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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.
The Acolyte is okay. Smiling Friends is perfect.
With that out of the way, rewatching LOST is the best. I'm wishing my rips had chapters so I could skip the flashbacks for most of them -- especially Kate, Sun, Jack... everybody but Hurley, I guess.
I'm trying to find an accurate map of the island. A lot of them are pretty, but the spacing is insane -- e.g. a mile walk for Sun's garden from the beach camp. No way, jose! If anybody has found one that is proper, let me know. I love this show.
Smiling Friends the cartoon, right? I saw some of an episode for a while and I can't say that I saw the appeal. What is it that attracts you to it?
yup -- 10 minute episodes. I love the chemistry with the main two and I especially love how it goes from normal story to super fucked up and then back to normal... its great.
It took me two episodes to get into it.. maybe one or two more. I'm not normally into shows like this.
I've been taking something of a hiatus on TV recently, but I finally remembered that The Big Door Prize is going through it's second season so I quickly binged it. I really love it. There's not one single thing that is good about it; it just kind of does everything evenly well, though perhaps not spectacularly well.
Well, that's not really true; the acting is fantastic. Not fantastic as in "These people are making me feel intense emotions", but as in "these people actually seem to be having genuine interactions together" - which is amazing because it's so common for the characters to be so charismatic they aren't necessarily realistic. I absolutely love the characters; even Giorgio's really annoying style of speech and personality has become incredibly charming after a bit. It's somewhat frustrating to me that there's no single guiding message behind the show, but it's obviously on purpose and the lack of such a strong message is a message in and of itself, and I can't help but appreciate it. Granted I know that it's something that will put off a lot of other people.
Hacks - 8/10
Watched the first two seasons 2 years ago and I thought it was a good show back then, with some vague memories of bland points and forgettable episodes. I just finished binging season 3 though and it was really good! A couple of cringe moments with the sister and family stuff, but other than that, there were no dull scenes. Best comedy I've seen this year - highly recommend!