard he fell off

never going to read a page of his poem book though

Really enjoyed "Cha Cha Real Smooth," which I guess is on Apple. I was a big fan of "Shithouse," too, and in some regards this is more of the same but a little ... more. Felt at times a bit like "Say Anything" in bittersweet sentiment. Dakota Johnson is pretty good in it.

This article, about the CW getting bought, doesn't totally belong in this thread, since it's about a TV network, but this one paragraph made me laugh really fucking hard:

The demographic focus of the CW will also change over time, Carter said. Historically, shows like Riverdale, All American, Arrow and Supernatural have focused on viewers in their teens through their 30s. The reality, though, is that the average CW viewer is 58 years old, and Carter said that schism explains why the CW is the lowest-rated broadcast network

(lack of period in original — hire an editor, Deadline!)

Invasion on Apple+ - first episode makes me think it would be better as a series about Sam Neill as a small town sheriff dealing with weird shit/aliens.

First episode is about as good as Invasion gets

truth

Man, every last detail of Reservation Dogs remains incredible. I feel so fortunate a show like this is on TV.

^this

i am continually blown away by how well they balance legit funny/stupid shit with deeply emotional scenes .. the scene with Bear & Daniel’s dad on the roofing job was incredible, even the sundog stuff was beautiful and it could have been corny in the wrong hands

This week’s episode is fantastic, every detail of the house is so unbelievably lived-in and perfect and all the actors are just dead on. Really a stunning show.

everyone otm, show is a gem

also i want to call everyone “shitass”

Do it, vg, and be legends

dann good show. wife snd i tore through season 1 last week and i can’t believe i put off watching it for as long as i did
def want to call everybody a shit-ass now

https://www.ign.com/articles/hbo-max-to-remove-36-titles-from-streaming-residual-payouts?

HBO Max Originals:

12 Dates of Christmas
About Last Night
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
Close Enough
Ellen’s Next Great Designer
Esme & Roy
The Fungies!
Generation Hustle
Generation
Infinity Train
Little Ellen
My Mom, Your Dad
Odo
Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness
Summer Camp Island
The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
The Runaway Bunny
Theodosia
Tig n’ Seek
Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

HBO Originals:
My Dinner with Herve
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Cartoon Network:

Dodo
Elliott From Earth
Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart
Mighty Magiswords
OK K.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes
Uncle Grandpa
Victor and Valentino
Acquired Titles
Detention Adventure
Messy Goes to Okido
Mia’s Magic Playground
The Ollie & Moon Show
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Make It Big, Make It Small
Squish

I don't think I've ever heard of any of those things. Seems like the better decision would have been to never have made them in the first place, but that ship's sailed.

A lot of kids’ titles there. Kids are notorious for wanting to watch the same movie, or have the same book read to them, over and over. Kind of wild that in the streaming world it’s just like “sorry, it’s gone. No, that’s no DVD of it. How do you even know what that is??”

Maybe it’s good. We need to relearn the art of handling evanescence.

really pissed about that news. there's a lot of shows i figured would be around forever since HBO Max actually produced them - the later seasons of Infinity Train, Close Enough in particular. Summer Camp Island got an entire almost completed 20-episode season axed before air!

sigh i might try to binge some this weekend before sailing the high seas

Close Enough is great xps

This article on Predator has a quote (from John Davis, who produced every movie in the franchise) that illustrates the core problem (IMO):

Now that fans have seen the Yautja alien in Guatemala, Los Angeles, a different planet and the Comanche nation, it’s only natural to wonder: what is next for the Predator? Could there be a Civil War-era Predator? How about Ancient Rome? Predator vs Pirates?

“Well, maybe there’s an origin origin story. Right?” says Davis. “Maybe there’s another ‘Alien vs. Predator’ story in a different situation. And maybe there’s a new modern-day version. And maybe there’s something somewhere in between. I think this character can show up throughout history.”

Yep, just keep throwing it in different situations... it never gets old!!

Forrest Gump but Predator

Predator, hunted by Forrest Gump.

Predator vs. Jesus

The Predator meets Anne of Green Gables

New Pretty Little Liars is remarkable in that it didn’t have a single person in the cast who can act. Wall to wall amateur hour, every delivered line is torture. Yet I still watch it. Amazon’s The Wilds is a close runner up.

Really liked the first episode of Sharon Horgan’s new dark comedy drama series - Bad Sisters - on Apple TV. Beautifully played by the cast.

Horgan is extraordinary, I've loved literally everything she's done.

HBO Max Originals:

Generation Hustle

This is a mostly great documentary series about scammers that's lost in an ocean of mostly terrible and bloated documentary series about scammers. Don't recommend every episode, but definitely pirate it.

xpost, thanks for the Bad Sisters rec, very good and probably wouldn't have even known about it otherwise.

First episode of A League of Their Own was better than expected.

We bowed out after two, weren’t feeling it, but solid talent involved. D’arcy Carden is great.

i like it so far

HBO Max Removes About 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes https://t.co/4cXRh0Twsr

— Variety (@Variety) August 19, 2022

House Of Dragons so far ok - though god spare me the endless parade of explaining who characters are and dialogue that inevitably includex “well don’t worry my lord/lady everyone knows you are Lord/Lady Blabbity Blah next in line for the whatever/highest goal scorer in the kingdom/biggest knob in christendom”

occupational hazard i guess with these lineagey swordy shows

i thought it was pretty good, seems like it will be a slow build this year

yeah seems that way

i really liked the young actress who played rhaenyra, gonna be a shame to lose her when the series jumps forward in time

idk i found her creepy lol sorry

she is creepy haha

Just watched the 2019 Michael Winterbottom movie The Wedding Guest on Netflix. A surprising, well-crafted modern noir set in India and Pakistan. At first it reminded me of David Mamet's Spartan (which is great; see it if you haven't; it's on Hulu) but by the end it was in The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double Indemnity territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NlJ_Q7EfDc

House of Dragons: suspected tie-in to Henry I /White Ship/ The Anarchy shenanigans for any history trainspotters that are interested

Anyone watch House of the Dragon? I know George RR loves historical analogues. With the succession of Jaehaerys Targaryen going to the male heir of a cadet branch of the family (as opposed to an eldest daughter of elder branch), I'm getting post-Edward III vibes

— Noble Blood (@NobleBloodTales) August 22, 2022

(the thread expands on Henry I)

I feel like this media landscape is made for me at like 10-16 years old. Do I want to watch a show about She-Hulk, or an adaptation of Sandman, or a fantasy show about dragons, or wait for the new Star Wars series, or catch up one of the several cynical superhero shows, or maybe catch some new Fraggle Rock episodes, or the new Predator movie