About to go watch this right now. If it is too much of the wrong kind of horror I probably won’t like it. BUT…
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Curious to hear your experience either way, but I hope you like it.
finished s2 of fleabag, i want more
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starting catastrophe now lets gooooo
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Batman v Superman
1.5/5
Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition
3/5
I couldn’t get through S1 of this. I quit after ep 4 then read the rest of the plot in recaps. The script of this thing is terrible, complete with a gaping maw of a plot hole which made me go “wat” when I read the recaps, I then googled for info and found a bunch of “hey anyone notice this gaping plot hole” stuff. Bill Pullman is an awful actor who plays every scene the same way regardless of context or motivation. Definitely no ragrets about consigning this to the dump.
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I had an emotional hangover after S2 that lasted days.
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Wow.
You and I have such different tastes. Much appreciated when you offer a view into a POV so different than my own 
Started watching Unknown and Liam Neeson is in Berlin and someone asks him “Are you English?” and he says “No I’m American”.
Me: “You are Irish wth”
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but why
I didn’t see season 3. What was so bad about it?
Season One of “Ramy” on Hulu was really good. I’m now in the middle of Season Two and it’s gone completely off the rails. Reminds me of “Togetherness” on HBO - at some point the creators were like “oh shit we never expected to get this far” and just started throwing shit against the wall.
Because it was there.
Ah, bummer. We made it through 8/10 I think of the season 1 episodes and I wanted to pick it back up but Mrs. C hasn’t been all that interested. Was really interested to see Mahershala Ali in season 2.
but why was it there
I totally agree about Ramy’s character/journey being interesting because he’s so sweet and yet so flawed. That’s what I liked about the first season. But the storylines in the second season jump the shark imo. WTF was with the grandpa coming into the bathroom when Ramy is jerking off? Then from that into the homeless convert to Islam, and from there to the UAE Mia Khalifa absurdity. And then Deena and the evil eye. Anyway it’s a matter of personal taste for sure, but it’s been a huge departure from the first season IMO.
Guess I’ll explain a bit more…
The plot hole is that Cora’s parents tell Ambrose that Phoebe died a month after Cora went missing, but it’s then revealed that she disappeared at the same time as Cora. Leaving aside the wholly unbelievable idea that Cora’s mom just accepted that they ran off to Florida and did nothing, what about all the other people who are expecting to see Phoebe over the next month? Her aunt? Her doctors? If they say she’s dead, don’t they have to produce a body? What about a funeral?
Apparently in the book this is based on, there is the following explanation:
They wrap it up in the book. There it was explained that they couldn’t handle her just disappearing, so her family stole a body and publically claimed it as her sister. The spread the ashes and everything for closure. The gap in the timeline was because she was never reported missing, so it took them that long to get the body and put together the funeral.
No words for how stupid this is. A devout Catholic family stealing a body and doing a fake last rites?
The plot device where a central character can’t remember what happened and they then remember information as required by the plot is pretty cheap to begin with imo, and then in this show we’re told that Cora has PTSD flashbacks where she vividly relives her experience. We see information from her flashbacks relied on as accurate to progress the plot (the stabbing pattern, the water tower, the school bus etc) but then it turns out that in the very central point of the trauma, her sister’s death, a different person is substituted to clumsily conceal the workings of the plot. This, like the misinformation around Phoebe’s disappearance, is just Calvinball where information is accurate where it needs to be for the mystery to operate and inaccurate in a totally unbelievable way where the workings of the mystery need to be concealed from the viewer. It’s basically a deus ex machina, one step above “space aliens did it” as a resolution. If I have to assume that any piece of information I’m given can just be handwaved away on the thinnest of pretexts, then following the mystery at all is just a waste of my time.
I wouldn’t care so much about this if it wasn’t for the fact that the progression of the mystery is the only interesting thing about the show. Pullman has the same expression in every scene, sort of a combination of bemused and genial. The B plot with his wife is excruciatingly boring because he’s so poorly drawn as a character, I don’t give a shit if his marriage works out or not.
Side note: There’s a conversation between Cora and her husband where he tries to convince her that Ambrose is entrapping her and that she can’t trust the police and shit AFTER SHE HAS PLED GUILTY AND IS AWAITING SENTENCING FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER. What the fuck are you talking about?
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It’s the first episode of the second season where Ramy’s uncle gives him a gun. Then Ramy’s dad makes the whole family go to his dad’s boss’s house for dinner. Ramy leaves the table to go to the bathroom to jerk off, and puts the gun on a table. His dad’s boss’s senile father comes into the bathroom, holds the gun to Ramy’s head, then holds it to his own head, then puts it in his pocket and leaves. Then it’s never spoken of again.
How could you not remember that lol?
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Plebs is a nice fun sitcom about two buds in ancient Rome trying to make it in the big city with minimal connections and one lazy slave. One of them is the charming slave owner guy from game of thrones and he’s great in this, he’s way better than the guy who’s presented as more of the main character, who is like Richard from Silicon Valley but in ancient Rome but it’s good, it’s light comedy
5 bags
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I thoroughly enjoyed Plebs. Definitely worth a watch.