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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

It almost makes you wanna root for Stranger Things, because even though that show owes quite a bit to nostalgia, it is one of very few original properties that became big

That said, I stopped watching Stranger Things

I tried 10 minutes of the new Thrones, and couldn’t deal. I liked the old show, even the last season! It just felt ersatz and “check out our improved fx budget!” and “remember that theme song!!”. Given that it’s a GRRM production it felt weirdly offbrand.

Now Better Call Saul is done I feel like taking a semi-permanent break from violent and “simmering threat of violence” type shows

I want more Le Guin style struggling utopias instead

They really upped the gore factor for HoD.

the first ten mins or so of hot d did feel weird, probably because of the narration and flashback. the original series never did narration and the first flashback didn’t happen until season 6 or so

I would watch this is if it was only dragons. Just dragons, doing things.

*ten minutes* of hot d wow

need that hot d every sunday at 9pm

i tried hot d. felt pretty long

I want more Le Guin style struggling utopias instead

I keep saying this too. Like I get she's been burned by more than one shitty whitewashed adapts of Earthsea, but given what we've seen can be done re Dune, Foundation, Raised by Wolves etc could we not have a nice sprawling 5 or 10 show run at The Dispossesed, or even a redo of Lathe of Heaven? (its been done twice I know)

Not so sure Left Hand of Darkness would work on TV given 2/3 of it is 2 guys slogging across a glacier. Maybe a movie?

And speaking of, why not a big series covering Parable of the Sower/Talents?

trayce: the met is doing an opera of it next year i think

I liked House of Dragon well enough, but yeah something seemed off at first; partly, it's much brighter than the majority of GoT and less grimy. I saw someone complaining about overly dark scenes but I didn't notice any; I watched it on my laptop though.

League of Their Own episode 2 was a step down... was it really necessary to CGI the pitches? Kinda tired of Nick Offerman doing Nick Offerman too.

Chad and JT go deep Tim Heideckker produced show just released. Show definitely not to the quality of their YouTube council meeting/Fox News videos. But if you haven’t heard of them, do this for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM05Fqi2yRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjBBS03EQA

And speaking of, why not a big series covering Parable of the Sower/Talents?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, August 23, 2022 5:41 PM (two hours ago)

A movie of Parable of the Sower is in the works at A24, directed by Garrett Bradley

We're enjoying "Black Bird" on Apple. The vibe is kind of like a cross between "Silence of the Lambs" and "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" by way of '90s crime dramas. I appreciate how much of it is told through long, slow conversations between the two (very good) leads.