I'm only 2 episodes in, but I do love how they can make you hate someone so effectively while at the same time showing that they are just so clearly trying to prevent the whole thing from falling apart in their mind.
I am going to repeatedly defend GLOW as probably one of the better shows to come out of this 'golden age of television'.
It has strong, complicated male and female characters, with individual motivations and fears. Everything that everyone does is in character and nothing is clean.
My favorite parts of season two in no particular order.
1. Sam calling out Justine on her shit in front of her mother. It felt so real and novel. I like when adults speak to their children as if they were also capable of making their own decisions.
2. Florian's storyline and the HIV scare of the 1980's which had to be explained to me via these very forums. I was born in 1985 and I went into nursing - there wasn't really a period where I was scared of HIV and I remembered seeing educational stuff in middle school that HIV can't be contracted easily and it was safe to hug, kiss, have sex with an HIV person given you use precautions. I didn't even register that Florian died from HIV, because all of the clues - pneumonia, a funeral home not taking his body, and Bash cleaning his house - lead me to think that Bash had murdered Florian or something in his house. I'm an idiot, but hey, progress on the education of HIV risk?
3. The terrible, TERRIBLE, lead up to Debbie breaking Ruth's ankle. Christ, you could see that coming a mile away - the anxiety, anger, the drug use - just building up to this fucking moment where it all goes wrong. Ruth screaming "DEBBIE!" is gonna haunt me for a while.
4. Welfare Queen's entire episode.
5. Episode 8.
I thought some of the season was a little over the top, but then I watched the GLOW Documentary, also on Netflix - and nope - that's pretty accurate!
Debated about going to the gym or watching Glow so short story short I watched season 2 last night.
It was really good; episode 8 was wonderfully wacky, and there were some really nice character moments throughout. Also, Ham from The Sandlot is in it so thats cool.
I was in the mood for some Black Mirror which I basically havent watched since Season 2 and so far its been pretty decent, although I do have some opinions.
White Christmas:
Pretty good, solid performances, a bit predictable and I'm not sure how the final punishment is really any different than a lifetime solitary confinement sentence at which point whats the point of cooperating? Also, theres no way that the AI timelapse isnt torture. Like, you've copied someone's brain. That its functionally a simulation is irrelevant if its sentient.
Nosedive:
Bryce Dallas Howard's laugh was incredibly annoying. Episode was alright, not bad, not great. The episode is basically the flip side of White Christmas though
Playtest:
I liked this one a lot, Cooper was pretty annoying in the beginning but after he moves into the actual test house or whatever it was super solid. More thought provoking than social commentary unless there are companies testing memory altering software on unwitting people.
Shut Up and Dance:
Thought it was really good, up until the end where it kind of loses some of its bite. Not that I'm advocating for tortured punishments for sex offenders, but having the kid turn out to be a pedo was a bit much I think. His behavior was justifiable enough as a teenage sort of outcast that is being blackmailed for jerkin it. Although being a pedo explains why he didnt go to the cops about someone making a child porn video of him.
I was in the mood for some Black Mirror which I basically havent watched since Season 2 and so far its been pretty decent, although I do have some opinions.
White Christmas:
Pretty good, solid performances, a bit predictable and I'm not sure how the final punishment is really any different than a lifetime solitary confinement sentence at which point whats the point of cooperating? Also, theres no way that the AI timelapse isnt torture. Like, you've copied someone's brain. That its functionally a simulation is irrelevant if its sentient.
Nosedive:
Bryce Dallas Howard's laugh was incredibly annoying. Episode was alright, not bad, not great. The episode is basically the flip side of White Christmas though
Playtest:
I liked this one a lot, Cooper was pretty annoying in the beginning but after he moves into the actual test house or whatever it was super solid. More thought provoking than social commentary unless there are companies testing memory altering software on unwitting people.
Shut Up and Dance:
Thought it was really good, up until the end where it kind of loses some of its bite. Not that I'm advocating for tortured punishments for sex offenders, but having the kid turn out to be a pedo was a bit much I think. His behavior was justifiable enough as a teenage sort of outcast that is being blackmailed for jerkin it. Although being a pedo explains why he didnt go to the cops about someone making a child porn video of him.
About the last one:
I for whatever reason assumed that he wasn't really a pedophile, but that his manipulators had edited the footage to make it look like he was.
Started The Handmaid’s Tale. I’ve read the book so I knew it was going to be harrowing and awful. Lo and behold, it is.
I can only watch for an episode or two at a time. Current events make it even more difficult to watch, and I certainly don’t find it entertaining, although it is well made.
Enjoying Kim's Convenience so far. More Asians on screen is always a nice thing. But I do enjoy that it's actually a modern Asian-American family vs Fresh Off the Boat which was 30 years ago so the issues are a bit more relevant to current situations. Also get a bit of the Canadian culture stuff (ketchup chips anyone?)
I am going to repeatedly defend GLOW as probably one of the better shows to come out of this 'golden age of television'.
It has strong, complicated male and female characters, with individual motivations and fears. Everything that everyone does is in character and nothing is clean.
My favorite parts of season two in no particular order.
1. Sam calling out Justine on her shit in front of her mother. It felt so real and novel. I like when adults speak to their children as if they were also capable of making their own decisions.
2. Florian's storyline and the HIV scare of the 1980's which had to be explained to me via these very forums. I was born in 1985 and I went into nursing - there wasn't really a period where I was scared of HIV and I remembered seeing educational stuff in middle school that HIV can't be contracted easily and it was safe to hug, kiss, have sex with an HIV person given you use precautions. I didn't even register that Florian died from HIV, because all of the clues - pneumonia, a funeral home not taking his body, and Bash cleaning his house - lead me to think that Bash had murdered Florian or something in his house. I'm an idiot, but hey, progress on the education of HIV risk?
3. The terrible, TERRIBLE, lead up to Debbie breaking Ruth's ankle. Christ, you could see that coming a mile away - the anxiety, anger, the drug use - just building up to this fucking moment where it all goes wrong. Ruth screaming "DEBBIE!" is gonna haunt me for a while.
4. Welfare Queen's entire episode.
5. Episode 8.
I thought some of the season was a little over the top, but then I watched the GLOW Documentary, also on Netflix - and nope - that's pretty accurate!
I really enjoyed it for all of the reasons above as well. It felt very much how Incredibles 2 explored male and female dynamics, both positive and negative without the characters turning into paper thin expressions of the current zeitgeist.
I think Nailed It! ruined other cooking competitions for me. Netflix just released some new baking competition called Sugar Rush and my first thought was "Man, I don't wanna watch people who are good at this do it."
Started The Handmaid’s Tale. I’ve read the book so I knew it was going to be harrowing and awful. Lo and behold, it is.
I can only watch for an episode or two at a time. Current events make it even more difficult to watch, and I certainly don’t find it entertaining, although it is well made.
It was making me physically ill during season 1 so i stopped.
The streaming company gained about 1 million fewer customers than it had expected. It now has about 130 million customers worldwide.
The media industry has turned itself upside down to do battle with Netflix. Cable companies and movie theaters are losing customers in droves. They'd all love to have the problem that Netflix had last quarter.
Yet Netflix's stock sank about 13% in after-hours trading Monday.
In a letter to shareholders, Netflix (NFLX) said it had a "a strong but not stellar" second quarter. What's "not stellar" for Netflix? $384 million in profit (up six-fold from a year ago), on $3.9 billion in sales (up 40%).
Hollywood would kill for that kind of growth. Yet sales missed Wall Street analysts' expectations.
Netflix's stock dropped 13% because they only have ~130 million subscribers, and not ~131.
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That is actually a smart play by WalMart if they just got those cable TV shows under one roof. For eight bucks a month having a background noise streaming channel would really be nice these days. If you get three of these four:
Bob Ross
Fixer Upper
Property Brothers
Diners, Drive Ins and Dives
Hell yeah, sign me up, I'll also buy the three pack of Time Cop for 18 bucks.
That is actually a smart play by WalMart if they just got those cable TV shows under one roof. For eight bucks a month having a background noise streaming channel would really be nice these days. If you get three of these four:
Bob Ross
Fixer Upper
Property Brothers
Diners, Drive Ins and Dives
Hell yeah, sign me up, I'll also buy the three pack of Time Cop for 18 bucks.
Minus Bob Ross I believe you can get nearly all HGTV/Food Network shows on Hulu.
I think Nailed It! ruined other cooking competitions for me. Netflix just released some new baking competition called Sugar Rush and my first thought was "Man, I don't wanna watch people who are good at this do it."
Sugar Rush is no Nailed It, but it was enjoyable enough with the slight twist on the format. Plus it has Zumbo as a judge, who I liked from his own Netflix baking show due to how wacky the stuff they had to create was.
I think Nailed It! ruined other cooking competitions for me. Netflix just released some new baking competition called Sugar Rush and my first thought was "Man, I don't wanna watch people who are good at this do it."
Sugar Rush is no Nailed It, but it was enjoyable enough with the slight twist on the format. Plus it has Zumbo as a judge, who I liked from his own Netflix baking show due to how wacky the stuff they had to create was.
I hope that doesn't mean we aren't getting any more Just Desserts from Zumbo. That was our family's favorite baking show by far.
That is actually a smart play by WalMart if they just got those cable TV shows under one roof. For eight bucks a month having a background noise streaming channel would really be nice these days. If you get three of these four:
Bob Ross
Fixer Upper
Property Brothers
Diners, Drive Ins and Dives
Hell yeah, sign me up, I'll also buy the three pack of Time Cop for 18 bucks.
Minus Bob Ross I believe you can get nearly all HGTV/Food Network shows on Hulu.
So they exist, but I will never be able to find them behind giant shitty UI fonts.
The Rover (along with Room and Orson Welles' The Stranger) was just added to Netflix, which coincidentally I suggested in the movie thread people watch instead of the bleh How It Ends. The Rover is great and the reason for everything is totally justified exactly what I would do you should all watch it ok thank you.
I wish the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon was still on Netflix. I especially liked the first season. The later ones ditched the supporting cast and the rogues gallery too, oddly enough.
At one time Netflix had loads of older Marvel cartoons.
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I finished Sense8 finally. It felt rushed throughout but you have to do what you have to do in order to tie everything up.
When they showed the RPG and then never used it I thought, when are they going to use it? And then at the end with the helicopter you knew it would come back out.
"He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
Finally finished GLOW S2. Loved it overall. First couple episodes had a little too much silly but it really turns a corner in the second half of the season.
I was surprised at how much I liked Bash this season. He could have easily just been airhead comic relief, but I love that he's a legit wrestling nut and an actual good announcer.
Anyone way he'd the second godzilla cartoon and have thought on it? Thought the first was OK Google tells me the second isn't very good.
I haven't watched it or the first yet, but the vibe in SE++'s Godzilla thread seems to be positive
I just got done watching it. If you can get past the super animeness of it, and the fact that they explain everything with a bunch of fake-science/semi-religious nonsense answers, it's... still pretty not good.
Edit: I can see how someone could get enjoyment out of it, but it certainly wasn't for me.
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This is all I'll say about it but man is the Attack on Titan S3 opening super weak, a complete disservice to the show and the openings that came before.
Anyone way he'd the second godzilla cartoon and have thought on it? Thought the first was OK Google tells me the second isn't very good.
I haven't watched it or the first yet, but the vibe in SE++'s Godzilla thread seems to be positive
I just got done watching it. If you can get past the super animeness of it, and the fact that they explain everything with a bunch of fake-science/semi-religious nonsense answers, it's... still pretty not good.
Edit: I can see how someone could get enjoyment out of it, but it certainly wasn't for me.
I'm gonna give it a try but feel I'll be in the same boat. I'm not an anime fan, only enjoying stuff I'm interested in. Like castlevania was awesome. I was entertained by the first godzilla, but wouldnot call it good. I'm not a huge godzilla fan, but enjoy the idea of a godzilla movie. Juse never got into all the japenest movies, just saw the main big one as a kid.
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As somebody who grew up watching the really cheezy Godzilla flicks and also enjoys most of the later ones, the Netflix Godzilla show is pretty rotten. I'd say probably the only way it could be enjoyable is if you're the type that actually likes seeing just how many lame, lazy anime tropes a show can cram in with zero irony involved, plus like Godzilla.
It doesn't help that the animation quality is pretty low as well.
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It has strong, complicated male and female characters, with individual motivations and fears. Everything that everyone does is in character and nothing is clean.
My favorite parts of season two in no particular order.
2. Florian's storyline and the HIV scare of the 1980's which had to be explained to me via these very forums. I was born in 1985 and I went into nursing - there wasn't really a period where I was scared of HIV and I remembered seeing educational stuff in middle school that HIV can't be contracted easily and it was safe to hug, kiss, have sex with an HIV person given you use precautions. I didn't even register that Florian died from HIV, because all of the clues - pneumonia, a funeral home not taking his body, and Bash cleaning his house - lead me to think that Bash had murdered Florian or something in his house. I'm an idiot, but hey, progress on the education of HIV risk?
3. The terrible, TERRIBLE, lead up to Debbie breaking Ruth's ankle. Christ, you could see that coming a mile away - the anxiety, anger, the drug use - just building up to this fucking moment where it all goes wrong. Ruth screaming "DEBBIE!" is gonna haunt me for a while.
4. Welfare Queen's entire episode.
5. Episode 8.
I thought some of the season was a little over the top, but then I watched the GLOW Documentary, also on Netflix - and nope - that's pretty accurate!
It was really good; episode 8 was wonderfully wacky, and there were some really nice character moments throughout. Also, Ham from The Sandlot is in it so thats cool.
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Pretty good, solid performances, a bit predictable and I'm not sure how the final punishment is really any different than a lifetime solitary confinement sentence at which point whats the point of cooperating? Also, theres no way that the AI timelapse isnt torture. Like, you've copied someone's brain. That its functionally a simulation is irrelevant if its sentient.
Nosedive:
Bryce Dallas Howard's laugh was incredibly annoying. Episode was alright, not bad, not great. The episode is basically the flip side of White Christmas though
Playtest:
I liked this one a lot, Cooper was pretty annoying in the beginning but after he moves into the actual test house or whatever it was super solid. More thought provoking than social commentary unless there are companies testing memory altering software on unwitting people.
Shut Up and Dance:
Thought it was really good, up until the end where it kind of loses some of its bite. Not that I'm advocating for tortured punishments for sex offenders, but having the kid turn out to be a pedo was a bit much I think. His behavior was justifiable enough as a teenage sort of outcast that is being blackmailed for jerkin it. Although being a pedo explains why he didnt go to the cops about someone making a child porn video of him.
About the last one:
I love that the sad ventriloquist pops back up. I don't know why but that guy is really fucking funny to me.
I can only watch for an episode or two at a time. Current events make it even more difficult to watch, and I certainly don’t find it entertaining, although it is well made.
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I really enjoyed it for all of the reasons above as well. It felt very much how Incredibles 2 explored male and female dynamics, both positive and negative without the characters turning into paper thin expressions of the current zeitgeist.
what's funny is how old malls will probably stay around just so people can film there for 80's and 90's movies.
edit: saw this was put in the Stranger Things thread never mind move along over there ok thank you
It was making me physically ill during season 1 so i stopped.
The real enemy will be
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/16/media/netflix-earnings/index.html
Netflix's stock dropped 13% because they only have ~130 million subscribers, and not ~131.
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Yeah sure, why not? Someone's gotta stream Storage Wars and Duck Dynasty.
Bob Ross
Fixer Upper
Property Brothers
Diners, Drive Ins and Dives
Hell yeah, sign me up, I'll also buy the three pack of Time Cop for 18 bucks.
Minus Bob Ross I believe you can get nearly all HGTV/Food Network shows on Hulu.
Sugar Rush is no Nailed It, but it was enjoyable enough with the slight twist on the format. Plus it has Zumbo as a judge, who I liked from his own Netflix baking show due to how wacky the stuff they had to create was.
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I hope that doesn't mean we aren't getting any more Just Desserts from Zumbo. That was our family's favorite baking show by far.
So they exist, but I will never be able to find them behind giant shitty UI fonts.
The Rover (along with Room and Orson Welles' The Stranger) was just added to Netflix, which coincidentally I suggested in the movie thread people watch instead of the bleh How It Ends. The Rover is great and the reason for everything is totally justified exactly what I would do you should all watch it ok thank you.
At one time Netflix had loads of older Marvel cartoons.
I haven't watched it or the first yet, but the vibe in SE++'s Godzilla thread seems to be positive
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I was surprised at how much I liked Bash this season. He could have easily just been airhead comic relief, but I love that he's a legit wrestling nut and an actual good announcer.
I just got done watching it. If you can get past the super animeness of it, and the fact that they explain everything with a bunch of fake-science/semi-religious nonsense answers, it's... still pretty not good.
Edit: I can see how someone could get enjoyment out of it, but it certainly wasn't for me.
I'm gonna give it a try but feel I'll be in the same boat. I'm not an anime fan, only enjoying stuff I'm interested in. Like castlevania was awesome. I was entertained by the first godzilla, but wouldnot call it good. I'm not a huge godzilla fan, but enjoy the idea of a godzilla movie. Juse never got into all the japenest movies, just saw the main big one as a kid.
It doesn't help that the animation quality is pretty low as well.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/altered-carbon-renewed-season-2-new-star-anthony-mackie-1130243
This is great. You think they'll go in the completely bonkers directions the sequel books went?
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