this was a good read from last year
damon lindelof sucks
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Iām probably the last person alive who still likes LOST. The last time I rewatched it I still enjoyed it quite a bit. Lindelof probably still sucks though
EDIT: After reading the above article, Lindelof (and Cuse) both definitely suck
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Iāve never seen LOST. I was expecting something like a Gilliganās Island reboot, but I heard it was all CONTINUITY, which I regarded as poison coming off of 24 and Joss Whedon shows. Not sure if itās the sort of thing worth goign back to later
might start watching shogun just to admire asanoās absurd ruggedness
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watching a vhs rip containing an episode of buffy and an episode of felicity, a show i havenāt seen before.
the buffy episode was faith, hope, and trick. the first appearance of faith, from early in season 3. tenchu stealth assassins was advertised a couple of times during it! not much else to say about it, really. iāve rewatched seasons 3 and 4 so many times, itās just comfortably familiar.
i havenāt seen felicity before, but iāve been meaning to look into it for a long time. itās about a student in new york in the 90s! as a kid, i imagined being a student in new york in thte 90s whenever i drank a bottle of fruitopia! itās fine i guess. fairly average teen drama, elevated slightly by its setting, and the aesthetic that naturally accompanies it. it doesnāt really matter that it never aired here, because i wouldnāt have been even slightly interested at the time. also, amy-jo johnson from power rangers is in it.
season 3 of buffy is very black and green, and felicity is very sunset-coloured. hazy yellows and browns. i should probably have waited until autumn time or maybe late summer to watch this, but never mind~
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after watching Fleischman is in Trouble and Platonic I feel like Iām just about able to begin mapping out how the millennial midlife crisis arc is going to look in media. Iām sure there are other examples of this so far too but those are the only ones I can think of. I bet Greta Gerwig will have a real banger of one sooner or later
anyway Iām being glib but this has actually been incredibly therapeutic, highly recommended for everyone who both feels deeply targeted by the constant barrage of ninja turtles and ghostbusters media but recognizes we are probably old enough to be marketed to on the basis of anxiety rather than nostalgia
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i listened to the three body problem audiobook while i played mgsv so if nothing else itās fun seeing posadist outer heaven realized on the screen
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I have not watched The Good Wife/The Good Fight, but spinoff show āElsbethā is a pretty watchable and fun modern Columbo-like. Like specifically Columbo-like in that you see the murder first and watch her annoy the rich person into submission by being quirky. It does have things required of modern shows that Columbo didnāt have like āa recurring castā and a larger background mystery but itās not slick like Poker Face, itās absolutely just CBS procedural comfort food. BUT it is a high level of that kind of thing. Gourmet hamburger.
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I didnāt really love the first episode, but thatās encouragingāIāll have to check out more. Carrie Preston as Elsbeth was one of the best parts of the pretty great recurring cast on The Good Wife.
DOES HE KNOW?
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I donāt think RIPLEY manages to do anything that The Talented Mr. Ripley didnāt do in a quarter the runtime but itās still better than Saltburn.
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Is there anything, anything at all, that isnāt better tham saltburn
the amazon fallout show actually looks like it could be funā¦ walton goggins and kyle maclachlan are almost never bad, and even though I havenāt liked any of the fallout games theyāve made in the last 25 years, Iām trying not to let its version of the inherent tackiness be colored by bethesdaās
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thatās good, my wife wanted to watch it but Iām so skeptical of anything at that budget level on apple TV
See was good for like four episodes!
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I love how colin feralās character is just nice and caring. we needed a new dale cooper a long time ago