Finding New Shit on TV

[twocoach]

Any game background needed? What shows would you compare it to?

No, no game experience needed.

[jhawks99]

Secrets of the Octopus is starting out really good. When dud more than 1 become octopuses?

And, damn, no more pulpo for 99.

[MICHHAWK]

fallout is good. not great.

[DCHawk1]

Baby Reindeer is...interesting...

[jfish26]

Not a TV show, but finally got to American Fiction last weekend. Can't remember the last movie I watched that was as good. Funny, tragic, surprising, inventive, hopeful, earnest. Meaningful, but without being self-serious.

[jhawks99]

Jeopardy! Masters

Mattea is still annoying

[KUTradition]

Baby Reindeer is...interesting...

we enjoyed it quite a bit

the, uh, shocking turns it takes kept us interested…easy to binge

[twocoach]

Finishing up Vikings on Netflix, had never watched it before for some reason. Thoroughly enjoyable late night watching. Fun to imagine living at such a time in such a place. What a bizarre existence that must have been. I like to imagine stealing someone from those times and bringing them to our time a la Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

[jfish26]

Finishing up Vikings on Netflix, had never watched it before for some reason. Thoroughly enjoyable late night watching. Fun to imagine living at such a time in such a place. What a bizarre existence that must have been. I like to imagine stealing someone from those times and bringing them to our time a la Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

I enjoyed the parts of Shogun that were like this - it is fascinating to think about the notion of cultures colliding.

[twocoach]

Finishing up Vikings on Netflix, had never watched it before for some reason. Thoroughly enjoyable late night watching. Fun to imagine living at such a time in such a place. What a bizarre existence that must have been. I like to imagine stealing someone from those times and bringing them to our time a la Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

I enjoyed the parts of Shogun that were like this - it is fascinating to think about the notion of cultures colliding.

Yeah, just thinking how wildly different such cultures were when the reality was that they weren't terribly far apart is interesting. I also find the fact that many women were warriors and leaders of communities and not just relegated to being baby factories to be refreshing and fascinating.

I haven't watched Shogun yet; I may try that next.

[Shirley]

The latest big streaming service bundle has been priced to offer users at least a 30% discount over the cost of subscribing to the three services separately.

StreamSaver -- a package including Comcast's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Peacock Premium (with ads), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Basic (with ads) and Apple TV+ -- is coming to customers in Comcast's footprint for a total cost of $15 per month.

[jfish26]

The latest big streaming service bundle has been priced to offer users at least a 30% discount over the cost of subscribing to the three services separately.

StreamSaver -- a package including Comcast's (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Peacock Premium (with ads), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Basic (with ads) and Apple TV+ -- is coming to customers in Comcast's footprint for a total cost of $15 per month.

Inching ever-closer to inventing cable. What'll they think of next, a channel that scrolls (excruciatingly slowly) down the channel index, showing what's on?

[TDub]

time is a flat circle

[Shirley]

This seems to be the Movie thread, so:

Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Shocks Cannes, Receives Nearly Eight-Minute Standing Ovation

One of the most anticipated moments of the 77th Cannes Film Festival finally arrived Monday night with the world premiere of the Donald Trump drama The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as a young version of the real estate mogul in his pre-MAGA days.

Ali Abbasi, Stan, Martin Donovan and Maria Bakalova walked the Cannes red carpet for the premiere. Only Jeremy Strong, who plays notorious political fixer Roy Cohn in the film, was not in attendance.

Directed by acclaimed Iranian-Danish filmmaker Abbasi and written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice explores Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand rightwing attorney Roy Cohn.

Several shocking moments late in the film — a scene depicting Trump’s alleged rape of his first wife Ivana and a surgery room sequence showing Trump getting liposuction — drew audible gasps from the Cannes premiere crowd.

When addressing the crowd, Abbasi commented on the current world events such as the war in Ukraine and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, explaining how “in the time of turmoil there’s this tendency to look inwards” and “to bury your head deep in the sand and look inside and hope for the best.”

Abbasi then addressed being questioned why he wanted to make a movie centered on Trump and argued that films need to be “relevant” again. He explained, “There is no nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism. There’s only the messy way. There’s only the the banal way. There’s only the way of dealing with this wave on its own terms, at its own level and it’s not going to be pretty, but I think the problem with the world is that the good people have been quiet for too long. So, I think it’s time to make movies relevant. It’s time to make movies political again.”

[ousdahl]

Whoa, Abbasi going full Qusdahl.

Anywho, so I heard this interview with the Breaking Bad creator who said Jesse was supposed to just be some ancillary character who died pretty early on in the story.

But then everybody liked the character and the dynamic with Walt, so they decided to keep him on, and eventually make him a main dood. Maybe even the single biggest “protagonist,” if the series even has one. (El Camino maybe makes it feel more that way)

That all makes me wonder how much of the story was some grander vision, and how much of it was like, well shit what are we gonna do for next episode?

[Back2Lawrence]

Whoa, Abbasi going full Qusdahl.

Anywho, so I heard this interview with the Breaking Bad creator who said Jesse was supposed to just be some ancillary character who died pretty early on in the story.

But then everybody liked the character and the dynamic with Walt, so they decided to keep him on, and eventually make him a main dood. Maybe even the single biggest “protagonist,” if the series even has one. (El Camino maybe makes it feel more that way)

That all makes me wonder how much of the story was some grander vision, and how much of it was like, well shit what are we gonna do for next episode?

1. whatever. that guy isn't even murikan. what does he know about us?
2. wouldn't walt have been the protagonist? and probably hank as the closest antagonist, although many characters weren't 100% on the side of walt, hank is the only one who opposed his actions 100% of the time.

refresh your knowledge of what those words mean. Protagonist and Antagonist aren't good vs evil in a vacuum. If that's how you learned them, your teachers sucked.

[ousdahl]

Yea, I guess that’s true.

But there’s so much two-timing and so many characters that turn out to be horrible people, it’s hard to keep track

[TDub]

I finally watched top gun maverick.

holy shit what a terrible movie.

all it did was flashback and and follow the plot of the first one, it was incredibly predictable and stale.

Awful movie.

[KUTradition]

i can’t stand glenn powell…and not just because of that film

[jfish26]

I finally watched top gun maverick.

holy shit what a terrible movie.

all it did was flashback and and follow the plot of the first one, it was incredibly predictable and stale.

Awful movie.

There were parts of it I liked, when it leaned into the camp.

But there's a line between fun, self-effacing camp and sweaty, self-serious wankery. And the movie crosses that line multiple times, becoming overlong in the process.