Some website I read after finishing the show said the murals illustrating the games on the dorm walls had been there from the start, and they were just hidden by all the bed frames stacked high during the early stages.
I will say if itās a parody itās genius.
Honestly Iām surprised dodgeball wasnāt one of the games, but maybe they donāt have that in South Korea.
This just reminded me we played a version of dodge ball with a horribly homophobic name. Smear the ____. Jesus. It was not given a second thought all throughout my childhood. In middle school we hs to quit playing it, not because the name was terrible, but because some kid got a broken rib when he took a shot from a kid whoād been held back several years.
Finished squid tonight it wasā¦ fine? Only real complaint is that it felt like every single line was shouted. If I wanted that Iād go to my in-laws.
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Itās a bit of give and take. Like having the stylization is going to hook the audience and engage them. Having a big animatronic doll hooked up to machine guns is going to have a wow factor, but go too far and youāre going to pull people out of the suspension of disbelief like the later Saw movies where youāre like āsure, a 60 year old cancer patient is doing some advanced welding, building complex explosives and doing some crazy arts and crafts combining them all in a complex Rube goldburg machine. Yeah right.ā
I donāt think it completely pulls it off but it did have some saving grace that the games donāt seem all too elaborate (AI robot excepted) and seem to all take place in the same warehouse. Red light green light, marbles, and the squid game all transparently take place in the same location with some repainting between games and the pane game and Tug of War have the same motif, falling from a great height. The best episode also have the least elaborate game, play marbles and a henchmen shoots the loser.
All that to say that you can easily imagine a ton of childhood games thatād be really easy to put together with a sub Netflix reality show production crew. The Floor Is Lava on Netflix is easily more elaborate than any of the gameās production (AI robot excepted again)
Omg omg omg, the last S2 Ted Lasso mentioned the term BILF
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Just getting into Season 2 of Seinfeld.
Didnāt find myself laughing much during Season 1, but Season 2 is much better so far. I can almost see/hear/feel Larry David reciting the lines.
Did Seinfeld have Office or Parks like growing pains in the first season before figuring it out?
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Yes iirc they barely got picked up for s2.
Iāve been rewatching at 1.5x speed and I feel like the comedic timing is still there
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Yea I think early eps arenāt that great, including the pilot but once it picks up it holds that pretty much all the way through the run of the show
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Just watched last night, I thought he said milf but bilf makes more sense and I get the 2p2 reference you are making, epic thread.
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I thought finale was excellent and 2nd Season was great.
Still fuck Nate, I donāt get what he is mad about really. Heās mad that Ted doesnāt make him feel super important all the time? I didnāt get the feeling that Ted was leaving him out in anyway compared to the other coaches. Heās part of the diamond dogs and shit, he made you a coach instead of a ball boy or whatever he was before. My gf did call that he was going to end up at west ham. Should setup a good storyline for next season.
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I have no clue what happened to the turn. It doesnāt seem to fit the character. But itās not a show that Iām that worried about the plot holes.
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As someone whoās struggled with anxiety and mental health issues I really liked the handling of it in season 2 and the finale.
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See, my reaction was kind of the opposite-- the plot holes did bother me this season, because one of the things that made season 1 so great is how perfectly and steadily the plot is paced and built up. Itās still a good show, but not taking care of those details really stood out to me where the plots felt rushed or like important elements were skipped over.
Nateās story, on the other hand, I actually thought worked pretty well. Weāve seen even in season 1 that thereās a streak of meanness to him, and in season 2 we see more of that bullying streak, plus how dependent he is on outside opinion and praise, plus how much of it stems from his daddy issues and his father always downplaying or belittling his accomplishments. We see it build bit by bit in the margins, that Nate feels underappreciated and that he deserves more, that heās growing resentful over not being respected or taken seriously as a man (one reason I think the scene with him and Roy in the finale is important).
What I do wish weād seen is some better indicator of whether his issues were rooted in reality, whether Ted has been neglecting the team, or more importantly seeing Ted reflecting on his confrontation with Nate and asking himself if he failed in some way. Probably Nate wouldāve eventually blown up anyway, but Tedās such an inquisitive and self-reflective guy it was weird not to see him deal with the fallout.
(ETA: Also, Beard never brought up Nateās bullying to Ted? Isnāt that part of his job, to notice problems in the locker room and either fix them or kick them up to the head coach?)
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caught champaign ill on hulu because i saw sam richardson (veep, detroiters) was in it. such a great hilarious show. on multiple occasions i found myself out of breath from laughing so hard. 5 bags of popcorn
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Best sketch on that show, imo
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Oh, yeah, I heard about this for similar reasons (also David Caspe and Adam Pally; Happy Endings is still one of the funniest sitcoms of the last ten years, probably the most underrated. Detroiters is in the running for second-most-underrated). Need to check it out.
Iām in.
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100%
S1 was like poorly conceived characters acting out Seinfeld bits. From S2 on the characters are really fleshed out and it just works perfectly imo. As a fan of curb, you should really enjoy the rest of the series.
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