If you missed it, the documentary Tickled is now on Prime. Be prepared to feel uncomfortable.
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Hulu is quickly proving itself to be the best place to find good small-budget movies.
One recent offering is Portals, a sort-of anthology movie about different scenarios where strange portals start appearing all over the world. What are they? Where do they lead? Why are they affecting some people in strange ways? Itās creepy and intriguing and intense like Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Itās four different short films under the same premise/story, each one from a different director.
Watch it all the way through the mid credits. The final short film is my favorite of the bunch.
Watched the pilot to AP Bio, enjoyed it, saw the potential. But for no good reason havenāt watched an episode since then. Need to fix that.
It went so many unexpected directions. Iām sure weāve discussed it beforeā¦ Did you watch the follow-up documentary? Much shorter but wow at the fallout.
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Itās an interesting show because on first glance, itās OK/pretty good for the first half of the first season, then really ramps up the quality after that. But going back and re-watching before season 3 aired, I found that a lot of the characters were fully-formed from the get-go, and it just wasnāt obvious until Iād seen more of them in action. (Had the same experience when I went back to watch early Bobās Burgers.)
WTF, dump her immediately.
As a middle aged white guy and a fan of Justice John Hodgeman, Iām really hyped to watch his show Dicktown. Itās about a situation where this Encyclopedia Brown character reaches middle age and he experiences existential dread and solves mysteries with his former teenage bully. I think itās only available on some bullshit FX Ocho streaming platform, so Iām either going to sign up for a free trial week and binge the whole series or else pirate it. Did I mention that the show is called Dicktown.
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i binged it on hulu recently. not enough episodes!
Iām already hooked after watching that youtube. Enough with the PBS words!
The TV show āCakeā on FX had an episode of this. Had no idea it was an actual thing, but I enjoyed the parts I saw on Cake.
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Cake is a super fun show too, 5 bags
Oh! I just clicked on the clip above. Thats the episode they showed on Cake
Watched the tube, which was solid. Not gonna go out of my way but will watch if itās on hulu.
Binged s1 of cobra kai yesterday, was very solid. Sometimes quite funny.
Sped through a few episodes of american bbq or whatever on Netflix, was lame.
Only other significant thing Iāve recently watched was Devs, which was pretty good overall.
Well, still limping along with S4 of good place. It has itās moments but they should have just been rebels and gone broader and deeper with the philosophy stuff. Devote an episode to to pragmatism, or relativity, or mathematical logic, yolo, be brave.
Based on this thread, may check out The Boys.
I almost watched The Boys last night, but then instead I watched a Columbo where the killer programmed a robot to do his job for his alibi. Columbo broke him in the end, obviously. Pretty sure it was the right choice.
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Thatās the one where Robbie the Robot guest stars!
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Exactly. That was the first draft one sentence summary, but then I doubted general knowledge of Leslie Nielsen films that arenāt Naked Gun.
It also has Lucille Bluth as a psychiatrist. Whenever I watch Columbo I wonder why the hell I ever watch anything else.
Because there are only 70 some episodes and Iāve seen them all multiple times, I occasionally watch something else.
A few years ago it was a petty great surprise when I thought I had seen them all, but it turned out there were a couple I missed, including the excellent cruise ship episode.
They really should reboot Columbo with Mark Ruffalo and some brilliant writers.
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Yeah, I think thereās probably still a few Iāve never seen but luckily Iām also very forgetful. I hardly remembered anything of that one, but I knew Iād seen it before because of Robbie but also a bit where Columboās dog gets kicked out of school.
Normally Iād say leave things be, but Ruffalo as Columbo does sound pretty elite.
Only if they do it as a period drama. Half the fun of Columbo is the 70s/80s vibe.
Well, actually just 70s. For some reason I associate Columbo with the early 80s as well.