Previously on… the [TV] thread

minor incident

You know how it works. You jiggle the rabbit ears until Frasier stops looking fuzzy.

Sweeney Tom

Worth keeping an eye on for sure for the anti-streaming service/anti-hellscape department, and mentioned briefly in another thread: https://longisland.news12.com/disney-asks-court-to-dismiss-wrongful-death-lawsuit-of-long-island-doctor

TL;DR a doctor died of an allergic reaction at a Disney Springs restaurant despite a) repeatedly informing the waiter of her allergies and b) being repeatedly assured the company was compliant and accommodating of allergens and needs beforehand. Her husband sued Disney, and Disney's official response is legitimately "you signed up for our Disney+ streaming service (via free trial/for one month, years ago, but still), you waived your right to ever sue us"

Zonugal

Oh, are we talking about Frasier in here?

minor incident

Here’s a question:

Do you ever seek out a recap when a show comes back for a new season? Like, either the streaming service or whoever puts out an official recap catch-up video, or you just go find one on YouTube narrated my the most obnoxiously monotones speed-talker on earth?

I never really do because apparently I usually have an absurdly good memory for tv shows, somehow. But my wife, being a normal human always finds one to watch before jumping into a new season, and it’s always interesting how wildly varying the quality of these kinds of videos are.

tynic

minor incident wrote: »

You know how it works. You jiggle the rabbit ears until Frasier stops looking fuzzy.

I was just in the break room, where my most irritating colleague was talking about his addiction to chess videos. He said it "got in the way of college". Our head of media and entertainment, who is bumping 60, said "ah yes I had the same experience in my college years with Alf."

I asked him if it had the same weird psychosexual undertones in the German dub, and then got sidetracked into linking him to JandrewEdits. But I do kind of want to make more inquiries about what exactly was going on, culturally, in German art colleges in the 80s.

edit: after this, my Most Irritating Colleague said "so would you recommend watching ALF?" "oh FUCK no. Christ."

tynic

minor incident wrote: »

Here’s a question:

Do you ever seek out a recap when a show comes back for a new season? Like, either the streaming service or whoever puts out an official recap catch-up video, or you just go find one on YouTube narrated my the most obnoxiously monotones speed-talker on earth?

I never really do because apparently I usually have an absurdly good memory for tv shows, somehow. But my wife, being a normal human always finds one to watch before jumping into a new season, and it’s always interesting how wildly varying the quality of these kinds of videos are.

I have not actively sought these out, but I decided to catch up on Killing Eve and despite having a very clear and vidid memory of the episode I left off at (finale season 2), when I tried to pick it back up at season 3 I realized I'd forgotten almost everything else that happened.
ended up just restarting season 2.

PaperLuigi44

minor incident wrote: »

Here’s a question:

Do you ever seek out a recap when a show comes back for a new season? Like, either the streaming service or whoever puts out an official recap catch-up video, or you just go find one on YouTube narrated my the most obnoxiously monotones speed-talker on earth?

I never really do because apparently I usually have an absurdly good memory for tv shows, somehow. But my wife, being a normal human always finds one to watch before jumping into a new season, and it’s always interesting how wildly varying the quality of these kinds of videos are.

I actually had this consideration recently as Young Justice S3 finally came to Netflix and I had forgotten so much. I ended up rewatching the S2 finale and that caused enough memories to come back. Sometimes I will use Tv Tropes (I know, I know) recap pages, but they vary between barebones, Goldilocks and exhaustive (derogatory).

MegaMan001

minor incident wrote: »

Here’s a question:

Do you ever seek out a recap when a show comes back for a new season? Like, either the streaming service or whoever puts out an official recap catch-up video, or you just go find one on YouTube narrated my the most obnoxiously monotones speed-talker on earth?

I never really do because apparently I usually have an absurdly good memory for tv shows, somehow. But my wife, being a normal human always finds one to watch before jumping into a new season, and it’s always interesting how wildly varying the quality of these kinds of videos are.

Depends on the show. Something like Game of Thrones in its peak, I would rewatch everything.

Ranlin

Yeah, usually if I feel I need some kind of refresher? I'm just rewatching the series up to that point.

edit: anymore though I'm pretty bad at keeping up with shows and often just wait 'til it's all done

Olivaw

I usually just rewatch a series, but it definitely depends on the show. Like I'll probably rewatch the first season of The Old Man before that second season, because it was good and I liked it and I want to remember the vibe

I'll do the same with Andor (though I've also watched Andor in full like three times already)

PwnanObrien

This looks like it's going to be absurdly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBw1Yw92Ts

DemonStacey

minor incident wrote: »

Here’s a question:

Do you ever seek out a recap when a show comes back for a new season? Like, either the streaming service or whoever puts out an official recap catch-up video, or you just go find one on YouTube narrated my the most obnoxiously monotones speed-talker on earth?

I never really do because apparently I usually have an absurdly good memory for tv shows, somehow. But my wife, being a normal human always finds one to watch before jumping into a new season, and it’s always interesting how wildly varying the quality of these kinds of videos are.

I never have looked one up before.

I don't have particular good tv show memory though. Mostly just figure I'll start remember stuff as I watch.

Been a time or two a new season has started with the little mini recap and I've just let that go while setting up dinner or something before sitting down for the episode.

SirToasty

Occasionally. Better Call Saul took awhile to hit streaming between the last few seasons so we definitely recapped that when we finally got around to it.

Hacksaw

The gap between BCS showing on TV and hitting streaming/Netflix was absolutely agony.

Reynolds

Olivaw wrote: »

I usually just rewatch a series, but it definitely depends on the show. Like I'll probably rewatch the first season of The Old Man before that second season, because it was good and I liked it and I want to remember the vibe

I had just assumed that show had been cancelled. Can't believe it took this long to return. The last episode also just kinda ended in the middle of things, without seeming like a season finale at all.

Endless_Serpents

I’m a little late on watching a show called Severance but it’s very good. Looks like they only did one season, and while it ends on a cliffhanger it’s still an excellent finale. One of the best I’ve seen in years. Anyone else watch that? It’s trapped on Apple TV, don’t know if anyone has that besides the person I have been watching it with.

Sweeney Tom

Endless_Serpents wrote: »

I’m a little late on watching a show called Severance but it’s very good. Looks like they only did one season, and while it ends on a cliffhanger it’s still an excellent finale. One of the best I’ve seen in years. Anyone else watch that? It’s trapped on Apple TV, don’t know if anyone has that besides the person I have been watching it with.

Season 2 is coming in January, it’s a great time for people to start watching (like me, who has Apple and still somehow hasn’t seen it yet because I’m really behind on TV)

Matev

This week's episode of Evil.

That painting is wild. Kinda like the Chtulhlu and Obama paintings but less unhinged. Liked that it wasn't something literal but also wasn't super abstract.

Very interested in how they're landing this plane with one episode left.

But also, give me like 2 or 3 seasons of Sister Andrea multilating and not taking crap from demons.

Zonugal

I've been in need of a sitcom for relaxing nights spent in, so I'm doing a rewatch of VEEP.

Tonight I finished the first season.

It's a fun reminder of where the characters begin, knowing where they'll go over a few years.

Dan Egan arrives as a vampire and the cracks are displayed pretty early that Selina Meyer is a demon.

EDIT
I mean, this is Selina Meyer's reaction to be put in charge of tackling national obesity:

Selina Meyer: Are you believing this fucking day? I had to pull the plug on clean jobs, I'm about to go to France, and now he gives me obesity. My God. I'll tell you something else, too. This is deliberate, Amy. The President knows how uncomfortable I am made... (whispers) by fat people. You want to know the secret to keeping weight off? Shut your fucking pie hole. How about that? It's not rocket science. I'm not a nutritionist, am I? No, I'm not. But I do know one thing. You've got to put the corndog down, you've got to get up off your dead one, you've got to get moving.
Amy Brookheimer: "Get moving might" actually be a good slogan for this damn thing.
Selina Meyer: Oh, my God. It's weakness. That's really all it is. Pure and simple, it's weakness. It's about self-control. You don't masturbate in the subway, do you, Amy? No, you don't. Do you shit in the street, Amy? No, of course you don't. Because you've gotten ahold of yourself. And now I've got to say what? I've got to say, "I'm the Vice President of the United States. Put the cupcake down." That's now my job?

And then two episodes later she intimidates her chief of staff into publicly claiming Meyer's miscarriage and to use it to explain other recent mistakes made in her office.

What a truly despicable, inhuman monster.

Cantide

This week’s Evil was fun, as usual, but now that we’re down to one episode, I have to admit that what they’ve done with Andy in this abridged fifth season is rubbing me the wrong way.

I get that he’s never been the most interesting character, but he’s always seemed like a decent person who doesn’t deserve all the dunking the universe has done on him for four seasons, and the sudden cheating felt like blatant character assassination to clear the way for Kristen+David. Kristen’s hypocritical reaction to it after cheating on him multiple times was bad enough, but the lowest moment for me was when the daughters asked if their Dad didn’t love them anymore, and she tells them yes via a lie of omission (for those who don’t remember, her response was to hug them and assure them that she will always love them, an answer which heavily implies that yes, their father doesn’t anymore) . Andy loved his daughters enough that he literally overcame hypnosis and tried to kill himself to protect Laura, gets unilaterally told by Kristen that he’s not allowed to see them anymore, and then this ban gets spun by Kristen to try and poison their kids against him.

I’ve been hoping that was only the beginning of his storyline this season, but given his complete absence in the last two episodes, I’ll be surprised if he even appears in the finale.

Bloods End

The new tmnt show is incredible.

I even like Pete Davidson in it

Poorochondriac

I don't think I'll be able to finish this hurricane episode of Evil tonight, but I was having such a good time with it that I looked up the writer and it was the creator of Farscape. Good job, Farscape guy, that Chinatown joke made me laugh really hard!

Cantide

Poorochondriac wrote: »

I don't think I'll be able to finish this hurricane episode of Evil tonight, but I was having such a good time with it that I looked up the writer and it was the creator of Farscape. Good job, Farscape guy, that Chinatown joke made me laugh really hard!

Yep, Rockne O’Bannon has had a ton of involvement in the show. He’s the main reason I’m always hoping for more George scenes; you can’t fool me, Rock, I know Harvey when I see him.

Hacksaw

Zonugal wrote: »

I've been in need of a sitcom for relaxing nights spent in, so I'm doing a rewatch of VEEP.

Tonight I finished the first season.

It's a fun reminder of where the characters begin, knowing where they'll go over a few years.

Dan Egan arrives as a vampire and the cracks are displayed pretty early that Selina Meyer is a demon.

Dan Egan is one of my top picks for watching an actor cut loose with a role that is written to be unlikable. While there is no true equivalent to Malcolm Tucker to be found in VEEP, Dan Egan absolutely embodies his shrewd cruelty with almost perfect form. Reid Scott should've gotten an award for his performance, because god damn is the man vile. Absolutely no redeeming features what so ever. A demon made manifest in... well, a man.

OldSlacker

Cantide wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

I don't think I'll be able to finish this hurricane episode of Evil tonight, but I was having such a good time with it that I looked up the writer and it was the creator of Farscape. Good job, Farscape guy, that Chinatown joke made me laugh really hard!

Yep, Rockne O’Bannon has had a ton of involvement in the show. He’s the main reason I’m always hoping for more George scenes; you can’t fool me, Rock, I know Harvey when I see him.

FUCK!
I had no idea he was involved in the show, but that makes so much sense.

Bloods End

https://youtu.be/L7oaZxdAMzI?si=-oPkDK8oZAGqyykX

Less peppy then I would have guessed but I love that they used the book lyrics

minor incident

Boots better be fuckin' yellow.

Depressperado

Rings of Power can fuck right off

havin' Tommy B do stuff

nosir

Houk the Namebringer

Has Brian Blessed ever narrated any of Bombadil's dialogue? Andy Serkis's audiobook version sounds a bit like him but I'd love to hear the real deal, seems like a perfect fit

Thawmus

I am 9 episodes into Shogun and goddamn

Matev

Cantide wrote: »

This week’s Evil was fun, as usual, but now that we’re down to one episode, I have to admit that what they’ve done with Andy in this abridged fifth season is rubbing me the wrong way.

I get that he’s never been the most interesting character, but he’s always seemed like a decent person who doesn’t deserve all the dunking the universe has done on him for four seasons, and the sudden cheating felt like blatant character assassination to clear the way for Kristen+David. Kristen’s hypocritical reaction to it after cheating on him multiple times was bad enough, but the lowest moment for me was when the daughters asked if their Dad didn’t love them anymore, and she tells them yes via a lie of omission (for those who don’t remember, her response was to hug them and assure them that she will always love them, an answer which heavily implies that yes, their father doesn’t anymore) . Andy loved his daughters enough that he literally overcame hypnosis and tried to kill himself to protect Laura, gets unilaterally told by Kristen that he’s not allowed to see them anymore, and then this ban gets spun by Kristen to try and poison their kids against him.

I’ve been hoping that was only the beginning of his storyline this season, but given his complete absence in the last two episodes, I’ll be surprised if he even appears in the finale.

I mean

Part of the text we have is that while Kristen is trying, she isn't that great of a person. Sure she's not "I will train mass shooters and sell my soul to demons" Leland Townsend, but also consider that part of his endgame revolves around Kristen raising Timothy. She might be the protagonist, but Kristen Bouchard ain't no hero.

Andy has been pretty fucked over though, I agree. Dude just wanted to climb mountains and love his family. I expect his cheating is a final hypnotic suggestion from Leland to drive him off.

MegaMan001

I've seen a lot of Spidey and Friends via my children and these newer episodes just gave the three spider heroes the ability to flat out transform into dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs they turn into wear appropriate spider hero style costumes.

Blake T

Spidey and friends is still too high stakes for my daughter.

Raijin Quickfoot

My wife started watching Fire Country and I was shocked to learn that this IS NOT Charlie Hunnam

Reynolds

Working to finish off season 4 of Evil, and I'm impressed that the Kings have managed to make another main character as unlikeable as Alicia Florrick.

Hacksaw

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

My wife started watching Fire Country and I was shocked to learn that this IS NOT Charlie Hunnam

I am also shocked to learn that man isn't Charlie Hunnam!

Lars

This week's Kite Man brought back two characters that'd previously only appeared in the Harley Quinn Valentine's Special.

Peen

I watched the first episode of Warrior last night, since we got Max again with the D+/Hulu/Max bundle that's cheaper somehow than the D+/Hulu/ESPN bundle was despite being a way better deal content-wise, and I'll be honest and say that I didn't expect it to do as much with the historical setting as it does. I guess I just expected a man to kung fu people periodically with some light melodrama to hold it together but just in this first episode we got Irish vs. Chinese labor, a bunch of post-Civil War interpersonal drama, and

a brothel owner boinking the main character and then almost immediately killing guys with a sword for Reasons

, I think this show is going to be pretty OK.

minor incident

Peen wrote: »

I watched the first episode of Warrior last night, since we got Max again with the D+/Hulu/Max bundle that's cheaper somehow than the D+/Hulu/ESPN bundle was despite being a way better deal content-wise, and I'll be honest and say that I didn't expect it to do as much with the historical setting as it does. I guess I just expected a man to kung fu people periodically with some light melodrama to hold it together but just in this first episode we got Irish vs. Chinese labor, a bunch of post-Civil War interpersonal drama, and

a brothel owner boinking the main character and then almost immediately killing guys with a sword for Reasons

, I think this show is going to be pretty OK.

Yeah, it’s still a martial arts action drama show, but it does get into the weeds of stuff like the Chinese Exclusion Act and a lot of the racial politics of the era. It’s a much better show than I think most people assume!

Peen

I also kind of wish they had them all speak Chinese the whole time, I guess I understand why they aren't. The camera pan as they're all speaking Chinese into all speaking English was pretty slick but if the tension between people is going to be a plot point then having the two different languages happening would be better!

minor incident

I actually think, all things considered, they do a really good job switching languages depending on the scene. Keeping them speaking subtitled Chinese in mixed company, and having the characters who barely speak English speak heavily broken English when they really do, vs the actor’s perfect natural English when they’re doing English-for-Chinese.