seriously might be one of the worst and most abusive shows i've ever seen. which is saying something. just one guy yelling at people with all kinds of problems episode after episode. and its all about how HE is the one suffering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QszBNVHEqYg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
every super has a fucking martyr complex
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of βMorrisβ the (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
if you like artless and sad cinema verite reality t.v. i highly recommend it.
β scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:29 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ty this is amazing
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 October 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
she kinda reminded me of a motivational speaker at times or maybe even an old susan powter infomercial. but in a good way! she had so much control over her voice and body and it was impressive.
β scott seward, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:03 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i got the same vibe and could only stomach about 12 minutes of this. reminded me a bit of megachurch preachers too, so broad and well-drilled. when the third hashtag was put up as a subtitle to a gag i had to check out. can see why she fills big rooms tho. like @girlposts has 6M followers, that kind of thing.
― goole, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
it does get better. but i guess you will just have to take my word for it. she sets up her girly girl routine to lead into a long thing about feminism, etc, and its actually pretty cool.
i watched an earlier special called War Paint on Youtube and i liked it even more. there are some really crazy bits in that one.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
i tried an earlier one too, maybe that one?
she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all
― goole, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
i gotta say i thought the john mulaney specials were hilarious
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
"she just gave me the feeling of like expertly executing the form of standup w/o generating any laughter at all"
see i totally laughed when she did a routine about the sarah mclachlan spca commercial and then brought her dog out onstage and sang the sarah mclachlan song. i like her funny voices too. plus, she does this weird long bit about wanting to be a witch pharmacist at cvs and its not typical stand-up at all. more like creative writing. so, i give her an A for effort.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
she writes a LOT for one show. must be pages and pages of material.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
i will check out john mulaney too though.
"Easy" makes Chicago look so lame I really hate it
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
it makes it look like a semi-suburban college town.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
chicago, that sleepy little town
― mh π, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
tbf whole swathes of chicago do kinda look and feel like a semi-suburban college town
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
f u expat
― na (NA), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
that's part of its appeal!
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
The criticisms of "Easy" are all valid. I kinda like it though
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
it's watchable. i like the format best.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
i thought the episode w/ the rape was actually quite good albeit extremely sad & upsetting because it was about something & i thought had a kind of purposefulness the other ones lacked but i might be giving it too much credit just for that
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
maybe its an elementary point, though
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
I watched the first Iliza Shlesinger special, War Paint. I remember her leaning extremely hard on her airhead-woman voice and her ability to convincingly imitate a goat. If you took those parts out I think there would be about five minutes left over.
― JRN, Thursday, 13 October 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
just one guy yelling at people with all kinds of problems episode after episode. and its all about how HE is the one suffering.
in re: the super, yeah I didn't watch season 1 ep 1 first, but that one is rough esp where he like returns to visit the cleaned-up house and demands the woman be grateful to him cuz of how much money he spent; some other eps have nice glimmers of hopefulness idk I still like it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 October 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
def found Easy uneven & agree w a lot of the crit above but generally did like the format/concept
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 October 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Vikings is kinda the better Sons of Anarchy.
β scott seward, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:16 PM (six months ago)
just started watching this ... trying to come up with a better nickname for it than Johannsons of Anarchy
― sarahell, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Easy definitely suffered from watching High Maintenance at the same time, for me.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
ugh god Mascots is so incredibly stale and sad
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 October 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
. i gave up on Mascots after maybe....15 or 20 minutes? it's better if we just remember the good times.
― scott seward, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
We made it 45 or 60 min in and then gave up.
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
hot take: Christopher Guest's work as a director is mostly bad
― Number None, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
nah, though it is tbh fairly cruel and snobbish
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 October 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
wat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tobXqP5NXo
― Mordy, Friday, 21 October 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
Mascots was kinda bad but cheap laughs were had
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 21 October 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
Goliath (Amazon prime) is a stupid fun cartoony legal drama. Billy Bob Thorton is a burnout lowlife lawyer who takes on a weapons manufacturer represented by the the megacorporate firm he started with William Hurt, who is severely burned. An Armenian real estate agent and a coked out hooker help him out, and everything is sunny and feels like it might share the same SoCal universe as Terriers (RIP)
― remy bean, Friday, 21 October 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah that barry thing is very wat but A+ on the music
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
People hate Christopher guest wtf
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 21 October 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
I don't hate him. I just think everything he's done since is a pale shadow of Spinal Tap
― Number None, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
spinal tap kinda my least favorite thing of his. uh, even though he didn't direct it.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
No one hates Christopher Guest. Everyone seems to hate this new thing. And his last thing, For Your Consideration, I barely remember that one. What was Family Tree?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
parker made me sad because it just looked like a shadow of a ghost of a parody of her past parody work. and i don't want to feel that way about parker. she's a national treasure.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I don't hate Christopher Guest but at best his movies are the kind of inoffensive thing you put on TV Thanksgiving Day after the dog show if no one's watching football.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
THE ONE WITH THE DOGS WAS GREAT, BECAUSE FRED WILLARD. THE ONE WITH CORKY WAS GREAT. THE ONE WITH THE FOLK SINGERS WAS SOPPY, EXCEPT FOR FRED WILLARD. THE REST HAVE SUCKED.
― Is that my hand, manatee? (stevie), Monday, 24 October 2016 08:37 (seven years ago) link
Best part of "Mascots" was Susan Yeagley's Laurie Anderson referencing dance routine.
― Ross, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
watched the herzog volcano doc. it was okay. it was about volcanoes. no big deal.
started watching monkey king movie and i felt like my head was gonna explode. i'm gonna try and watch the whole thing someday though. i thought cyrus would watch it with me and he lasted about 10 minutes.
i looked at what they put up for november 1st and i don't really want to watch any of it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
re: the Herzog volcano doc -- aside from digging up the old bones is there anything else about people dying? Trying to decide if I should watch it with my 6yo; he loves natural disaster stuff but is sensitive to the human suffering aspect.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
Yes, there's mention of a volcano-chasing French couple who got frazzled along with dozens of others when one erupted.
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Natural disasters without death is a niche interest!
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
there is news footage of people in Indonesia after an eruption that is not graphic but kinda sad and might be frightening. i dunno.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
french volcano couple footage is great though. it's kinda like werner's grizzly dude, it's not that astonishing that they died when you see the footage.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
also felt like the african stuff was distracting. i mean it was cool and it connected to volcanoes but it was kinda long and somehow took away from the cool story about a volcano almost destroying mankind 70,000 years ago. plus, i just wanted to see more volcanoes. it was kind of a distracted doc. did like werner pointing out how he liked volcanoes before they were cool and showing all the old footage he shot from decades back.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
the scenes with the volcanologist couple more or less made this for me. just astonishing.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link