Watching Modern Love on Amazon Prime, because it's what you do on a Saturday night when you've been married for 23 years...
The Episode with Dev Patel is "meh," the one with Tina Fey is "feh!" but the episode with Anne Hathaway is amazing. I always kind of liked her, but her performance is Emmy worthy.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:44 am
by rass
The Outback Steakhouse scene in The Righteous Gemstones finale was so damn good.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 11:59 am
by tennbengal
That series was an absolute miracle. Had no idea it would be that good.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:51 pm
by Shirley
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:03 pm
El Camino was absolutely perfect.
I really liked it as well. It was pretty understated and obviously only really holds up as a coda to Breaking Bad, but it was a great way to tie it up. I think Jesse deserved that. (And man, watching the little prelude of scenes from BB ... I had forgotten just how fucked up it all got.)
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:19 pm
by Giff
tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:11 am
Also, bonus points to Tom for stating his feelings to Shiv finally and then eating Logan’s chicken.
Did Shiv launch the Kendall strike against Logan with Kendall or was that all Kendall?
A great piece - that Chance kid is really good - a lot funnier than some of the male cast members.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:19 am
by brian
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:39 am
I just finished up S2 of Lodge 49 last night, and someone here said it's a salve for today's end times. A fantastic show.
We just finally finished up S2 last night as well. Great, great show.
Re: Temporary Television
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:04 pm
by brian
Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:28 am
This one is for brian - some pretty detailed (and entertaining) analysis of the Too Many Cooks video.
We missed the five-year anniversary of Too Many Cooks.
Still fuckin' genius.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:27 pm
by brian
Lodge 49 cancelled because we can’t keep nice things in the age of Trump.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:54 pm
by Giff
brian wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:27 pm
Lodge 49 cancelled because we can’t keep nice things in the age of Trump.
I feel like it will get picked up by someone else. Hope so anyway. I wasn’t completely sold like most everyone else, but I binged the last 5 episodes today and will be bummed if that’s the last we see of it.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:54 pm
by Giff
The latest season of South Park has been outstanding.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:39 am
by A_B
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:32 pm
I watched El Camino on the plane today, and thought it was pretty good. Meth Damon was weird...he's so damn puffy!
I thought for sure the money was going to be in the old swimming pool where he was keeping the shell for the El Camino.
I’ll give it a solid b-
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:07 am
by wlu_lax6
Jack Ryan season 2 was okay. Not great, not good, not terrible. Bummer that the Tom Clancy licensing machine gave them this character. Very little that made this Jack Ryan tie to the original character (or even the new non-Clancy books). Could have done just as well with a new character and relied on John K's name alone to market.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:15 am
by Pruitt
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:51 pm
the new Diego Maradona movie that premiers tomorrow on HBO is getting really good reviews from the soccer press.
It was absolutely fantastic.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:45 pm
by Johnnie
This is awesome. ESPN is at my old base and the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force got to be on TV.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:08 pm
by The Sybian
Johnnie wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:45 pm
This is awesome. ESPN is at my old base and the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force got to be on TV.
Wow, he is a friggin' natural on TV. He seems like an incredibly charismatic guy, but in a lowkey way.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:47 pm
by Shirley
Just watched the first Season 4 Rick and Morty. Verdict? Still funny.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:49 pm
by sancarlos
tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:03 pm
El Camino was absolutely perfect.
but, having grown up in New Mexico, Jesse is not going to know how to drive in winter weather. Nobody in Alaska will believe he lived in Alaska and Wisconsin.
but, having grown up in New Mexico, Jesse is not going to know how to drive in winter weather. Nobody in Alaska will believe he lived in Alaska and Wisconsin.
What? New Mexico gets plenty of winter weather (snow/ice/whatnot). Or at least it did when I lived there.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:16 pm
by brian
Yeah, I don't get that either. It's not rare, but not super rare.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:46 pm
by Pruitt
FINALLY!
Found a place to legally stream Documentary Now! and binged last night.
Three classics - "Globesmen," "Juan Likes Chicken and Rice" and "The Bunker." Each one better than the last.
Found a place to legally stream Documentary Now! and binged last night.
Three classics - "Globesmen," "Juan Likes Chicken and Rice" and "The Bunker." Each one better than the last.
The vice knockoff and the original cast recording just hit me at the right time
Saw the Vice one... classic!
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:18 pm
by rass
Watchmen is pretty great. Though not sure how it plays with no knowledge of the source material.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:44 pm
by Ryan
What I Didn't Like About the Last SNL - Will Ferrell looks older than Steve Martin
What I Liked - Everything Else
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:46 pm
by GoodKarma
rass wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:18 pm
Watchmen is pretty great. Though not sure how it plays with no knowledge of the source material.
It's a continuation of the original story...so not really a sequel and definitely not a regurgitation...so I think it does a good job of keeping true to the original story when it's necessary to reference. I've been enjoying it as well.
rass wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:18 pm
Watchmen is pretty great. Though not sure how it plays with no knowledge of the source material.
It's a continuation of the original story...so not really a sequel and definitely not a regurgitation...so I think it does a good job of keeping true to the original story when it's necessary to reference. I've been enjoying it as well.
My point was that I wasn't really sure whether it worked for someone with absolutely no knowledge of the original story. And maybe it isn't intended to?
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:00 pm
by wlu_lax6
Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:44 pm
What I Didn't Like About the Last SNL - Will Ferrell looks older than Steve Martin
What I Liked - Everything Else
If you have not seen it, the peek-a-boo jeans sketch that got cut for time, it is out there on social media. Pretty solid too.
rass wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:18 pm
Watchmen is pretty great. Though not sure how it plays with no knowledge of the source material.
It's a continuation of the original story...so not really a sequel and definitely not a regurgitation...so I think it does a good job of keeping true to the original story when it's necessary to reference. I've been enjoying it as well.
My point was that I wasn't really sure whether it worked for someone with absolutely no knowledge of the original story. And maybe it isn't intended to?
If you're gearing a story only for the most hardcore fans, you're probably doing it wrong. A little fan service is fine, but it's not going to cut it for a mass audience. I don't know anything about Watchmen other than I thought the Zack Snyder movie kinda sucked, but I could see being interested in going back to check out the original material.
(Fair warning though, I also tend to enjoy superfans getting worked up and triggered about any new interpretation of a cult classic.)
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:00 am
by rass
It's absolutely a continuation of a well-known property, but not something like Superman or Batman where *everyone* knows the basic story beats. There are little nods to "hardcore" fans throughout, I was just legitimately curious whether the whole thing holds up for someone dropped blind into the world of the comic in episode one. I usually use my wife as a litmus test, but she's was too sleepy to catch the first couple of episodes, so...
Anyway, Sunday's episode was pretty incredible. "Staggering" was used in one of the reviews I read, and yeah that works.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:37 am
by Giff
I have all of them saved up and will start binging as soon as I'm done with The Good Place. I don't know much at all about the comic at all. Didn't see the movie.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:49 am
by L-Jam3
The food fight at Diane's house on Cheers is the single best Thanksgiving tv episode ever, and I don't know why people are even debating this.
Re: Television (no longer temporary)
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:53 am
by A_B
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:49 am
The food fight at Diane's house on Cheers is the single best Thanksgiving tv episode ever, and I don't know why people are even debating this.