That’s how the owl do!
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Lock & Key is still interesting 5 episode in, a little YA, but all fantasy is these days. Worth a watch if you like modern day magic.
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Has anyone watched the premier of “For Life,” the ABC show about the wrongly-incarcerated guy that becomes a lawyer? I fucking despise cop shows and courtroom dramas but if this one is about a dude fighting corruption and power I may have to check it out.
New Narcos season continues to deliver imo, just finished ep5 and it’s best of the season so far, sad there are only 10.
This is the one show I tend to blow through everytime there is a new season.
Yeah, based on the preview I passed. Guess I’m glad I did
Yeah probably one of the best shows running for 5 seasons straight, virtually all in Spanish too.
What don’t you like about it?
Watched L&K with the wife and teen daughter. A good time was had by all.
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I watched the first three episodes of Historical Roasts on Netflix. Seems in line with my tastes in comedy.
Are they any less brutal than the ones on YouTube from the 80’s? Those are tough to watch with a modern sensibility.
I didn’t really detect much in the way of hack-y racist stuff (we’ll see how the MLK episode pans out), but plenty of toilet and genital-based humor. They are playing historical figures (Gilbert Gottfried as Hitler!), so they are constrained a bit by the roles. Some parts feel more clever than funny.
Have you seen much of the Comedy Central roasts of the past decade?
Those are what I’m referring to; Don Rickles at the Lucille Ball roast, the ones of that era. Rat Pack era guys doing roasts 20 years past their prime, lots of funny stuff, but lots of off color stuff from back then is just tacky now.
I’m differentiating between the old Friars Club roasts, some of which were broadcast on Comedy Central, and the more recent roasts that CC has been producing on their own with fewer roasters with a personal connection to the roastee and more professional comedians trying to make a name for themselves.
Have you ever seen the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe? It features Anne Coulter horribly bombing, partly because she insisted on writing her own jokes, while pretty much everyone gave her the business. It’s not for you if you object to Jimmy Carr telling Coulter, “Ann is one of the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet-face bitches alive. It’s not too late to change, Ann. You could kill yourself.” I happen to think that is a great joke, but I understand that some people don’t want to watch stuff like that.
The Historical Roasts are not quite that egregiously offensive, but it will be a problem for people who see Ann Frank and the Holocaust as sacrosanct and not ripe topics for comedy. At times, I think it gets a bit too cute because it seems to have teaching history to millennials as one of its missions.
The EPIX TV series adaptation of War of the Worlds is surprisingly excellent. It’s got the same energy as the first Independence Day movie. Actually a lot more like they adapted that and are only calling it War of the Worlds, but you know, a rose by any other name.
Watched the first episode of Hunters. Ninety minutes of incoherent misfires in half a dozen different directions, gratuitous Dutch angles every other scene, and Al Pacino doing a cringey accent that borders on Jewface. Zero stars, would not watch again.
I listened to an NPR review of this show and it their reviewer liked it, but honestly it seems weird to me that in 2020 you’re gonna do a show about Jews getting revenge on the Nazis and you’re not gonna have a Jewish guy be the lead. I respect everything Al Pacino has done for this country, but surely there must be a top-flight elderly Jewish actor who could nail this shouty old guy role?
Or maybe I’m overthinking things? I’m just a dumb gentile here so I am way out of my lane, is The Tribe okay with an elite Italian actor playing the role of Shylock and the Nazi revenge hunter?
On an unrelated note, I can’t stop thinking about how great The Witcher was. My man breaks out some bathead silver knuckledusters so he can punch the fuck out of a Striga and it’s only on screen for a mere fraction of a second, but by god I want to buy a pair of these so bad and be a hardcore Hot Topic mallninja.
It’s just an incredibly brief blink-and-you-miss-it moment but it adds so much to the world building.
LET’S GO
I checked out the first episode of the Netflix docuseries CHEER based on Dave Chen’s recommendation on the /filmcast podcast. He’s right. It is expertly crafted, but something about the topic of cheerleading isn’t exactly compelling for me. And that is odd for me to say, because usually I am all aboooooooooard for
- well-made documentaries about things I don’t care about
- sports documentaries
- sports documentaries on little-examined fields (!!!)
The sports documentary I am jamming to at the moment is the one on Hulu called In Search of Greatness. Wayne Gretzky with so much advice on sports and life that you will walk away feeling like