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« Reply #18960 on: February 19, 2022, 10:05:53 PM »
Cuphead is very charming.

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« Reply #18961 on: February 19, 2022, 10:09:34 PM »
S1 REACHER is very close to the book on which it’s based, KILLING FLOOR.

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« Reply #18962 on: February 21, 2022, 09:30:55 PM »
Reacher wasn't good. It was watchable mindless nonsense, but that was about all. It's biggest problem was at no point was he ever in any real danger. The show made it clear none of the villains were any threat to him. When they did fight him it was totally unbelievable. At one point he was getting hit with a crowbar and thrown about by a guy half his size. The plot went full on bullshit towards the end. Throughout the series the bad guys were torturing and murdering everyone in sight but then decided to start taking hostages when they grabbed his pals? Bullshit.

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« Reply #18963 on: February 21, 2022, 11:38:19 PM »
Peacemaker was good.  Liked it better than the movie.  The choreography was surprisingly great. 

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« Reply #18964 on: February 22, 2022, 12:18:59 AM »
Latest Euphoria episode  :whew

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« Reply #18965 on: February 22, 2022, 02:12:42 AM »
Reacher wasn't good. It was watchable mindless nonsense, but that was about all. It's biggest problem was at no point was he ever in any real danger. The show made it clear none of the villains were any threat to him. When they did fight him it was totally unbelievable. At one point he was getting hit with a crowbar and thrown about by a guy half his size. The plot went full on bullshit towards the end. Throughout the series the bad guys were torturing and murdering everyone in sight but then decided to start taking hostages when they grabbed his pals? Bullshit.

the sovereign citizen porn was the best, when he quoted the constitution or whatever to a prison guard and managed to get out of an anal probe  :lol

the show was enjoyable but the plot was so bad

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« Reply #18966 on: February 22, 2022, 10:22:38 PM »
Latest Euphoria episode  :whew

Stretching out that Fezco scene so.fucking.long

Arggghhhh

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« Reply #18967 on: February 23, 2022, 07:22:00 PM »
Some shows I've been checking out week to week.

Abbott Elementary. Really fun. It's cut from the same cloth as The Office and Parks and Recreations, yet already feels settled into that season 3 sweet spot without the growing pains those had.

Bel Air. With or without directly comparing it to the sitcom, it's intriguing if unusual. Plenty has been said about the parody feel in transitioning from comedy to drama. After the initial episode, that sinks away. They hit you with it all up front. Carlton snorting pills. Geoffrey is a bodyguard/fixer. What's different is how it approaches authenticity wrt black culture, and Will Smith (it never clicked how the fictional character Will Smith played was named Will Smith) is the catalyst for the Banks family re-embracing it. Interested to see it develop. Last episode I watched had Uncle Phil bonding with Will over basketball and admitting he build a court for Carlton. Carlton plays lacrosse.

Pam and Tommy. Before learning of Craig Gillespie's involvement, there were I Tonya vibes from it. Pacing is wonky as it tries keeping that energy up for an entire show. But it is that vibe. Reasonable job at being authentically early 90s, only overplayed a touch with all the music. I read some controversy around the show. Not consulting Pamela Anderson. Toning down the abusive relationship. Recreating the stolen tape shot for shot. Having it be this goofy hyper reality where genitals speak. One example I read was recoloring Tommy Lee stalking Pamela Anderson and drugging her drinks as a wild and spontaneously fun act.

The Righteous Gemstones. Top tier. Whether it continues for another season or they move on, I'm in. Eastbound and Down, Vice Principles, and this have been great.

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« Reply #18968 on: February 23, 2022, 07:23:15 PM »
Latest Euphoria episode  :whew

Stretching out that Fezco scene so.fucking.long

Arggghhhh

I wasn't a huge fan of the last episode overall. Euphoria seems to always teeter on smelling its own farts a little too much, and though I generally appreciate the confidence this was kinda over that line for me. "Look how good our writing is!: The Episode: The Play"

You gotta earn that episode. Seinfeld waited until season 4. Curb until season 7. :larry

Also the cliffhanger was possibly the lamest one of the season, and I thought we still had 2-3 eps left not just 1.  >:(

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« Reply #18969 on: February 23, 2022, 08:09:55 PM »
Yeah, when the ep ended with a cliffhanger I was like "wait, we're doing this as the finale for the season?" ehhh, ok.


I got excited about the play format with the Overture at the start. Was ready for some cool artsy shit. There were some real good scenes in it where I felt he was channeling that Evangelion Anno, but the ep was also mixed with some very normal just ok scenes and then the pacing was wack because every time they were doing play stuff it was like "when you getting back to Fezco, I wanna know what happened there".


Levinson is pretentious as fuck, but most of the time it works and is great art and naked people so it's all good. Sometimes it doesn't quite work and it's just kind of ::)

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« Reply #18970 on: February 23, 2022, 09:10:13 PM »
‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘Solar Opposites’ Production Workers File to Unionize With Animation Guild

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TAG asserts in a press release that attorneys representing the shows’ production companies responded to TAG by “stating that the productions’ parent studios, Adult Swim and 20th Century Fox, were not willing to voluntarily recognize the entire unit as was proposed by The Animation Guild.”

Don't be dicks, guys. Come on. You can afford it.

I want to see more of this even if TAG writers should really probably be WGA writers (far more bargaining power, anyways).

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« Reply #18971 on: February 27, 2022, 10:10:33 PM »
Euphoria

"I just love fucking everything!" :lol :rofl

I take it back, Lexi's a genius.

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« Reply #18972 on: February 28, 2022, 02:39:17 AM »
Yeah, just saw the Euphoria finale. Don't know what to think of it. It was ok, and sorta conclusion-ish. But not really conclusion-ish enough? Just feels like a lot of the subplots were just left hanging around and I'm not even sure what the central theme of the finale or season was.

S1 came together well at the end and felt ok if the show was canned as it stood on its own. S2 feels...like it only works if S3 is good? And even if S3 is good, S2 will be kind of forgotten outside a few eps and scenes as a middle entry.

S2 also has a lot of weird leaps of logic and dropping the plot to the point it feels mismanaged? Like

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So Ru loses $10,000 worth of drugs from a freaky dealer kingpin with muscle and they never come after her all these months and Ru doesn't seem worried at all after that first night while she's in withdrawals?

Ru's going from withdrawals and morphine to hospital to suddenly able to be totally clean and generally fine and stay that way for months...felt crazy sudden. Like one ep she's having a breakdown and in the hospital and the next ep she's totally over it and fine and doesn't seem to have any addiction withdrawal? Even though she didn't get into rehab and you don't see her even going to her NA meetings?

I think the show skimped pretty hard on Lexi reacting to Fezco not being there. Like this was a big deal and she knows he was gonna be there and on his way so she's gonna be worried something's happened to him, but the show doesn't show her worry or any aftermath of her trying to get a hold of him.

Still not sure where the show is trying to go with Nate. The Cassie/Maddie thing is like wut at the end. "This is only the beginning" ? I don't even understand what she's trying to say. The beginning of them fighting? Seems like a zzz direction. The whole Ethan thing being totally a nothing the whole show and then suddenly he's awesome in the play and it's kind of weird. You'd think they would've given him a plot throughout the season leading to his performance in the play...

Anyhow, tattoo boy is a surprisingly great singer.
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« Reply #18973 on: February 28, 2022, 02:53:48 AM »
Also I'm salty because

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why setup that Fezco/Lexi stuff at the start of the season and just have it go there in the end. What a letdown.
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« Reply #18974 on: February 28, 2022, 12:29:54 PM »
Yeah, I kind of hated the finale.  Ash scene was pretty dumb.

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« Reply #18975 on: February 28, 2022, 04:13:48 PM »
Book of Boba Fett is ok. Was expecting some real trashfire, but it's on par with The Mandalorian, which some would say is trashfire, but I thought was ok too.

Yes I'm willing to lower the bar for something Star Wars that isn't an affront to filmmaking.
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« Reply #18976 on: February 28, 2022, 06:00:52 PM »



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« Reply #18977 on: February 28, 2022, 09:05:13 PM »
thinking of watching euphoria just to trash it  :cornette
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« Reply #18978 on: March 01, 2022, 09:43:25 PM »


"I don't know how to live in this world. If these are the choices. If everything just gets stripped away. I don't see the point."



"The witch... she's gonna blow this town apart."



"See... no matter how good a boy you are... God doesn't want you!"



"And in terms of a plan?"

"Yeah. Let's go to work."

Shame Whedon's a monster but Buffy/Angel is still next-level TV.
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« Reply #18979 on: March 02, 2022, 11:12:05 PM »
Wrapped up Punisher S2 before it left Netflix. Seems those shoes are hitting Disney anyway. It’s alright. Drags a lot. Various plot lines don’t intersect in meaningful ways. Newer six to eight episodes seasons have helped the pacing of these shows a lot.

Haven’t watched the last couple. That cartoon, Hawkeye, or that Cena one. But looking forward to Moonknight. Only six episodes there.

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« Reply #18980 on: March 03, 2022, 09:27:21 AM »
The Responder (BBC) was pretty good

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« Reply #18981 on: March 03, 2022, 01:20:00 PM »
Shame Whedon's a monster but Buffy/Angel is still next-level TV.
Firefly too. Serenity was acceptable but I hope it never gets rebooted, not even in comic form beyond the Serenity setup that already exists. :mynicca

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« Reply #18982 on: March 03, 2022, 07:19:52 PM »
I still need to watch Firefly and Serenity. :shh

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« Reply #18983 on: March 03, 2022, 07:45:22 PM »


:delicious

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« Reply #18984 on: March 03, 2022, 07:49:33 PM »
I started watching Justified cos of it's high reviews. It's one of those shows I'd heard about but never seen. It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it was one of those dry, super serious cop shows. Then I saw Elmore Leonard's name pop up and I got interested. I had a period where I read a lot of his stuff, along with Carl Hiaasen and Jim Thompson. Anyway, the show's been pretty good so far.

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« Reply #18985 on: March 04, 2022, 12:23:22 AM »
Guardians of Justice: Bootleg Universe, where Adi Shankar made the excellent Punisher bootleg. Diamond Dallas Page as a Batman-like character. Adi cast himself as the Lex Luthor analog. Physical sets are on a porn parody quality level. Cel-animated sequences, claymation, set locations physically sculpted miniature work. Visually speaking, this show is all over the place. Some of it is great, some of it just feels poorly planned. Writing is very much try-hard, but you've met Shankar's school of edgy filmmaking before. Even as much of this as he gets wrong, he gets more of it right than Sack Znyder.

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« Reply #18986 on: March 04, 2022, 03:42:31 AM »
I started watching Justified cos of it's high reviews. It's one of those shows I'd heard about but never seen. It wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it was one of those dry, super serious cop shows. Then I saw Elmore Leonard's name pop up and I got interested. I had a period where I read a lot of his stuff, along with Carl Hiaasen and Jim Thompson. Anyway, the show's been pretty good so far.

I just started watching it too and have been really enjoying the show, but then I got to a moment in season 3 where an event in one of the side-stories pissed me off so much that I haven’t wanted to get back to watching it yet.
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« Reply #18987 on: March 04, 2022, 05:52:36 AM »
What event

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« Reply #18988 on: March 04, 2022, 07:22:44 AM »
Shame Whedon's a monster but Buffy/Angel is still next-level TV.
Firefly too.

I also liked Dollhouse, especially as it seemed to be heading towards some kind of memetic warfare sci-fi :idont

Also, I think I mentioned in this topic, but it doesn't seem to have gained much traction, what currently exists of The Nevers is really fucking good, even if you're burnt out on cape shit

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« Reply #18989 on: March 04, 2022, 08:52:08 AM »
I started justified last night lol.  Two episodes in and it's pretty enjoyable. 

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« Reply #18990 on: March 04, 2022, 11:01:27 AM »
It doesn't really get into its stride until series 2 too, tbf.
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« Reply #18991 on: March 04, 2022, 01:09:09 PM »
What event

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The way Winona just callously (and without much lead-up) leaves Raylan again after fully integrating herself back into his life and getting knocked up with his kid.  Honestly a lot of the writing for her since season 2 just seems really crap.  Raylan breaks the law in a big way to help her out of that massive fuck-up she pulled with the counterfeit bills (and WTF was that even???), agrees with her to leave his Marshall position to go and teach at Quantico, and Winona can’t even bother to first speak with the man face-to-face about why she feels the need to leave him, maybe give him an opportunity to repair whatever damage she thinks he’s done.  I’m sure the writers intended for it to be an example of “Raylans anger” hurting his personal life, but the way it’s written just makes her come off as a selfish whore, especially considering the way she split from him when they were married.
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I intend to continue with the show, but I’m going to give it some time before I jump back in, because that was just some ridiculous tv bullshit.

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« Reply #18992 on: March 04, 2022, 01:39:17 PM »
https://taskmastersupermaxplus.vhx.tv/

Worth it for a month to binge. 

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« Reply #18993 on: March 04, 2022, 02:11:36 PM »
What event

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The way Winona just callously (and without much lead-up) leaves Raylan again after fully integrating herself back into his life and getting knocked up with his kid.  Honestly a lot of the writing for her since season 2 just seems really crap.  Raylan breaks the law in a big way to help her out of that massive fuck-up she pulled with the counterfeit bills (and WTF was that even???), agrees with her to leave his Marshall position to go and teach at Quantico, and Winona can’t even bother to first speak with the man face-to-face about why she feels the need to leave him, maybe give him an opportunity to repair whatever damage she thinks he’s done.  I’m sure the writers intended for it to be an example of “Raylans anger” hurting his personal life, but the way it’s written just makes her come off as a selfish whore, especially considering the way she split from him when they were married.
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I intend to continue with the show, but I’m going to give it some time before I jump back in, because that was just some ridiculous tv bullshit.

They had to write her out so Raylan could start bangin' all the other ladies and the audience wouldn't blame him.

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« Reply #18994 on: March 05, 2022, 07:12:39 AM »
Guardians of Justice: Bootleg Universe, where Adi Shankar made the excellent Punisher bootleg. Diamond Dallas Page as a Batman-like character. Adi cast himself as the Lex Luthor analog. Physical sets are on a porn parody quality level. Cel-animated sequences, claymation, set locations physically sculpted miniature work. Visually speaking, this show is all over the place. Some of it is great, some of it just feels poorly planned. Writing is very much try-hard, but you've met Shankar's school of edgy filmmaking before. Even as much of this as he gets wrong, he gets more of it right than Sack Znyder.

I'd compare it to Jupiters Legacy which is also hitting some of those same beats, and it is definitely more watchable than

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« Reply #18995 on: March 05, 2022, 07:20:37 AM »
The Boys: Diabolical is the Animatrix for The Boys that I don't think anyone asked for, and is wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidely varied in quality, the nadir probably being awkwafinas magical girl and talking turd buddy animu, the highlight probably being effectively a new motion comic of the original series answering what Simon Pegg would have been like playing Hughie once and for all.

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« Reply #18996 on: March 05, 2022, 11:34:01 AM »
I think what makes Justified so good is the dialog.  It's tropey and hard-boiled but it actually works and comes off straight and sounds badass most of the time, which really shouldn't happen given how much of a comedy the show is.  It's really surprising how much of a genera-blend this show is and how well it actually works.  Also, the crime-ridden comical south setting feels like it should be in grand-theft auto and I love it. 

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« Reply #18997 on: March 05, 2022, 11:45:05 AM »
It doesn't really get into its stride until series 2 too, tbf.
I remembered the first season of Justified being more case of the week, and it is, but my parents were watching it last summer and I caught a few for the first time since it aired and was surprised at how much they already were serializing stuff and setting them up for the long term.

"Bulletville" is still where the show takes a leap, and season two is still where they realize how much they wanted to flesh out Harlan County as the central cast of the show.

I also think season two still has the best Big Bad and secondary plotline too. In retrospect, the Quarles arc was perfectly done too as illustrating that the protagonist of the show is Harlan County, not Raylan.

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« Reply #18998 on: March 05, 2022, 11:48:41 AM »
The one part of Justified that never worked for me (probably because I'm autistic about the passage of time in things) is how often Raylan drives back and forth from Lexington to Harlan County. Often many times in the same episode and sometimes just for Raylan to talk to somebody and drive back. The show makes it seem like they're right next to each other, but Lexington is in the center of the state and Harlan County is almost on the east edge. It's like a three hour drive one way!

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« Reply #18999 on: March 05, 2022, 12:09:35 PM »
You probably didn't like the last few seasons of GoT then. :P

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« Reply #19000 on: March 06, 2022, 04:41:37 AM »
Probably late but my wife and I binged The OC and then Cobra Kai b2b and both were great pulp. They’re also weirdly similar in that they revolve around super well-off families letting tough life kids live with them despite them committing immediate felonies under their care. (Arson, attempted murder, etc.)

The OC, by comparison is somehow more believable and has a hippie Chris Pratt in its later seasons. Actually thought the weakest season was 2.

Cobra Kai has been consistently great despite jumping the shark immediately.
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« Reply #19001 on: March 06, 2022, 05:05:10 AM »
Cobra Kai has been amazing.

They have consistently defied going with the easy story options in favour of challenging (and dare I say, subverting) the viewers expectations. Every time you think they are going to take the easy way out with the story arcs, they go in a different direction.
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« Reply #19002 on: March 06, 2022, 06:35:27 AM »
Probably late but my wife and I binged The OC and then Cobra Kai b2b and both were great pulp. They’re also weirdly similar in that they revolve around super well-off families letting tough life kids live with them despite them committing immediate felonies under their care. (Arson, attempted murder, etc.)

The OC, by comparison is somehow more believable and has a hippie Chris Pratt in its later seasons. Actually thought the weakest season was 2.

Cobra Kai has been consistently great despite jumping the shark immediately.

The OC is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure shows.  It’s deliciously schlocky and the cast pretty much all have amazing chemistry.  I never could decide if I was team Anna or team Summer, stupid fuckin’ Seth.

Cobra Kai is brilliant of course, a show that continues to show how to properly bring a dormant franchise back, honoring both the longtime fans while also bringing in the new.  It’s the anti-Star Wars/Trek in my mind.

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« Reply #19004 on: March 07, 2022, 05:44:08 AM »
Two episodes in to Vox Machina. I have never listened to Critical Role so an completely unfamiliar with everything.

Not sure if I like it or not yet. Might give it another episode before I decide.
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« Reply #19007 on: March 10, 2022, 05:57:06 AM »
Four episodes in to Vox Machina now. I'm much more invested and interested in this new story arc. Great villains really help.
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« Reply #19008 on: March 11, 2022, 03:07:25 AM »
Cobra Kai has been amazing.

They have consistently defied going with the easy story options in favour of challenging (and dare I say, subverting) the viewers expectations. Every time you think they are going to take the easy way out with the story arcs, they go in a different direction.

Absolutely. The bigger sweeping narrative choices are really good at ‘how can they come back from that’. So many of them don’t really make sense in the context of a functional world but… The show is able to fit into some alternate reality bubble perfectly. It’s very 80s and honestly brilliant. The acting is also fucking great.



Probably late but my wife and I binged The OC and then Cobra Kai b2b and both were great pulp. They’re also weirdly similar in that they revolve around super well-off families letting tough life kids live with them despite them committing immediate felonies under their care. (Arson, attempted murder, etc.)

The OC, by comparison is somehow more believable and has a hippie Chris Pratt in its later seasons. Actually thought the weakest season was 2.

Cobra Kai has been consistently great despite jumping the shark immediately.

The OC is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure shows.  It’s deliciously schlocky and the cast pretty much all have amazing chemistry.  I never could decide if I was team Anna or team Summer, stupid fuckin’ Seth.

Cobra Kai is brilliant of course, a show that continues to show how to properly bring a dormant franchise back, honoring both the longtime fans while also bringing in the new.  It’s the anti-Star Wars/Trek in my mind.


I actually really liked Anna’s character arc. She felt like a disappointed, spurned, but well-adjusted human who actually (and inexplicably) loved Seth. His happiness mattered to her matured self and her reappearance in Seth’s attempt at Brown was a good if silly turn.


The show’s plotting almost always feels schlocky but the characters are really great and the acting too (mostly). Whatever they did on The OC to define character should be a class at Brown. It’s uncanny at how well people meld into roles throughout the show.


There’s actually an episode by episode podcast from Summer and Julie Cooper right now. It’s for a lot of the cast guesting and is fun enough for a few listens. Pretty interesting as a time capsule.
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« Reply #19009 on: March 11, 2022, 03:08:43 AM »
Wife and I started Ozark. Episode 1 is a little dreary but I want to go on a journey with a fun-less Bateman.


Worth it? Story seems well crafted.
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« Reply #19010 on: March 11, 2022, 04:02:15 AM »
Cobra Kai has been amazing.

They have consistently defied going with the easy story options in favour of challenging (and dare I say, subverting) the viewers expectations. Every time you think they are going to take the easy way out with the story arcs, they go in a different direction.

Absolutely. The bigger sweeping narrative choices are really good at ‘how can they come back from that’. So many of them don’t really make sense in the context of a functional world but… The show is able to fit into some alternate reality bubble perfectly. It’s very 80s and honestly brilliant. The acting is also fucking great.



Probably late but my wife and I binged The OC and then Cobra Kai b2b and both were great pulp. They’re also weirdly similar in that they revolve around super well-off families letting tough life kids live with them despite them committing immediate felonies under their care. (Arson, attempted murder, etc.)

The OC, by comparison is somehow more believable and has a hippie Chris Pratt in its later seasons. Actually thought the weakest season was 2.

Cobra Kai has been consistently great despite jumping the shark immediately.

The OC is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure shows.  It’s deliciously schlocky and the cast pretty much all have amazing chemistry.  I never could decide if I was team Anna or team Summer, stupid fuckin’ Seth.

Cobra Kai is brilliant of course, a show that continues to show how to properly bring a dormant franchise back, honoring both the longtime fans while also bringing in the new.  It’s the anti-Star Wars/Trek in my mind.


I actually really liked Anna’s character arc. She felt like a disappointed, spurned, but well-adjusted human who actually (and inexplicably) loved Seth. His happiness mattered to her matured self and her reappearance in Seth’s attempt at Brown was a good if silly turn.


The show’s plotting almost always feels schlocky but the characters are really great and the acting too (mostly). Whatever they did on The OC to define character should be a class at Brown. It’s uncanny at how well people meld into roles throughout the show.


There’s actually an episode by episode podcast from Summer and Julie Cooper right now. It’s for a lot of the cast guesting and is fun enough for a few listens. Pretty interesting as a time capsule.

Oh shit, I need to check that out!  Should pair well with the Fake Doctors Real Friends (scrubs) podcast.  And I completely agree with what you say about Anna, I still have a big crush on her character to this day.  Yet I also really like how Summer grew as a person, so I’ve never gone all-in with one over the other.

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« Reply #19011 on: March 11, 2022, 06:53:54 AM »
Finished up Vox Machina. Great show, even if I think it went a couple episodes too long. They could have trimmed the first two episodes into one and the last three into two.
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« Reply #19012 on: March 11, 2022, 10:08:48 AM »
Should pair well with the Fake Doctors Real Friends (scrubs) podcast.

On a similar note, that's only tangentially TV show related, the Always Sunny podcast is really good

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« Reply #19013 on: March 14, 2022, 09:51:22 PM »

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« Reply #19014 on: March 14, 2022, 10:05:17 PM »
I'll pretty much watch anything with Ken Watanabe, but throw in some modern Japan and feudal crime shit and I'm fucking over excited.
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« Reply #19015 on: March 16, 2022, 12:28:11 AM »


I love Brian Cox so much :dead

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« Reply #19016 on: March 16, 2022, 04:11:31 AM »
https://thecorners.substack.com/p/stopping-the-nate-hate

Ted Lasso article, absolutely nailing the importance of Nate's reaction to his situation, at all times, during the show. Here's praying for s3 to give Nate a chance to make what he needs to make for himself.

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« Reply #19017 on: March 16, 2022, 09:06:28 PM »
Fuck Nate, the little shit.
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« Reply #19018 on: March 16, 2022, 09:18:20 PM »
Fuck Nate, the little shit.

Read the arcticle. Nate needs to give himself a hug.

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« Reply #19019 on: March 16, 2022, 09:31:11 PM »
Fuck Nate, the little shit.

Read the arcticle. Nate needs to give himself a hug.
I did. Still, fuck Nate.

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