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
Thought the weirdness of S6 was funnier than S5, especially the very last scene where Darius responds to Paper Boi and Some Guy Named Doug's recording.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 November 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
maybe thirty minoots
― mh, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
lost it completely at that bit
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
I was never more fucked up by any scene than by the one just preceding that thirty minoots line. The only comparison I can think of is the nightmare sequence in Mulholland Drive, but this one was tied to much deeper feelings. I can't believe someone put THAT on screen. Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
I’m definitely going to think “don’t worry, I’m still in the tank” a few times this week
― mh, Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
What a way to go out.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
This is so weird so often, E7 (camping) was strange in how decidedly un-weird it was. I liked it; thought they controlled the tone really well. Thinking about E8...Deadpan-perfect, just a lot to process.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
E7 felt like the quiet, rewarding end of Earn and Van's plot arc and I appreciated that
Maybe the whole series was Darius retelling the events of the last few years, while having a very tenuous grasp on what happened during tank time and what was real
― mh, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I haven't kept up with this thread because we hadn't seen S3 yet, let alone S4. But we just jumped back in and started S3, and we were immediately reminded, boy, is this show good (and weird). Can't wait to hit S4.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
yeah i’m way behind in early s3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
looking forward to whats in store
As I watched E7--and always anticipating the weird turn--I was thinking "Get Out...no, wait; Deliverance...no wait..."
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
The tension is so thick in that one, both because of how it’s directed and what this show has trained us to anticipate.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
you might say the episode was a metaphorical snipe hunt
― mh, Monday, 14 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
🥁
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
E9: bucolic, like E7, but with the scary stuff left in. Broke one of my cardinal soundtracking rules early on with the Geto Boys--used a great song only to cut it off almost immediately (they could have had Alfred wander around aimlessly for two minutes while it played, I'd have been happy)--but made up for it with "Under Me Sleng Teng" (great! new to me) and Ray Charles.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 03:08 (one year ago) link
Omg the mall scene - ep 6 so full of moments Love this show so much!!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 04:26 (one year ago) link
Just started watching with my daughter (21). We just finished Wayne, which she now says is her favourite show ever. We watched S1E1 & 2 and she’s spellbound. I’ve only seen season 1 & 2 myself so I’m stoked to do the whole journey.
― an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
We just finished season 3. I know other seasons have leaned into horror here and there, but this entire season was written and directed like a horror anthology.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 December 2022 02:58 (one year ago) link
Tbh that’s why I haven’t gotten past the first 2 episodes of s3.
― Chris L, Thursday, 1 December 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
yeah there is a noticeable "throw every idea i have ever had into the bag" feeling to this show in general but i tend to appreciate that -- the impulse to seize the day and make the stuff you wanna make before someone takes the opportunity away from you is real
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 December 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
otm. Season 4 has some of this still but it calms down. Worth finishing.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 1 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
s3 was in the tank
― mh, Thursday, 1 December 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
these backhoes aint loyal
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 December 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Lol
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 11 December 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
i knew donald glover was overseeing a remake of mr & mrs smith (which seems completely unnecessary ..)
but had no idea he was also involved in a slasher/comedy show about obsessive music fans referred to as the swarm (uh, beyhive) and its coming out in march???
just saw trailer for ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggFj5z2SLg
― H in Addis, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
I'm only at the end of s3 right now but did no-one itt talk about the Cancel Club cameo?! This show has gotten more wtf. I kind of like it but also feel like maybe I'm not 'getting' everything.
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link
I finally finished the show last week. Give Glover all the money.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
Easily the greatest show of all time, like it's not even close.― gospodin simmel, Friday, November 11, 2022 1:46 PM
― gospodin simmel, Friday, November 11, 2022 1:46 PM
marathoned everything (which was all rewatch except for the last season) to coincide with the finale last year and i had a similar reaction after the last ep.
i've kind of kept quiet ever since, but honestly: gospodin otm. such a perfectly fluid execution of comedy and commentary, seriousness and surrealism.
you know a show is good when you try to think of a single favorite episode and all of your candidates are spread evenly across the show's lifespan.
Atlanta writer Stefani Robinson creating a remake of Peep Show, or at least using the Peep Show format (with approval of Mitchell and Webb), but with two american women.― dan selzer, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:45 AM
― dan selzer, Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:45 AM
this sounds amazing lol!
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
I just finished it too, actually. So many purgatorial spaces.
Almost everyone I know was put off by the last two seasons but idk, I really liked it and was happy to roll with everything.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
My wife likes the stuff centered around the core cast *least* and loves all the stand-alone and solo episodes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
The last two seasons, I guess I let the show be whatever it wanted to be--definitely not liking every episode, but admiring (most of) its weirdness along the way--but the real highlights were in the first two seasons for me. Right to the end, my favourite moment remained the end of the Drake episode, something I quoted earlier in the thread:
Vanessa's friend: "Can you help me stop thinking?"Darius: (pause) "Perhaps."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
as someone who grew up maybe 10 miles from Glover with only a 4 year age difference i have to say he did a really good job of representing Atlanta. esp the Helen episode and the ep that i assume took place at georgia southern university for a wider look at the state. so many scenes in the inner burbs where everything's green and lush, tons of trees. the industrial areas surrounded by forest. made me miss the place
― Heez, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Are you an AI generating stuff that it seems like I might like but in reality is likely to make no sense? :)There have been a few US versions of Peep Show iirc, the one I saw sucked badly.I'd give it a chance...
― kinder, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=stefani+robinson+peep+show&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1019US1020&oq=stefa&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46i39j69i57j46i433i512j0i131i433l2j69i60j69i65.1084j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
I loved the spite episode so much. any over-elaborate plan like that - was trying to think what other series had done something in the same ball park then realised I was probably thinking of that episode of WWDITS...
― kinder, Friday, 17 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link