If people want to see failed foreigners trying American accents, I recommend the Lifetime TV movie genre. Pretty much all of their productions are made in Canada with all Canadian casts playing Americans. You regularly find Canadians who are not good at American accents.
Been years since I jags seen any of them but I used to be exposed to them regularly and it made me realize that all foreigners can’t do American accents.
I am reminded of this scene.
I watched Upload. Definitely mixed feelings about it. Overall it was good. I have no genre issues with it–the mix of humor and horror is effective.
It poses a good question: what makes life worth living? The answer it seems to suggest for viewers is: truth; reality. Which Lakeview is not.
The show presents a hell that customers and employees convince themselves is heaven, out of a fear of uncertainty and death.
Somehow, the show just seemed too lightweight. I don’t actually care about the characters. But it’s interesting to watch.
I think I only saw it mentioned once above, but (and I am kind of surprised to say this) I highly recommend Dave. It’s Lil Dicky so it’s occasionally juvenile, obviously, but it is really funny in parts and pretty moving in others. Lil Dicky has some great moments, but a couple of the side characters really carry it. Worth checking out!
Wowwwwwww. New Netflix true crime series Trial by Media is fantastic. Episode one’s case was great and am now fifteen into episode two and shit just got real.
Damn you David Spade, this looks hilarious.
Wish I didn’t already know about half of them already.
Finished season 1. Really liked this. Animated show on Hulu by Justin Roiland (one half of Rick and Morty), so it’s the same animation style and you’ve got alien humor there, but without the obsessions with being dark and toxic and without making nearly every episode a riff on some other pop culture. Just a fun show.
Now, consider the following thought experiment. Suppose there was an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Super-duper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel,or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences? […]Of course, while in the tank you won’t know that you’re there; you’ll think that it’s all actually happening […] Would you plug in? Do you want to plug in? As Nozick puts it, “What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?”
Nozick provides the following suggestions: 1.We want to do certain things and not just have the experience of having done them. 2.We want to be certain people – to plug in is to commit a form of “suicide." 3.We are limited to a human-created reality.
Setting aside how things can go wrong in a virtual reality afterlife, it seems there might be something wrong with the premise itself, even if executed perfectly. I’m not sure that’s right, but it is a popular intuition, that we don’t simply want to experience certain things, but we want those experiences to be real (as you note) and, further, that we want to be a certain way, not merely experience certain things.
I binged this over the last 2 days and liked it a lot, funny and a quick watch. Also agree on the side characters
Just watched episode 1. I’m in. Reminds me of Turn Up Charlie:
Included with Prime:
Pretty damn good.
FX really has nailed nearly every show the last few years. Really strong lineup.
Best performing channel of the last decade probably.
I thought this was great but I remember thinking they super whiffed the ending.
Being super fresh you will have to let us know which you like better after first watch
Dave has an “Entourage” feel to it.
Anyone watching Dark from Netflix? Interesting twin peaks ish time travel show I’m through 4. Beat: subtitles.
Not me, but someone earlier said it was one of their favorites
