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.
― del griffith, Friday, 25 January 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
the title had me worried but I do want to check it out
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 January 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
Trigger Warning is apparently entirely soundtracked by Julius Eastman which is WILD and I'm very happy about it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 25 January 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
"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).
― akm, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
i liked beck idk. possibly i’m annoying
karen is just paco’s mom’s friend iirc
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
beck did need a deeper mystery than “i’m ashamed of my dad bc he’s a nerd now”
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
also i disagree that peach salinger the heart of the show was annoying
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
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
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Beck's voice reminds me so much of another actor and I can't figure out who.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
also, Peter Gallagher's daughter is in this. Penn can't escape eyebrows!
― akm, Friday, 25 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
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"
― mh, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
palace intrigue, class warfare, sword fights, stunning costumes and cinematography.
Sounds great!
Never mind.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Oooof this Sliding Doors episode of Kimmy Schmidt, painful to get through.
― Yerac, Sunday, 27 January 2019 03:22 (five years ago) link
The new film POLAR starring Mads “Wick”elsen is apparently trash.
― omar little, Sunday, 27 January 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Sunday, 27 January 2019 05:54 (five years ago) link
i haven't read a single good review of it, except from some Thrillist writer.
― omar little, Sunday, 27 January 2019 05:58 (five years ago) link
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.
― groovypanda, Sunday, 27 January 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
is it worse than that MUTE thing?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 27 January 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
It was horrible and I'm ashamed I finished it. I did FF through long stretches though.
― How ILX Finally Stopped Shredding Everything in Sight (WmC), Sunday, 27 January 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
First episode of Kingdom was fun even for a zombie-disinterested like me. Mostly covetous of those hats!
― seandalai, Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
Polar is hot garbage. Really nasty and ugly.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 28 January 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Monday, 28 January 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
Haven't seen this yet, but I really can't recommend enough that people seek out the original inspiration for Sliding Doors.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
Maybe the next 'Mads Mikkelsen in the Frozen North' film will be better...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_(film)
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
it's called Polar but it takes place in... Montana
― mh, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 28 January 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
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
― Number None, Monday, 28 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
i have it on my watchlist, keep meaning to check it out
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 January 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Second series on in the spring.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 28 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
Just started Derry Girls — pretty hilarious! One of the better comedies I've seen in a while, I think?
― tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
Derry Girls is also on my list! Going to finish off a couple of other series first.
― Roz, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:27 (five years ago) link
they've got their own mural now too
https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/4464633/original/?width=630&version=4464633
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
derry girls is great - the holiday episode is all-time
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
Ha!
Just started watching it. Really funny.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
The new season of Punisher is super silly. I totally have brought up Remo Williams and Jean Claude while watching.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
Did we rave about Sex Education yet?
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
There was a "fite!" above where some people thought it exploitive after seeing one episode. We loved it.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
anyone watch abducted in plain sight yet? cos uhhhhhhhh ........... wtfffffffffffffffffff
― marcos smart (Spottie), Thursday, 31 January 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
right???
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
I totally have brought up Remo Williams
okay now you've got my attention
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
It's more that the actors are similar and some fight scenes are super 80s.
― Yerac, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
wtf is up w the parents in abducted
― ||||||||, Thursday, 31 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pwKgz78.jpg
― marcos smart (Spottie), Thursday, 31 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link