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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.
Tonight's Invincible was amazing --- maybe episode of the season. So much new stuff for the folks who read the comic, too.
edit: anyone watching Euphoria? I didn't watch the first two seasons, but this season looked like it might be close to Too Old to Die Young... so I'm just starting.
I remember the days when cartoons weren’t high budget and all filled with stunt casting. I’d enjoy this show better if it had a lower budget and I didn’t have to pay extra to not see ads every 5-10 minutes.
But I did enjoy spending half of this episode recognizing but not being able to place Thragg’s voice actor as Lee Pace. I guess it helps that I just saw Foundation a few weeks ago.
That ad rate is insane. Might as well pirate it at that point.
Lee Pace is not who I would have picked, but he isn’t too bad. He’s so cool in all things. I want Thragg in a Members Only jacket, sleeves pushed up.
His performance is mostly very flat and emotionless and slowly spoken. I think it fits.
I think they are going for "I'm too important to raise my voice around you underlings, and everyone is an underling".
When I was reading the comic, I think I was hearing him with a deeper voice — like Liev Schreiber.
I’ve been watching Shrinking. I’m on season two. I think the cast is very good and once or twice an episode there is a very good laugh.
Harrison Ford is particularly good and gets a lot of mileage from the fact we know he really is pretty grumpy and doesn’t suffer nonsense.
But as is often the case on comedies, most of the adult characters act very immaturely as if they were teenagers. I think there could be other ways to find humor other than having everyone act like they’re in high school.
One joke I liked is when Jimmy (Jason Segel) tells Paul (Harrison Ford) that they can be like Batman and Robin, and Paul could be Batman because he already sounds like him.
The Euphoria S3 premiere was on Sunday, and I have a feeling this whole final season will be "car crash you can't look away from" TV. In the past the show has impressed me with its style and performances, in spite of some bad writing. I'm not sure why they felt the need to continue it though. S3 takes place several years beyond the high school setting of the first two seasons, and the major cast members have either become major Hollywood stars, left the show already, or died. I'll probably keep tuning in, if only for the sake of completion.
It's pretty crazy how they managed to have three of the 5-10 biggest stars under 30 on the same show before their ascent AND Colman Domingo before he became a leading man. It's up there with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Dazed and Confused, The Outsiders, and Freaks & Geeks.
I'm currently rewatching the first two seasons so I can remember what's what in season three. I know it's a lot and there is no shortage of problematic stuff in the show, but man, when it's good, it's good. S2E5 is one of the best episodes of TV of this decade imo. Having said that, I also have my doubts that they'll be able to land the plane, especially considering the mess that The Idol was.
I just started S03 without seeing the other two. Is there anything I really need to know that wikipedia wouldn't tell me?
Plot-wise, no. The first two seasons might be worth watching eventually for the atmosphere, camerawork, music, etc. but don't feel the need to catch up in order to better understand this season.
Wicked. That’s great news. I like the tone of this season… or at least this one episode.
Did you watch Too Old to Die Young? It’s from Refn and the aesthetic, pace, etc is so cool and abnormal — definitely worth a watch and worth sticking with through the initial ‘why is everybody speaking so slow‽’ :)
Watchlisted! I’ve seen and loved Drive and Bronson from him so I’ll check it out.
I could be wrong, but I think its the first series to have irregular durations for each episode. they just take the time needed to tell that part of the story. Super cool.
But yeah, the pacing seems so weird at first, but you'll get used to it quickly. Myles Teller is boss in it, too. I never would have thought he'd be the right casting.
related to TV but on the technical side. I have Taskmaster in season folders and I dont want the first thirty seconds of each episode since it tends to show a lot of good stuff. I have this in my .zshrc to generate .edl files for Kodi to skip that bit
super simple -- it just makes and names the files for all mkvs.
I had no idea this was a thing, very cool! I've got down my muscle memory skips for some shows (like Friends, that's a reliable double tap (+30s) plus a single tap (+10s) to skip the intro music, but they rarely play that at the very start of the file, so that's manual. I watched Lawrence of Arabia a bit ago and at the ~2:20:00 mark, it charmingly puts "INTERMISSION" on the screen and fades to black. The music comes up and it just plays over a blacked-out screen for 4/5 minutes. I suppose I could make an .edl file for that, but it was so unexpected that I really enjoyed it. I did get up and get a little bit of ice cream, and stretched my legs, it was wonderful. I now want all 2.5+ films to come with an enforced INTERMISSION and epic music.
I just discovered it myself a few weeks ago. I love when longer movies have an intermission. Hateful Eight had a nice 15 minute break, which was perfect.
In Kodi I was looking for a way to set a custom skip for 26s or so for another show but then I found this. Ideally every show would have proper chapters, but it just isn't the case.