What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 10/4/2015 at 6:04 PM, joshuatx said:

watched Fargo, finally, and loved it. i expected to and wasn't let down, really impressed how much the coen brothers' usual vibe bled in, even though they were only the producers

 

watched snl last night - couple funny skits but man, some of the worst dud sketches i've ever seen, and all of them with leslie jones: bad timing, iffy jokes, tired plots...i want to like her but she's simply not a good cast member. really worried she's going to suck in ghostbusters. they should leave her to writing only. she's tried too long and it's simply not working out.

  On 10/4/2015 at 8:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 10/4/2015 at 6:04 PM, joshuatx said:

watched Fargo, finally, and loved it. i expected to and wasn't let down, really impressed how much the coen brothers' usual vibe bled in, even though they were only the producers

 

watched snl last night - couple funny skits but man, some of the worst dud sketches i've ever seen, and all of them with leslie jones: bad timing, iffy jokes, tired plots...i want to like her but she's simply not a good cast member. really worried she's going to suck in ghostbusters. they should leave her to writing only. she's tried too long and it's simply not working out.

I thought Kim Davis trying to hug the Pope was a lol, and the Millennials sketch was good.

 

yeah the opening was great - i liked the millennials as well, those jokes kind of write themselves. the Taylor swift post-apocalypse and GOP presidential candidate dementia spoof skits were the other two i really liked

kate mckinnon killed it as usual - i'm usually pretty forgiving with SNL - even the silly and dumb skits please me most of the time

this was actually the first SNL i dvr'd and watched - i usually watch reruns on hulu and they normally cut some skits

  On 10/4/2015 at 8:39 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 10/4/2015 at 5:56 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 10/3/2015 at 11:43 PM, kymppinetti said:

that last episode of south park made me psychically vomiting. it was so brilliant.

It hit home as a resident of Austin, which is very heavy on gentrification / faux indie/bohemian/authentic community corporate bullshit.

 

I was a little drunk watching it, and tired from a long work week, so when that "city part of town" bit came on I lost it, laughed to the point of crying into a sobbing slobbery mess. It was quite cathartic.

 

the whole season has been excellent

We have a complex in Houston called City Centre which looks like they ripped it right out of reality. But yeah we were in Austin this weekend and you're right, restaurants charging a cover just to go in and eat, the Walmarts have no plastic bags, and charge just to put your groceries in a paper bag, fucking hoverboards, etc etc lol

 

City Centre. Welcome Home.

 

yeah it's not even the mega planned communities that bother me as much as the high investment / pure cash driven real estate market right now.

i live in east side and i moved there to rent and live somewhat centrally. it's always been lower income / working class and mostly black and hispanic until the early to mid-00s when more artists, middle class families, and other not so wealthy people moved over there. now house lots are literally being bought up, scrapped (more often than not) and sold to high income buyers. low income / affordable housing is not being built as fast, and likewise you have to be fairly poor or a student to be eligible, if you work full time your probably cant get it. there is a new house down the street from me with a sign that says "from the $500s" and this is the same neighborhood were I still see crack rock drop offs and prostitutes a couple blocks away. most of the folks who have lived there for decades are being priced out from the higher taxes or they are simply selling their houses and moving out of atx altogether. it's a bit surreal. one local business was demolished before utilities were turned off or they could move their inventory out. it was quite disgusting. the landlord was appropriately chastised publicly and fired from his PR job but it's still gone. in fact, this is how absurd the "hipness" factor of this town is - a fucking cat cafe is being built next to it. it's a coincidence but still, that kind of encapsulates how disjointed the new residents are with the old. worsening the situation is the fact that so many people are from out of town or out of state, especially those buying all the land

tldr - i live in neighborhood being gentrified so fast i wont be able to afford renting in it next year

enjoying new last man on earth on bob's burgers, though the latter was cut off because Fox ran the end of a football game instead

new season of Fargo starts very soon. I was very very skeptical when the show first started, i didn't particularly like Martin Freeman or Billy Bob but after like 3 episodes i got extremely sucked in. pleasant surprise, i think of all the movie-spinoff Tvshows and reboots its by far the best one.

Gotham was beyond fucked up this week, and Jerome turned out not to be The Joker, not the physical Joker anyway. It introduced the question, what if Joker is a state of mind, or more specifically, a state of insanity? I'm not sure if they will actually introduce him as a character, or as more of a sickness or disease. Jerome's father thought so, and maybe he was right. It's much better than last season.

weird that Gotham's Penguin is a rail thin hipster twink who is some kind of serial killer. one of the weirdest and most deeply unsatisfying shows i've ever seen in my life.

It's pretty cheesy tbh

This Is England 90

ep4 = wtf

just when you thought you couldnt go any deeper into the woods......

  On 10/4/2015 at 8:39 PM, Rubin Farr said:

We have a complex in Houston called City Centre which looks like they ripped it right out of reality. But yeah we were in Austin this weekend and you're right, restaurants charging a cover just to go in and eat, the Walmarts have no plastic bags, and charge just to put your groceries in a paper bag, fucking hoverboards, etc etc lol

this started happening in california a while ago (the no plastic bags and charging you for paper bags). in san francisco they started doing this around 2006 and in los angeles about 3 years ago.

they don't do cover charges for restaurants yet but they've implemented A LOT of compulsory valet parking- even at diners like mel's (it's not free because you have to tip)

btw how's your homelessness situation? our's has become a state emergency thanks to the major gentrification that happened downtown (which now resembles a cross betwix philadelphia and manhattan)

I saw the homelessness in San Francisco and yes it's out of control. People sleeping in every available nook, and the smell of pot and urine everywhere. In Houston, it's mostly limited to intersections and overpasses, the downtown area is rife with homeless people and shelters, which they build cardboard box cities around. It wreaks of urine down there and is really scary at night. My gf works downtown and I constantly worry about her. In Austin, at a 4 way intersection you can literally have 4 people, one on each corner. More needs to be done to help the homeless in America IMO, but it doesn't seem to be a priority anymore.

  On 10/8/2015 at 12:37 AM, Rubin Farr said:

I saw the homelessness in San Francisco and yes it's out of control. People sleeping in every available nook, and the smell of pot and urine everywhere.

they've got a solution to solve the urine (and shower) problem

a bit inaccurate, San Francisco has actually turned into quite the high income town in the past few years. Last time i was in LA i would argue their homeless person is faaar worse

  On 10/8/2015 at 12:37 AM, Rubin Farr said:

I saw the homelessness in San Francisco and yes it's out of control. People sleeping in every available nook, and the smell of pot and urine everywhere

Rick and Morty

is anyone watching 'the man in the high castle'? it has a good pedigree behind it but such a spotty casting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzayf9GpXCI

first ep was intriguing, the setting and all is obviously quite original. by the second ep things got corny very fast, very hamfisted dramatizing too.

thank god for America.....for the single reason of giving John Oliver and his midland's accent a platform to deliver ridiculous satire

  On 10/10/2015 at 1:46 AM, eugene said:

first ep was intriguing, the setting and all is obviously quite original. by the second ep things got corny very fast, very hamfisted dramatizing too.

How many episodes have aired?

i dunno how many have aired but i saw two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZ9l8anS9I

  On 10/12/2015 at 11:27 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZ9l8anS9I

looking forward to it. Anyone remember that fake character David Cross used to do on very early Colbert Report episodes? Before Colbert turned into a character-breaking Obama praiser David Cross would basically be playing a parody of a generic liberal guy and I can't find any video now but it was hilarious.

russ lieber

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qdqpdn/the-colbert-report-who-s-attacking-me-now----marina-core

  On 10/12/2015 at 11:27 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZ9l8anS9I

So ready for this. And although they tended to stay away from direct parody and topical humor, they still have 15+ years of culture to draw from since Mr. Show ended. Interesting to see how it shapes up.

The new season of Fargo looks to be as good as the first one.

yeah that was a really strong start for season 2. They were riffing on so many different Coen brothers movie this time too. They had an obvious nod to Donnie interrupting in the bowling alley (from Lebowski) during the bingo scene (instead of a Vietnam vet, the gruff of the 3 is an 80s conspiracy theorist). They also outro'd the show with a song from O' brother. PRetty weird they're playing with all those obvious nods but somehow it works. Also liked the Culkin kid playing the Buscemi dumb bad guy role