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The [TV] Thread, what a concept!

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    CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Hm, was looking to drop my Netflix sub for Crave but I maaay just hold onto it for another month.

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    MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Evil is good cause you get the catharsis of revelation and resolution, but then it gives you one last proper horror twist of the knife "or is it!?!" in the way that such stories should.

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    Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Barry getting at least one more year of making me ridiculously tense/uncomfortable

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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Barry getting at least one more year of making me ridiculously tense/uncomfortable


    I'm hoping they wrap up with season 4. I feel the credibility is getting a little strained.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    fine I guess I'll watch Barry I GUESS

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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    you should, it's good

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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    I've been trying for a week to get someone to do the Letter Kenny, "How're you now?", "Can't complain and you?", "Not so bad." exchange and haven't gotten anywhere close.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Barry is a tour de force

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    notyanotya Registered User regular
    I started watching Barry and really liked it. I was like oh, this guy in a really dark place in his life is finally gonna have some fun becoming an actor. I thought it'd be like Get Shorty where he used his mob skills in kinda funny low stakes ways to become a producer.

    Barry on the other hand is like... "well you thought Barry was in a dark place BEFORE he became actor, but just wait till you see what we do to him NOW"

    Too depressing.

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    I've been trying for a week to get someone to do the Letter Kenny, "How're you now?", "Can't complain and you?", "Not so bad." exchange and haven't gotten anywhere close.

    Wish ya weren't so fuckin' awkward, bud.








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    HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    God it's gonna be a decade before anybody outside the Taylor Sheridan complex gets to make a western show, huh

    A Red Dead Redemption prestige TV series could get greenlit today, but I don't want that to happen for a variety of different reasons.

    (The biggest reason being I don't trust 99% of TV writers not to cobble together some absolutely dogshit tropey dreck in the vein of Westworld with an uncritical eye towards Westerns as a genre)

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    God it's gonna be a decade before anybody outside the Taylor Sheridan complex gets to make a western show, huh

    A Red Dead Redemption prestige TV series could get greenlit today, but I don't want that to happen for a variety of different reasons.

    (The biggest reason being I don't trust 99% of TV writers not to cobble together some absolutely dogshit tropey dreck in the vein of Westworld with an uncritical eye towards Westerns as a genre)

    What would be weird is to do the story best you'd have to start at the second game and work your way forward. But yeah I'd worry they'd do some Breaking Bad shit with Dutch and make him the real hero and Arthur and John just didn't have Faith.

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    Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    So here's what HBOMax decided should be the first look at their new Velma show.

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    GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    "Adult audiences"

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    welp I can nope right on that one.

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    initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    There's something funny about the nudity being covered up but not the large circular hand gestures all of the rest

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    GR_ZombieGR_Zombie Krillin It Registered User regular
    There's something funny about the nudity being covered up but not the large circular hand gestures all of the rest

    Reminds me of a shot from Hannibal which features two naked, flayed human beings posed as praying angels. The network was concerned that the exposed buttcracks would be too much, so they digitally covered them in more blood and viscera.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Jinkies.

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    ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Honestly they should be talking about making mortgage payments and gathering tax documents and going to the doctor about that weird growth if you wanna get all adult with it.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Honestly they should be talking about making mortgage payments and gathering tax documents and going to the doctor about that weird growth if you wanna get all adult with it.

    Unhappy relationship, unhealthy expectations by aging parents, having to put scooby down because he's not really living anymore man.

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited May 2022
    Preacher wrote: »
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

    You’re right. They should be hanging dong in this Velma show.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I’m totally okay with that
    Preacher wrote: »
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

    You’re right. They should be hanging dong in this Velma show.

    That would be better than a lot of stuff, but hanging dong is usually only done for jokes. You rarely see a hanging dong done for sexual gratification like female nudity.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    I’m totally okay with that
    Preacher wrote: »
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

    You’re right. They should be hanging dong in this Velma show.

    That would be better than a lot of stuff, but hanging dong is usually only done for jokes. You rarely see a hanging dong done for sexual gratification like female nudity.

    Well yeah. You want erect dong for that.

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    DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    Speaking of hanging dong, Minx was a surprisingly fun show and filled with dongs aplenty.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

    It's why I initially bounced off Harley Quinn. The pilot episode was basically wall to wall with "WE ARE R RATED! WE ARE R RATED! MORE SWEARS THAN A MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCKER ROOM!"

    Fortunately, I gave it another dchance and was rewarded for it. The subsequent episodes are much less edgey and more naturalistic, and use the adult moniker appropriately, to explore ideas and concepts that would normally be censored heavily (or removed) from standard, all ages fair.

    This isn't exactly hopeful for the Velma series, but maybe they can realize they can just make it be 'adult' by having it be about fuckin murder mysteries

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    Or even murder fuckin mysteries I’m not picky

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    I just hate what adult means. Boobs, swearing, and violence, and not like you know deeper subject matter and jokes that children wouldn't get?

    It's why I initially bounced off Harley Quinn. The pilot episode was basically wall to wall with "WE ARE R RATED! WE ARE R RATED! MORE SWEARS THAN A MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCKER ROOM!"

    Fortunately, I gave it another dchance and was rewarded for it. The subsequent episodes are much less edgey and more naturalistic, and use the adult moniker appropriately, to explore ideas and concepts that would normally be censored heavily (or removed) from standard, all ages fair.

    This isn't exactly hopeful for the Velma series, but maybe they can realize they can just make it be 'adult' by having it be about fuckin murder mysteries

    Yeah its not 100% fair to see a screen shot of a severed skull and a woman almost naked and go "Welp this will suck" its just kind of like that's how they sell it I'm not exactly hopeful. Especially for Velma which I imagine will be full of "she's so lesbian" moments for extra adult.

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    cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    I actually don't really understand that screen-grab they showed off, because what it actually shows is a brainless head cavity? Like, it doesn't seem like a murder so much as a person being revealed as not a real person/robot/something

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    I actually don't really understand that screen-grab they showed off, because what it actually shows is a brainless head cavity? Like, it doesn't seem like a murder so much as a person being revealed as not a real person/robot/something

    Nah think Skyler or Starship troopers, they sucked her brain out.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I'll tell you what I'm looking for in the Scooby Doo spinoff show marketed to adults: explorations of deep subject matter, and the assurance that one frame for the show is going to assure me that these explorations definitely will or won't happen. Maybe that's a bit flippant, but also: I feel like Mindy Kaling has built up a line of credit already and has maybe earned the benefit of the doubt here

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    There's something funny about the nudity being covered up but not the large circular hand gestures all of the rest

    Reminds me of a shot from Hannibal which features two naked, flayed human beings posed as praying angels. The network was concerned that the exposed buttcracks would be too much, so they digitally covered them in more blood and viscera.

    for the kids

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    I'll tell you what I'm looking for in the Scooby Doo spinoff show marketed to adults: explorations of deep subject matter, and the assurance that one frame for the show is going to assure me that these explorations definitely will or won't happen. Maybe that's a bit flippant, but also: I feel like Mindy Kaling has built up a line of credit already and has maybe earned the benefit of the doubt here

    She certainly doesn't have the kind of anti-credit that would cause me to write the show off from this.

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Or even murder fuckin mysteries I’m not picky

    You never know, there might be some murder fucking!

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    JimBobtheMonkeyJimBobtheMonkey Registered User regular
    Watching the latest episode of The Goldbergs, it's hilarious that they are just carrying on without Jeff Garlin like he never existed.
    The main theme of the episode is the mom being home alone after the kids leave, then at the end Jeff is there for a few seconds with no lines.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Did something happen with Jeff Garlin?

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    minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited May 2022
    Preacher wrote: »
    Did something happen with Jeff Garlin?

    Got fired from the show for being a giant abusive asshole, more or less.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    I'll tell you what I'm looking for in the Scooby Doo spinoff show marketed to adults: explorations of deep subject matter, and the assurance that one frame for the show is going to assure me that these explorations definitely will or won't happen. Maybe that's a bit flippant, but also: I feel like Mindy Kaling has built up a line of credit already and has maybe earned the benefit of the doubt here

    The only possible pitfall is that cranky older men are her entire type, so I'm looking forward with great interest to the first unmasking.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Did something happen with Jeff Garlin?

    Got fired from the show for being a giant abusive asshole, more or less.

    Oh I had no idea. Well that sucks I vaguely didn't like Garlin.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    til clancy brown voiced mr. krabs and I don't know what I've done with my life

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