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Midway through season 1 of Korean horror Hellbound and am surprised at all turns. Legit o_O moments

...and binged all six of Hellbound. Genuinely upsetting in some places, but dark nihilism hits way harder than splattercore. Super-compelling to watch though - I liked it even though it ends on an obvious set-up for season 2.

"lost bullet 2: we found the bullet but then we lost our MINDS"

this is a very funny movie, and grittily realistic in the sense of NO ONE WOULD SURVIVE A TENTH OF THIS LOL

GTA line-of-duty mod (feat.balaclavamen)

Both Lost Bullet movies are amazing. Also recommended: El Centauro, Extremo.

Sorry, it's just called Centauro. A movie about a motorcycle racer who becomes a drug courier. There's also a French remake which is...okay.

Speaking of remakes (and I know this totally doesn't belong here, as these are actual movies) – I watched the 2014 Swedish film Force Majeure, and the Hollywood remake Downhill (both of which I had read about, and was curious about). I was surprised to find the remake to be a better movie in pretty much every way! (IMO, anyway)

Interesting, that is not an opinion I've encountered before.

Yes, I would have to deeply disagree with that.

same

Well, moving on…

I’ve been sucked into a dopey, soapy Freeform/Hulu thing called The Watchful Eye. It’s sort of like if Only Murders in the Building were played straight, but with half the budget (and IQ). It’s oddly watchable, if you’re in the mood for lightweight trash… Kelly Bishop (aka Emily Gilmore) is in it!

I went in without expectations one way or another but I'm really enjoying Shrinking. It's genuinely funny and even occasionally touching. Harrison Ford should've been leaning harder into his senescence before now because he's aged into an adorable old man. I don't know how long they can really ride with the central premise but this first clutch of episodes is very promising.

I started catching up on the final season of Servant. This show is so hilariously awful but I am so close to the end I feel committed to see it through.

The most recent episode included a scene where the wife, who is currently bedridden, was watching old recordings of her local news appearances. I can't get over how they made that a central plot point - not that she is a local "live on the street" reporter but that she meticulously archives all of her appearances and occasionally plays them back, and also she religiously/jealously watches the local news even when she's not on it. Similarly her husband who is a chef will deal with all the craziness happening in their house--a baby risen from the dead! An insane wife! A supernatural nanny! Homeless people who are actually a secret cult gathering daily outside their house!--and yet he still takes the time to make a michelin-level dinner for three every night, to the degree that he regularly employs a sous chef just to make Tuesday night dinner.

I've watched 4 episodes of Extraordinary, and TBH the humor isn't my bag.

yeah it's mediocre, and I wanted to murder the music supervisor by the end, but I will probably at least start the second season if there is one

Huh, again: I loved it! Not sure what y’all (or I) are missing. I also liked the soundtrack!

I think maybe I've been overexposed to this kind of 20-something life stage stuff recently, and I've hit an age where I'm less empathetic to it. And maybe it was more the music editor I wanted to kill? Too many needle drops, mixed too loud, and there's a microgenre of bratty-but-inoffensive rap that this show milked hard (iirc Never Have I Ever and another show also leans on this stuff...She Hulk maybe?). There were a few song choices I very much loved, but I think that just shows there was too much music in general for my tastes.

I did like the if-superpowers-were-banal premise that I have enjoyed in various comics but can't remember seeing in film/tv before. I would have loved more of that tbh, and it's while I'll still check out a new season

The pilot did seem to be heavy on music cues. I don’t think I mind that in shows when it’s just instrumental sections, or if I don’t know the songs, but it can be distracting sometimes or have that Cameron Crowe effect (use a music cue in hopes of generating emotion, in case the script/performance fails to do it).

Insecure is an example of a show that used a lot of music and did it well, IMO

the trailer made it look terrible but Lockwood & Co. was a lot of fun. Has a bit of a Doctor Who meets Veronica Mars vibe: dour, snarky, mystery/action-oriented.

Also another pop music-laden show but in a good way - did not expect to hear This Mortal Coil and The Associates on a YA supernatural series on netflix tbh

Yeah the whole soundtrack definitely had an early 80s goth feel to it. Also A Forest!

yep. it also had an instrumental cue that basically just repeated the first few bars of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" lol

Prime’s Three Pines is great. Based on Louise Penny’s mystery series. Alfred Molina, excellent as the compassionate Inspector Gamache, and a fantastic supporting cast with well-treated plots focusing on missing indigenous girls, residential school abuses, etc. Has a nice vibe of Northern Exposure meets Midsomer Murders. 8 eps of four 2 part mysteries, plus an overall arc which may be a fifth book’s plot? She’s done 18 books, and the series ends feeling like a second series should be confirmed soon.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, January 3, 2023 6:19 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

The first case is so cartoonishly Canadian - someone gets murdered on a Boxing Day curling match.

Huh, again: I loved it! Not sure what y’all (or I) are missing. I also liked the soundtrack!

I just don't find most comedies funny, one of these days I'll just stop watching them again.

Yeah, Lockwood was great - the writers were from Chibnall’s Doctor Who seasons. Obviously they do much bit better under a competent (first-time!) showrunner

I've been really liking the Spanish TV shows Merlí (I'm watching the season when they are in college) and Smiley, both on Netflix. The former is about philosophy students at the University of Barcelona. The latter is lighter, about a gay bar and a potential romance, with everyone in the show being someone I would want to know in real life.

Both shows star Carlos Cuevos, who is really charming

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers. You'd think having Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stuff in one exclusive place would be enough. Anyway, now there are stories they might be trying to sell off Hulu, which makes me concerned, since along with HBO, Hulu may have the best array of good new stuff to stream.

that would be ridiculously dumb of them imo but who knows

servant literally doesn't make a single lick of sense, I can't wait for it to be over. every episode is basically "what if this weird shit happened?"

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers.

they just had kind of a dry spell (Andor aside) with She Hulk not doing great overall, I suspect lots of people jumped ship for a while and then will come back when Madalorian starts up again.

after a time you've watched all the backlog and if there's not enough new stuff to watch in any given month i don't blame people for skipping out. have a fallow couple of months and then come back and binge everything you've missed.

servant literally doesn't make a single lick of sense, I can't wait for it to be over. every episode is basically "what if this weird shit happened?"

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, February 10, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

So much unhinged violence inside and outside their home on a regular basis and not only do the neighbors nor police seem not to care, they all happily come to a dinner party.

in the UK Disney+ has "Star" which is a Hulu-like collection of catalogue shows eg Only Murders, X Files, Buffy, Atlanta, uh... NCIS Hawaii... anyway it is pretty substantial and I can see it easily justifying keeping the subscription for a lot of people even after they've watched whatever flavour of the month show has just dropped

i forgot it has Searchlight Pictures flicks too eg Banshees of Inisherin, See How They Run

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers. You'd think having Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stuff in one exclusive place would be enough. Anyway, now there are stories they might be trying to sell off Hulu, which makes me concerned, since along with HBO, Hulu may have the best array of good new stuff to stream.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 10, 2023 11:05 AM (thirty-five minutes ago)

Someone debunked this pretty well on twitter when it was implied Disney had gone woke or whatever -- they actually gained subscribers in North America, and lost a ton of them in Asia because they no longer have the rights to air in Indian Premier League cricket

lol

Canada has the same larger catalogue as the UK, and when I was in the US for xmas I was confounded by how limited D+ is there — seemed like a bad waste of $$ if you don't have children. Even so, I'll be cancelling it up here too once I'm done with The Americans. Unfortunately I feel like I've scraped the barrel on the handful of streamers available in Canada (not including Criterion, and I will never pay for Amazon)

xxpost I think that was reported. Iirc the cricket rights were bundled with a whole Indian streaming service or something, so while it earned them eyeballs, it didn't earn them much money.

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

Lmao thanks zing

if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW

And that's the crux of it, isn't it? These two properties alone are two of the most popular, profitable (?) tentpole IP generators of all time, you'd think people "only" into Star Wars and Marvel would still comprise a pretty huge number. Throw in a million Disney/Pixar movies that have a similar hold on a certain section of society and you'd think Disney+ would be set. Hell, they have Avatar, the most popular movie in the world (that weirdly no one I know, nor any of their kids of different ages, has seen or has any interest in seeing, lol).

My kids will never allow me to get rid of Disney+. Mainly Star Wars but also Marvel—and Nat Geo! One son absolutely loves the shows about nature and archeology.

Disney shows/movies probably the least interesting thing on the platform for them. They sometimes like when newer Pixar movies come out but that’s purely due to the hype cycle - they have zero interest in the older movies, with rare exceptions.

The old Kurt Russell live-action flicks, I presume...

I think the US got kind of screwed on Disney+ because Hulu already existed and they decided to do some market segmentation yet charge the same. So there's not a direct parallel and Hulu has a large portion of the FX/whatever content they throw on D+ in other regions. And most of those places didn't have Hulu

yeah, here in Canada, Disney+ definitely seems like the streaming service where you get the most for your money, a pretty huge variety of shows/movies. Netflix on the other hand is seemingly just an endless amount of ridiculous baking game shows (which, admittedly, my kids love to watch).

Crave was overpriced (since only the version with HBO & Showtime was worth subscribing to) but essential for a while, but now that HBO has slowed down so hard it's outrageously overpriced

And Showtime totally imploded, at least for now (maybe all the shows they deleted will come back on Paramount+ at some point? Not like I'm going to subscribe to that).

Just discovered I Love That For You on Showtime, which is hilarious.

We watched that on our free trial, it's fantastic. Glad that one didn't mysteriously disappear like Kidding.