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― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
Is it just me, or is this season of Grace and Frankie not very good?
― trishyb, Saturday, 20 January 2018 11:44 (six years ago) link
i have been enjoying Episodes. i'm kind of afraid to know what people here think of it. you guys can be weird. but i have laughed out loud more than once watching it. i don't know the british stars of it at all. all the hollywood people are really funny to me. and i will always be fond of Joey. that show is definitely a harbinger of weinsteins to come.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
i don't know the british stars of it at all
I guess you haven't seen Green Wing or Black Books then, two great British comedy shows (although both may appear somewhat dated now).
I think I watched the first season or two of Episodes and really enjoyed it but then it jumped all over the schedules over here and I kind of lost track of it. Not even sure if the latest seasons have even aired on British TV.
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 January 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
For those who like/can stand anime, Devilman Crybaby is *incredibly* highly recommended. It's created by Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Ping Pong, Kaiba, a solo Adventure Time episode, etc), and while in the early going it feels like it's just doing the standard shonen anime wish-fulfillment thing (with an extra helping of sex and violence that wouldn't pass muster for broadcast TV), it goes to some truly unexpected places as it goes on. It helped that I wasn't familiar with the Devilman Family of Products and tried this out solely because of Yuasa's involvement, because jesus, the ending is a punch in the guts.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
Episodes is a low-key joy, and it stays pretty funny for most of its run. Really a testament to LeBlanc's chops and range that his character never gets old
― Evan R, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
Also enjoyed The Vault, a B-movie about a bank robbery gone wrong... because the vault they're robbing is haunted. It lives down to its premise
― Evan R, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Recently watched and enjoyed:
I Don't Feel At Home In This World AnymoreSeason 4 of Black MirrorPlanet Earth II
Thought these were OK, but ymmv:RawGerald's GameBlue JayThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
― Darin, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
Watched Icarus, what a fascinating movie. What was supposed to be a Supersize Me becomes a Citizenfour
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
Icarus is amazing. Extra amazing that just a few days ago the IOC decision was twisted to allow 100+ Russian players to compete. What the doc didn't convey really well (unless I missed it) was whether any of the athletes were in on it, or if they were secretly dosed. There is something about putting the drugs in drinks, but it's not clear if they knew what they were drinking. Similarly, they show his very detailed dosing regiment. I know Russians drink a lot, but how could you administer a measured regiment of PEDs without the players knowing? For that matter, were any of them forced?
Either way, it's so fucked up that cheating in the Olympics could in any way be connected to people getting killed.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
I don't think they talk about that in Icarus but I have to imagine most athletes were aware of it. There was a Russian athlete whistleblower a couple years ago. The director also mentions in the movie how he can feel the difference with doping. I saw a recent interview with him where he said he still does that kind of doping himself!
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
Isn't there a scene, as he struggles with his bike race, when he says the drugs made no difference? That was unclear, too. No difference because his bike broke or no difference physically?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
He cleared it up in an interview, it was slightly confusing in the movie. He felt much different with the drugs. One difference he mentioned was that after the first race he was out of commission for like a month, but not so the second time
Why am I trying to remember this interview, let me just link it for ya, it's well worth a read: http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/icarus-bryan-fogel-russia-doping-scandal-olympics-netflix.html
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
give me the athlete drugs
― mh, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
"Episodes is a low-key joy, and it stays pretty funny for most of its run"
i love the cast. the actress who plays carol could be really really amazing at times. don't remember seeing her in anything before. and her whole character arc was insane too. i liked all five seasons. i can't believe myra is british.
and i have seen black books but i didn't recognize her from that. its a very clever show. and i loved how believable matt's game show was.
also, this show had the best character names. Merc Lapidus, Andy Button, Castor Sotto, Elliot Salad.
if anyone here hasn't seen it and is looking for some primo binging...only 7 or 8 episodes a season. so, not the rest of your life.
the sex therapist scene made me laugh harder than i have in a long time.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
maybe its my old LOST habit kicking back up, but i really enjoyed DARK, even if it did unravel a bit in the final ep
― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
also, loved this part so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJCikaDCiE
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
i want to try Darki didnt know fran from Black Books was in Episodes -i’ll give it a look!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
episodes video there is basically adult swim in a nutshell
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Myra's face is classic
― rob, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
it really is. so crazy to have to play that character for that long and make that face the whole time.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
ok i’m inthat clip was hilarious
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
episodes was great! totally worth it
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
okay, i have to post this since its online. i'm going to watch this whenever i'm down in the dumps. just kills me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8knZMHuTg_8
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
omg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
one more because Matt is so good in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4JTU5lRTOg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
― Evan R, Monday, January 22, 2018 1:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like extremely my shit
― gbx, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
my wife and i have been ploughing through neo-a-team series scorpion which is total, total garbage but oddly watchable
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
ohhh yeah that is primo velveeta tvterrible but great if you don’t have too much too often
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
we watched National Treasure the other night & i said to mr veg it plays like a really long episode of scorpion
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
i need to add a recommendation for good quality A+ movieTracks - 2013 Australian movie starring Mia Wasikowska & Adam Driver, directed by John Curran. - true story of a woman who walked 1700 km solo (with camels) across the Australian desert in 1977. It’s SO good. If you were kinda meh about “Wild” but love shit like Kontiki etc this is your movie. (I love ppl vs nature stories)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
i kinda want happy to get her own show tho, she’s def the best character xp
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
ok so The Vault was kind of a fun way to spend part of an evening
― gbx, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
Boy, Gerald's Game sure was some rough stuff, and one two minute sequence in particular is perhaps the most difficult to watch scene I've ever squirmed through, but the leads are great (Bruce Greenwood is always good, Carla Gugino under the radar for too long, for no good reason) and the story very timely, in its way.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
The End of The F***king World is pretty brilliant imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
Kind of done with serial killer things, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Like, even when Natural Born Killers was first out I was kind of done with them.
It's not really a serial killer thing
― Number None, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
I didn't think it added up to much though tbh. Started off strongly, but never really came together for me, and it felt overstretched even at eight short episodes. Great soundtrack though
― Number None, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
xpost it’s better than that, tho granted i say that as someone who isnt done w serial killersthe serial killer stuff is a framing device & drives the story but it’s more about being a teenager & being surrounded by adults who disappoint and or hurt you
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
i didnt know fran from Black Books was in Episodes -i’ll give it a look!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:43 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tamsin Grieg is also in Green Wing from a few years ago and was in The Archers for years. I got o see her playing a Conservative PM live on stage about 10 years ago too
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
nice!!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
I really enjoyed the End of the Fucking World, too. I loved what it did to the English landscape - making it seem like the landscape of my childhood, i.e. empty and monumental. And Sheppey, where it ends, is, basically the end of the world. I have family who've settled there and it's like nowhere else I've ever been. It was perfect.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Does anyone know where it was filmed?
― Yerac, Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
Like the suburban parts.
The bus station was in Guildford, apparently.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
the two kids were perfectly cast, great performances from the two of them
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
I want to thank everyone in here who recommended Episodes, specifically because I have now experienced the joy of Daisy Haggard as "head of comedy" Myra Licht. I could watch her grimace and wince and talk with a ridiculous nasal vocal fry for hours. She's my favorite actor now, in anything.
― JRN, Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
i was kinda surprised there wasn't a thread for it when i brought it up here. i thought it might have been one of those old hat things that people had talked about a bunch on ile but i couldn't find anything. but maybe its not monumental enough for that. i thought it was great. and the perfect Brit-length for a series too with a beginning, a middle, and an end. i'm glad showtime didn't make them film a zillion episodes. it would have ruined that.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link