it just feels kind of sad, like there is a perfect moment to just end this and leave and to extend it feels undignified in a way
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ironically this entire country pretty much crossed that threshold between 2017-2019 too
as goes mr. lahey, so goes canada
Given its themes of frustrated hopes and everything, Party Down was really a prime candidate for the revival thing, but damn, the new season was really fantastic. Hoping there might be more to come.
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I have never, ever, ever liked Jennifer Garner even half that much before. incredible work
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Yeah, Iāve never thought that much about her one way or the other, but she was so fucking good in this.
yes! i remember reading some fairly negative preview headline ahead of time that was like āidk itās kind of bleakā and i was like oh cool maybe this will own. and then it did
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the first episode was shockingly bad, im amazed how good itās been since.
Funny thing with my watching this season of Party Down was I started on episode 6, thinking it was episode 1 and didnāt figure out for almost 10 minutes I wasnāt watching the catch-you-up premier episode. There were a couple brief things that made me say āhuh, thatās weirdly specific for a season premier,ā like a cut to Zoe Chaoās character, but I thought it was just going for a very strong in medias res thing. It wasnāt until Jane Lynch called Ron about ownership issues that I realized Iād probably missed something.
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iāve been avoiding the hawkeye show on purpose even though it should be extremely my shit because i like the story they are adapting but i will say that my phone showing me an article about how jeremy renner got run over by a runaway snowplow trying to save a child, got all his bones and organs crushed, then used sign language to tell his family āIām sorryā is the most hawkeye fucking bullshit that could have possibly happened to the guy playing him. i was tempted to watch it for just a second
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the whiplash in quality between the first and second episodes made me get up and check that i hadnāt accidentally downloaded s02e02 instead. itās really impressive how, when it gets running, just finds the exact cadence of the best stuff from the original run.
we got to the season of buffy with the resident evil a plot (THE HAIR) and queercoded wiccan b plot (āha ha i had a great time casting spells with you last night. iāve never done anything like that beforeā)
whatās the television trope for a woman whose dating prospects are all plot devices for which she is blamed
then i learn that buffy the vampire slayer is the television show with the most academic scholarship by volume and reconsider the last twenty years of pop culture
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i still think the best episode is the one where all the adults get horny and do crime because they eat too much demon candy
how many papers are there on that one i wonder
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i recently faced disappointment when i read an essay about bdsm in buffy the vampire slayer and i donāt think they mentioned the dynamic between faith and mayor wilkins at all. (faith is bratty sub representation)
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similarly ābeer bad,ā a rejected attempt to get a grant from the office of drug control policy, is a gem in the mold of horribly misguided star trek morality plays but no thatās the lowest rated episode in the series
willow tells off a fuckboy and sarah michelle gellar does hangover/caveman acting through buffy dialogue like playing chubby bunny
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watched all of beef
really liked it, both really funny and really sad
been watching the righteous gemstones, midway through season 2 now
iā¦ like it? i kinda feel like most of the characters are acting like theyāre in different shows? john goodmanās performance has moments of incredible soulfulness that sit alongside the vanity and assholeishness of his character in an interesting way. but then danny mcbride is doing some straight-up ricky bobby shit. and adam devineās character and his storyline feel like a stream of crossovers from a different show. edi patterson is completely fucking unhinged in a way thatās almost but not quite compatible with mcbrideās wackiness (also she does this character named bean dip on comedy bang bang and her voice sometimes slips into the bean dip voice, which is a weird moment for my brain). walton goggins seems to be doing the show everyone expected a comedy set in this world would be. and whenever jennifer nettles shows up to play the late matriarch of the family in flashback, she injects an amount of pathos and humanity that somehow penetrates the whole story.
also, somehow really surprised that thatās what jody hill looks like
weird fuckinā show. almost a sort of collage effect.
never caught any of mcbrideās other hbo shows, so i donāt know how much this is just the mode he, hill, and green are working in these days. will probably go back to eastbound after this
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I really like gemstones a lot and I never loved any of Danny McBrideās other work ā he usually gets praised along the King of the Hill lines of making something feel both authentic and surreal at the same time, and I donāt think he had a big enough budget or ensemble before now to avoid falling into basic cringe traps
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Gemstones is ultimately a disappointment because itās not mean enough to its piece of shit characters. They all end up getting off the hook with their own redemptions. Very Schittās Creek situation
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tbh this actually looks kind of fun? iām impressed they managed to go the whole trailer without even a hint that any of the ānormalā muppets will be in this. i hope thatās true!
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