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Shout Factory has a bunch of old Dick Cavett episodes, puzzlingly sorted into "seasons" even though the actual categorization is thematic. I've been watching some of the ones with writers - part of the fun is how the selection mixes up his 70's variety show with later 30min interview shows, one of which - from the early 90's - has a vaporwave a f intro. Allen Ginsberg casually reading out FBI tactics to undermine the left that he got through a freedom of information request! The Kurt Vonnegut episode is entirely about Mozambique!

"this movie opens and closes with a native american character recounting the bullshit made-up-by-colonizers "two wolves" parable"

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

Seen a lot worse than Shadow and Bone, which is formulaic YA fantasy but openly so and concentrates instead on production value and a cracking cast

enjoying mare of easttown on hbo/hbo max its p sordid and pulpy in all good ways (so far)

realized its the reunion of winslet & guy pearce from come anticipate HBO's MILDRED PIERCE with me (kate winslet star, todd haynes directs)

yeah there was a little bit of discussion (not much) on the police procedurals thread

I mostly love it but thought the montage of local kids being interviewed was really jarring

yes but I was happy they hired an actual native actress to play this role (I'm Oglala and so is she)

― akm, Sunday, May 2, 2021

sometimes the wolf feeds you <3

The Wilds on Amazon Prime is good, trashy fun.

And I'd echo the Mare of Easttown endorsements. I never tire of watching Kate Winslet bitterly sip Rolling Rocks.

xxp i do agree abt the tone point you are making re: those interviews but idk it didnt bother me.. i bet it was cut that way to save time

i would also like to see the crossover mare of easttown & down

A lot of the filming locations of Easttown were apparently about 15-20 minutes from where I grew up, so watching the first episode gave me some mixed emotions.

TBH I'm finding Mare of Easttown a bit relentlessly grim.

wait, an HBO prestige crime drama is relentlessly grim!?!?!?

idk The Sopranos was frequently hilarious

The New Mutants was fine. It absolutely could have been worse and I really hate what they did with Cecilia Reyes but it wasn't the trainwreck everyone predicted it would be. I do wish they'd leaned harder into the horror aspects, though, especially given they had an entire cast of mutants who accidentally killed/maimed someone when their powers manifested. I also get why they didn't include Karma given that she would have made half of the showdowns trivial to deal with and I liked that they didn't have the kids working together as a well-oiled fighting unit at the end given that they weren't being trained that way.

The pairing of Mare of Easttown + Philly DA on PBS has been a real journey for me. I finished Philly DA (would strongly recommend) and can hear Mare's peers screaming in the community meetings.

Anyone else have consistent issues with HBO Max freezing at the start of shows/movies? Every new episode or movie we start, about twenty seconds to a minute in, the video freezes for about two to ten seconds while the audio rolls on, then the video catches up. About 80% of the time it does this twice in a row, though it's always fine for the rest of the episode/movie. But even if we binge roll right into the next episode, it does it again.

It only happens with Max - no issues with any other services, our internet speeds are not an issue, restarting the Roku and router has no effect.

hbo max is much much improved over hbo go, but it's still probably the glitchiest streaming service that i regularly use

I haven't had those issues w/HBO Max, though their UI is fairly weird.

(Actually - I have had an issue where I fast-forward or rewind a long way, but it snaps back to the starting point when I press play.)

Oh god the UI on HBO Max is fucking awful. Hulu too, for that matter.

Hulu's UI is terrible, but at least the viewing experience is always smooth.

hulu is unusable with ads, pretty great without in my experience

With ads it's a bit of a pain, but i'll be damned if I pay more for the ad-free version
(I spent the last 2 years watching the entirety of Bob's Burgers - just imagine how many ads...)

Movies on hulu with ads just show an ad at the start and then shows the movie uninterrupted, so I don't have any reason to upgrade.

The UI on pretty much all of these services is so terrible I've got to assume it's intentional, for some mysterious reason above my pay grade.

prime has got to be the worst

but i agree they're all pretty bad

enjoying mare of easttown even though my initial reaction to it was "every element of this has been done to death". i guess i just like kate winslet and jean smart?

Hulu is very bad UI. in particular, their 'my stuff' tab is a fucking disaster and removing shit from it is almost impossible; you can't really do taht via a device like an apple tv, you have to log in through the web, and make sure each episode is also removed from 'my stuff' because if you just remove the show (which it allows you to do) it doesn't work. Finally spent 30 minutes figuring this out because I got really sick of the Looming Tower being in there for years even though I'd finished it.

They are all pretty bad, but I don't find Prime to be all that much worse (in fact, it's the one with the least laggy search function, ime anyway). I think I probably like Disney+ the best, but it's a low bar.

Disney+ > Netflix > Prime >>>> Hulu > HBO Max

I like how the Peacock app on roku allows you to add items to your watch list, but doesn't give you a way to access said list.

enjoying mare of easttown even though my initial reaction to it was "every element of this has been done to death". i guess i just like kate winslet and jean smart?

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 6 May 2021 20:58 (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think its gone for "very well done" and also managed to throw a few loops without it feeling like it was just for the sake of it

All on winsletts shoulders too, shes terrific

AppleTV+ or whatever it’s called has a pretty good interface.

Alas, it lacks virtually anything I want to see, aside from Ted Lasso. Like, if it was just an app that opened up straight to Ted Lasso I'd call it a raging success.

I hate how Disney+ puts the alphabet in a single-line row when you're searching, so you gotta mash that button over and over to hit up the letters you want (as opposed to a grid of letters, with the bonus of letting you slide off one side and end up on the other, Pac-Man style – which some of them use).

New season of Mythic Quest is out on AppleTV. I thought the first season was pretty hilarious.

Something about Mare makes me think of Happy Valley, as far as being a police procedural that aims at least a little bit higher, though it's too early to tell if Mare will deliver.

xpost Awesome, the show was OK but it feels like it would totally hit the spot right now. (Right now meaning while we have a free year of Apple+.)

I only just caught up with Mythic Quest a few weeks ago, I loved it! It was nerdy in all the right ways without being clueless about it (compared for example with Dead Pixels which was dreadful).

Watched Michael B. Jordan's Tom Clancy's John Kelly Clark Is...Without Remorse on Amazon Prime. It's pretty good, but there are some absurd aspects. In the opening scene, Jordan and his top secret Navy SEAL kill squad emerge in full scuba gear from a swimming pool in the middle of a building in downtown Bombed-Out Middle East-burg, kill a bunch of anono-goons and then as they're walking toward the next stage of their journey, not only is all the scuba gear gone but they're not even wet! Also, how did they get into the pool in the first place? After that, though, it's pretty solid. Jodie Turner-Smith from Queen & Slim is Jordan's running partner throughout, and she's excellent in both the dramatic and the ass-kicking scenes. The actor playing the villain is...a surprising choice, at least he was to me.

I gotta check out that opening scene, after that description.

OK, that wasn’t quite as ridiculous as I was expecting (I thought it’d be, like, a pristine blue swimming pool surrounded by deck chairs)… but yeah

It's directed by Gomorrah/ZeroZeroZero director Stefano Sollima, so there are some nice touches throughout but it's getting absolutely panned by users on IMDB because Without Remorse is the first Jack Ryan book and the film bears no resemblance to it other than the title (and no Jack Ryan either)

too bad. the source material sounds amazing!

In 1970, former Navy SEAL John Kelly, who recently lost his pregnant wife in a car accident, picks up a hitchhiker named Pam on his way to his home on Battery Island in the Chesapeake Bay. They quickly become lovers, and over time Kelly discovers that she is a runaway who became a drug mule and prostitute; she has recently escaped from her drug-dealer/pimp. Kelly helps rehabilitate her from barbiturates. Weeks after recovering, Kelly and Pam go to Baltimore for follow-up treatment and pass through a neighborhood where her pimps work. One of them recognizes Pam and pursues them in a car chase. Kelly is gravely wounded by a shotgun blast, while Pam is recaptured and later tortured, gang-raped, and killed.

bit of a downer

he went back to Baltimore, what a crazy mistake...

The summary just keeps getting nuttier from there.

sounds like a crowd pleaser

good stuff on hbomax for the tcm classic film festival - last night i watched the interview w rita moreno, george takouris and russ tamblyn about west side story.

apparently theyre even putting up the dana gould/sketchfest tableread of plan 9 from outer space tonight? i hope so :D

Everyone who said good things about Mythic Quest was OTM