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all the profs I follow on twitter are SO riled up by The Chair—apparently they've just discovered that pop cultural depictions of workplaces are not always accurate—I am tempted

― rob, Sunday, August 22, 2021 9:32 AM (yesterday)

If you want to get people to write think pieces about your tv show, make your show a depiction of academia ... lol ... and I mean that compassionately, because non-profit workers also have this same tendency

I remember when journalists were upset by the depiction of newsrooms in the Wire. Drug Dealers were pretty quiet so the show must have gotten that right.

g's move in silence like lasagna iirc

fact-checkin drug lord tweets would be more entertaining

game is to be sold and not tweeted iirc further

i watched the first ep of The Chair but i dont think it is “my thing”. i wasnt charmed or interested, just kinda bored? maybe I have been out of uni too long, or am just v grumpy today

^^ We watched it, but no lols for us. I still recommended to my academic dad/stepmom, since it seemed tailor-made for them.

It's kinda weird they chose Pembroke as the name of the fake college in the show – b/c that name is associated with Brown, but the school doesn't seem to be particularly modeled on Brown. In fact, the setting lacks the kind of specificity that you normally see in a "sharp" satire of academia. As akm pointed out, the show's focus isn't really on teaching or scholarship at all – with a few (significant) plot changes, the setting could be a law firm, publishing house, or whatever. It's really about the relationships, particularly a mother/child relationship that has nothing to do with where the mother works.

All that said, some of the faculty repartee does ring true to me (though it's been years since I've been in that world).

There’s an HBO limited-series remake of Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage” coming Sept. 12??

Not sure how that could possibly be a good idea

It stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.

whoa

Was hoping it would be on The Hallmark Channel.

Apparently The Chair is a Netflix show, if anyone wants to talk about it with Roz on the Netflix shows thread, not here on the not-Netflix shows thread

lol thanks sic, I keep missing discussions of Netflix shows on this thread which I don’t usually open because I live in a country that only has access to Netflix and Disney+ (also Amazon I guess but I cancelled my Prime subscription)

I thought this thread was for streaming TV services generally.

That's the intent behind the OP, but it seems to have evolved into an all-purpose streaming *content* thread. Given intl differences, it probably doesn't make sense to organize threads around specific services, even Netflix, but a rolling TV thread might end up a spoiler minefield so idk

This thread seems to be working pretty well for general content discussion, but whatevs

yeah I'm not really advocating any change; the netflix thread title is dated anyway; netflix is in this thread title...whatevs sounds about right

yeah i don't really mind that people post on this thread but spoilers are the main reason I stick to the dedicated ones - I can watch shows on other services I don't have access to through um, other means, but it takes more effort. like i didn't get around to watching "I May Destroy You" or "Succession" until many months after those shows first aired.

so it just kinda bums me out to open a thread and see dozens of posts about a show that i'm interested in but can't watch in real-time, so to speak.

off-topic I guess, but "I May Destroy You" (which we also didn't get to watch until some time after it launched) is so excellent.

it is!

I May Destroy You - Michaela Coel

yesss far and away the best show in recent memory

It's kinda weird they chose Pembroke as the name of the fake college in the show – b/c that name is associated with Brown, but the school doesn't seem to be particularly modeled on Brown.

lol yeah --. It's the name of the former women's college (sister school) that then merged with Brown when it went co-ed. The "Pembroke campus" is still referred to. One of the think pieces I skimmed before watching the show said that the fictional college was similar to an Ivy League school -- but it's really a composite of the numerous small liberal arts colleges, in terms of issues of declining enrollment and related budget issues. Whereas Brown (at least so the alumni magazine tells me) gets more competitive each year, and the current crop of students are way too good for my population trough born slacker ass.

What year were you, sarahell?

1996

chances seem pretty good we at least once knew each other IRL

netflix is in this thread title...

…in a phrase that specifically references that the programming on these services is not also on Netflix!

brb, gonna start a thread called “rob is a big dummy who smells, share stories of seeing him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe here” for ppl to wish you happy birthday in

#twothreads

I think only you're reading it that way.

i kinda thought this was the successor thread to the other netflix thread, but people post to both threads because that is how ilx threads end up functioning unless a thread gets locked.

"A thread to discuss the ongoing balkanization of streaming, cord-cutting, new options, lament and laud the coming and going of new competitors and so on."

so it wasn't really about content at all when it started...

there's also a dedicated Amazon prime video thread that bemoans the size of the Netflix thread. #threethreads

There’s also a Hulu thread. I liked having them all split, makes it easier to follow what people are talking about and how to find it

I also like the idea of having more threads, the two big ones get unwieldy. But it does get complicated that different services carry shows based on region. Also love show- specific threads when it makes sense

brb, gonna start a thread called “rob is a big dummy who smells, share stories of seeing him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe here” for ppl to wish you happy birthday in

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:50 PM (yesterday)

lmao

I just meant that the fact the word Netflix precedes all the other services in the title—and it's not as unambiguous as "This Is Not a Netflix Thread" or the like—might be one reason people keep posting about Netflix itt

It's more like a thread called "did sic post that? relentless nitpicking poster thread: ergo, ibid, idem, semper, fidelis, capita, tyrannis, alia, and many more"

^this dunk deserves a reaction gif!

(that’s exactly how I’ve been reading the thread title, fwiw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2oEmPP5dTM

new season of The Other Two starting strong, lost it several times during episode 2

oh snap

Thoughts on Apple's Mr. Corman? I've watched all five episodes to date, and I'm still not sure what its supposed to be doing. JGL is an earnest but show-offy director: nearly (maybe all? I don't remember) every episode so far has had some kind of whimsical reality-breaking sequence that just comes off like he's trying to hard. I've kept watching, though, so that's something.

tonight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4TXUx2d9iQ

This thread seems useful but unwieldy. For instance two of the Redds are bingewatching something called Manifest and it is hard for me to catch up once they get started so I went into this thread to see if it was mentioned and did a Show All just to double check. And before I watched a few episodes of Physical on Apple TV+ and sort of liked it but didn't feel compelled to watch so I just did the same. Anyway...

Manifest seems to be one of those big fan pushes right now, they got Netflix to save the show for a final fourth season

Yes, exactly.

I’m in the middle of Never Have I Ever… is this the thread for that?

If you want it to be…if they let you.

Maybe it is like on ILB: new one-off book or author threads just don’t generate enough traffic, so there is always only ever the big rolling what are you reading now thread that is rolled once a quarter.

TV: The Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiRp9UntPs