TV - What's your passion (NON-sports)?
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Lady and I are mid-season 2 and it's incredible so far
coolhandluke
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A great start to the series that sets the ball rolling from the first shot. It wastes no time getting to the meat of the story. I love how the scenes without dialogue heighten the curiosity while giving us space to ponder about things. There's nothing rushed and the silences accentuate the dialogues. A post apocalyptic survival thriller on it surface, it throws up philosophical questions about what make us human. Fans of intense slow burn shows would love this.
Btw, I'm happy that Rhea Seehorn got her own series. Her Kim Wexler is my favorite character in Better Call Saul. The whole cast is fabulous and right on point.
Padrino
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I am so stoked for this one. Vince Gilligan returning to sci-fi, a heavy Twilight Zone influence, casting Rhea Seehorn in the lead role... it's just everything I want right now.
If you are looking for a short limited series that is bingeable, the n7mber one show on Netflix is Death by Lightning. Really, really liked it. It’s about the short lived presidency of James Garfield and his assassin.
I don’t know how factual it is but super enjoyable mainly because of these actors who seemingly elevate everything they do
Michael Shannon
Shea Whigam
Matthew Macfayden from Succession
Nick Offerman
Bradley Whitford
Betty Gillian
I don’t know how factual it is but super enjoyable mainly because of these actors who seemingly elevate everything they do
Michael Shannon
Shea Whigam
Matthew Macfayden from Succession
Nick Offerman
Bradley Whitford
Betty Gillian
I guess it goes here, after watching Spinal Tap sequel the other night I saw Sarah Sherman had a comedy special on HBO - Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh.
This is not for everyone, and definitely if you've just seen SNL and think "I love that quirky gal" you are going to realize 30 seconds in to her taking stage that SNL doesn't even scratch the surface. John Waters serves as "host" of sorts in the intro is quite fitting and perhaps a tell of what's to come.
If you enjoyed Waters's early work this may be for you.
This is not for everyone, and definitely if you've just seen SNL and think "I love that quirky gal" you are going to realize 30 seconds in to her taking stage that SNL doesn't even scratch the surface. John Waters serves as "host" of sorts in the intro is quite fitting and perhaps a tell of what's to come.
If you enjoyed Waters's early work this may be for you.
I watched Season 3 of King of Collectibles over the weekend. I don't know why because most of the consigners I find to be dirtbags (the father & son pair are genuinely likeable and never seem to do any hard-sell on camera though) while Ken Goldin alternates between having a general hokey charm and being the biggest dirtbag of all. I do like seeing all the memorabilia items while the manufactured scarcity of the card trading stuff is all a bit unfathomable.
My wife and I watched His & Hers (Netflix) last night. My feelings are mixed. Decent plot (someone is killed and the estranged husband and wife central to the show could both be suspects) but definitely some plot holes in it (some significant). It has some flashbacks to previous events that are sometimes incomplete or misleading and the twist at the end makes some sense in retrospect.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Wonder Man has triggered my showbiz PTSD in the worst way but it is a good show and not just in the superhero show category. (Still only a few episodes in so there’s a chance it shuts the bed but I have faith).
Yahya (the 209’s own) and Sir Ben are great as you’d expect.
Yahya (the 209’s own) and Sir Ben are great as you’d expect.
(Also special shoutout to Joey Pants who I don’t think I’ve seen in anything since the Matrix)
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11.22.63 (Netflix) is about a guy going back in time to try to stop the Kennedy assassination. Ends up it is as much a romantic miniseries as a sci-fi thriller, in a good way. Are there plot holes? Yep. But I liked it nonetheless. I really liked James Franco in this one. Sarah Gadon was fantastic. Stole her scenes like Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
The saying goes that once you become a movie star, you never go "back down" to do TV... so, what's Daniel Radcliffe's story?
Padrino
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That saying is from another era. TV isn't the red-headed stepchild of the entertainment industry anymore. The dam probably broke around the time Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson showed up on season one of True Detective.
I don't buy that. I've always believed that so-called "prestige" TV was understood to be the exception to the rule. Radcliffe just be out here doing ****.
I don't know anymore. We've got stars/well known actors doing all kinds of series on Netflix, Prime, etc., now. I think there's a lot of "blur" there with the amount of $$$ that is available to be thrown around. Movies aren't always drawing all the people they used to. I certainly haven't been going to as many movies as I used to a couple years ago.
Padrino
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Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with @Warhawk above; even sh*tty Netflix series are pulling bigger talent, who shift between film and TV interchangeably. There's just more money in TV than there used to be, and the market is so saturated there's less "ding" to a movie star's reputation if they appear in a TV flop, like Naomi Watts appearing in Netflix's terribly thriller series Gypsy, for example.
Sam Worthington, Hemsworth, Arnie, Stallone, all the stars in the recent Glass Onion flicks, various comedy series with stars in them, James Franco in one I saw recently, Kidman, De Niro, Pattinson, Harrelson, Ortega, Ryder, Depp, Cavill, Hayek, just to name a few.