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Working through a Sopranos rewatch over here, and it's great, of course. Just got to season 5.
Other than that, I've been kind of passively working through Oz, which I haven't watched since college, and Peep Show again.
I loved Landman.
I have two episodes left of THE CURSE. Does anyone actually like this show? I'm a pretty big Nathan Fielder fan but watching it is starting to feel like a chore and I'm basically holding out for an ending where someone (hopefully everyone) dies.
Señor Scratchy oh boy if you hate it now the finale isn't going to go well for you.
Señor Scratchy it’s pretty excruciating. Probably the most uncomfortable I’ve ever felt watching something.
Señor Scratchy I love it, but I have always wondered if it generally lands for people who don't live in New Mexico. It nails a very specific sense of cultural unease and faux-progressive neoliberalism that causes a lot of problems in this state.
Señor Scratchy loved the show, every scene is a nightmare. Not for everyone I'll say that
terminalsunset I do enjoy that aspect of it.. I live in Portland, have family in Santa Fe, so i definitely get the types of people and the issues they’re satirizing.
For me the pain is in how despicable the main characters are, plus the awkward juxtaposition of Emma Stone’s great performance versus the cruddy improv style acting of Nathan and his bro Dougie. She is utterly convincing as a clueless woke white lady, while the other two appear to be auditioning for a Sonic commercial or something.
Señor Scratchy I do think that’s a fair point about the stark differences in performances. I could see how that would take you out of it. I find Benny Safdie’s performance a bit more nuanced and interesting because I think it’s difficult to know who his character “really is” because I read him as someone hiding from himself, but it can come across as stilted at times for sure. I’m not sure if I buy Fielder as an actor overall, but I still find him compelling. Emma Stone’s performance is pretty amazing, just the repression and fakeness slowly crumpling on itself. Nightmare! She outclasses the others by a wide margin.
Been watching "Great Migrations" on PBS. Third episode on tonight.
Yeah The Curse was a bit of a mindfuck and hard to pin down as far as good, great, or wouldn't recommend unless you XXX.
I loved Nathan for the People but never dove into The Rehearsal- worth it? I see there's a second season of The Rehearsal coming out...
Sukebe_GG The Rehearsal starts out goofy, then goes off the deep end and leaves you shaking your head. I really enjoyed it though. Psyched about a 2nd season.
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Documentary about the US wiping out an indigenous pig species in Haiti. Serves as kind of a smaller scale version of the buffalo slaughter & it's resulting ill effects on the indigenous population. The difference here being that the Creole Pig extinction was carried out in the last fifty years.
terminalsunset Nailed it. First time I've ever heard an accurate New Mexican accent in a television series. Breaking Bad didn't even have that. And to think the people to nail that kind of authenticity would be Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie!??
I can see how other people wouldn't be into it but the last episode was probably the most interesting hour of TV I've seen in ages.
On my flight to Mexico City tried the Dune series. It is laughably horrible. Couldn’t make it through the first episode. They have season 3 of Curb though. Haven’t watched the early seasons in a long time and loving it
Watched that Severance finale and spoiler alert it's all Patricia Arquette saying "Oh Hi Mark" in a bunch of white hallways.
Mr Milkshake dancing is the only good thing in this show. Spin off Dance Class Instructor series please!
I just saw that Severance is renewed for a third season. For the love of god why? I enjoyed the show, however my level of enjoyment has diminished with each episode of season two, but I really can't see why there is a need for another season of this.
Still making my way through the mega playlist of 70's car movies. It just switched from one Burt Reynolds movie to another Burt Reynolds movie and I didn't even notice.
"Wasn't his girlfriend a blonde? Why is...oh wait, I'm on the next movie."
The new White Lotus season has been very entertaining. The three blonde bitches who hate each other are perfect, especially the Republican in Austin. Used to serve moms like that at a brewpub out there. They would always resent having to be there as they watched their husbands get plastered on stouts in the middle of June. You'd see them sipping one of the two wines we served as their husbands spilled beer everywhere barely able to keep it together. Amazing casting/character creation.
11th hour stubble that was so painful to watch
Righteous Gemstones?
I thought the first episode of the new season was perfect. Noticed it was directed by Danny McBride himself.
Completely. I was heckling.
And agree on the diminishing enjoyment by the episode. Watching Christopher Walken and John Turturro together is great- too bad it was in such a straightjacket.
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Lincoln awesome. Didn’t know that was out yet
As far as Severance in the first season it was a compelling story in a world that bore a lot of questions. In the second season I felt like creating questions became more important than story telling and often I found myself asking why did the writers do this rather than why does this exist in this world
Let the Severance backlash begin! I was a little disappointed by a few things in the finale but still really enjoyed all the episodes this season and since it's basically the only current tv show I watch, I have to die on the Severance rock...
Severance just feels like a 2020’s Lost. You can get swept up in whatever’s happening episode to episode, but it seems pretty clear that the goal of the show is more to keep the plot moving forward and you invested than it is to tell a specific story. I remember being so stoked about the show’s premise when I first heard about it. I was excited about the potential of exploring stuff like personhood, identity, self-knowledge, and the moral implications of such a severed life, while also touching on how capitalism can get so out of control that it compels laborers to voluntarily opt-in to this extreme form of alienation. And it’s not like the show doesn’t touch on that stuff. But, man, I was so bummed when they introduced the work and it was so abstract and mysterious, and then all the real philosophical questions took a back seat to mystery box shit like, “OMG, what’s the deal with the goat room!?” That kind of shit worked better with Lost because the show couldn’t set any expectations with its concept because it was basically mystery boxes all the way down. To me Severance ends up being more annoying because it’s failing to deliver on the promise of its concept. I don’t know—I guess I’m going to keep watching, but I kinda wish a slightly different version of me could do that dirty work.
sixbigboys You’re right. Ugh, I’m afraid to say but I think Severence is going down the Westworld route. It’s become too bloated, meandering, and lost sight of its original appeal. Pretty much every damned plot-line has fizzled out and flatlined.
Jah-Nah-Nah Sandbaggers is my favorite non-John Le Carre spy thing ever. (The main dude Roy Marsden also did a bunch of adaptations of the Dalgliesh novels prior to the newest go-round that are exquisite.)
Sandbaggers deserves particular praise for ramping up the stakes and suspense despite a budget of maybe $-5 per show.
JessVex I binged this series this past week solely on your recommendation. Loved it! Thanks and this is why I love the TP forum 
Eric O The Sam Rockwell/Walton Goggins team is great. Looking forward to the 3/23 episode
Bony Maroney Hell yeh! It’s a nice departure from this reality at least! Ha! 
Just watched the last episode of White Lotus. For the first four episodes or so I thought it was the best season, but man those last two were real dogs. What a complete waste of time.