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it makes it look like a semi-suburban college town.

chicago, that sleepy little town

tbf whole swathes of chicago do kinda look and feel like a semi-suburban college town

f u expat

that's part of its appeal!

The criticisms of "Easy" are all valid. I kinda like it though

it's watchable. i like the format best.

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

maybe its an elementary point, though

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.

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

def found Easy uneven & agree w a lot of the crit above but generally did like the format/concept

Vikings is kinda the better Sons of Anarchy.

― 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

Easy definitely suffered from watching High Maintenance at the same time, for me.

ugh god Mascots is so incredibly stale and sad

. i gave up on Mascots after maybe....15 or 20 minutes? it's better if we just remember the good times.

We made it 45 or 60 min in and then gave up.

hot take: Christopher Guest's work as a director is mostly bad

nah, though it is tbh fairly cruel and snobbish

wat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tobXqP5NXo

Mascots was kinda bad but cheap laughs were had

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)

yeah that barry thing is very wat but A+ on the music

People hate Christopher guest wtf

I don't hate him. I just think everything he's done since is a pale shadow of Spinal Tap

spinal tap kinda my least favorite thing of his. uh, even though he didn't direct it.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Best part of "Mascots" was Susan Yeagley's Laurie Anderson referencing dance routine.

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.

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.

Yes, there's mention of a volcano-chasing French couple who got frazzled along with dozens of others when one erupted.

Natural disasters without death is a niche interest!

there is news footage of people in Indonesia after an eruption that is not graphic but kinda sad and might be frightening. i dunno.

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.

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.

the scenes with the volcanologist couple more or less made this for me. just astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKm37iGYcg

well if i spoke french i would recommend watching that instead!

there is a pbs and a national geo doc on youtube about them/volanoes/etc. with all the same footage.

okay, sold. title?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xuTgcieGE

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

"the cool story about a volcano almost destroying mankind 70,000 years ago."

that Toba super-eruption was badass, allegedly the world population was reduced to thousands and there followed a thousand years of extreme winters.

I can't find this doc on the torrent sitez yet.

thx scott!

Mascots was pretty rough :\

Have been enjoying the newest season of the Fall, even tho it's half turned into a medical drama.

Trying to decide if I should watch it with my 6yo; he loves natural disaster stuff but is sensitive to the human suffering aspect.

We watched the first half of it with my 4yo (who is a volcano fanatic), and there was nothing very scary or disturbing to him. We're planning to watch the second half of it at some point. He got a bit restless during the extended bone-digging interlude and said something like "Where are the volcanoes?"

Too right.

The Expanse now available outside US on Netflix