Legit text thread of mine from earlier this evening:
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Christine is an all-time great TV villain.
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amazing piece on Jeremy Strong being as delusional as Kendall irl
When I told Strong that I, too, thought of the show as a dark comedy, he looked at me with incomprehension and asked, āIn the sense that, like, Chekhov is comedy?ā No, I said, in the sense that itās funny.
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Man that episode of Succession. The Tom/Shiv scene was so brutal, the Shiv/mom scene was even worse, then the Logan/Kendall scene was even worse. To say nothing of the final few scenes. Amazing TV, some crazy shit is coming next week.
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I could watch an entire show of Greg awkwardly trying to flirt
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Jeremy Strong and I went to same high school, a fact I am now less interested in sharing with people!
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Itās only like five bucks a month. I subscribed for a month just to watch For All Mankind, which is a pretty good show.
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Highly enjoyed. Wondering when my apple plus expires. I donāt remember when I upgraded.
I prolly will do the same. Whatās the downside of registering for a service just for a month a couple times of year to catch-up/binge their best stuff
So you also went with Chris Evans ? I hope every morning was like this scene from his best movie :
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Heās even younger than Jeremy Strong so we missed each other by quite a bit. On the other side I missed both members of They Might Be Giants and Mike Gordon from Phish.
I was really disappointed with the first couple episodes of Wheel of Time. They chopped up so much stuff and skipped over other stuff that it made me go back and read the first book to see if I was remembering it correctly (itās been probably 20 years since I read it). And for all the talk about production value and how much they were putting into it, it felt like something I would have expected to see on the SciFi Channel circa 2000. The way the depicted Shadar Logoth was criminal, imo. That being said the last episode it got a little better and the way they are handling the magic isnāt bad. Iām still going to watch, but I hope they donāt keep butchering parts of the story line.
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Itās not just the $10, itās feeling like a chump when I forget to cancel. FWIW I donāt torrent, I just donāt watch more stuff.
Man the Beatles thing is something else. Iām going to put a few reactions in spoilers, not because theyāre really that spoilery, but Iām glad I watched this fresh and not knowing much about it at all.
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The oldest of the Beatles when they recorded this was 30, which is pretty amazing.
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Thereās a lot on the internet about how this shows that Yoko didnāt break up the Beatles. And sure, she didnāt. But man she really did hover quite close, especially when theyāre still on the big stage. Clearly the other Beatles were respectful of her and Johnās relationship, but that sort of thing is going to have a big effect on any group of people.
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I didnāt know anything about Billy Preston, his story is very tragic and fascinating: Billy Preston - Wikipedia
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Georgeās angst is palpable. Iām going to watch āGeorge Harrison: Living in the Material Worldā again, which I remember being excellent.
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Ringo is awesome.
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re beatles
i gained a lot of respect for paul. super impressed with him having that much reflection on himself at age 29.
growing up iād have to say i was more a john fan, without really knowing who contributed what to any songs. but in this doc, john came off as an annoying dick a lot.
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Yoko was annoying but they were almost certainly going to split up anyway.
Doc combined with this Playboy interview make it pretty clear.
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1980.jlpb.beatles.html
Yoko didnāt break up the Beatles, John didā¦ but he did it because he got to the point in his life where he was sick of the grind and wanted to spend all his time with Yokoā¦ which is like 75% natural growing up + 25% Johnās obsessive personality such that he couldnāt maintain a healthy balance of band is now just my day job and still have plenty of time to see Yoko outside work.
As John says in the Playboy interview what is abnormal is the āfour [dudes] sleeping in the same room, practically in the same bed, in the same truck, living together night and day, eating, shitting and pissing together!ā
Succession is in elite tier territory (BB, MM, TS, GOT) at this point.
āLifeās not knights on a horseback. Itās a number on a piece of paper. Itās a fight for a knife in the mud.ā
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A really interesting three sentences because it goes from not knights on horseback. Then to the sterile, itās a number on a piece of paper. But then back to the visceral itās a fight for a knife in the mud, which is often how fights between knights on horseback ended, with the two armored men dismounted and struggling to shove a dagger into the other guyās armpit.
But then knights just as often end up as numbers on paper, ransomed for fortunes after they surrender rather than being knifed in the mud.
Iām enjoying it in the same vein as āThe Witcherā. Existing IP that I know nothing about and go along for the ride.
Enjoyed Foundation similarly That did strike me as better looking.
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