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Post by quetee on Feb 24, 2019 1:00:19 GMT
Netflix needs to have a monthly show where they show what's going on cause there is just too much new content. I can't keep up.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 24, 2019 1:48:31 GMT
Netflix needs to have a monthly show where they show what's going on cause there is just too much new content. I can't keep up. I don't know if the U.S. Netflix does this but at the beginning of every month Australian Netflix puts out a YouTube video with every new thing dropping that month. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 24, 2019 1:59:08 GMT
Netflix needs to have a monthly show where they show what's going on cause there is just too much new content. I can't keep up. I don't know if the U.S. Netflix does this but at the beginning of every month Australian Netflix puts out a YouTube video with every new thing dropping that month. Post it next time that happens. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 24, 2019 2:25:44 GMT
I don't know if the U.S. Netflix does this but at the beginning of every month Australian Netflix puts out a YouTube video with every new thing dropping that month. Post it next time that happens. Will do. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 24, 2019 2:43:50 GMT
I'm not a pedo and if I were you'd be safe, you tubby ginger cunt!
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Post by LaraQ on Feb 24, 2019 4:22:32 GMT
I'm not a pedo and if I were you'd be safe, you tubby ginger cunt! I'm watching this for that line alone. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 10, 2019 1:44:45 GMT
Strangely appealing show to me - you have to really really love Gervais to appreciate this - my friend lasted 15 minutes of episode one before she bailed on it. The show is underwritten across characters and for the Gervais character and you can read it a mile away. But it works because it pushes the buttons in ways that are right and misanthropically on point too - if you've ever suffered through any kind of loss it's almost eerily on target emotionally and who cares about the "writing" or the "arc" or such typical TV-isms in that case.
In Ep 1 there is a great scene about a man who has received 5 birthday cards (exactly the same) and his incidental communication to Gervais makes him think and the whole episode work in spite of itself. Ain't life a kick in the head.......
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Post by Viced on Mar 10, 2019 18:15:36 GMT
In Ep 1 there is a great scene about a man who has received 5 birthday cards (exactly the same) and his incidental communication to Gervais makes him think and the whole episode work in spite of itself. Ain't life a kick in the head....... Unbelievably beautiful moment! I almost cried... First two episodes were great... might be a little too heavy for me to binge all in one day though. |
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Post by Viced on Mar 16, 2019 23:12:25 GMT
Finished it... a little bit goofy and somewhat repetitive... but very good overall.
The stuff with the psychiatrist kind of sucked though... should have been replaced with him in a grief counseling group or something.
Ricky is playing himself to an almost laughable extent, but he's pretty great in his emotional moments. Loved every scene at the cemetery with Anne.
Dunno if it even needs a season 2...
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 17, 2019 0:05:34 GMT
I have one episode to go but I will say even though Viced has this show down perfectly, episode 5 is a marvelously written piece and shows how good it is when it's firing on all cylinders - because prior to this the writing was sketchy but here it is fully realized. Riotously funny (example: you never need your own vaginal yeast to make bread) and gut-wrenching in its sadness this episode specifically links the idea of escaping despair as a very conscious and subtle choice.
There's a beautiful and famous quote in this episode "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit under." ......that's one of the most profound quotes I ever heard and I heard it 172 years ago when I was a young man while eating some very odd tasting bread.
Amazing episode if you look at how it's constructed and set up and how panoramic and wise it is too.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 17, 2019 1:43:19 GMT
I have one episode to go but I will say even though Viced has this show down perfectly, episode 5 is a marvelously written piece and shows how good it is when it's firing on all cylinders - because prior to this the writing was sketchy but here it is fully realized. Riotously funny (example: you never need your own vaginal yeast to make bread) and gut-wrenching in its sadness this episode specifically links the idea of escaping despair as a very conscious and subtle choice. There's a beautiful and famous quote in this episode "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit under." ......that's one of the most profound quotes I ever heard and I heard it 172 years ago when I was a young man while eating some very odd tasting bread. Amazing episode if you look at how it's constructed and set up and how panoramic and wise it is too. You should make bread pudding with that old bread. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2019 19:40:20 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 24, 2020 19:33:31 GMT
S2 dropped on Netflix today.
I liked S1, didn't love it, but Gervais is actually quite good at times deeply. While there are laughs ("Any stain looks like Kenneth Branagh!") it's a mostly serious, very sad show, which surprised me. I liked all the office scenes - the actress who plays the red-head has a funny way about her and her line readings.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 26, 2020 17:25:26 GMT
Only one episode in S2 but this show is kind of amazing when it really clicks - it's unbelievable it can keep working this narrow theme and keep pulling it off.
Funny af too - the "Pedo Ian" jokes were great - and this show uses music in a really clever way: "Top Of The World" as at first an underlining and then a contradiction (the whole song?!?) and "These Days" as a stinging mockery of his situation at the end.
Not sure it can keep pulling this off but S2 E2 was an impressive (less than) 30 minutes of grown up entertainment...
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 28, 2020 18:42:20 GMT
Finished S2, quite good like S1. While it definitely rotates the same emotional beats and small structure, it also works and deepens... like the ending moments of E1 & E2 etc are just gut-wrenching.... how Gervais becomes forwardly useful in E4 (no one even asked the guy to keep the paper going!).... and I love Anne on the bench, and her laugh.... Heartbreaking and very very very sad, check. Funny too, though... Therapist dude kept making me laugh (was he this ridiculously funny in S1, I can't remember). And the interviews, the guy using the wrong "mailbox" , the plastic surgery girl ("Fucked up my tear ducts"), or in the last ep the man who thinks he's a little girl - "I was seven!"  |
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Post by Allenism on Apr 28, 2020 19:04:04 GMT
I haven't started S2 yet but did anyone else really dislike how S1 ended? Tony's speeches at the end just felt so treacly in light of the show's general tone. It marred an otherwise very strong season.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 30, 2020 0:02:00 GMT
This has got to be the darkest, most maudlin show that's ever presented as a comedy I can think of the last episode and a half were rough and .........whatever ..........it totally works for me.....I guess it doesn't work in the sense that it hits comedic and emotional notes in a nice, palatable way .......it's way messier than that, and in a way the mess makes it more invigorating and makes me more connected to it.
Like I said I am in awe of a show that has gotten 2 seasons that I've enjoyed out of this thin of a strand of a plot.
Not for all tastes to say the least .......but surprisingly very much to mine.
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Post by Viced on May 1, 2020 15:45:14 GMT
Thought season 2 was a step down from the first... but still mostly good. Still seemed pretty repetitive... but not nearly as funny and not quite as affecting. But there were still a lot of funny and affecting moments. The local theater director was hilarious... and I want a whole series about the guy putting his mail in..... the wrong place. And I teared up when Tony's dad died. And I wish there was more of Sandy. I feel like the show is at its best when either her or Anne (glad she got out of the cemetery this season) are with Tony. Wonder if there'll be a Christmas Special or something to wrap it up... I hope so. |
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Post by Mattsby on May 6, 2020 19:59:14 GMT
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Post by stabcaesar on May 9, 2020 7:14:20 GMT
I saw season 1 this week and thought it was merely ok. There were moments of brilliance but I wasn't hooked.
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Post by LaraQ on May 17, 2020 13:23:28 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 29, 2022 19:40:12 GMT
Feel the same about S3 as the earlier seasons. Sometimes hilarious, often overbearingly sad - especially so in the finale - but beautifully considered at the same time. Lil Bob Dylan in Ep2 never hurts!
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 20, 2022 20:52:12 GMT
Season 3, episode 6 - the conclusion was quite brilliant......I know some people don't get this show but fnck all y'all - I almost cried and I'm a hard-ass dammit...... "I need your name for the paper"
"Lisa"
"That's my wife's name"
"Where is she?"
hesitates........"She's home"
"Making you tea?
laughs / chokes up, tearing........"Yes"
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Apr 27, 2022 11:25:56 GMT
Season 3, episode 6 - the conclusion was quite brilliant......I know some people don't get this show but fnck all y'all - I almost cried and I'm a hard-ass dammit...... "I need your name for the paper"
"Lisa"
"That's my wife's name"
"Where is she?"
hesitates........"She's home"
"Making you tea?
laughs / chokes up, tearing........"Yes"
You being a fan of this show is certainly...unexpected  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 27, 2022 13:59:09 GMT
You being a fan of this show is certainly...unexpected 
Is that really true though my friend? I mean pacinoyes™ is the guy who put History Of The Occult as his #1 movie last year (and Censor as his #3) .......who regularly makes fun of very acclaimed albums in the Music thread (heck just this week - Camp Cope - 7.8 on Pitchfork - GTFO).......and who often praises Deep Trash equally to High Art..........
"Unexpected" to me is whatever people praising The Northman and Ambulance THAT much are doing ......tbh it kinda bothers me that anyone thinks that they may know what pacinoyes might or might not like .....or why he refers to himself in the 3rd person ..........I like to think of him as a pretentious contrarian, a sexy enigma, an incomprehensible riddle that many will spend decades contemplating .............yet no one will ever truly comprehend (ducks, runs for cover) |
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