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Isn’t that most comedians? What is it they say, don’t go into comedy just because your friends say that you’re funny? (RIP, Dr. Morbius)

I think all comedy is hard, but in my opinion there is no excuse for pre-recorded sketch comedy to have such a shitty hit to miss ratio. it's telling that as shitty as SNL typically is, at least the prerecorded bits are pretty consistently great.

I mean, if you can only manage two out of every seven bits being funny, then maybe you don't have anything funny to say. Because there are plenty of funny shows that can be funny every episode. I say this as a fan of her first three seasons, which I want to say were more consistently funny.

Dan Levy’s cooking competition show Big Brunch is up on HBO — it’s quite lovely, even though there’s $300k up for grabs its surprisingly chill & friendly & cuddly

the stakes are odd, in that they are seemingly all experienced chefs having to cook many iterations of .. brunch? but i like it. judges are v fussy but also handwavey in their criticism, the vagueness can be annoying but whatever

and Levy is a good host. it’s like lowkey David Rose hosting like i keep waiting for him to say “IF YOU SAY “FOLD IN ONE” MORE TIME”

Lost Bullet was one of the best things I saw last year — a French crime movie heavy on car chases and amazing hand-to-hand combat — and there's a sequel out this weekend, Lost Bullet 2, that pulls the extremely smart move of picking up basically the morning after the last movie ended, after which there are a few time-jumps, but the car chases are even better and the fight scenes are fucking stunning. There was one scene where the "hero" beats the shit out of three other dudes in a kitchen and living room that actually made me jump in my seat. Both movies highly, highly recommended.

Both are on Netflix, btw.

hell yeah, thanks. I have been in the mood for some La Femme Nikita type shit

Watching Inside Man now so you don’t have to.

Oh, god, that was terrible. I didn't even mention it here. If it had been more than four hours long I definitely would have bailed.

Did working with Gatiss break Moffat? I've been curious about Inside Man...

Almost at the end, but yeah just would have bailed in the middle of the previous episode if there were any more to have to suffer through.
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I liked Stanley Tucci and Dolly Wells, but not much else about this.

Come on over to the MUBI thread, where THE KINGDOM is live!

xpost lol i also thought Inside Man was terrible and wish i'd bailed early. so many stupid decisions

Maybe they will get some notes and improve for a Second Season? Nah, hope not.

Fleishman Is In Trouble is the story of recently divorced 41-year-old “Toby Fleishman” (Jesse Eisenberg)

Jesse Eisenberg playing a 41-year old (and presumably being in his 40s?) feels so wrong.

No discussion of A Friend of the Family on here? I thought it was excellent, with Jake Lacy reaching impressive levels of creepiness.

this spanish show If Only is a steaming pile of garbage

Lost Bullet was one of the best things I saw last year — a French crime movie heavy on car chases and amazing hand-to-hand combat — and there's a sequel out this weekend, Lost Bullet 2, that pulls the extremely smart move of picking up basically the morning after the last movie ended, after which there are a few time-jumps, but the car chases are even better and the fight scenes are fucking stunning. There was one scene where the "hero" beats the shit out of three other dudes in a kitchen and living room that actually made me jump in my seat. Both movies highly, highly recommended.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:12 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ty unperson my family loved this

I was really looking forward to inside man but good ppl making stupider and stupider decisions is just unbearable to me. Can’t believe I stuck it out, only to not even find out the big secret of why tucci killed his wife.

my thoughts exactly; it drove me mad!

Yeah, re: Inside Man -- Sitting through four episodes of tense nonsense, only for Tucci to be all winkyface "I guess we'll find out why I murdered my wife in season 2, if that ever happens, eh viewers?!!" was very [LONG LOUD RASPBERRY NOISE].

I still love Moffat even if he's been variable in the extreme for about a decade now. Some parts of this were pretty wrenching, in a good way, I thought, just a total flub of an ending. I liked the "well you're essentially two good people who, through bad luck and very poor decsision making, ended up torturing each other" scenario but that thread ended up being discarded in a really dumb way

To cleanse my palate after watching Inside Man I think I need to watch something good, like Meet Me in the Bathroom. Oh wait.

Is that streaming yet? The producer interviewed me for it but I'm not important enough to be a talking head. Not even a tom tom club.

Ha, no not streaming yet. Playing at the Quad now though. Was making a weak joke since not expecting much from that either.

Myhthic Quest is back on AppleTV. Muted first epsiode, but I wont spoil why. It didnt have the usual spark?

WEIRD was amazing, especially the Dr. Demento pool party

Oh snap - Sex Lives of College Girls is back this week!

I’ll enjoying White Lotus S2, maybe even more than the first season (though I recall we don’t talk about it here, as it’s “real” HBO?)

The Patient w/ Steve Carell is interesting a couple of short episodes in, hope it doesn’t get repetitive.

Re: Mythic Quest

Very strange these days to see a show write a character off, google and find out the actor has neither died nor been cancelled.

xp been looking for a place to talk about the Patient. Loved it and thought it kept things developing just enough to maintain interest. Right in my wheelhouse as a Jewish therapist though, lol. Carell's character was extremely reminiscent of many people I know

xp he’s on the aforementioned White Lotus!

this Sex Lives of College Girls show is terrible yet I keep watching it because very occasionally it will actually be funny (the Kerri Kenney/husband scene was good); but the indian lead, who is supposed to be the comedy writer, is so goddamned terrible and unfunny she practically burns the entire show to the ground. The issue is less with the actress than the writing (though she isn't great either). how many fucking times do you have to say 'short king' in one episode? I wanted to drive an icepick into my ears.

I am disappointed with this season so far, it's really fallen off from S1 :(

Nobody start watching with S2, pleeze

SAS Rogue Heroes from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight was a blast.

It's brash and a bit on the nose at times but lots of fun (and often plays like a comedy) with great performances from Sex Education's Connor Swindells and Skins' Jack O'Connell

Watching season 2 of Hacks, also a real fall-off from season 1. The cast are still great and every episode has some quality scenes but it feels like it’s already run out of ideas. The Parks and Rec problem: once all the characters have become humanised and likeable, the drama dies, or the drama that remains seems artificially generated. Still fun, though.

Started watching My Best Friend’s Exorcism and the acting is so bad. Everyone raved about the book but so far I can’t figure out what the big deal is with this story.

The acting was better in the book i hear

missed the news last week but The Midnight Club has been canceled :( shame, wish it had gotten half the attention that say, Wednesday, got.

Mike Flanagan talks through his ideas for what would have been the second season here: https://www.tumblr.com/flanaganfilm/702543785726558208/the-midnight-club-season-two

He's also moving from Netflix to Amazon: https://deadline.com/2022/12/mike-flanagan-amp-trevor-macy-overall-deal-with-amazon-studios-1235186302/

Fucksake. I'd kind of assumed the second season was a lock, given that Flanagan has made 4 other Netflix shows :(

We just bingewatched all of Irreverent. It was ok but trying a bit too hard - like it was some kind of weird cross between Mr Inbetween and SeaChange, with the latter's amount of twee good heartedness.
And then it had a REALLY stupid ending, like they had to finish it all off so they did so really clumsily.

Man, first episode of Andor is dull.

There are some great setpieces in certain episodes, but don't expect an action-packed romp, at least half the episodes are all talk and zero action whatsoever.

I tried it because it was supposed to be the not-action Star Wars but it was just like a guy walking around for reasons(?) and the teacher's pet security guard is going to hunt him down I guess.

I tried watching the first ep a few weeks back (when everyone was raving about the finale), and found it dull & confusing… then I saw there were 12 episodes, and it was only S1 of 2… (I haven’t gone back.)

Let's just say the security guard is in no way equipped to deal with Andor.

This one gets better as it goes. Also nice to have a properly hateful ground-level empire with sadistic bastards left and right; they eventually give the initially passive and selfish main character extremely good reason to fight back. The tension in several episodes is a vise. More SW stuff like this IMO.

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I thought the first couple of episodes felt a little directionless too tbh. I think it’s a fair comment that it doesn’t really get going until Luthen shows up on Ferrix.

Even as a Jesse Eisenberg skeptic I am loving Fleishman is in Trouble - mostly for Lizzy Caplan's schlubby mum turning up to aerobics class in her Ween t-shirt. Sad that it meant she couldn't be in the Party Down revival tho ;_;