The writers are on Dana Gould’s podcast this month and they make it sound good, plus they have good records so it’s definitely getting watched by me maybe this weekend. Cast looks solid. I just don’t know anyone but you who has actually seen it
Some cinephiles would probably say the same thing about watching movies at home instead of a big screen in a theater.
It’s probably true that I am foregoing immersing myself in an experience and it’s probably true that I don’t want to immerse myself. I don’t feel obligated to experience works as the creator intended.
It’s true that I have a different experience from other people, but I already have a different experience from most other people because my mind works differently.
There’s something to the idea that I am consuming this as raw information towards the end of using the data to develop a theory of art, but on the other hand, I do watch a lot of crap.
I was all psyched up to hate Mrs. Fletcher but the first episode was quite good. The son is hilariously dislikable, well done. I like where the show is going, I think it’s going to be profiling Mrs. Fletcher’s slow awaking of how shitty her son is and how her shitty enabling parenting made him that way.
I enjoyed it
You are welcome to watch it however you want and to be as individual as you want, don’t expect people experiencing the works substantially differently than you to want to give yours much weight. I don’t care what someone watching a show in a way I never will thinks about the work, as I don’t expect you to care what I think of the work.
Bruce, you’re a freak and a very weird dude.
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It’s entertaining and worth a watch.
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To review: nunnehi is the whistleblower, Trolly is Ann Coulter, simplicitus is George Conway, and NBZ is Stephen Colbert
https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1189375879622922242
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What did you think if ep 4, Goofy?
So I’m watching S2 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy material is always better when he’s not involved) and they’re still doing that thing where the place name text makes what I guess are supposed to be computery noises when it displays on the screen. In this case I get that it’s a throwback to Hunt for Red October, but I’m pretty sure it predates that movie too. Where the hell did this trope come from originally? I’ve been screwing around with all sorts of computer systems since the early 80’s and none of them have ever made noise when they displayed text on screen.
It’s just a movie troupe because the director needs to let the audience know text is on screen. Without the sound people would miss the text.
I think maybe it comes from teletype machines. When you were displaying a military message transmitted to a warship or something you’d have the sound effect of the teletype machine transcribing it. Then the audience had been conditioned for that sort of auditory cue when electronics took over so they just kept doing it.
I finished the Jack Ryan show yesterday and I have to say (spoilers for final episode)
Holy shit the foreign policy mindset of this show is batshit insane. Seriously demented. USA#1, we do what we want when we want to. Install whoever, kill whoever, invade whoever. Jack Ryan carries a gun and waves it around in two countries where he has zero authority in. And personally leads a commando squad into a foreign leader’s palace! He doesn’t ask permission from his bosses or get presidential authorization, let alone Congressional sanction. Just casually committing acts of war. Jesus christ.
Anyway, the most accurate representation of the CIA I’ve ever seen. 10/10, would watch again.
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Oh wow, I actually got an answer that makes sense!
Typing is boring. Most computer related activities are typing or reading, another activity that is boring to watch. So creative types try to spruce it up and make it interesting with dumb sound effects or stupid graphics or blow jobs. Who knows how the muggles see it?
End of the F***ing World S2 is out on Netflix. Half way through, seems just as good as S1. If you haven’t seen either, you should. Dark comedyish but absolutely unique. Weird characters and plot but if that doesn’t turn you off it’s an interesting story. Easily bingeable.
I stopped watching it when McNulty was going to his ex’s boyfriend’s Halloween party to plant pornography as per his ex-mother-in-law’s suggestion. I had to turn the television off just out of embarrassment, I was literally covering my eyes. Don’t ever remember quitting a TV show in the middle of the final season before.
The other problem is I just don’t care about any of the characters besides Helen and McNulty. Like Future Sad Lady? Why in the world am I supposed to care about Future Sad Lady? Or the black school principal character? Who is she again? Why do I care? Because she was banging McNulty? Now she’s a POV character? Is the POV character sexually transmitted or something with McNulty being patient zero?
Wait. Maybe it is? Huh. Anyway, the show has always suffered from thinking that McNulty and McNulty’s love life is far more interesting than it actually was. But the best moment of the season that I watched was when McNulty showed up drunk at Helen’s house and Helen was standing behind the door laughing at how pathetic McNulty is. So maybe the show is more self aware than I thought.
Lol ok I’m in, I’ll try to watch it
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My wife watched it so I saw a few scenes here and there. She called him McNulty too which I think is hilarious.
I prefer McNutty
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OK I’m trying here but now this show is telling me Helen’s next door neighbour is a POV character? We’re spending half the episode following around Helen’s next door neighbour? YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS