No, but [this post redacted due to Politics]
Not that.
Iām half way through S4 of The Crown, still think itās mostly very good. Thereās little reason to binge it, which works in its favor so you can watch it whenever.
The episode āFavouritesā was excellent, fucking psychos the lot of them. Just finished the one where the dude breaks into the palace to have a chat with the Queen. All Iāll say is Gillian Anderson is beyond amazing because I had an almost irrepressible urge to roundhouse kick the tv when Thatcher was lecturing the Queen against the concept of collective duty. What a soulless [redacted].
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Iāll never understand why people care about the royal family.
The show is enjoyable even if you dont care about the royal family. I like Macbeth but not because of my enthusiasm for medieval Scottish royal families.
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I didnāt mean to comment on the show as Iāve never seen it. Just the uproar over how itās portraying the royal family. People get so worked up over all things royal.
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I can understand a bit of backlash against the portrayal of Diana since she, you know, isnāt around to object.
In general people need to realize when they are watching a movie or tv show they are watching an artistic representation of an event. The fact they donāt perfectly reflect history is a feature not a bug.
Same goes for all the crazies going insane over Mank.
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I get pretty tilted by endless royal family news stories but I watched S01E01 of The Crown the other day and would be happy to watch more (although in reality I think Iām going to drop it, too much else I want to watch). Itās a drama about politics and power with characters, relationships and contexts you already understand to a large extent. You can just drop Winston Churchill in there and not explain who he is. Itās a great advantage in being able to skip the exposition and get to the meat of things.
Landing duly stuck, the final episode was a little slow and had too many monologues but the actual conclusion was solid. Like all good horror stories, the horror is metaphorical and the ending involved characters facing and coming to terms with the mistakes and trauma of the past. We originally watched this because my girlfriend had the follow-up show recommended, so weāll check that out too.
I liked the style of the horror in this, itās basically a ghost story. It threatens a lot of jump scares but actually delivers them only often enough to keep you on your toes. The horror all basically serves a narrative purpose emotionally, there is nothing thatās like ācheck this out, isnāt that fucked upā.
The fact that they donāt perfectly reflect things like science or government procedure is also a feature, not a bug.
Holy shit
He charges $195.
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Starting season 5 of The Sopranos. God damn was season 4 good.
Steve Buscemi!? Hell yes!
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Lol. 1 in a 100 tops.
Goebs, donāt click on this spoiler
lolol Season 5
Nah I think itād be higher than that. WW2 is still pretty popular in the American imagination
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Black Bear
Tropic Thunder: the Prequel
Starring Aubrey Plaza and written specifically for her.
A movie perfectly experienced by watching the movie without learning anything at all but that it is worth your time. After you finish the movie, watch the trailer and the movie will make a lot more sense.
But this is really important, and I canāt stress this enough, if you watch it in the reverse orderātrailer first, movie secondāthe movie will never make sense. Itās like that Ringu curse.
Having said that, youāll still enjoy the movie as much as Mulholland Drive. Some people even more!
Well worth the rental price for VOD.
The I-Land
Bafflingly bad, the only mystery is how The I-Land got made in the first place."
TV Guide gives the miniseries a rating of 0.5/5, and their critic Tim Surette summarized that it āis an astonishingly dumb seven-episode mystery-box limited series about 10 people who wake up on a deserted tropical island with no memory of who they are or how they got there. But that central conceit is quickly resolved by Episode 3, as The I-Land spins out of control, rolls over, and wraps itself around an entirely new and equally stupid story.ā
Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Daniel Fienberg compared the miniseries to the series Lost āonly with a fundamental misunderstanding of how Lost handled character development, mythology, flashback structure, theme and ensemble-building.ā He also wrote that āno aspect of The I-Land works, and every bad aspect builds on the bad aspects before in a way that makes it pretty clear that nobody involved could have been under any misapprehensions about the quality of the endeavor.ā
At Paste, Allison Keene said āI have watched some truly, truly bad series in my day, but few that went off the rails this hard this fast. But man, what a ride. Cannibals, climate change, rogue simulations, for-profit prisons, a game with no rules and no logic ā¦ what an embarrassment of riches. Or just an embarrassment. Weāll go with that last one.ā
In his āStream It Or Skip Itā review, Joel Keller at Decider stated that the miniseries should be skipped and summarizes that āThe I-Landās clunky dialogue and generic characters make us care very little about why these ten jerks are on this island. And, yes, theyāre all pretty much jerks.ā
Jack Seale at The Guardian gave the miniseries one out of five stars and summarizes that āThis is sci-fi without a vision, a genre piece that doesnāt know how its own genre works. The I-Land is begging to be forgotten.ā
Writing for RogerEbert.com, Brian Tallerico summarized that āThe āIā stands for Idiotic. If you put a group of teenagers in a room and showed them a few episodes of LOST and Westworld before asking them to write their own program, they might come up with The I-Land,ā and that āIt is a bafflingly horrible sci-fi show, the kind of project that leaves your jaw on the floor, not unlike the first time you saw Tommy Wiseauās The Room.ā
Just finished this and can confirm I am in the 8% of people who gave this 5/5 stars.
Watch party for the pilot?
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