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Better Call (The [TV] Thread) Saul

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Huh, just got an invite to Amazon Preview. Looks like a test audience thing?

  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    Weird, I saw one of my coworkers in the audience of a Maria Bamford special on Hulu

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    spono wrote: »
    Weird, I saw one of my coworkers in the audience of a Maria Bamford special on Hulu

    Was it especially weird when the preshow titlecard said "Recorded in front of a live audience on the date spono's coworker called in sick."

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    New Evil!!!

    What a fucking ride

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    That was one hell of an episode of Evil, wow.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    minor incident wrote: »
    That was one hell of an episode of Evil, wow.

    It’s good to know they’re going to PACK these 4 episodes and waste ZERO time.

  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    The cold open alone was something else!

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Started up season 3 episode 1 of Evil and is this where it went streaming? All of a sudden we get to use profanity!

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited August 2
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Started up season 3 episode 1 of Evil and is this where it went streaming? All of a sudden we get to use profanity!

    Only the first season was on CBS. It was on Paramount+ from Season 2 onward. Season 2 could have been written more with network TV standards in mind, though, which might explain why season 3 is where the change is more noticeable.

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Started up season 3 episode 1 of Evil and is this where it went streaming? All of a sudden we get to use profanity!

    Season 2 is when it moved to streaming, right from the first episode of the season.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Oh, I didn't think I heard a single swear and then first episode season three two f bombs and some softcore nudity!

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Yeah they throw a lot of Fucks in there now. All the fucks you can fuck.

  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited August 2
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Oh, I didn't think I heard a single swear and then first episode season three two f bombs and some softcore nudity!

    So basically they went full The Expanse Season 4?

    I just wrapped rewatching Season 1 of EVIL again (haven't seen anything past this, was reacquainting myself with it while deciding if I should turn EVIL into my groups next TV project) and goddamn it's so good. Is this current stretch the final stretch of episodes for the series, or did it get greenlit for more?

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Neil Flynn is perfect casting for Summer's dad in Girls5eva, I'm always happy to see him in something.

  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    Oh, I didn't think I heard a single swear and then first episode season three two f bombs and some softcore nudity!

    So basically they went full The Expanse Season 4?

    I just wrapped rewatching Season 1 of EVIL again (haven't seen anything past this, was reacquainting myself with it while deciding if I should turn EVIL into my groups next TV project) and goddamn it's so good. Is this current stretch the final stretch of episodes for the series, or did it get greenlit for more?

    It's the final stretch as far as we've been told.
    They even goofed on it during this week's intro gag

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Having recently finished Babylon 5, the SE++ anime squad has started Crusade, it's one season spin-off.

    Y'all, Gary Cole is so damn cool in this show.

    Just radiating cool energy.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    If you looks closely during season 3 of Evil I believe they actually dubbed IN some swears

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Having recently finished Babylon 5, the SE++ anime squad has started Crusade, it's one season spin-off.

    Y'all, Gary Cole is so damn cool in this show.

    Just radiating cool energy.

    Good. Not enough people know about Crusade. Once you finish you should track down the script for the next unfilmed episode where Cole has the crew throw the ugly uniforms out the airlock.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Oh my god, Girls5eva S2 E6
    "And the funniest part is that you kept pranking only me!"

    I am wheezing

  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited August 3
    Started Season 2 of EVIL. Literally just started.
    Leland invading David's vision with a dance got me so bad

    Also oh god that dubbed-IN profanity. I've never seen that before

    This feels like a show that was created because the Kings saw Hannibal and they learned the right lessons: Make it visually interesting, go fucking big, and a bit of humor in the exact right place can work wonders.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Found myself musing on the Brady Bunch this morning

    That show stayed in the pop culture zeitgeist for a long ass time. A long and successful run, two hit reboot movies, a franchise that managed to span generations. I never really got it, but it felt like it offered a lens into my mom and her world. Those characters, actors, storylines, catchphrases - they factored into how my mom talked TV, so I needed to have some knowledge just to orient.

    But that show that was once everywhere, now... Isn't. The world it depicts is so foreign as to be unrecognizable, I can't even remember the last time I saw it referenced in anything. There's a good chance my daughter will never know what it was.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Poorochondriac wrote: »
    Found myself musing on the Brady Bunch this morning

    That show stayed in the pop culture zeitgeist for a long ass time. A long and successful run, two hit reboot movies, a franchise that managed to span generations. I never really got it, but it felt like it offered a lens into my mom and her world. Those characters, actors, storylines, catchphrases - they factored into how my mom talked TV, so I needed to have some knowledge just to orient.

    But that show that was once everywhere, now... Isn't. The world it depicts is so foreign as to be unrecognizable, I can't even remember the last time I saw it referenced in anything. There's a good chance my daughter will never know what it was.

    Now, take all of this and intensify it for shows that were basically clones of The Brady Bunch but didn't quite find its level of popularity.

    If there's a good chance your daughter never knows about the Brady Bunch, it may as well be impossible for her to know about The Partridge Family.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Brady Bunch is one of those shows that I’ve just never watched.

    I know some of the bigger hits from the show but I don’t think I’ve ever sat and watched a single full episode.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Gonna start telling kids that Mike Brady invented videoconferencing software in 1969 and then show them the intro to prove it

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I remember

    Jan (or Marsha?) getting hit in the nose with a football
    A parking contest to see who could get closest to an egg on a cone with knocking it off

    I know a little about their cursed “tiki” relics but that’s only because of Scrubs

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited August 3
    It came up in Discord yesterday that someone was unaware that Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler was a prequel not only to Gotham, but also to V for Vendetta.

    Man, I love how the Gothamverse just keeps on giving all these years later thanks to people underestimating how goddamn bonkers it is.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    minor incident wrote: »
    It came up in Discord yesterday that someone was unaware that Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler was a prequel not only to Gotham, but also to V for Vendetta.

    Man, I love how the Gothamverse just keeps on giving all these years later thanks to people underestimating how goddamn bonkers it is.

    It can be difficult to truly convey how bug-nuts insane Pennyworth is as a TV show.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I remember a lot of parody-ing of the Brady Bunch theme song, and being confused as a kid that this song kept coming up because I'd never heard the original

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    It was me, I watched the Bradys (even the cartoon) as a kid.
    Heck, I watched CHiPs.
    And I enjoyed them, but hey, I was like... eight.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    minor incident wrote: »
    It came up in Discord yesterday that someone was unaware that Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler was a prequel not only to Gotham, but also to V for Vendetta.

    Man, I love how the Gothamverse just keeps on giving all these years later thanks to people underestimating how goddamn bonkers it is.

    Excuse me?

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Did I stutter?

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    it's a prequel to what

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    it's a prequel to what

    Rugrats

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    The V for Vendetta connection isn’t even one of the 5 most insane things in that show, folks.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Yeah honestly when that happened I just nodded in understanding because of course it's also a tie-in prequel to V For Vendetta. It's the Gothamverse, baby! There are no rules!

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    man lately I've really been craving some quietly melancholy dystopian media ala The Leftovers

    something that's like hey, this is pretty much the same world except for the weird and traumatic event in the background that kinda made it a bit worse but we're all kinda still just working through it

    something I can just kinda chuck on and get a little bit drunk and teary about, that'd be perfect

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    eh, I'd say that is the world a lot of us have been living in for the past few years. :|

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    man lately I've really been craving some quietly melancholy dystopian media ala The Leftovers

    something that's like hey, this is pretty much the same world except for the weird and traumatic event in the background that kinda made it a bit worse but we're all kinda still just working through it

    something I can just kinda chuck on and get a little bit drunk and teary about, that'd be perfect

    I keep being recommended Station 11 which I hear scratches some of these itches.

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    man lately I've really been craving some quietly melancholy dystopian media ala The Leftovers

    something that's like hey, this is pretty much the same world except for the weird and traumatic event in the background that kinda made it a bit worse but we're all kinda still just working through it

    something I can just kinda chuck on and get a little bit drunk and teary about, that'd be perfect

    I keep being recommended Station 11 which I hear scratches some of these itches.

    yeah Station 11 was pretty close but didn't quite hit the mark for me

    I enjoyed it for what it was though

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Veldrin wrote: »
    man lately I've really been craving some quietly melancholy dystopian media ala The Leftovers

    something that's like hey, this is pretty much the same world except for the weird and traumatic event in the background that kinda made it a bit worse but we're all kinda still just working through it

    something I can just kinda chuck on and get a little bit drunk and teary about, that'd be perfect

    I keep being recommended Station 11 which I hear scratches some of these itches.

    Station 11 did come to mind for me, but it is much more post-apocalytic than The Leftovers. That said, it is in part about working to preserve aspects of life that normally end up totally abandoned in post-apocalyptic fiction so I think it is fair to say it scratches some of those itches while not being exactly what was asked for.

    I also liked it quite a bit and thought it made some nice changes that improved upon the novel. It's worth checking out.

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