Sidehatch wrote:That guy is always funny and never seems to age a day. I'm fairly convinced that somewhere in his house there's a painting of himself as a 60-year-old man.
But Paul Rudd is hysterical
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wet hot American, bummer
Sidehatch wrote:
Wet Hot American Summer
- had some funny stuff…but really not that great
Michael Showalter is just annoying
as is Ken Marino (who I just found out lived in my home town?!)
But Paul Rudd is hysterical
So, it was just like the movie? Have it on my list to watch. Looking forward to seeing all the old, fat people and Paul Rudd looking exactly the same.
Have we talked about Mr. Robot? It's becoming one of my favorites of the year.
Paul Rudd is too cute. I will always heart him. Just listened to the Nerdist podcast with him and it's great.
Paul Rudd is too cute. I will always heart him. Just listened to the Nerdist podcast with him and it's great.
Difficult People - very funny stuff!
It's like they put Julian's mind in NYC
It's like they put Julian's mind in NYC
Pretty Little Liars just threw down the most insane episode of television ever. Like Twin Peaks season two finale crazy. I. . . do not know what to say.
Actually rather enjoying Wet Hot American Summer. It's absolutely absurd. Bojack Horseman has also been a treat in its 2nd season.
Show Me A Hero is fantastic.
Julian, wrote:
Show Me A Hero is fantastic.
Excited to start watching this.
Sad this week is the last Mr. Robot for a while. What an enjoyable show.
K8teebug wrote:I totally missed this phenomenon because I thought it was pop sci-fi trash and sci-fi is a total anathema. The general "holy crap"-ness it has apparently thrown AV Club and Hollywood Prospectus into leads me to believe I have made a misstep.
Sad this week is the last Mr. Robot for a while. What an enjoyable show.
If Show Me A Hero doesn't basically sweep the Best Miniseries category awards at the next Emmys, someone needs to explain that to me.
Julian, wrote:K8teebug wrote:I totally missed this phenomenon because I thought it was pop sci-fi trash and sci-fi is a total anathema. The general "holy crap"-ness it has apparently thrown AV Club and Hollywood Prospectus into leads me to believe I have made a misstep.
Sad this week is the last Mr. Robot for a while. What an enjoyable show.
Yes. I was skeptical, but it's one of the best things I've watched in quite some time.
i'm not normally a fan of Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, but Documentary Now! is hilarious. From the Helen Mirren intro onward it's funny stuff.
kosmo wrote:
Rectify is so well done, caught up with season 2 and start of season 3 this weekend. If you going to watch it, I highly recommend you catch up on the first two seasons first. Totally doing in my head at the moment… One of the few shows that allows the viewer to figure out what's going on without hitting you over the head all the time.
So I watched episode 1 of Rectify, and I'm wondering if I should continue. My recent favorite shows (Breaking Bad, Justified, The Americans, Homeland) typically have quite a bit more action and more interesting and appealing (in both bad and good ways) characters than I saw on display in episode 1…which seemed a bit bland/slow for characters/plot.
Does it get better, or does my reaction to episode 1 predict what I'd think of the whole show?
Rectify is one of my very favorite shows on TV, but it is (intentionally) very slow moving. We're thru three seasons and we're literally like 2.5 weeks after episode 1 in the show's timeline.
"Rectify, a new series about a Georgia man who is freed after 19 years on death row, traces the history of the Sundance Channel in reverse. For about an episode and a quarter, it?s very good television. But over the rest of its six-episode first season it resembles nothing so much as a bad indie film, the kind of slow and tepid bummer that used to fill Sundance?s late nights and afternoons when it was a full-time movie channel."
ggw wrote:I applaud your ability to go to metacritic, search the show, see it has a score in the 80s and a "Universal Acclaim" tag, and skip over the 25 positive professional reviews to cherry pick one of only two negative ones. That's very GGW of you.
"Rectify, a new series about a Georgia man who is freed after 19 years on death row, traces the history of the Sundance Channel in reverse. For about an episode and a quarter, it?s very good television. But over the rest of its six-episode first season it resembles nothing so much as a bad indie film, the kind of slow and tepid bummer that used to fill Sundance?s late nights and afternoons when it was a full-time movie channel."
Julian, wrote:
Show Me A Hero is fantastic.
"Sledgehammer touches like this accumulate rapidly by the dozens in Show Me a Hero. The scene is characteristic of Haggis, a tediously literal-minded black-and-white moralist whose films render even Ron Howard's middling brand of preachy cinematic tapioca spicy by comparison. Directing all six episodes, Haggis makes his usual inadvertently condescending fetish of the gritty white middle-class, which is meant to contrast with his insidiously patronizing sanctification of struggling blacks and Hispanics as imperiled lambs forever lecturing one another for their crimes or accidentally breeding whenever one of them so much as feints toward a sexual gesture. Haggis's ?empathy? with the marginalized is offensively defensive, serving to color them into the very ?other? corner that the miniseries is attempting to deconstruct. The narrative's elliptical structure (each episode is set several months apart, cumulatively spanning several years from the late 1980s to the early 1990s) ensures that the non-white characters are scrambling from one situational extremis to another, embodying a white-perceived cliché of their lives as chiefly composed of squabbling and tragedy."
ggw wrote:
"Sledgehammer touches like this accumulate rapidly by the dozens in Show Me a Hero. The scene is characteristic of Haggis, a tediously literal-minded black-and-white moralist whose films render even Ron Howard's middling brand of preachy cinematic tapioca spicy by comparison. Directing all six episodes, Haggis makes his usual inadvertently condescending fetish of the gritty white middle-class, which is meant to contrast with his insidiously patronizing sanctification of struggling blacks and Hispanics as imperiled lambs forever lecturing one another for their crimes or accidentally breeding whenever one of them so much as feints toward a sexual gesture. Haggis's ?empathy? with the marginalized is offensively defensive, serving to color them into the very ?other? corner that the miniseries is attempting to deconstruct. The narrative's elliptical structure (each episode is set several months apart, cumulatively spanning several years from the late 1980s to the early 1990s) ensures that the non-white characters are scrambling from one situational extremis to another, embodying a white-perceived cliché of their lives as chiefly composed of squabbling and tragedy."
I applaud your ability to go to metacritic, search the show, see it has a score in the 80s and a "Universal Acclaim" tag, and skip over the 30 positive professional reviews to cherry pick the only negative one. That's very GGW of you.