Am partway through KILLING EVE. "Your husband has an excellent moo-stache."
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
I was getting into Limitless but ditched out when it looked like they were going Big Conspiracy route rather than the crime of the week.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Has anyone watched the Hannah Gadsby - Nanette special? Kinda emotionally devastatingthis has been built up to impossible heights over the past year, but it completely lives up to all the hype
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 June 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
thanks thread - watching hannah gadsby - great stuff
― mind how you go (Ross), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
The Hannah Gadsby thing is a stand up routine?
― Yerac, Friday, 22 June 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Ok, it is. For some weird reason I thought it was a movie. Looks good.
― Yerac, Friday, 22 June 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
Queer Eye makes me cry all the time. I’m not sure if that a good thing or a bad thing. The new sitcom from the Wayan dynasty is fine - I love bog standard sitcoms, and this did the job (i.e did don’t make me cry).
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 22 June 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
I watched In Living Color when it was on but for some reason stayed away from Wayan stuff because I assumed it was always worse than White Chicks level. It's better than that?
― Yerac, Friday, 22 June 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
Xposts to Maura. I’m not shaming her but it was only 6 years so I doubt anyone would be all like ‘OMG SHE’S SO OLD!!!!’
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 22 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
― maura, Friday, 22 June 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Cannabis cookery show? rly?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
Yeah, someone watch that and report back. I got irrationally/rationally angry when I saw it pop up.
― Yerac, Sunday, 24 June 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up? Not sure how long it’s been there, but just recently noticed it. Pretty much been my whole weekend.
― circa1916, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
highly recommend. it’s excellent!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
gutwrenching & horrific too obv
I def can’t stop watching it
― circa1916, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
Damn, not in the UK
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
That Hannah Gadsby show is interesting at times but not very good. I'm not sure it's something you can pick apart without causing offence to people, though. I liked her, she seems like a great woman but it's just not funny (in the funny section, i think i laughed once) nor that wise, really. There are some good bits in the latter serious section but because I hadn't laughed before that it didn't have the impact that was built up. She kept referring in the last minutes to her story but I didn't actually feel that she'd told me it. That's fine if it was too difficult to tell but it left me confused.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
nonplussed, I guess. I wanted to like it, to feel moved or just to laugh more than once. Her delivery is very weird/learned but unnatural. I wish her all the best obv.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
I thought it was great. It’s deeply personal & comes from a place of unfiltered anger which is hard to “craft” that into a palatable story that’ll appeal to everyone or you lose the sharpened edge. The whole point is catharsis so if yr not into that then it might leave u cold i guess I havent stopped thinking about it since I watched it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
I feel good about her doing it, for sure.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link
question for you: if it hadn’t been promoted as stand up comedy would you feel differently about it?ie removing the expectation that it would be funny?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 June 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
The weed cooking show is sub-Viceland bad.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 25 June 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
I was out of town for the weekend and the grad student who watched our dog also watched 9 episodes of the weed cooking show according to the “continue watching” thing
― joygoat, Monday, 25 June 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
veg otm, nanette is very much a slightly witty lecture dressed up as comedy to disarm the audience
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 June 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link
Any of your stash missing, joygoat?
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 25 June 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the Gadsby thing shouldn't have been categorized as stand up. But I still enjoyed it.
― Yerac, Monday, 25 June 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
isn't this her big thing after announcing she was retiring from standup?
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Monday, 25 June 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
she does it in the special more/less. it's a bit of a work - she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years - but honest enough at the core
― Nhex, Monday, 25 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
The Ranch is truly awful. Most incongruous laugh track I've heard in a while.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 25 June 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
I saw Nanette last year live, and walked out of it stunned. My partner at the time and I could barely figure out what to say to one another on the way home. It was during the month of the postal survey on SSM here last year which gave the whole evening a particular charge.
I watched on Netflix over the weekend and even though I knew exactly what was coming and what to expect, I was still left a weeping mess.
I'm not sure what's next for Hannah and I worry about her having to relive her trauma over and over again by doing this show for well over a year. But I'm glad it seems to be resonating, and I'm happy to see her have success and tell her story in her own way.
― monotony, Monday, 25 June 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
she's actually been fine-tuning this performance for almost two years -yeah, I haven't seen her for about four years, but iirc she announced this at the start of last year as being the last tour-y [not-really-]comedy thing, or first tour-y non-comedy thing, before switching to the art stuff full-time
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Monday, 25 June 2018 08:08 (five years ago) link
It was during the month of the postal survey on SSMoh fuck, that would have been completely devastating
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 June 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
i get it, i know what it is. it's just not clever enough to not be funny (which it isn't).
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 11:05 (five years ago) link
Whut? It isn't not clever enough to not be funny?
― DJI, Monday, 25 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
I don't think it's clever enough to make up for the fact that it's not funny, since it's actually a comedy show as it's presented. However, I'm definitely not here to shit on anyone's enthusiasm for this or for HG in general so I'll stop.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
*NOT actually a comedy show*
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
I binged season two of Marcella this weekend, and goddamn did that go to some dark, dark places.
― Eliza D., Monday, 25 June 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
xxp got it, thanks
― DJI, Monday, 25 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Set It Up, yet another comedy about how horrible bosses are actually spiky but redeemable lost souls and not, actually, weapons-grade savages responsible for 95% of the world's human misery
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
The woman lead in set it up was very charming.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Has it been mentioned that the Ken Burns Vietnam doc is up?
shh. we don't want somebody up in here posting about "good faith" all the time
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 June 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
scottish horror/thriller Calibre looks good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6yaSYAk2KU
I'm not sure it's on stateside.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
ooh i like that guy!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
which one?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
Watched W Kamau Bell: Private School Negro but didn't get through it. Dunno, his energy was pretty all over the place and comedy is so subjective, like I can handle that from Bamford or whatever but yeah, he had some good stories and was sincere but the stand up comedy hit to miss ratio on Netflix is pretty off.
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
the hit/miss ratio on everything on Netflix is whack. You really have to question the judgment of the producers and commissioners.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
their largest viewing audience numbers wise is millenials, so they seem to cater to that demographic and lifestyle, but like god was that kathy bates pot show terrible
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
hit/miss ratio on movies & broadcast n cable tv isn't too good either!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 2 July 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link