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Really liking the Dropout, which has reached episode 6 in the Disney dripfeed schedule. The first episode is corny, as noted by others above, but the series really takes off by the third episode and the performances are excellent.

I’m also watching WeCrashed, the WeWork factionisation, on Apple TV. It’s eminently watchable but doesn’t have the same narrative tension or outstanding performances.

My 'huh, this is kinda all right I guess' series I'm currently watching is Halo -- never have played the games or anything but I was curious and while it's not great or anything I kinda appreciate the counterintuitive weird chilly/paranoid vibe so far as opposed to nonstop action. Perhaps appropriately, I was startled when the end credits ran for the second episode and I realized Keir Dullea was in it! Should have clocked him out of the gate.

Really enjoyed Somebody Somewhere … thanks for mentioning the show up thread

Pachinko (Apple TV+) has been excellent so far. Nice to have a South Korean show without zombies or murder games.

And the opening titles are fantastic.

opening titles are bonkers

Is there really no thread or even mention of Severance on ILX? Did I search wrong?

Seasonal finale was last night and honest to god maybe the best episode of a TV show I've ever seen.

Are you kidding? Or maybe you are severed yourself?

Sorry.
This is Kier Egan. I love you, daniel s.

Aargh Eagan.

to be clear, that other thread was repurposed to be about the show.

I did a search! It didn't show up!

Hmm.

Might bite the bullet and get Apple TV for Severance. Is Slow Horses any good?

KAJ apparently likes it, according to his substack.

If you like space/alternate history, you might want to wait till For All Mankind season 3 drops (no idea when that'll be though other than probably sometime this year).

Slow Horses is ok & Oldman is good but i have only seen ep1 - need to watch more of it bc even though i like it well enough the first ep felt like every other “british domestic-spying-group-of-misfits” show and/or procedural … still kinda waiting for the hook i guess

BTW, the Great Fusion is upon us

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/discovery-warnermedia-merger-close-warner-bros-discovery-1235200983/

AT&T just walking away from that circus they created is so them. “peace out losers” *throws cigarette on smoldering wreckage*

plus there were SO many layoffs after that last WarnerMedia merge. this one is going to be worse. maybe this is a boring observation but i saw on Deadline that Discovery promised wall street something like $3b in cost savings which is a) nuts and b) scary and c) way more than trimming fat, those layoffs are gonna hurt imo

Next GoT spinoff will be about castle repair and flipping

Anyone watching Tokyo Vice?

oh, it's being discussed over here?

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Property Brothers: Westeros

Here: The Michael Mann poll

the Dropout is excellent. I was on the fence about watching another miniseries based on a documentary about a current event and in fact missed the first episode but walked in on episode 2 while my wife was watching and then we watched almost the entire thing last night. I'm glad this went to Seyfried and not Kate McKinnon in the end.

also if you didn't want to punch George Schultz in the fucking schnozz before you will want to here, even though he is Sam Waterson

Seyfried and Anne Hathaway are both amazing clueless/too aware monsters in their respective series right now.

yeah Hathaway also wonderful in wecrashed (I hate to admit Leto is also very good in that). How many more charlatan CEO series are we getting?

it is good to hear that a series that looks terrible is actually not, but yeah... both evil CEO tales don't appeal to me

Dropout is directed by Michael Showalter which I didn't realize before hand and has a healthy dose of humor, which is why I can see why McKinnon was tapped, but it doesn't dwell there. That said the episode with the Walgreens team (with Alan Ruck and Rich Sommer) was at times completely hilarious.

I really like Leto in WeCrashed: I’m impressed at how he shows Adam ‘reads’ peoples’ characters and tailors his pitch accordingly. And he does convincingly portray the sheer audacity and self-belief/self-delusion needed to carry it off.

The Dropout is excellent overall - I’m just slightly disappointed it’s bookended by two corny episodes (the first a lot more so than the last).

How many more charlatan CEO series are we getting?

Well we also have Super Pumped which has also been a good watch; the Tarantino V.O. moments are...unneeded, generally, or at least my tolerance for them widely varies, but the whole thing's been pretty good and the final episode should be an amusing car crash, if you will. Gordon-Leavitt's got the self-regarding asshole part down to a T and it's a solid ensemble cast as well.

It's been amusing how all the series have essentially been fusing in one way or another as time goes on. Dropout ends with the Uber pickup (confirmed as being very intentional), earlier in the final episode Seyfried-as-Holmes talks about getting ready for an appearance with Jared Leto, the Benchmark VC firm is represented in Super Pumped by Kyle Chandler's character and in wecrashed by Anthony Edwards's, yesterday's wecrashed had Leto-as-Neumann asking Edwards how Benchmark treats Kalanick and then later watching a news report about how Kalanick was out as Uber CEO, which is essentially the final episode of Super Pumped tomorrow...

The Charlatan CEO Cinematic Universe

Just started Severance, which is totally my thing, but what is up with Adam Scott's face in it? (Don't tell me if it's a spoiler or something)

he turned 49

I'm fairly sure it's just on the "inside"! Perhaps it's the crappy hairstyle idk.

in other news Minx on HBO is terrific & I love it

Been wondering about that.

does a great job of balancing the sex/comedy with the main character’s feminism & there are really good emotional beats … i am already crazy about jake johnson which helps obv but i think if you dont know him or anyone it would still be great going in cold
for real everyone in this is excellent - the writing is SO good

what is up with Adam Scott's face in it?

Nothing personal - but I’d be reluctant to do shrooms or acid with him… His shapeshifting face keeps giving me flashbacks of other actors including: Griffin Dunne in After Hours, the young Tom Cruise, Robin Stewart (Ross Newman in Aussie soap Sons & Daughters)… and there’s something about his pinched mouth that’s a bit disturbing.

jokes aside, I think his facial expressions and makeup are different between the inside/outside

I would like to not recommend Pieces of Her, which is a mess and only half-saved by Toni Collette.

i’m finally watching Lovecraft Country and it’s fucking incredible

Some amazing episodes. Still really upset it didn't get a second season

I’m amazed it got commissioned at all. More episodes would have been great but i’m grateful for what we got.

I didn’t think I would be blown away by a series so soon after Severance but wow, Pachinko. Beautiful acting and writing, visually gorgeous, and just the way the story jumps between the past and the future, intercutting between different locations and languages is incredible. it’s a delicate balancing act but it’s done so well.

I’ve not read the book but am tempted to pick it up now.

Somebody recommended the book to me but I never got around to it/pvmic

watching w/ my wife who read the book and pointed out two things that surprised her. 1 is that the book is more chronological, and I guess they couldn't do that with the TV version as it wouldn't have been as interesting? Maybe it'd been more epic but there's too much story. The other is that we've only seen the smallest smidgen, she said Solomon's story was like just a tiny bit.

Just starting WeCrashed and getting Tommy Wiseau vibes from Jordan Catalano.
I'm not too happy about everything on AppleTV getting released episode by episode on Fridays!