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you had to have laughed at the very beginning when he asks the bad date what his problem was? in the restaurant? that kinda killed me.

seemed like a very improv-y movie. in a good way.

Could have used less improv-ing and more improving

i should always remember what a tough crowd you guys are...

Liked Bone Tomahawk although Patrick Wilson was totally ridiculous and it's pretty deeply albeit slightly hilariously offensive.

Uh, they had the scene with a Native American saying "these monsters aren't representative of us. They are monsters."

and P Wilson has Fargo cred so

you had to have laughed at the very beginning when he asks the bad date what his problem was? in the restaurant? that kinda killed me.

― scott seward, Saturday, January 9, 2016 8:23 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh god yes that brought back some painful first date memories

Uh, they had the scene with a Native American saying "these monsters aren't representative of us. They are monsters."

― Sorkinspeak coaxed out Oscar begging near the tabs of Link Wray (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, January 9, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Claiming they're just some bad apple tribe seems like a weak balm for the racist craziness to follow.

Well, some of the characters are more or less racist. But they don't even really call them a bad apple tribe, just these weird freaks of nature. They call them Troglodytes. They eat people and roar.

Detectorists!!!!! Best dramedy I've seen in ages.

Yes.

yeah, that's a fun one.

have watched a couple raw meat episodes. i dig it.

it's on Hulu but if you like Germany before the wall fell and intrigue and Reagan nostalgia and wall to wall synth-pop and Nena then you might like Deutschland 83.

only 8 episodes too so not endless.

Detectorists, yes!
"Is he allowed to talk?"

In the Basement
http://www.netflix.com/title/80016415
haven't seen it yet, but i love this director

New series in French coming in May:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_(TV_series)

I watched S1 of the Great British Baking Show in like less than 2 days

Damn that show is lovely

Could not agree more! My bf and I very much enjoyed watching this slowly only when we were together, which stretched it out. Pleasantly paced, not crazy, not extremely competitive, nice slow shots. My only complaint is WHO was putting ENORMOUS JEANS on all the female presenters???!

re jeans -- i said p much the exact same thing to my sis (who recommended the show to me) and she said that they have been wearing the same outfits for every season of the show so maybe it's their own thing??

yeah i enjoyed that one a lot too, wish they had more seasons up

omg yes enormous jeans. wtf

also i love how mary berry pronounces layers as "lairs"

i forgot how ott european baking is. some of the cakes they made in the technical challenges were nuts!

Clear up sleepy jeans

Bake-off is one of the best things on UK TV. So gentle, and also baking is fascinating.

i know you'll kill me for saying this, stevie, but i can't separate the rise in popularity of baking with the rise in popularity of the tories

one is due to yeast, the other due to self-interest

got showtime via hulu so i will be off of netflix for a while. watching ray donovan. which is very watchable. then probably watch homeland. after that i dunno. don't think i need to watch the american shameless. might just watch ray and homeland and get rid of showtime.

(then i'll probably get hbo go for PS4 for awhile....)

( i might get a little overloaded if i do the hbo thing. been thinking about watching sopranos again...and the wire....and then there are all the other hbo shows i've never seen....)

We Need To Talk About Kevin was good stuff. Never have kids IMO

i watched some ultraviolent salma hayek movie the other night. i wouldn't recommend it. i watched basically to see salma kick ass but it's one of those post-hostel/grindhouse torture-y things that are all the rage now. she does kick a lot of ass though. it's all set in one apartment. someone should take it to broadway.

enjoyed Bone Tomahawk as its dialogue cogently expressed the problem with the West. "NOT Indians! IDIOTS!"

Saw it on the big screen at MoMA though, authentic Manhattan patrons running for the exits can't be beat.

We Need To Talk About Kevin was one of the worst things ever filmed (at least the first half hour, bcz i'm old and sick).

It's absolutely awful and it boggles the mind that Lynne Ramsay made it.

also watched welcome to me and i wanted to like it more but the tone and execution was not good. they could have gone a lot darker and they kinda kept one foot in frothy wiig comedy land. i saw the potential. also people doing phony crazy people bugs me sometimes.

got showtime via hulu so i will be off of netflix for a while. watching ray donovan. which is very watchable. then probably watch homeland. after that i dunno. don't think i need to watch the american shameless. might just watch ray and homeland and get rid of showtime.

― scott seward, Monday, January 18, 2016 9:37 AM (2 hours ago)

Jon Voigt is so great in it! I've watched all the ray donovan seasons and all the homeland seasons, and yeah, not sure what else there is on showtime i want to see.

showtime shows seem to start strong and then devolve into a string of unlikely sex scenarios by season 2. I enjoyed Happyish, though.

oh yeah i was thinking of watching happyish too.

i got excited when i saw the ad for the showtime show Billions cuz i thought lizzy caplan was in it but it turns out it was just tara from sons of anarchy.

that has brody from homeland in it? or at least it looked like him. i'd prob watch it for him + tara from SoA

<3 lizzy

Anyone seen Occupied? Near-future Norway "quietly" taken over by Russia in oil-related shenanigans. looks interesting, but haven't had time to try it out yet.

Moved into a new house and we got netflix. What are we watching? THE CANYONS. So bad.

Just started Billions, shit is bananas. There's something about the tone of Showtime shows, the amped up soapiness.

We Need To Talk About Kevin takes a deeply unpleasant but marvellously written novel and turns it into a deeply unpleasant and horribly directed (and laughably soundtracked) film. I've heard good things about Lynne Ramsay, but the experience of watching this film makes it highly unlikely that I'll ever bother finding out what those good things are.

no really, her two preceding films (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) are nothing like this shit.

i still can't take the book seriously enough to read it. the horrendous title, the subject matter, the general daily mail feeling of it. not helped by shriver writing a dire short story for the guardian a few years ago.

She is also bizarrely obsessed with her characters' weight at all times

have a read of this if you want a laugh - it's hilariously shit:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/21/repossession-by-lionel-shriver

i started occupied last night and it's scando-trash but it's great

xpost i started a couple of paragraphs and then scrolled to see how long it was. my god. it just goes on and on like that!