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Seriously who the hell makes phone calls these days?
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Also Nowhere Man. Loved that show for the one season it ran.
Luddite. I was the master of the Betamax. Programmed it and everything.
Had to. Parents didnât allow tv watching during the week. Saturdays were for college sports and taped tv shows.
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Whoâs watching Mare of Easttown? On the one hand, youâve got a limited drama/crime series with an amazing cast, including Kate Winslet. Checks all the boxes! On the other hand youâve got what seem like 1500 story lines, several dozen dudes who look just like each other playing similar characters, and everybody (except Guy Pearce I guess) working triple overtime to nail their own version of the Philly / Delco accent. And like The Undoing, everybodyâs a suspect - when every sideways glance tries to be loaded with meaning itâs tough, because you know most of them are going to be red herrings.
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I used to call my mother - collect - from a PAYPHONE. Tell the automated system my name was âheycomepickmeuprightnowâ and then hang up as soon as she had heard the name so we didnât get charged.
Ahhhh, the late 90âs, where every Wrestling pay-per-view was sponsored by another shitty collect call company.
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tbh I assumed that was basically the point. Itâs our world with a few more shiny things.
When I first lived in Japan in the 90s, a long-distance call back home might cost $100. My god how far weâve come.
When I first met my wife, we had a semi-long distance relationship (I ended up getting a consulting client an hour away from her, hence âsemiâ).
She didnât have a long distance phone plan, unbeknownst to me, and her monthly bill in that first month was $1000. I paid it because Iâm a gentleman.
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I was so poor at the time that after the first call, I just didnât communicate with them until I returned home, other than by letters (another relic of the past).
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heh
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The first girl I texted with after my fiance and I broke up ended up costing like 600 the first month. Ah, the pre-unlimited texting days
Yâall are way too law abiding.
Iâm watching. I feel like itâs doing a pretty good job of a (for the most part) naturalistic depiction of a shitty small town. Some odd tonal choices at times, like the montage of the detectives interviewing the high school witnesses.
I was granfathered in on some sort of cheap unlimited data plan, but it had 10c per text costs. I texted infrequently enought was worth it to keep it for a long time. I didnât convert to unlimited text (at which point I got on a limited data plan, but I almost never even get close, so itâs fine) until approx 2016.
So been finally watching The Shield. Just finished S3. A lot of thoughts on the important stuff. But when it comes to unimportant stuffâŚit really threw me for a loop when I saw a poster for Invincible. Yeah that comic actually had been around that long and finally got a tv showâŚ
I think that the whole subgenre of âsuperheroes but GASP theyâre actually the bad guys!â is already completely played out. It was like a good enough idea for one Twilight Zone episode.
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As a matter of fact I spent the weekend at a hotel and decided to scan the guide since I donât have cable. I was pretty shocked at what I found, didnât realize that Cartoon Network was going after the Matt Gaetz demo:
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Growing up a farming kid, we had several tractors that we had to start this way, except you had to do it standing beside the tractor because the starter was on the side. If you crossed the wrong poles woth the screwdriver it sparked and scared the shit out of you. If you accidentally left the tractor in gear before starting it, it would start in gear and run you over. My brother and I were doing this as 10-12 year olds. Itâs amazing we made it to adulthood without being mangled.
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It was played out like 5 years after everybody copied Millerâs stories in the 80s/90s, but the content is good and much better than most original stuff right now. The Boys and Invincible are among the best Amazon has to offer.
I would say Red Son does this well because itâs not US centric. The plot is a âwhat ifâ Superman landed in 1950s Russia vs the USA. Wins them the cold War etc