oh btw I really liked The Last of Us... only 2 things I didn't like was the zombie design (but I never do) and this stupid cunt:

  On 4/13/2023 at 6:20 PM, cruising for burgers said:

oh btw I really liked The Last of Us... only 2 things I didn't like was the zombie design (but I never do) and this stupid cunt:

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Glad she got munched. That was a pretty good episode.

  On 4/12/2023 at 10:26 PM, cruising for burgers said:

that's the best you got for one of the best TV shows that came out in recent times?

I mean - it was pretty average. S1 was better than S2, except of course the scenery in S2 is lush as fuck. I did laugh like fuck at the ending for S.2 when Coolidge went out the way she did. Super fitting.

What it made it one of the best TV show that came out in recent times for you?

  On 4/13/2023 at 9:34 AM, usagi said:

fuck me this is an annoying trailer.

+1

  On 4/13/2023 at 6:20 PM, cruising for burgers said:

oh btw I really liked The Last of Us... only 2 things I didn't like was the zombie design (but I never do) and this stupid cunt:

stopped watching this show after 2 episodes. zombies + apocalypse = lost me

has anyone seen this? i actually kinda like it although i feel after 3 episodes of discussing the morpho we can move onto something else... like where does it come from or now what. especially considering the information this has on the towns folk you'd think by now they'd be tearing the thing apart and beginning to show signs of serious de-evolution. 

its like magic realism written by a chad that programs AI

  On 4/13/2023 at 3:28 AM, cruising for burgers said:

 

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Season 1 was the best tv show I have seen so far 

Keep meaning to rewatch S1 of True Detective. I was at the tail end of a huge cocaine addiction when I watched that and was having all kinds of weird mental acrobatics, depression and nightmares. That show proper fucked with my head. Dark times.

  On 4/13/2023 at 3:33 PM, MadameChaos said:

I watched this during the lock down but have been thinking of rewatching as I think I watched it too fast.

Yeah it’s really good balance between kitsch, gore, epic and romance  

@chenGOD white lotus - it was quite strange for what it is, was expecting a convencional drama show but was really surprised by how funny it was indeed… all the cynicism and intrigues turned the whole thing into a trippy paranoia vibe/bad trip… the plot was quite scheming as well and I was smirking smug all the time (rubbing hands), not just lolling… pretty awkward and moist vibes all around as someone posted in this thread a while back… the hypnotic blend between sound editing and those glowing visuals (photography/color grading) all neatly put together make it almost psychedelic in a way… and also those slow motions of waves, the shots underwater and the sunrise views were tasty af really setting up the perfect mood... yeah, the mood, that was basically what got me hooked and why I think this show was astonishing...

and u can't go wrong with a savage and hilarious ending like that…

and a lot of other details which I can't recall right now, will re-watch it for sure… oh and I'm only talking about s01… wasn't a big fan of s02 to be honest...

and I use and this and that several times cause I don't know how to start a sentence...

Anyway, first time I was introduced to this soundtrack composer was in the Utopia TV show... he's Cristobal Tapia de Veer and his sound is so characteristic and unique that you can guess that's him doing it miles away, lots of vocals manipulations...

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  • The Third Day: Summer (Milan Records / Sony Music, 2020)
  • Philip K. Dick's: Electric Dreams (La La Land Records / 2018)
  • Black Mirror: Black Museum (Lakeshore Records, 2018)
  • The Girl with all the Gifts (Mondo, Death Waltz Records, 2017)
  • National Treasure (Free Run Artists, 2017)
  • Humans (Silva Screen Records, 2015)
  • Utopia S2 (Silva Screen Records, 2014)
  • Utopia (Silva Screen Records, 2013)

  On 10/18/2022 at 11:12 PM, cruising for burgers said:

oh and... daddario 

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  On 4/14/2023 at 7:42 PM, cruising for burgers said:

@chenGOD white lotus - it was quite strange for what it is, was expecting a convencional drama show but was really surprised by how funny it was indeed… all the cynicism and intrigues turned the whole thing into a trippy paranoia vibe/bad trip… the plot was quite scheming as well and I was smirking smug all the time (rubbing hands), not just lolling… pretty awkward and moist vibes all around as someone posted in this thread a while back… the hypnotic blend between sound editing and those glowing visuals (photography/color grading) all neatly put together make it almost psychedelic in a way… and also those slow motions of waves, the shots underwater and the sunrise views were tasty af really setting up the perfect mood... yeah, the mood, that was basically what got me hooked and why I think this show was astonishing...

and u can't go wrong with a savage and hilarious ending like that…

and a lot of other details which I can't recall right now, will re-watch it for sure… oh and I'm only talking about s01… wasn't a big fan of s02 to be honest...

and I use and this and that several times cause I don't know how to start a sentence...

Anyway, first time I was introduced to this soundtrack composer was in the Utopia TV show... he's Cristobal Tapia de Veer and his sound is so characteristic and unique that you can guess that's him doing it miles away, lots of vocals manipulations...

•   Reveal hidden contents

  • The White Lotus (Watertower Music, 2021)
  • The Third Day: Summer (Milan Records / Sony Music, 2020)
  • Philip K. Dick's: Electric Dreams (La La Land Records / 2018)
  • Black Mirror: Black Museum (Lakeshore Records, 2018)
  • The Girl with all the Gifts (Mondo, Death Waltz Records, 2017)
  • National Treasure (Free Run Artists, 2017)
  • Humans (Silva Screen Records, 2015)
  • Utopia S2 (Silva Screen Records, 2014)
  • Utopia (Silva Screen Records, 2013)

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Yeah, there's something really satisfying about it. Especially season one. Season two was good, but something about the way season one unfolds, characters unraveling and the way the music underlines and anticipates the drama and trajectory of the whole thing I found hugely satisfying and intriguing. Bartlett's character is a brilliant Basil Fawlty, and the ongoing skirmish between him and whatshisface (Plop from The Office) is so fuckin good. And again that theme tune ramping things up. 

There's also a tendency (in both seasons) to give the characters a nuanced personality. We're presented with a group of somewhat archetypal characters, then constantly thrown curveballs as their personalities and motives. You end up sympathizing with and resenting almost each character equally by the end of it and makes it feel like such a heady ride. And, I may be a softee here, but I found the son's story genuinely uplifting. When he fucks off from be relegated to living in the kitchenette and starts sleeping on the beach and with the canoe team and all? Good stuff. 

Looks like there's a third season on the (tropical) horizon. To be set in Thailand! 

This was excellent

X-Files

  On 4/14/2023 at 7:42 PM, cruising for burgers said:

first time I was introduced to this soundtrack composer was in the Utopia TV show

I did like the score for white lotus quite a lot - didn't realize he was the same guy as Utopia! I loved Utopia - and I just realized I don't think I watched season 2 of that, thanks for the reminder!

  On 4/15/2023 at 4:27 PM, ooqpoo said:

Bartlett's character is a brilliant Basil Fawlty, and the ongoing skirmish between him and whatshisface (Plop from The Office) is so fuckin good. And again that theme tune ramping things up. 

There's also a tendency (in both seasons) to give the characters a nuanced personality. We're presented with a group of somewhat archetypal characters, then constantly thrown curveballs as their personalities and motives. You end up sympathizing with and resenting almost each character equally by the end of it and makes it feel like such a heady ride. And, I may be a softee here, but I found the son's story genuinely uplifting. When he fucks off from be relegated to living in the kitchenette and starts sleeping on the beach and with the canoe team and all? Good stuff. 

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I did like quite a lot of the characters, but found most of the storylines to be...a little pedestrian? i dunno. Like it was good, but not great?

  On 4/15/2023 at 4:27 PM, ooqpoo said:

And, I may be a softee here, but I found the son's story genuinely uplifting. When he fucks off from be relegated to living in the kitchenette and starts sleeping on the beach and with the canoe team and all? Good stuff.

+100

Barry season 4 starts tonight

Sort of an end to a personal "era" with Succession and Barry in the final seasons. Definitely my two favorites across the past 5 years or so. 

  On 4/15/2023 at 7:06 PM, chenGOD said:

I loved Utopia - and I just realized I don't think I watched season 2 of that, thanks for the reminder!

pls do yourself a favor and don't... I also really liked it the first time I saw it... teen angst I guess, ost and the psycho from killing list's acting...

  On 4/16/2023 at 10:37 PM, cruising for burgers said:

I'm rewatching uk's Utopia... this show is unbearable... all the main characters are annoying af, doesn't even feel like rooting for them... just get killed you massive twats, go on then... and why is this fucking Jessica Hyde always whispering like she's an asmr artist? christ on a bike...

it's also very edgy right? quite possible, if you're 12 or an anti-vaxxer... it's hard to follow no doubt but it just makes it tedious...

only redeeming things about it are the actor from Kill List and Cristobal's soundtrack... it's also well directed with an interesting color pallette...

After all these years thinking the Simpsons should have called it a day by the early 00's, wondering how they could possibly have kept going all this time, assuming it must be total garbage since they had already gone downhill so badly by then, a couple months ago I decided to take the plunge and watch them all.

After that initial period of shittiness they actually did a pretty decent job of picking things back up, aside from some unavoidable issues. The most notable of these issues is that they are by definition a 90s family, so the further along they push the show without aging the characters, the less their backstories make sense (e.g. having to continually update the time period of retrospective storylines) which over time just weakens the entire premise of the show - this is a no-brainer for the countless fans who gave up on the show around the same time I did, whose childhood coincided with those first 8-10 seasons.

At first I thought, "It helps if you just think of it as a different show altogether." But they do a pretty decent job of staying true to the original characters while moving them forward through the relevant time period context.

The writing is as patchy/inconsistent as any other similar show - Family Guy and American Dad for example have loads of zero-laughs, total dud episodes themselves - and some of these plotlines are genuinely moronic and on some occasions have a completely absurd wrap-up that would get an F in highschool English class. The absurdity factor works for those other shows but when the Simpsons try it it just feels cheap and out of place.

But at the same time I have gotten some serious laughs. The overall quality has kept me going (I'm up to season 25 now), and while the plotlines might be a bit contrived or outright stupid at times, the joke writing is often very clever, which is one of the things that made them such a great show in the first place.

  On 4/16/2023 at 10:08 PM, xxx said:

Sort of an end to a personal "era" with Succession and Barry in the final seasons. Definitely my two favorites across the past 5 years or so. 

 

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I hear ya, Snowfall is about to wrap up as well after 6 seasons, and Picard will wrap up the Next Generation / Voyager storylines, maybe forever.

im crying out loud re-watching party down... pretty sure this new season is gonna be a disappointment ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ

two episodes in. very good so far.

  On 4/16/2023 at 11:44 PM, toaoaoad said:

After all these years thinking the Simpsons should have called it a day by the early 00's, wondering how they could possibly have kept going all this time, assuming it must be total garbage since they had already gone downhill so badly by then, a couple months ago I decided to take the plunge and watch them all.

After that initial period of shittiness they actually did a pretty decent job of picking things back up, aside from some unavoidable issues. The most notable of these issues is that they are by definition a 90s family, so the further along they push the show without aging the characters, the less their backstories make sense (e.g. having to continually update the time period of retrospective storylines) which over time just weakens the entire premise of the show - this is a no-brainer for the countless fans who gave up on the show around the same time I did, whose childhood coincided with those first 8-10 seasons.

At first I thought, "It helps if you just think of it as a different show altogether." But they do a pretty decent job of staying true to the original characters while moving them forward through the relevant time period context.

The writing is as patchy/inconsistent as any other similar show - Family Guy and American Dad for example have loads of zero-laughs, total dud episodes themselves - and some of these plotlines are genuinely moronic and on some occasions have a completely absurd wrap-up that would get an F in highschool English class. The absurdity factor works for those other shows but when the Simpsons try it it just feels cheap and out of place.

But at the same time I have gotten some serious laughs. The overall quality has kept me going (I'm up to season 25 now), and while the plotlines might be a bit contrived or outright stupid at times, the joke writing is often very clever, which is one of the things that made them such a great show in the first place.

 

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Which new seasons / episodes would you recommend watching?  

  On 4/16/2023 at 5:37 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Barry

also

sweet gsus

Rennervations

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18069838/

No I’m not joking. Hated it at the time (I’m a Metal Head, like I would bother with something as perfectly cheesy as that ) but now I’m enjoying every nostalgic minute of it

Trust me it’s more entertaining than you think it is.