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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.

today i learned there's an animated version of usagi yojimbo on Netflix ("samurai rabbit"). i wonder how that is.

Finished the first season of Hacks and even though the first two episodes made me wonder if this was a Studio 60 type dramedy about comedy, the rest of the season was the hardest I've laughed in a long while. Jean Smart completely owns.

she’s so fucking good - Hacks is great, whole cast just kills it regularly

I still sometimes think of the scene in S1 where Ava is yelling “End call!” at her phone while frantically driving and stuffing a breakfast sandwich in her mouth… so damn funny

finally started Pennyworth on HBO and knock me down w a feather, it’s kinda marvelous? i mean, i’m only two in but eally impressed

i liked Gotham but it was deeply, deeply stupid. this feels more uh grounded or something. plus the cultural references are a bit more up my alley, like Alfie + Dickens with a silly true crime varnish. Mr Veg was baffled by the slang lol #bless

Wow, that Usagi cartoon looks awful, they made it a wisecracking CGI thing as usual.

I started watching Mo on Netflix. It's about a Palestinian guy in Houston who's trying to get his papers and just keep his head above water. Two episodes in and I like it a lot. It's a US show, but it reminds me strongly of UK shows like Man Like Mobeen and People Just Do Nothing.

Although actually it's not as goofy as either of those. It's probably just the immigrant, working-class family dynamics. It also kind of reminds me of the things I liked about early Better Call Saul when he was selling mobile phones out the back of his car.

Only Murders finale was very satisfying, all three of the leads look like they are having so much fun with their over the top hamming, I love it

and Reservation Dogs S2E5 was another stunning masterpiece as well

I love that each of the OMITB season finale's give Steve Martin space to do some expert physical comedy.

yes, the slow motion thing was incredible

It was very funny... S2 was a bit less compelling overall than S1 (it's a hard thing to pull off twice), but enjoyed watching it for sure.

I've never been a huge Martin Short fan (or a Steve Martin fan, for that matter), but I really enjoy them in this show – Short's character is so funny to me.

there was also a very good setup for S3, now that I think abt it

I agree, Only Murders is very enjoyable and satisfying. It’s not genius and it’s not perfect, but it sure is fun. They make a really great trio.

Also loved the Only Murders finale, a great cap to a weaker season. It probably should have been 8 episodes; 10 felt like they were dragging it out. But I did think Selena Gomez improved her delivery a lot this season, or maybe I finally got used to it

Yeah, she holds her own with those two (which obv isn’t easy).

Finished "Black Bird" on Apple, and yeah, I recommend it. Parts of it are tough, but it's a good story and, shockingly, reportedly remarkably close to what actually went down. Lots of longs scenes of people talking, which really allows you to get to know these flawed, fucked up characters.

Another +1 to enjoying the OMIT-B finale. And next season's guest star looks like being much better than the previous ones

I am happy to see he'll be a part of next season but I've loved almost all the casting choices and cameos in the first two seasons (Cara Delevingne was eh)

This week's episode of Reservation Dogs was hilarious. Amber Midthunder, the lead actress from Prey, has an amazing guest role.

didn't realize who that was. Totally hilarious. Every cast member of that show deserves a breakout career, it's like every episode I look up a different actor to see what they've done and it's like, this show and then Rutherford Falls. And that's it. Tonight I finally looked up Jackie.

Yeah, was gonna say, this was maybe the funniest one yet. When she shifts from thanking their ancestors to thanking their neanderthal ancestors, and then their dinosaur ancestors, and iirc the lizards both underground and in the stars ...

omg i was DYING

her revealing she’s irl from the Bay Area was truly the most perfect detail

^^^ 100%

her physical BODY is from the Bay Area, don't you see

I wanna know if the real serial killer from "Black Bird" also has Jordan Peterson's voice

her revealing she’s irl from the Bay Area was truly the most perfect detail

That was great, also that they picked Dartmouth as the place she's working on her PhD, because of the specific relationship between its founding and Native people:

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2020/10/on-native-land-reflecting-on-dartmouths-indigenous-history

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096809768/dartmouth-returns-the-papers-of-an-18th-century-mohegan-scholar-to-the-tribe

(tl;dr "In the 18th century, a scholar worked to raise money to build a college for Native American students like him, but the money was diverted to establish the Ivy League Dartmouth instead.")

whoah

xp did love that total pseud role Amber played. Had to look up who it was then kicked myself cos i should have got it. She was pretty good in Legion too from what I remember.
Had me thinking of Rachel Dolezal though just somebody alienated from their roots and overcompensating. Not sure if the guy was much better.

Been enjoying Five Days At Memorial this week too Which had me d/ld some Treme which I haven't watched yet.

the guy was worse! or at least as bad, in a different way

“dinosaur ancestors” was killing me

I thought the guy was going to be a comment on the whole "two spirit" thing but that didn't really come up. Though there was that great moment where he was going on about the influence he had growing his hair long and the kid from the other gang mumbled something like "I just met you an hour ago".

I loved the storytelling bits with the black and white.

Really I feel like there's a new kind of show that's a half-hour and able to blend comedy and heaviness, sillyness and drama, realism and surrealism in amazing ways. Atlanta, Better Things, Reservation Dogs. I'd have to group Louis in there was well, which definitely influenced all of these shows but I could also say it lost some of it's lustre even before he did publicly.

Don't know how much Better Things has been discussed but it was a really really special show. Like often one of the least "plot" driven things I'd ever seen on TV.