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Booksmart was really good. 

Black Mirror out today![]()
watched most of the two Netflix movies.
the camp-kids vs aliens thing... floppinho summed it up from an 11yo perspective- "it was ok, but pretty stupid". from a grown up perspective... just stupid. and I recently caught Super 8, which on second viewing was pretty great.
the chinese earth-rocketship thing... woof. couldn't make it to the end. just idiotic from the giddyup.
Rim of the world 0.5 out of 5.
Started out OK, not horrible, but the last half was an Adidas ad. Very lame
Re-posting this hoping y'all will watch...I haven't watched the entire season, but I implore you to watch this episode of the documentary Dogs:
BRAVO, ZEUS
A beautiful film about young men trying to rescue their dog from war torn Syria. Incredible.
Central Park Five thing?When They See Us is one of the best things i've ever seen on TV and the closest i've gotten to feeling inside the horrorshow of being stuck in blackness since i first read Invisible Man 50 years ago.
Finished this weekend. Started out a little slow, but the final 4 episodes were really good.Finished up The Society. Liked, didn't love it. As is usual with these kind of shows, virtually none of the characters have any redeeming qualities and IDGAF what happens to them. But it's got a supernatural element to it that I like.
I think you should leave....is fantastic
Their bones are money@#$@![]()
When this alias gets permabanned I'm coming back as Bart Harley Jarvis. Also the Fred Willard organist sketch and the motorcycle sketch are criminally underappreciated. I almost fell off the couch laughing when he called a car "two motorcycles with a little house in the middle."
love fleabag. really enjoyed S1 of killing eve, but felt like S2 fell off quite a bit. haven't seen crashing- will look forward to it.Have done a Phoebe Waller-Bridge dive the past month or so. Incredibly talented writer and actress, damn.
Fleabag (Prime)--Amazing two seasons, perfect ending
Killing Eve (Hulu)--Great first season, haven't seen two yet.
Crashing (Netflix, not the Pete Holmes one on Prime)--great single season british comedy, hard to describe but worth the watch imo.
Now that you mention it (and as my post was focusing on Phoebe Waller-Bridge vehicles)--PWB was not involved with Killing Eve season 2 as a writer (just as an executive producer, which could be an empty credit). I wonder if that could explain the drop-off. The first season walked a tightrope that easily could have veered off into ridiculousness at any moment, but somehow worked and said a lot at the same time. I could see a different writer butchering the characters, easily.love fleabag. really enjoyed S1 of killing eve, but felt like S2 fell off quite a bit. haven't seen crashing- will look forward to it.
Just started When They See Us. Some pretty gut-wrenching stuff.When they see us and Chernobyl are the best mini series since Band of Brothers.
Both 10/10
I just can't do his comedy. Couple great jokes for sure, but I couldn't get through the whole thing.Anthony Jelsenik stand up is freaking awesome
Saw it (in the theaters) yesterday. I agree, a lot funnier than I was expecting. Worth checking out once it hits the streaming channels.Booksmart was really good.![]()
Love both these. PWB is fantastic. She did a good interview on NPR's Fresh Air recently.ConnSKINS26 said:Have done a Phoebe Waller-Bridge dive the past month or so. Incredibly talented writer and actress, damn.
Fleabag (Prime)--Amazing two seasons, perfect ending
Crashing (Netflix, not the Pete Holmes one on Prime)--great single season british comedy, hard to describe but worth the watch imo.
His Comedy Central show didn't last long, but I loved it.belljr said:Anthony Jelsenik stand up is freaking awesome
My father is/was on the business side of the music industry. Record executives, songwriters, performers, and the occasional pro athlete were his business. One of his clients was Dylan and he got on the road with them during the 70's. Diverse performers like Asleep at the Wheel, The O'Jays, and even Dylan got him on the road during their tours in the 70's. I had a RTR t-shirt from tour. He eventually gave it up because it was tough to have a family and tour like those guys. That and they were pretty adept at ignoring his advice about their money. He always described Dylan is prickly while the O'Jays were just crazy on tour.The Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue documentary is excellent. Scorsese had access to incredible footage, both of the Revue's performances and backstage scenes. One of the cardinal rules of film making is to show rather than tell. This generally works but I think it helps to know some back story about Dylan in 1976 because there's no omniscient narrator to provide it.
Dylan is at the center of the movie, mostly in archival footage but occasionally in recent talking head interviews. Scorsese captures the spirit of Rolling Thunder by shifting focus to other characters who took part in the tour. Some are obvious like Baez and Ginsberg but a guy like Martin von Haselberg, who shot a lot of the original footage (and later married Bette Midler) is almost as interesting as Dylan. Or at least he thinks he is.
The film suffers a bit from the lack of a dramatic arc. The tour begins, the tour ends. Characters enter, have their scene and are hardly heard from again. Maybe this is the point, it's a continuation of the statement Scorsese made in The Last Waltz about rock 'n roll and the never ending road. To put a period on it, right before the credits roll, Dylan and Joan Baez are heard singing "The Water Is Wide" while every Dylan tour date from 1975 to 2018 is listed on screen.
The first season was decent, for awhile.. Then about half way through it became a "How to be shocking without really telling a story" and we lost interest fast.wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix
what a horrible load of shlock this is
these ensemble shows with 10+ semi-name actors running separate storylines are hard enough but when the writing is corny, the plots are bad and the acting is awful. well.. you have a network television hit, apparently but by god is it awful.
Start hiding...yourself.wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix
my wife watched this, so I watched a couple. just awful.wife has been watching "How to Get Away with Murder" on Netflix
what a horrible load of shlock this is
these ensemble shows with 10+ semi-name actors running separate storylines are hard enough but when the writing is corny, the plots are bad and the acting is awful. well.. you have a network television hit, apparently but by god is it awful.
Hate that I know this, but that's "Scandal" with the white hat schtick. Same creator and same feel. Equally bad network tv.my wife watched this, so I watched a couple. just awful.
"white hat"
she's past the first season for sure. it was tolerable for a bit but now...... eesh.The first season was decent, for awhile.. Then about half way through it became a "How to be shocking without really telling a story" and we lost interest fast.![]()
This is awesome.Started "The Terror" from AMC. I like it enough to keep going. Ciarin Hinds is a one of my favorite older actors. Saw him on Broadway even.
Korine is horrible.*oof*
Korine ran in some of the same high school circle that I did. Insufferable.
i was in a hotel that had HBO and couldn't fall asleep. as for the series, this is not the best of them for sure even if Soderbergh isn't directly responsible for this one. i think the first was fun and convoluted but i'm still mostly a fan of Soderbergh. he's an artistic omnivore and wildly talented even if the finished product is likely beneath him. he's dangerously close to that phase of his career that he's coasting (see Coen Bros, Scorcese, most notably) but whatever.Why?
But seriously, this series is awful.
We watched the first episode.Tales of the city. Horrible so far. I like a lot of the pieces but it plays like an after school special complete with the worst score on tv. My current position on Laura Linney is that she is either the best actress going or the worst. Ozark? Great. If his show is the evidence i would have to vote worst.