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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I've been enjoying "Reservation Dogs".
It is about a group of indigenous teenagers growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma.
It is funny. The style of the humor is different too. Uncanned.
The show also has a warm feel about it.
It is also a peek into a subculture I know nothing about.
Each episode is like art festival movie.
My daughter and I started watching the One Piece live action adaptation in Netflix. I've heard the reception from fans of the manga was mixed, but I had never read any of them. Going into it with no preconceptions, I found it to be a really neat show. The characters are full of heart, there is good messaging around being a "different kind of pirate".
There's a fair amount of fantasy violence, some gore, and some nudity (centered in comedy, not sex). But I found it all reasonable in the context of the show.
I also saw the one piece live action, and I think it's a great live action. They've done a really good job, and everyone involved in the production deserves applause.
Yeah it’s not the greatest show ever, but its fun which is all it’s suppose to be. Good casting and acting, good sets, good shots, just not many weak points at all (though I think it started stronger than it ended). And I think it fits One Piece to the core, eg that the rules of the world are silly but the world is serious.
To be fair though, I stopped reading One Piece back in 2010 (stopped following weekly manga as a whole) and have not kept up with anything about it since. So while I have consumed a lot of One Piece, I was close to going in blind with how much I’ve forgotten. I definitely won’t speak on issues that could bother more hardcore fans.
It’s also insane just how long the manga has been going on lol
I watched it too and I liked it a lot. Music goes hard. I've been a fan of the manga and anime already and I think they did a great job. Especially the emotional moments all hit for me.
Now I'm rewatching it in French with my parents and I'm enjoying it even more. They are catching details that I missed. I'm actually finding the French writing to be superior. It's not a 1:1 translation. Especially the banter I find lands even better.
Edit: Finished it and my mom said she understands now why people watch 1k episodes of this show.
I hate to admit it, but the wife and I have been binging all four seasons of Love is Blind. I openly despise reality tv but for some reason this one has captivated our attention.
[Spoilers] My observation so far, looking back at the marriages that are now up to 4 years old, is that the people who connect first, within a few days, are usually the most sincere and honest. It feels like you can tell who's in it for genuine love and who's in it to take a chance and 'see if it works out'. But the producers definitely know how to edit in some wicked twists and backlashes - such as Zanab giving Cole unexpected criticism at the altar. Dont think that guy genuinely saw that coming and it really destroyed him. And yet, in the after session reunion he seemed to get some hate from other contestants so its really not clear if he was a villain or not.
Anyway, we'll probably finish up this season but I think binging on it that we're pretty much done with the concept now. It's getting a bit too out there to be believable anymore.
I was never into reality TV but I somehow ended up watching Love Is Blind when it first came out in 2020. I understand where you're coming from. It's weirdly captivating and excellently produced.
I don't know how I'd feel about it if I binged it all in a short time period. Shows like that benefit from the break, at least for me personally. The last few seasons definitely had a few people who seemed like they were there just to be on TV, but there are still genuine couples that come out of it which is wild.
Haha, well this is reality tv in a nutshell for you. It can reel you in no matter how much you oppose the concept. I've also binged most of Love is Blind with my wife and it was okay. The hardest part form me is all the repetition, recaps and flash forwards. It seems so dated in these binging ages and a relic from flow tv (it was still obnoxious then but at least served somewhat of a point). I guess the point is now that the episodes would be 7 minutes long without them.
Discussed previoisly but I just started watching Undone.
Brilliant exploration so far of subjectivity, madness, brilliance, family stuff and time travel. Plus rotoscoping. Would be well placed with a rewatch of waking life and a scanner darkly.
Has anyone but me had the joy of discovering "Somebody, Somewhere"?
It's maybe a little too grown-up for everyone, the pacing can be slow, it's another auteur's loosely autobiographical dramedy. But it's so humane towards even the worst characters, so funny, so sweetly sad, that it's one of the best things I've seen in years.
The comic dialogue has some of the natural, deadpan mic drop pacing of Reservation Dogs, but when Bridgett Everett [warning: spoilers] cuts loose, she's wet-your-pants hysterically funny. All of the actors ought to be up for Emmys, it's that great an ensemble cast.
I love Somebody, Somewhere, because its shows the humanity of the characters so well. They are charming, and flawed and so relatable.
I love the way "Somebody, Somewhere" treats its LGBTQ+ characters so matter-of-factly as well. Everyone is just trying to get through life in a small, rural college town. The friendships, tragedies, romances, betrayals, mistakes, disappointments, and addictions have a scale and magnitude completely proportional to the characters. No melodrama, just genuine, believable responses (which often happen to be funny as hell). I feel like I can see reflections of my community, myself, my family, and the people I know, without significant distortion.
Over the weekend my girlfriend and I watched all of Telemarketers on HBO. It's an insane look at how the tentacles of capitalism and greed sink their way into charity. It's also very entertaining to watch two idiot fuckups try to navigate the mystery at the heart of the industry (I say that lovingly as an idiot and a fuckup). It's about three hours, so it's easy to knock out in a day or two.
Havent seen Telemarketers, but am familiar with nonprofot, inc. And worked at PIRG in the aughts. Bad times for building good reputations. It wasn’t that different from a cult, to be honest.
Well binged Lower Decks S3 when I found out that was free, and have no regrets (one weak episode). It's nice to see something so wacky still "get" the point of trek, which most mainline trek has abandoned (an actual potential utopia and not always having Armageddon lurking).
Other than that it's been exposing the fiance to Venture Brothers with mixed success.
Oh and S1 of Righteous Gemstones, which I might finish, might not. I've got a lot of other things on my list and it was only ok. Not quite my tempo.
I binged all of Twisted Metal over the weekend.
It wasn't the best TV I've ever seen, but I ultimately enjoyed it. I played a little bit of a games, but not enough that I'd call myself a fan. I mainly watched it because the hero car was a WRX.
There were some parts that got annoying. The two main characters were both fun to watch but they had this I love you this episode, hate you next episode, but love you again next episode flip flop thing that got stale.
Both the main antagonist, and Sweettooth (Who I'm hesitant to call 'the villain') were both a lot of fun in their own ways.
I would watch a season 2 if it happens, but I don't think I'll be heart broken if it doesn't.
I received a notification that Wheel of Time S2 started dropping Friday and rolled my eyes. I'm haven't read the books but also had a mixed feeling on S1. Didn't really expect to watch it. Anyway, long weekend rolled around and I flipped it on. This season feels MUCH better, I expect Covid has a large impact on S1 production.
It's a fun watch, nothing I'd highly recommend but it clears the bar for a lazy watch.