Saw this little Docu-Comedy Special. A satiric look at the events of 2021 – Death to 2021. They made a similar one last year too.
In summary, it was decent. The characters in the talking heads interview sections were mildly entertaining> You’ve got your crazed inaccurate “news” host, your vaccine researcher, political commentator, conservative mom stuck to her principals, stuck-in-the-past historian and obnoxious streamer, as the main cast. They did a nice job recapping most of the major events and internet trends over the year, though some of the interview segments where they lampoon it their own way fell a bit flat.
I gotta give it props for a visual joke at one point, where Joe Keery’s streamer character is reacting to some event on Youtube, you can see in the sidebar some fake videos from him – one being “Doge Coin is the one crypto you NEED” (5 months ago) and then “Why Doge Coin is a loser’s crypto” (3 months ago), or something like that.
I found that a nice touch to funny detail.
Since I got Showtime to watch the new season of Dexter (flawed, but satisfying), I figured I’d give Yellowjackets a try. All I knew was that it was about a high school girls soccer team whose plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, which, frankly, sounded rather uninspired to me, since I’m kind of tired of that post-apocalyptic, Lord of the Flies survival bullshit.
It’s awesome.
What I didn’t know is that the crash is in 1996 and half the show is set in the present. Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress are fantastic as the now middle-aged survivors of the crash and if Melanie Lynskey doesn’t win an Emmy there is something seriously wrong in the world.
I won’t say much more than that, except that both halves of the show get more and more compelling as it goes, leading up to a season finale that might be the best episode of television I’ve seen in the past few years.
Highly recommended.
(Fun fact: My high school was also the Yellow Jackets…but our sports teams all sucked. )
Oh, my dad has been getting into that.
I saw the first episode with him, and he’s a couple into it right now.
He’s enjoying it, but it’s been a bit of a slower burn than he’d like, and also apparently there’s some mystical elements that seem to be driving the characters to kill each other, and he did not expect that from this show.
I’ll get to it myself one day, it’s a really intriguing premise (I haven’t seen many Lord of the Flies type stories)
I’m currently watching The Sopranos (Season 5), a wonderful show. The series is dropping a bit lately, but I’m excited to see how it ends. Seasons 1-3 were definitely the best so far. It’s just really exhausting to remember all the names and faces, especially when you’re trying to keep up with everything.
It’s so amusing when movies like Scarface, The Godfather or Goodfellas are mentioned within the series. It somehow makes the characters more human.
It also becomes very clear how much Rockstar Games was inspired by Tony Sprano for the design of Michael from GTA V.
Fantastic show, for sure! I’m in the middle of season 6. What makes it extraordinary, to me, is the high level of realism. Nothing is done fake, or for the sake of it being a show, but everything is 1:1 a real life mob event. I heard even the actual NY mobs praised the show…?
Up until S6E6, I have taken 691 shots (might share later). The postures, especially in the face, are epic.
Here are 7 samples.
Disney Plus has been adding more and more of its subsidiaries content over the past year, usually from Fox, FX, and Hulu.
Most recently they finally added the series “What We Do In The Shadows” the american TV adaptation of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s vampire mockumentary of the same name.
Very excited about its inclusion since I’ve heard a lot of good things about its comedy and adaptation, and I think it’s been pretty successful on FX and Hulu. And now it’s here…
Just going off the first two episodes, I think It’s great! It nails the ‘fish out of water’ personalities of the vampires in a modern world, it’s got a great set and costume design, and the filming style has great comedic timing and great use of the documentary style.
Though there are some things that are just surprising or slightly off-putting, I don’t remember the original film having much gore in it, but, in this series, we’re shown a man hoisted up into a tree before a shower of blood rains down on his girlfriend, and a pile of dead raccoons on an old woman’s porch after one of the Vamps mistakenly takes a councilwoman’s vendetta against the increasing raccoon population too literally. Slightly amusing, but pretty darn dark.
There’s also one vampire’s outdated view of modern society, where – only two instances happened so far – but in an attempt to gain control of or humiliate a high-ranking city councilwoman, he calls her a “bitch” behind her back, as well as hypnotizes her coworker to call her one in the middle of a hearing, as well as throw plenty of other (non-sensical) insults around.
Some of that is cringe humour, sure, but that time of The Office is long gone, and it seems to be a bit much to nail that precarious line of mature tone vs. outlandish comedy. Apart from those things, the rest of the show is pretty much always a hit so far so that’s good.
I realise it’s only a trailer and we’ve all been burned by them before, but I am seriously looking forward to this. It looks so much better than I was expecting it to be.
We turned on In from the Cold yesterday. We were fairly excited bc we like spy stuff. Anyway it started off ok. I figured it would be a fun if not perfectly accurate series. I was hoping it would get slightly better so as to do justice to Le Carré since they basically borrowed his title. Anyway it’s going along and then [REDACTED] happens. When [REDACTED] happens you realise you are now in the science fiction realm. It totally caught us off guard. It was like the first time you see a creature in stranger things only that show is called stranger things so you expect it. It’s a fun show but it’s not what we expected at all and I really wish that one thing wasn’t part of the show.
Finished the original Cowboy Bebop anime series this past weekend.
What a fantastic series and ending. It really hasn’t aged too badly, and was very entertaining throughout, with some pretty intense final episodes.
I do not have the strength to watch Netflix’s horrible adaptation however, and will resort to reviews and clips on youtube to see just how terrible they seemed to have made it.
At least I still have the Cowboy Bebop Movie to watch in the future… and I’ve heard a lot of good stuff about that!
The series picks up after Alice returns through the looking-glass to find her house burned-down and parents dead. Cheery stuff then, and it only gets better as Alice is locked up in a mental institution before the white rabbit takes her back to Wonderland. Which I’m guessing will not be all that wonderful.
So I’m guessing it’s gonna be based on the first game which I do recommend it if you can get your hands on it
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Apart from those things, the rest of the show is pretty much always a hit so far so that’s good.
very exciting news!