I’m excited to find out
in my heart, this counts as season 6
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Soderberg? 
Binged the first nine episodes of Kenan, the first regular sitcom I’ve watched in a while. It doesn’t try to re-invent the family sitcom, but I think it’s funny enough (not hilarious, but not painfully unfunny) and heartwarming and it has likable characters/actors. It’s about a family trying to get on with their lives after losing someone. It’s a very straightforward traditional sitcom–leading it to hit a bunch of genre tropes in predictable fashion–in which Kenan Thompson has an often underplayed role as the straight man, so you may be disappointed if you’re expecting him to be as zany as some of his SNL characters.
I think it might be too basic of a show for some people’s tastes, but I just felt so normal in a comforting way while watching it.
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Got season 8 Ep 2
Ok here’s where it falls off the cliff. Season 7 was ok. Still kind of coasting along but still had some moments. Also Jon should have brought horses because the wrights immediately run faster around the the lake than he can run across it. Lol. But a zombie dragon. Pretty cool.
S8 was already sliding downhill is the sudden love between Danny and Jon (lol) but Ep 2 is crashes into the wall of dumb. It’s a big “before the final battle” episode… and it’s just everyone whose had long arcs standing around going “wow it’s been a long trip. We were this and now we’re that.” like it’s the end of a 7 season sitcom. Just about everyone has cringeworthy scenes so it’s kind of hard to single out any specific one.
Sounds like something you’d get out of an 80s/early 90s TV sitcom. Step by Step, Home Improvement, Boy Meets World etc
I’m rewatching BoJack Horseman and you might as well have described Horsin’ Around.
Is that the one where Arya tries to bang the hound but he gets cockblocked by Jorah and she settles for her second choice of Gendry?
Well, surely that’s rock bottom for the series.
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Yes it is
I think that’s the Cogman episode considered the high water mark of Season 8.
So we’ve been watching Six Feet Under sporadically over the years. Got to the episode of Season 4 last night “That’s my dog” and my partner had to leave halfway through the episode when they dumped the body. Probably the most unsettling hour of TV I can ever remember watching. Feels like a violation.
Yeah, Kenan is a pretty solid, inoffensive sitcom. Young Rock is pretty good, too (different style than Kenan), though the whole concept of framing the episodes around the Rock’s run for POTUS is dumb. On the bright side, they made fun of themselves for it at the end of the episode last week.
My wife and I are watching Pen15 on Hulu. It’s really, really good. I’m actually pretty fascinated by it - it started as a hyper-cringy comedy (in a good way) and still is, but it has had some serious episodes. One of the best-written series I’ve seen and Maya’s performance, in particular, is tremendous.
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Is Shadow and Bone actually good? I’m seeing a ton of positive reviews.
I want to try but I can’t stop rewatching Toast of London any time I open Netflix
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You’ll have to let me know if S8E3 still looks like absolute garbage.
That was the beginning of the end for me. When a show is shelling out millions an episode and their black looks like they are being rendered on a 1990s 386, I just threw my hands up. How fucking ridiculous
I liked this quote from SNL Family Feud the week after it aired (Kenan Thompson as Steve Harvey):
I got to be honest, I didn’t see the last episode. I mean, I watched it but I couldn’t see it. You know it’s dark when you can’t even see the white people.
We’ve been rather enjoying Kenan– probably the most of any of the new network sitcoms of 2021, honestly. It is pretty much a family sitcom but has enough distinctive characters and edge of humor to the writing (David Caspe probably has something to do with that) to be funny and worthwhile. I also really enjoy Chris Redd and Don Johnson in their roles. (Johnson even gets a few great serious moments, particularly in the end of the 7th episode.)
Not sure whether this should go here or in the relationship advice thread.
MsConwoman made me stop Pui Pui Molcar after just 3 episodes.
On the plus side, she let me choose what we watched instead, and I’m happy about what this means long-term for our plan to not have kids.
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Positives probably outweigh the negatives, but goddamn your partner does not have good taste in TV.
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