TV AfterParty

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I checked and the answer is yes, at least until they next cull what is available on the service.

I briefly browsed what is on Peacock (the answer is a lot of old shows I forgot existed) and I may go in the complete opposite direction and just watch Death Note as I’ve heard it mentioned for years and have basically no idea what it is like beyond the ā€œwrite names in a bookā€ gimmick. Even if it is awful it is only one season long.

BTW I was bummed flipping through HBO Max as my mind was ā€œthere’s all those old shows they used to show on Adult Swim that I’d like to catch againā€ and turns out they don’t have the rights to your Cowboy Bebops and Triguns of the world (darn you Toonami for being mostly separate). At least I still have Home Movies.

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a few weeks ago i was thumbing through HBO Max and popped on an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and then Harvey Birdman for the first time in probably 16 or 18 years and damn, it was like a time machine. those adult swim shows really had an impact on me in my early twenties

Home Movies I have watched like 20 times over in that same period of time

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lol

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yikes

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sleep dead empire

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Between this and Mel Brooks putting a show on TV, I am very tired of the way elderly people seem to have a stranglehold on every aspect of our society and culture

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I would happily let Mel Brooks tighten his grip if all the other old guys would just go away. We should honestly just let Mel Brooks single handedly run pop culture until he dies, he’s earned it on the basis of producing The Fly and getting Anne Bancroft to marry him alone

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Look I love Mel Brooks more than my own parents, but he’s old enough to be their dad! He’s fuckin old.

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Glad mr cleese found time outside of starring in the new roman polanski film to remake one of the worst british cultural touchstones

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every brexit voter’s second favourite sitcom

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number one? Dad’s Army too obvious, gotta be Only Fools and Horses

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yes! they have a religious devotion to it

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shit country shit outcomes don’t like it there’s the door etc

incredibly, incredibly, it looks like warren beatty might be making a (second!) bizarre tv appearance as dick tracy on amc tomorrow night to hold on to the rights to the character as part of his apparent life purpose of making a second dick tracy movie (he already did this once in 2010!)…

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im waiting with bated breath to know if this is going to be 30 mins of warren beatty in a zoom call wearing the hat and costume just talking about whatever

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it really seems like that must be exactly it and i’m losing my mind

i don’t know what i’m going to do if he, like, says the movie is happening

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i love the leads in interview with the vampire and their goofy bert and ernie coffins

edit: hell yeah just got to claudia

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The person who release the Dead of Night episodes I have just posted that they got a box of 20 or so additional U-Matic tapes of further episodes from the creator!

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finished season 1 of true blood. partner is a huge fan of the books and enjoying the deviations this time. it’s weird that they’re allegedly rebooting it but that may be a casualty of warner discovery now

six feet under was an unabashed prestige soap opera and this is too, but heightened and strained with a then-clumsy civil rights metaphor. it’s still so much but i can’t deny it has aged like wine now that They are saying the exact same things. maybe it’s just been 15 years and ā€œgod hates fangsā€ has the right amount of remove

the central premise of sookie as a telepathic bar/grill waitress is so brilliant it carries even my most strained credulity

at times it reminds me of the soapy non-lynch parts of twin peaks in which i am also watching a lovesick dumbass named james get into trouble

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