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outlaw / king was *pret-t-ty* deece(nt) ... better than modern day GoT, even

Took me a few episodes to get into Tuca and Bertie but it hits its stride and is really funny by the middle of the series.

Easy is like Rohmer catnip for me, so I'm really looking forward to the new season.

Tuca & Bertie is pretty great

yeah it really picks up. as much a follow-up to broad city as bojack. also reminded me of mtv's downtown

I enjoyed all of Wine Country except the awful, awful, green-screened inspirational scene on the hill, which made me retrospectively dislike the rest of the film.

The trailer for that looked insufferable, like an improv-heavy Nancy Myers movie.

I thought it was better than the trailer. But hey, I am a 49-year-old woman who has been away on a lot of booze-heavy girls' weekends, so I am definitely the target market for it.

Wine Country was not very funny which was weird considering how many incredibly funny people are in it and wrote it. It's def not terrible, just more serious and less funny than I hoped.

I only saw it the one time but I was of the opinion that "Bridesmaids" would have been a much better drama, but instead it felt like all these jokes were just sort of shoved in there to will it into a comedy. Is this like that? Forcing in broad jokes, whether pratfalls or poop humor, doesn't always work imo when the material calls for a subtler approach.

Only got about half way into wine country, akm otm.

I just rewatched Bridesmaids again a couple of weeks ago for the first time since it came out. It was funnier than I remember, the mass food poisoning in fancy dresses still a winner. I would've hated for it to be a serious drama. Mostly because everything about bridal party rituals is farcical

Maybe my perspective is one of the half-empty variety in this case, because I thought in that movie Wiig gives a really impressive dramatic performance, but set pieces like the food poisoning seemed to be shoehorned in from a more standard comedy.

The entire movie has really silly parts. I forgot a lot of people were in it like Ellie Kemper and Melissa McCarthy.

I am halfway through Wine Country and it's reminding me of all those I think Adam Sandler? + Friends movies that were all set in tropical destinations, an excuse to make money while in a holiday location in exchange for a presentable movie. Add in the netflix handicap.

I did forget Ellie Kemper is in it, but not Melissa McCarthy, she has some of the most memorable scenes

Was a star-making performance. Shame she squanders her talents in all those terrible movies directed by her husband

And the food poisoning scene is excellent.

The only reason I am glad I finished Wine Country was for the bar wifi password joke.

There’s a documentary on there about a guy who appeared on The Price Is Right a whole bunch and I’d be completely unsurprised if he had any financing in that.

I kinda liked Wine Country. It’s flat & undercooked but there’s a lot of things in it that I liked, the types of women that they were & the way they didnt deal w their feelings was kinda relatable for me. plus I am ovulating so my antenna is up for any kind of emotional journey, good bad or average.
And Paula Pell is the best.

i liked it a lot.

i it went a bit deeper than movies like that tend to go which i liked, like it wasnt just a total improv yukfest

I kind of liked it - it was looser and more "here is a truthbomb"y than I expected - but it wasn't that funny. tarot scene was a bit of a waste/ cliche. that said I liked the early calling on our assumptions (mainly by Tina Fey) that the trip was gonna be a bitchfest.
also i have been that dozy irritable person on the last part of a wine country bus tour, lol.

I also really enjoyed the Fran Fine part.

Interesting marketing fail: my wife assumed it was a theatrical release.

i did not get the Fran thing at all but I still liked it the best

Interesting marketing fail: my wife assumed it was a theatrical release.

It came out two days earlier in limited release, and is showing in South Barrington.

Where is that, Australia?

South Barrington is a wealthy suburb of Chicago and the location of the famous megachurch Willow Creek Community Church. The Arboretum of South Barrington is a lifestyle center (shopping center) located within the village limits.

Huh. And they show Netflix movies? Why there?

Netflix shows films in major cities for awards consideration.

It's a Landmark theatre, which chain also had Roma and Buster Scruggs in their theatrical runs. (I'd expect this to last less than the couple of months those stayed screening.)

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Netflix shows films in major cities for awards consideration.

Edina, MN is swelling with pride right now

that's measles i think

Edina, MN is swelling with pride right now

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ditto santa fe nm

that one's type 2 diabetes

hmm no cop’s ever pulled me over for no reason in Santa Fe but Edina... they can get the measles

There are some occasional screenings of Netflix material for theaters that are interested (though understandably it's not common). I saw a screening of Cam last year the weekend it launched.

Okja and Meyerowitz Stories had coastal theatrical releases. Other Side Of The Wind played a few cities as well as premiering at festivals.

I am watching this Tiny House show and already... my anxiety about the first couple with all the books and breadmaker. I do not understand people.

That Barrington theater gets a lot of one-week releases. Even prior to Netflix, it would get star vehicles like The Humbling that the studio had given up on but probably had to release.

I love the idea idea of a tiny house! Just so long as it has space for all my stuff.

give me an anchorite cell any day

just the mere thought of a tiny house gives me claustrophobia. hell to the no

i make do with a tiny apartment

I can't watch that programme. It's too loud. I only like makeovers that are like the Repair Shop now.

i'm missing the daily Repair Shop detox after getting home from work. there were 30 episodes in the recent series though, so i can't really complain

maybe close enough to that is Salvage Hunters: The Restorers currently running on Quest. same kinda of thing, but the capitalistic aspect of it jars (it's very much "fix this so i can sell it" rather than "fix this to make middle aged white people cry on tv" that is the RS's forte)

Ok, I thought Tiny House was a netflix show, I see it's been on for several years. It is an annoying show.

It's very DISCOVERY.