Speaking of great tv, got this list of recs today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1255968921020227590
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Is that the movie where the kid tells the girl that Kafkaās āThe Metamorphosisā is āso Kafkaesqueā?
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Yes! āThatās because it was written by Franz Kafka?ā
Also, the Pink Floyd bid. āYou claimed you wrote the song?ā āWell, I felt like I could have written itā.
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Ahahaha right!
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I got confused and then I realized I was thinking of Jesse Pinkman picking up āKafkaesqueā from his rehab counselor, and Kyle Bradway explaining to his date to Steve Guttenbergās party that āActually, [Nietzsche]'s pronounced āniche.ā Itās German.ā
Iāve really liked it but Iāve only seen the season 4 premiere so far. Fuckinā wild premise at least!
We donāt have a general tv thread do we?
Saw the Parks and Rec reunion last night. Enjoyed it. Miss that show #Season3GOAT
I think this became the TV thread at some point it was just never renamed
Reno 911 is coming back on some app called Quibi.
3 month free trial but itās an app only. Canāt imagine sitting down and staring at a phone to watch a TV show for 10 minutes. The shows do look really good though.
Totally did not see the end of the first episode coming. Iām hooked.
Shield often gets overlooked in the great tv show discussions. I have seen it through a few times: really great show.
Looks like hulu put up a 1080p version in 2018. Donāt think there is a 4K streaming source.
Yeah Hulu is what Iām watching on.
GF and I just watched Waco on Netflix. Itās a 6-episode miniseries that came out a couple years ago about the Branch Davidians. I was too young when it happened and had picked up a basic understanding of it as an adult, but watching it all and seeing the whole storyā¦ holy shit.
The series takes a clear anti-government perspective and makes the BDs sympathetic characters, including David. The GF was bawling her eyes out when the women and children died at the end. Itās debatable how much of the destruction was at the governmentās hands, but even the most generous viewing of the governmentās actions are pretty fucking horrendous.
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Smart TV has access to apps though?
Yessss. It gets better. (Well, there are a couple clunkier episodes in season 1, and thereās a flashback episode in season 2 I think can and should be skipped entirely. But on the whole it just continually gets better.)
Honestly my #1. And the only one I still rewatch regularly and still feel like I have to keep going through to the end when I do rewatch it.
I think Huluās is hi-def. That said, Iāve always found the grittiness and graininess of the cinematography really adds to the effect of placing you right there with the Strike Team and makes the show that much more effective.
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No.
umers are getting their hands on it, theyāre discovering just how seriously Quibi execs are about watching shows on a phone ā and nowhere else. Not only is there no Quibi app for smart TVs or streaming devices such as Roku, engineers at the platform have apparently made it impossible to use Chromecast or the screen mirroring function on Appleās iOS platform to cast Quibi content to a TV set.
I think the short show mobile watching strictness will eventually fade away. This is a pretty well funded content creation app with a very experienced group of people behind it.
I donāt think the gimmick holds up, but the gimmick does help them get coverage in a marketplace that is becoming extremely crowded, HBO Max and Peacock are coming out soon, if Quibi was just another Netflix clone it would get much less attention.
I donāt know what will happen with the shorter episode lengths. It could continue, it is not that big of a deal when watching.
I have watched some stuff on my iPad. I donāt agree with the mobile lockdown, I think long term it is a mistake, but itās a useful inflection point right now.
I donāt have one.
Guess Iāll wait on Reno 911. I love the show but Iām not watching it on a smartphone.
Check out Radish for a book version of Quibi. Like being back in time where you had to wait each week for Dickens to draw out the story to 52 installments. Similar to overly long seasons of television today, audiences gobbled it up like the next must-see episode of GoT, even if upon rewatch, hey, that part was kind of boring after all, and itād be best if season eight had never happened.