I really like the McHale Show. It's not quite as punch as the old one but I think it'll get there in time.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
Xp the doc about national lampoon is on Netflix too. The generally dislike biopics or fictionalized accounts of true stories - is much rather see a documentary about a subject.
― just1n3, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
Just looked it up - Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is the doc name
― just1n3, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
i love the mchale show
― maura, Saturday, 24 March 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
My wife and I are a few episodes into Tientsin Mystic, a paranormal detective show set about 100 years ago in China. We're finding it very entertaining - great sets and costumes, a lot of humor, some suspense but not laid on too thick. It's a relatable show. Very easy to get along with, which we both kinda need right now (as opposed to something that's overly serious, complicated, or edgy).
I went poking around online for more information about it this morning. There isn't a lot out there (in English at least), but apparently it met with government censorship last month and was removed from a Chinese streaming service due to a "related policy reason".
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1088796.shtml
― how's life, Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:00 (six years ago) link
I know this is a really small gripe in the grand scheme of things, but there's a weird lag on Netflix's activity reporting for me. This morning I had a notification to tell me about new episodes of the Santa Clarita Diet, but I've already started watching it. I know about it. It keeps suggesting I watch new episodes of Love, but I've already watched them. And I had to manually search for the new episode of RPDR because my Continue Watching for Trish section hadn't updated. It bugs me.
― trishyb, Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
xp someone probably didn't get the right bribe
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
We watched one episode of The Zoo. I don't think we are going to continue.
― Yerac, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
We watched an episode of Scandal at lunchtime today, just out of curiosity since we kept hearing how Shonda is a big West Wing fan, and I love Josh MalinaAaaaand we’re already up to ep3 of Season 2 😂I hear it gets bad later but goddamn this show is like a giant waterslide, it’s so fast paced & fun. And Tony Goldwyn is so normcore hot I cannot stand it. Love.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2018 06:57 (six years ago) link
Watched all of the McHale show last night. I was into it. That Game Over movie was so terrible I fell asleep. how is that lumpy mayo guy getting so many roles recently?
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 March 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
i guess people watch a lot of workaholics on netflix
― maura, Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
i am so happy about the joel mchale show though. it feels short but that’s because there are no commercial breaks. and i’m surprised at how subdued the seacrestfreude is. but otherwise im all in and i hope it gets renewed
― maura, Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
We watched all of them before I knew what was happening (mchale show). We had some embarrassing snorting/chortling going on.
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
This is how out of touch I am sometimes. I just looked up Workaholics and never knew about this show. 7 seasons!
― Yerac, Sunday, 25 March 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
i kinda hate most of the skits in the mchale show. think maybe the soup during his run had better writers.
― ian, Sunday, 25 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
i miss joel's soup outfits the most which is weird because i usually hate suits.
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Monday, 26 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
I checked out Workaholics and it's either awful or very much not for me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 26 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Based upon that movie, it's likely awful.
― Yerac, Monday, 26 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
xost yeah but Joel had those gooood James Bond type suits, lots of Tom Ford & whatnotYou cant not suits like that on a guy like him
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 March 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
Speaking of Joel McHale, he's on Santa Clarita Diet season 2, which is actually really good now.
The first season was all over the place tone-wise but they've gotten in a good rhythm balancing the wacky family hijinks and the zombie mystery subplots.
― Roz, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
would a fan of IZOMBIE like SANTA CLARITA DIET?
― maura, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
Oh, I am interested in this question too. I keep pausing on Santa Clarita Diet.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
This iZombie fan does! SCD is a very different show though, both way more goofy and more gory.
― Roz, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
i hadn't seen drew in a long time and when she showed up on joel's netflix show to plug her netflix show she was....someone's mom! i mean i know we all get older. it was just weird. haven't seen her in years. she looked like she just hopped out of the mini-van.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
Lol that's how I felt about Winona on Stranger Things.
― Roz, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
reminds me of running into someone I've worked with for years but haven't really talked to in person. my first thought wasn't "wow, he's gotten older" though, it was "jesus christ I've got to be old"
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
Ha, and I was thinking during that segment "Didn't Tim Olyphant use to be kind of hot?"
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
There's no "used to be" about it. Timothy Olyphant is super hot.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
^ Seconded. I think he looks better now than ever!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Oh man, I was not feeling him at all when he was on the McHale show. "That's the same guy from Go???"
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
But I also sometimes get him confused with the guy that married Fergie.
This same discussion happened on Twitter earlier today. Luckily, it resulted in some nice Olyphant gifs being posted.
sorry but Josh Duhamel is the poor man's Timothy Olyphant pic.twitter.com/m2eiWPA4DM— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) March 27, 2018
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
I can find no images of TO's turn as a Macys elf off-Broadway in The Santaland Diaries in '96, in which I saw him wearing candycane-striped tights.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
The zeitgeist!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Olyphant doing Santaland Diaries is kind of blowing my mind
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
I can't find one with the stripey tights, but here he is.
http://timothyolyphantjustified.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tim-santaland-diaries.jpg
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
awww he looks like a newborn cat
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
https://previews.123rf.com/images/peachloveu/peachloveu1604/peachloveu160400084/55834279-human-hand-gently-holding-face-of-adorable-newborn-brown-tabby-kitten-on-white-background.jpg
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
I watched The Wedding Ringer last night, a movie I had never heard of (Kevin Hart, Josh Gad). There were some entirely f'd up moments that did not age well at all. There is a bit about a dog licking peanut butter from Josh Gad's dick while he's tied up at his bachelor party!?!
― Yerac, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
Is the film God's Own Country on US Netflix? It's on the UK service and I highly recommend it. It's about farming, gay sex and brexit so there's something for everyone.
― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Monday, 2 April 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
Finally got around to watching Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno and holy shit, one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. It's not just about volcanoes (though there is some insane footage); there's a stretch where Herzog goes to North Korea and gets deeply weirded out
― Evan R, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
yeah that was really good, one of his best
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
not netflix but free on the BBC america website, but "Killing Eve" is Phoebe Waller-Bridges' ("Fleabag" and "Crashing") new thing, and is a super fun spy thriller. I love Sandra Oh.
― just1n3, Friday, 6 April 2018 05:51 (six years ago) link
My wife and I are a few episodes into Tientsin Mystic, a paranormal detective show set about 100 years ago in China. We're finding it very entertaining - great sets and costumes, a lot of humor, some suspense but not laid on too thick. It's a relatable show. Very easy to get along with, which we both kinda need right now (as opposed to something that's overly serious, complicated, or edgy).I went poking around online for more information about it this morning. There isn't a lot out there (in English at least), but apparently it met with government censorship last month and was removed from a Chinese streaming service due to a "related policy reason".http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1088796.shtml― how's life, Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
We're about halfway through this (there are 24 episodes) and totally addicted.
― how's life, Friday, 6 April 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
There's a dedicated thread for it that I'm avoiding b/c spoilers, but is that Wild Country documentary worth sticking with? Watched the first episode and the story was periodically interesting but the pacing was brutally slow
― Evan R, Monday, 9 April 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
The pacing continues to be brutally slow, but if you don't know the story, it is fascinating.
― trishyb, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
The pacing is terrible and most of the people they interview continue to be kind of terrible. It gets better but I barely made it through. They left so many questions unanswered, granted I did fall asleep for a good half hour somewhere in the middle.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
Finally watching Money Heist aka La Casa de Papel after having it on my queue for ages. It's good and totally bingeworthy. Too bad we started it on Sunday evening.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
lots of great footage in wild wild country but only worth sticking with if you’re gonna use it as a jumping off point to read the Oregonian investigative series and hunt down other sources imo, maybe take Allen (etaeoe) or Aimless out for a drink
― sciatica, Monday, 9 April 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link