the rain in spain is blasting out of a waist-height showerhead (that cuba’s water pressure cannot provide)
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This is my solemn oath. I will never enable Felix to get blasted at waist height in the shower
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did they put joe rogan in newsradio so there’d be an american equivalent of all the old 90s bbc sitcoms where graham linehan unexpectedly pops up as a guest extra
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just had to pause i’m a virgo to tell my partner “i think that was a sample from akira” like five seconds after it happened for the first time
as you can imagine she was very impressed
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I really wish Boots would produce more and write less, his production is so good and his writing is so heavy handed, I think he could improve literally anyone else’s material
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so i wound up feeling a bit underwhelmed by season 2 of The Bear. i enjoy that (most of) the characters have some real growth from season 1, but i feel like most of the season is sort of just leading up to something, which then happens, and then they need to find a way to create some new conflict for season 3 and do so in a way that felt so contrived and constructed.
some really lovely and wonderful moments throughout, though, just didn’t leave as much of an impact as season 1, idk. maybe one day i will look back on s2 as having had dignified restraint or something.
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My surf dracula prediction is that the companion lady is just choosing not to tell anyone that her name is Calypso, and is traveling between cities to hand out invitations to the first Twisted Metal tournament. Based on IMDB all of the characters who are not the protagonist and the companion only show up in one episode, so look forward to a clifhanger ending and then hold your breath for the follow up season.
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I watched this whole thing but my brain could only stutter like a crashing computer program over Neve… Campbell? Neve… Campbell?
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that’s the wrong show to get lynskey nominated lol
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Did not enjoy Succession or Last of Us. I don’t care about awards but this does feel pretty drab.
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i really liked the first season of the last of us. enough to dip another toe into the game - which i still find very polished and competent but somewhat boring (so much walk and talk) and not particularly compelling mechanically
lots of good performances in the tv show, though. pedro pascal is riveting. my favorite nick offerman role, too, probably
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I adore succession and white lotus (have not watched last of us) but lol
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F. Murray Abraham nominated for the transformative performance of an out of touch creep in the show where Mike White makes fun of his actor friends’ social blindspots, not particularly long after being removed for sexual harassment from the other show where he also played an out of touch creep.
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yeah i didn’t love it but i mostly liked it. i only played about 30 minutes of the game.
there are parts of the show that stick out to me as “clearly video game set pieces” that don’t really work in the context of the show at all, but barring those it’s decently told and pretty well acted.
i also think it gets mired in melodrama sometimes and comes off a bit obvious/preachy. but that’s likely the fault of the setting and the source material.
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This thread reminded me to try The Bear. Sometimes it’s like the Safdie brothers made a kitchen movie and sometimes it’s just a really regular show, where people learn to respect each other and things work out nicely in the end.
There’s a scene where a couple characters are commiserating with this “brunch, am I right” bit and I felt targeted, as if they know the only things I know about the culinary world come from Kitchen Confidential.
Anyway, I hate big cities but I love shows that capture their essence and tell stories about people who actually appreciate them so I’m liking it.
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i have to commend the conceptual audacity of the truly absurd fanfic level orgy that this weeks what we do in the shadows built up to. an incredible punchline
finally started the bear season 2, still love it, i don’t know that i can off the top of my head think of a better representation of the feeling of working on something that is torturous on a moment by moment level but you still just feel compelled in your soul to keep doing it.
i do sort of feel like they are running out of tricks wrt pacing and energy and tone and stuff, but the formula still works super well even if you start to recognize it more now. the soundtrack is intimidatingly good too
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The episode after the “this is going to win awards” episode really caught me by surprise.
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their big swing episode was probably a low point, but i liked the second season quite a lot. more than the first i think.