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No. 346212
What are you watching? What do you recommend watching?
Discuss your favorite (or not) series ITT!
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>>346228I just started the prequel spin-off “better call Saul”. It’s been so long since I’ve watched BB but going to revisit afterwards
>>346229Exactly this
No. 346252
>>346228It's this
>>346229 and I've seen a lot of moids infuriated that she had an affair on poor sick dying (
abusive piece of shit drug lord) Walt
No. 346344
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I'm watching Sopranos for the first time and while I do love Melfi, especially after the ending of season 3 Episode 4, it's interesting to see just how awkward her approach to therapy is at times.
Obviously nowadays we have more guidance on how to go about certain situations, but I'm on the verge of pulling out my hair when she doesn't even bother to initiate a further conversation after Tony says something that has a lot of potential of getting him to open up.
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I just finished season 1 of this show called From. First of all it's a really stupid name, and it makes looking up discussions on an already less popular series pretty much impossible.
But anyways I think it's a nice concept I just wish there was even a small explanation of literally anything, but I'm gonna start watching season 2 and see what comes up lol. I think shows like this really benefit from being more typical 22 episode type shows, because there's so many characters, and they each get time to be more fleshed out, but somehow there was enough boring filler in these 10 episodes
No. 346370
>>346365>stays true to the characterization and themes of the book Is that true? I haven't read the books but I watched the new show with a big Anne Rice fan and apparently the reporter is acting completely out of character right from the start because in the books he was obsessed with becoming immortal immediately after the events of Interview With a Vampire. Like he's so obsessed that after hearing Louis' story he immediately drives 24 hours or something to search for Lestat because he wants to be a vampire so badly (eventually he
gets someone else to turn him) and the idea that he would have lived a normal life and let himself age into an old man when he knows vampires are real is absurd, he would have died trying.
No. 346374
>>346344I started watching it also for the first time a few months ago. I find the show a bit frustrating at times(just the characters not so much the show itself) and also expected it to be more violent , but I’m not complaining about that part. It’s an interesting show and I enjoy the dry humor of it.
I so badly wanted Carmela to boink the priest tho kek
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I watched 12oz Mouse for the first time the other day and a few episodes into the second season it started to click and now I can't get it out of my head.
I only watched the original 2 seasons, It was revived for a 3rd season in 2020 but we all know how that kind of thing goes and I heard it was no good so I'm ignoring season 3. There's a version of the first two seasons of episodes that was recut into a movie and I'd like to find that and watch it next.
It gets a lot of hate from animation nerds for being "low effort" but I came to realize that the low effort character designs and animation are part of the point, like how the play Our Town is performed on a bare stage. The writing and voice acting is also not what I expected at all, I imagined that the low-effort animation was meant to carry improv comedy like in ATHF or Home Movies but it's really not comedic and funny-haha as much as it is funny-weird and bizarre and unsettling. The pacing is extremely slow and the first few episodes are just throwaway gags, I had a hard time believing that it was David Lynch influenced but then at a certain point it really becomes more than the sum of its parts in a way I can only describe as Lynchian. It's a lot like Twin Peaks in how it throws random situations and visuals and characters and snippets of conversation at you and you kindof have to feel out what the point they're making is. There is a plot of sorts, but it's buried in all that other stuff and the plot isn't necessarily the point. Before you ask, no I was not smoking weed and that is not why I came to enjoy it.
Has anyone else watched this show and do you think you "got it"?
No. 346401
>>346301No pls watch it, it is still nice! lol
>>346365Imo she definitely behaves and also talks in a very stereotypical nowadays kid way, being bratty, sassy and they even have her do a vampire version of self harm. It's especially annoying and offputting because she still behaves that way years after becoming a vampire, like inside she's 25 and yet does things like smashing a macaron on the wall for fun…? Even if they now spoil her, she still grew up as a poor and abused black girl in 1900, in reality at 14 she would be basically considered an adult already, so it's just unrealistic that she'd turn this way immediately after becoming a vampire.
Book Claudia is smart and evil beyond her years in how she kills and gets her way, and this one is the total opposite.
>>346370I was so focused on the other 3 that I totally forgot that his story makes zero sense. You're absolutely right, he'd have rather killed himself than not becoming a vampire as soon as possible after the interview. I guess in my mind I kind of started mixing him up with David (he's very similar to him now, maybe this was even the shows intention?), so I thought Oh well, he will get turned before he's so old that he dies.
No. 346407
>>346401Claudia is devious and relatively smart in the book, but she was still impulsive and short-sided. Of the three leads, she's the most different from the books in terms of personality, but I just didn't get the impression that she was super anachronistic in terms of performance. I will say though that Kirsten Dunst gave a better performance.
>>346370I can't really argue with your point about Daniel, it's a pretty big difference that he chose to move on. However I think the show uses that difference as an opportunity to take his character in interesting directions. It makes the issue of his mortality more urgent, for one, and his jaded sarcasm while giving the interview is a nice contrast to Louis' narration. Idk, that's definitely subjective though.
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Has anyone here been keeping up with the new Percy Jackson Disney+ show? It was hyped up for so long by fans who wanted a decent adaption of the story after the movies dropped the ball, but it's turned out to be almost as divisive as the movies. The pacing is horrible, the acting is wooden and nobody behaves like a real life human, and the episodes are sanitized to hell and back with muddled conflicts and zero action even though they're each being made on a 10+ million dollar budget.
Picrel the entire fanbase is on turbocope mode about how badly the show has turned out. It’s become impossible to criticize any aspect of the show without the discussion going to shit because fans feel like they need to defend it. Whenever you want to point out a flaw, the response is always “it’s for kids, who cares if it’s lazy?” and “the author is involved this time, so we have to respect his vision!” As a kid who used to be obsessed with the series, I remember seething over how disloyal the first two movie adaptations were to the books, but honestly… the movies are much more watchable and coherent than this new show, which is insane.
Even though the show is trash, I feel bad for the child actors. They haven’t done very well, but I think that’s mostly the fault of a terrible script and even worse direction. There’s only so much they can do with what little they’re given. I think it was especially retarded to cast a black actress to play an unambiguously blonde-haired, blue-eyed character, but that’s not that little girl’s fault. If anything, Riordan set her up for failure. Annabeth’s physical appearance is mentioned constantly in the books, so it was incredibly naive to think a colorblind casting for this role wouldn’t receive any flack whatsoever. I can’t help but find it callous that he basically put a child in a position to receive so much racist hatred and his only real response to any of it was, “don’t listen to the haters, I chose you.” Like, thanks? What fucking good does that do?
Idk, I am pretty bummed out about this, and I was wondering what other anons had to say about it. I was holding out hope that this would turn out good because I have so much nostalgia for the books, but it might be a lost cause at this point. In my opinion, the PJO books are already very dated and don’t have any of the same timeless charm as something like Harry Potter, so maybe that’s why an adaptation was always doomed to fail.
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I need to go back to The Borgias, I was on season 2. I enjoy Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo and the political plots (some things are painfully stupid though), the costumes are great. I didn’t get to incest yet but I don’t like Lucrezia or Cesare that much so I don’t really care. Sucks that they cancelled it before last season, it deserved grand finale.
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>>346551Samefag, I’m also on the last season of Sex and the City. Can’t wait to finish it, the seasons 1-2 are good and have more gritty mood than the rest of the series, then it goes between clever and painfully stupid sometimes. I have couple more episodes left, then I’m hopping onto Girls (which has very mixed reviews).
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>>346228>>346262I don’t want to nitpick but it’s SkylEr (sorry, the spelling with an a just particularly annoys me). And yes, she’s great and has one of the best lines in the show. Moids hate her because of the 'cheating' with Ted (which she was absolutely justified in) and because she doesn’t let Walt play up his little drug lord fantasy as freely as he wants to.
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Is anyone else watching The Curse? I had no idea what to expect going in, but I love it and can't wait to see where the story is going. It's a dark comedy/slow burn 'horror' (kinda) written by Nathan Fielder and one of the Safdie brothers (Uncut Gems) and it really shows. If you like anything Nathan Fielder has been involved with then you'd appreciate the cringe/humor/tension of the show.
No. 346602
>>346228Enjoy, nona! It's so worth it. Season 3 is when things really start to turn up.
>>346230I still haven't watched BCS but I really need to, so thanks for the reminder. I love Bob Odenkirk and his journey from comedy into prestige TV.
>>346555Anna Gunn is so brilliant as Skyler. In the famous "I am the one who knocks" scene she gives a thousand conflicting feelings without saying anything. Exasperated, over it, can't fucking believe Walt thinks he's cool or something, but at the same time still overwhelmed and scared and trapped.
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>>346602She is a great actress, I love Cranston and Paul but I’m kinda mad they got the most recognition while moids make fun of Anna’s weight gain (even though the guy who played Hank sports two chins now). Breaking Bad is a good show but it has the worst fanbase made up of Redditor/MRA moid types with jokes repeated to death.
No. 346648
>>346228I just finished breaking bad yesterday. Never understood why Skyler gets so much hate as she isn't the most annoying character in the series and a lot of her actions can be understood. Honestly, I think Jesse was the most annoying character for me.
And the opinion of moids does influence my decision. They hate Skyler but just love Jesse for some reason and excuse everything he did as "being manipulated".
No. 347316
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Friends gets called overrated and basic but it's such a good comfort show/great for background noise. I got to the weird episode where Ross is thirsting over Denise Richards who plays his cousin, and what's going on with her pick me self and her OF daughter right now is just so wild. Like who would've thought back then
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Not sure if this belongs in here or the anime thread, but was Scott Pilgrim Takes Off any good?
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any other nonnas planning on watching this? i watched the other three seasons, the first one had a compelling storyline but the other two were underwhelming. i like jodie foster so i'm hoping it'll be good.
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Ugh.I thought I'd have some laughs and revisit some nostalgia from my high school days, turns out Jackass was completely recut for Paramount/Amazon. There's a warning about "outdated social norms" at the beginning of every episode, kek. In just the first episode they removed Johnny being shot out of a cannon and used the intro to Episode 2 for Episode 1 instead, (and reused the same intro again for Episode 2…?) The entire Wee-Man segment is cut out. A ton of the stunts are cut out now like Johnny jumping over the LA river, Naked Dave is cut out. ALL of the music (CKY and everything else) was removed and replaced by stock music, even the added sound effects are different. It's weird and it sucks now.
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>>347316I love the topic it brings up, especially for being the 90s. Being a surrogate thinking it will be fine, but mentally being scarred after. Turning 30 without a stable relationship compared to your high school friends. Reading a book about feminism and bonding with your friends about it. Yearning for motherhood and ending up being infertile. It’s just all such important conversations about womanhood. It’s also female friendship goals. I really want to be roomies with a girl group in my 30s!!
No. 349242
>>348087man episode one…. i think we're in for some reddit shit unfortunately. the magic of s1 is in its subtlety, the moments revealing some unfathomable metaphysics are few and far between and all questionable as rust's unreliable perspective. its like he and us as the audience are taking sideways glances at something unknowable hidden beneath the grit and mundanity of human lives, human violence, human suffering. the fact that the script is always played unflinchingly straight is also so unique and special in a time of tv that seems to fucking mock you for watching it in its ugly shallow dialogue. this last point may be just a problem with trying to write realistic dialogue for this moment in time, where, it is true, people talk in stupid internet memetic cliches. they could work around the decay of contemporary language in the 2012 segments of s1 because rust and marty are out of touch and stuck in their past, unable to move forward, and rust is antisocial anyway.
i think the scope is also key to s1s success. episode one is laser focused on rust and marty and their relationship, and this is the core of the show. nothing happens that isnt important to that dynamic in one way or another, every interaction they have comes back to them.
already in s4e1 they have introduced way too many characters. our focal point is liz and navarro but i could hardly pay attention to what we were getting told about them because another fucking character and relationship and dynamic was introduced every two seconds.
wrt what i said about s1 dialogue, the dialogue was the first thing that jumped out at me as grating in this episode (aside from the music, whoever was in charge of that needs to be shot). fucking hell, "my spirit animal eats old white ladies like you"??? "how did i fall for a white boy"????? the entire interaction between the father-son cop duo at the fathers house??????? FUCKING "SHE'S AWAKE". just awful, stilted, weighed down so heavily by twitter memespeech or just shallow nothingness. there was not a single line in the episode that struck me with the same immediate charm and intrigue that was so engrossing in s1. the only ones that stood out for me were the former ones that made me physically cringe to hear. and like i said, i know that it is not uncommon to come across people who unironically speak like that in current year, so i dont really know how id work around it if i wanted to write realistic contemporary dialogue. but to be honest, s1s dialogue went way off the rails of realism nearly every time rust spoke lol. but it was only possible for that to work with marty as the ultranormie straight man to rust's depressive shit. s4e1 characters hardly even seem like theyre talking to each other at all. i dont know how else to describe it. its so self conscious.
the supernatural shit happening ever 2 seconds just tired it out too!!!! if i was editing that episode down, i would keep the supernatural stuff to the ghost husband interpretive dance thing happening right after the dead wolf moves a bit. that was great. maybe i would start the episode with that (the beginning with the native man watching those terrible CGI reindeer run away from a MYSTERIOUS SOMETHING was uninspired and gave kind of a noble savage impression in an odd way) and have the police discover the bodies of the scientists frozen in the ice, and then move to investigate the abandoned lab. thered be so much more space to actually establish characters. i did really like navarro's run in with the polar bear at the end so i'd keep that but all the other gay little supernatural bits begone. and jesus christ, CUT the "SHE'S AWAKE" crap that was unbearable. if they had done it ONCE i may have let it slide. but they had to repeat it a million times because they have no respect for the audience. even if this does become a plot point where those who heard it bring it up and talk about it, which it won't, it's just so uninspired. a way better way to use that phrase would be to cut all the audio of it and have it written on the whiteboard in the lab instead of we're all dead or whatever.
anyway i liked jodie foster's performance especially when she was doing a little police brutality and being mildly racist. shes so hot so ill keep watching but i will also keep complaining. i never watched s2-3 but if anything this is really making me feel good about that decision.
No. 349244
>>349242whoops didnt realise i sperged out that hard. anyway in my defence i was just really hoping wed get something with interesting
problematic women leads who were treated with the level of complexity and respect as rust and marty and it simply doesnt look like things will turn out that way. but it was probably crazy to hope for that lol.
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>>349143kek sis where have you been? When they started filming there was quite some drama because they made Louis and Claudia black and they changed the setting to early 20th century. I thought it's gonna be trash and when I finally watched it there were some things that annoyed me
>>346240 but in hindsight I loved it.
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>>347283so happy to see smack the pony here! my all-time favourite show and a huge inspiration to me as a kid during the turn of the millenium - seeing funny women behave like idiots on TV.
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I'm about halfway through and wondering where the plot is going next. Hamish as Father Paul is really delivering with the sermons and sexy in his tight pants. the first couple episodes I was skeptical (the alcoholic convict main character is a little dry compared to the rest of the cast and Bev is an annoying Karen) if I want to continue but it picked up. If I end up enjoying the ending of the series I may check out the directors other works. I'm not usually big on shows where the episodes are an hour if they span too long but it's kept my attention.
No. 349471
>>349467>I'm about halfway through and wondering where the plot is going next. I said the exact same thing when I was watching it. Keep going, you’re in for a treat.
I’m convinced the majority of people who were shitting on it never actually finished it.
No. 349472
>>346228I remember when I wast watching BB I wasn’t surprised that Skylar was hated she fits into that box of unfortunately being a woman who tries to sway her man from doing dumb shit but unfortunately the dumb shit is what the show is about.
She’s being rational and normal in a show about making and selling drugs.
No. 349474
>>346492Westerners have been getting conditioned for the better part of a decade to accept colour blind casting because ~ diversity ~ instead of just making black (lets be honest that’s really the only race Westerners really care about championing for) characters.
I’ve seen some fans attacking Viera …she drew Annabeth as blonde.
I’m sure the show will have a sizable dedicated audience but idk it doesn’t come off as an unpopular show. Funniest thing has been people praising the movies now lol
No. 349485
>>349471three or four episode rule should apply to most series, even if it's a short. I find there are worse ways to waste my time than on a fairly brief show, and I complete things so episode 1-2 wont work a cutoff. Unless a show or movie is a total bore or lags in latter seasons if it's long I won't drop it
people are too accustomed to jumpscare horror, some slower burn horror is boring but not this one. also I have a strange fondness as a former church school kid for its subject of religion
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i'm watching sex and the city and it's so annoying and infuriatingly misogynistic but idk at the same time this is maybe a combination of what normie women are really like (i've never been friends with them) and a product of it's time, i wouldn't know. can't stop watching even though i'm not really enjoying it kek, i'm on season 3 right now. i found it at least more compelling than HBO girls shockingly, that one i quit watching about halfway in because i suddenly realized i wasn't interested in any of the characters and i wasn't engaged in the story at all. i just really love media surrounding female friendship and i'll admit it's refreshing watching a story about women in their 30s(+) having a good time (for the most part). wish there was a similar show today but also not really kek
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did anyone else watch season five of fargo? the finale aired a couple days ago. i enjoyed it. jon hamm played one of the most despicable moid characters i've seen in recent memory though he certainly gets his comeuppance in the finale kek
No. 349766
>>349733I don't get all the youtube vids atm making out like its so awful and
problematic and the characters are terrible and everyone sucks through the super serious lens of current year like
> They were in their thiiirties though, they should've known better and picked better and been smarter and done this! Over 30! If they were 20 maybe but they..So woke to be freaking out over women (characters) over a certain age not being perfect. How the changing times have improved us all and made us better.
Back then them having rabbit vibes and magic wands in episodes was the most controversial thing. You could show people having one night stands but a sex toy being shown and its a woman talking about it or shopping for it and she's not doing so at the request of a man.. That was worthy of endless news articles shaming it. Thats the time it was made in
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>>349440it was on channel 4 in the UK but there was another all-female sketch show on the BBC years before this one with French and Saunders. equally brilliant, but more 80s/early 90s. one of their sketches was actually the pre-cursor to Ab Fab (with Dawn French playing Saffy's character)
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>>349733I watched it all the way through recently. I was 10-16 whilst it aired so it was one of those shows that the girls at my school started to watch as they got closer to 16 and began to show an interest in sex. But I thought I was too much of an NLOG idiot so avoided it.
>wish there was a similar show today but also not really kekI actually feel the same. it's hard to explain just how much I hate and enjoy it at the same time. there is something so warm about it even though it's soooo shallow and materialistic, and I cannot relate to them or their lives. maybe it's just a snapshot of that era that feels nostalgic for me idk. Did you watch any of the 'And Just Like That'? It's so fucking insanely bad that I actually became fascinated/obsessed. It makes SATC look like a work of art in comparison. and it destroyed Miranda's character by turning her from a smart, sarcastic woman who the audience respects into the most hated character imaginable.
>>349750I quite like Grace and Frankie but find the men really annoying, especially Sol (very punchable face) and Jane Fonda's surgery and filters become a bit too uncanny valley in the later seasons. Other than that, it's a cute and comfy show.
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Just finished Derry Girls and absolutely loved it. It’s nice to watch a show about teenagers just doing dumb teenage shit. Also I’m an ignorant American so I had no idea of the shit Irish people were dealing with because of the British so that part of the show was eye opening to me.
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>>349757I'm enjoying it plenty and I'm waiting to watch the final episode with my so. There's a one week delay on euro hbo. But I did sneak peek online. Ole Munch is hilarious.
Sidebar -I liked the first three seasons so much I embroidered the cover of Noah Hawley's book. I changed the text so it was our names instead and I'm using it as a personalized name sign for our apartment door. I try not to think about season four. No. 350092
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>>350077You might like Some Girls (2012-2014) too. Another show about some teen girls in the UK. They crack me up though I think I've only seen up until somewhere in the 2nd season. Also enjoyed seeing Mandeep Dhillon in an earlier role after liking her on-screen in After Life.
No. 350107
>>349279Girl they're in their 30s (same as Cruise and Pitt back then) and they're handsome. Not as hot as Queen of the Damned Lestat because that's impossible but nevertheless pleasing to the eye.
Armand's actor is a different color too but he definitely fits much better than Antonia Banderas back then lol
>>349337I felt so excited when they actually slept in a coffin together because that scene was cut out in the 94 movie and child me was so disappointed kek They have many scenes that portray how much they love each other which was clear in the novels yet not shown before.
No. 350450
>>346557OK I've just watched all 10 episodes. loved it but am also so confused.
the ending was mad. felt like a nightmare i've had a few times where i felt like i was stuck on the ceiling. what did you think it meant?
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>>350086I need to watch his other shows, but I enjoyed it now that I'm done. Recommendations as to which Flannigan I should watch next? Was thinking of the Haunting series.
>mfw I mostly watched for hamish as sexy monologue priest and was not disappointed No. 350580
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>>349733It’s dumb as a whole but it’s well written with good/funny dialogue, does heartfelt moments with ease and has realistic, well-acted characters. Some dating advice still holds up to this day (the „he’s just not that into you” ep should be essential watch for every straight woman), besides the main storyline of chasing the scrote who shows time and time again that he’s not interested in committing to you. I still love the fashion, even Carrie’s more eccentric looks because you can see the thought behind every of it, it’s not just putting random pieces together to be quirky. In summary it was a well-written and witty escapist fantasy with nice visuals which wasn’t pretending to be anything more than that, but still was revolutionary in some ways.
I’m looking forward to watching Girls tbh. I’ve seen some clips on YouTube and I love how trashy they all are and how shitty their friendship is, I also like Jemima Kirke.
No. 350658
>>350457I watched the shows in chronological order, starting with Hill House, than Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher. I liked Hill House the most, followed by The Fall of the House Usher and Midnight Club, Bly Manor was okay, but too close to Hill House, so nothing new and I found Midnight Mass to be very annoying, probably because of the whole religious monologues, kek.
So yes, I would watch Hill House next, it's very different to Midnight Mass, but an enjoyable show and if you like easy, spooky stuff, you will like it.
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I'm a little late (it premiered in November) but I'm really enjoying Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Wyatt Russell and Kurt Russell play the same character in different decades which is really entertaining to me kek
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speaking of Wyatt Russel if you haven't seen Lodge 49 I recommend it, just wish it had more episodes
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is there anything from a TV series that you find yourself referencing all the time?
I find myself yelling "parkour" when my cat starts jumping off the walls.
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Started watching Lena Dunham's Girls for the first time cause I saw pictures of Jemima Kirke and thought she was hot. I'm halfway through the pilot and haven't laughed or smiled once
No. 351781
>>351749Don't worry,
it doesn't.
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>>351721whenever i get a mosquito bite or something similarly itchy i think of paulie walnuts and his hysterical outburst over getting into poison ivy
No. 352041
>>351721I literally referenced this today with my cat kek
>>351746i couldn't get past the pilot either. i had high hopes but couldn't get into it.
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I've been watching Rome for a few days. It's very decent, I laugh quite a lot and enjoy the costumes and cultural ambience they managed to portray. It's a bit gore sometimes. Female character are interesting and complex, some male actors are hot, not bad at all.
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Absolutely insufferable, not sure if she was supposed to be an empathetic character? but i never felt any sort of sympathy for her or her retarded weeb degenerate son.
She was too dense, but i'm guessing it was to portray the religious looney mentality
No. 352939
>>352697i love this show but i hate how rushed the second season was. supposedly hbo was in a hurry to finish up rome so they could throw more money towards game of thrones and as a result what should have been at least a couple of seasons' worth of storylines were crammed into a single season. i read that a few of the actors from rome were so pissed over hbo's decision that they refused to appear in game of thrones but that could just be a rumor
>>352763seconding this excellent recommendation
No. 355363
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for any nonnas that enjoyed the first season of the terror i highly recommend the north water. i watched it when it was first released a few years ago and watched it again recently. basically the show follows a disgraced military doctor who has severely limited career options due to an incident in his past and has to take a job on a whaling ship. the journey is a rough, many bad things happen, and eventually the expedition goes horribly wrong. one of the whalers is a particularly nasty moid played by an unrecognizable colin farrell and he is the story's primary antagonist. i liked it so much that i read the book it was based on (overall it's a very faithful adaption).
No. 356626
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Is there any way to watch Nihon Touitsu with English subtitles online? Is it the same type of tacky cringe guilty pleasure that was Tokyo Dragon Chef?
No. 356628
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Currently watching SG-1 for the first time, on season 3 now. Very enjoyable cheesy 90s sci-fi, would recommend
No. 356648
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>>355363I love Jack O’Connell and I’ve read another positive opinion on this, definitely gonna give it a try.
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>>356990It’s great I really liked it. I really want an explainer of exactly what was going on for parts of it but I also appreciate it didn’t spell everything out.
Season two is kinda garbage I don’t know why it’s the same show, it’s a totally different story and setting.
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>>356990This is my favourite show ever. I've rewatched five times so far. I really enjoyed the book too, it's not for everyone though.
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>>357073I can’t lie I loved Night Country. I think the season finale was great, it felt much like a “reveal” chapter in a detective story where cards get turned over one by one. The slow pacing IMO was a good choice for the setting of an isolated town seemingly frozen in perpetual night, where it seems like nothing happens, where its people live uncomplicated routined lives, but reality is entirely opposite. I felt very immersed in the cold, dark, isolated and harsh environment, it gives me a hypothermia-induced drowsiness like I could hibernate until the ice thawed. Every time it shows them driving on invisible roads in total whiteout darkness, it deepens the otherworldly mood. And by contrast I am made very aware of the warmth and passion the town people have for such a hostile depressing living environment and each other, they were here first.
For much of the season I was concerned about the overt supernatural tones, but after the resolution, it was close to a perfect amount of supernatural/sci-fi elements that I loved similarly in Fargo. I admit I wanted to see a lot more of the mine company, ancient DNA stuff, indigenous mystic stuff, I’m sure there were big narrative potentials that couldn’t be realized within 6 episodes. But the story about world-changing discoveries and related questions are meant for another show.
I’m not surprised that the reviews have been mixed. Maybe I’ve grown fatigued of limited series format where every episode has to be pumped full of actions and progress to retain viewing interest. I always felt True Detective was supposed to be character driven more than a gripping plot, I see Night Country gave good effort in doing that as “returning to form” of ss01 so to speak. I don’t agree that a character can only be “fleshed out” if we spell out their every trauma and sin. I could appreciate depth in most of the major characters even though we don’t get to know all their stories. What has happened is less important than how it has changed each town inhabitant.
Anyway it’s funny the rose-colored glasses people have about ss01, in spite of the scrotey shit and r/Iam14andthisisdeep cringe, saying this as someone who liked it a lot. Yes I did find some of the sex scenes uncomfortable, Danvers’ particularly bordered on sacrilege buuut in consolation, the mindbreak of Peter Prior was peak, made for the anons into cute boy suffering, completed with underwear fanservice. Sorry for sperg, the final note is probably that I like stuff that makes men mad.
No. 357657
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I just started watching The Terror because of this thread and it's so good, I've binged half of it so far. Any anons who liked it and also like video games should play Return of the Obra Dinn, it takes place in the same time period but you play as an investigator trying to find out what happened to the crew of a derelict merchant ship which mysteriously reappears after going missing five years prior. I'll definitely be watching The North Water, too.
No. 358733
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>>357657I finished The Terror. Shot to my top twenty, maybe my top ten. So tight and thrilling. I love Goodsir.
No. 358736
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man i miss succession
No. 359650
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my despair continues to grow as time passes by without any sign that uzumaki will be released
No. 361635
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>>361280Forget skins and euphoria, come watch degrassi, now that's the shit.
Degrassi the next generation was really good, it peaked on season 3 and 4
drake getting shot ftw, but a while after that it becomes a pile of flaming crap with only some episodes worth watching. Now if you're feeling the 80s, there is degrassi junior/high, it was nice too and some of the characters there are the parents of the kids in dtng, I mean the same actors and all (though the adult characters in dtng are boring as fuck, even when they try to make them interesting it fails. Very baffling when it comes to spike, and speaking of spike, emma is annoying, imagine going through all the hardships of teen pregnancy only to birth a little shit, yep, that's emma). Don't waste time with dtng post season 9 cus you get a troon but it's a tif at least (nice casting though, she looks exactly like most ssa tifs) but doesn't really matter as it's overall bad, it's not just the tif and she
gets killed off later anyway. Then there is next class, don't watch that.
No. 362970
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I used to love Superstore, I think it's mostly accurate to the retail experience. However, after a few years of working retail it becomes depressing. I was very much an Amy and I met a guy who was so much like Johah…but realistically, Jonah doesn't actually like Amy. Jonah will abandon the store during 4th quarter, ghost Amy, and move to Wisconsin without explanation!!
No. 364449
>>363852Scifi - Red Dwarf (1988), Outer Limits (1963), Thunderbirds (1965) if you can tolerate goofy looking puppets, Lost in Space (1965)
Comedy / Sitcom - Laverne & Shirley (1976), Dad's Army (1968), MASH (1972), Only Fools and Horses (1981), Blackadder (1983), Father Ted (1995), Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
Drama - Columbo (1968), The Prisoner (1967)
No. 367621
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>>363852I'm currently watching The Bob Newhart Show (a sitcom) from 1972. It's from the same company that did The Mary Tyler Moore Show but it isn't remembered as much. I find it has a very cozy vibe.
No. 368243
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Patricia Arquette and Joey King really knocked it out of the park with their performances in this show, and despite it being partially fictionalized I thought it accurately portrayed the impact of generational trauma so well, specially in the last few episodes that show Gypsy's childhood and Deedee's behavior with her own mother.
No. 368386
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I'm rewatching sex and the city after more than 5 years, it gets even better the older I get lol.
All of the women except Carrie are career goals. Charlotte has the style I love and I always liked how she looked.
Samantha is the absolute best though and the best friend out of the 4.
No. 369426
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I want to rewatch Malcolm In The Middle again, it's my comfort TV show but i'm a spoiled weeb who is used to not pay for what i watch and keep track of my watchlist on animu sites, ugh.
Everytime i try to watch it for free i forget at what episode i am and start again, also i'm a bit worried because i remember that the later seasons get kind of disappointing and i don't want it to ruin my perspective of the entire show…
I love a lot of different series but not when it comes to TV shows and i never loved something as much as this, it feels like i'm 8 and i understand the dialogue of Sims 2 characters.
No. 369449
>>369433Nta, but you can probably bookmark in your internet browser.
There are also sites out there you can use to track western tv, just like MAL or whatever.
No. 369470
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I’ve been rewatching Desperate Housewives. It’s so fun with all the crazy plot twists and mysteries. I love how all the characters are multifaceted, they have their strengths and weaknesses, they don’t feel like caricatures even though it’s a comedy show. Definitely one of my favourite shows of all time.
My bf said he’ll only watch a couple episodes with me but here we are 6 seasons later, he’s invested now too kekkk
No. 369472
>>369470we're on the same wavelength
nonnie i'm watching s1e17 as i'm typing this kek, carlos deserves to go to jail
No. 369854
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Rewatching Hannibal, I got to the middle of season 2 a few years ago and never finished because I have a bad habit of abandoning shows kek. The dialogue is a bit overwritten but it makes sense when all the characters are educated. I love red dragon/the hannibal books and while a lot of things are toned down for tv I think it really captures the essence of it well. Still disappointed that Clarice isn’t a character in it but I guess they couldn’t get the rights for her or anything in silence of the lambs. She was way more interesting than book will graham but I think they did a great job of fleshing out his character more (even if most of it is just taken from Clarice’s interactions with hannibal). And yes, I love that will and Hannibal’s romantic relationship is teased from the very beginning and they actually had the balls to go through with it. Apologies to ugly old man psyoppers but I genuinely think hugh dancy and mads mikkelsen were nice to look at
No. 369997
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>>369854Really think you should finish the season. The finale of season 2 is probably my favorite episode of the entire series and it's something I go to rewatch just for it's beauty and emotional impact.
No. 370025
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did anyone watch The Regime? 6 episode HBO mini series starring Kate Winslet as the crazy chancellor of an unnamed central european nation. dark comedy and very strange but fascinating too. the reviews are so mixed, so i'm curious to see what nonas here thought of it.
No. 370027
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>>369854If you liked the Red dragon, stay with the movie adaptation. The Red Dragon in Season 3 looks so rushed and not worthy to watch, even if the fandom is so over it.
No. 370553
>>370078I’ve seen manhunter, it was pretty good. not as good of a movie as silence of the lambs though.
>>370027Haven’t gotten to s3 yet but that sounds disappointing, I wonder if it’s because they knew the show would be cancelled so they tried to wrap it up. I would’ve liked to see their take on the silence of the lambs if they got the rights eventually.
No. 370735
>>369824I just finished ep 6 and I like it so far myself! I’m not a Fallout purist by any means though so my view may be skewed to the ””normie”” audience who’s never played the games.
I only finished FO4 myself kekk>>369828Nooo I wasn’t that far in yet
No. 372779
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On my early 2000s show era, started rewatching Weeds. It's been so long I have basically forgot the whole plot.
No. 374403
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is this show good for people that like romance?
No. 374555
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Does anybody know if Dead Boy Detectives gets better after the first episode? I wanted to like it, but the exposition was painfully redundant, and I'm not connecting with any character so far. I also heard it has a Riverdale-like tone and it's taylor made for Tumblr, so I'm wary about continuing the series.
No. 374985
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just watched picrel on netflix. It's about the abusive boarding schools for 'troubled teens' in the US. Host/director is a bit annoying but was otherwise really eye opening. I think if my parents did this to me I'd kill myself in front of them once I got out.
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>>372155i'm liking it so far but it's comically how tiny she is compared to the other BOS members. could she not have bulked up? she looks like one of the children in the camp. are there no standards for trans/nb actors
No. 375202
>>369824Oh i missed this, yeah i didn't like it either aside the visuals, i found the failed hero concept kinda original, sometimes i was expecting him to do more only to prove otherwise kek
also why did they have to replay his flashback almost every time he appeared, it got really bad around the last episodes and i agree 100% with
>>371556The sausage ghoul had less charisma than any other ghoul in the games to me, and Lucy was kind of whatever but the way she would randomly offer sex sounds just fetishy because why would a young woman traveling in a dangerous and unclean territory for a quest act like that, i don't even know if she went raw with the first raider but whatever kekThe writing and characters were super flat but not even fun to me and this is a stupid nitpick but i was so salty that
there were no deathclaws… in this season? anyhow i'm glad i didn't pay for it and at the end i just felt like it would be cool if they ever make a vault inspired cafe irl.
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>>375142Yeah like wtf was that? Not even a scribe? I was actually smiling a bit when i thought she was just some butch that was in the same category somehow but no she is uhh… a man.
And i was never a BOS fan but they all felt like religious highschool bullies in the show kek imagine if they would be okay with trannies? I think we are just supposed to pretend that she's just a guy. It's still weird how i really didn't see any woman in the BOS in the show or maybe i've missed it in the background characters.
Veronica and even that talking power armor would snap them all in half.
No. 375590
Longtime Fallout fan, played all the main games, and I like the show. I wasn't sure how to feel at first but after a second watch I picked up on a lot more. I think they're doing some clever things with the writing despite having to appeal to normies.
>>375206There definitely aren't any women. If I was more of a conspiracy theorist I'd say the themlet was there to throw us off kek
The signs are pretty strong that the Brotherhood Chapter we see in the show is somehow influenced by Caesar's Legion. There would be no women legionnaires in this part of the country so it checks. No. 375943
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>>375590same here anon. i was extremely cynical going in, and ready to hate it, but it won me over. and i'm one of those assholes who think NV is the best.
speaking of that, i wish house had his voice he has in NV, but i was still screaming with glee when we saw him anyway. i took the fucking fanservice bait.i'm glad we're getting a second season, i def want more.
i don't really mind the timeline changes either and lol at moids who were mad that barb got to say the "war never changes" line>>375795quintus even uses "they" prounouns. so BOS doesn't allow women, but they allow some tiny girl who calls herself nonbinary to be a soldier? makes no sense.
No. 377277
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Finished picrel about an hour ago. Not sure what to say other than this show is pretty fucked up. I would say you should be warned that it's very graphic, and if you have a experience with grooming, SA, stalking, sexual trauma - really make sure that you're in the right midset if you decide to take a peek. I dont have much experience with the subject matter but even so, I was sure that they had captured everything gut-wrenchingly accurately.
That being said, the show is really good. I'm definitely still thinking about it.
Here's the thing though - I'm not sure what exactly to think about. Maybe I'm not a very curious person when it comes to people, but the show spells out for you pretty clearly why all the characters behave the way they do if you have the ears to listen. When I'm trying to think of what to write about it, literally all I can say about it is "Man, that was so good. And fucked up. Good story". I suppose that that's merit enough. It did reinforce some things I already knew - CPTSD makes you do fucked up shit that makes your already-bad situation even worse, people striving towards fame are pathetic, grooming feels good in the moment.
Maybe this show wasn't exactly meant for me. I know not every story needs a lesson, but if you're watching it purely for the suspense factor, it might even come off as a little shock-porny. Because wtf do i do with this info now? It really does leave a mark on you, at the cost of your mental wellbeing with kind of few returns.
In a way, people that can relate may need to see this show the most. It might give you a lot of food for thought if you decide to watch.
Oh, and there are so many cringe moments standard for UK shows that it probably warrants a seperate content warning.
>>375203The TIM is a recurring character, I would call him one of the main ones. He's pretty tolerable for a trans character, the show brings that up only in actually relevant situations. And his character is a therapist. Kek.
The biggest gripe i had with him was that I found him to be an extremely mediocre actor (which im not surpised about at all for obvious reasons). He really looked like he was reading some of his lines off of paper - compared to the other amazing cast, it was like eating a bag of oreos when suddenly you accidentally bite into a really bland oatmeal cookie. Kind of takes you out of the show a little.
No. 383921
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I know nonnies don’t like it, but I just started watching Girls because I needed something with awful characters to cope with my own awfulness and it’s pretty funny. Some of the dialogue is try hard quirky and 'look how awful and self absorbed they are!’ but some of the scenes are instant classics for me tbh, I like how unapologetic it is. I may be trashy, but it’s also a realistic portrayal of female sexuality in 20 something women.
No. 387995
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I'm watching the first season of Bridgerton and it is so retarded. How is a major plot point "my husband won't cum inside me and this is a betrayal!"?? Why did the show go out of its way to make being a Duke look like a real job that all the tenant farmers love him and need his guidance? I didn't know the aristocracy was funding netflix shows to increase their soft power kekkkk
It is just weird. I haven't watched a trashy show in a while I forgot they're like this.
The lead actress kinda reminds me of a young natalie portman sometimes – the netflix version though. sometimes when she's batting her eyes or making a pained expression her eyes don't look in the same direction. I'm actually watching this because I saw Nicola Coughlan in the trailers for the new season but she's barely in this one so that has been disappointing.
No. 388237
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>>388135it's short but over the garden wall is a cute wholesome show
No. 388249
>>388135Derry Girls, Call the Midwife, The Bear, Pen15, A League of Their Own, Anne with An E, Teenage Bounty Hunters, Grace and Frankie
I try to think outside of sitcoms so some of these are not without stakes but they are feel-good and wholesome imo
No. 388331
>>388310 I don't understand why people harass actors just for playing characters they don't like. Another example would be the guy who played Joffrey in Game of Thrones getting harassed just because the character he played was an asshole.
I wonder if the people who do that actually have mental issues, because lacking a basic ability to separate fiction from reality sounds like genuinely insane behavior.
No. 388343
>>388332I'll spoiler this in case you're trying to go in blind but if you're interested, these are Carmela's "worst crimes" according to fandom moids:
Stealing $40K from Tony to invest as a nest egg for the family in case shit hits the fan. Falling in love with Furio (never consummated or even kissed him), and negotiating for Tony to fund her spec house (it was $600K for the land alone) when getting back together after the separation. Tony freely agreed to this as the more-or-less unspoken deal was that he would keep his infidelity more private than he had before. He only complained about the money for the house when he started losing money gambling. Other than that it's just the fact that she "nags" Tony and mollycoddles AJ. Even to this day, the subreddit and YouTube comment sections are full of moids vilifying her. She's a great character with just as much depth to her as Tony but it's seldom explored. Even "intellectual" filmbros like Sopranos Autopsy criticise her constantly. Being into stereotypical moid media is my cross to bear.
No. 388447
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Can somebody recommend some series with cute brunette male protagonist or one of main roles being sad and/or troubled, preferably in high school/suburbs setting? Props if he is older brother, or has older brother. I don't mind the animation nor old, obscure series. I know it's pretty specific, I don't watch series or movies at all, I just want some broken cuties to eat whump fanfics after.
No. 388453
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Saw a pitch for a Recess reboot. If anyone's interested I'll post more
>Diverse group blah blah modern issues blah blah
>Episodic A plot with a serialised B plot trying to get the old gang back together to stop the school being sold out to the prison industry
>Spinelli and Vince's kid is the main character
>TJ is a tech bro millionaire who spends all day depressed in his mansion
>Gretchen worked for a not-Musk and now is trying to get cars to run on dirt
>Gus is a troon
>Mikey is dead
>Randal is the principle
>The Ashely's all have girls called Madison. Ashely Madison, get it?
No. 388455
>>388453>Gus is a troonlmao ok
>Mikey is deadwhy though? because he's fat?
No. 388456
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>>388455In verse he died from a mysterious illness in India. Real life his VA passed away. This was pitched during Covid so I think is was pretty insensitive either way
No. 388457
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>>388455Gus was also a heckin
valid tough trans army woman
No. 388462
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Spennili went to college then joined Pussy Riot then became a cop then became a lawyer. Turned down TJ which made him become an incelly tech bro
No. 388463
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>>388453>The Ashely's all have girls called Madison. don't forget the boys and enbies kek
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The New Gang
>Girlboss>Funny guy>80s stoner >Theatre kid>Nerdy black guyI will give them points for having the restraint to make only one of the gang related to the old one
>>388463Yep because a bunch of snobby upper class white girls are going to be totally progressive
No. 389649
>>389623Yes! The male lead this season is a
fuckboi who has definitely contracted every venereal disease known to man and no one has even so much as jokingly accused him of being a rake.
No. 390318
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the Queen Charlotte spinoff was better than Bridgerton. I was moved to tears a couple times.
The first scene with young Lady Danbury being fucked by her geriatric husband was so revolting I gagged. I started to get angry they showed it happening again and again since it was marital rape but at least it wasn't done in a salacious way in the slightest, it was genuinely upsetting. I was unhappy on principal that she treated him with kindness at times, like a pathetic old man, but it was pretty well done I think.
The story with King George was crazy, I was not expecting that at all.
No. 390535
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>>388447Umm… I don't know if you'll find the protagonist cute, but Norman Bates in Bates Motel is troubled, has dark hair and an older brother heh. And there's high school/suburbs setting, too
No. 390558
>>383921If I didn't like the first season should I continue and try to give it a chance? Sex and the city was fun and cynical
until later seasons and broad city wasn't particularly funny to me but women exploring new york shows grip the background tv watcher in me.
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Anyone been watching The Bear?? I binged it in the last couple of weeks, new series coming out soon. it’s good shit, well written and believable characters (with the exception of like 1). It’s shot nicely as well, makes me hungry tho kek
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i was incredibly excited for the boys s4 but it's awful thus far. they must've changed directors because scene transitions are choppy, line delivery is extra corny, and the set up for everything is cheesy and cheap. also people are blatantly ooc, take picrel. do you really mean to tell me this ocd guy who's incredibly meticulous and cautious forget to mute his PHONE when meeting with the PRESIDENT and a cia agent that he heavily respects? i get that they wanted to show he's neglecting his personal life for his vengeance/goals but what a hamfisted way to do it.
homelander's also been cheapened. none of the crazy shit he says hits as hard as it did last season. it's also rushed, why did homelander and butcher meet up within the first episode kek. what are they doing
No. 392624
>>392621i guess they could've done it to show that he was just that stressed out and not thinking but that doesn't make sense either, i'm pretty sure he defaults to order and structure as a coping mechanism. i'll sit through it for sister sage
black female villains are so rare but it's not looking good so far
No. 392847
>>392621i thought the plot point where
the supes beat homelander's biggest fans to death with baseball bats and framed starlight supporters was so ridiculous that i can't believe they expect viewers to go along with it. of course i don't expect realism out of a show like this but the idea that anyone in the show's universe who isn't a conspiracy theorist would actually believe
they were killed by people when their bodies looked like they'd been hit by cars is just too much to accept.
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I'm like 3 weeks late but the ending to this season of Hacks was so fucking good!! I love this show.
Also fucking KEK at Christina Hendricks' character in the golf ep. The "I would gladly let a socialist piss on me!" line killed me, that whole scene was retarded in a good way.
No. 393108
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i know its been a year since it last aired but i'm kinda sad no one is talking about succession anymore. that show was so good.
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>>388447not highschool setting at all but
watch hornblower
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>>393312wtf why is Horatio Hornblower this hot?
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>>393369I liked that they left it ambiguous (and i like that the scene was a clear nod to the ending of godfather part II, picrel)
apprently jeremy strong was doing his usual "muh method acting" shtick so hard he nearly jumped into the hudson and the guy who plays the bodyguard had to stop him from going over the guardrail kek
>>393112would love to hear your thoughts on it!
No. 393390
>>393097damn i didn't know there was a new season, thanks
nonnie. loved the first 2 seasons.
No. 393391
>>393108there was a whole thread dedicated to it which is kinda dead now
>>>/m/289402 great show, i miss all the discussion around it too
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I just started watching this show and knew I recognised the guy in the middle (picrel) from somewhere but couldn't place where from. Turns out he is Michael from Love on the Spectrum kek. Did anyone else watch that? He's actually really good in this, he's basically playing himself exactly, but it works.
This show, Austin, is about an author who gets cancelled for retweeting something from a right wing influencer, and at the same time finds out he has a son (played by Michael) he never knew about. It stars Sally Phillips and Ben Miller, but is set in Australia.
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I've watched some random episodes and I really like it, maybe I'll watch it normally. It's funny but it would be even better of Frasier was a woman kek
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Anyone watching Interview with the Vampire? I remember there were some discussions about it when it was first announced but then I didn't really see anything.
I just gotta say I'm impressed with how good it is especially with how many creative liberties it took. I grew up reading these books so initially hearing about some fundamental differences (Louis' background, Claudia's age etc) i was really disappointed but then the showrunners proved their love for the source material by making every change really matter and add to the story. Honestly as a fan in the age of so many poor adaptations, I feel blessed we got something this well crafted.
No. 396460
>>396457he has a breakdown in the confessional over this exact point, compares himself to a slaver and tries to kill himself out of guilt kek
>It was pretty rich every time he had a whole speech about freedom and being seen as a person etcwhen does this happen
No. 396623
>>396449God forbid a character is
problematic, lmao. Everyone in these stories is messed up in this way or another, this is not endorsement
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This is so fucking retarded, this is the first AHS season that I can't even finish under the guise of "so bad it's at least entertaining". For a few episodes I thought they were self aware about having tranny actors terrorize pregnant women but nope.
No. 396974
>>396623why make the change in the first place if the character was already
problematic? so we can include more women getting abused for angst? fuck off kek
No. 398076
>>393108me too
>>393369i liked the ending. he never was going to kill himself, he baited his family for 4 seasons and probably has been doing that for his entire life, but he's too much of a faggot to actually kill himself
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Watching this and it's making me want to read Poe stories again.
No. 398471
>>396966Yeah I just finished it and I'm so confused
the cult was actually good in the book, genuinely good twist with the husbands affair stuff being the actual gaslighting going on Also weird to choose male actors in a cult where everyone has to get pregnant at some point.
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>>398473the first season is amazing. unmatched style and drama. i wasn't as impressed by 2. should i bother with 3 and 4?
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nonners i just binged all of the boys and i love it except 90% of s4 was bad, what the hell happened
No. 401830
>>401612this season is complete fucking garbage. the writing has become unforgivably lazy and they treat obvious, predictable twists
like jdm being a figment of butcher's diseased imagination like startling revelations. they've also basically shit all over starlight for the entire season by dragging out the abortion storyline for far too long, having her go from a sheltered religious pageant kid forced to be her mother's show pony to a bully who spread graphic sexual rumors about other little girls, and having a scene where the actress wept over pictures of her pre-surgery face. i'm also sick of homelander's offspring and all this conflict over whether he's a good boy at heart or a scrotelet on the verge of becoming a monster. in the meantime everyone, including butcher, seems to have forgotten that the only reason he exists is because his mother was raped. i apologize for my sperging.
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>>401612The series has turned to relying on shock factor similar to the comic but the first two seasons suggested a more "serious tone" with a coherent storyline of trying to reveal the secret behind Homelander/the supes with some ""mature"" humor mixed in; but now it's mainly just juvenile humor and caters to fetish fuel.
Now that they somewhat achieved revealing the supes I feel like they no longer know which direction to take the story in. The characters overlook the fact that Homelander is a rapist, Butcher's character is getting more exaggerated,annoying and unrealistic, the sudden "Frenchie is gay with feelings" feels like pandering and is something they've made fun of with maeve's character in previous episodes, There are too many subplots and the tension between characters ends up being forgotten in later episodes.
The feral animal scene was stupid,
Firecracker is an annoying character I can't stand her fake accent and I feel bad for the actor who plays starlight as so many men who don't have a chance with her keep commenting about her face so much that she had to limit comments on her post along with other channels that post interviews with her, the reason they have such a problem with her new look is because she no longer looks like a teenager while the actor who plays mother milk looks completely different but no one comments about that because he's a man. Kimiko is still the best character though.
Sorry for the long rant kek.
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Any recommendations for TV series with hot male characters? I want to see beautiful men.
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Finally got around to watching You. Just finished season 1, actually. Are the subsequent seasons worth? It has kept my interest so far.
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i fucking love scavengers reign more than anything, one of my favorite animated series thats come out within the last 10 years and i am so mad max dropped it, im praying itll pick up a lot more traction on netflix. i dont know how popular it is with the average person but the rich alien life and environments got me so good along with the robot character even if the arc is very predictable, ITS STILL DONE SO FUCKING WELL!!!!!! but anyways if this show doesnt get a season 2 i will kill myself.
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>>402250>>402492just watched the final ep of s4. i really didn't think it could get more fucking stupid. literally spent all day being excited and hoping they'd pull something cool to redeem themselves, nope,
let's just go back on everything we established the entire season what's the fucking point.
starlight acting like hughie cheated on her is retarded, he also basically got raped again, butcher should have died, what the FUCK was the point in showing frenchie being gay holy fuck i hate frenchie/kimiko so much, how dare they kill nadia, ryan is annoying now, AND HOW DID THEY MANAGE TO MAKE HOMELANDER BORING????i'm so mad
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I'm watching this right now, and I can't believe it's so good. My one complaint is the voice-acting. I've sort of gotten used to it at this point but Mizu's voice actress is bad. I wonder why they couldn't find a woman who could speak at a deeper register or at least sound more convincingly male. Like I'm able to do a better male voice than whomever is currently playing her…right now she just gives an awkward rasp.
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Cobra Kai is so fun, didn't expect it to be that good.
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Is this show anything worth watching or is it another wacky, lol you wouldn't get it, post-irony Adult Swim slopfest
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this show was silly as fuck and I loved every minute of it, I hate that they left the finale on a cliffhanger but hopefully Netflix will give it another season and not cancel it like they did with inside job
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>>410601>not much cheeseNo such thing with these. I dropped them because of that. Majority of them is too focused on romance as well which imo ruins it. But the least bad one I watched was The K2
because of a kpop idol I liked at the time being the FL. The story is about some rich politician's wife hiring a bodyguard who doubles as a spy to spy on her husband and expose him cheating on her. But some dark secrets get revealed after this and it's kind of a sad story. There's some cheesy romance between the FL (kpop idol who plays the role of the illegitimate politician's daughter) and ML (spy bodyguard), but I kinda warned up to it because he helps her a lot throughout the story. There's also the funeral scene where the FL sings "Amazing Grace" and her politician dad and step-mom feel bad about what they've done to her and I admit I teared up to it, but the premise is so corny kek.
Another one I liked was W 2 Worlds, husbandofag female doctor gets to go to her husbando's world, dates him, and brings him into the real world.
I suggest avoiding fighting for my way though because it has lots of weird gross
abusive relationship shit but it used to get shilled back in the day. There are also lots of old man x high school girl ones so avoid these as well. Hope you enjoy the ones I recommend though!
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>>346212Started Rings of Power S2 last night, after binging the first season last week. I really like it, even though I read that most people didn't. It's just a really beautiful world to escape to, I love the set and costume design. I think not comparing it to the books/films is best, just enjoy it for being a fantasy show with some characters you might know of. AND the best part is there's no sexual violence! Which is probably why all the moids hate it
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Other than these characters I rarely find Portlandia funny tbh, but it is very nostalgic to me.
No. 418063
>>414980>Peter Jackson's elves were noble, elegant and ethereal… quite consistently and believably elf-like. The Rings of Power elves on the other hand are just like ordinary human beings in elf costumes. They removed everything magical and ethereal about elves.Wouldn't surprise me to find out they did this to avoid accusations of white supremacy from the same weirdos who think orcs are meant to be black.
I've been avoiding the show because it all kind of looks like shein-ified Tolkien, the only reason I can justify it looking so… cheap, despite having such a massive budget, is that there's some sort of money laundering fuckery going on.
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>>402919>>402492They really dropped the ball with Kimiko, I was invested in her story from the beginning but I got so sick of all of the Frenchie shit, especially with his random gay arc with her acting like the “supportive friend” and then it’s like
oh just kidding I liked you all along! And then by that point I didn’t even care if they were together.Starlight hardly got to do anything this season, the most exciting part where we actually got to see her act was the
shapeshifter scene. And the writing was awful.
>Look, I'm sure you're all wondering why I'm here tonight, instead of rimming out AOC while shouting, 'Defund the police!' up her asshole.”I physically cringed.
No. 418090
>>418063the thing about orcs is that they are also just elves, elves who have been corrupted by evil into twisted parodies of god's creation, Tolkien wrote about orcs being
victims of what mechanised warfare does to a people
the brutish orcs who love fighting and violence for the sake of it aren't even from Tolkien. they're from warhammer, which based them off football hooligans, skinheads and neo-Nazis
No. 420556
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Any other Venture Bros appreciators here? I'm just rewatching it again, the first 3 seasons are great
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>>420556I love Venture Bros. I love the writing. The episode where Brock kills all the henchmen nude probably kicked off my sexual awakening. I still love it, even if it made a weirdo.
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>>420556I love venture bros, definetly in my top 3 cartoons. VB and duckman are the only cartoons that did the whole ''angry old cynical man'' schtick well. The Doc is what Bojack writers wanted Bojack to be. It's an overall extremely well executed show, i also love the extremely niche references to old shows like Johnny Quest. Now i want to rewatch it too, even thought the first seasons have a rough animation.
>>420724>trailer park fred jones, jimmy olsenThis is the intent of the characters funnily enough, the show is filled with references to 70s cartoons and classic comics.
No. 421947
>>421745i agree completely kek.
>the shots are so amazingbecause the entire aesthetic vision was stolen from artist petra collins, she'd been developing this style her entire life. look into her work and you will be able to tell immediately.
>but the writing was midthe part this scrote actually had to do kek. he was an
abusive director too. his ego got too big by season 2 to tell a coherent story. he got so bold with it just being softcore pornography that he wrote a new character in to cast his favourite porn actress as. rue is the only well written one because she is autobiographical from his addict 'past'. he has the porn addict stare too.
No. 423252
>>421947>>421745I noticed that so many shows nowadays might be mediocre and have shitty writing but the cinematography always delivers, it's really weird.
THat super controversial star wars sequel movie sucks but the shots are so good. HOTD sucks but again has amazing cinematography (unfortunately shitty blue filter effects it)
Wouldn't surprise me if Joker 2 is the same
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Did anyone watch this show
What are your opinions? I don’t care about history accuracy but if the show is good I’ll probably research midway through watching
No. 424579
>>424564Always Sunny and AD are my favourites from that list! Assuming we have similar taste in comedy based on that, I'd suggest 30 Rock, Parks and Rec and Brooklyn 99.
Girls5eva is an underrated one I love and I rec that to everyone in this thread.
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does anybody have any good drama reccs? preferrably ones that aren't modern (pre-2010), however, i do like modern foreign dramas. stuff like telenovelas and kdrama/jdramas, i'm fine with any.
something that's not too graphic (i don't mind light violence here and there but i can't stand stuff that overwhelms the viewer with sex, drugs and violence in every scene) and has a wide range of character personalities/characters that feel realistic or like actual people. i really love relationship dramas and larger casts
No. 425820
>>425519X-Files
Buffy
The Nanny
Battlestar Galactica
Xena
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Im currently watching House and just started watching season 2. The second episode genuinely made me so uncomfortable that it's making me want to drop the show. Picrel, a 30 year old doctor, kisses a 9 year old little girl patient while alone with her because she says she's "never kissed a boy before". She's like dying of something, so what he did is being framed as a "kind act", at least based on youtube comments from people that watched that episode. I'm just so genuinely repulsed right now. Whoever wrote this episode is a weird fuck. Any nonnas here that have watched the show and think it's worth continuing? Maybe i should just skip the rest of this episode. Unless they have other pedophilic episodes im unaware of that I should also skip.
No. 426623
>>426619to answer your question, the weird things that stand out in my memory is when
a 17yo girl was hitting on house and he was disappointed to know it was because she had an illness that fucked up her brain and not because she really wanted him. then another episode where a boy was sa by his father in the past and house's team wasn't proactive in finding out why his mother didn't want the guy around when it was obvious, i don't remember exactly the episodes they're from. and i thought the kiss scene was awkward even as a teenager
No. 426722
>>364951Update to this
Did anyone here watch it and how do you rate it?
I noticed some /tv/cels complaining that it's not actually about the penguin and it's about his daughter or something which sounds hilarious if true
But it just looks like the Sopranos to me
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Is anybody watching "Agatha All Along" on disneyplus? It's a spinoff of Wandavision about a group of witches trying to get their powers back (basically). I'm really enjoying it and I even finally watched Wandavision because I like this show so much. My favorite thing is that it's an almost all female cast over the age of 40. It's been funny and sad and a fun adventure. Finale is next week, I'm excited for tv for the first time in ages.
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>>427589I've been watching it over the past couple days (tis the season) and just finished the finale. For reference I'm a former Marvel slop enjoying who stopped caring after Endgame except Wandavision. So here's some quick thoughts
>Really enjoyed the almost all female cast.>I liked the low budget aspect. A lot of the Disney+ shows have been flash over substance. I believe it might be the lowest budget Marvel show.>Really creative trials.>Agatha doesn't have a revelation and suddenly becomes good. She likes Billy because she reminds him of her son and it's built up slowly. They even show her backstory and it doesn't excuse what she does. She's still a wicked ghost witch.>No laser beam end battle, they almost subvert it with Billy and Agatha vs Death.>Kinda wish Disney hid the last episode. I didn't know both were dropping today until I saw it in the app.>They didn't bring everyone back. I totally thought that was what Billy was going to do at the end.>I want to join a covenI know Marvel is going to continue the Wandavision show saga with Visionquest but I really hope they just leave this part of the universe alone. I think because this was so low budget they execs were pretty hands off and I want more of that No. 428616
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>>428614Samefag. This show has a lot of tarot refs and I saw two in the last episode.
>The Moon. Spirituality, peacefulness, hidden danger, self reflection>The Troon. Self deceit, ignorance, delusion, 41% chance of death. No. 430835
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I'm genuinely enjoying The Idol so far and I wanted to say why, don't come for me just yet I'm only one episode in. Starting off easy the soundtrack and cinematography is great, I'm easy when it comes to pretty scenes that also sound good. The acting so far also isn't terrible, I was surprised that it's not worse. Abel and Lily aren't great, but it seems an effort was put in and I appreciate that, I was also excited to see Eli Roth is in it. I dislike him as a person but I enjoy his movies and how much effort he puts into his roles. The obligatory troon was annoying, but it seems his part is small so I'm hoping he won't be seen much from this point on but it's not a deal breaker for me.
I'm already aware of the ending because I watched a few youtube reviews of the show before I decided to actually watch it, so from my understanding I believe Jocelyn is playing Tedros and using him to improve her music in some way. This is almost obvious from the first episode, even just in the way she speaks to him and about him. When her friend said his vibe was "rapey" she replies with casualty, saying that's what she likes about him. Painting her as someone who isn't naive to his creepiness, but hyper aware and unafraid of how he presents himself as some dominant force. There's also a scene immediately after she tells her friend she wants to invite him over, they're both watching an old movie and right before Tedros is shown at her front gate, the camera fixes on the TV where a man asks a woman "what happens?" and the woman replies with "she kills him." The foreshadowing seems almost too obvious, I know Jocelyn doesn't end up murdering Tedros, but the implication I got was that Jocelyn is very aware of how people will view her as someone vulnerable to be taken advantage of, and that she is not someone who will be easily played, and instead she will be the manipulator. I think this is also foreshadowed in the opening scene when the photographer is giving her instructions for the photos and we see her switch from one emotion to another. It could be assumed that her quickness to cry shows her fragile emotional state, and that could be true. But it could also be that she knows how to use emotion to get where she needs to be, and that emotion is something that is easy for her to control, leaning into the foreshadowing of her character being manipulative.
I found the comedy pretty on the nose, but I still enjoyed it. I remember seeing people disliked the way the humor mocked progressivism, and I can see where they are coming from. But for me it didn't seem totally one sided because a lot of jokes seemed to be lobbed towards the opposing side as well. I felt like the "mental illness is sexy" scene, where her manager or whatever explains that ugly men in the middle of nowhere will see a hot crazy famous girl as someone that could potentially fuck them, as opposed to an unattainable beautiful successful famous woman with stable mental health as too far fetched as a sexual fantasy, to be mocking men who feel like they can only be in praise of women they feel they have a chance with. And that 99% of men don't have a chance with celebrity women so they lie for cope to feel like they do have a chance with these women. I felt like there were enough scenes like this to sort of negate the idea that progressivism was the only side being mocked, because it felt like every side was being mocked at a certain point.
The nudity was pretty pointless, I'll say that. The scene with Jocelyn choking herself while masturbating was completely pointless and added nothing to the story or her character ark. However I will say some of it did convey the point it was trying to make, like in the beginning when she's very keen on showing her bare breasts on camera, and her team is encouraging of it as well. I felt like this set up the idea that she is being pushed into whatever is going to make the most money and get the most attention by everyone around her, including her best friend, and even herself. The fact she was more than eager to do so kind of shows the audience that her body and privacy has been so commercialized that she doesn't see nudity as something to even pause at. She just removes her dressing gown, not even giving it a second thought. This is also shown in her casualty about her private photo being leaked. My assumption from that scene is that she is either so numb to being objectified that she doesn't care anymore, or that she leaked the photo herself. This callousness is also reflected when she goes to the club and is almost naked, wearing a sheer dress that shows her breasts and thong, she doesn't even really cover her chest when her nipples are showing over the top part of the dress. I'm sure a lot of this is because Sam and Abel are sex pests who wanted her to be as nude as possible, but it did also add to this "exploited celebrity" story that's being told. A lot of it does seem pointless, especially the slow motion scenes of her during her dance practice. The idea of Jocelyn being objectified could have been portrayed without Lily being objectified, and the dance was being practiced without a camera so it wasn't as if the slow motion scenes were in the show, they were quite literally just for the audience and I'm assuming the men behind the production of the show.
I also don't like how one dimensional Jocelyn is right now. I'm hoping that changes throughout the episodes, but so far I find it very hard to sympathize with her because of it. We see that she is upset, but so far none of her upset seems irrational. She's tired and overworked, as stated by her, and she's grieving the death of her mother. She's also unhappy with the work her team is encouraging her to put out, so far her motivations seem very hollow. Perhaps she's bored and unhappy with stardom, but were not really given any drive or motivation she might have. We're told she's had an emotional breakdown, but we're not shown any of the aftermath or any hint of that at all really. She seems subdued and sad, but none of it seems out of place for the situation she's in. And her character just seems unfinished, like we aren't given much about her, and what we are given isn't enough to make any real judgment on. But I guess the same can be said about Tedros, I just wish Lily's character was given more depth considering she is the protagonist, and the story seems to be centered on her and her life. I really liked the first season of Euphoria, and while that's also a Sam Levinson show I find the differences are huge. And even just comparing Rue to Jocelyn, it feels like a big let down in the sense of character arch. While Rue can be unlikable, mean, selfish, even cruel. We're still given reasons to root for her, empathize with her, understand her motivations for the things she says and does, even if we disagree with or dislike the choices she makes. Maybe it's in part because Zendaya's acting is better than Lily's, but it's also because Rue's character is fully fleshed out. We get to know her likes, dislikes, what motivates her, what discourages her, her backstory, trauma, goals, interests, strengths, weaknesses. What she's willing to do for herself, for the people she cares about. We get to know her character and that makes the story compelling, but with Jocelyn it's just completely flat. She's sad, stressed, a little mean. We don't know what she likes, what she wants, what her goals or motivation is. We know she doesn't like the music she's making but we also don't know what kind of music she'd prefer to make. We know she doesn't want to be made fun of but at the same time she doesn't mind posing nude or having private photos leaked, it just seems her character is in it's first draft.
Anyway sorry for the length of this post I just felt like I had a lot to say because this show was so heavily scrutinized and I had so many assumptions going in I didn't expect to have my initial opinion changed. I might feel completely different by the end of the show or even the next episode but this is just my initial reaction so far. I was surprised the ratings are so low, I know there's a lot to critique but I feel like there's way worse shows out there. The nudity and sex scenes are a bit much but I like I can grant some curtesy because it's not marketed to kids or teens at all. But yeah feel free to call me retarded I just wanted to share how I feel about the show so far.
No. 430850
>>430823>There's one where a mom brings her little girl in to the clinic because she thinks she's epileptic but House informs her that her little girl is just masterbaiting. I never watched that show but some people are so stupid it seems like a realistic situation to me. I've seen doctors online saying some of their adult patients are even more stupid than that.
Like some reddit post I saw long ago about a couple trying to have kids and not understanding the guy isn't supposed to rub his dick on the woman's bellybutton to get her pregnant. For years. Is House the type of shows that has weird cases inspired by weird things happening irl?
No. 430991
>>430990Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Metalocalypse
Squidbillies
No. 431102
>>431080ABSOLUTELY not all anime!! But anime
is trending better, especially dubs. Agree that 90s Trigun is one of the good ones, even if the first 10-12 episodes are like 4 hours of Who Cares? before the show is actually a banger. I didn't see a lot of the new Trigun but I've heard excellent things. The art is worse tho imo… I miss the ugly hand-drawn 90s frames.
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>>431102I'm guessing you didn't miss the 'Vash looks like a lesbian now' shitposting and FtMs transwashing him and giving him breast scars…
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Streamed 2 Broke Girls because I needed some new background noise television, and I find sitcoms are great for that. Due to just putting it on in the background I cant give it a true review, but I overall liked what I saw of it and enjoyed that the plot stayed focused on the cupcake business instead of just throwing it away like many comedy series tend to do with plots established early in the series.
Unfortunately, this show came out in 2011, so there are a lot of outdated pop culture references that dont hold up at all.
No. 431193
>>430990adult swim has a lot of good shows imo.. metalocalypse, china il, venture bros, king of the hill, joe pera, ballmastrz, harvey birdman, superjail, space ghost, MAWS, and morel orel are great. i guess samurai jack counts too now since they just consider the whole show adult swim now, not just season 5.
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>>431194worst part is no milly
>>431312has been for awhile
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>>426722>>427829this show fucks. complaints are retarded and consist of "wahhh a woman is being centered in one episode" and "where's batman" so who cares. it's highly rated by actual critics. sofia is a great character.
No. 431714
>>431106Ugh he used to be husbando material, the re-design is so moeblobshit.
>>430835The Idol could have been so much better if these two cumbrains didn't show up, the moid from euphoria and elfindesemana. You still can see the original vision that Amy Seimetz conceived for the show in that episode where Jocelyn has this meltdown after filming the music video. And Lily Rose has potential as an actress IMO.
No. 431778
>>431714Agreed, despite liking it I can't help but feel it could have been so much better if it weren't written solely by male perspectives. They always think they can write women realistically but it just ends up like a caricature. I've only ever seen or heard a handful of men be able to accurately describe a woman's experience or perspective and they were probably just hearing it directly from women and repeating it verbatim kek. I didn't know it initially had a woman in the mix of male writers, I googled it and I'm disappointed they cut her out. The scene you're talking about was one of my favorites throughout the show, it's the only time we get a glimpse into Jocelyn's mind. It made me feel a lot of empathy for her, a stark difference from that first episode where I said we don't get to know Jocelyn past a surface level at all. I actually got teary when she called for her mom a few times.
>And Lily Rose has potential as an actress IMOI think so too, she did quite well considering some of the awkward and clunky lines they gave her.
No. 432034
>>431778Jocelyn character ended being a prop for elfindesemana self-insert shitty story. It was so ridiculous how shoehorned he was and how over the top Jocelyn was behaving, like you say, they don't know how to write female characters, they write sexual props. I hope he and the moid from euphoria don't get any work for a long time, since the idol was a fail for audiences and critics alike.
I think that in Nosferatu we'll see a better Lily Rose, in the trailers her acting seems fine.
No. 432187
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The H2O: Mermaid Adventures show is so comfy and soothes my brain when I'm feeling anxious.
No. 433297
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I recently started watching Het huis Anubis, so far I like it for being silly, its mystery and characters, despite being aimed for (pre)teenagers lol.
Any Dutch or Belgium nonnas who watched this growing up? or that watched their version like House of Anubis in English? As a kid I was not interested watching it (liked cartoons more) and was kinda scared it was too dark for me kek.
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Is this any good? I liked the second movie more than the first one and was curious to see what else they could do with this character/where the story would go.
No. 433995
>>396449>>396974based nona
>>402814season 2 is imo better and season 3 was worth it for me for more love quinn. it requires more suspension of disbelief re: joe getting away with it as it goes on. season 4 is the worst one.
>>433297yes! i watched house of anubis as a tween and loved it. i even wrote fanfiction of it kek.
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I watched the 2022 Interview With the Vampire series today. I like? Parts of it? But the ending scenes for both seasons are so dramatic they come across as comedic. I never read the books so I was going in blind, but even to me it was obvious what things they probably changed to make it acceptable for a 2022 audience.
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I started watching succession and the secondhand embarrassment from this guy got to me 5 minutes into the first episode, is the entire series like this?
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>>437413I've read the books. There are a handful of changes. In the books, Louis is a white creole man who inherits and indigo plantation (and slaves) from his family. The part where Louis is turned takes place in the early 1800s instead of the early 1900s. In the books, Daniel is still turned by Armand, but in the 80s when he's still a relatively young guy. In the book, the titular interview takes place entirely in the seventies, and Louis had long parted ways with Armand at that point. Some of the cheesy things (like Louis and Lestat embracing at the end) actually do come from the books, albeit the second rather than the first. They also changed Armand's age and race; in the book, he was a Russian, red-haired boy who was turned at 17. Claudia is younger (six iirc) and she never gets sexually assaulted. They didn't change anything about Lestat, though, aside from making him a few years older (which they did with pretty much everyone.) The show is slightly gayer than the books, but the books are pretty darn gay. Louis and Lestat are described as "blood spouses" at various times, which is basically vampire marriage.
I think the decision to change Louis probably started as a PC one, but they ended up taking it in interesting directions while still maintaining the core elements and essence of his character in the book.
No. 437501
>>437477yeah; some fans might try to sell him as a a tragic sadboi but he's supposed to be a cringy loser
there's a lot of cringewwory moments from him, greg and tom so if that isn't your thing succ probably isn't for you
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>>437495I should clarify what I meant. Even though I went in blind I was aware that Lestat and Louis were a couple and there was a plantation setting. I also was aware of Claudia coming into play later on. I didn't know any major plot developments other than that Lestat and Louis separate at some point. I don't think it's a bad adaptation. I understand the decision to avoid the plantation setting and slavery. Also aging up Claudia to be fourteen in the show rather than five. But it feels a bit like the pendulum swung almost too far in the other direction I guess.
The black, brothel owning Louis and Indian Arman are interesting reinterpretations, but the emphasis race now plays in the relationships feels a bit out of place? Out of touch? I'm not sure the exact phrasing, but it was a bit clunky and awkward at times. Especially with how other characters would address it. (Like when Daniel mentions to Louis how it made total sense for him to go to Paris to escape racism, because they were so accepting of Algerians or something.) It felt like a decision that was originally made to show how not-
problematic this adaptation is than out of genuine interest to modernize the setting and characters.
I liked Claudia a lot but it took a lot of suspension of disbelief when other characters would comment how childlike she is in appearance. (Like when they told her to go play with the other kids when they were in Hungary kek) The 21st century setting and aged Daniel are good additions, I liked them. The themes of relationships, abuse, memory, and love were really well done. Great production value in the show overall. Also when I said the season endings were dramatic I wasn't referring to the embrace between Louis and Lestat, that felt very in place to me. Rather it was the quippy one lines we would get like Louis saying he owns the night. I know the source material is campy but it just felt so awkward as a season finale.
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>>437501Yeah, I am reconsidering.
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>>438091He's supposed to be twinky. The whole reason he hates Claudia so much in the book is because he was turned at a teenager and feels that it's a profound injustice to turn non-adults into vampires. Neither the 94 movie nor the show portray him correctly. I respect the show's choice to change Louis' race and background, but Armand really should have looked more like his book version. In the books, the guy who turns Armand, Marius, is a Renaissance painter, and Armand (who is described as looking like a Botticelli angel, picrel) is his favorite apprentice. Their relationship is based on Da Vinci and his pupil/lover Salai. A lot of Armand's character development in the books has to do with how his perception of Marius changes in light of how fucked up their relationship was in retrospect.
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>>438136nayrt, I just think it's so funny how the closest to the book description Armand was in QotD where he has like 2 lines.
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>>438091I know that Paris was kinder to black people during the 20th century than much of America. My point was really how the show felt the need to highlight racial dynamics in at times awkward ways, which wouldn’t be really necessary if they hadn’t changed so many characters’ race. This felt like an overcorrection at times in an attempt to make the story more palatable to a modern audience. I think the changes to Louis’s character are interesting and the way they handle it for the most part is well done. But I do agree with
>>438136 that changing Armand’s character so much didn’t really feel necessary. Honestly I’m more interested in the version they described than the one we get in the show.
Debating if I want to read the first few books in the series even if it went off the rails later on. Also the fandom for this seems like absolute cancer even by modern fandom standards No. 438169
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>>438154I was thinking about this last night. AMC IWTV feels like an AU rather than an actual adaptation of the book. If I wanted to recommend it to someone for the first time the AMC series is the most easily accessible and as far as TV goes is good. But if your goal is to get into the series as a whole then it’s difficult to switch from the books to the show, so maybe it’s best avoided.
Slightly OT but Sam Reid is a great actor and I keep thinking about certain scenes because of him. I know the 1994 movie is suppose to be pretty good but I think Brad Pitt is ugly and wonder if I could be as immersed in Tom Cruise’s Lestat as I was Sam Reid’s. Or if I should just read the book and then watch the 1994 movie.
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>>438169Sam Reid absolutely blows all of the other Lestats out of the water. I'm impressed that he manages to do a French accident without it sounding silly. He does a good job of capturing Lestat's insane, whimsical energy.
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>>438185He’s in comparatively so few scenes in s2 but he steals the episode each time he shows up. Picrel, the bench scene, and the conversation before the embrace in the last episode are so wonderfully acted. I agree about the whimsy coming across, as well as the accent. I was pretty surprised to learn he was Australian.
By comparison Jacob Anderson isn’t a bad actor, but the delivery of a lot of his lines doesn’t feel nearly as impactful and just reads a bit cringe tbh. The wistful tone he would put on when recounting stuff in the Dubai apartment was so aggravating to me.
>>438188Thank you
nonny this is the exact kind of advice I was looking for. I know reading all of the novels is a waste of time but I wasn’t sure which to prioritize.
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Xavier: Renegade Angel is such an underrated series. Maybe because on the surface level it looks like a "lolsrandum" show, but it's actually written by geniuses of English language.
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>>438221>>438188Anyone recommending this book either hasn’t read it in quite some time or a low reading level. It’s so hard to slog through, honestly.
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>>439604kek I'm the anon who started talking about IWTV and asked for book recs. I actually tried to read IWTV over a decade ago since it was on a summer reading list, but I couldn't get into it at the time. I've picked it up again because of the series and I think my takeaway is that I just don't care too much for Anne Rice's writing style. I'm persevering but I'm not surprised I dropped it when I was younger.
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I watched dark years ago and I really enjoyed it. Anyone watched stuff similar? Mainly focused on how detail orientated it was
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>>439604I don't see anything wrong. I'm surprised you didn't use one of her half-page-long sentences as an example. I read these books for the first time when I was fifteen and I've read them a few times since. It's infinitely better than the YAslop all the other retards my age were reading at the time. Rice's writing style is kind of similar to GRRM's, which isn't for everybody for a lot of the same reasons. I don't understand why you would describe these books as "low reading level." If anything, they feel kind of dense.
There are some printing and spacing errors (quotation marks in places where there aren't supposed to be, and missing paragraph breaks) but that's specifically a problem with whatever digitized copy you're looking at. It's especially common with PDFs on Libgen. I own a physical copy of IWTV where none of these errors appear (picrel).
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Squid Game season 2 is coming out in a couple of days. I'm surprised it took so long, considering how popular it was when it first came out. I feel like the heat for it is long gone.
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has anyone seen this show? I remember watching it when it came out and being so excited that it got picked up for another season until it got cancelled due to Covid. Such a shame, I love kirsten dunst and she deserves to be in more stuff like this and not that schlocky civil war movie.
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