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We have a dedicated thread now! I come in peace... three times a night -- FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV Plus) the first episode sets the stage nicely but I don't think the story really kicks in until a few episodes in

American rust looks like itll be a solid watch

Im not getting the chair, is the idea that the students are totally hateful or what

Back when it premiered I assumed, for some reason, that For All Mankind was just another docudrama about the space program.

I assumed that too, not least because I read the non-fiction book about the space race of the same title a few years back

It’s a pretty popular, um, rubric. I believe there is even a brand of blue jeans with the name.

I couldn’t get past the idealised Mad Men American Graffitti bullshit of the first 20 minutes. Fully own that’s on me rather than the show.

Was Nine Perfect Strangers discussed anywhere?

I know my wife started it but jumped ship after maybe three eps. She thought it was boring and was distracted by Nicole Kidman's face. I think she liked the casting and acting, though.

xpost I just figured all that stuff was stage-setting, giving people what they know or think they know, which is hot-shot pilots speeding around in sports cars, which iirc was a big part of "The Right Stuff" (movie and book). It really sets things up for all the rug-pulling, even in the first episode.

Kino today launched Kino Cult, a free (supported by ads) streaming service focusing on its horror/exploitation/genre catalog--just in time for the October horror season.

This is distinct from Kino Now, their subscription streaming service. Does anyone here subscribe to that?

Strange stuff afoot in "Ted Lasso." The love triangle stuff is pretty random but boilerplate so I can forgive it, the Nate stuff is obnoxious but whatever, but the Sam and the Ghanian billionaire stuff ... I agree with the theory that it's a trap related to Rebecca's scheming ex-husband, especially with just one episode left. Rupert is really the only villain the show has, and they brought him back into the fold for a reason.

We almost gave up on Mr. Inbetween after three episodes of S1, feeling it felt like an inferior Barry, but I'm so glad we continued. It really carved its own niche and I would have loved to see more seasons. S2 was particularly great

Mr Inbetween is secretly one of the best shows on television, though i understand people's exhaustion with the structure of "terrible white male protagonist does inexcusable things but you can't help but love the murderous scamp." This is about as good as that gets though! I think season three is the best of the batch but that's likely just recency bias.

Yeah, it really was a fantastic show - the best of that kind of thing since The Shield IMO. (And in retrospect The Shield ran too long, though it earned its ending.)

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I don't have images turned on but I knew what that first one would be before I clicked on it

I watched the latest episode of Only Murders the night after seeing the dialogue-less episode of Mr. Robot, pretty cool coincidence.

xp Ryan claims that, when he was driving cabs, the end-of-series sequence happened to him!

Y The Last Man is getting worse every episode.

Squid Game is great.

Loved Mr Inbetween as well. Watched it based on comments in this thread. Also enjoying Squid Game right now.

My 12 y o started watching Squid Game with his younger brother while I was still at work 😬

If I do Mr. Inbetween, am I better off seeking that movie version first?

I watches the movie well after the fact, either away is fine

xpost - I'm really annoyed with Netflix constantly forcing the Squid Game preview into my son's profile, which is otherwise filled with cartoons, kids movies and the DC superhero shows. Normally it's been really good about sticking in his wheelhouse and we haven't had many issues with inappropriate stuff popping up on his profile, but for some reason Squid Game is constantly showing up and he keeps asking to watch it.

Is it set up as a Kids profile?

Mine isn’t, and there’s plenty of 15-rated stuff that I’m fine with him watching. But this is a different ballpark! The day-glo colours etc do make it look very kid-like. The BBC would get absolutely keelhauled if they marketed it this way.

You know, I think it's a Kids profile and we've been very careful about keeping the algorithm focused (i.e. if we watch a PG-13 movie with him, we watch on a different "family" profile so it doesn't start pulling in other PG-13 recs to his profile). It's odd, but I'm wondering if the popularity of it sort of breaks the algorithm enough to force the preview in even borderline cases.

If it's a kids profile, it'll have a yellow "kids" badge on the icon.

Squid Game is TV-MA, so even if you have a (non-Kids) profile with the maturity rating level toggled to "R" or below, it shouldn't show up.

I guess it's not a purely "Kids" profile then, there is no badge. But it definitely shouldn't showing TV-MA stuff, so maybe I need to make sure a setting didn't get changed.

Squid Game is actually the goriest thing I've ever seen, I think?

I read an article titled "Squid Game is on track to become the most popular show in Netflix's history! Here's why" and it was a bunch of things like "people like Korean things now" and "word of mouth" and so on. I was expecting to read "there is nothing the human brain enjoys more than seeing people suffer and die in the service of 'narrative'; Squid Game and its antecedents like Running Man and Hunger Games are reflective of this aberration" but sadly no

the reason i like battle royale is because i DON'T want to see them suffer and die though

Feel like I'm under time pressure to watch this show before it's completely spoiled.

same. may need to knock out a few episodes.

The amount of pretty extreme blood and gore in even mainstream stuff is as prominent as I've ever seen it.

My son's Netflix is set to PG-13 so Squid Game doesn't show up even if you search for it

There's a good interview with the woman in charge of Y: The Last Man. Her first answer made my head pop right up:

Could you take me back to the moment you first found the comics? At what point in your life were you?
In 2009, I moved from New York to L.A. to write on a show called Rubicon that like five people watched — but they really liked it, those five people. That show is the foundation of my career but also my life. I met my husband, Zack Whedon, on it, and he’s the person who gave me Y: The Last Man. It was very early in our relationship; we were sort of friends who worked together, and there was, you know, maybe a little something there. He’s a writer, and he’d read my plays and he was like, “This really reminds me of your writing.” And I read it because I was into him.

As one of those five people, I felt very seen.

After hearing two long interviews with BJ Novak, I watched episode 3 of his show The Premise (Hulu), a funny satire of a Bieber-like star. Black Mirror-ish.

I should add that it's an anthology series, so the Bieber story is only the third episode, and has a really perfect scene with faux-Bieber getting advice from a cool pastor.

Wow, Midnight Mass is an SK adaption without SK involved.

That's the Mike Flanagan way! More for good than bad.

Just watched Ted Lasso S2 finale with great trepidation, but it was, um, fine I guess, or at least tolerable, so I am still a somewhat curious to see what they will come up with next season.

My guess is Trent Crimm takes over the publicity job at the club.

Oh, good point.

I think Roy is going to have some follow up visits with the Irish art instructor.

Midnight Mass is exactly what Castle Rock should have been

Castle rock season 1 was pretty great but mm knocks it into a cocked hat for sure

As one of those five people, I felt very seen.

Huh. I'm another one of those five, but I had to bail out of Y at episode four.

Just finished the first season of The Owl House on Disney Plus. Really grew to love this, lots of good (kid-friendly) horror comedy and Wendie Malick is a treasure. Some of the lore/character stuff is a bit uneven, but that's forgivable. What's less forgivable is that the show is ending with a truncated third season, apparently because one of the higher-ups in Disney thinks it doesn't "fit their brand". Two decades since Daria ended, and a cartoon for older kids/teens is still an alien concept to some people.

I'm pretty ambivalent about Ted Lasso S2. It's more ambitious this season and I mostly liked what they were trying to do but the execution and humor didn't always land. Felt like the scripts needed some more time. The ending does make me interested for S3 though