I do not understand why anyone likes friends, that show is just wretched imo
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Everybody talkin shit about Friendsā¦
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laugh tracks are what aged like shit imo
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i finished justified by the way, i tried to watch the detroit miniseries after but no thanks! its just a whole different other show that grafted raylan givens onto it. his character doesnt really work in other contexts at all, but i gave up after three or four episodes so maybe they actaully have other people from the holler show up. i know theres a boyd ācameoā but thats not enough to keep me going. besides i think the show wrapped up pretty well on its own
now what do i watch (no laugh tracks, no sitcoms, no disney properties)
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always sunny did what other sitcoms til then never went hard enough on: make their characters suffer for my amusement
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fun fact, the detroit justified is based on a different series of books from the same author and raylan was not a part of those book at all, but the tv people wanted to keep Timothy Oliphant so they had to yank out most of the character driven stuff from the books.
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oh well it feels like exactly what it is then! no wonder
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As I understand it, the youths are indeed watching Friends, even though Iāve never been able to stomach a full episode
Feel like NewsRadio never had the moment of rediscovery it was due
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The Joe Rogan connection does make it all a bit more awkward. Iām convinced if Phil Hartman had lived he would have somehow talked him out of this and the world would be much better for it
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aside from the final season and joe rogan, I think newsradio is the best of the 90s sitcoms
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The weirdest thing is I always forget Kathy Griffin wasnāt in that, just because it seems like it would be much more poetic if she was. But i guess Andy Dick and Joe Rogan are enough Hollywood wildmen for one sitcom
My mind always then goes to Just Shoot Me, but it turns out she wasnāt on that either, but the other late 90s sitcom set at a magazine office, Suddenly Susan. A show which Iām sure will never be rediscovered by anyone. Just Shoot Me probably still has its fans though. Also speaking of reality altering events undone by tragic comic actor deaths I think Chris Farleyās eventual sitcom would have probably been a real one for the ages
I wonder if one reason Frasier is more popular now is because Frasier does a job that weirdly still basically exists, unlike journalist or magazine writer or whatever. I mean I know he also has a radio show but itās basically a podcast
Also speaking of that I feel the Netflix romcom series Love from a few years back. It features a character played by the reprehensible Brett Gelman who is basically Dark Frasier
NewsRadio has been my favorite 90s sitcom since the 90s. That last season truly is abysmal, but otherwise
Vicki Lewis was really fuckin funny as Beth, and I remember at least one direct swipe at Kathy Griffinās Suddenly Susan character being a Beth ripoff
I feel like itās possible no one on earth has seen a Drew Carey Show episode since 2006
You could tell me anything about this show and Iād have no choice but to believe it. Iāve watched numerous episodes and I donāt even know if I could say Iāve seen one. I do know the theme song is Cleveland Rocks.
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yeah NewsRadio is actually good for sure, itās just not likeā¦ era defining
I attempted to watch (Meowth voice) Da Eoit Abides which was 100% nothing the entire way through. Itās like they tried to make an Americanized TV movie version of the first quarter of 28 Days Later, in the spirit of the various times theyāve tried to turn War of the Worlds into a modern-day American movie, taking a hatchet mercilessly to anything with teeth or anything unique or ugly. Thereās really nothing to talk about, every character is dull as dishwater and nothing unexpected happens.
It should be noted that this is actually based on a 1949 book series, which would explain a lot of why itās like this, but I have to believe they would have at least added some things to make the plot work on modern television. The books were one of the first to show a main-character mixed-race couple in a very positive light, which is cool. Itās worth recognizing that it did a lot of interesting things before anyone else did them much better.
Thoughts on Da Eoit Abides
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I found it devastatingly funny that Main Character āIshā was a casual, seemingly non-professional geologist that lives in the woods and does geology within walking distance of his cabin, which he bought to be near Where The Rocks Are. He wakes up, grabs his pickaxe, walks into the woods, and chisels chunks off of the mountain in search of specific elements for no discernible purpose. Iām sure there was a reason for it but it either got cut or they simply didnāt deem it worth stating. It gave me Breen vibes.
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Ish gets WHAMMED by a rattlesnake while heās out digging for rocks, which delighted me in that it simply must happen to him all the time due to his singular hobby of reaching into dark holes for new kinds of rocks. He proceeds to take out his knife and CARVE AN X MARK ACROSS THE BITE so he can suck the venom out and spit it to the ground, a thing that Iām quite sure youāre told not to do because youāll ingest poison. The part where you cut into yourself doesnāt seem to be anything. I wonder if it was in the original book or something.
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Da Eoit Abides lacks the courage and conviction to depict Ish both pissing and shitting himself over the full month he spends deliriously rolling around his bed, in and out of a coma. They show him chug a bottle of water before he collapses, then heās like fine a full 28 days later. SHOW ISH CAKED IN HIS OWN FECES!!! DO IT!!! COWARDS!!!
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It is impossible to describe the editing and camerawork decisions made here. They are fucking insane and they all feel terrible, but they absolutely improve the show by nature of not simply holding to the Hallmark movie-tier workmanship. They DO SHIT SOMETIMES and it looks like the SHIT that SHOULD HAVE CAKED HIS PAJAMAS EARLIER. It makes you burst out laughing when the camera spins in his car cabin as he screams and hits the ceiling with his fists, atomizing whatever tone they were going for. Greatly improved the watchability of the ep.
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When he happens across the Companion Dog and itās immediately his best friend I wanted to strangle this show and for sure for sure for sure 90% of the target audience loved that and will watch the show for the dog now. YOU HACKS!!! MAKE HIS SUFFER AT ALL!!! HACKS!!!
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There was one moment that I found slightly affecting which was that one lady describing āwatching her kids die on Zoomā during the super pandemic, a thing I couldnāt quite picture due to that meaning the camera would be on the entire time but still, a fucked premise for sure and one that made me feel something.
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When he digs a grave for his parents he blows it BIG and barely gets like two feet deep into the ground before deciding this shallow-ass grave directly next to the back door is a great spot to lay his parents to rest forevermore. Totally wonāt instantly be dug up and devoured by feral dogs.
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The corpses would and should be absolutely vile at this point in time, covered completely in flies, making any area with them unbearable with the smell. I guess this is also something Walking Dead didnāt care to do and I get why but still, itās an easy way to amp up the horror of all this. Him being around such an unfathomable amount of death should make living in any kind of dense city a deranged proposition. Legions of wild hogs should be tearing through these buildings like zerg.
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I didnāt have much culture shock moving here but I jarred pretty hard when a coworker was talking about enjoying Curb Your Enthusiasm and I recommended Seinfeld āwhatās thatā
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I think it was a bit, Anthony LaPaglia is australian + her other brothers are all over the place: Robbie Coltrane with weegie gibberish, Richard E. Grant with RP, etc
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Still no mention of the true forgotten titan of 90ās sitcoms: Mad About You
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