Mike Wallace Is Here on Hulu

because if you post here, it's about you

also, angie worked on it.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

them in a day or two.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

He has a good show/on air podcast called The Funny Don't Stop. It's where he brings his true charisma & blunt & honest approach to the mic. He has some cohorts which bring the heat.

not bad

The Irishman -

not as good as the hype, not as bad as the negative publicity.

Kevin Hart -

still on the fence. I clicked on the trailer, but aside from either stand-up comedy or a movie, I don't see why I should care about it or be 'entertained' by it.

Deon Cole "Cole Hearted" -

not "deep" or knee-slapping, but like-ably funny. Definitely has some good moments

6 Underground -

I really like Ryan Reynolds, but I couldn't suspend belief enough to be engaged by him in THIS kind of role.

That's it. Oh, and YouTube tutorials.

The wife is watching Watchmen and it’s even better the second time around. Missed some serious clues. Friends were over and they were all in even tho they never seen it before. It’s that good.

The Good Place. My coworker recommended it... it’s aight. The idea is great but it’s just ok.

A Different World. Love this show.. I throw it on just cause. I forgot Halle Berry made a cameo. So many faces in the background of people who ended up doing big shit. Also saw Sinbad in Charlotte at the Midnight Diner over the weekend. 6 degrees.

Mandalorian... just realized the dude who wrote Swingers is directing this series. He did his thing. I’m legit mad it’s over.

Also need to start Lost in Space 2.

after a while, it just lost me.

what season are you on?

foreign joint that my new Indian friend put me on too

watched a few crime documentaries. About to peep this Aaron Hernandez joint on Netflix as soon as the football game goes off. Contemplating starting Greenleaf...not sure yet.

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it was solid. Now watching Truth Be Told..... its heating up...

Ive watched like 6 episodes in 2 days

Shame that it probably has a limited audience because of it being on Apple TV+. I thought it was amazing.

Episode 1 was solid, last night. I know this is a Stephen King joint, but I almost feel like HBO could have gotten away with branding this True Detective Season 4.

...and why did I watch West World, Season 1 Episode 1 as if I ain't seen it before?

about to start Outsiders tomorrow.

I realized if I have the option to binge a show it takes longer for me to watch it because I will procrastinate.

New shows that air once a week will get my attention because I want to be up to speed.

and I’ve had several people telling me to watch “The Good Place” for years.

My bonding TV wactching time with my mom includes--

Married at First Sight
This Is Us
Greenleaf

My sanctified, saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost aunt watches Greenleaf. It's always hillarious to talk to her about the show! :-)

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I was entertained!!

Just finished season 4. That Grace situation *smh*

An poor Charity - I mean damn!

and ol girl that’s married to the brother...ugh, damn.

Can't wait to watch more tonight.

He died in Ep. 2! Truly didn't see that coming. They set it up like it's gonna be all about him but, it's Stephen King, so there's this macabre shit going on in the background. Can't wait to see that develop more.

In Ep. 3, right when the asshole cop pulls up to the barn by himself I can say I didn't know what was gonna happen...until they shot from under the truck of him taking a piss. Classic horror shot. I knew some bad shit was about to happen to him. I thought he'd be dead though, so what DID happen to him.

Man, I'm pissed I can't binge this.

When he went up their late night I knew it was a bad idea.

I was thrown off by that second episode hit I guess he has to go shoot Ozarks.

Love the early death/spin used on this show. Kinda mad tho because I really like watching Bateman on screen. Had no idea he would become this type of talent.

Outsider did them shits.

like this much either but I am going to finish it. It started better than it is ending - which was also true for Haven.

Ramy
Terrace House
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Pen15

Watchmen was more than anything I could ever want or thought I needed. I love the series (and could never get into the comic).

I like Ramy, a lot. I started watching because of Yousseff's Golden Globe win.

The 3rd season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel isn't as good as the first two seasons, to me. I love most of the show's characters, so I'm not going anywhere.

I've never watched CYE. I think it's funny, but I also don't like some of it.

Pen15. It's alright.

It's finally back on HBO
The Young Pope is one of my favorite unexpected finds.

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I feel like how white folks must have felt watching Atlanta. Like Ramy is funny....but I'd probably be alot funnier if I was Muslim

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

which is why I never got into the office even though I laugh when I watch it.

I wish people would stop comparing stuff to Atlanta....not just you but like damn now there's a white Atlanta, Muslim Atlanta....let shit stand on it's own cuz I PROMISE it's not Atlanta

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watched S1/E1, earlier. It didn’t blow me away, but it was definitely good enough to keep watching.

I might revisit at some point.

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and ol' girl was cutting convenient 'deals' left and RIGHT.



finished it tho.

meh

Passed initially

A friend has been on me to check it

F’n love it

Obviously overdramatized and some of the characters are over the top/cartoonish

But it works, and alot of the references feel accurate.

nm

I loved the first half of the season tho... thought it was brilliant

Loved the kids, loved the music. Looking back and seeing early(ish) Yahya Abdul Mateen, Shameik Moore, & Justise Smith work.

And I really liked Jaden Smith in his role too. I've probably watched Neo Yokio 7-10 times. I don't check for him much but when he gets me he gets me

The Witcher. Cavill nails the role of Geralt perfectly and I like the rest of the cast. The story, action and special effects were good.

And now I can't get that damn Witcher song out of my head!

Blackish
Mixedish
This is Us
Pose
How to Get Away With Murder
Patriot Act

I love it when shows that have been on for a while still manage to be outstanding. man I actually cried laughing tonight it was so funny. I guess because I've been on that vacation so I related to a lot, especially the baby locking himself in the bathroom. happened to us once lol



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-Patriot. Dark comedy, smart, sad, funny, gross. Full of WTF moments, funny. Beautifully shot.

-Cartoon President. Funny, recommended if you follow politics.

-The Feed. Meh. I mean, its good but it moves SLOW as fuck.

-Mr. Robot. I havent been this fucked up on a show in a long long time. That last season was like a fucking dagger to the face. The opening to the 7th episode was fucking art...hell, that entire episode was art.

-Ray Donovan. I got through season 1 and kinda stopped at season 2. I can't find the energy to go on, it seems to drag.

-Suits. Alright. Meghan Markle is fine as hell in this show. I never got it until I watched this. The show is so bad its good. Also, Gina Torres, fine as hell.

-Season 3 of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. This show does not disappoint. I don't know how to feel about the Shy Baldwin reveal, I'm of two minds about it and and one of them is admittedly inappropriate.

-The Expanse. I'm only trying this because people keep fucking talking about it and there are 7 seasons. So far it's good-ish and I can see how it could be a Star Trek replacement. Still not sure, I don't hate it but I'm also not geeked about it, it's like a spiced up bowl of oatmeal with craisins and brown sugar.

-Legion Season 3. FUCK. Still trying to watch this, I loved season 1 and season 2 but this is getting harder to watch and justify.

-Pose Season 2. Just no. What the fuck are you doing? Season 1 was good, season 2 is...trying.

-Billions. MY NIGGA, I love this shit and I can't wait for it come back in may. It's so dumb I can't forgive myself for liking this shit. Its not even in the same realm as Succession.

-Euphoria. Tried it. Entertaining. Drake.

-Chernobyl. Fuck, why am I sad? Oh right, I watched the sad show.

-Silicon Valley. Sad to see it go. Very very sad, but, the welcome was long worn out and I get the sense the SV start up era we knew from the mid and late 2000s is gone and we're on to some other shit that I still cannot identify and I work in tech.

Showtime has a bad habit of letting their shows run on to a point where you forget when they were ever good to begin with. Shameless being the most glaring example right now with Ray Donovan and Homeland not far behind. At least Homeland is hanging it up after this season.

seasons or anthology shows.

So far so good, both episodes had me laughing hard. It will be interesting to see where they take the characters this go around.

HBONOW

HBONOW

so far i'm digging it. only one episode in though.

wife is watching Call the Midwife. can't front, that show is interesting.

Picard is great! Avenue 5 is great. Curb might be as good as it used to be. Impeachment had a great first season, but the second season is shitty so far. Looking forward to some twists at the end.

One 2 episodes in and I’ve done a lot of wtf like Regina King in Watchmen

the first season is sooo bad lol, but it does get good in later seasons

I really do love that movie

this show is growing on me.

days.

peace & blessings,

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

the report - excellent
marriage story - strong performances (adam killed it, laura/ray/alan were all soooo entertaining), lackluster everything else. As described by a review I read, noah baumbach had one hand on his dick and the other up his ass.
logan lucky - middling. Not terrible. Acceptable as basic cable saturday afternoon fare.

such a really good show with excellent actors/actresses, sam esmail
is a genius.

but I have never been a big fan of stand up

when she is going off the cuff and when she is acting on screen? i fux w/ her heavy.

We watched it but it wasn’t funny... except for the hunched over like a shrimp joke

but you can't tell me they didn't smash back in the day.

but yes, he's looked out for her immensely, and she gives him credit for it all the time, which i think is dope.

who is an incarcerated, self-taught lawyer fighting for his freedoms.)

shit is very dope. very well done.


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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

but overall it looks to have potential

too bad it only lasted 2 seasons

As far as I'm concerned, the third season of Twin Peaks is the best thing ever broadcast on TV.

But it's very divisive. You might not be into it even if you liked the first 2 seasons.

After you finish season 2, watch the movie (which is also very divisive). If you're still into it, sign up for Showtime (as an okp you should have it anyway, for Desus & Mero). 18 viewing-hours later, you'll think "wait, what the fuck just happened?" And then you'll be trying to figure it out for the rest of your life.

There are rumors that a fourth season is brewing, but I'll believe it when I see it.

That shit was good.

I started watching the first episode and turned it off.

Watched Truth Be Told. It was okay.

Aesthetically very appealing too.

first episode was kinda eh to me. i almost wanted to bail but it ended up being good. i think the dialog loses me at points but theres a lot of good in the show that i can overlook it.

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all solid, but I was really feeling Imposters. There’s two seasons, it originally airs on Bravo and I just read it didn’t get renewed for a third season. Smh.

It's kinda on the cheesy side but it certainly keeps our attention.

curious what, in particular, you found cheesy.

... opinion necessarily. And it'll probably work itself out, and not be what I think it is, but the "fat kid as comic relief" angle is what I'm referring to specifically. Just so outplayed to me.

Otherwise, some of the dialogue feels a little mehhh to me .. some of it is a little too on the nose. But that's a minor gripe.

But again I'm not even 3 episodes in so I'm assuming/hoping that's just an early perception on my part and isn't a season-long thing.

so it moves fast.

The animation was 'off' to me when it started out. Like, why are they even bothering with the medium if they are going to have regular actors with lines around their faces. Then the sci-fi / magical realism kicked in and it made sense.

I wish more people took notice. Hadn’t heard of it at all until I did a free Prime trial.

It was quite good. Learned a lot about how fucked up the opioid epidemic has been. A highschool friend of mines brothers were locked up for armed robbery of a pharmacy. My girlfriends ex fucked his whole life up from pill addiction. Sad, and infuriating the role that drug companies and doctors had in the whole thing. Morally bankrupt greedy fucks.

had been putting it off because I knew it would be lightweight depressing.

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why was Danny Jr. killed? What transpired that made the murder happen? I know the police had a theory of what happened before they figured out who it was, but the doc never told us the actual specifics of what Danny Jr. got shot. Mind you, I am not finished with the show yet.

So I'm not sure either.

Great show tho.

>why was Danny Jr. killed? What transpired that made the
>murder happen? I know the police had a theory of what happened
>before they figured out who it was, but the doc never told us
>the actual specifics of what Danny Jr. got shot. Mind you, I
>am not finished with the show yet.

Just starting it now.

is it just me? got better towards the end but the first few episodes seem pretty meh to me. i think the story was interesting but the show didnt seem to be very good overall this season.

still keeping up with blackish and This is Us on demand

sad for The Good Place ending

looking forward to Good Girls and High Fidelity

Lincoln Rhyme is filling that Friday boredom Grimm space with average acting of interesting writing

at first I thought it was like It's Always Sunny, but with people who grew up mega-rich. Looking back, now that its almost finished, this was more of a reverse Breaking Bad situation....a breaking good is you will.

Better Call Saul season 5 coming next weekend.

She probably feels ashamed but the facts are right there. You did what you did. Sheesh.

FBI most wanted and survivor on cbs, and love island uk and shrill on Hulu.

I’m having a delightful time with all

the movie Malcolm X was on Netflix last month but now it is gone. I rented it and watched it after I watched Who Killed Malcolm X.

SOOOOO dope. A lot of great stories. Only 3, 1 hour episodes. I’m sure I’ll watch it, again. Also...Debbie Allen is beautiful and I love Whoopi’s voice.

watching it.

in Juice, brought the biggest smile to my face.

I'd love to hear Harry Belafonte alone talk about this for 3 hrs. Destiny Ekaragha totally demolished that notion that the Brits aren't obsessed with race like Americans. And Robert Townsend could do a whole standup special using his own stories within the industry. Dude had me rollin. The love that Julie Dash got here was heartwarming as well.

Didn’t finish it because I wanted to watch Outsiders before going
to bed but the first 5 minutes was gangster af

visually cool af

But it’s shot really well.

Definitely watching a few episodes tonight.

The fuck was that bullshit comic book intro shit?

My wife was like “what is this?” and I didn’t have a good answer. After the tot store scene it turned into a shit show.

Stylistically, the show is all over the place. Almost like there are multiple directors / writers on the same episode (vs. The Walking Dead and others where episode to episode there may be a shift in styles)

The corny shit gave us both pause too but soon after my wife was like 'wow this is really dark'

That second episode was the only blemish in it IMO.

It was a really good watch.

It tied everything together, definitely was a Keyser Soze kind of moment, but part of me had a hard time believing the Wolf would swing so heavily the other way and hunt Nazis under an assumed identity.

Still, hopefully this leaves the story at a good place for Season2.

I'm kind of confused why it's not getting higher ratings on Prime. Wondering if it's a bunch of troll ass alt-right bois throwing the ratings out of wack. Lord knows I have seen some pretty hilarious complaints about this show from conservative / right-wing folks online.

i completely lost interest in the last two episodes. i expected the wolf twist/reveal. not really interested in season 2. kinda got real tired of jonah.

it was still overall entertaining but so much exposition.


im a bit confused about one part. there was a flashback showing meyer helping ruth get on a truck in the camp right? then he gets shot and ruth drives away with some other dude. uhm...how did they both end up back in camp? did i miss that? i would expect meyer to be dead at that point and for ruth to also be killed if they were caught. that was kind of weird.

my wife was tapped out, but I was still into the finale. I kind of never fully warmed to Jonah, so his turn from sullen to grating didn't really tax my nerves too badly.

>i completely lost interest in the last two episodes. i
>expected the wolf twist/reveal. not really interested in
>season 2. kinda got real tired of jonah.
>
>it was still overall entertaining but so much exposition.

Usually anything that warrants 10 full minutes of monologue punctuated with the intermittent 'BUT HOW?!?!'s from the protagonist can't possibly be good.

>im a bit confused about one part. there was a flashback
>showing meyer helping ruth get on a truck in the camp right?
>then he gets shot and ruth drives away with some other dude.
>uhm...how did they both end up back in camp? did i miss that?
>i would expect meyer to be dead at that point and for ruth to
>also be killed if they were caught. that was kind of weird.

This warrants a revisit for sure.

>It tied everything together, definitely was a Keyser Soze
>kind of moment, but part of me had a hard time believing the
>Wolf would swing so heavily the other way and hunt Nazis under
>an assumed identity.

..His motives were always clear: self preservation.

He saw an opportunity to protect his own interest (in the camp when he assumed Meyer's identity, with Ruth when she asked for aid), all to avoid being identified and ultimately punished. He knew the best way to keep his secret was to silence anyone else that could expose it.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

Jordan Peele is next level with the tie-ins to modern American fascism and casual anti-semitism.

Anything that triggers sympathizers of white nationalism like this gotta be good:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FragileWhiteRedditor/comments/fa9epm/some_people_are_really_triggered_by_the_new/

im enjoying it but should probably had watched at a slower pace. i think i have 2/3 episodes left.

its such a weird mix of things but its very aware of such and plays on it.

I can't say I like this movie.

the first time in my life i've ever had a problem with the ending of a film

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It's a total nothing movie but if you like good acting, engaging line reads, constantly clever and absurd uses of lighting and the artifice of a sound stage, it's a pretty wild and quick 90 minutes. If they'd had tried to sell this movie even a little I think it could've been a small success, but it was filmed in 2016 and sent out to die on VOD among a flood of negative reviews in 2018 so maybe I'm wrong. I wrote a bit about it for my own memory if I could try to sell anyone a bit harder on it:


Someone had the bright idea to weld Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels to The Seventh Seal and pretend it was directed by Nicolas Winding-Refn had he been sat in The Architect's chair and handed the keys to The Matrix (the augmented reality program, not the film franchise). I can see why this movie would be so divisive, considering it gives so much of itself away early on and needlessly complicates itself with a wonky timeline. Terminal overflows with confidence at every turn, from its ludicrous stylized lighting to its peak-Ritchie dialogue quirks to its Nolanesque fascination with the power of time to manipulate an audience.

At 90 minutes, Terminal never stops imagining itself to be the greatest achievement in film, and that allows for a compellingly brisk watch. At one point it's a Jarmuschian meditation on whether the joy of life is worth the price of death, at another it's practically a video game adaptation of The Game if Shrek were portrayed via full motion video and there was zero action. Seriously, what came first, the makeup or the casting of Mike Myers? Is his entire ensemble self-provided or did it come from the script? Did he ghostwrite this damn movie? Did Hideo Kojima?

If you like your movies pointed but pointless, an overdose on the idea that a series of photographs displayed concurrently at a rate that resembles actual motion is as much a delivery device for lucid dreams as any relatable reality, Terminal is your fucking jam. If you want a big idea, you're not going to get it. If the ending feels like the beginnings of a huge franchise here, sorry, Terminal isn't going to be Margot Robbie's John Wick. Instead, it's more like her Man on Fire as imagined by Harley Quinzel in a fever dream the first night after The Joker left her for dead for the first time. These are the sorts of huge swing-and-misses I think more people should be salivating over, not just because the miss part is wrong but because everyone involved with this stepped up to the plate and swung as hard as they could at every single pitch, unconcerned with whether making contact was the point.


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Did another little journaling about this one. I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT AT ALL, unless you find the need to queue up a rom-com with a more unique premise than "big businessman meets owner of local bakery". For a TL;DR - a desperate, sex-addicted journalist randomly runs into a high price escort "who went to Stanford" and decides to write a profile of her life, and they gradually fall in love with each other mostly through the emptiness of the sex they have with other people. It never made theaters so it doesn't have a rating, but if that sounds like an R-rated scenario to you it's pretty impressive how coldly they go about making a PG-13 film out of it.

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Sometimes, I get a good night's sleep, put on a pot of coffee, read the morning news and figure out what I'm gonna do with my day off. Others, I eat too little food, plan to have just one drink before friends show up and turn it into four, get way too stoned on the way home, order four types of wings on GrubHub, eat a couple of each and fall asleep before 9PM only to wake up shortly after midnight and just kind of linger around doing nothing until finally I pull up Hulu and find some milquetoast trash (while I put on a pot of coffee, read the morning news and so on).

Today, The Escort was that movie.

First, the pros: Lyndsy Fonseca brings a lot to a remarkably thin role, the (first) conversation between the two leads over their preferred sexual healthcare providers feels charmingly genuine and the sex-positivity of a movie that finds a sex addict and a sex worker find love through the tropes of a typical romantic comedy (all while still having sex with many other people) is truly unique. That's three small, good things about this full length feature written by the star of the film and directed by a guy who mostly wrangles you-never-heard-of-it TV shows.

Luckily, the cons are pretty lukewarm. The star, Michael Donegen, has a super relatable inability to act that makes him a pretty rancid screen partner for Fonseca but a fine on screen avatar for any failing upwards white guy in his early 30s that hopes to settle down with the prettiest girl he ever met one time. Louder, for the people in the back: he sucks. The script (again, written by Donegen) is so concerned with satisfying the invisible rules of screenwriting that none of its characters have full names, their motivations absolutely never have an impetus beyond the tropes they're built to satisfy and the dialogue is the equivalent of putting a traditional rom com on mute and banging out whatever your bad lip reading version would be.

In another era, this would've been some kind of Saturday Night Special on NBC that aired once and was immediately forgotten by everyone who witnessed or made it. It's certainly shot and lit like an overlong special episode of a television show, which over time became my true biggest gripe with this movie. Because these are characters we're getting to know over the course of the film, rather than a television series, the constant blandness of the male lead and the set design really struggles to draw any emotional investment out of the viewer. As a television show, they'd have had a chance to develop some chemistry and spread all the PG jokes about X rated topics out across a couple of months - maybe even workshop them into good PG jokes about X rated topics.

In the streaming era, Hulu adds it to their trash heap, Nodima groggily and belatedly presses play one Monday morning and, just as the day The Escort was born it remains a remarkably sterile look at the lives of two people who find love for each other through the sex they have with other people. I'm frankly stunned at how efficiently this movie sucks the life out of itself, scene by scene, until the very last frame where it seems to realize what a useless husk it's become and just gives up. There are points in this movie where it feels like they did a single take on the first day the actors met. One scene in particular, when the not-yet-lovers first meet Mitch's dad, reads so clearly like two actors that don't have the timing of their scene down that I was almost convinced The Escort exists primarily as educational material, a great example of how a dozen tiny little things can add up to turn a unique premise into a generic product, but also why so many directors and writers gravitate towards the generic product in the first place.

Turns out, formula makes for a completely watchable, comfortable escape from the actual bad things in life more often than not. Even if it has very little in its favor other than satisfying the factory settings and, in a just world, offering a director with more talent and a better script in hand some notion that maybe a movie starring Lyndsy Fonseca in a role where she's more than an excuse for a bland nothing of a man to pick up the pieces of his life would be a great idea.



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I'm side-eyeing every muthafucka named Jerry after watching this shit.

it's a train wreck...

i think that indicates that i'm sliding into another depressive episode

i'm gonna finish it though lol

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It's on Hulu. I'd watched bits and pieces throughout the years. Started from scratch, Sunday night. Already in Season 2.

This is a tough watch. SO many failures. Just so many.

what little i already knew about it is beyond infuriating.

I can’t remember how many times my wife and I snapped our heads around at the same time to look at each other like...”no...that can’t be real”. That child was begging for help and NO ONE was there for him. Everyone failed him. Everyone.

was awful for him.

Young Margret and old. Those are not the only good episodes. Season 2's story line about Philip was just as good as her story line. And season 2 is the best of the three by far. As for season 3, the Margret episodes were the best.

Love Princess Margaret!

Been waiting on this

on Amazon Prime

I am sorry I took so long to check this show out.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

It was okay. I liked seeing a black woman in that role, that is typically carried by a white male on screen. The story lines were nothing new though. The grandma was entertaining.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

like it was said above, nothing too ground breaking, but still a worthy venture. Netflix South Africa turns out some fun stuff.

Not a movie I would want to watch again just because it’s pretty sad, but very well done.

Im a few episodes in and I think its probably going to take a turn and become stupid any moment now. So far its entertaining though. Ron Weasley is a grown ass man.

Tried watching Amazing Stories but it was weak.

not super deep or insightful, but it was great to have all those interviews, with all of them doing their impressions of Miles' raspy voice

Very inspiring...

Like the show, and he is cute to watch, but it makes be grateful I don't have kids lol

all very good.

It’s on Netflix.

Dude said... “Monkey people.. they are different, but big cat owners??? Back stabbing pieces of shit”

everyone that worked there and is being interviewed had a missing limb.. or limbs.

... been exposed to.

life is truly stranger than fiction. That lady def killed her husband!

>life is truly stranger than fiction. That lady def killed her
>husband!

The interviews after the documentary were interesting too. That story Rick Kirkham told about the old lady and the horse should've been in the documentary.

I was wondering why you said everyone being interviewed was missing limbs tho. It was just the one Asian person and the man who lost his legs jumping out of a plane prior to working there. He seems like a really cool dude btw.

it was not good

>it was not good

>it was not good

Cuz the title sounded so promising lol

It's actually really well done

Who thought that was a good idea?

being a part of the story.

I loved it, but I'm also a boxing fan.

They went hard as hell with the 'evil light skinned woman' trope although there's naturally a history of colorism in a racist as system, too much of this was fabricated.
Her main rival wasn't even light like that.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/annie-malone-and-madam-cj-walker-pioneers-african-american-beauty-industry
She also wasn't the nasty asshole they portrayed her as. The movie has her telling Madam CJ that she didn't want her selling her products, but IRL she legit hired her as a salesperson.
I also haven't found any legit documentation of her daughter being lesbian. A'Lelia's girlfriend is confirmed a fictional character by her very granddaughter, who also says her grandmother was married to 3 men. She also says she had queer friends and "may" have dated a woman after her 3rd marriage. All we know for sure is that she would party and kick it with anyone.
Then there was the funeral director guy who tried rape her which NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED.
Booker T. Washington didn't say that BS to her about women staying in their place. He did have issues with the black beauty industry at first because all of them at the time were trying to imitate white beauty. He also ignored her when she stood and spoke up at that conference. Just a year later, he was calling her an exemplary example of black womanhood. Interesting history there. It was definitely on her to forge that relationship, no doubt, but that tongue lashing he gave her in the film never happened.

this was a lot.

dope.

Lot of viral apocalypse, little bit uplifting observational humor


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

but it is not captivating me at all.

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Fuck aliens

-Warriorpoet415

#2dopebrothersandastackofwax

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Aka: Gentrified Atlanta

It's a lot better than I expected. Storyline isn't bad and it's pretty funny

i kind feel i need to rewatch it but im kind of dreading doing so. i didnt exactly enjoy watching a lot of it. the show is good but its not something that i want to watch over and over again lol

... like BB this is not that show.

But IMO it's more impressive than BB in that it doesn't *depend* on that constant action to keep it going. Additionally, we know the fates of a couple of the characters so to me that makes the writing strategy that much more difficult.

I highly recommend it. But at the same time, if you're someone who's looking for fast paced TV then you can probably just leave it be lol. And to be clear there's nothing wrong with that.

like i dont want to rewatch those scenes lol definitely a great show. i dont usually rewatch shows in general but one with this mood is definitely one i dont really want to rewatch. i want to get back into it. hopefully netflix still remembers where i left off. i might read through some recaps so i know im not missing/forgetting anything.

really is a great show. everything that is done is done right. they can introduce a small character for one scene and it has a purpose but isnt forced. they can give you the feeling of hours passing by in a 2 minute scene.

this season is dope, gonna need to see how i can watch the new season.

damn we are really flying through Carole and Tuesday, nearly finished season 2. so upset the full soundtrack isn't on vinyl

I felt like I was going to loose interest after a certain scene but then the movie changed a bit and kept my interest. It was good.

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nm

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is how much better they are than the universally detestable people in it.

I'll pass.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

I love it

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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By far.

Also, as someone who grew up in KC and now lives in STL I HATE the fact that it is not filmed in MO, but LOVE it when they name drop my stomping grounds like Overland Park, Lees Summit and Webster Groves.

stories about the KC mob and I used to be rolling my eyes because I paid more attention to what I saw on tv shows and movies and until recently Hollywood didn't really mention the KC mob.

I am looking forward to season 4 of Fargo which I think is also about the KC mob.

being born and raised in STL, I was like...mannnn, come on. I will say that having been to the Ozarks more times than I can remember...they absolutely nailed the aesthetic.

The way the cranked up the empathy for Wendy and her brother in that one episode was amazing.

The whole episode was good but that opening scene was capturing.

this shxt hit different...especially his li'l bit about "...there's a flu going around that's killin' people.."

so far not liking season 3 as much as last season but it's starting to get good. i'm on ep 6

Zerozerozero was pretty great.

it always has prominent placement on the netflix homepage but i havent seen anyone talking about it.

I can see why nobody was clamoring to see/talk about this movie, but it's a REALLY good comfort food movie. Michael Cera plays a great poker shark/Tobey Maguire stand-in, Elba's accent breaks at all the most dramatic beats for his character for some good unintentional comedy, lot of great That Guy appearances, and for a 2hr20min movie it moves at a pretty brisk pace (think something like Blow).


Turns out, you marry Sorkin dialogue to underground poker games and a genuine something out of nothing underdog tale and you've got yourself a real nice quarantine popcorn flick.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Elba's

>accent breaks at all the most dramatic beats for his character
>for some good unintentional comedy, lot of great That Guy
>appearances, and for a 2hr20min movie it moves at a pretty
>brisk pace (think something like Blow).

#factual

Dark Side of the Ring series on Vice is pretty crazy...

That shit was great! Can't wait for season 4. Now I need something new. I was thinking Ozark as a possible candidate.

thought it was kinda middling for the first season and a half but really became an upper tier show this last season

and yeah, check out ozark. The less you know going in the better

I got some good recommendations from this post, so I'll share...

I liked AJ & The Queen far more than I expected to. It does a fantastic job of being relatable to everyone whether you have an interest in drag or not. Just real people dealing with real issues and emotions. It's more open and vulnerable than I would've assumed.

I was a huge fan of the L-Word years ago. Watched every season and loved it until Jenny's issues took over the show in the last 2 seasons. So when I heard they had a new season with the old characters and some new ones, I was all in. I wasn't disappointed at all. Can't wait for the next season. Great job bridging the two generations, and the show is still wonderfully written.

The Stranger is great suspense. You're wondering what the hell happened the whole time, and it unfolds very nicely, keeping you wanting more.

If you love shows about witches and the supernatural, you might love the first two seasons of Salem. The third get ridiculous... so much so that I never finished it. The first two seasons are really good though.

The 3rd and final season of The Runaways was arguably the best season if you're following that. Hopefully all these Marvel shows that were cancelled on Netflix, Hulu, and Freeform will resurface on Disney Plus.

Dave’s a really dope dude
well deserved...

I expected the movie to be good, and it was. It wasn't great, but it was good quarantine TV. There was just little piece of the plot near the end that I felt should've been fleshed out more, but overall a decent lil flick.

his younger self was completely digital vs the de-aging use in the Marvel movies. They talked about how licencing your image to a studio could be the future of the industry especially now that COVID is a concern.

Alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR, aligning the US with Hitler.

Obvious Trumpism parallels at play but I'm really digging the slow burn of the first episode.

my therapist recommended Altered Carbon. Guess I’ll see what’s up.

netflix doc about tattoo artist Mr Cartoon and photographer Estevan Oriol. I Loved it but not sure how much it has to do with LA bias lol

I knew Cartoon did graff but I didn't know he was from AWR.

Seems kind of like him and Estevan kind of fell into the cholo culture and representing it to the entire world accidentally. I was kind of surprised as a graff dude Cartoon started seeing the cholo art on letters while he was in college, and then tried to transition at kind of a later point.

The whole shit with Lepke being a straight up tecato, also the SA Studios kind of being a pioneer of what downtown LA has become amongst the drugs and poverty. All that stuff was interesting.

I wonder if both guys are from the westside, since Estevan said back then nobody wanted to go east of La Brea.

>I knew Cartoon did graff but I didn't know he was from AWR.

I don't remember him being from AWR either actually. He was mainly WCA, but lots of those guys were from multiple crews. A couple WCA guys were also in CBS an KSN. but really that stuff is so informal that it might have been simple as he was partying with them one night and they were like, you're in man lol

>The whole shit with Lepke being a straight up tecato, also the

I only know about the Lepke thing becasuse he's a regular on the hard luck podcast. That dude's a character lol.

was excellent

I'm shaking the dice.

you gotta stick with it.

improbable but entertaining.

Pretty good… 6 episodes… Season 2 coming like next week…

I've been calling this shit After Death for a month… Haha…

Season 2 was great!

The story is set in modern day and centers 3 young women (2 white, 1 black) heading to "war college" where witches are trained to use their powers in service of their country. Very different take on witch shows from what I've ever seen. They're in the middle of their first season (episode 5 is next) My only lil issue with the show is whoever's writing and/or casting this joint goes out of their way to exclude black males from the show (you'll see what I mean if you watch it). That seems to be getting more and more common but impossible not to notice. The story line has my interest tho.

hilarious & frighteningly timely....



"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

Movies:

Ready or Not
Guns Akimbo
The Invisible Man
Bad Boys for Life
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Gentlemen
The Way Back
Birds of Prey

TV:

Ozark Season 3
Westworld Season 3
Homeland Season 8

Bad Boys For Life was as good as everyone said it was. Excellent plot and fit a LOT into the time. Worth the price even tho I ain't paid shit lol. Great film.
Birds of Prey was way better than I expected (I don't think recent DC movies are the best). My favorite DC joint of recent was Man of Steel. I have two top recent DC movies now. I thought the narration idea worked very well.

What'd you think of those two?

>Bad Boys For Life was as good as everyone said it was.
>Excellent plot and fit a LOT into the time. Worth the price
>even tho I ain't paid shit lol. Great film.
>Birds of Prey was way better than I expected (I don't think
>recent DC movies are the best). My favorite DC joint of recent
>was Man of Steel. I have two top recent DC movies now. I
>thought the narration idea worked very well.
>
>What'd you think of those two?
>
>
>


Both movies were more fun than I was expecting. The jokes landed more often than not in Bad Boys and the action wasn't to overblown taking over the entire movie. The addition of AMMO emphasizing teamwork and family made me think of the Fast and Furious series.

The cast in Birds of Prey is really good. The fight choreography was great especially in the final battle. Overall I'm really happy with both movies.

Normal People
The Plot Against America
Counterpart
Rick and Morty
The Last Dance

And it is an interesting show to watch during our current pandemic. I said I was going to re-watch it.

>And it is an interesting show to watch during our current
>pandemic. I said I was going to re-watch it.

Just finished Counterpart. I liked season 2 more than 1.

re-watched the past two seasons to refresh my memory

nobody ever sees Maeve moving around. Not even out the the corner of their eye.

Bloodshot
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems
Da 5 Bloods


Rewatch Marvel Movies:

First Avenger
Winter Solider
Civil War
Iron Man
GotG 1,2
Black Panther
Captain Marvel
Infinity War
Endgame

Jojo Rabbit
Palm Springs
Greyhound
The Old Guard

I agree. Going in I was afraid that I wasn't going to like it, but was very surprised by how much I did.

The Witcher
Lovecraft Country
New Girl

was ok. As much as people hate her I'm probably a fan in comparison, even though I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan. i'm in a minority of people who don't have a strong opinion about her either way, but i do find her interesting.

not too much new info here. Toggles back and forth between her history, and the 2016 campaign.

it's where the "Nobody likes him" quote about Bernie came from, and even though the "nobody" referred to people in her circle, it kind of demonstrates her disconnect from actual people. But it was also a rare moment of her being completely open. Her and Bern didn't like each other at all.

not sure if i'd recommend it. it's 4 parts. it was likable enough.

In the middle of season 4... one more season after this... shit still holds up...

This bitch said 'I went to law school and I've never done homework on a Friday night. This guy wants you to believe he went home did his chores and his homework. He is lying!'

Ugh! Just ugh! I mean BITCH is all I could say/think/feel... how dare she .... and I felt for him when he said the conditions of his life were being used against him. People can be so narrow minded in so many ways.

I didn't enjoy it

the main character had me screaming at the screen.

and I had stopped rocking with Adam Sandler, because he’s been making the same movie for the last 15 years, save for a couple of outliers. This was a nice departure, although his character was infuriating to watch, lol.

good flick

but I liked it

This shit got wild from the first episode.
I'm intrigued.

It keeps you on the edge of your seat and deals with psychological issues. It doesn't do as good a job as Dexter did in that vein, but it's something that Dexter fans can enjoy even if as a guilty pleasure.
Season 3 is supposed to come out in 2021, but I'm worried about it, because seasons 1 and 2 were based on novels by the same author, but she didn't write a 3rd novel, so season 3 might be written by the show writers alone. I already don't like how season 2 ended.
I wasn't fond of the depiction of the non-white female neighbors in the show because...

*spoilers*


because they just threw pussy at him when he was on the outs with his white girlfriends. It's like they were sexually loose props, and the casting directors thought it would be great to make them black and hispanic. He also has 2 different black male coworkers who are oddly cast as non-attractive people in a show of only attractive people.

This movie was boring at first and it only got interesting when the character did something I was not expecting. And the ending was a funny surprise. All in all I give it a thumbs down.

shit had me dying.

Amazing dark comedy on the events of Stalin's death. The dialogue is one where you need to watch a few times.



Also incredibly funny -- until it isn't.

Season coming next week. I had forgot so much. This show is so great, utred son of utred!

just started Season 6 of Bosch

love it

Little Stevie Wonder was so cute!

Vida last season first ep, watched penny dreadful: city of angels last this morning!

Come thru tv!!!!

Destiny is all!!! *cues last kingdom theme song*

This show continues to do years passing and characters aging up very well

I can't say I liked it. They made so many bad decisions and she was so aggravating.

good enough

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I didn't read the book first so I went in blind. Reese played that 90s midwestern white woman role SCARY. Kerry was....better than I've seen her in some other performances but Reese was impeccable. The kids too.

I think I am going to like it

It ain't the worst but I have stopped caring about these characters already and I accidentally found out who started the fire so.... I can't come up with a reason to stay interested.

I didn't expect a few of those revelations. The actresses who play young Mia and young Elena were good and I felt like the one playing young Mia studied Kerry Washington's mannerisms.

I hope the final few episodes are as good. Now I want to know what is going to happen with Izzy because in the opening scenes of the first episode Bill says they haven't seen her.

Not sure why.. maybe it’s because I loathe Reese Witherspoon in these types of roles because she plays them so well. She’s real easy to root against.

Only issue was Kerry Washington having the ugly cry face for 30 minutes in every episode. Loved how she checked those white kids tho.

Let me know what you think of the last two episodes. I truly do NOT love Kerry Washington as an actress but this was some of her better work. And Reese....wow.

started and this is set in 1999. I kept wondering why they were making a big deal about leaving her at a fire station when a fire station is a safe haven, so I had to google it. Now, not waiting for them to bring the baby inside and the baby getting frostbite is something else, but I kept thinking "... but fire stations are safe havens..."

I love what Izzy did with those dolls! And I can't wait until I figure out why her mom don't want her to be called Izzy.

so before the safe haven laws

And I hope the Ryans lean Pearl and Mia alone.

I didn't feel bad for her or Linda honestly. They were just too peak white woman.

I don't think Bebe should have taken the baby (and honestly didn't realize the safe haven laws were do new b/c I too kept wondering why leaving the baby at the fire station was a big deal) but I understand her desperation.

I was telling a friend of mine I honestly didn't think they explained why Mia kept Pearl enough...I wish they would have explored that more and the fallout from the married couple. That part of the story seemed super rushed to me but besides that I thought it was a pretty good limited series.

and after her brother died she kept the money and ran because she didn’t have anyone else who loved her.

It's on Netflix…

this has been the most enjoyable show for me in a long minute.... couple episodes left and already missing it.

Abstract is really pretty dope. The first two episodes were pretty mind-opening, especially the MIT Design episode featuring Neri Oxman. Currently watching the episode on Ruth Carter, Spike Lee and Black Panther costume designer.

Giri / Haji has some corny moments but is unique in that it portrays yakuza culture from a japanese perspective

i kinda put it to the side after all the controversy.

spent more time highlighting personal relationships than the horrors of slavery, which I am personally okay with. I know that the horrors existed even when they are not on display in the movie, and I also know that people had personal relationships. I take the stance that you only got two hours to fit all this stuff into and it was okay to take one and focus on that in the story line.

One scene that touched me (again - personally) is when she waded into the water and prayed "rivers of living waters flow through me." I kinda put my laptop down and gave the movie my full attention after that and I don't regret it.

It was good.

She just did again in the Madam CJ Walker story, making up characters and adding fictional statements that real Black men never said (I ran down many of the lies in that in reply 267).

Just needed to point out that Bigger Long is a completely fictional character.

It's the Rachel Dolezal documentary. Funniest part is a college lecture. The host is a black man who understands how Rachel feels because he feels like a white woman. The looks on the audience's faces...

I'd heard the name of this, but for some reason I thought it was some random drama or something... had no idea it was her story. I watched it immediately after I read your comment.
You ain't lying about that college lecture. Oh... my... god...The look on the black peoples' faces is HILARIOUS. I watched that part like 5 times.
I really felt for her boys tho, especially Franklin who was just begging her to just let it all go. There's a scene after the has the baby, and she says "I'm gonna remain unapologetically black" and the boys stare blankly like they accept her craziness but just don't know how to respond. What a way to grow up having this person as your mother.

I feel really bad for Esther too. Rachel's brother Joshua got away with that shit. I wasn't aware that Rachel's parents only outed her to kill her credibility in the case against Joshua. That was the standout of the documentary for me.

She is legit crazy.

Her son is exhausted and you can tell he just wants this all to go away so he can live his life.

waco is probably next

Heavy.

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is right up my alley.

the justice system in this country is so screwed, like everything else.

I knew I wanted to see it, when it came out a couple of years ago...but it somehow escaped me. I even forgot the name. Today and just decided to get my google on and found it. Glad I did.

.but for a sec, I thought 4th Grade was finally gonna speak up for himself and say pull over, let me out. Then...bam. The soundtrack was really put together well and I liked the kid who played Ray.

etc etc

He's a super talented skater IRL and yeah he was good in this


>.but for a sec, I thought 4th Grade was finally gonna speak
>up for himself and say pull over, let me out. Then...bam.
>The soundtrack was really put together well and I liked the
>kid who played Ray.

but Kids was current when it came out, so this feels more nostalgic.

also i felt like Kids (and most of Larry Clark's work) has an underlining low opinion of humanity. Mid 90s may have been cynical in its own way, but not overall hopeless. its mostly a certain subset of young people doing young people shit.

hit so many notes that felt familiar.

another one of those that I always planned to see, that I didn't. thanks for the mention...gonna look into it for this weekend.

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And intense! I hope they do another season or two

So I watched this after I finished The Outsider, and there is an episode in The Outsider where they brought up that in the 'old country' adults scared kids into behaving with threats of a boogeyman coming for them if the misbehave.

Here is an article about the two shows:
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/11/from-the-outsider-to-wrinkles-the-clown--why-the-boogeyman-is-more-present-than-ever-on-our-tvs/

I think this is awful! Nowadays and in the old days, but more so now because we know more about the psychological impacts of such terror.

Extraction 2/5

There's a faked oner a little over half an hour into the movie that every action aficionado owes themselves, but otherwise Extraction is so desperate to be taken seriously that it never comes close to that high at any other point. Instead it spends its time languishing in a somber mood that asks one of action cinema's most charming leading men to be a total bore, and its action sequences often feel hopelessly in need of Chad Stahelski or Timo Tjahjanto's approval. That's not to say they're bad, only that because their ambitions are frequently only to be something else's equal they often fall short of the goal.

Plus I'm not ashamed to admit there's something excruciating about an epilogue that feels like it missed the point of its own film.


6 Underground 3/5

Watched as the second part of a double feature with one of Netflix's other big action tentpoles, Extraction, it's never been more clear how specific a Michael Bay experience is. The screenplay, from Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, is essentially a bonus featurette for the Deadpool franchise (which they cowrote) filtered through the kinetic trash heap Bay's made a career of. Like the best - and worst - of Bay's features you'll find yourself exclaiming "what?" just as often as "wow!" and that's really all you need to know. This is a particular shade of stupid and gratuitous that the Times' Glenn Kenny was smart to align with the coked up sensibilities of Best of the Worst godfather Andy Sedaris. The hard part about Bay is that he gets to spend the money those guys always wished they'd have access to in pursuit of far less charming movies, which just goes to show that there probably is a direct line between schlock's charms and the money that gets thrown at it.

This is a movie with a water effect so insane it makes Brian de Palma's infamous restaurant flooding look like a student film and it's arguably one of the least affecting set pieces. This is also a movie that spends nearly the entirety of its first hour in a state of exposition that feels interminable; in any other director's hands these would be inarguable failures, but in the aimless imagination of Michael Bay the marriage of his terrible sense of humor to the edgelord fantasies of Reynolds and his Deadpool team is a recipe for generic action rendered generic Bay absolutely perfect for binge drinking after dark. There is some truly inventive action here, and as long as you don't spend too much time trying to figure out when Bay is or isn't in on the joke, this is one of his better non-Transformers movies in a long time.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

because I want to watch Hollywood on Netflix and I know that the gas station is a story line.

It was mentioned already, but I wanted to mention it again.
I was so surprised by this on so many levels. I don't know if I've ever seen a major sci-fi production where I was cool with the depictions of the black people. It's only one season so far, so they still got time to be on some BS, but for now I like it. I'm still kinda in shock. The writing, quality, story... all on point. It's not ALL black, but that's actually what's more rare about it, because Black people rarely, if ever, get to be respectable, centered characters NEXT to white ones in this way. After watching so many shows where black characters are completely shitted on (especially the black males in I Am Not Okay With This and Ragnarok recently), Raising Dion was VERY welcomed.

Anyway, Raising Dion is as much about being a Black single mother as it is about a kid with superpowers. Really good show for the whole family.

At one point, it looks like it might be leading you down a VERY familiar path, but just keep watching.

Shit is crazy.

Wife is more into it than I am but every time I join in I’m engaged.

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every time i scroll prime i end up exiting without watching anything. give me a list.

ive seen hunters, jack ryan, the boys, good omens, homecoming, the tick, forever and i started carnival row.

i was looking for something new last night and ended up subscribing to netflix instead lol

then list eleven-teen joints you already watched? YOU ON!!

but these are old, what is there pending to watch NOW?

besides quantity, i think only 2/3 of those shows were great so im wondering if im missing the stuff that is better than the netflix shows.

and I am glad that I re-watched "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" prior to watching it.

I finally watched it. Crazy!

the last few seasons have been hit/miss (mostly miss) but halfway through this last season is GOOD

.

This was WAYYY better than I expected it to be.
These competition joints are usually super corny, especially when it comes to Hip Hop stuff, but this is great. I felt like the right people made it to the top for the most part.
Looking forward to Season 2.

not sure how I feel about it yet

I wish I remembered it well enough to tell you why.

I did 1.5 seasons.

It's not good

it was fun but it wasnt essential

good time killer tv

it felt like they were really pushing some ideas to make it highbrow but it was all clumsy as all fuck

This was kinda dope. Reminded me of how I developed a serious affinity for film. Unrealistic only because we know what actually happened. The possibilities though...

Imagine what it would have been like especially from the perspective of sincere representation being normalized years before this point.

but not until you let an exec perform oral on you or some wild shit.

not really big on the whole hollywood mystic but the story lines on this were good and engaging. my eyes didnt even get watery at times, at all. yours did.

i dont remember how long it had been. i went with the basic and everything was fuzzy lol. makes me think i havent had it since december when i got this tv. i do remember last time they gave me a free update to the most expensive plan so maybe its just that. i went ahead and upgrade the plan.

started ozark s3 last night
plan to watch the newest narcos, hip-hop evolution maybe tiger king. what else should i put in queue? hoping to only keep it for a month.

i just like to see other people enjoy the things i enjoy, i guess?

i think i have exhausted my interests on it. i used to have quite a bit of videos i could count on daily but the last few days i open it and dont find anything i want to watch. i know corona has affected the quantity and quality of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqzgDB1CMI4

With all those stars in it, I'm surprised I never heard it before

afternoon. Finished all 10 Eps, by Sunday. Guess I might have to check it. The trailer didn't really grab me, but she said it was great. I'll peep 1 Ep and see how it goes.

i started it the other night. its interesting enough. definitely plan to finish it.

Add on some light rom com and none of the heft of real life and I'm fully invested.

made by Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther)

No new ground here and shaky at times, but enough good individual scenes/moments and performances that I dug it.

plus I kinda love watching movies centered in Oakland

I slugged thru it.

Jeffrey Wright: GREAT talent. This role was not it

Ashton Sanders: played this character with the same vibe as the RZA. I'm rooting for him tho'...

I see the story here but it just didn't play out in an engaging way for me. it was aight.

and dude is definitely playing RZA in this.

I mean... it works for him.

*shrug*

it was okay

Starring: Terry Crews

so weird lol

f--k terry crews?

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

If you're looking for something to watch and have any level of familiarity with DC characters, watch Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, but this isn't an out and out recommendation for everyone.

I gave up on DC animated movies.
I don't like anyone's "dark universe."
I think magic is a narrative cop out.
I've never, ever given 1 iota of a damn about John Constantine.

Here's what worked:
I had low expectations and was prepared to turn it off.
None of the unexplained references matter, they're not important, move past them.
It kept giving me "DAMN!" moments.
And didn't stop.
There were a few genuinely funny moments and again - a lot of DAMN moments.
And some of those DAMNs are "blink and you miss it."
Swamp Thing is a bad ass? Sure is in this.
There's a couple voice actors you recognize and register an "of course" when you read the credits.
NOTE: I watch Titans, so that story knowledge helped. Otherwise, I could see this going another way.

The greatest success though, is they give Superman a story you can care about! Superman delivers one ass kicking that is dope, and although it's stolen directly from the first Avengers movie, it's still very fun to see.

While not a recommend for everyone, it's a "run, don't walk" for anyone familiar with DC characters.
Solid B+

I am on episode three and I like it so far.

I wish I had watched this as it aired. I'm a little into Season 2 right now and I can tell this is going to be high on my favorites list.

Need to catch up on the season 5 episodes

2 episodes left to go, excellent so far. Music is great and the way each episode focuses on a particular character’s perspective is interesting.

Just finished watching Dave, which was surprisingly good.

A movie now on Netflix called Premature was one I liked.

Watching The Act on Amazon Prime, pretty good.
Finished “Barry” recently... dope.
British series on Netflix called “Press”’is good so far
Oh yeah, “Trigonometry” on BBC online (UK) was amazing

But got damn the characters were super shitty. I made it through 3.5 episodes. Loved the music but the characters....yuck

Father and especially daughter comes to mind. Some of the stories are really heavy too, which is why I can’t really watch more than one episode at a time. After watching episode 3, I needed a break myself.

It had been getting better as I stuck with it though. Episode 4 is worth checking out if you can, as the bass player’s storyline is something else..but handled well.

Like I said, still got 3 more to go but so far I’m intrigued.

Episode 2's ending upset me.

Great show if you didn't catch the first season...
it's on Amazon Prime.

.

between now and the next season...

Still goes!

Also:

Homecoming season 2 with Janelle Monaé - aight thus far, she's good

I Know This Much Is True - DAMN this is heavy. Solid, but heavy

High Maintenance

Better Things

Curb

rewatched Master of None, US, Crooklyn, Inside Man, Training Day

I'd love a new season of Succession sooner than later.....

Per everyone’s suggestion gonna skip season 2 and head straight to 3 lol.

S2 haters are stupid. The Wire isn't the Star Wars prequels. The Wire is the greatest show ever made and whoever told you to skip S2 is doing you a disservice. I just finished rewatching S2 last week and it's entirely watchable and rewatchable.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(to infinity)

I'll admit that s2 was jarring at first, but it is not only essential to the story but a terrific season of television in general.

You are doing yourself and the show a disservice by skipping it.


>S2 haters are stupid. The Wire isn't the Star Wars prequels.
>The Wire is the greatest show ever made and whoever told you
>to skip S2 is doing you a disservice. I just finished
>rewatching S2 last week and it's entirely watchable and
>rewatchable.

A homeboy said the season 2 haters are just racist since there are so many white folks in it lol but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad season lol.

So far I am in the middle of episode 2 and I dig it.

It was like clockwork lol, I would tell someone I was binge watching The Wire since I had never seen it and they immediately were like “great show, but don’t watch season 2!” and “season 2 put me to sleep”.

Lol and one person even was like “Excellent show but seasons 2 and 5 are horrible!!” lol.

The common theme was that it was boring and no way to follow up season 1, which I admit was pretty great.

I’m 2 episodes into season 2 though and I like it.

Just because the focus is corruption down at the docks doesn’t mean it isn’t worthy of being focused on in my opinion.

It’s nice to still see season 1 players here and there, almost like cameos lol.

I’m sure they will be back in full force so I’ll just expect them to come roaring back in the future seasons and I’ll settle in to this docks drama for now lol.

Not sure how anyone could hate season 2.

I will admit, the first time I tried to watch the Wire I threw on a random ep from season 2 and was like “wtf is this shit?”

but when you watch from the beginning it’s a great view into how the package gets into Bmore and it also plays a big part in the evolution of the Wire tap.

How anyone could tell me to skip season 2 when that episode exists is just so very beyond me.

the focus is on a completely new set of characters its almost like a different show or a spinoff

which I really appreciate.

Think about what you're seeing there. You're seeing EXACTLY who Stringer wants to become and the potential endgames he has as either Frank or The Greek. But make no mistake that's what he wants - he wants to keep the gains he's made on the streets but he wants to move in suits and offices. But Stringer himself never gets to see it and see how goddamn aggravating and full of unwritten rules and two steps forward, one step back it all can be on that side as well. You're also seeing what happens when somebody who's not cut out for the life he's leading, Ziggy, has the privilege of his skin to make it just a bit further in life and grow into an arrogant prick instead of a kind, misguided teenager.

In a lot of ways, it's the way Valchek interacts with everyone that shows just how cynical Simon is about existing power structures in general. That guy operates like a cross between Avon and Marlo, using his achieved power to bend the current state of affairs to his will while often exposing new loopholes in the system(s) to expand that power. Simon has a soft spot for the dock workers, and the street gangsters, but he really doesn't have much sympathy for men like Valchek and Season 2 is when he really calls his shot on the corruption of power and how it affects policing at the highest levels.

Beyond all that the acting is just excellent and it's what gives Simon and his team the ability to get into what really affects the drug trade's major players and the fact that crime in Baltimore's minority neighborhoods isn't solely the fault of the moral character of its inhabitants without ever really having to go into detail about all that again, it can just be implied in the background of every scene in the seasons that follow.

Maybe you could argue that a more clever show had the dock workers there from the beginning, and was better able to weave that side of things into the full narrative, but I think The Wire's seasons follow a really clean arc overall. Season 1 is all street level drug stuff, and it's what the audience can easily relate to - it's the hook. Season 2 details what allows that distribution in the first place, via industries ostensibly unrelated to the drug trade. Season 3 examines how easy it is for the people responsible for controlling that industry and the problems that arise from its deregulation by exposing how distracted those people are from that problem. Season 4 then looks at the real tragedy of those three factors, which is that people born under their umbrellas has little chance of escaping them without a little bit of chance luck - arguably the best kids remain trapped in those systems, while the worst find a chance at redemption.

Or put another way, it's Detectives / Adjacent Players / Administrators / Bystanders / Investigators.

Then Season 5, which at its best explores how weary this makes the people who came along with the audience on this journey from the beginning have become. It's a pretty neat bell curve and I don't see how Season 2 could've found played the role that it does in the overall arc without expanding the world of Baltimore as much as it did.


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McNaulty’s hate for his superiors
Sobotkas power struggle with the union
Finding out how Prop Joe gets his product

So many stories and it’s all woven together so lovely.

and felt lost. I have more sympathy for Edith this time around knowing how her story line turns out.

LoveBirds with Issa and Indian dude was not that good.

Wife and so are binging Fargo series. I thought I saw the first season but apparently I didn’t. Very good.

Homecoming season 1 and 2. Quick and easy. Loved it.

Does anyone else?

Awesome movie

Celebrated it’s 25th anniversary this week. A few articles I’ve read about it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/la-haine-25th-anniversary-bfi-rerelease-les-banlieues-mathieu-kassovitz-a9532746.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/23/how-la-haine-lit-a-fire-under-french-society

Vanity Fair France:
Cinema: 25 years later, "Hatred" has lost none of its power (and of its relevance)
On May 28, 1995, "La Haine" left the Cannes Film Festival with the prize for the staging. By tackling the issue of police violence, the film strongly shook up French cinema.

Posted on THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
by Norine Raja
© The Pact
"So far all is well, so far all is well" ... The phrase, repeated as a leitmotif, is today as cult as Vincent Cassel's De Niro-esque number in front of the mirror. On May 28, 1995, La Haine stormed the Cannes Film Festival, offering its director Mathieu Kassovitz the prize for directing. With an uproar, he and his actors - including Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui - entered the history of French cinema.

The genesis of La Haine can be identified in its first minutes. Archive footage of clashes between police and protesters, to the tune of "Burnin 'and Lootin" "by Bob Marley. Barely 27 years old, with a few works to his credit (including his first feature film Métisse), Mathieu Kassovitz is driven by a desire for political revolution. "I thought of this film after a riot. From 1988 to 1994, it was quite hot, between the Malek Oussekine and the victims of various police blunders (...) And then, it is symbolized by the death of Makomé ", explains the filmmaker in the documentary devoted to the ten years of film. On April 6, 1993, the 17-year-old Zairian was shot in the head by a police officer at a police station in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. In the aftermath of the demonstrations provoked by the drama, the filmmaker pitched the project to producer Christophe Rossignon. With a watchword, a desire to "act".

It is in the city of Chanteloup-les-Vignes that the team settles down for a few months, to better acclimatize, take the temperature, know the terrain. "The goal was to live what they lived. When you don’t give a damn, that you’re 40 miles from Paris, that there’s no cinema, no boxing hall, no gymnasium. What does it mean to hang around? "Explained Sophie Quiedeville, stage manager. If the choice of black and white is necessary for a budget question, it also offers cachet to the film, a classic imprint that places it beyond the simple "suburban film". Because Mathieu Kassovitz's references are multiple and very American: a touch of Martin Scorsese, a hint of Spike Lee, and a touch of American Graffiti (for sound processing). He does not recognize himself in French cinema at the time - "films with two guys chatting in a kitchen", he jokes in the comments of the Criterion edition - and wishes to go against this trend. navel-gazing.

Between small altercations, discussions by interposed windows, and barbecues on the roof, La Haine thus gives to see a new territory. Mathieu Kassovitz opted for a temporal fragmentation - the time panels - to be part of the banality of everyday life while foreshadowing an imminent drama. The action takes place in 24 hours to capture bits of life - boredom like pure comedy - and to illustrate the implication of the failure of urban policies. The result in these scenes, oscillating between static and frantic movement, a general impression of lethargy and idleness. "They have no goals, no future. They are not integrated, but considered as immigrants. They're stuck in this No man’s land, "said Jodie Foster, who promoted the film in the United States. The arrival of a firearm within the small group thus comes to end, in an illusory way, their search for purpose and meaning. All that remains is this idea of ​​avenging Abdel Ichah, their friend beaten the day before by the police.
 
Where Ladj Ly's Les Misérables comes to show the point of view of the cops as well as the inhabitants of the city, Mathieu Kassovitz is one with his three interpreters. And their marginality is never as obvious as during the Parisian interlude - which involves a long train journey to show the distance separating them from the capital - and their confrontation with other circles. The opening scene of the exhibition highlights this gap with the fauna of the bourgeoisie - all the more so with the choice of contemporary art as a class marker - which ends irremediably in an argument. Hatred leads to hatred, the film begins and ends in violence.
 
Preceded by exceptional word of mouth, La Haine was chosen to compete at the Cannes Film Festival. More than an object of resistance, it becomes a phenomenon: "People of the Gotha find it" astonishing, crying out for truth ". I thought I would shock more, unfortunately, we don't shock. There is a fashion effect. We talk too much about the film. But I hope it won't do him any harm, ”Mathieu Kassovitz explained to Télérama. Relations with the press are strained, the fact remains that the feature film seduces and allows its director to leave the Croisette with a price for the staging. At the end of the ceremony, the Republican guard turns their back on them, deeming the film hostile to the police (without even having seen it). Dissensions appear within the team: some of them boycott the César ceremony by rejection of the institutions, only the producer Christophe Rossignon and Hubert Koundé will seek the statuette.

What is left of Hate?" Wondered Le Parisien in 2015, for the film's 20th anniversary. Despite the coronation of Les Misérables last March at the Césars, the suburbs still remain a forgotten territory in the cinema, as Télérama reminded us. Failing to interest the 7th art, the question of police violence continues to be at the center of the news (more recently with the intervention of Camélia Jordana). Of the new faces revealed by the film, only Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel are still present in the French cultural landscape. Disappeared from the big screen, Hubert Koundé told Première in 2016 that he had difficulty finding roles as a black actor. Said Taghmaoui, on the other hand, had to go into Hollywood to find salvation. His remarks, at Bernard Pivot's in 1995, seem almost premonitory: "It takes more than a film to change things. We are not politicians, we can just transcribe a certain reality of life. "

What a selfish, spoiled, idiot

Thought at least it'd have some chuckles but the tone of the show is just... Firing on 0 cylinders

i read a few bad reviews about it from the media before it was released. dont think it warrants that. not gonna say its must watch or hilarious. i enjoyed it though. i was entertained.

I dug it.

Steve Carrell was just being....well Steve Carrell

I kept my expectations low because I thought it was a fleshed out version of that dumba$$edness the #45 was spouting off about. I think the creators actually worked Trxmp's material into something funny.


i was a'ight. LOL

not quite as good as The Office, but can't wait for season 2.

super disturbing. dude was straight running a creeper pyramid scheme of underage girls

dude was like R Kelly with billions and connections to the most powerful people in the country.

shit, Trump and Slick willy might have even agreed on pulling his plug.

and yeah.. rumor has it he had video tapes on all these nasty old white people...

Surely this is the reason he was killed. I watched it in passing.

Ghislaine Maxwell. she's still free and out there.

i forget who has the money. he gave it to the virgin islands or something to deliberately keep it from victims.

>and yeah.. rumor has it he had video tapes on all these nasty
>old white people...
>
>Surely this is the reason he was killed. I watched it in
>passing.

mos def. i'm not much on conspiracy theories, it's legit weird that anyone would believe the official story on this.

Excellent movie that's one of the more accurate biopics I've ever seen.

Such a coincidence!

But yeah, the original 60 minutes episode is on Youtube and is very interesting. It reveals a couple of things that weren't in the movie. Here it is if you haven't seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFtzfnbmvs

...finishing up war or the worlds, which is pretty weak ...could use the new Mando season right about now

Starts slow, but I feel like it did what In the Vast of Night tried to do and failed.

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

lol.

i've only seen him in Luce, and I have no intention of seeing Waves. I think he's a good actor, but he makes me uncomfortable.

American Soul on BET was much better that I thought it would be.

I’m watching Castle Rock on Hulu. The wife is watching the series The Outsiders, also on Hulu.

Its all over for me tho.. have to go back to work tomorrow. Smh.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

I was on the verge.

how is it? The premise seemed kinda hokey but interesting.

sometimes the hokey ones be sleepers LOL

Didn't like it. The first 15 mins where two teenagers blabbering. Then there was a long one sided phone call. Then a monologue from an older woman. The action never really happened for me. I was expecting something different.

This was good.

did not like

Anime.

this shit goes hard.

bout to finish it tonight.


you love to hear the story, again and again.

a few eps into when it aired. it was a great show but i cant do anime that's that heavy

on Netflix is waaaay lighter..a little quirky

i had seen the first season a while back, no idea season 2 came out last year. im in the middle of it now. season 3 comes out at the end of the month.

im a bit conflicted at how it ended. seems like a cop out but its also not bad. kinda makes it pointless to keep track of who is who though.

Pretty good. A timely watch since she was reporting on Minneapolis police being corrupt back in the 60's.

it was good...surprisingly good.

Pete Davidson is such a weird presence, dude's funny looking and handsome at the same time

Burr was really impressive in this.

A little too long, which comes with the territory with every Apatow joint.

In what way did you feel it was long? I was kinda caught off guard when it ended. I wanted to see if she passed the civil service exam and shit, lol.

>In what way did you feel it was long? I was kinda caught off
>guard when it ended. I wanted to see if she passed the civil
>service exam and shit, lol.

i'd have to watch again for specifics. I never got used to over 2 hour comedies, and some if it is my default reaction to Apataow's stuff being unnecessarily long. Something like 40yo Virgin is easy because he lets gags go on to long , but this one wasn't gag heavy.

Digging Deadwood so far. Just starting S2. Soo many familiar faces and the good thing about period pieces is they don't feel aged once you get to them.

Ballers is fun enough. Never really gets great or terrible and kind of teeters between good and ehh. Its a bit of a background watch at this point. I'm almost done.

Really went there with the period talk in the last episode...

https://www.vulture.com/article/michaela-coel-i-may-destroy-you.html

"Damn! Everyone in this show done been sexually assaulted in some way"

i knew the bullet points of his life going in. pretty fascinating though.

damn, the writers were in their bag, for this one. The gradual heel-turn of Wendy, was amazing to watch. Episode 3 was a masterpiece. Starting it and ending it with Time For Me to Fly...but under way different circumstances. Man, I thought Season 2 was good, but they one upped themselves.

I just rewatched Zero Zero Zero and was like “damn, I don’t remember that scene”

My current rewatching list
Breaking Bad
The Wire.. writing is so good I just can’t stop rewatching it.
Fargo... For some reason I thought I watched season 1. I didn’t. It was great.

my wife and activated HBO to binge Insecure and just ended up leaving it on.

as I was watching the brothere's monologue, she'd been refusing to watch for years.

so we redid the whole thing, and mannnnn it's good
www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Mrs. Snell murking Del...thereby making way for Helen, who basically becomes Wendy's role model or some shit...so much good writing.

I got distracted mid season 2 and by season 3 I just read the episode recaps.

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1277980210684551171

Cause I see 2 articles: one says it comes out 2021 and the other saying it's out.
Either way, I'm halfway through and it's a far superior movie so far.

EDIT: OK, the Snyder Cut is Justice League. My bad. On the plus side, I DON'T actually know this information.

This guy committed like 50 rapes and 10 murders in the 70s/80s and wasn’t found until just a few years ago. And is relatively unheard of. Wtf.

I’m really waiting on that Black series to drop on HBO.

which is like a modern day Minority Report

so far feels like what the last 2 seasons True Detective should've been. Solid stuff. Dope cast

Touches on a lot of similar topics.

Didn't care for Penny Dreadful much before this last spinoff.

The was actually better than I expected it to be once they got sailing.

It was a better telling of the Pearl Harbor story in my opinion than the move called Pearl Harbor.

nothing that will blow you away, but its a decent 90m watch. It's about child actors and their experiences

My uncle told me to watch it. It was goof, I had seen Shaka Zulu but not this movie.

oh, no...we knew. We knew EXACTLY what it was, lol. We wanted to see how tropey it could possibly be. It didn't disappoint. It wasn't a horrible movie, but...it wasn't a good one, either.

It started out okay but quickly turned into a joke of a movie.. that last third tho, I swear a Lifetime/USA movie intern penned that shit.

We were entertained.

Nia Long sexy af but they tried their best to ruin her.

and her daughters baby hair.. smh.

when it started, we were looking at each other like "be serious, be serious"...we were okay until Omar spit that "...you would never feel like you were sleeping with a stranger" line...then we lost it. It was kinda downhill from there.

Like the only thing half way clever in the whole movie.

Damn shame they did Estelle and that young bol like that.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Check out this premise, dude brings his ex-girlfriend (Sasheer Zamata) on a weekend lovers retreat with his new girlfriend (DeWanda Wise) and I am suppose to sit there and watch Sasheer be mean and talk to DeWanda like that and not be pissed off!?


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

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Rewatching Luther on Hulu. The Mandalorian is on my list.

it's actually teaching me a lot. I'm thankful for it.

Perry Mason
still deciding on whether I want to continue on for s2 of Search Party

There were a couple things that had me like 'hanh?' but I don't know the last time a show came on that I HAD to finish immediately.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-black-death-the-worlds-most-devastating-plague.html

So this was on Amazon Prime for free till 6/30, I watched 1 ep on the 30th and ended buying the full series.

Its so interesting, its 24, 30 min eps, It talks about the society at the time, the epidemiology of the plague, the economics, the church, different countries/cites and their response to the plague, the cures and treatments.


It is so damn interesting the individual responses people had, either fleeing and leaving behind the sick, devoting themselves even more into religion, or straight up hedonism. Before plague, medieval Britain was 90% peasant/workers 10% nobles/knights. After that, it changed drastically.

wasnt extremely interesting but a good watch still. growing up he was definitely and interesting figure. sad to find out why he disappeared. good to see he got to see his celebration in miami.

My mom used to tell me what he would say almost daily. I liked the doc. Agreed, glad he was able to be celebrated before his passing.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

and not in a "have a laugh at these weirdos" type of way like tiger king


I really didn't know what I was getting into though.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Michaela Coel is BODYING it on all levels.

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I Stan any wrongful conviction centered content.

finally watched it

I've forever had a crush on America Ferrera

It is about the creation of the first English dictionary and this schizophrenic man who made significant contributions. It delves into the way mental illness was treated in those days.

This show is just messed up. But they got me hooked.

3 part doc about the mafia's stronghold on NY in the 80s

it's well done, and there's some cool interviews and footage and as a mob junkie it's always good to see things i haven't seen before, and it's a different perspective as your usual mob doc...

that said, law enforcement's perspective is never as interesting as the actual mob stories. they do include some wise guys and mostly it made me want to hear them more than the feds and prosecutors. Also I don't want to see Rudy Giuliani again on anything unless they're reporting his death

worth a look if you're into mafia stuff tho

the head of the family came to him saying...these dudes need a job how much you gonna pay them...he said 1500 a week...dude was like give em 500 and give me the 1000. These cats were literally printing money.

It alllllllll

I feel you tho. She's CUTE.

She seems cool as shit too.

this shxt problematic as fk.

I be laughin tho.

for me since....
I can't even look at a bottle of Pinot without breaking out laughing.....

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

damn.

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Fear-City-Netflix-Three.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=740&h=370

lookin like they knockin on the door of 50.

Up next is probably the newest season of "Last Chance U."

The opening monologue almost made me think this was based on an Octavia Butler book. I'd love to see one of her books on film.

Captive State with John Goodman? If not ya may dig that one and Nnedi is bringing Wildseed to screen. Someone optioned Kindred,too, though personally less excited about that one. Would love to see Parable of the Sower on HBO

Enjoying Schitt’s Creek quite a bit.

Ozark....it’s entertaining, but based on all the hype I’m a little disappointed so far. This is way over the top, smh. I don’t know, in shows with violence - I like when the deaths resonates and hit hard sometimes.....this shit is so ridiculous it’s got me LMAO when someone dies. It’s all so ridiculous. Which is fine for what it is. Guess it just isn’t the tone I expected or that I prefer.

This was not great, but I did learn something about how Koreans ended up owning Black hair care stores.

I love the way they roamed the city! Being from a mid-western suburb, that seems like a part of growing up that I missed.

really good

halfway through Season 2...pretty fun watch.

It's fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7A5-oxR3o

The cast is NUTS:
Main
• Kaley Cuoco as Harley Quinn
• Lake Bell as Poison Ivy, Cheryl
• Ron Funches as King Shark
• Tony Hale as Doctor Psycho, Felix Faust
• Jason Alexander as Sy Borgman
• J. B. Smoove as Frank the Plant
• Alan Tudyk as Clayface, the Joker, Calendar Man, Doctor Trap, Condiment King

Supporting
• James Adomian as Bane, Chaz, Ian, Ratcatcher
• Diedrich Bader as Batman
• Tisha Campbell-Martin as Tawny Young, M.O.N.I.C.A.
• Briana Cuoco as Batgirl
• Andy Daly as Two-Face, the President, Mister Miracle, Darryl Brown
• Giancarlo Esposito as Lex Luthor
• Michael Ironside as Darkseid
• Wayne Knight as the Penguin
• Phil LaMarr as Jason Praxis, Black Manta, Lucius Fox, Brian, Samson, Shark God
• Christopher Meloni as Commissioner James Gordon
• Alfred Molina as Mr. Freeze
• Jim Rash as the Riddler, Stan, Mr. Isley
• Wanda Sykes as the Queen of Fables

Guest voices
• Susie Essman as Sharon Quinzel, Grandma Quinzel
• Tom Kenny as Clayface's Hand
• George Lopez as Himself
• Howie Mandel as Himself
• Natalie Morales as Lois Lane
• Frankie Muniz as Himself
• Rhea Perlman as Golda
• Jessica Walter as Granny Goodness, Wendy Brown

Along with Doom Patrol. They can get crazy with the D-Z list characters.

I was a big fan of "Good Wife" and now that "Good Fight" is the spin off of that show, I'm loving it as well, just kind of pissed that the seasons are pretty short since they are going by neflix standards and doing 10 to 12 episodes per season cause the show is part of CBS's on-demand streaming service they don't need to have the usual tv broadcasting number of episodes.

They have it where it's free to watch "Good Fight" so I'm taking advantage of that offer.

I heard about this program when I was in high school and thought to myself-- this sounds like a shitshow!

Welp, turns out that it is.

This doc focuses on a recent one in Texas. I know we've got all these progressive Millennials out here that're giving some of us hope and all but the struggle is staying real.

I am actually re watching season 1 first

i think i got burned out by season 1 so i havent rushed to start season 2 but so far its been pretty good.

I watched season 1 and was like wtf. Some of the dialogue was so bad and I love MJB but why her lmao. It was cool to see her in the role though.

Five is ANNOYING. Klaus is annoying. They don't give Ellen Page much to work with and when they do it's always 0 to fucking 80.

Allison never mentioned her race once in season 1 and now all of a sudden she's a damn freedom fighter? It was pandering

they won't get any more outta meeeeeeeeee

and wondered if it'd get better.

>Five is ANNOYING. Klaus is annoying. They don't give Ellen
>Page much to work with and when they do it's always 0 to
>fucking 80.


I was so tired of the Klaus story. That shit is just goofy. I understand they're trying to appeal to different kinds of people, but that's not for me. I have a friend who loves it tho.


>Allison never mentioned her race once in season 1 and now all
>of a sudden she's a damn freedom fighter? It was pandering
>


Lol, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is she didn't have a choice but to acknowledge her race living in segregated America. I thought this was pretty much addressed at the end where she said being in that time period changed her. It'll be cool if she continues to be conscious of her race from now on. I don't have much faith that she will tho.
I actually thought her storyline was the most well-written, interesting, and even realistic of them all... especially with the way her husband reacted to her "rumoring" the officer on some "ummm, are you cointel pro?" type stuff lol.
Overall, I just don't think this show is well-written or brilliant in any way. It's as crappy as a network show like Flash or Supergirl (which is a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine), just with cursing and sexual references... mindless entertainment that suffices when there's nothing else left to watch.

>Overall, I just don't think this show is well-written or
>brilliant in any way. It's as crappy as a network show like
>Flash or Supergirl (which is a not-so-guilty pleasure of
>mine), just with cursing and sexual references... mindless
>entertainment that suffices when there's nothing else left to
>watch.
>
>

i havent been able to get myself back into flash or supergirl since i took a break a couple of years back lol.

>i havent been able to get myself back into flash or supergirl
>since i took a break a couple of years back lol.


I think I've missed an entire season of Supergirl now. Stopped watching Flash a year before that lol.

good show, overall. I thoroughly enjoyed all 5 seasons. Couple episodes of the final season felt rushed, but I get it, if so.

i never realized what a fox news fantasy this movie was.

watching it and thinking there's no way Sam Jack's part wasn't written with a fed up white man in mind.

half assed research and it's written by a former teacher in the san fernando valley (who is of course now a trump guy). Teacher wrote a revenge fantasy about killing his worst students. cutting off their fingers and shit.

its got some chuckles but its even worse than i remembered.

I am back to watching travel show since I can't travel right now.

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i think ive watched 3 episodes of each. a bit underwhelmed by both but the mandalorian has a little charm to it that i didnt expect lol

i guess im not a huge wu-tang fan cause 3 episodes in im like when are they introducing someone besides rza odb and meth????

had to look up who is who to see theyve all basically been introduced lol

my only real complain is with hulu and their stupidly loud ads. i thought maybe it was my setup but googled it and i guess its their thing.

I stopped mid episode 2 of Wu. It's probably not terrible but it was hard to see some of the actors as the Wu, especially since I had just rewatched the Showtime doc on them.

if i didnt want to play some zelda i might have finished the mandalorian last night lol

not sure how i would feel if i had been watching it as it was being released.

when i first saw shameik moores character on wu i thought it was ODB until i saw the actual character for ODB lol

ghost was the biggest one that i was like uh wait...really?? i think because of the documentary i was thinking it has to be one of them but i couldnt remember who.

i think the dialogue and slang is whats bugging me about the show. i definitely didnt grow up in ny and not in that era but it doesnt seem to match what expectations i had. seems unnatural. if it werent for the ads (the volume and length) i would be further along. i dont think i can do more than two episodes in a sitting having to reach for the remote to mute it when the ads come on.

They really take their time setting it up but once it gets going that shit was fire.

I hope they continue cause it gives a great view into how hard it is to get that many people together in one crew.

The fact they knew of each other but all had different hustles, deals and beef..

Ghost and Rae’s characters don’t look like them but their story arcs are great.

I would encourage you to keep watching it but if you aren’t really a Wu fan I can see why it wouldn’t stick.

so far i dont think its great but i dont think its bad. now that i know who is who (for the most part) it definitely makes it more interesting.

ads didnt seem that loud last time i watched, that would help lol

some of the dialog issues i had got toned down some. they all still seem like characters more than people but its not too distracting anymore.

im starting to see some mannerisms for rae and ghost that fit.

not must watch tv but worth watching. will be watching season 2.

u-god is missing in season 1 right?

i thought masta killa too but looked it up and supposedly he was in one episode. dont remember him.

This was good!

Decent watch so far. I didn't realize Pooch Hall was introduced so early in the series. Ray's wife is hell but I'm gonna keep going

it gets very good, and gets stale, but never truly gets great or completely falls off.

like most showtimes series it drags on past what should be its expiration date

>like most showtimes series it drags on past what should be its
>expiration date



LOL currently watching what seems like season 8 or 9 of Homeland.. this shit should have been done after season 3. My wife is committed to finishing this show though.

the two before that we're pretty weak and the show had def been stale for a minute.
Early on in the final season I actually stopped, but decided to finish it out of thinking i've come this far... but damn if they didn't stick the landing. It's really good.

I'm almost through season 2. Nothing stellar but It's cool. Running theme seems to be people being blinded by love/lust.

I'm enjoying it so far though.

not sure why but I gave up during the last season.

Did the same thing with Empire.

Not sure why but I just didn’t care anymore.

i'm on the 3rd season now.

Reminds me of Sons of Anarchy a bit because the new, more ruthless rivals constantly popping up but without the dumb montages and GTA side missions

Gin Rummy
https://youtu.be/wh8BWGSEzYM

I was so oblivious to gang activity when I lived in LA. Most of that time I was on a college campus, but I lived in Inglewood for a few years. People around me used to warn me but until the day I left I was oblivious.

they're similar in a lot of ways, i just think it goes a little bit deeper.

not sure if it's streaming anywhere though

Late pass like a mug...although in our defense, we don't have HBO.

This show was fantastic. Absolutely silly and they kept me laughing. I hope the pandemic doesn't take the wind out of their sails and they come back stronger than before.

that shit was fly!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10768238/

Really digging it.

that show has no business not sucking but somehow they made it work

what a fun show

>that show has no business not sucking but somehow they made
>it work
>
>what a fun show

They got so much out of the source material. And the pace is almost always right. Stuff happens, they tell you why at least a little, and almost every end of episode is like 'awwwwwwww! What now!?'.

Me, the wife, and the 11-year-old watched the whole 2 seasons in 3 or 4 sittings.

Season 1 is phenomenal. But I'm not very fond of the direction they took with Season 2. I won't spoil it tho.

Maybe Netflix will pick up Impulse too so it can get some much deserved shine.

really hard to feel sorry for her!

I posted in PTP.

It's a show that really fits some spots for me right now.

https://www.primetimer.com/item/Ted-Lasso-has-no-right-to-be-as-good-funny-and-moving-as-it-is-QwSdwY
Ted Lasso has no right to be as good, funny, and moving as it is

This was good. I am grateful for campaign workers, even though all the text messages and phone calls annoy me - and I hate when they ask me outside the polling place "can we count on your vote?" - I am grateful for all their hard work. Both of those realities exists.

>

better than I thought it would be

which one review described as "A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation"

connected I have become to these characters each season. As of s3e6, all the thoughts and feeling I has about Sully have now become the thoughts and feelings I have about Dushane. In season 1 I could have never expected to feel compassion for Sully, but ... that fire.... wow.

I like the way 5/6 years later you still know who everyone is by the way they dress.

I like the new characters they introduce each season and how I become invested in their stories.

I was feeling bad for Sully, but I had missed some episodes apparently. I'm running it back and I'm like 'fk this guy'...

I was rooting for Dushane but he was doing dumb shxt...little dirty bigheaded mfka.

I didn't think I would like it as much as I do.

When it's dinner time I'm on my wife's neck like 'where's da FOOD, bruv?!...gimme the FOCKING FEWD!!'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394182/

It was okay.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10423460/

Who was Sky to David? Apparently that wasn’t his dad or his little brother’s dad?

... I went to magnet schools in elementary and middle school. I never knew they were something special until I was an adult and I moved away from KC and experienced other adults telling me about trying to get kids into magnet schools.

I did know that we learned different stuff than my cousins in the non magnet schools, for example, I went to a Greek magnet elementary so I knew the Greek alphabet as a kid. I don't know it now, because I haven't had any use for it since then but... yeah.

It was just my school to me. Even in middle school ... It was like I go to this school, my cousins go to that school *shoulder shrug.*

Another thing this show got me thinking about was when I worked as a counselor for the WIA (Workforce Investment Act) Youth Program. That scene with Star and Miss Elijah as the workforce agency ... MAN! I wasn't an asshole like he was but you do need valid ID and there was nothing you could do from the other side of the table if they didn't have it.

AND Gloria and that damn social security card! SO many kids came through with no social security card, no birth certificate or a raggedy one that was illegible. We used to give kids the address to got downtown and get their card. Then they would come back saying "It didn't work," "I couldn't get it," "they told me X,Y and Z and I still don't have my card" etc.

I had to drive a kid down the the place, stood in line with her and walked her through the process so I could write up step by step instruction to give to other kids.

And the birth certificate thing ... if they were not born in Missouri or Kansas, best we could do was google to stuff for them.

These were kids: 16-24.

So it pained me to see this grown women having these issues! But I know... I know it happens.

There are several moments that almost had me (or had me!) undone. Just wait on it.

Damn, this is good. Brought back a lot of memories from that day, went further in depth on what caused the disaster and really humanized the astronauts as individuals.

I definitely like the ones from the 90's more!

I like the movie more, but I trying to watch the show.

I never get around to watching it.

Not sure if I love it yet but its good

movie about the Britsh underworld in the WWII era

they did some good stuff here but i feel like this should have been an 8 episode series. it suffers from having to rip through everything too fast.

but this was good given my bias.

so sad

roughly 20 of my 36 years of life were lived in KC and now 7 here in STL. I will never understand the Missourah thing that outsiders do.

My first impression. Still watching....

add a little country seasoning to the name.

halfway through season 2 now lol

and it is set in KC this year AND it might get better.

:/

A little goofy, but a really fun watch. As a sneakerhead, it was cool to see all the kicks throughout the eps.

Netflix:

shows-
still watching (shows):
Sneakerheads
The Chef Show
The American Barbecue Showdown
Chef's Table: BBQ

just finished (show):
Cobra Kai (can't wait for season 3)


Prime:

still watching:
The Boys, season 2 (show)



HBO Max:
just finished:
Stockton On My Mind (documentary)

still watching:
Atlanta's Missing & Murdered: The lost children (show)

Its so good, and visually stunning.

Raising Arizona
I'd said to somebody I wasn't sure I'd ever seen this movie from front to back before, but that's not true. I just can never remember in part because I always come to this wanting the full Coen experience but just feels like it's missing something. Raising Arizona really isn't that far off from an SNL movie from the same era, it's just got better cinematography, better acting and better writing...which goes for a lot, obviously, but...IDK. Never completely clicked.

Se7en
If Zodiac's on a streaming service, I tend to get really into that movie and everything surrounding it in October...but it's been up all summer, so I've already seen it twice this year. Might as well watch the prototype! It's always hard to remember that Brad Pitt is very much Doing a Thing in this movie, and that it takes nearly an hour to really get going even though that Gluttony murder is in the first ten minutes, and I wish they'd stuck with the power black finish right after Pitt makes his choice rather than the last monologue, AAAAAANNNNDDDD this is one of those movies you can never see for the first time ever again...but man, Fincher+Freeman+Spacey is about as surefire as you could get.

Prisoners
...So I figured if I watched the precursor to Zodiac, I may as well watch the inverse. This movie is a great example of pure pulp getting elevated into art by performance and direction because on paper, this movie is a little stupid, definitely gratuitous. Originally it had an NC-17 rating, and you wonder if it hadn't had American money behind it if it would have leaned fully into grindhouse territory. This one's still lesser known I feel like but Denis Villaneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) is behind the stick, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard and Paul Dano are the leads and if you're into Zodiac's analysis of the pain an unsolvable crime can inflict on driven men, Prisoners takes advantage of being 100% fiction to go places that film could never.

South Park COViD Special
In theory I still like South Park, but in practice I haven't watched the show since it's minor resurgence with the PC Police a handful of years ago. I think it's been thrown under the bus a little too often lately for its decidedly centrist sense of humor - it's a show about a group of kids mostly playing make believe, after all - but this special just didn't have much for me. I don't know what got in my head that Trey+Matt might have something to say during this whole thing - I guess Team America, Bigger Longer & Uncut? - but this was just a longer, later period South Park episode. It wasn't bad or humorless, but you could probably guess what it's got for you before you press play and that's a bummer.

Total Recall (80s version)
This movie exists, and thus it ought to be watched every once in a while.


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Ford v. Ferrari
I kept wanting to call Batman Dicky throughout this thing...I had a lot of Fighter vibes here, where Bale is the star but somehow the script makes it about the other guy. I like Damon but he was mostly a typical Disney (was this a Disney movie?) blank slate here, I wound up with strong Remember the Titans vibes. The race scenes were awesome with the director James Mangold extrapolating on the awesome car sequences from Logan into a full movie, but it's just not that dramatic. I will say I got a little tricked by HBO Max's approach to time where the right side of the counter is how much is left, not the total runtime, so I was caught off guard when there was still an hour and a half left.

It's a good movie for car guys, and I always wanted to be a car guy, but more importantly I didn't become a car guy and don't think I'll ever figure out how to be one on my own terms so I sided with the more middling reviews of this movie. When it was focused on competition I was fully in -- when it tried interrogating these characters and their motivations, it fell flat. Whether it was a Disney movie or not, it had that weird feeling of a large corporation attacking the constructs of large corporations that always feels a little too "rah rah" for me.

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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

twas funny but cool to see Mero acting.

acting overall was sus but (at least i'm hoping) it seemed like the whole point was to be over the top and cliche, and at the end of it all my wife and i were both entertained and thought it was a cute little project.

I wavered between finding it interesting and being pissed that I was already watching a star studded dramatization of this fuckery before its even over.

that shit is awesome.

Had low expectations s end this shit has really impressed. Why am I rooting for Conra Kai dude right now.

Also watching the new Fargo season 4 with Rock. Fargo is a beast.

Slow build, but it got interesting in the last third. It is on Amazon Prime.

is hilarious. and the homeless man stole the show.

it was such a great distraction during our crazy world

Didn't realize the first episodes came out in 2018. Enough to keep me entertained but the main character is quite unlikable.

Horror shows and movies are really not my thing. I've tried watching America Horror Stories and other horror movies, but I get nothing from them.

Its just silly.

I did just watch Nora from Queens, I liked it.

I have been switching back and forth between The Haunting of Bly Manner and AHS 1984. Dani and Brooke seem so much like the same character to me that I get their back stories interchanged in my mind. I have literally been doing a episode of Bly, then an episode of AHS - back and forth. I swear those two character were cut from the same mold.

is this show bad? this show is probably bad. the only interesting part of it so far is the faux mad men peggy x don relationship in margaret x nucky and that's not really being explored that much. i assume it's a crux of the later seasons. the guy playing al capone is ridiculous. he's like 40+ years old, playing way younger, and usually just doing a passable james gandolfini impression. i don't care about jimmy. richard harrow would probably be an intriguing character if i hadn't heard paul f tompkins play the ghost of richard harrow on the comedy bang bang podcast prior to watching boardwalk. michael k williams edges into self parody territory even though he's barely in season 1

i understand that most shows find their footing in the 2nd season. is boardwalk worth sticking with?

I actually really liked it, but if those are your thoughts after watching season 1 I'd say don't bother continuing, it's probably not for you.

but if this how you feel after season 1 then I would agree it’s probably not for you.

and for that reason on some level i consider it a failure. i know failure is the wrong word, but given all its ingredients it should have blown everything away. its like a super team that keeps getting knocked out of the second round. or something.

Still, it’s pretty awesome. I rewatched a couple months ago and loved it. I get what you are saying though.

But there's always little nagging things.


The problem that show had was that almost every episode had a great B plot, but sometimes the A plot was dragging way too long or sometimes the C plot was straight garbage and it almost never found the right balance.


In the end, it probably gave too much time to characters that weren't as interesting and drug out conflicts longer than they needed to go most of the time; it kind of had the opposite issues of The Wire, where it had this kind of prestige gangster thing it seemed like Winter felt shielded by and thus never in a hurry/worry he might get canceled despite the show never being terribly popular.


Lastly and counter to that though, it really seems like Michael Pitt being an asshole on set was great for kicking that show into 5th gear even if his character was one of its early highlights.


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

but yeah, there's no point in you continuing if that's what you got out of it

goddamn.

I loved every minute of it.

I finished it last year.


what got me is that I binged it right after I completed binging the Sopranos. I got emotional and nostalgic watching Boardwalk becuase it felt like I was watching the birth of the crime world the sopranos lived in and seeing the lineage of crime leadership begin. The sopranos in a timeline is not the next generation, but several generations down the line of bosses.

the Chalky season was A plus.

Purnsley was that dude.

Having just finished BE, I now feel like I should finally watch The Sopranos. It was just sort of vaguely on my tv "To Do" list before, but now I'm more eager to get to it. I've never been terribly interested in the mob genre before now.

Purnsley was great! And Season 4 was so interesting to me. I had been hoping the historical fiction of the show would at least touch a little on some place like Harlem, or some sort of expanded view of the Black (under)world in Atlantic City. So when the Chalky's (Cotton Club-esque) club was teased at the end of S3, I was excited. But I totally did not see S4's references to figures like Garvey and its depiction of UNIA coming at all. Wild. When Rothstein walked in to meet with Narcisse and had the RBG flag hanging behind him, I kind of fell out for a second lol. I was so glad S4 finally gave Chalky something to do besides react to violent white terrorism.

This shit is entertaining so far. Only 2 episodes in

I got starz for .99 cents for 2 months on Prime Day. The owner of the club is the best part. He kills all the scenes.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) - I saw this as a kid and thought it was creepy, still kind of is. I really can't believe a CBS movie of the week was so dark back then, recommend tho, streaming on Prime.

Phantasm (1979) - its fucking weird, makes little sense, has some mediocre acting and is low budget but I love this movie and the little metal death spheres.

Phantasm II (1988) - This first sequel is fun, kinda like a T2 or Aliens to the original, action packed, some weird goofy shit that makes no sense happens but its fun.

I'm digging it.

it was cool.

Castle Rock and season 2 of The Terror. I watched season 2 of Castle Rock last year and gave up on it mid-way. But Season 2 of The Terror is pretty good.

both were good but not as good as s1

I'm not much of a Sorkin fan but I really liked Trial of the Chicago 7. Pretty well done

Comey Rule. Daniels doesn't seem like Comey becuase who could you really get to play that lanky goon but i think he nailed his persona pretty well. The whole boyscout/only honorable man in the room idea he has of himself. I'm not sure how people will feel about it. It definitely shows literally everyone around him including his own family being like 'dude wtf are you doing?' but its somewhat sympathetic to him as well.

I thought Gleeson did a really good Trump. He's impossible to do without a straight up impersonation but i felt like he captured the the pettiness an ugliness. both physically and otherwise of cheeto.

I was really swept up in that movie and didn't get why it wasn't immediately a frontrunner in critic circles, but stepping away from it you realize how Bobby Seale feels more like a prop for the white characters to rediscover their moral center than an equal (or more importantly, how his struggle FEELS like a struggle while Abbie et al constantly seem one joint away from a party on the courthouse lawn) and that feels even more sour with Sorkin's screenwriterly choice to make JGL's lawyer somewhat sympathetic to The Cause, but of course only when it can be maximized for dramatic effect.

He's a government stooge from the moment Rawls forces him to reveal his personal biases early on until Hayden's "remember, this film ultimately has a centrist perspective" final remarks (recall the FBI narc also nods in approval as an audience surrogate while the other lawyer marches out of the room) and it just kind of reeks of unnecessary varnishing for the sake of a more treacly narrative and some otherwise very likable actors/performances.



...But yea, OTHERWISE one of my favorite movies of the year because I'm a Sorkin stan through and through and this was way better directed than Molly's Game. Super kinetic and entertaining, but sometimes it felt like the Remember the Titans of courtroom dramas. On further thought I did find myself wondering what this movie looks like if Sorkin decides to leave the Chicago 7 behind after Seale's mistrial and remind us that while these dudes were kinda hypocritically partying on the graves of their peers in the name of their honor, he was fighting a real fight at home with no opportunities to relax and hang out doing stand-up at the local fraternity.


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

i hadn't seen it in forever. it felt like a mad tv sketch of the movie i remember

i def see the comparison, but i wasn't mad at this. probably because i liked seeing something that leaves you with *some* faith in humanity.

Def. an easy fun watch.


"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

I knew this would be comedy from reading the synopsis, but it's a horror film, so you usually gotta expect cheese. Some very recognizable faces appear (Lena Waithe, MC Lyte, Blair Underwood, Kelly Rowland, Vanessa Williams, Usher Raymond, Jay Pharoah, etc).
Surprisingly, only about the last 3rd is over-the-top corny. It's a fun little movie though. Enjoyable for a horror flick.

the end was redic...

It was interesting.

https://www.journal-news.com/what-to-do/letterman-chappelle-netflix-special-is-a-love-letter-to-yellow-springs/2M6JRCXBBNFRXK3ABH2NQPQ4WY/

DL doing that YPS at the end.

It reminded me of how this became Amerika.

Literally drained all the feel-goodness outta the interview.

Been watching out for the star, Anya Taylor-Joy, since I caught her in The VVitch when I finally saw that last year. Or I should say I've wanted to, but I haven't seen Emma. yet and most of the other stuff she's been in just isn't up my alley. She kills this thing, and then there's a couple of fun young character actors in here as well - the kid who played Jojen in Game of Thrones and Harry Melling - as well as Marielle Heller who directed Diary of a Teenage Girl and the Mr. Rogers movie but looks like she's been in front of the camera forever.


There is a lot of tropey bullshit at the front and back half of the show, in particular there's a downward spiral in the 6th episode that feels totally dissonant from the patient pace the first half of the show has, but even that's kind of fun in its own silly way. Plus it wouldn't be a movie/show set in the 60s starring an orphaned white girl if she didn't have a magical black friend to help her get back on track (to the point, she actually has a line of dialogue that points out that's NOT what she's doing while she's doing it).


But you get your Mad Men style set design, some real cool Rocky-but-it's-chess montages (if you play chess, it's almost worth watching just to see chess on screen look like chess in real life - Gary Kasparov designed a lot of the games' plots himself), a lot of interesting stuff between a pretty but socially inept girl figuring out what power she has in a world that's not prepared for her physically or mentally...but sometimes not for the typical reasons (!) and it's super brisk. First show I watched in a single sitting (while playing some video games and stuff, sure) in a long while and I'd totally recommend it with, again, a small caveat that it's got 80% prestige and 20% cheese but that cheese is some heavy, goat's milk-ass cheese.


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

But overall, this was a nice way to pass the evenings for me.

I play chess and couldn't stop drooling over the chess pieces used in the final tournament. Beautiful!

I should be done with season 1 this week. This is some great television.

Wow!

Crazy that the FBI didn't even do THEIR job, and this is one top of these men AND women not reporting the abuse. So many levels of corruption. Shoulda had Gayle King interview all of them back in 2015! Glad Maggie was able to find a glimmer of happiness at the end at least.

eh! it was okay.

The kid that they swapped for the later seasons of the show is fucking awful. I hate his buck-toothed skunk face.

it's a dope movie period tho.

Atticus remind me of my brother and cousins who would read books about adventures, mystery, and thriller like the Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes and Stephen King, and they all are enlisted in the military.

I ask if they saw the show yet, and ofc they absolutely love watching it, plus they dont mind Leticia who I think personally is carrying the show. she's quick on her feet, independent, and very brave to go to toe w/ a monster and racist pricks.

I love that every character has an abominable storyline they must overcome with systematic oppression, from Ruby- living in white woman's skin to Diana- defeating Topsy and Bopsy.

a couple of times for it to all sink in lol

Something happens in this movie that I don't think I've ever seen in a major production.

Such a well made little slice of Baltimore (at least from an outsiders perspective). Meek did his thing two. They could have tighten the story up a little towards the end but I dug it a lot. Should be getting more buzz.


**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

cheesy at times and predictable but man.. I was laughing my ass off.

lol

I like both. Only 2 eps into the latter but I'm looking forward to carving out some time to finish it.

this was better than I expected it to be!

This movie was awful!

lmao

the hype williams

chris lighty

janet jackson

Finally watched it all the way through and enjoyed it, I must say.

these are some long ass movies!

Movie on HBO about a family who plays hide and seek with the bride and tries to kill her.

Shit was a dark comedy. We enjoyed it.

This was good, although hard to watch having lost someone I love to cancer in July.

Wow!

I would kill my kid if they did some shit like that.

sarah paulson did her usual good job.

filled in a lot of blanks about the rise/fall of tekashi.

That show is trash, but so damn entertaining.

sort all this dumb shit out lol....

This has got to be the WORST HBO production i've ever watched. HBO is usually top notch with their stuff too....this is like a CBS mini series with bad language and nudity....

I distinctly remember saying “I ain’t watching that shit”. I fell asleep on some movie one night, woke up during the last 10 minutes of Episode 3 and was hooked 😂

First two eps are good

they straight up but the trio from The Chi.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5743796/

Warrior is based on stuff Bruce Lee was working on (which kind of became Carradine's Kung Fu) and is produced by Shannon Lee his daughter.

It has everything for me: history, fighting, smart dialogue.
Because its cinemax its more gratuitous violence and sex than i'd prefer, but I know the appeal. That stuff doesn't take away from how smart and well done the show is overall. The reason Im going hard is there is a chance this show (despite its acclaim) will not be renewed for a season 3. I need a season 3+ of this.


Warrior is part of a run of the most TV ive watched in a long time
Queens Gambit (up to episode 6)
Finished Lovecraft with the wife in 2 weeks
Watching weekly episodes of Mandalorian with and kids
Taste the Nation with padma Lakshmi
started
Schitts Creek and Ted Lasso

along with that, started watching old kung fu movies with the kids
- Return to the 36th Chamber
- Drunken Master
- The 5 Venoms


But Motherfuckers please go watch Warrior

different shows obviously but the same levels of over the top violence and sex, but it's a blast.

I'm guessing there will be no season 3 but i hope there will be.

I’m sure there are deeper Marvel tie-ins but the light ones I do catch are pleasing enough.

I got about 10 minutes into the new Borat before tapping out.

i dont like the design of the site (i watch on desktop/chrome)...but i use an extension to force 1080p and res netflix style ui while viewing. and that helps. i wish it was straight dark mode/theme and more intuitive like netflix tho.

but ive spent like the last week and a half just tethered to this shit fam. docs upon docs. watching mad older movies (which i usually dont even care about on other services). and they got a lot more hot shit dropping soon.

they screwed the rollout up but i think more people are gonna get attracted by the content as time goes on.

(i get it for free since i already have fios/hbo so maybe the helps lol)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/3/22150605/hbo-max-warner-bros-movies-2021-simultaneous-release-matrix-godzilla-suicide-squad-space-jam

firestick didn’t have hbomax when it first started and then I checked again after telling my sister it was the only drawback of the firestick.

i wont pay for it but i will probably do a binge month or 2 every year.

honestly, im about to cancel apple plus cause their content is ass.

Didn't think I wanted to see a white savior slavery series. I didn't think I felt like a somber slavery series in general.

But damn if they don't address the white savior thing from the top (spoiler not spoiler: John Brown was crazy as hell and the black people knew it).

It also has a lot more humor than I thought would be permissible in such a story.

And Ethan Hawke is killer in it. Like really good.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

It’s on Amazon Prime. Was cute and funny.

I like it way more than I expected to.
I'm actually looking forward to this next episode.

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I didn't think I would be able to rock with Attorney Tical but he grew on me a little. The story is good and does a cool lil thing with book references from Tariq's class.

on Amazon Prime. Good movie.

Loved the Aunt's reaction when he broke the news that his sister was confirmed dropped off at school by her mom that morning. I hated that woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_44FFKZ1M

ITS GOOD!!!!!!!

They on Voices of Fire doin reverse affirmative action with some of them picks lmao. I'm like c'mon you niggas know good and gotdamn well them wasn't the best singers to do the solos. They gotta keep the white audience happy tho I guess, but that shit kinda ruined the show highkey. Some really good singers got totally screwed. Other than that, it was entertaining and rather fun to watch.

just as well done and infuriating as i expected. more so, even.

started off raw but then got kinda outrageous by the end.

annoying ass main character too.

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

I'm going to wait until all episodes of WandaVision drop to binge them.

Looking forward to the next season

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

by shunning subtitles and being (rightfully) turned off by dubbing

don't even know if you can just opt for subtitles on Netflix. Definitely don't want closed captioning though...
Netflix has a lot of foreign stuff like that. 3% is another good one.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

I LOVED this. Watched the first couple episodes with just the subtitles but then I switched to the English dub. Might rewatch with subtitles before part 2 comes out.

Also saw a few people on twitter talking about the lack of Black woman and I....that did not even cross my mind? In my head I was just like it's Europe that's what they do but maybe that's my bad

Its pretty great but I'm a little disappointed how it has basically just devolved into Breaking Bad in the last season. Maybe thats whats supposed to happen as a prequel nears the end though.

Gonna start Your Honor next.

Almost done. Earlier seasons were better than these last few.

Finished full series last week. Enjoyed it way more than I was expecting to. I didn't love the first season, but I'm so glad I continued on. An absolutely extraordinary cast all around.

It has been amazing so far.

so good

Naomi's story is so solid.

Amos is really that dude. Now I know why nothing gets to him and why he has a vague ambisexual vibe.

Camina Drummer has become one of my fave characters. I didnt like her until I realized she was exactly like Naomi. They are both scrappy, smart and worked hard to get where they are.

The new president...hes getting his footing, but I feel like dude is hiding his darker intentions. He seems like he would have no problem bringing smoke to the belt.

I also tried to read the book and couldn't finish that either lmao. The tv show was too gory for me.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Movie

i was in a recipe rut and i love their equipment review videos on youtube so i signed up for a subscription. i'm hoping it will help me become a better home cook

their style is mostly technique and has kind of a clinical vibe to it but there is some solid stuff in the archives. there is a little whitewashing of recipes from other cuisines but generally they try to make it as authentic as possible. their recipes for western dishes are usually very good and they make something as complex as breaking down and roasting a whole beef tenderloin look achieveable for the average to advanced amateur cook

presentation-wise the recorded segments are kind of bizarre and almost anachronistic; cuts to a live audience during taste testing segments, 95% white hosts clearly appealing to a certain base (might have something to do with being in boston), and a calculated warm vibe that toes the line of sincere and disingenuous. every part that isn't explaining the recipe or why vegetable peeler x is way better than vegetable peeler y is usually pretty bad but you learn to ignore or skip it. the recipe demonstrations are easy to follow and are well shot, edited, and written. i do really enjoy when the host genuinely loves the dish that the presenting cook makes. i also love it when the recipe turns out to be trash and the host has to pretend that it's good!

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

its a little campy but I like it

>its a little campy but I like it


Me to my wife: "...man what the F--K are you watching?! This is terrible! No No...don't change it!! what IS it tho?!.."

of Gabrielle Union

geez she is fine af.

I am starting to think it is impassible to make a movie about Tesla and Edison that is actually interesting.

started cool....interesting concept


then it got weird and predictable. ended terribly.

I watched it tho.

started cool....interesting concept


then it got weird and predictable. ended terribly.

I watched it tho.

I understand why this got canceled after one season, but I am only 5 episodes in. Maybe something will happen in the season finally that makes me sad it got canceled. Right now, I am not.

crime factions, over the top violence, and just good times

i loved it

holy shit.

I can only do 2 or 3 episodes at a time. I had to tap out for a whole season after the episode where Randalls bio dad passed away.

These writers are amazing.

Beth and Randall.. Randall’s story about her mother, Black therapist, man listen...

maybe it's because everyone is going through a lot of internal change and previous seasons were about leading up to deep & impactful moments of learning and change, big questions were still open. now that those questions have been answered, Randall, Kev and Angry are going inside for change and figuring out what sort of lives they want to live.

boy this shit hard af. I remember watching the pilot when it came out and then falling off of it because I didn't have Cinemax. this shit hardbody. Kinda reminds me of Peaky Blinders but with asians and in America

The first few episodes are really dark though. I had to stop watching it right before bed.

When the Black son (?) is driving that White boy's murder vehicle somewhere under the highway...the mother in me internally screamed "Stay away from those people!"

But it looks good and I really like Michael Stuhlbarg.

I like both of these movies and I like that 2 stands on it's own while still having a connection to the first one. I actually saw 2 a year ago prior to watching the first one and enjoyed it. It made me want to find the first one and watch.

if you use one of the volume booster extensions...and boost the volume at least one level you can click on the 'full screen' button on any video and it only takes up the full window. (you can lower it back down to normal using the volume slider on the video player if you want)

this is cool if you watch videos while you do stuff in other windows (or just want a viewing area smaller than the entire screen). now you can watch the video without a bunch of other page elements distracting from the experience (some sites already do this obviously).

Good. Probably The best tv I’ve seen in a while

it always looked corny to me so i skipped thst whole wave. but im running outta shit to watch...so i decided to run through it.

4 episodes in and im done lol. this shit is so comically bad in every way imaginable.

a lot of sites have the 1st season as the best season too. i dont even wanna know what a season below this level looks like.

3 is the only one i'd bother watching again. That shit was a blast.

it's been 4 years. i've forgotten so much, so it's blowing me away all over again.

only annoying thing is hbomax keeps trying to default it back to english instead of italian. Please do not watch this show (or anything really, but especially this) in english dub

great season. lalo is something else. he reminds me of a few family members lol

kim took that turn or finally showed she was always about that life.

excited for season 6, hope to watch it as it airs.

Crazy tripped out show. Came out 2020. On time with what is going on right now with this whole pandemic. None of it is true but does go down the rabbit hole (pun intended) of conspiracies.

A bit violent but worth checking out.