this show is so good - i didn't know i wanted a late-capitalist crying of lot 49 with added western hermeticism but i really, really did
just finished s1, can't wait to dive into season 2
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/06/costello― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 November 2019 06:32 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 November 2019 06:32 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is great btw, thx albert for posting - amazing how well jim gavin's voice here is reflected in the show
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
just watched s2ep7, that scene with dud and ernie was a tour de force. one of the saddest parts of the end of this beautiful show is that idk when we'll be able to see brent jennings in such a big role again. he's such a friendly, warming presence, even when (especially when) he's sad or angry.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
just started watching this last night, love it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
always good to see the Meat Man from Strangers w Candy
omg Bruce Campbell!! Silver Apples! Eden Ahbez! what a show
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
bruce campbell is so, so good in this
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
yeah, perfectly cast
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
this show made fantastic use of its guest stars
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
also v cool to see Charles Yu deliver a great script (albeit just for one episode)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
I feel like this show kinda stole How to Be a God in Central Florida's thunder
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
i don't see it tbh.
A) because this show was way too low-key to steal anyone's thunder andB) because how to be a god in central florida kinda didn't deliver (presumably due to its complicated gestation)
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
I saw HTBAGICF first but this seems so much better and predicated on a similar premise (recently traumatized loser becomes enmeshed in mysterious organization with hopes of striking it rich/finding redemption). that's all I meant.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
oh. well then i see it :D
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
big difference is that Dunst's character is motivated by revenge - which you can't really say about any of the main characters in Lodge 49
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I like the comparison cause they are/were both About Capitalism to some extent. I agree God is the weaker show (for now)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
yeah a lot of commonalities around being in debt, get-rich-quick schemes, frauds, corporations-as-mystery-cults
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
Meat Man/Blaise is so great in this, didn't know he had it in him
also just about fell out of my chair when the producer from Review showed up as the "psychic"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
so happy you‘re enjoying this!
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Thursday, 6 February 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
it seems like practically every scene features some great visual gag or detail - and the recurring ones are really well deployed (the coffee table without a table, the croaking raven in Ernie's house)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
I'm into this apart from the hapless tanktopped Englisher
― nashwan, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
I love the implied makeshift culture that takes root in the abandoned Orbis factory - the references to rival groups (the cook mentions a "treaty"?!), half-baked schemes like the trebuchet.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
The wide shot that reveals the "living room" area existing in the corner of the plant is my favorite visual gag in the whole series I think.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
yeah that was great
there's been a surprising amount of quality physical comedy/visual gags, lots of people falling through things etc. As soon as that murphy bed was introduced ...
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
SoCal people, trying to figure out what IRL company Orbis represents, Hughes Aircraft? It shut down for good in 97 when Jim Gavin would have been in his early 20s and could have made an impression, esp on the local south bay economy.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
I was trying to figure that out as well. The flashback stuff with Jackie Loomis and her Orbis paramour clearly a nod to the JPL/Jack Parsons/Crowley/L. Ron Hubbard axis
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
apart from Hughes the other one that occurred to me was General Dynamics
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
been putting off the last three episodes cause im so sad there aren't gonna be any more :(
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
just finished, remarkable show
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
There are two seasons of this right? I'm only just onto the last few of s1
― nashwan, Friday, 7 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Yep
― DJI, Friday, 7 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
I don't mind spoilers here tho
― nashwan, Friday, 7 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
I also dig the recurring motif of things getting smashed through - walls, windows, tables, maps, floors, ceilings
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Finally finished, am very happy sad at the moment. Probably gonna keep the mood going by listening to Broadcast’s joint album with The Focus Group.
The Mexico episode is one of the funniest hours of tv I’ve ever experienced, and the last ep worked fine as a series finale—still, you can’t help but wonder what was to come after that brilliant final shot.
Maybe Jim Gavin turns it into a book.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
also loved the touch in the finale that the other, background lynxes got annoyed at dud for not inviting them to guadalajara lol
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 February 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
i finally started this & i love it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
join ussssss
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 23 February 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
yay!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 February 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
you look defydrated
― na (NA), Friday, 28 February 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
damn I loved this show
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
s1e6 is fucking god-tier TV and probably the single reason why I'm now on my 4th rewatch of this show.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
The accelerating leaps of pace and the corners each revealed mystery exposes is just masterful.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
Petitioning to sneak s3 production costs into the covid relief bills, for our collective well-being
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
So just last night I found out (via my wife) who Wyatt Russell's parents are, I had no idea... in spite of meeting and chatted with his half-sister a few years ago.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Is this on any streaming services?
― calstars, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
amazon prime (s1 only in the UK)
― nashwan, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
hulu in the USA
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 April 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
Groundhog Day: Blaise plays Bill Murray's shrink and Ernie's boss plays the groundhog day MC/handler.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
as if on command:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9wZeh1lS0
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
thanks for that!rewatching my fave ep, 2.06 ("circles")....so much great stuff. "are you ready for an evening of gargantuan horror?"
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
"every man eventually shoots another man. it's a rite of passage."
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
man what a great show, what a sad way to go out
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
just finished this, what a beautiful miracle of a show
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 13 February 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
It pains me that I can't find S2 anywhere - it's just not available in the UK, even to purchase. I'm too out of practice to know where 'else' to look and the few places I've checked aren't giving me anything. ARGH.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:08 (one year ago) link
Was the same. Argh!I found a t0rr3nce of it (still not watched though!) so feel free to contact me via user name
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:16 (one year ago) link
This reminds me — I still need to reply to your lovely email from last year! I can also send a link to a w3transfer if that works.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
Hey Chinaski - would a VPN that shows you as being in the US work? I think Hulu here has both seasons.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
I've fiddled with a VPN before and couldn't get my head around it (I think I've finally ascended to the cloudy realm of learned helplessness). Which is to say, Chuck_Tatum, I would absolutely welcome seeds/We Transfer files!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
I ended up downloading s2 on Slsk
― nashwan, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
Admittedly I'm slightly under the influence (Dextromethorphan HBr 30 mg) but "Souvlaki Space Station" came on shuffle and I'm hearing a dubbier version of the Lodge 49 theme in certain (quieter?) parts... anyone hearing that?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:48 (four months ago) link