STUFF ON HULU

Difficult People also good. Although Precious still isn't funny.

LINE OF DUTY
THE BRIDGE (US)

Yeah, Difficult People is surprising good

Colossal Youth added to the Criterion channel.

Just finished "Married." Really funny insightful comedy. Kind of a nice change of pace from all the current comedies that aren't actually comedies.

Enjoying the slow self-destructive tendencies of everyone on Casual

Guys, Im so in love with the path although Id be super happy if Hawk didnt exist.

do you find him extraneous/irritating? he gets more of a character arc eventually but I can understand

I mean I liked him when he was hooking up with that girl from school but then he just turned into a little shit. Mini-Cal. Way too much of the first half of season 2 centered on him.

irritating but that's kind of the point! kids get corrupted by influences that seem ok to them but have this dark shitty side

all of the second season was Cal putting on this facade of being decent and completely falling apart at the seams, and I feel like Hawk saw only the former and was really looking for a role model

i'm thinking hulu redid their interface (at least on appletv) to facilitate their new live tv plans but, wow, they really just threw out the old design completely

you gotta dig around but a bunch of pedro almodovar are on hulu right now

I gave up on The Path season 2 about 5 episodes from the end. Still mean to get around to it but life is getting in the way.

Watched Top Of The Lake this week, because I remembered it getting good reviews and frankly I can't convince myself to watch The Handmaid's Tale just yet. TOTL was OK but had multiple glaring plot holes and a whole bunch of unnecessary tangents (ex: Holly Hunter's character had ZERO to do with anything and could easily have been excised from the first draft of the script entirely).

irritating but that's kind of the point! kids get corrupted by influences that seem ok to them but have this dark shitty side

all of the second season was Cal putting on this facade of being decent and completely falling apart at the seams, and I feel like Hawk saw only the former and was really looking for a role model

Yeah. Ha. You're right. But that hair. 1989 Pacific Northwest called etc etc

Uhhh what happened to the interface here, this new look is pretty awful.

The interface is absolute shite these days

I was just complaining about this on the Filmstruck thread. Apparently it rolled out on some platforms a few months ago, everybody hated it, but it's only hit Roku users a few days back. Hooray.

it's so bad on appletv, I can barely navigate it.

I also dislike netflix's latest UI changes there. all of these are fucking terrible; pictures way to big, etc. garbage.

And auto playing on Netflix....

Just watched the The Dana Carvey Show doc Too Funny To Fail. So great! I loved the show at the time, but didn't realize what a murderer's row of comedy they had assembled. Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell in their first TV roles ever. Louis CK and Robert Smigel running the writer's room. Jam from Parks and Rec! Charlie Kaufman?! Such an amazing show, and a hilarious lesson of how to get Disney to cancel your show as quickly as possible.

Heads up, all 8 episodes of the actual Dana Carvey Show are also on Hulu. Which you’d think they would be promoting in tandem with the show.

Ooh. just found A Life In Waves, the Suzanne Ciani documentary

I was so excited for the second season of the Handmaids Tale, that was set to go live on Hulu last Tuesday at 11pm, that i watched my clock and as soon as it flipped to 11:00pm I hit play. It didn't disappoint.

really enjoyed Shrill, could have used a couple more episodes but overall i support short seasons, but six is really short

we thought Shrill was really great too. Aidy Bryant is so freakin likable.

can i complain here about how hulu has the worst buggiest ui of any streaming service

also something has been very wrong with their compression for years, cf. the wildly varying volume between different episodes of the same show

agreed with all three of those posts

Anyone watching The Act?

plan to but havent got to it yet.

it's on the list. Gotta get through Ramy first, which everyone should try as it is, as far as the first three episodes are concerned, notably better than shrill. and i liked shrill!

Ramy was awesome, finished that in about a week.

I'm in love with Letterkenny

it totally seems like your jam matt. stays good all the way through!

it's almost freaky how much it looks like rural Southern Minnesota where I grew up, their house and homestead in particular

oh thanks for that letterkenny rec. ripped through the first two seasons so far. constant laughs

Catch 22 is better than I expected

the letterkenny sell is "hyperliterate hick canadian sunny in philadelphia"

sometimes it reminds me of Deadwood in the way it's so densely written

hey why don't you take about 20 percent off there

how are you then?
oh not so bad

Pen15 is my favorite new show, btw.

we had stupidly started saying "pitter patter" around the house

I've only watched the first 7-8 episodes or so but the EDM goths are by far the highlight. I forget the context but at one point one of them yells "PREDICTABLE!" in a growly death metal voice and that's been getting a lot of use in my own household lately.

yeah the lingo is super fun. their use of alliteration is hilarious.

Hail Satan? just went up and I recommend it very highly; saw it twice! For anyone who grew up during the satanic panic, it's a must see!

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/hail-satan-director-penny-lane-what-religion-would-be-if-we-were

the amazing jonathan documentary is definitely worth a watch. it's a bit solipsistic at times, but it will definitely appeal to fans of Nathan For You (even though it doesn't reach that show's massive heights)

also, i binged This Way Up over the weekend and it's good... though i needed closed captioning to fight through the accents and i wish the two obvious season arc love interest stories weren't so entirely predictable by the end of the first episode
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/arts/television/this-way-up-aisling-bea.html

Based on posts upthread I watched (and enjoyed) an episode of Letterkenny, and ... whoever plays that guy's neck deserves an Emmy

They're consistently good!

Also his neck maintains that girth throughout.

yeah that show is so good. dont think there's a bad episode yet.

that letterkenny show drives me up the fucking wall and I've never even watched it, just suffered through ads for it on hulu.

/morbs

Designing Women is finally streaming!

oh shit that's cool

I just watched the first two episodes of Letterkenny and laughed my ass off.

Pitter patter

There's a documentary up called Dina. I'd never heard of it before but it won a bunch of awards in 2017. It's about a middleaged autistic woman from the Philadelphia suburbs who winds up getting engaged to an autistic Walmart employee with aspergers. The met on the bus I think, can't remember. Anyway, story starts shortly after their engagement, and the filmmakers (who apparently had known Dina's family her whole life) get so many close shots of their developing relationship right from the post-engagement point, like them hanging out and watching movies and eating pizza in her apartment, meeting each others parents, and a long day's bus trip to Ocean City, New Jersey where you get to really savor/ponder the nature of their communication, question their feelings, wonder about their attraction. Just really intimate, golden documentary stuff like that. But there's this twist in the middle when it's been established that they like each other and everything, but you find out he's a fortysomething year old virgin, and then the story sort of shifts to being about this woman's efforts to try and get him to bone down despite his terror about it. And he clearly loves her but he's just not having it, much to her frustration. There's a scene where she gifts him a book on The Art of Lovemaking, and jesus christ the way his expression changes and he turns into this totally terrified individual trying to deal with her advances and struggle to explain how he can't quite seem to parlay his masturbation habits into a sexual relationship with a woman, and you get to see her struggling to explain her frustrations of "having a history of lovemaking with other men." From there, you get to witness their super cringey wedding and super cringey honeymoon at a tacky romance motel in the Poconos called Cove Haven, followed by a genuinely poignant character backstory reveal the day after (complete with 911 call recordings!). Anyway, it's great. Watch Dina.

Got enjoyably wrapped up and have now watched most of Letterkenny. I'm kinda fascinated by the, umm, impulses about values that it's trying to combine, where it want to insist on rural characters' progressiveness and moral sophistication, and also let itself be an all-in love letter to strong-and-silent masculinity, and the pitch that progressiveness as a kind of common-decency egalitarian code — I mean, it's just the usual classic mythology of the competent, upstanding, fair-minded, salt-of-the-earth North American, but the show manages to arrive at it in such a strange and caricatured way that it somehow becomes super-weird again? But it buys into it so much more than it interrogates it, it's got a real Wayne Gaze and can't help making it as persuasive as possible

Like by the Christmas-party episode it really does become conservative traditional Wayne tolerantly but uncomfortably grimacing at everyone else's emotional and sexual and social issues, including the hockey jocks just being touched by and grateful for his kind present

Xxp - great post, DG! But now I don’t know if I need to see the movie 😬

the first season of Lodge 49 is up now so everyone should please watch it because it is very good and has very bad ratings

I gave up on letterkenny after two episodes, but fuck you nabisco for making me want to try again.

that seems rather inappropriate, but yes thank you Jodie Sweetin and thank you Ge'ez character for your recommendations as well

DJI you'll dig it and I won't have ruined anything for you, you'll see, I promise

C, i kinda imagine if you didn’t like it on first blush there’s a damn high likelihood it’s just not up yr alley, and honestly if this thing is not up someone’s alley it must be incredibly annoying

Can confirm, it's incredibly annoying to me.

N, I find something like I think You Should Leave incredibly annoying, but I remember it was the pacing of LetterKenny being difficult. The episodes seemed really long for some reason.

The best character on letterkenny by far is Stewart, the EDM goth kid. I’ve watched maybe 8 or so episodes and most all of the funniest moments have involved him in some way

Just the fact that there are four social groups in Letterkenny and they're hicks/farmers (logical), Christians (logical), hockey players (logical) and... cybergoths is insanely funny to me.

based on rural places I know in the upper midwest, that actually 100% checks out

Wu Tang show is bad but I love it

Cant bring myself to watch it honestly

Letterkenny is a treat!

(iow, nabisco otm)

I finally got into LETTERKENNY

love the comfortable formula and very congenial cast

the episode with the alt-right guy (HARD RIGHT JAY from the dark web played by Jay Baruchel) was great in how every one of the regulars was disinterested or disgusted

Letterkenny is so much fun

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that lots of Hulu shows from the 2020 season are nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

I finally got into LETTERKENNY

same. it's all good but riley and jonesy's machine-gun patter is bar-down, buddy

celly snipes, bro

its really just the best show. very re-watchable, too.

did not know season 9 was released!

i burnt out last season but up until then it's basically always sunny in rural canada

i just started letterkenny

1) main guy reminds me so much of my cousin it’s scary

2) i wish my town was half as interesting as this place

3) you had me at florida seminal vesicles

4) for me it’s basically “deadwood but a farm” and i am with it

We just started this week, too! Almost two seasons in already. I wasn't sure what to expect, I thought someone compared it to Schitt's Creek but it sure ain't that. Very funny, though. I know nothing about hockey so I have no idea how much of Riley & Jonesy is inside baseball and how much is just nonsense but they make me laugh nonetheless.

This is basically just a Letterkenny thread, eh, figure it out.

Watched Nomadland with my wife, then noticed that Dredd (the Karl Urban one, not the Sylvester Stallone one) was on there so I watched that by myself.

it's DREDD WEEK on ILX

i love that Karl Urban DREDD

DREDD

letterkenny has some kevin smith and jody hill vibes to it

the parts of the hockey banter that i understand are all otm -- i think keeso played junior

i'm through season six now and i think my favorite moment is when (not much of a spoiler, but still) wayne complains that french stewart squints too much

Fuckin' Pitter Paddy, too much

so let it be written

LETTERKENNY, eh?

i hate all Covid-related programming but i am really enjoying “Staged”, the zoom thing w Tennant & Sheen

its v funny & good

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that everything that was on Hulu in 2021 is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!