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To be fair seasons 4 and 5 TRANSITIONS TO GREATNESS
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If âtediously slowâ was your problem with season 1-3, youâre really not going to like season 4.
I See You on Prime
Horror/Thriller about a family with weird things happening in their house while a killer/pedophile is on the loose kidnapping boys.
Pretty good worth a watch Iâd say
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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words
and itâs about as much as a hagiography aimed towards liberal audiences as you can get.
9/10ths is spent on Thomasâs early life, his college liberal radicalism and this awakening to conservative ideas. He did have a hard life growing up and has pretty sympathetic complaints about Yale and WASP culture that he got thrown into, but he characterizes liberal activism as pure anger and says he felt shame for doing a march in which the police beat them up.
He then works for a white conservative attorney general, as a great awakening that it turns out most crimes committed against blacks are from other blacks and maybe black people arenât victims of the system. The show ends with this Supreme Court nomination. A grand total of about 10 minutes out of the entire show is spent on his judicial philosophy and none on his vision for America, etc.
If I ever run into Clarence Thomas Iâll help unskew the black-on-black crime statistics for him.
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Ready or Not
Not sure what platform I watched this on but it was a fun ride. A new bride must survive a murderous game of hide and seek to become part of the family. It was very much like Knives Out with an excellent blend of comedy and thrills. Highly recommend.
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HBO
Weâve got on the Disney+, and that has lead to me deciding to watch (and sometimes, though not too often, re-watch) everything from a little known movie franchise called âMarvelâ. Not sure why except that I like action movies and pointless acts of completism, and was also in the market for something undemanding once the work, childcare and reading about our terrible world is done for the day. Given my wife isnât that interested in my thoughts I figured Iâd dump them here, apologies to Marvel skeptics, haters etc.
Iron Man was first up. It was pretty good fun and moved along nicely, though the plot was a bit loose and messy. Although Jeff Bridges was Jeff Bridging it up all over the place from early on (and was the best thing in the film), he only arrived as the proper villain about half way through. (Spoiler alert!!) Even Bridges couldnât make his actions near the end anything other than the usual wtf-are-you-even-thinking stuff, but it was largely enjoyable nonetheless. I find Downey Jr by turns annoying and really likeable, weâll see how that develops.
Possibly the most interesting thing was just how weird a few scenes that were way over the #metoo line seemed. Not that it has triumphed in the culture wars by a long way, but I donât think a Marvel film would have stripper air stewardesses as just a bit of background fun any more.
Next, The Incredible Hulk, and Iâm afraid it was all pretty dreary. Ed Norton did his best but whoever came up with the script needs a good, long talking to. It feels like they probably read the back cover of some Hulk collection and figured that was all that was needed. He needs to get thing A and go to place B, bad guys C and D try to stop him, and thatâs literally it for the film. Tim Roth is mild good value as evil Hulk (spoiler alert!!) but William Hurt is phoning it in from further away than the writer. The end also makes no sense, why is Hulk suddenly taking instructions while Tim is off the reservation? (Though why am I thinking about such stuff, I should stop that.)
More #metoo action as well, when Ed catches a girl putting on her top as he escapes bad guys (sum total of their interaction). That was like a scene from a 70s Carry On movie, so it warmed my British heart.
Finally, for now, Iron Man 2. It seemed like the consensus was that this was worse than the first, but I enjoyed it a fair amount more. Mickey Rourke is a great unhinged bad guy throughout, Sam Rockwell is fun as the idiot enabling him and thereâs a sprinkling of other stuff going on with Sam Jackson and Scarlett Johansson popping in and out. Jon Favreau even gives himself a fist fight (and foreshadows it), and he makes it work! The Iron Man / Pepper Potts stuff is mildly tedious, though I guess itâs all just about part of the plot, and that seemed to have the right balance of simplicity and dumb-as-rocks complications for this kind of thing. Even the big fight at the end was solid action. Nice work!
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Loved this one. Rewarding for a second viewing too. You can imagine the sort of stuff youâll notice the second time.
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Finished my rewatch of lucifer. Definitely in my top 10 all time shows. Itâs just so cute, fun, insightful. Love that show. Wish season 5 would already come the fuck out.
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Just watched the first hour of GRANT on history channel. Itâs no Burns level documentary but Iâm certainly learning a lot. New episode tonight and another tomorrow
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Have you done âYouâre The Worstâ yet? I feel like you could use a comedy after ingesting BB/BCS back to back, and Mad Men is fucking dense, especially in the first season.
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That does not answer my question. If you havenât watched Youre The Worst, I highly recommend it as your next show. 62 half hour episodes. Super quick watch, very funny, and full of a ton of heart.
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I had to take a break from YtW. Not enough angst 
There was simply too much laughter.
You wonât regret it
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Donât just take my word for it
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Wasnât drunk or high when I wrote it, and Iâm only slightly high now when I say that I concur with myself.