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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 7, 2022 20:44:53 GMT
Peep Show - s5, e4 - re-watch
Best line:
"Loosen up, Corrigan, that's what happens in the bedroom now: no old fashioned fumbling and kissing, a lesbian rapes you whilst you dream about your mother"
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 7, 2022 22:58:50 GMT
goddamnit pacinoyes , you're making me want to rewatch Peep Show again with these quotes one of the most laugh-out-loud funniest shows ever.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 21, 2022 3:54:54 GMT
Cate Blanchett's two Documentary Now! eps - Waiting for the Artist (2019) and Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport (2022) which was released this week, mid-TAR! Remarkable perfs especially viewed back to back. Her avant-garde artist isn't just sendup but thrashing spooformance, where she's asked to do ridiculous and demeaning things and she's totally game, totally hilarious.........On the other hand, her meek, dowdy 'dresser of Lancashire is warmer, charisma-less character work.... with subtle physicality, hunched like a human apostrophe, suggesting someone hid in her life, who's not as small as they think they are.
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 24, 2022 20:02:53 GMT
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners episode 1 "Greetings, valued customer. We are sorry for your loss. To ease things at this difficult time, we can deliver the body of your dearly departed to your home or to a funeral home. Would you like to learn more? Is our budget-friendly cremation service right for you?" I know absolutely nothing about the video game this is based on (outside of it not being very good), but I've heard good things about the show, and the presence of Hiroyuki Imaishi - the director of Promare, the most batshit superhero movie ever made - caught my attention. I was not expecting such a viciously funny work. Its cyberpunk landscape is portrayed as a hell of subscription based services (of apartments, of washing machines, of medical insurance - there's a wonderfully funny moment where paramedics show up to a crime scene, see that the victims aren't covered by their company, and leave them to die) that people mentally escape with programs full of sex and violence, which bleeds into their lives and makes the world even more of a violent, sexualized nightmare. Few stories tackle the barbarism of modern entertainment and how we engage with life so directly. The episode's ending - in which the protagonist accepts his calling to become a badass killer cyborg - isn't presented as the decision that kickstarts the show's narrative, but rather a decision that he makes because he has lost all hope and has nothing to fall back on but a dream of finally ripping people in two with his hands. I am very excited to see where it goes from here. One hell of a pilot episode. I can't tell if you guys would love or hate it, but I'm cautiously going to recommend the show for now. Has anyone else seen it?
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 25, 2022 16:50:18 GMT
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners episode 2 - Like a Boy
"You called it a prison camp. To me, this city is a whole lot worse."
This was necessary setup for the rest of the series. Episode 1 lays the foundation for the main character and world, episode 2 lays the foundation for the narrative and the new character of Lucy.
And it's pretty good. Not as darkly humorous as the pilot, but that's understandable. The hellscape dystopia has already been established, so let's look at this world through a more personal lens: the eyes of two lost souls with no money or prospects or anything to hold them here. Lucy would look like a dream girl in another show (being the experienced, hyper-competent cyborg badass with a cute butt), but her behavior seems to be half-motivated by predatory instinct (she seems to be weighing David as a potential mark throughout the episode) and half by loneliness and a simple desire to just talk with somebody like a real human being. She doesn't come off as a sex object to the director or writers (or even to David), just another broken person looking for thrills and eddies anywhere she can. The difference between her goal and David's lack of one is so slight as to be nonexistent, as it is made pretty clear that she will need far more money than she can ever earn pickpocketing to afford a trip to the moon (if that's even the truth and not something she's using to lure David into her net).
It's pretty good stuff at the moment. This is a predictable direction, but it was handled with care and good pacing.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 25, 2022 22:06:51 GMT
Cate Blanchett's two Documentary Now! eps - Waiting for the Artist (2019) and Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport (2022) which was released this week, mid-TAR! Remarkable perfs especially viewed back to back. Her avant-garde artist isn't just sendup but thrashing spooformance, where she's asked to do ridiculous and demeaning things and she's totally game, totally hilarious.........On the other hand, her meek, dowdy 'dresser of Lancashire is warmer, charisma-less character work.... with subtle physicality, hunched like a human apostrophe, suggesting someone hid in her life, who's not as small as they think they are. I recently watched both of these too and I agree - really hilarious and very different performances. I actually turned on "Two Hairdressers" without knowing she was in it and spent every one of her scenes thinking "who the hell is this actress, she's hilarious" - needless to say when I got to the credits my jaw just about dropped
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 26, 2022 19:21:36 GMT
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners episode 3 - Smooth Criminal
Standard anime crime action stuff here. Black Lagoon did this kind of no fucks given violence and sex in a dirty underworld better (there is an appalling lack of gun toting nuns running weapons smuggling operations in this show), but it's still decent enough. Waaaay too many characters introduced here (the crew has eight people I think, and only David, Lucy, Becca, and the boxer seem to have a role in the actual heist), but the episode is really about the vibe of David finding his calling in this depraved underbelly of criminal scum, and it succeeds at that.
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Post by Brother Fease on Oct 31, 2022 16:29:14 GMT
For All Mankind Season 3, Episode 10. Great episode. Very technically sound with an unexpected ending. 90 minutes long.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 23, 2022 6:30:08 GMT
Peep Show - s9, e6 Series FinaleTaking the characters growth (none) as its own withering self-dead end with a touch of existential Pinter- it plays like a (much) better and simpler do-over of Seinfeld's series finale ...... "I simply must get rid of him" is a great ending line GOAT level show - 54 episodes, 9 years - that I've watched twice and could watch a milllion times......... also Super Hans sums it up doesn't he?: Norwich are never going to win the league, but they still turn up every week don't they? The pricks.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 28, 2022 20:24:59 GMT
That Mitchell and Webb Look S1, E1 - Yeah, so I missed this show too........a little slow on the uptake tbh.......but it's all good because me and the 2 Peep Show dudes are reunited.......now on one hand I hate everyone in the history of the world, ever for not telling me this existed too - on the other hand.........lots of episodes to get through Not digging the laugh track but otherwise ......the band's back together again........ Right, that meme.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 29, 2022 21:03:51 GMT
That Mitchell and Webb Look S1, E3 F'n hilarious ........... Martin Stett who I think will like this - religious humor, mean sarcasm etc. ......also @tyler who might get a kick out of the young Olivia Colman who of course was in Peep Show and several sketches here also
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 31, 2022 19:16:42 GMT
Black Spot - s1-e1-3 on NetflixNot sure if anyone watched this - it has 2 seasons and is a French sort of a Twin Peaks / crossed with a police procedural like Insomnia (both versions) and sort of an eerie Blair Witch or something more supernatural maybe .......it's really odd and purposefully funny too and it jumps from character to character so quick it might make your head spin .......like that excellent show Marianne .........it's both compulsively watchable and immediately not for all tastes......must have a huge cult I bet.....
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Post by notacrook on Jan 1, 2023 22:55:40 GMT
First episode of the third and final season of Happy Valley. God I'd missed this show - probably the best British drama of the last few years. Was a little worried it would feel like an unnecessary afterthought after such a long wait, but I should have had more faith in Sally Wainwright. In just one episode, she's set up multiple narrative threads that are all bursting with potential. Sarah Lancashire totally owns this role - her "billy fucking no-mates" line was hysterical.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 4, 2023 7:39:27 GMT
That Mitchell and Webb Look S2, E1 Best episode yet - front to back funny - and marvelously mean too......with one of their best (so far), and least politically correct sketches - a parody of cynical, weepy BBC documentaries - "The Boy With An Arse As A Face" with Olivia Colman as the suffering mother in a role that won her a BAFTA and several UK regional awards .......um......nah.....but with Olivia Colman anyway
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 14, 2023 23:12:50 GMT
That Mitchell and Webb Look S2, E6
One of their very best and boundary, button pushing sketches satirizing the Victorian era.....amazing how much effort they put into these 1 / 2 hour shows and how funny they are out of the shows random quality ......2 more seasons to go......
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jan 20, 2023 19:36:50 GMT
First episode of the third and final season of Happy Valley. God I'd missed this show - probably the best British drama of the last few years. Was a little worried it would feel like an unnecessary afterthought after such a long wait, but I should have had more faith in Sally Wainwright. In just one episode, she's set up multiple narrative threads that are all bursting with potential. Sarah Lancashire totally owns this role - her "billy fucking no-mates" line was hysterical. Fn love this show. The end of episode 2 had me on the edge of my seat. I love Sarah Lancashire.
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Post by tep on Jan 25, 2023 13:24:36 GMT
Mindhunter 2x3... loving this show
Tales from the Crypt 3x3
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 30, 2023 22:59:32 GMT
Andor E6: "The Eye" - 8 or 8.5
halfway into this show and liking it. This is playing like how I imagine Rogue One would've played without the corny jokes and a lot more time to establish the characters. Andor might've been a generic character in different hands but Luna brings the right combination of mystique and rage to his performance, a lot more than we got to see in the source material where everyone felt like a glorified extra. Gilroy is taking his time to build out the world and story and it's paying off. I wanna see what happens next, something I never said while watching Rogue One.
other acting highlights so far have been Stellen Skarsgaard as a mysterious resistance benefactor with a fun day job, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as a skeezy rebel, and Denise Gough as a steely imperial official with a lot to prove, but the cast doesn't have any weak points yet. Very glad Luna got the Globe nod and hope the show has some success with the Emmys too. This kind of Star Wars content should be appreciated.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 3, 2023 21:30:35 GMT
Andor gets even better towards the end. Go ahead and add Andy Serkis to that list of acting highlights. Wow currently watching Apple TV+'s Irish black comedy Bad Sisters. Finished Ep 4 ("Baby Becka") last night and the show is really good so far. Four sisters band together to kill their deeply shitty brother-in-law (Claes Bang has never been so smarmy) and make it look like suicide. Plot weaves between two timelines Yellowjackets-style with each episode detailing how each individual sister decides enough is enough and a present-day plot focusing on a bumbling investigation by a hard-up insurance firm that doesn't way to pay out. Acting is excellent and it's mysterious enough (we know the sisters killed Bang's character but don't know anything about the circumstances so it really is like Yellowjackets in that way) and darkly funny enough to keep you coming back wanting more. below is the titular Baby Becka (youngest of the 5 sisters and the central POV of Ep. 4) played by Eve Hewson after being pretty nastily betrayed. She one of the cast standouts but Sharon Horgan is currently the MVP as the eldest and most protective sister. You don't want to be on her bad side! Also look forward to seeing more from Anne-Marie Duff as the abused wife. It's such a sad role and she's small as a mouse in Bang's shadow. classified by the BFCA and HFPA as a drama despite very clearly being a dark comedy
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 16, 2023 15:20:40 GMT
started The U.S. and the Holocaust last night. Incredible. Why read history books when you could just watch Ken Burns.
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Post by JangoB on Feb 22, 2023 13:59:43 GMT
It's not an episode but the entire series and yet I can't help but mention it here (we don't have a "Last TV Series you watched" thread, do we?) - Naoko Yamada's and Kyoto Animation's K-On! is genuinely the happiest, kindest, most soulful and most heartfelt piece of media I think I have ever seen. I'm not an avid series watcher and yet I really love that feeling of getting attached to the characters on a long-term basis in a way that you don't quite do with the movies. And I don't think I've experienced such profound love for the characters in my life before. The show doesn't have a plot, it doesn't have conflict, it doesn't have romance. It's literally nothing but the everyday life of a bunch of schoolgirls in a band via their interactions with each other and it's, to put it simply, an infinite fountain of purity and joy. And of astonishing, endless hilarity too - the animators' ability to perfectly extract comedy out of every given scenario is godlike. I think I've sat through ALL episodes with a constant smile on my face. And it didn't disappear even when it got splashed by some (many) tears. It also made me think about the much-repeated notion of "seeing yourself on the screen". I'm not a fan of that phrase being used as an easy talking point by filmmakers/actors who want to score Twitter points because for them it's usually about nothing but skin color or gender. The issue is much more complex and layered than that, and I believe that true cinematic magic occurs when you see yourself in stories/characters that you have nothing to do with. And "K-On!" is proof positive of that for me. Trust me, I'm not a Japanese teenage girl, I'm not in a band (nor do I play any instruments although I do own a harmonica for some reason) and I finished school quite a while ago. And yet I kept seeing myself on the screen all the time - the spirit of youth I once felt, the bittersweet nostalgia for the carefree teenage years I keep feeling, the joy of finding people who are on your wavelength I have felt, all those emotions. This show is truly one of the great pleasures of my life. Just wanted to share.
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Post by tep on Feb 24, 2023 14:12:18 GMT
Finished Mindhunter a couple weeks ago. Need Season 3…
The Last of Us 1x6. Really enjoying it, wouldn’t go as far as some people with my praise though. Solid 8-8.5/10 so far.
The Good Place 4x6. I like this show, but I’m kinda ready to be done with it tbh
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Post by ibbi on Feb 24, 2023 21:31:13 GMT
Following Jango into just summing up the seasons I don't really know why I watched it (I watched it for Mia Threapleton, I wanted to see if the apple fell far from the tree) but I finished Dangerous Liaisons last week, and it was pretty good! Softened its edges and sort of sold itself out in the last couple of episodes, but up until then, and if you can accept its modern panderings, I thought it was infinitely better than I was expecting. Alice Englert is fantastic. Don't think I've seen her in anything since Beautiful Creatures, what the hell has she been doing for the past decade? This apple definitely did not fall far from the tree. It's a star turn. Today finished Gaslit. AMAZING! Shea Whigham? AMAZING! Dan Stevens? AMAZING! Great to see Matt Ross back in the director's chair and his deft handling of this is tremendous. Balancing tones and subplots sublimely. Playing this thing out as epic farce is the most brilliantly inspired touch that more such material deserves applied to it. Death to the sombre recreation of history.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 25, 2023 1:24:59 GMT
Cunk on Earth (2022 / 2023) - Netflix - s1, e1 Delightful, marvelously dry mockumentary that Christopher Guest would admire........ Diane Morgan (Kath in Ricky Gervais' After Life) is inspired here - as a clueless host (Philomena Clunk) in a partially (ok, mostly) scripted, but also a slightly, partially improvised show.....she is interviewing real people here and at times genuinely fncking with them.......a pretty great comic creation by Morgan especially Kind of loved this - 5 episodes in the season........highly recommended if you get my sense of humor - you know who you are
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Feb 25, 2023 16:05:52 GMT
It's more of a documentary series but Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal. It was pretty good. It's another one of those true crime projects where you think if you saw this unfolding in real time, you couldn't believe you weren't watching some twisted movie.
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