It sounds like you get it, except for the part where you don’t get that it’s hilarious.
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You wouldn’t be vegan by any chance?
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Yes. I’m hopeful. Disney has figured it out. All I want is a GOOD Fantastic Four movie. It doesn’t have to be great. Just as competent as the worst MCU movie will do.
The only awesome F4 we’ve gotten so far is the first trailer for F42: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The only good part of the movie, but it’s great. Featuring a pre-Captain America Chris Evans being as charming as ever.
Lollllllllllllllll Kristen Wiig GOAT lol at her flashing the audience wow
I have already seen all mine!
I know @RiskyFlush will not watch this, but it is the Ken Jeoung and Joel McHale podcast, the darkest timeline, with a special zoom call featuring the cast of Community. It was recorded after they recently did a table read to raise money for Covid relief.
Why would I not watch that?
What twisted reverse psychology is this
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Upload was renewed for a second season.
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El Camino is the end of the timeline and directly connected to BB.
Better Call Saul is the prequel which centers on Saul.
I’d choose El Camino
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I agree with this and am quite jealous that marty gets to watch them in this order for the first time
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I haven’t seen any. I don’t mean any of the letters in my name, I mean any of those films at all. wtf?
Am I missing out?
El Camino. It will be much easier to follow it if you watch it right after Breaking Bad. Granted, you won’t have as long to forget stuff from BB if you binge Saul. I probably didn’t enjoy El Camino as much as I could have because I forgot a lot of BB.
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I’m more jealous you get to start bcs from the beginning than bb
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Dang I still haven’t watched el Camino, or the deadwood movie.
I did remember someone talking about s3 of Goliath and I jumped in. Just really appreciate the casting on that show.
All right, took me a bit to gather my thoughts, let’s see if I can express them coherently.
Premise issues:
- Nathan is pressured to suicide into the afterlife by a manipulative, narcissistic girlfriend he doesn’t really like that much. That girlfriend also controls his finances in the afterlife, which it turns out is far from perfect unless you can make in-app purchases. Between Ingrid and the way Nora manipulates him, I feel like this is the story of an abusive relationship defined by control-- something that would be really obvious if the genders were reversed-- but based on some of the previews and promos I’ve seen, the writers think this is funny?
- Speaking of in-app purchases: Capitalism has found its way into heaven! The idea of companies still finding a way to extract wealth from you even after you’re dead is a horrifying one, but I don’t see any indicator that this guy is going to go Neo on the afterlife. If anything, it seems to just be considered The Way Things Are, but I found the implications horrific.
Scene issues:
- Nathan having to decide in the hospital whether to go in for surgery to save his life, or knowingly suicide and Upload, was one of the most psychologically terrifying things I’ve ever seen. Was that intentional? Because it was a lot to lay on us in a pilot where I was expecting mostly comedy.
- Similarly, the actual upload scene was just traumatic and horrifying. Why on Earth is there an observation window so Nathan’s girlfriend and mother can watch his head get vaporized? Did the writers think that was funny?
- Minor but related: As much as I enjoy stuff like Billy Madison beating up the kids at dodgeball, or Mac and Charlie beating up their bully’s son and his friends, those include a transgressive element, where knowingly terrible people are taking horrible actions, and the transgressiveness is in and of itself funny. Nathan dancing with his niece and accidentally flinging her into the wall is the opposite: It’s not intentional by a bad person, it’s an accident by our protagonist, and it’s completely jarring because they haven’t laid the groundwork to do this kind of comedy.
- This is misguided in a different way, but I found Nora’s interaction with her coworker on the elevator to be really bad dialogue. Even the most chuddish incels don’t talk in catchphrases like “nice guy” and “friend zone” in real life-- especially not catchphrases that were outdated at the time the show was made, let alone the time it’s set.
Really, the only scene I really enjoyed and found funny in the pilot was the peeing scene. I definitely would have done the same thing.
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We were talking about how we to a one abandoned the show twenty minutes into S3 
Interesting points.
Have you seen any other Greg Daniels works? Knowing it is by him and not expecting at least a majority of the show to be comedic seems like a misstep.
I said to my wife while we were watching that it seemed like a lot of Mike judge humor, which makes sense considering how closely together and long Mike and Greg worked together during King of the Hill.
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Yeah, I love King of the Hill, and of course the early years of The Office are terrific. He also wrote for shows as grand as The Simpsons and SNL (in their heydays) and as obscure as The Dana Carvey Show and Not Necessarily the News.
I did expect it to be comedic, but what I found was something more akin to a sci-fi psychological horror story.
You guys didn’t enjoy the Dennis quaid choir?