It also has one of the more indelibly brilliant, if unknowable female leads on television.Rochambeau?
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
I know how you feel. You’re just human. “Hello, club member.”
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
TS glass blower vs. puppeteer
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
On to Season Two.
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
And now on the far side of The Vantasner Danger Meridian.
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Re the beef with greg12: the original lyrics of "Pancho and Lefty" say "only let him hang around" in the first chorus and later on it's "go so wrong" instead of "go so long" is that it? It's not just Willie and Merle though, also Emmylou Harris which is maybe who they heard it from iirc.
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Not sure what I can watch next that can measure up to this.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
amazinghttps://www.newtechniquesinmodernpracticalclosecombat.com/
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
pretty good show
― buzza, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 09:12 (one year ago) link
Double good imo
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
I'm three episodes into this show and enjoying it a lot. It has a weird admixture of vibes - my friend described it to me as "Wes Anderson does James Bond" which put me off it for a while. It has higher stakes for me than any Wes Anderson movie, though I can see where he gets that vibe. The opening in S1 E3 detailing Leslie's backstory is such a punch. I feel like things are converging toward an epic fuckup.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
Epic fuck ups incoming. Such a great show. One by one we’ll get everyone to see it.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
your friend isn't wrong necessarily but i would sidestep wes anderson in favor of maybe like The Daniels
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
(and yes, "epic fuckup" is actually underselling what's coming)
There's a lot about this show that I love and am impressed by but, as time goes by, I think I'm most impressed by how much it coasts on pure chutzpah. Like they give zero fucks about how anything (CIA operations, industrial piping, international criminal investigations, etc.) actually works in real life. They whipped up total nonsense that sounded good and committed to it 100%. It's all just window dressing for the real themes of the show anyway so why not.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
The conference talk might be my favorite scene from any show ever
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
omghfs Kurtwood Smith in this
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
(just finished S01E03)
He only gets better.
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 February 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
We’re ready to start S2. Great show.
― and my soul would smack me if I didn’t listen (PBKR), Sunday, 26 February 2023 05:33 (one year ago) link
Here is my promised story about the co-composer of “Afternoon Spray.”
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
Once evening I got text from a friend saying: “James Redd, do you know who Syd Straw is?”
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
Which of course is like asking a question about a bear or a pope.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
My friend proceeded to tell me that he had recently met her at a dinner party and that she had told a story about her significant other, Boone, who played a tough guy on a television show (Sons of Anarchy?) and kind of had that look when he was out and about in real life so people were constantly challenging him to fights.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link
Which I knew about first hand since one day I had a meeting with Paul Lukas of Uni Watch about something at the Grandaisy Bakery near the Holland Tunnel. I noticed that Syd Straw was sitting there with some guy in a bowling shirt who seemed to be scowling at me. I told her I recognized her and said hello and she introduced me to her friend Boone.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
So I really appreciated his teddy bear quality in this.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Finally finished Season 2 of Patriot and honestly thought it was a bit of a slog. Not nearly up to the
Complaints included:
-The need to bring back every S1 minor character for brief and inconsequential cameos.-John turning even more into The Terminator, ignoring multiple major wounds, etc. This was carried over from S1, but was just over the top in S2.-Continued pulled football where you think John/Tom are going to have a moment where they realize what all this is doing to John, but nothing ever comes of it. Nothing.-Why are we supposed to care about John in the end? Because he sings bad twee songs? He is a terrible person, especially terrible to his wife (like actually emotionally abusive).
Is the show just an allegory about American interventionism?
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Friday, 21 April 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
Second sentence should read: Not nearly up to the level of S1 (or at least S1 exhausted everything the show had).
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Friday, 21 April 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
Also, Leslie way more interesting character than John. I want the Leslie Claret show.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Friday, 21 April 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
These are all fair points.
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 April 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link