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afaik no one is returning, though it is supposed to be an actual sequel set in the same universe so I am not going to be surprised when Blake Lively shows up in the last episode or something

are they going to pretend that [redacted] wasn't Gossip Girl bc that was deeply embarrassing yet fitting

i think the idea is that it gets passed on

my wife and I recently rewatched GG and I was surprised at the lack of social media in it; facebook was already around when it launched but I don't remember it or any kind of fake TV version of it ever really coming up. I imagine that will be different this time.

Lupin S2 (or I guess part 2 of S1? I don't quite understand but who gives a shit) is out, it's great

Lupin part 1 was tons of fun. Glad they are back so quickly with part 2 and it’s great.

Anyone see Starstruck? Heard it was good.

Discussed on the British Comedy thread (iirc) a bit when it aired. General consensus is that Matafeo is charming enough to keep going, but the writing is so slight that the whole thing could float off in a breeze.

fair

Of her pandemic-era output, I’d probably rank Starstruck < Baby Done < Horndog < taking part in zoom spelling bees on youtube during NZ’s brief, efficient lockdown.

enjoying starstruck so far, she’s a delight

Starstruck was nice! My favourite moment was when the elderly customer paid in all pennies at the cinema and said 'it's the exact change'. Very relatable to previous work in a cinema. Also it's all filmed where I live now, which made me feel idk, something.

i said as much in the brit comedy thread but i got frustrated that it ran out of ideas so quickly but the first three episodes were great fun

Totally agree, but love to see Al from Stath Lets Flats in anything!

I actually came here hoping for a forks-prescribed TV antidote to nebulous emotional turmoil and brain overload? It doesn't have to be passive, just great haha. I'm willing to give anything you suggest a try. You hit rate is v high.

well thanks! the thing i wish more people watched so i could talk about it is Last Chance U: Basketball. It's on Netflix in the US, do you have it on the UK sub?
https://www.netflix.com/Title/81046613

It would help if you understood a little about basketball but it's not really necessary for you to get deeply emotionally engaged with the participants. Had me openly weeping at the end. Good stuff to take your mind off your problems and be absorbed in someone else's!

It's on there! Added to list. All sports documentaries are watchable imo, made more enjoyable perhaps by the fact that it's a world I could never partake in myself, so no feelings of vicarious failure.

I've started watching Motherland - it's fine, made much better by the inclusion of Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk).

Last Chance U basketball was really great (and heartbreaking!)

i picked up and knocked out Motherland in a week, so I appreciate your run there.
I'm currently finishing the last season of Friday Night Dinner which has been so stupid and so meta and so occasionally painfully funny.

Last Chance U Bball is a LOT but it's close to the best tv i've seen this year.

Anyone watching Loki? I avoided winter soldier, assuming Wandavision was an outlier like Legion was (and Im not an MCU nerd so a lot goes over my head with this stuff) but Loki is great so far! Hiddleston and Wilson have great chemistry and comic chops together. The set design is fantastique.

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I seaarched for a better thread but missed that one!

Sweet Tooth is surprisingly good, the first Netflix series I'm actually going to finish in years.

Somehow my bookmark fell out of that MCU thread months ago… I missed Josh’s big “Why do they call him Spider-Man?” riff.

Luca was charming and beautifully animated, even if the premise seems overly familiar

Anyone watching Loki? I avoided winter soldier, assuming Wandavision was an outlier like Legion was

Legion is extremely good, but it's not MCU.

Sweet Tooth kind of fell apart over the back half and felt rushed. I wonder if the pandemic screwed them up or something.

First episode of Loki actually reminded me somewhat of Legion xp

Color keying and consumes/props seemed similar.

Luca was good - very Ghibli for Disney, reminded me of Kiki’s Delivery Service I guess

Watched that yesterday with the kids. Started off feeling it was all a bit Discount Pixar but was pulled in by the time it ended

I guess it’s not “streaming” (is there a thread for… regular TV?), but did anyone watch the premiere of Kevin Can F**k Himself? It’s interesting - a little heavy (heavy-handed?). Not sure how it’ll play out over a full season.

Streaming on peacock app.

Speaking of traditional TV vs. streaming, an interesting article on TCM: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-06-22/tcm-fights-to-keep-classic-film-alive-on-tv-in-a-streaming-world

I'm only two episodes into For All Mankind, but I'm really enjoying it! Space! Alternate history!

yeah i think it’s great

I’m well into season 1 of For All Mankind. Enjoying it as well. Though sometimes it feels a bit like they are trying to jam in as many cultural conflicts as they can.

Should have recognized but didn’t the excellent Michael Dorman (Gordo in this, played the lead role on Patriot).

Gordo is my favorite character. All the pathos & heart, everything he goes through. Really great.

I think that's the next show for me to check out, sounds very much like my thing

I'm sure Apple TV has some stinkers but the two shows I've watched from there so far (Mythic Quest and Ted Lasso) were both excellent, felt very well planned. As if Apple went into this thinking "hmm let's just do the opposite of Netflix"

Morning Show was good imo, it is also on Apple+

For All Mankind didn't have a very interesting take on speculative fiction, the Soviets should have built colonies on the moon or something.

Agree re Morning Show and Mythic Quest.

We started watching that Stephen King one last night with Clive Owen in it, watched literally 5 mins and turned it off, it was weird and morose.

...Liseys Story. It gets less than 6 on IMDB lol so we werent alone.

Just tried the first episode of The Knick on HBO Max (speaking of Clive Owen). Didn't make it to the end. Had prestige stink all over it, wallowing in gratuitous gore and squalor, and frankly I was bored.

I liked the first season ok but never bothered after that

I liked the Knick! But yeah I have only seen one season, just forgot to watch it, maybe got bored after Clivey started with his speed habit thing.

Kinda stuck on liseys story even though I don’t think it’s very good. And I love Clive, children of men is a top 5 movie for me, but his American “accent” in this is pretty questionable.

The thing with FAM for me is that I know so little about the space race that a lot of I catch myself wondering if all the developments have basis in reality or if it's the show making things up.

certain recurring characters are real, like Deke Slayton the head office guy (aka Frank Sbotka from the Wire) , Werner Von Braun, Thomas Paine the administrator

Deke was irl on the ground at Houston for Apollo 11 riding comms with Armstrong, Baldwin & Collins. he was a big part of the apollo missions & one of the original Mercury astronauts

two main Apollo 10 astronauts Baldwin & Gordo are fake - but stuff like their bar hangout is real

thats what is great for me as a space nerd, is it is very grounded in the reality of those times but just sets off on this new thought experiment within the same reality

even the wives & the way they look out for each other, the lead astronauts wife is the Head of Wives etc, that is all very legit

how similar is 'for all mankind' in tone to 'the right stuff,' also known as the best movie ever?