TV AfterParty

[SUPERSONNICK]

this show. THIS SHOW.

have i mentioned that this show jumps the shark by ep 7, when a patent on their fancy app is stolen, their pro programmer is nixxed by evil big game company … well of course they go on a digital detox trip first, enter a rural school to draft new edutech app trial dummies, crank up the creepy romcom-vibes and ponder the real, deep questiones (old people that don’t trust the internet are hindering kids’ chances!!!11!).
Loving the dead-pan humor that does show borderline-creepy romantic scene between CEO and middleaged salaryman, and always - always - directly cuts to Comedy love interest which displays 50 shades of embarrased disappointment by virtue of being outgunned by middleaged salaryman.

By episode 8, Madame Ryosuke Deus-Ex-Makkina calls her lawyers, while our gang participates in a Valorant E-Sports tournament to recruit a mysterious korean Coding Style Guru, of course they are obliterated in the first round, try to recruit the traitor-turned ex-employee by getting guest-passes from app-competition-second place-teamleader-that-now-works-for-big-evil-game-company, which is thwarted by the CEO. But! (surprise!!!) ex-employee is the mysterious korean coding style guru that has been a hikkikomori and was brought back to civilization by their fancy app!

But! Even bigger Surprises lurk around the corner:
EP9! Merger&Acquisition hangs in the air!

Comedy Love Interest Dad’s company is in trouble, it was hacked!!! … btw, Comedy love interest’s ex girlfriend had a scoop on that story before it airs in the news (why you ask, no idea ) … Anyway! Student buddy works for dads company now, and pitched a startup w/ data encryption, but it never reached dad! Dad wanted to hand over the company to his comedy love interest son, but now young people are leaving uncool Status Quo company… and Middleaged man has a second date with Ryosuke M&A CEO that goes nowhere!
Pondering deep questiones again (startups and crufty old companies could learn so much from each other, maaan, if only we could DO something about that!!!), and — finally, even the DP gives up and goes fullblown rimshot comedy mode — alas, enjoy 18 seconds of this episode, that literally happened in this order, no redaction for comedic effect necessary!

and thus Comedy Love Interest has abducted his dad! He gets the startup workfloor treatment, Comedy Ko pitches the encryption startup again … your hour is over, Ko! But! Dad hands out his business-card :winkwink: … times are a-changing, huh! Pony CEO buys into the M&A btw (of course this is just an issue of conservative Japan, in the US of America an M&A is a sign of you’ve made it, yeeaaaahhh totally) and I — what. WHAT.

please, roll the credits, I am ready to sell anything

[chris]

came here to se if this show was mentioned before. it rules. like all the cool gooey parts of aeon flux. i dont like things about people lately, and this is an easy watch.

[falsedan]

so much good stuff in it. the writing! all that dialogue for extremely-over-it shipwrecked spacers. I dunno who decided to have a bunch of scenes about a butch cargo engineer getting shirty with a hippie robot, but they nailed it

[robo]

Fargo season 5 starting strong.

[drastic_bb]

im still watching the curse and loving it

[Felix]

honestly it’s too on the nose for me. like the satire is so thick and not much fun at all. I like all three of the principals but when they work together it’s just mortifying millennial hell

[isfet]

been watching The Righteous Gemstones for the first time and currently on season 3. i kind of avoided it because i was already watching Succession and they seemed a little too similar to me.

that said, my assertion was only a little correct. it kind of feels like a TV show from the 90s Comedy Central era? but with better cameras and a bigger budget?

to be clear, i like it, but it has a zaniness to it that is missing from something like Succession, which is also a comedy to me, but veering on the side of drama.

[falsedan]

enjoying Fisk, absolutely lovely seeing all these Fast Forward/Full Frontal cast members going at it. Kitty Flanagan’s character keeps being astounded by the costs of beverages and I know I can never move back to Australia because I would never stop doing that bit but for real. $6 for weetbix, fuck off?

[bib]

upgraded it to double god tier after e03… about to watch e04 over here shortly tbh

[doolittle]

the high ISO look is a sublime visual style

these people are real btw

[drastic_bb]

a lot of it feels very directly inspired by the safdie brothers filmography and a lot of the people involved seem like they worked on those productions… the dad of the 2 girls was a character actor in good time for example

[Father.Torque]

I totally gave up on Righteous Gemstones after the redemption of Uncle Baby Billy. It’s just not nearly mean enough to its own shitty characters, it spends too long with them and allows undesirable empathy to develop. Very similar to Shitt’s Creek

[isfet]

yeah this is ultimately why i compare it to a 90s Comedy Central show, in that it doesn’t seem to want to be taken seriously. i mean, it clearly does sometimes, but i’m often finding myself feeling like “you expect me to be moved by this?”

i think the best time it pulled that off was the first flashback episode where we get to witness “Misbehavin’”

other than that, i feel like i’m watching something that is maybe a few degrees away from Reno 911 levels of depth

[Felix]

I do think it’s Danny McBride’s least disappointing work in this respect even so, and he gives a couple of great setpieces every season still, but tonally I agree it’s just too back and forth without going full sitcom

[isfet]

honestly had no clue who he was or that he was the eldest son lol

i went into this mostly for John Goodman

[a_new_duck]

Still haven’t watched season 3, but it felt a bit to me like the tone and perspective, which had been all over the place but in mostly a delightful way (I’ve said it before ih, but I kinda feel like each main character is in their own different version of a comedy about a televangelist megachurch family), started to get a little too frayed by the end of season 2. Still enjoyed it, but I think the motorcycle action sequence with McBride’s son struck a false note for me that hung with me for the rest of the season.

McBride does seem to have a tendency to, despite the tone of his early acts and the extremes of his characters’ awfulness, ultimately settle into a more or less conventional narrative perspective that places his protagonists as the heroes in their stories. Which I don’t fully object to, and I think that tension does produce a kind of subtle ironic, satirical effect in a sort of broad view. But the refusal to go there is why I still probably find Observe & Report to be the best piece of work from this particular Hill-McBride-Green style of dark comedy.

That flashback episode from the first season did actually have an emotional effect on me that may not always be successful but has influenced how I respond to the rest of the show. I think a lot of that comes from just how good Jennifer Nettles is as the Gemstone matriarch.

[u_u]

Ran out of good things to watch so we have been watching the late aughts/early teens procedural White Collar. So strange that it already feels super dated in fashion and like narrative style. It has just enough camp to be funny, like last night’s episode was all about “the world’s most exotic pink diamond,” a phrase that was repeated multiple times. Very young looking Murray Bartlett in a throwaway supporting role? Noah Emmerich and James Rebhorn doing their thing. Television…

[drastic_bb]

i feel like the curse has some 2000s japanese horror vibes specifically kiyoshi kurosawa (lots of room tones) but also is starting to remind me of koji shiraishi a bit as well. the most recent episode was pretty grim i think the vibes are becoming increasingly menacing… i guess i have to stop booing when the a24 logo comes on screen if the death stranding movie is good lol bc i think this is really good and uncut gems was one of the last popular movies i really connected with

[doolittle]

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[Brooks]

my god