The Swamp

brian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:35 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:31 pm We all loved Major League! I felt like the premise of the show was ripped off from Major League, and the female team owner character seemed like a direct ripoff, too. I am curious how this show is perceived in England. A lot of the charm is guy pretending to be a hayseed living in a foreign culture, and some jokes are at the expense of not understanding the culture, the sport, the media... but I could see English people getting caught up in the annoyance of the show getting things wrong, or the humor in situations not translating. OTOH, the English are less self-centered and douchey than Americans, so maybe they wouldn't care.

While I believe this bolded part is true on the whole, your more serious footie fans in England...not so much.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:44 pm Ted Lasso works because it was showed just enough gameplay to keep it rooted as a sports story.


AND...I just saw the scene that will preclude my wife from ever watching The Expanse.

S1:E4.

I like this.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:15 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:44 pm Ted Lasso works because it was showed just enough gameplay to keep it rooted as a sports story.


AND...I just saw the scene that will preclude my wife from ever watching The Expanse.

S1:E4.

I like this.

Did Amos hurt someone? That's way too far back for me to remember what's happening at that point.

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The guys were in a cargo hold of sorts (prisoners) and debris bust through a wall and decapitated Shed as he offered up some sort of weed stick to calm Alex down.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:22 pm

BSF21 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:15 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:44 pm Ted Lasso works because it was showed just enough gameplay to keep it rooted as a sports story.


AND...I just saw the scene that will preclude my wife from ever watching The Expanse.

S1:E4.

I like this.

Did Amos hurt someone? That's way too far back for me to remember what's happening at that point.

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The guys were in a cargo hold of sorts (prisoners) and debris bust through a wall and decapitated Shed as he offered up some sort of weed stick to calm Alex down.

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Wait until "I am that guy."

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:11 pm Anyone done discovery+? We watch a lot of food network and the like so I started a trial. But there is a glitch where every so often it freezes and then jumps ahead a few seconds. Not a big deal but enough to not pay for it if it happens to everyone. I have only tested it on one roku so far so it may be hardware.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:19 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:11 pm Anyone done discovery+? We watch a lot of food network and the like so I started a trial. But there is a glitch where every so often it freezes and then jumps ahead a few seconds. Not a big deal but enough to not pay for it if it happens to everyone. I have only tested it on one roku so far so it may be hardware.

The missus is apoplectic that it's not available in Mexico. A VPN is very soon in our future.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:37 pm I remembered the glitchy platform, after it happened to me yesterday:

Prime has a really annoying habit of getting very lag-y. Either the audio doesn't match up, or the subtitles are late/early. It's not something where you can just pause it and let it "buffer," you have to pretty much close out of the app.

Anyone else experience this? It's definitely not a platform specific thing, as I've dealt with all over the damn place (SmarTv, Roku, Verizon) over the years.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:14 pm Apparently tonight on Discovery the son of a friend's Battlebot is fighting. Ribbot appears to be 1 and 1. Trying to get a top 32 position to qualify for the knockout round.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots_(season_10)

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:42 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:33 am

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 12:57 pm I saw a Triscuit add with Cecily Strong last night and realized that she is my secret crush.

How is that a secret crush?? She's incredibly cute.

I also cringed at that "a 'SNL' staple."

Just READ IT OUT LOUD!!

Maybe it's a secret because I watch SNL with my wife?

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:21 am

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:58 am Yellowstone is surprisingly good.

How many episodes have you seen? I thought it started really good and was going to be a well-balanced look at issues related to how development encroaches on public and private land and then about the middle of season one, it just turned into a laughable shitshow. One man's opinion.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:42 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:21 am

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:58 am Yellowstone is surprisingly good.

How many episodes have you seen? I thought it started really good and was going to be a well-balanced look at issues related to how development encroaches on public and private land and then about the middle of season one, it just turned into a laughable shitshow. One man's opinion.

I'm walking this back. Show takes a massive nosedive around episode 8 when a Chinese tour bus shows up and provides a backdrop for some overt jingoism if not outright racism. The plot has devolved into comical random mishaps and tragedies that have nothing to do with the story arc that began the series. I *think* we're supposed to root for Costner's character but he's morphing into a right wing asshole. The show easily could've gained traction on land use and Native American issues but now even the NA's are the bad guys. It appears they're laying some groundwork for some conflict with evil environmental regulators. No likable characters whatsoever. I'm just hate-watching at this point.

brian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:45 am

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:42 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:21 am

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:58 am Yellowstone is surprisingly good.

How many episodes have you seen? I thought it started really good and was going to be a well-balanced look at issues related to how development encroaches on public and private land and then about the middle of season one, it just turned into a laughable shitshow. One man's opinion.

I'm walking this back. Show takes a massive nosedive around episode 8 when a Chinese tour bus shows up and provides a backdrop for some overt jingoism if not outright racism. The plot has devolved into comical random mishaps and tragedies that have nothing to do with the story arc that began the series. I *think* we're supposed to root for Costner's character but he's morphing into a right wing asshole. The show easily could've gained traction on land use and Native American issues but now even the NA's are the bad guys. It appears they're laying some groundwork for some conflict with evil environmental regulators. No likable characters whatsoever. I'm just hate-watching at this point.

Sorry to say that was my experience as well. If you can believe, the subsequent seasons actually double and triple down on the stupidity.

I was prepared (and hoping!) after the first few eps that maybe there really wouldn't be "bad guys" and "good guys" that we could equally identify with the Yellowstone, Native American and developers equally and somehow they did keep those plates spinning for the first few eps and then somehow it became a show where Costner's family can do no wrong and are the true "victims" (which chafes me more than anything because it's just basically more upper class white grievance where we're supposed to feel sorry for someone who is supposedly the biggest private landowner in Montana because someone wants to build a house near his 500,000 acres).

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:49 pm At the risk of incurring brian's wrath - WandaVision episode 4 was also outstanding. Feige and his writers are so good at world building...

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:49 pm At the risk of incurring brian's wrath - WandaVision episode 4 was also outstanding. Feige and his writers are so good at world building...

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Zombie Vision was really fucking effective

rass wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:54 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:49 pm At the risk of incurring brian's wrath - WandaVision episode 4 was also outstanding. Feige and his writers are so good at world building...

Should be more worried about me twitching every time someone posts about here and not the Disney + thread.

But point agreed with otherwise.

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Zombie Vision was really fucking effective

Really hope this turns out to be more than SW grieving though. Pretty sure it will.

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Had to pause it a few times so my daughter could explain things as I am not up to speed on the avengers,

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 4:52 pm Apparently Dr. Oz is going to be one of the guest hosts of Jeopardy.

Not Sitting Well With Former Contestants

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I guess we know which actor was the subject of those mysterious allegations a while back. But holy shit.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:30 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 4:52 pm Apparently Dr. Oz is going to be one of the guest hosts of Jeopardy.

Not Sitting Well With Former Contestants

Fuck Dr. Oz.

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:18 pm Has Rass seen that Salma Hayek's boobs are getting a show? Or as the NY Post link says, "sort of".

Jerloma wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:27 pm Just started The Americans. Fantastic.

Jerloma wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:27 pm Just started The Americans. Fantastic.

Rams Fanny wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:33 pm Finished The Good Lord Bird last night. Excellent start to finish. Ethan Hawke gives one of the best performances in a long, long time.

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Who knew that Frederick Douglass was such a jackass?

brian wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 2:07 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:57 pm We very much enjoyed Cobra Kai, although the season 2 cliffhanger seemed a bit much.

That is a charitable way to describe it. But agree on both.