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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 15, 2021 19:58:27 GMT -5
Yeah. Off-the-charts levels of hypocrisy. The entire daytime format is opinion/editorial-style content. Even on ones like The Five where they're attempting a comedy approach, they just come off as shrill, deceitful performers. If Russia were to create a sham news network to wreck havoc in our country, it'd look something like Fox News. Oh the five, the fucking five. I flip flop on who I would rather see take a punch in the face: Greg Gutfeld or Jesse Waters. That angry redhead woman can get downright frightening.  She tries to be all smug and coy about topics like Gutfeld and Waters but always goes off script and starts yelling.
Another solid block of that shit all day today. It really is getting a little frightening how politics is dividing families. Even my nieces and nephews have gobbled up that red pill. The reporting on Fox versus the "mainstream media" is like two different worlds*. I sat all day long listening to the usual conservative fear-mongering about petty shit that hasn't even happened; just wild conjecture and hyperbole. They blow shit all out of proportion on one topic and give other real news maybe a passing mention, if that. And then on the drive home I switched on NPR to hear completely different, more pertinent, far-reaching topics being reported.
*It's always annoyed me how Fox News tries to have it both ways. We're not the mainstream, yet we have the most viewers?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 26, 2021 0:39:48 GMT -5
First episode of the first season of the TV series "The Purge". I rarely take on TV series' anymore, but I heard good things about this, and it certainly got off to an exciting start.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 30, 2021 20:44:26 GMT -5
First episode of the first season of the TV series "The Purge". I rarely take on TV series' anymore, but I heard good things about this, and it certainly got off to an exciting start.
Down to the last two episodes of the above and have enjoyed it almost more than any of the movies. Apparently, the second season is pretty great, too. So, looking forward to that.
In the meantime, I've been filling the void with episodes of a skit show called "I Think You Should Leave" on Netflix. Here's an example:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 3, 2021 17:49:09 GMT -5
Still working my way through my complete collection of The X Files and found an old favorite episode, "Arcadia," in which a demonic creature composed of garbage kills anyone in a gated community if they don't keep their places up perfectly -- every lightbulb screwed in properly, no dogs over 16 lbs., and no -- repeat, NO -- lawn flamingoes.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Aug 4, 2021 5:11:32 GMT -5
I was fine with the whole mythology of The X-Files - I just learned to let it wash over me at some point - and some of that material was excellent as well, but the jollies I got from their best stand-alone episodes, I feel, were a lot richer.
Kobb, I watched most of the first season of I Think You Should Leave at my brother's on his Netflix account, and I've been looking forward to more ever since.
While we're pushing sketch comedy, I would wholeheartedly recommend the recently-ended Canadian show Baroness Von Sketch Show and HBO's current A Black Lady Sketch Show. Similar meta-names and similarly unique viewpoints for this medium, one being white, one black, one squarely late-stage Gen X, the other a bit more varied, and both very much from women's perspectives. And really goddamn funny, of course, with which the rest of it wouldn't be as powerful.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 11, 2021 12:23:29 GMT -5
Caught season one of Sexy Beast. It's a reality dating show where conventionally attractive but otherwise defective people go on blind dates wearing monster makeup in hopes of making a connection not based on looks.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 11, 2021 12:27:05 GMT -5
About halfway through Money Heist (AKA La Casa de Papel/The House of Paper.) Wow! Such a fun, clever, exciting show!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 13, 2021 15:41:11 GMT -5
Kobb, I watched most of the first season of I Think You Should Leave at my brother's on his Netflix account, and I've been looking forward to more ever since.
Season two seems to be about the same as one. It's rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but I do get some grins in now and then. I will say, it helps if you're buzzed, which I am nine-out-of-ten times that I'm looking for something to watch on Netflix.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 13, 2021 15:58:49 GMT -5
Took about a week to breeze through season two of "The Purge" TV show. This season was intriguing because it starts during the last two hours of the Purge night the previous year, and then explores the ramifications for the various characters throughout that year. They don't get around to the new Purge night until the last two episodes of the season.
I wish some other network would pick it up. I was slow coming around to the idea of a TV show developed from the cheesy dystopian movie franchise, but they made decent work of it. They also managed to include a cameo from Ethan Hawke peddling his home security systems as in the first of the movies, which was a fun touch. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 1, 2021 5:08:40 GMT -5
Upset to find out - six episodes in - that the final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is only going to be ten episodes long. Ah well, it was a good run. And frankly, a more limited run actually makes what they've been doing with these episodes more powerful, and let me tell you, they have been leaning hard into the idea that the police department needs reforming. They even have a character (played by John C. McGinley) who is quite obviously an avatar for Pat Lynch, the longtime head of the NYPD PBA and a gigantic asshole. Seriously, he's an amazingly compact example of why some people hate cops. And yet, in one episode, they even gave the character credit for consistency of principle. I think the writers are, in part, responding to mentions of the show in articles about depictions of the police on TV that said it was a utopian idea of what cops should be or that it was flippant about what policing can really mean, but I also think the creators and the cast genuinely believe what they're saying (the show's liberal bent has not been subtle throughout its run). I'll miss it a lot. Thankfully, I also had another dream last night in which I was smooching on Detective Rosa Diaz, a rare - and all the more welcome for it - repeat for me.  |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 4, 2021 19:08:33 GMT -5
About halfway through Money Heist (AKA La Casa de Papel/The House of Paper.) Wow! Such a fun, clever, exciting show! The fifth and final season was just released. đŸ˜® |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 25, 2021 5:33:38 GMT -5
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine finale was last week, and the description in the menu gave me slight pause, because it said something about the cast "revisiting their past", which sounded an awful lot like a clip show. I figured they were way too smart for that, that it might at most show some clips but not focus on them. I have come here today to express my shame that I ever doubted them. In a way, it was clip show without the clips: basically, they used their annual heist episode to incorporate references to all their running jokes and past recurring characters and the whole thing. It was familiar and fresh at the same time. One of the most satisfying finales I've ever seen.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 29, 2021 5:05:54 GMT -5
I am in season 4 of my revisit of Orphan Black, and I must take this opportunity once again to heartily recommend that everyone give this show a shot. At the very least, you will be introduced to the acting dynamo that is Tatiana Maslany. When I first saw this, I hadn't been that impressed by a performance since Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr. And Maslany's performance is fifty episodes long. Stunning.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 10, 2021 4:53:45 GMT -5
Very nice send-off for Jessica Walter in the season finale of Archer.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 8, 2021 0:09:51 GMT -5
Three episodes of Netflix's true crime docu-series "Catching Killers". I like what they're doing here. The stories focus on the people tasked with catching massive fuck-ups like "The Happy Face Killer" and "The Green River Killer", rather than the perps themselves (for a change).
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Nov 15, 2021 5:52:50 GMT -5
Kudos to The Simpsons for doing a near dead-on parody of Fargo (the series). It's even a two-parter, and the second one aired Sunday night, but I haven't watched it yet.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 16, 2021 14:47:46 GMT -5
You zombies ever watch What On Earth? Fascinating show.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 22, 2021 22:34:28 GMT -5
This is very much worth watching -- unlike any food show I've seen recently in the States.
Also, TACOS...
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Post by Mayzshon on Jan 3, 2022 13:46:49 GMT -5
Recently finished 'Hawkeye". Jeremy Renner's really good as the "I'm getting too old for this shit," superhero, who just wants to get back to his family for Christmas.
Also this:
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 25, 2022 12:33:17 GMT -5
Only three episodes in, and already hooked hard on Netflix's "Archive 81". Great blend of mystery/horror/sci-fi.
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She tries to be all smug and coy about topics like Gutfeld and Waters but always goes off script and starts yelling.
