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Timely: I just saw a teaser for PEN 15, an upcoming HULU show that looks like a live-action Big Mouth.

It just felt like a sexed-up Glee episode where everyone has this super transactional approach to sex. Plus, yeah, opening with an underage sex scene was pretty gratuitous.

wow this is like a fundamental misreading of the show. The whole point is that all the characters learn that sex is more than just an exchange of bodily fluids - it's about knowing your own body, being emotionally present, being a considerate partner, and learning that what works for one person may not work for another. And also that it's OK to not want to have sex right away or to have less experience than everyone else.

The opening sex scene did feel gratuitous initially yeah but like c.grisso points out, it's a really jumping off point towards exploring the characters' hangups later on. None of the sex scenes on the show are gratuitous at all tbh - they're all depicted as a way for the characters to work through their sexual and relationship dysfunction.

In terms of portraying teenage sexuality, the lingering, male-gazey shots of Kiernan Shipka in a nightie on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina felt way more skeevy than anything shown on SE, even though those didn't involve any nudity at all.

I've never watched Big Mouth.

I’m to the point in life where I see young characters and think “young man/lady, that is a cool outfit, BUT”

if you like Nathan for You and black people, you'll probably also like like Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, or at least I did.

the title had me worried but I do want to check it out

I wasn't going to watch it but some people I know who work with transgender teens or with family relationships gave it big thumbs up.

Trigger Warning is apparently entirely soundtracked by Julius Eastman which is WILD and I'm very happy about it

"plus i never did Gossip Girl so i just find Penn Badgely’s character to be a deeply unpleasant birdfaced creep"

yeah well he's supposed to be?

I finished You off last night and I found it to be pretty successful; though it takes some detours (Paco, his mom) that I didn't quite get; that storyline I suppose is supposed to make him More likeable I suppose, so you wind up with this sort of 'likeable psychopath' and to a point, really, he'd only appeared to have killed deeply terrible people; but it does go well past that at the end which I was very surprised by so then what are we supposed to think? Also I assumed this was a one-and-done season but the ending set it up for a second series so I guess not.

Yes all the women in the show were totally annoying except for second girlfriend Karen (introducing her was a misstep though; it was totally confusing to me, where did she come from? which neighbor is she? what?)ec. Beck was terrible until the final episode.

Being married to a writer who went to an MFA program a lot of this was amusing just because it was so over the top ('your own personal Yaddo', etc).

i liked beck idk. possibly i’m annoying

karen is just paco’s mom’s friend iirc

beck did need a deeper mystery than “i’m ashamed of my dad bc he’s a nerd now”

also i disagree that peach salinger the heart of the show was annoying

I liked Beck as well, and found her rebellious agency in the finale quite affecting/effective even as I found some of the other contrivances repellent

Beck's voice reminds me so much of another actor and I can't figure out who.

also, Peter Gallagher's daughter is in this. Penn can't escape eyebrows!

we watched the black Jesus episode of Trigger Warning and it was ok, but idk it treads a weird line between being funny and earnest that is difficult to really nail.

I love Killer Mike ftr

I wasn't sure what the format of the show was but when scrolling past it I thought "well, couldn't be worse than his appearance on nra tv"

Only halfway through but Korean historical drama Kingdom is pretty gripping so far. Good if you like palace intrigue, class warfare, sword fights, stunning costumes and cinematography.

Oh, and it also has ZOMBIES.

palace intrigue, class warfare, sword fights, stunning costumes and cinematography.

Sounds great!

Oh, and it also has ZOMBIES.

Never mind.

Oooof this Sliding Doors episode of Kimmy Schmidt, painful to get through.

The new film POLAR starring Mads “Wick”elsen is apparently trash.

Polar is unimaginably, interminably bad. Like, actively unpleasant and hateful. Not even Mads Mikkelsen taking down bad guys while naked in the snow could make me finish it.

i haven't read a single good review of it, except from some Thrillist writer.

A friend who is massively into film and probably watches 8 or 9 movies a week said it was unquestionably the worst film he had seen in a long, long time.

is it worse than that MUTE thing?

It was horrible and I'm ashamed I finished it. I did FF through long stretches though.

xp yeah

there are several things meant to be in-jokes or references and I should have stopped after the first one referencing John Wick

it’s not quite as hyper-stylized in editing like some other Åkerlund material which, to me, somehow makes it worse? and all the stylized character intro titles and gross-out obesity and dirtiness he’s affected since making Spun (2002 seems like a lifetime ago) has now been digested and regurgitated by video games and other directors so there’s nothing that even seems novel

First episode of Kingdom was fun even for a zombie-disinterested like me. Mostly covetous of those hats!

Polar is hot garbage. Really nasty and ugly.

Finished Kingdom... season finale was unsatisfying but it was pretty good overall. Zombies feature prominently, yes, but tbh they're more like the wights/whitewalkers in Game of Thrones - a threatening force in the middle of elaborate political scheming and family feuding.

Oooof this Sliding Doors episode of Kimmy Schmidt, painful to get through.

Haven't seen this yet, but I really can't recommend enough that people seek out the original inspiration for Sliding Doors.

Polar is hot garbage. Really nasty and ugly.

Maybe the next 'Mads Mikkelsen in the Frozen North' film will be better...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_(film)

it's called Polar but it takes place in... Montana

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but please watch Derry Girls - it's not groundbreaking in any way but it's just a very well done comedy about a group of teen girls (and one boy) in Derry during the troubles. If you happened to attend a Catholic high school in the 90s like I did then you'll love it even more.

I think it was talked about in the UK comedy thread when it came out on Channel 4? Anyway, it's great yeah. Nice to see it getting a wider audience

i have it on my watchlist, keep meaning to check it out

Second series on in the spring.

I know, I can't wait! The ending of the last ep was so touching and sweet and I'm excited to see what they do with Clare's big reveal in the next season.

Just started Derry Girls — pretty hilarious! One of the better comedies I've seen in a while, I think?

Derry Girls is also on my list! Going to finish off a couple of other series first.

they've got their own mural now too

https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/4464633/original/?width=630&version=4464633

derry girls is great - the holiday episode is all-time

Ha!

Just started watching it. Really funny.

The new season of Punisher is super silly. I totally have brought up Remo Williams and Jean Claude while watching.

Did we rave about Sex Education yet?

There was a "fite!" above where some people thought it exploitive after seeing one episode. We loved it.

anyone watch abducted in plain sight yet? cos uhhhhhhhh ........... wtfffffffffffffffffff

right???

I totally have brought up Remo Williams

okay now you've got my attention

It's more that the actors are similar and some fight scenes are super 80s.

right???

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:19 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every single 15-20 minutes that goes by you get a whole new head explosion. layers and layers of wtf-ness. havent stopped thinking about it since i watched it last week. half the time just thinking to myself that it all must be fiction, half the time just shaking my head in disgust.