Originally Posted by Plasmatopia
"what's better, peanut butter or g-sharp minor?"
- Sturgeon's Lawyer, 2021
Got caught up on the new season of “Barry” tonight. One of the best things on television right now. Excellent stuff!
Maybe I'm dense but it seems like this has gotten progressively more confusing last season and this. Started out with a great premise: Professional hit man wants to chuck it and take acting lessons. Throw in legend Henry Winkler. I'm in. Then we start getting flashbacks and dream sequences and characters who appear and then are gone. I dunno, it just seems like Hader's starting to disappear up his own ass.
Same as "Ted Lasso". First couple seasons were great, well-conceived fish-out-of-water premise, funny, terrific ensemble cast, idiosyncratic lead character, excellent writing. Then Ted starts having panic attacks and the team owner has a secret affair with a star player and suddenly it's soap opera time.
Or maybe I'm just a grouchy old man.
I somewhat get what you mean. Not sure where they are going with the flashbacks and the final scene appeared to be a flash forward or maybe they are all dream sequences. I am still really liking the season, but I see your point.
That's kind of how I'm feeling, a little, about Yellowjackets. Sometimes I wish they'd stick with one timeline for a while instead of jumping back and forth.
“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
Completely agree here. We loved season one, but found a lot of season two baffling in their decisions to become so sharply dramatic. It just isn't what we're looking for from that show, and as a result we haven't even bothered with season three yet. Feels like a chore now.
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If you want a season that's a chore to watch, try the 5th and final season of Mrs. Maisel. What a clusterfuck!
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I don't watch it but my wife loves it. She hasn't started the new season yet though.
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I gave up on that show mid-season 2.
“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
On a serious note, the media companies are playing with fire. The revenue stream for broadcast and basic cable is convoluted. Primarily through advertising, which varies depending on show ratings. The revenue stream for streaming services is monthly subscription fees. When there's no new content, people will start asking what the hell they're paying for. And canceling their subscriptions en mass. When subscribers are gone, the money completely goes away.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
I love this show, but like I said earlier, it's a mess and has been since the get-go.
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
Oy gevalt!
I have that same feeling after watching 6 from 10 episodes from this season (aired by Belgium TV). The previous season almost made me quit, but there's more psychology in this one. Aunt Lydia even begins to act like the woman that was described in Margaret Atwood's second novel The Testaments. And June, yes, she's hard to look at, but remember she's suffering from PTSD and she knows her behaviour isn't always logical.
We started watching the new HBO limited series "White House Plumbers". Not sure what I think of it. The cast is all-star, but the story is almost played as a straight comedy and I am not sure how well it works. I will reserve judgement until I see more episodes at this point.
I had the same opinion, although from what I've read and heard about Liddy, the way he is portrayed is not embellished very much if at all. He was truly a nutjob. And the "Plumbers" apparently were pretty inept from all accounts. Unfortunately, even after all these years and all his films, I still can't watch Harrelson and not think of Woody from Cheers. I'll stick with it giving HBO the benefit of the doubt because I enjoy most of their original programming.
One of the criticisms I have read of Harrelson in this series is that he does not even try to portray Hunt as he was in real life. Harrelson is basically just playing Harrelson. I agree with you that in a comedic role like this one, it is hard not to picture him as Woody.
From what I have read this show is about 80% accurate on it’s facts, and the Liddy / Hunt gang did bumble a lot of what they tried to pull off, but I am still not sure that playing it almost as a straight comedy was the right way to go.
I have it set up to record, so will continue watching at this point.
Speaking of Woody from Cheers, I always thought this was the greatest esoteric joke I've ever seen/heard, and that I'd imagine you all would appreciate.
It was the episode where Sam started making bets for Woody at the race track and Woody kept winning, even though he knew nothing about horse racing. After a bet that netted Woody a lot of money, he told Sam to bet his winnings on another horse in the next race. The odds on that horse were long and Sam debated whether to make the bet for him. In the end he didn't, thinking Woody would lose and saving his money for him. But the horse won and everyone thought Woody was going to rake in a huge amount of money.
Carla, I think, asked him what he was going to do with all that money and Woody said that the first thing he was going to do was buy his mother a set of drums. He then said, "she always wanted to learn how to play Toad."
“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
Man, that is esoteric, all right.
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
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We just started watching "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. A few episodes in I am digging it.
Good show
Ian
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The Last Kingdom is like, cool, an' stuff.
There is a new show on Peacock featuring Pete Davidson. Now I'm nowhere near a fan of Davidson's, his "I'm a confused stoner" routine gets on my nerves, but he's surrounded himself with so many huge co-stars/guest stars who are so excellent that it's a pretty good show, at least the first couple of episodes. He's got Edie Falco as his mother, Joe Pesci as his grandfather, Jane Curtain as his grandmother, Bobby Cannavale as his uncle, Brad Garrett guests in one ep and Steve Buscemi in another. The show is called "Bupkis" which in my experience is a Yiddish expression for "nothing" so I don't quite get the connection. But the show's kind of fascinating because it's all over the place but you keep waiting for another well-known face to appear.
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