I knew that they weren't gonna get rid of Proksch that easily. And 'infant-as-energy vampire' is a solid concept, as probably anyone who's had an infant would agree.
― knuckleheaded mornonic bafoon (Old Lunch), Sunday, 31 October 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
little weird they didn't really explain what was going on with fitness vampire though
sure they did, she was grifting
y dont i like this season? whats diff?― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:00 AM No Tom Scharpling, for one.― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:10 AM
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:00 AM
No Tom Scharpling, for one.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:10 AM
season 3 was the most recent season btw!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 31 October 2021 04:40 (two years ago) link
What was it the fitness vampire said to the CCTV cam at the end? Tried a few times and can't catch it.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 31 October 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
I thought the last episode was pretty wow.
― earlnash, Sunday, 31 October 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link
“Back to the drawing board” essentially
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
thanks for reminding me there are often post credit sequences, i missed that!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
thought the last couple of episodes were sort of weak? still lots of fun
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
one of them did contain "Hello, Guillermo...have you brought some more people to yank on my pee-pee?" which is one of the funniest lines in the show
anyway, I also figured that they weren't just gonna write Proksch out of the show like that, my guess was that one of the clones from the episode where he gets promoted to manager would show up
― frogbs, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
also Nandor quoting Half Baked was pretty awesome
― frogbs, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
i liked that this went full continuity! now we have lots of toys to play with
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Just catching up with this season - I found the first two episodes a bit disappointing, somewhat hectic and overstuffed. The third episode in Atlantic City I absolutely loved. I realise I much prefer the episodes where the vampires engage with banal aspects of the modern world to the baroque vampiric council world building ones.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
one real asset this show has is all four main vampires are played by people who could make you laugh just reading the phonebook
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
I found this whole season a real drag. It just got worse and worse as it went along. Kind of hoping it doesn't come back, tbh, and I say that as someone who absolutely adored the first two seasons.
― trishyb, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Kind of agree - the things that were good were retreads of previous seasons, the beats that were new were not good (idg what they did with Laszlo's character at all)
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
i thought the ending was real dumb but i am also old enough to be triggered by anything that is even vaguely reminiscent of “the dancing baby” it should have ended on the prev episode imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
the whole season was just so plotty
― Clay, Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
I think everyone (including tv showrunners) is just doing the best they can to navigate the pandemic and it's probably advisable not to judge any product of this accursed time too harshly. Everything is compromised as hell right now.
― Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
Like there's probably a sizable book to be written about the creative compromises people have had to make to get entertainment out into the world over the past two years.
― Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
true
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
I thought the show was fine this season.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 November 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
I still enjoyed it but the scripts felt a lot more uh...haphazardly edited. it felt like they wrote a lot of plotlines that were later removed but still referenced here and there. the show's pacing was much less tight and the tone whipped around a lot. too much gross out humor as a whole. also their special effects budget didn't quite seem to match some of the things they were trying to do. that said it had as many laugh out loud moments as other seasons and I still looked forward to watching it every week
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 November 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
I would not doubt that so many episodes not having all the main characters together was working around schedules etc. tied to Covid.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 November 2021 04:14 (two years ago) link
Maybe, but it didn't seem so much like a lack of resources as a lack of ideas. Maybe Jemaine was a bigger part of the day-to-day success of the show than we all gave him credit for. Maybe Natasha Demetriou is just exhausted (it certainly did seem to me like they were shooting around a pregnancy in some of the episodes, and this season of Stath Lets Flats isn't good either), and everyone will be back with a bang next year. I hope so.
― trishyb, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
this season of Stath Lets Flats isn't good either
Disagree.
― chap, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
but this season did have kayvan novak doing a matt berry impression as he tried to seduce a woman by playing a lute cover of “peg”
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
agree that this season was good but def getting too overcrowded and plotty for my taste, making me nervous about the next season (especially if the characters are all going to be split up with separate plotlines taking place in separate locations?) like i laughed really hard at all the new baron stuff but in the end i was glad he kinda disappeared again bc i didnt want to have to deal with a whole new baron storyline on top of everything else.
would be totally fine with the show leaning more into just being a low-stakes situation comedy. i dont know why so many streaming-era sitcoms have to get so elaborate and complicated, idgaf about the character arcs of the imaginary vampires, let it just be The Munsters with swears & horror gore.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
the show works best when it uses its supernatural elements to enhance sitcommy plots, like that aforementioned showcase for novak.
i still liked this season tho, especially the atlantic city episode and the one with the sire on the loose, and i'm not opposed to world-expanding.
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Maybe, but it didn't seem so much like a lack of resources as a lack of ideas.
I think the issue with COVID beyond logistical problems is that people are half-crazy and depressed. It's not easy to write well when you're like that!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
My favorite of these so far pic.twitter.com/m75J66QO0K— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) November 20, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
yet they focus so much of the show on familiar dude, who is not a good actor and is not funny and i could give a flying fuck about the sam and diane-ing of him getting a be a vamplire or not. just show me vampires going clubbing and im happy.
― kurt schwitterz, Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
Ahhh just watched the first episode of season 4...does it get better? It just wasn't very funny to me. I only let out a small chuckle after the bit about Laszlo's projection TV. Each season has been a little worse than the previous, imo. (Loved the movie, loved season one...)
― ernestp, Sunday, 24 July 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
I haven't had access to watch it yet, but meanwhile season 3 of Wellington Paranormal is the best so far.
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
I laughed at the Guide/Guillermo stuff in ep 2 but not feeling the Nandor stuff at all.
Not Colin Robinson is amusing at times, like in the museum, but otherwise not so much.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
Preadolescent Colin Robinson was an utter delight in this week's episode. Dodgy FX aside.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 July 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
Thanks all - I'll stay with it at least for a few more episodes...
― ernestp, Monday, 25 July 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
Fred Armisen is pretty much leaning into the jazz as object of comedic ridicule thing a bit much now, don't you think?
― earlnash, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
Definitely noticing a lot of “lol jazz is the worst” bits in shows I’m recent years, it does seem to have replaced ska as the go-to punchline music genre for comedy writers
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
I blame the Boosh
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
maybe I'm just not feeling it but this season hasn't been as good
the actors seem to mostly be trying to work with what they've been given, but it's too little
― mh, Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah it’s not as good as it used to be but seeing Mark Proksch’s face on a little kid’s body is hilarious/unnerving.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
watching this season, everything just moves so fast, they hurry through every scene, its edited within an inch of its life and feels like theyre just constantly rushing to get to the next plot beat. even scenes that are just two people talking look like a michael bay movie sometimes with the avalanche of shots and fast cuts. a lot of the jokes seem like they're overdubbed in at the very last moment before a change to a new scene. theres very little room for performance and delivery which imho is the shows main comedic strength. the stuff with nandor negotiating his penis wish with the djinn was one of the few times i've really laughed this season, mostly bc its just a really funny idea for a scene and seeing those three actors all play it straight was really fun to watch. but there are just so many plots and little stories going on for every character in every episode simultaneously that they just have way too much narrative business to get through in 22 minutes.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
they had a whole setup that had been carefully constructed last season with room for each of them to explore their own character, new connections, new storylines. then they said nope, threw all that out and had nadja open a vampire club. show has gotten bad.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 July 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
I wonder if the budget got squashed or the real life set conditions made them throw the whole gang back together in the house immediately. I figure we’d get a few episodes of solo nonsense, maybe a Jackie Daytona type of thing, and instead we got flooded basement
― mh, Friday, 29 July 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
only watched the first two and yeah it's super weird they ended on such a wild cliffhanger only to go "eh, never mind" within 5 minutes
episode #2 was really good though, Nandor resurrecting all his dead wives was hilarious and the accountant genie was great
― frogbs, Friday, 29 July 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
I did laugh at the entire “yes, some of my wives are men” moment
― mh, Friday, 29 July 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
yeah all the stuff with nandor is the only stuff that is working for me this season comedy-wise. all the business with nadja, lazlo, kristen schaal, and guillermo has fallen flat for me and seemed like busywork w/not a lot of jokes. even with baby colin robinson, the visual of mark proksch's head on a childs body is very funny but they havent really delivered on the premise very much imho
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 29 July 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
ok, the night market episode was a little rushed at the beginning but I thought it was funny. the wraith negotiation scene!
― mh, Saturday, 30 July 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
first episode was shaky but #2-4 had a lot of funny scenes. the MC for the familiar fights was really funny. the thing with this show is that you kinda have to watch it with captions - Natasia Demetriou and Kristin Schaal lay on such thick accents that I can't tell what they're saying half the time. and when the captions are on you see a bunch of lines that are pretty funny but are basically inaudible.
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link