not really
i mean people of all genders can enjoy all bad tv but that is the one mainstream tv show that seems to have the most like malevolent masculine energy behind it. oh that and the tom clancy show or anything where a guy from a sitcom gets roided/bearded up to play an operator
âOnly Internet Karl Malone knows about is putting balls in a netâ is an incredible line though.
the only good part of that show was Doug Stanhope âboxingâ Tonya Harding aka she kicks his fucking ass and says he hits like a bitch
did i post about dark angel when i was watching disc 1? the dialogue is the worst turn of the century girl power nonsense you can imagine, but the ambience is great and thereâs plenty of action.
and itâs explicitly anti-cop! theyâre treated as just another extortion gang, with no interest in protecting people or fighting crime.
anyway iâm watching the season 2 âschmicagoâ season and it turns out that my much stronger love of 60s and 70s showtunes is enough to make me like it more especially without the weird americana vibe. i still would not recommend this show to most humans but the absolute weird tonal clash of trying to combine chicago and pippin and sweeney todd and hair and jesus christ superstar and whatnot is just fascinating to watch. plus tituss burgess as a narrator who is sort of a malevolent ben vereen who lives for drama is actually just good
itâs stacking many different twisty hook plot devices and needle drops and so on but when i forget about the form iâm really enjoying yellowjackets. sometimes they work really well! i wasnât even taken out of the moment by the cannibalism bacchanal psychosis set to âclimbing up the wallsâ by radiohead
For some reason I had this vague feeling that Zach Galifianakis was on the sitcom Boston Common, which aired for 2 seasons in the late 90s and Iâm pretty sure I have never seen. So I honestly thought this was a fake memory and the show probably just had some random guy that vaguely looked like him but I just decided to look it up and it turns out itâs fucking true, he was on it?? What the fuck?
Iâm really, really enjoying Alan Tudicâs Resident Alien, a Syfy show that inexplicably isnât shitty, and heavily features a lot of indiginious characters, and does so in an effortless way that lends subtly to the story, enriching almost every interaction. It rules.
Alan Tudicâs character does not give a fuck about humans, nor the dominant racial group, and is really only drawn to whatever wisdom the ones around him offer.
You do have to enjoy the main comedic conceit that Alan Tudic is a space alien who intends to kill all humans. If you like that, youâll love this show.
Into season 2 now, itâs been getting progressively better and better as it goes.
I think I read a few issues of the comic. The alien is pretending to be a resident doctor in a practice in a town in, like, Arizona right?
It takes place in Patience, Colorado, so it sorta does the Northern Exposure small-town thing. Pretty comfy show to unwind to.
But yeah he crash lands in a lake in Colorado, kills a doctor, and takes his identity.
If I could choose a show biz career Iâd choose Alan Tudykâs. That guyâs got to be having the most fun just all of the time
After finding out it was getting yanked from Disney+ I went ahead and binged Willow over the course of two nights. Solid C+, Iâd say? The choice to make the focus a bunch of kids certainly gave it a weird YA Novel Adaptation feel, as filtered through Disney Afternoon programming, while still operating in the Nostalgia Zone. My biggest beef is maybe all the pop music/rock covers sprinkled through the soundtrack. Like it kinda works but also they probably could have picked better or more interesting songs. I guess the cover of âBlackhole Sunâ wasnât bad.
But yeah, a fun enough adventure romp.
yeah this was extremely weird to me too, i decided that my own personal explanation for it was that warwick davis provided them a playlist of classic rock hits that he demanded be included in the show, and getting vaguely contemporary-sounding spotify covers of them was their form of compromise
I saw Succession got a mention in the first thread. Has anyone else been keeping up? This final season has been fantastic.
I recently learned that Succession is not at all like Entourage, which is what Iâve been thinking for the last 5 years
I recently discovered that Succession and Severence were different shows. Still havenât seen the former but Severence rules.
Boss (2014) starts Kelsey Grammer as Mayor Tom Kane of Chicago. standard political drama, feels very republican The Wire Season 3, except he has a brain disease thatâs going to kill him that also causes intense hallucinations.
first season is mostly how he attempts to keep it a secret and the various evil means necessary for it. there a b-plot about a undeclared toxic waste dump and the dogged reporter uncovering it (played supremely-uncharismatically by Troy Garity, exceptional stuff. just exudes face-punching energy). he manipulates events to remain untouchable, everybody hates him, women still get naked for him
second season finishes weak but the first half, oh boy. he frequently hallucinates his murdered political advisor saying the worst stuff, calling him a fuck-up, etc. while his personality changes as he self-delusionally avoids his medication and he tries being a nice? person? doing things for others?? watch this with a loaf of rye handy because Kelsey will bring the ham (double servings)
the second half is recovering from this, and abruptly ends as no one watched this series so it was cancelled. executively-produced by Kelsey Grammer, occasional episodes directed by Gus Van Sant (the first) & Mario Van Peebles (& the HBO procedural cop show guy)
yes, iâve been watching. i feel like my favorite episodes are still back in earlier seasons, but i do like the way this one manages to have almost every episode ramp up and defile the stakes from the previous one.
been watching this and also Rome (for the first time) and itâs kind of an overload of intrigue and deception
Felt convinced to check out Succession but was mortified to see the show is directed by Adam McKay.
Oh itâs just the pilot.
did anyone who watched the motion picture macgruber watch the tv show i forgot it existed