TV AfterParty

I hope nic is able to get every individual streaming service to give him the money to make a new show that gets everyone involved fired once the bosses see it and is then immediately buried without a word

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gonna be really impressed if this hits as hard as his last one. one of the best shows of the last decade, but not sure if i can see him landing it a second time round.

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learned that at home with amy sedaris has a third season but fucken trutv has seemingly delisted it and other sources are spotty. what a crime. there’s a columbo episode! three years ago!

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I have it ofc

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Randomly started watching Letterkenny and I’m having a great time

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It’s 2023 and I’m watching Mad Men for the first time. I love watching people be terrible to each other, so I’m really into it.

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Ah man! Just started rewatching it in the background as noise for chores. I really like that show. Isn’t Pete Campbell such a doofus? Kills me

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Pete Campbell may be the most detestable little weasel-faced fuck in the history of television. Brilliantly written and performed character.

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yeah he’s just a straight up horrible character early on, it’s almost funny

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They’re all lil shitheads. Think Kinsey might be the least shittiest, but he’s also pretty insufferable at times.

In the end Pete is the best character

I’m a Ginzo person. I really like the scene where he and Peggy are working very late and he tells her that he’s an alien, I’ve watched just that scene about 10 times.

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I adore Don, as a fellow successful cipher. wonderful character

I tried watching the Wednesday show. It just kinda bugs me so far. Freaks vs ā€˜normies’ setups just make me feel like someone’s entire deal is that they experienced some sort of tragic mockery at the hands of peers when they were a high school freshman. I want to like it, but I fear that’s just nostalgia gripping me.

Also, I relate to the main character but only as a distillation of the sort of insufferable I was as a youth and which I hope that I no longer am.

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i feel like wednesday doesn’t work. as soon as you put her in the school where everyone is weird she just becomes incredibly boring

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A really great time. Oh no it’s going to change the way I speak

I think Copenhagen Cowboy is my favorite thing Refn has done. not as glacially paced as Too Old to Die Young either, even though I loved that too. What a great fashion show gangster fairytale. What a shame there’s no way this is getting a second season. I don’t know how he keeps getting people to give him money to make these things but I hope it keeps happening

the refn universe is collapsing in on itself

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almost done rewatching all of at home with amy sedaris

it was a perfect vehicle for her — actual practical entertaining and crafting presented as messy vĆ©ritĆ© clashing with surreal pee wee’s playhouse characters and camp pastiche. winking with one eye, winning a staring contest with the other

as materialist as a satirical homemaking show by a famous personality can be — fictionalized amy as an envious and tyrannical boss herself nearly insolvent and keeping up appearances

righteously, confrontationally feminist. featuring maybe the worst pun drag name i’ve ever heard while never crossing the line

a perfect television program if you spent your teens malingering with HGTV and strangers with candy on in the background

the best thing a24 ever funded, at any rate

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Copenhagen Cowboy is a fun watch so far; very slow and lots of colored lights.

been rewatching Seinfeld (again) as my wife had never really seen it. she likes George the most, so far.

this time around, i’m really noticing how often Seinfeld’s character is focused on being a Boomer Hero, ā€œsticking itā€ to those damned service industry folks with all their rules and policies. go get those minimum wagers, Seinfeld.

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not a huge von trier fan but giving riget exodus a shot and it’s surprisingly hilarious. the original was funny but not this consistently.

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