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The third season begins with Ally entering her office dripping wet and recounting how moments prior she FUCKED an absolute stranger in the middle of a car-wash.
Later on John Cage reveals to Ally that while on a business trip their coworker (and his girlfriend), Nelle, propositioned him for phone-sex and he simply couldn't do it. And now he's feeling impotent as he can't summon the power/influence of Barry White. But after an inspirational talk from Elaine, done while she engages in heavy-petting with him, he recaptures his sexual energy. Skip ahead to the end of the episode and John Cage prepares to make love to Nelle, until... Until he starts to only see her as Barry White. But John Cage is a soldier, so he pushes forward and makes out with his girlfriend who he mentally envisions as Barry White.
Also, in one week Ally McBeal saves a women's upcoming marriage and then at her wedding absolutely destroys it. She's a being of chaos and madness.
I mean, its a comedic world, it needs to bend so it doesn't break under the absurdism of its characters/narratives.
But the show does still have snippets in which the characters are punished for their actions.
In the episode from above, Ally McBeal ruins the wedding and every character at the wedding screams/yells/boos her as a result. Near the end of the episode when she is leaving the event she's heckled by strangers.
The second episode only peeled back the layers a little bit, but just enough to start to get interesting. I'm a little concerned it's just an endless mystery box, but the final scene in episode 2 gave me some hope that there's a plan here.
Fairly minor spoiler:
Also, really good music choice for the cut to the credits at the end of the second episode. Not quite on the level of "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" from that episode of The Handmaid's Tale, but still very fitting.
2.5 Jonah Hexes out of Thanos.
You still have time!
Now to find the time.
Steam
New Barry starts Sunday.
I feel like I need to re-watch Season 1 first.
How appropriate
They’ll blame account sharing and not themselves raising the price to $20
Steam
That and not having anything upcoming on the platform that approaches being worth $20 other than Stranger Things
Account sharing that we created. By making the system that encourages it. But now complain about.
I do fully expect Disney, Amazon, etc, to pull the same whines about account sharing soon enough though. Disney slowed down a LOT and their customer surveys reflect that they're thinking about it.
Streaming's golden age is over. Now is the time for everyone to nickel and dime.
Now is the age of Tubi & Pluto TV
Probably.
As much as everyone complains about ad supported viewing, they will fall all over themselves to watch Youtube, Tubi and Pluto. Sure, some are savvy enough to block ads, but most (>95%) aren't.
AMC was just looping ads at me trying to watch better call Saul at the first break and wouldn't continue the episode
Damn, it usually takes more than a few minutes for me to be proven correct about something terrible for the future
Steam
Wasn't it already announced like a month ago when we first started testing it?
Oh I guess because they mentioned it in the earnings report all these clickbait sites are releasing "updated" articles.
I don't mind ad supported viewing but somehow in the streaming space I do mind paying for a service and then seeing ads too. I realize that's exactly how cable worked, but I didn't like how cable worked, that's why I tried to get away from it!
That has nothing to do with Netflix, it's just me griping about tiered options and how shit's getting expensive.
Like we're just going to end up back at tradition broadcasting but on demand right? Making everything openly streamable with ads and then charging advertisers based on the popularity of those shows.
Man, Tubi's advertisment timing is impeccable.
Only happens about three times during a movie. Gives you a countdown timer before it happens to let ya know
Impeccable
Steam
That’s awesome. Paramount is routinely like 10 seconds early or late compared to the show’s act outs, so you either got it just before the big final moment of a scene, or you got it a few seconds after the fade-out/fade-in from the inbuilt breaks.
Do they really need more limits on password sharing than that?
That has infuriated me ever since I was a child. WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?! ARGH.
If they want to keep feeding the stock market endless profits and growth, yes. If they want to piss off their loyal customers? Also yes.
This is not about solving a real problem. This is about the need for exponential constant growth strangling a company.
At this point in capitalism nothing is ever going to be good forever.
https://gofund.me/fa5990a5
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/19/netflix-to-introduce-ad-supporter-plan/
Except Disney.
Gonna need to do it for everyone sooner or later then. Or pay a lot more.
I can think of at least one other option that will become very popular again.
Blockbuster Returns. 2025.