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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 know I am speaking to the wrong crowd here, but Love Island is one of the most fun and interesting television shows I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong, I love me some quality/prestige TV, and I will put my personal top-10 up against anyone's, but as a cultural force, Love Island is incredible.
Is it low-brow? Yes. Is it an absurd premise? Yes. Is it degrading? I'm pretty sure, yes. Do I feel like I have a front row seat to the decay of western culture and that every great artist that I've ever appreciated would be ashamed of me for how much I love this show? Absolutely, yes. Is it still my favorite thing in the world? No question.
The beauty of Love Island is not in the show itself, it's everything that happens outside of the show. It's like a psychologist or sociologist's wet dream. There are some of the most insane fan bases and para social relationships I've ever seen. There are people breaking down episodes like it's the Zapruder film. I don't know if you, dear reader, are aware of this, but we are on the cusp of a gender war over the grievances of an incompatible couple. Boys, I hope you're ready to fight alongside KC and the Sunshine Militia because they're coming for your freedom.
I'm telling you, there's nothing else like it. Buy in. Turn your brain off. Take the soma. You can start now and be caught up with America by next week. And if you watch this with your significant other you will learn more about the way they think than any counseling session could ever achieve. But also, like, omg, Sincere is a menace, Kenzie really has to get it together, and I knew I didn't like that Gal guy!
Yeah, that was my experience as well. The background noise to appointment viewing pipeline is real. One minute you're making a com-promise to leave it on in exchange for movie selection rights, then the next thing you know, you fully emerge yourself in the show.
I've finally finished season 8 of Game of Thrones. I'll be honest, overall it wasn't as bad as I thought but still worse than it could've been. To their credit, they did give satisfying endings to a few characters, like Theon and Cersei but others left a lot to he desired. A lot of the story lines and characters introduced in the last few seasons all amounted to nothing. Things felt super fast paced and things that would've taken a few episodes previously now happened overnight between episodes.
I feel for the cast, they all acted their hearts out and you can tell how tired some of the cast were as they progressed through this final season. I'm happy the show got to end on its own terms but man, there was just so much potential to end things in a better way.
If you're in to fanedits, Game Of Thrones: Redeemed might be up your alley. It isn't perfect, but I enjoyed it.
man, X-MEN '97 is so good. If you watched the original one, definitely get into this new one. The second ep of this latest season is especially sweet.
edit: I just want to say... fuck shows that release everything all at once. There's already too much television without a big drop like that. I'll probably never get around to Spider-Noir I liked it enough to be week to week, but it isn't good enough to work into the rotation. Same kind of goes for The Agency, The Bear and some others.
I think I need to have them all dump off into another folder and then have a script move them over on x night.
double edit: The Bear kind of sucks... its like Star Trek: Discovery on loop... its like they've never worked this space before.