agreei get it if you dont watch much tv but i feel like it’s for ppl who entertain & want to pretend to ppl that they dont watch tv (oh that old thing, no we play board games & do sudoku) when they do
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 October 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible
netflix marque is a kiss of death
― ||||||||, Monday, 1 October 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link
I guess we should poll this, but if we have company I’d rather have the AppleTV screensavers on than the blank screen and it seems no drama to put a door in front of it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 1 October 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
Also it won’t be quite like my grandparents Tv as it won’t have a very old jar of sugared almonds on top.
Ed yr talkin nonsense dawg
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 1 October 2018 06:47 (five years ago) link
I like the cabinets where the TV raises up on a rail of the hidden solutions.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 1 October 2018 08:03 (five years ago) link
"new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible"
That too bad the book is pretty good.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 1 October 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
sad but true
― WmC, Monday, 1 October 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
It doesn’t really attempt to be much more than brutal and atmospheric and succeeds in both. There is no real attempt made at explaining why anyone is doing anything.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 1 October 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
take it to mubi, saulnier
― ||||||||, Monday, 1 October 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
the Cristina Martinez episode of Chef's table was sweet af! or bittersweet af! (if something can be that)
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
wow, i've just started watching the Turkish one and it is even better. really deep. i love middle eastern food so much.
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
flatbread with labneh, tomatoes. fried egg, sprinkled with harissa. for breakfast!
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
and Za'atar!
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
with regard to the Thai episode i'm not sure how these people aren't constantly existing in a painful red-hot fire over a toilet bowl.
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
Was getting into Maniac but then episode 4 was one entire dream sequence, it looks like the rest of the series is going the same way and apparently I care about the real lives of fictional characters but not the fictional lives of fictional characters.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
Yeah, we just finished episode 4 and I was a bit disappointed to discover the same. Can anyone who's finished the series tell how long the fantasy bits will continue? I didn't find anything wrong with the 80s fantasy stuff per se, but I just found the actual setting and characters of the series more interesting than this "overcoming your issues through VR roleplay" type of story-within-a-story, which has been way overdone in speculative fiction.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Did u guys just shit out a massive spoiler for maniacCuz i think u did i mean i can smell it and i just washed my face and showered so it’s not my upper lipU guys didnt even wipe
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
no they didn't
also, ewww
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
I've been watching 'The Haunting of Hill House', and it's pretty good! By coincidence I rewatched the 1963 film yesterday, which I love. This is different, but the acting is good - and Russ Tamblyn has a cameo in this (though not the same part as in 1963).
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
i am watching it too. don’t love the constant flashback and forth but it’s good & spooky
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
Nice to see Monty Python reruns finally available
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 14 October 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
i'm really loving maniac (episode 5). dr. fujita is particularly great -- the bangs, the chainsmoking, the unplaceable accent, the programming an AI to love, the overall shadiness. but the leads turn in good performances as well. this is sci-fi at its best for me -- atmosphere over concept
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
i want to trust dr. fujita -- that she just wants the project do succeed out of altruism -- but i do not
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
ok -- did not like that scene with the drill
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
yeah hill house is surprisingly (it’s netflix) not bad
― ||||||||, Sunday, 14 October 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
And my expectations were low after the 1999 version...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 14 October 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
Hmm. That ending though...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 14 October 2018 09:19 (five years ago) link
Loving Hill House so far -- I'm treating it more as a network-narrative melodrama a la This Is Us except with horror elements thrown in rather than a horror series proper, and I know that sounds horrible but it's really working for me 6 episodes in. Often gorgeous, too.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 October 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
The Kindergarten Teacher is excellent, as I assumed it would be when I first read about it earlier this year. Maybe deserved a theatrical release since I think this removes Maggie Gyllenhall from oscar consideration but I think she certainly deserves some kind of nomination.
― akm, Sunday, 14 October 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
We're 8 episodes into The Haunting of the Hill House, and yeah, it makes sense to treat it like Simon H. says: a drama taking place in two different time periods about a family that's torn apart by mental illness and suicide. It does beg the question, though, whether the horror part of it was even necessary, though, especially since it seems to rely a bit too much on cheap jump scares as much? Maybe this would've worked better as a non-horror drama, or at least with the horror elements being more toned down and ambiguous? I jokingly said to my wife that maybe the whole family just suffered from mold poisoning while living in the the house, and that's what causing them to hallucinate... But now I'm kinda thinking maybe that wouldn't be such a bad resolution after all? ☺️ I'm hoping they won't overdo the horror towards the end.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
A great deal of horror deals with that stuff though. This year's 'Hereditary', for example, is kind of explicitly about the nature of mental illness.
Has anyone watched 'The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell'? Who is the target audience for it? The puppet stuff is so childish, yet blue, and it's a craft show. i'm just perplexed by it.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah I got the first episode of that curious creations yesterday and wondered..& she's cooking with alcohol or at least using vodka as a base for food colour paint.
Not come across her before so wondered if she was somebody who had a following from anything else.
Weird like couldn't tell if it was adult or child orientated though did seem a bit too adult.
Is there a bronie like sub-culture of overgrown goth children or vice versa.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 October 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
New Schitt's Creek is delightful as ever
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 14 October 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
finished watching love
it was actually really good
i'm caught up with pretty much everything i wanted to watch
don't know what i'll be into next but i might try mandy
i heard jonah hill has changed a lot
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Anyone who loves the book watched The Haunting of Hill House? I'm interested but not wanting to get pissed off.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
most shows/movies are better than the book
i say go for it dawg
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
I love the book - but this is a different story, so there isn't much to get pissed off by.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 15 October 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
Yeah I got the first episode of that curious creations yesterday and wondered..& she's cooking with alcohol or at least using vodka as a base for food colour paint.Not come across her before so wondered if she was somebody who had a following from anything else.
A few years ago one of her haunted house decorations went viral via Boing Boing and she picked up a lot of Instagram traffic. Martha Stewart-meets-Tim Burton seems on point.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Caught the Israeli original a few months back, and based on the trailer this seems to be a v faithful remake. I can def see MG being great in it.
Fair warning that the show does some weird meta shit with the concept of adaptation you might find annoying. (It didn't bug me at all)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 15 October 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
Apostle is about two thirds of the way to being quite good but never really gets there. It is fairly well directed and has obviously had money spent on it but kind of runs out of plot.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 October 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
I finished watching The Innocents so you don't have to. Shit sandwich. How far Mike from Neighbours hath fallen.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 15 October 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
is the book of hill house worth reading? significantly difft to the show?
― ||||||||, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
the book is amazing
― na (NA), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
and I haven't watched the show but yes it sounds completely different
The book is brilliant and genuinely terrifying in places. Wary of the series; I'm heartened to hear it follows a different narrative.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
The book is wonderful and Robert Wise's 1963 adaptation, The Haunting, is perhaps the finest screen ghost story ever
― Number None, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Shirley Jackson book and The Turn of the Screw sort of the definitive oft-adapted/imitated American ghost stories.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Apostle wasn't bad at all. Though I can't help think there might have been a great film in there if you took out the supernatural stuff.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
read the book a month ago and it's fantastic obv.
On the second episode of the show and am very underwhelmed. I was really looking forward to it. I don't mind the deviation from and meta toying with the book, that's a fun way to revisit it while doing something new. I just find it...not scary. We just finished watching Sharp Objects and I thought that was a thousand times scarier. Hill House is very predictable ghost story tropes, which makes sense because the original story helped invent them, married to the occasional current hollywood horror moves and it's just not doing it for me yet.
― dan selzer, Monday, 15 October 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link