If you think you might want to watch Black Bear, don’t watch the trailer. Assholes basically spoiled the whole plot in it.
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Trailers are almost always horrible. I can’t think of a movie I have ever seen even partially because of the trailer.
I am solidly in between the lovers and the haters of Schitt’s Creek. When I watched the first season I was like “why the fuck is everyone so in love with this show?” But I am running seriously low on content so I kept watching. The show morphs from attempted silly comedy into something more like what I imagine Gilmore Girls or Northern Exposure were like (I never saw either one). All the main characters (except Catherine O’Hara) grow as people as the show continues. Still not really my cup of tea, but I think people got attached to the characters and invested in their arcs.
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Trailers are generally evil for anything but boiler plate movies like rom coms.
Did someone say “we need more Carls”? Wth.
Dude
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This is proper guidance. The show has gotten demonstrably worse in chronological season order. I struggled through s3 but think I finished it. I have tried to watch the first episode of s4 like four times but I am giving up. S1 was amazing, s2 really good.
Agreed on Schitt’s Creek. Takes a bit for the characters to round out but it gets a lot better as it goes along.
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Appreciate this. I barely know anything from that article and am happy to just watch it on premiere.
Yup, I’ll sign on to that. It’s like your first ever taste of beer. “Eh, wtf is this?”
Then 5 beers later you’re laughing your ass off.
Then you throw up the next morning.
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I think you have to enjoy the flavor of humor. I thought it was hilarious from the start, but I also enjoy stories about awful people doing awful things. Make it serious or funny. This one is mostly funny but a little serious sometimes too. It’s a bonus if the show turns into awful people doing awful things but they slowly turn into good people, sometimes despite themselves.
Plus all of these actors are devouring every scene. The scripts are smart and funny, but from a craft POV, I can watch the show and simply marvel at this collection of acting titans elevating the material.
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Should be a Schitt’s Creek/Succession crossover/swap season. The Roys have to live a motel in Schitt’s creek and the Roses run a media company/operate political puppet strings.
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This was me after reading the book. No fucking way I’m watching the movie.
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This. Book was perfection.
Would similarly recommend A Dog’s Purpose. Josh Gad GOAT voice of a dog.
Sequel was also very good.
My son is in 6th grade. He’s a very happy, goofy kid, but he’s also very emotionally sensitive. Our dog died last summer and while we all took it very hard, he has struggled the most with it. Right at the beginning of this school year, his English teacher assigned a short two-page story about someone’s dog dying. My boy literally couldn’t make it through it. He was crying his eyes out. I e-mailed the teacher and he was cool with him not doing it and muting the Zoom class discussion.
Then, before Thanksgiving break, he had to read more stories/articles about dogs, one of which I believe was an excerpt from Marley & Me about the author burying his dog. I e-mailed the teacher again and this time, I basically reworked the assignment for my son so he could at least do the lesson, but with one of the non-traumatic stories.
I didn’t get a response to this, but I told the teacher (in so many words), that it’s pretty fucked up that the curriculum for 11-year-olds involves multiple stories about dogs dying.
My son told me he thinks he is still going to have to read it because he thinks they are going to do more lessons involving the story. I told him to somehow try to just be really scientific and academic about it, focusing on just the questions he has to answer. And make sure it’s the last homework he does for the night so he doesn’t have to pull himself together afterward. Just move on and play Rocket League or something.
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I’m curious how old the people making the curriculum are. Sounds like a good dose of “I saw Old Yeller when I was 10, and I turned out fine. These snowflakes just have to learn about doggy death just like I did.”
My son is the same way though a bit older. Our cat is nearly twice his age and has been around my sons entire life. I have no idea what I’m gonna do when the cat passes. He cries at every dog movie (A Dog’s Purpose was particularly hard) and was upset for a long while when Michael left The Office.
Takes after his old man in that way. Bill Watterson stopped writing Calvin and Hobbes when I was 10. Our local paper had a full page (front page of the life section)farewell letter to the comic. I bawled for hours and was pretty despondent for a couple days afterwards.
Being a kid is hard sometimes.
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You’ve got me ready to bawl. It’s strange how our pseudo-relationships with imagined characters affect us, but they do.
Was there anything ultimately fulfilling though in A Dog’s Purpose for the two of you? I found comfort in the idea of a dog’s infinite resurrection and occasional return to specific people as a new pup.
Oh sure, in the end he told me how much he liked it, but every death was like a stab in the heart. I totally got it
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One of my fave comedians with a new half-hour video.
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