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still haven't watched the last season of The Expanse

I might try Happy Endings, but I heard that it might be better to start on the sixth episode -- good advice?

Hmm, can't remember, but one of the joys of that show is how squarely sitcommy - which is to say, square - it is, and even at its corniest and most conventional it's pretty funny.

I've been rewatching Happy Endings by chance. First season is actually a little better than I remember because it turns out the episodes were originally broadcast out of order. Not that this is a continuity-heavy serial, but the first season had more of a focus on Alex and Dave's breakup (makes sense since it's the title of the show and the pilot). You should watch the pilot, knowing the characters will get much better (especially Max, but all of them really.

The show takes a little bit of time to hit its stride - you would you just miss a couple of recurring characters getting introduced, like Derrick. They wring 90% of the sincerity out of the show by the end of the first season, to its massive benefit. Definitely one of my favorite sitcoms of the past decade, so I say give it a shot, knowing like many sitcoms it takes some tuning up before really getting great.

yeah i loved 100 foot wave. one less ep woulda done the trick or yeah maybe dedicating that whole episode to the cult and his family dynamic and upbringing woulda filled another hour more effectively.

The cult sounded insane!

One depressing thing was guys like Cotty having to scrounge for sponsorships and leave their families to chase these waves for what I expect is not great money for professional sports standards. They have to really be devoted to this to do this.

yeah i love that these guys dedicate their lives to a niche version of a niche sport that can only be done in like less than a handful of locations in the world. i enjoyed just trying to psychoanlize these surfers from my couch. loved the brother in law who could never quite make up his mind what he wanted to do in life and had all these passions come and go from one minute to the next... i felt that guy. cotty is great too, i thought he had a perfect fitting ending to the series.

i could see them doing another season in a few years, or at least a follow up.

They've announced a second season, but considering that it took them 10 years to have enough of a story for Season 1, I'm not really sold.

hah yeaah wow.

My wife I think was watching the first episode of 100 Foot Wave, and for the life of me I could not see why it had to be a season and a not a 2 hour doc.

I mean, it's only 6 hours total, so it's not as bloated as it could be. Watch it; it's worth seeing. I want to go to Portugal really badly now. (It helps that I have friends there.)

Yeah, watch it for the insane footage. So many times I said at the beginning of a ride "that wave doesn't look so big" and then you realize they are like 10% of the way down the wave and I'm like, "that dude is going to die."

Portugal looks incredible; the waves in the last episode when the guy on the ski gets hurt were terrifying the way they came from all directions.

I saw most of the first episode, and it wasn't bad or anything, it just felt like enough, tbh. I guess I fundamentally didn't get it. "I like to surf, and I like to do extreme surfing. There are these big waves in Portugal, and I said to myself, those sure are big, I'm going to dedicate my life to surfing them." Which ... OK. But I didn't get any sense of drama from it. Obviously the waves and the footage of them are incredible, but Garrett himself I just didn't find terribly compelling and all the prep and planning didn't seem as interesting as (for example) planning for a trip to the deepest part of the ocean or space or the top of Denali. It felt a bit like watching a documentary about a professional bungee jumper in search of the world's biggest bungee jump.

Do some of you have Amazon Prime Video without the other Amazon Prime stuff? Seems like a reasonable option to me.

Wasn't aware you could do that

I pay about £70 a year here in the UK which gives me Prime Video, free next day delivery and some Kindle and Music things (but not the full Kindle Unlimited and Amazon music packages which they run as separate subscriptions here)

I thought it was just me who thought Roy Kent was CGI: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/9/1/22652236/ted-lasso-roy-kent-cgi-conspiracy-theory

i love this idea

Brand New Cherry Flavor episode 4 goes to a very unexpected place

A David Cronenberg movie?

xp I pay for AMZ Prime monthly instead of yearly because I never have that much spare cash at one time. It ends up being a little more over all, but less of a one-time hit. Had no idea you could separate its features.

Only Murders in the Building is a pleasant surprise: funny, attentive to character detail, and (so far) a solid enough mystery. In some ways, reminds of my favourite film from last year, The Kid Detective.

Canada finally got Reservation Dogs on streaming today via Disney+. Only one episode posted so far; didn't love it, but intriguing enough to keep watching.

A David Cronenberg movie?

Sure, but I meant all the way to the elbow.

Hacks is pretty good (if very HBO-feeling). I didn’t realize the creators were all UCB/Broad City folks.

I'm about halfway through Hacks and concur. Would probably watch anything with Jean Smart in.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTUy0KgjhJI/

I don't believe "Brett Goldstein." This is my flat earth.

Not sure “only murders in the building” needs a thread but it’s enjoyable nonsense

It’s kind of strange to watch these shows filmed in the past year, and which take place in an alternate, non-Covid universe (or maybe “2019?).

In one outdoor shot, a guy on a bike rides by in a mask… that’s the only hint you get of the real world outside the production bubble.

Yeah, seen some shows where the season premiere had one scene of people talking masked, then it's never brought up again (Law and Order: Organized Crime, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine)

Seconded to Holland Taylor being absolutely A+ in The Chair. The show itself is fun, but veers into David E. Kelly-style forced cuteness a bit much. There is a "tart network drama of the 2000s" vibe about it.

(Sorry this isn't the Netflix thread but more people are mentioning it here.)

Hacks (on HBO) has some similarly "forced" plot elements – going for "big moments," epiphanies, etc. - that made me wish that aspect had been slightly dialed back (despite its overall excellence). It's that "premium drama" thing, I dunno.

Are ppl taking about Never Have I Ever on the Official Netflix Thread™?

Val, the Val Kilmer doc on Amazon, is really good. Honestly could have been longer, I'm kind of a sucker for actor's home movies. Is Kilmer pretentious? Yes. Did he ever seem to act in a film that matched his (self perceived) potential? No. But he's a pretty interesting guy and his retreat into art seems to be giving him a real sense of purpose, and his relationship with his kids seems great.

Cool, may check it out.

TIL the younger female lead on Ted Lasso is Julien Temple’s daughter.

I wuz bored, so downloaded Peacock… it’s a wasteland!!

They do have 46 seasons of SNL, if that’s your thing.

I downloaded it to rewatch Battlestar Galactica, I don't think I've opened it since.

They do have 46 seasons of SNL, if that’s your thing.

Unless something's changed since I last looked, they're still the hacked up versions (sketches missing, music performances DEFINITELY missing) versions that have jumped around from streaming service to streaming service for a decade.

they have Rockford Files tho :D

Which has Gunsmoke? Is it it Hulu Live?

Peacock has both We Are Lady Parts and Girls5Evah.

gunsmoke is on Paramount+

Unless something's changed since I last looked, they're still the hacked up versions (sketches missing, music performances DEFINITELY missing) versions that have jumped around from streaming service to streaming service for a decade.

I get that music rights can be a thorny issue but I will never understand why they've managed to spectacularly drop the ball on getting old SNL episodes in circulation that aren't hacked to shit. Regardless of one's opinion of the show, you'd think it would have the cultural cachet to get a decent archive. I mean hell, they even gave up on the complete season DVDs with the fifth season.

i assume some of it is because quite a lot of it is shitty and/or inappropriate for modern audiences

yeah, that is what I figured since the trainwreck episodes are particularly hacked up; I think the Steven Seagal one is like 15 minutes long and only has one sketch he appears in.

i assume some of it is because quite a lot of it is shitty and/or inappropriate for modern audiences

The former is one thing, but the latter issue was addressed via content warnings for The Muppet Show full episodes finally up on Disney+.

Does SNL have a history of "that sure didn't age well" material (from a modern sensibility standpoint)? I can't think of much offhand from the years when I watched regularly.

OK, maybe a few of Hartman's lines from this classic sketch: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90ksinatra.phtml

This didn't age well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IId64OJdCKM

I think Lorne Michaels is behind the decimation of past episodes. He's the one who decreed certain things would never be seen again.

on that Sinatra sketch, still amazed they got "faggot crap" on the air

me too, didn't recall that line specifically

xp

That word definitely appeared on All in the Family a decade earlier. Dunno if the n-word ever did, but don’t they use it on that one Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase skit where they’re trading epithets?