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There’s no way anyone can tolerate a guy that relentlessly shitty and annoying and aggressive in reality

He reminded me of Melissa McCarthy in the Heat, although his banter was comparatively weak

Had to bail on the Bear, too stressful and humorless. Of course the main character is a selvedge denim guy though.

What kind of Chicago Beef sandwich shop would try to "elevate" what they are doing? Who is looking for an elevated Chicago Beef?

I'm sure you noticed that Sydney had Smoque on her resume between Avec and Alinea in the first episode.

Eh, Smoque isn't "elevated," it's just great Texas-style bbq in Chicago.

I think of the shop in this show as similar (though I'm only three episodes in). And I really like that there isn't a real-life equivalent of the place in the show, rather than it being a generic upscale restaurant or stand-in for Au Cheval or Hot Dougs.

Yeah, that's what I've told people that have complained how it makes River North (where it was apparently filmed) seem gritty. It's make-believe, you know?

I just can't tell what kind of restaurant this is supposed to be. A sandwich counter? A sit-down place? Do they even have tables? I'm like 5 episodes in and I still can't picture what the front of the house looks like.

There are tables in the side addition, the part without the glass front.

Didn't even realize ep. 7 was a single shot until looking up the credits afterwards.

A guy who was briefly a Chicago ILXor in the mid-2000s plays the guy who get the sample short-rib dish.

Alia Shawkat is really good in The Old Man

Jesus, season 3 of The Boys is some dark, depraved shit. Not sure anyone would have predicted one of the most searing satires of the state of things would be a superhero show.

The worst season so far but still fun to watch

I'm only two episodes in.

Incidentally, it's maybe a sign of the streaming times but also just kind of wacky that Giancarlo Esposito is simultaneously playing a villain on not one, not two, but *three* high-profile shows on three different networks.

A couple years ago, Anna Kendrick was playing the ingenue/heroine on three different series on three different streamers, plus two other features on two other streamers, all roughly at the same time.

Huh, which ones? I just looked at her wiki and couldn't figure out which three series (and didn't recognize any of them, lol).

Was watching Miami Vice last week and he popped up on there too. He's everywhere :) xps

XP Kendrick had Love Life on HBO MAX, Dummy (the Dan Harmon sex doll thing) on Quibi, and the animated Human Discoveries on Facebook Watch, while the movies were Noelle Claus on Disney+ and Stowaway on Netflix (the outlier in the bunch, as it came out last year with everything else being from late '19 into '20).

...and they shouldn't count, but she also was doing ads for Hilton and Frito Lay that were all over YouTube and ad-supported streamers.

Plus Trolls World Tour! (which is currently getting a lot of play again in our house)

Yeah, I don't count those other shows because one is a voice role and the other was some 10-minute Quibi show which the wiki says was a feature broken up into bits. Still, a whole lotta Anna! But Esposito is in three A-level appointment shows at once, plus a big video game, iirc.

Catching up with The Bear. Loved it - acting, writing, direction, vibes. Not a comedy but had its laughs esp the zonked out kids at the party. Happy to see it got picked up for a second season.

some 10-minute Quibi show

are you telling us it wasn’t a lobi

Thirding The Bear -- I'd heard that there was a lot of high-tension screaming going in but actually watching hasn't been a stressful experience, I think because it doesn't beat its characters down relentlessly and doles out emotional growth sparingly but progressively. Good casting with Carmy, since the actor looks like he's on the verge of a breakdown 24/7.

It does kind of make me feel inadequate as far as my knife skills are concerned, though.

always here for surprise Jon Bernthal

loved that so much <3

It does kind of make me feel inadequate as far as my knife skills are concerned, though.

Don't. ime, good chefs run the gamut from being completely unable to function behind the line (but have a great palate and make menus successfully) to having fine, not insane, knife skills/terrific people skills. it's a t.v show!

am watching this currently and am liking, but it's kinda triggery.

I never finished Hanna the movie but the first season of Hanna the show was pretty good, it balanced John Wick action with coming of age better than I expected. Not sure if the can maintain for two more seasons or if it will just get repetitive.

The worst season so far but still fun to watch

I'm four episodes in and have managed to stay spoiler free - which is to say, surprised - but wherever this season ultimately stands/ends, Antony Starr is pretty unnerving as one of the most memorably scary and unstable villains maybe ever.

hes so great in this. he was also great in one of my all time fav shows, banshee.

i liked the season overall, agree that it didn't pack the same punch as season 2. the show was obviously never subtle, but it did feel like there was a little too much "this is just like what's happening in america today, do you seeeee???" this year.

for all the violence in the show, the one scene i've ever had to fast forward was that one scene with the deep and his friend timothy. just too much.

Yeah, that was rough.

I think the satirical "do you seee?" stuff is ok, because they are doing it and drawing blood better than most, imo. Like I said, no idea where this season is going, but I find its developments scarily plausible (in this fictional context).

agreed, it definitely does draw blood with its satire, but there are moments like the imagine video where they're just lazily on the nose, imo.

the one scene i've ever had to fast forward was that one scene with the deep and his friend timothy. just too much.

Same!

It's kind of a particular challenge that I know a lot of comedians have talked about over the last few years. When real life politics (and related stuff) straddles the line between horror and self-parody, it's hard to find a way in to making jokes out of it. I saw lots of comments from people pledging to go Trump-joke free, for example, because what can you say? This show, though ... I dunno. I haven't made it to what you hid (though I had already heard about it) but the riff on the Pepsi ad? I had forgotten about that already, as have maybe many, which I think made it all the more effective. Like, what a world we live in, you know? But the show integrated it really well I thought.

a-train's storyline felt extraneous at times, but that was one of the areas where i appreciated the message more than the story machinations.

the end of a-train's storyline was a goddamn punch to the gut, so brutal and awful

My local library discontinued Kanopy. (For the time being, anyway, I'm able to log in using my card from a different library system--that may end at some point.) They've replaced it with Hoopla, I'm guessing because it's less expensive. Took a quick look, and one thing they have that looks interesting (Kanopy may have it too) is a 1973 documentary directed by Susan Sontag about the Yom Kippur War. I've read a few books by or about Sontag, but news to me.

(On YouTube, too.)

Ethan Hawke’s Paul Newman/Joann Woodward doc series “The Last movie Stars” is on HBO and its so goddamn good, i am in love with it

anything non Star Trek worth checking out on Paramount +?

Beavis and Butthead movie.

There's a documentary about China called Ascension which we have saved for later.

Evil, one of my fave shows these days - creepy, hilarious, utterly bonkers at times

xpost "Ascension" is pretty incredible.

About halfway through the first season after seeing lots of positive reviews/talk about it xp

Seconding Josh – the B&B movie is great, if you’ve ever been a fan. I was laughing hard at a few parts. (It’s also sort of the Twin Peaks: The Return of B&B.)

cosigning w Roz re Evil

Is "The Old Man" actually 8 episodes or is the end of #7 a massive cliffhanger leading to season 2?

I see it's 7 -- that's a hell of a cliffhanger, I hope Bridges can stay alive to shoot it.