I watched the first two episodes of the Clone High revival and I thought it was really fun.
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so, five ā¦ or six? years after watching the first pilot episode of Mdm Maisel on Ama Prime (remember when they uploaded a pilot for a number of shows and would let the audience decide/go by statistics what to continue/produce?), I am somewhat surprised to realize that
a) they stuck with it until the series got a proper send-off
b) they managed to maintain a high budget for the show, enough to never feel like they skimped on the setpieces (even during corona-years)
c) who wrote these characters? Highlights are esp. Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle, they really winged half the show (you can tell that the writers knew they had gold on their hand, and subsequently increased their bits in the latter seasons) and giving Shalhoub a graceful arc in the last episode was a classy move. Borstein rocked as Susie, and there is nobody I can see doing that role aside from her 
d) Iāll miss looking forward to dipping back into this world once every year or two. The time, cars, fashion did sell me on the show alone
so tl;dr, confession time:
i really enjoyed watching this show!
The last episode felt like they really wrapped the show with the final set Midge does, and some of the emotions feel too real for just being acted (checked that online just now: yeah, some articles/interviews state they did wrap with that set, cool!). Could have done without the jumping around in time during the last season, but not gonna complain (well now that I think about it: could have had more Stephanie Hsu in it), the payoff in the last episode was worth it.
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i think i missed a season or two, so hadnāt realised it was properly ending. the highs are really good, so iāll probably watch the rest now.
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I also really enjoyed Maisel but I think itās had some real issues (like all of the previous season is horrendous imo) and theyāve been noticeably struggling wrapping things up with this last few episodes they have left. But when itās good itās good. Youāre right about the parents being the best characters.
Excited to watch the last couple episodes later this week.
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bunheads is still the best show ASP has made.
I started watching succession on this long flight BC TV is the new movies. Itās actually pretty good but I was wrong about it being a gritty arrested development reboot. Itās more like a gritty ducktales reboot. Evil Scottish billionaire has to juggle his mischievous and naughty children
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I want to make a show thatās like succession but also a Chinese historical costume drama, based on the mess following the death of emperor Wu of the liu-song dynasty. A bunch of his former cronies didnāt like the kid he picked to be his successor so they conspired to take him out and replace him with a different son. They were successful but then the new emperor had them all executed for disrespecting his brother. Then the sequel would be about how at the end of that guys reign one of his sons hired a witch to curse him and then also had him assassinated. But then that guy was also killed by one of his brothers like a year later. Fun family!
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I Think You Should Leave to me simply has the greatest ratio of hits to misses of any sketch show it feels like a miracle
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ok time warner discovery max you got me
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watching old episodes of Man From UNCLE which are good in direct proportion to how much the robert vaughn character comes off as a sleazy charmless murderer. i guess thereās a certain amount of amorality sort of built into the spy show format - the first episode i watched has our hero murder someone in cold blood on a dark road, and then immediately pretend to be the guyās long-lost brother in order to stroll into his life and dig around (and also pick up the guyās girlfriend?). and then it cuts to some frogmen watching the whole thing from a hill!! a lot of the rest of it is kind of more standard adventure show stuff but itās made up for by parts like that.
The Avengers is fun because i guess they identified those little moments of visual surrealism or like casually weird character actor bit parts and decided to build the whole show around them
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The demi lovato rendition of this was not great but I am hopeful
watched about 13 episodes of Space Force on Netflix. Steve Carell joint, I guess this was Netflix trying to get something with him in it to dampen the blow of losing the office to peacock or what the fuck ever
it starts boring but gets pretty funny. phenomenal cast and guest appearances (steve carell, john malkovich, ben schwartz, jimmy o. yang, lisa kudrow, fred willard, patrick warburton, tim meadows, jane lynch, roy wood jr., noah emmerich, kaitlin olson, patton oswalt, diedrich bader), shot quite beautifully.
iām enjoying it quite a bit!
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Square Pegs is sending me into a spiral
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finished watching I Hate Suzie and I Hate Suzie Too. it took me a bit because they are incredibly stressful, tense episodes which stopped me from binging it- probably a good thing! i really liked it, though! i am inclined to like media about women in various states of breakdowns (nervous or otherwise) and billie piper does it really well. itās kinda like a funny, modern Sunset Boulevard? itās shot so well- by which i mean they really heighten the manic state of billie piperās character. thought it did a pretty decent job talking about the difficulties of being alive as a woman. i can see how it could be off putting because (if you wanna be reductive about it) itās essentially a show about a white woman having a hard time because photos of her sucking dick that isnāt her husbands got leaked. which, understandably, catalyzes a crisis for her.
think it was written/created by lucy prebble and billie piper. i guess lucy prebble also worked on that show succession which i started but couldnāt finish. i canāt find any reason to care about a metaphorical murdoch family and their woes. i did like that dink, cousin greg tho
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i hate suzie and particularly too are like the most goated tv thing that i never hear anyone talk about
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Too was incredibly good! That ending was very moving
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Started Our Planet II. Seems like a downer.
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Iām a Virgo has all my favorite things: over the top unsubtle political and showbiz satire, scifi that examines life in a world with superpowers/superheroes from the street level, black characters having fun in a sitcom, michel gondry style special effects goofiness.
I donāt know how Boots Riley tricked them into making this but it sure is for me
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I love the bear
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