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Any legitimate contender for live action Blazkowicz would not need CGI to shed tears
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Really enjoying The Righteous Gemstones this season.
Always been a little underwhelmed by the comedy in this show, despite it having an absolutely stellar cast and a great premise. This seasonâs where itâs starting to come together for me. Got some real fun humdingers, both comedically and dramatically.
John Goodmanâs entire arc has been pretty gripping, and holy shit do I love the Kelvin Gemstone story this season. The God Squad has been a series highlight for me.
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hahaahha I still havenât seen the full episode of bar rescue this is from (pluto.tv has a bar rescue channel) but I think about the lady who rents out her husbandâs bar as a bdsm club when heâs not looking constantly
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This is table scraps after The Many Saints of Newark, but we got new Sopranos lore drop.
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This is how i learned thatâs the theme song for the sopranos.
Iâd only ever heard it in an AMV
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Real missed opportunity to showcase the automatic parallel parking
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i just finished watching flesh and blood and this commercial is still the bleakest thing iâve seen today
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yeah sigler iâm sure he was smiling down at you. christ
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The marketing is also just⌠bad? Do they want it associated with spoiled New Jersey rich kids?
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sorry did larry david do a crypto commercial too
man this fuckin sucks lmao
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iâm kind of amazed at how dead serious even david chase was about directing the truck commercial with the original DOP and on film and everything, itâs very funny to see all these people take doing a remake of a tv theme song in a truck commercial as high art i respect this ridiculously misplaced passion
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Finished watching Foundation, and itâs like⌠I do not enjoy watching this show at all, and Iâm a bit stumped as to why. Great cast, amazing effects, pretty interesting story.
I think itâs the characters maybe? They all have something pretty compelling to do, but you are pulled away from each one of them any time something of interest happens, are you wonât be back for many episodes. Add to that big time skips where you are leaving behind everyone youâve been accustomed to, and itâs hard to get invested. I just didnât feel anything for these people.
I want to say a smaller scope wouldâve helped, but I donât really give a fat slap about Salvor or Gaal, and certainly didnât care about any of the people on Terminus, save for maybe the dad.
Foundation thoughts
A lot of this show is mystery box stuff, where theyâre chasing answers to questions whose answer is always something like âHari had a secret reason for all of this, itâs all part of the planâ. I really donât think thatâs the way this shouldâve gone. We shouldâve been with Hari the whole show, seeing his reasoning, seeing the leaps of faith heâd make, seeing the doubt he wrestled with in theory vs practice. To take that out of play early in the show, and instead replace it with Salvor and Gaal just hunting around for answers just isnât very interesting. Characters are left to not make their own choices, and instead follow this vague belief in Foundation. I dunno, that kind of blind religious faith stuff is boring.
Iâm a huge Lee Pace fan from Pushing Daisies, and he does an awesome job as Brother Day. But I also donât give much of a fuck? We can plainly see the flaws with the genetic dynasty clone system, weâre told over and over how it will lead to the Empireâs collapse, and the result is that all of his scenes are just driving home this same thing, over and over. You can only watch Empire be evil and tyrannical so many times before it becomes boring. The bit with Brother Day near the end was somewhat interesting, but it resolves in such an expected way, again, I just could not get invested.
To be honest, the only character beyond Brother Day I really liked and cared about was Phara Keaen, the Anacreon working to try to destroy the Empire following the unjust decimation of her world by Brother Day. I was completely on her side! It was nice having a cool character with some mythos and a clear objective, making clear decisions to further that goal. Then, unfortunately, they just made her evil, and that whole thing resolves in as predictable a way as you can imagine. Sucks. I wouldâve really liked to see her as a major character, going through a long character arc as she comes to see the bigger picture from the perspective of someone who had to pay the price.
I think a good example of this showâs problem is with the Invictus, a cool, weird, old planet-killer thatâs been lost to time since its warp system malfunctioned.
This thing is really cool to see in action, and that the Terminus crew co-operatively commandeer this ghost ship with the Anacreon terrorists was pretty dope. Then they just warp it back to Terminus and nothing really comes of it. Iâm sure maybe at some future point in the story, some later book, this thing comes back into play, but as it is, itâs this fireworks factory weâre never gonna arrive at. They never use the ship for anything cool, itâs just used as a bus. From the perspective of the viewer, youâre just disappointed to see yet another element added to the mix here without any payoff. Why did we go through all that stuff about taking over the ship? Was it for the deflated drama of the Anacreonâs wanting to take it to Empireâs home world and decimate it? Wouldâve been cool to see that shit! Or anything⌠the big climax of this drama is a shitty fight scene in a dimly-lit room, resulting in the ship not being used for anything.
I dunno, weird show. Very dim, dismal lighting, but also some of the most incredible sets and effects Iâve seen in a sci-fi show. All in service of a story that is so broad in scope that youâre not likely to get any payoff for a long time. As a fan of Babylon 5, that show had a huge scope, but metered it out alongside satisfying smaller arcs - you can progress the big stuff while giving the viewer some satisfaction with the smaller stuff.
The fact that the Invictus isnât even in the books kinda speaks to the way in which this show has become so divorced from the books that you wonder why they didnât just make the show they wanted to make instead of this awkward hybrid.
If you want a big Star Warsy space opera, just go make that show, donât try to turn this book about math and faith into an action-filled gritty space war? Ugh.
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severance is pretty good as a little twilight zone/charlie kaufmann/jg ballard brain em up thing in the vein of maniac. solid premise and i am always a sucker for vague, unplacable 20th century production design. really captures the absolute sheer evil soulless bleakness of scrabbling for a tiny bit of humanity at work. thatâs really the core of it. the actors are all pros, they make it feel very lived in and natural despite the surreality of their surroundings/jobs. my only fear is that this is gonna be one of those streamers where the whole season is basically a pilot episode with bad pacing towards the back end but reviews seem to indicate maybe itâs otherwise. anyway iâm digging it.
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diaries of a wild saturday night:
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watch first two episodes of netflixâs hit new series âinventing annaâ with partner
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ctrl+t
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google âwritersâ strike 2022â
no dice, no clue how this shit happened
I am not joking or exaggerating when I tell you I get no stronger vibes from this than that of NCIS. weirdly elaborate and condescending musical cues, wretched writing, the circle-the-area-now-fast-forward-now-regular-speed drone shots, the âone character tells a story, then another character tells a story, then back to the first character to conveniently continue the story where the last one left off because they were lying before or somethingâ, the horrible writing, the characters not being able to recognize the most obvious clues in front of them because of the glowing neon sign in the writersâ room reminding them of âPACINGâ, all of it, holy shit.
I actually think julia garnerâs a pretty cool actor but what the hell is this accent thing sheâs doing, is she performing âadvanced interrogation techniquesâ or something??? save me
for me this is what we used to call back home a âtire fireâ, its far too soon for nostalgia mining the late aughties, jumped the gun on this one guys, thanks but you can keep it
(if this post makes anyone watch it because this sounds like your actual jam, tough out the first episode, the second is where the suave crime squad beats really kick in)
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SOME HIGHLIGHTS:
SCENE 1: journalist is reaching Peak Obsessive Quest moment as sun rises on her all-nighter with makeshift FBI-diagramming-board full of Anna Delvey pictures
enter heretofore skeptical-to-point-of-resentment husband
journalist: LOOK AT THIS!! HOW MANY ANNA DELVEYS ARE THERE??? gestures wildly to wall of instagram pics with girl wearing different clothes in each instagram picture, an Unfathomable Abnormality
husband, well slept, clear-headed, and now fully bought in: ââŚholy SHITâ
SCENE 2:
Qualified Defense Attorney, to prosecuting DA: âyou did NOT GIVE ME ENOUGH PAPERS IN DISCOVERY, I AM A GOOD LAWYER AND I DEMAND MORE PAPERS IN DISCOVERYâ
DA: ok
half an episode passes by
Qualified Defense Attorney stands in front of beeping, slowly backing up trailer truck âSEE, that sound means you have FUCKED UP, now I have the CORRECT PAPERSâ
door opens with, gasp, a truck full of papers
Qualified Defense Attorney gasps and groans âI deserve this, because I did not watch any crime procedurals in the last two decades. I now understand the term âburied in paperworkâ and will not make this mistake againâ (I ad libbed this line to make the writing better for you, the reader, he did not actually say this)
sorry about the double post i am just so mad about this show
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