Early Christmas gift from the fam cause theyre fooking awesome.
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Wednesday reminds me of queens gambit in that itâs a very fine program but I could watch the lead actress do anything. The story could as well be Wednesday in Paris because even though Iâm only 2 episodes in, Iâm certifying this a 5 bagger
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Speaking of Netflix, I know this is old news now but it happened when I was face down in GOTV week and nothing got through to me other than ballot returns and phone bankingâŚbut I am so fucking stoked
In the S1 finale they set up my favorite arc from the comics and I cannot wait to see what they do with it.
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I watched the first episode and thought the family was miscasted besides Wednesday and the school characters seemed lame. I guess I will need to give it another. Im a huge fan of the two 90âs films. Ricci is the goat.
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This has about a 10% chance to be good, right?
I donât see anyway it gets cancelled. They have a working relationship with the creators and went through 3 seasons of Dark. Plus it has been on their most viewed page since it came out.
Yah, Jenna Ortega is amazing. Honestly, I donât even care that much about the main story, I think it would be more entertaining just seeing Wednesday navigating random real world scenarios (like going to Paris).
I give it 3 thumbs up (the 3rd is Thingâs thumb).
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Ok, we wrapped up 1899 last night. I enjoyed it a lot but the ending had me thinking about a different show and I feel like 1899 mostly plagiarized this other show. Now Iâm kind of irritated about it.
Do not read these spoilers if you have not finished 1899. They reveal the ending.
Back in 2008 there was a US remake of the BBCâs Life on Mars. I remember this very well because it was cancelled after one season and the last episode was notoriously terrible. Leading up the that final episode it was a very good show.
Jason OâMara was a cop who find himself bouncing back and forth between 1971 and 2008. He sees visions, receives weird phone calls and he and the audience are trying to figure out what is really going on.
The last episode reveals that both 1973 and 2008 are both simulations and OâMara is actually in stasis on a flight to Mars. All the people he interacted with while in the simulation were just representations of other crew members on the flight to Mars. While 1899 made some changes, the bones of the story are the same.
From Wiki:
At the end of the series, it is revealed that Tylerâs 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the onboard computer of a spacecraft that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling, and Skelton on the first ever human mission to the planet Mars, in 2035. The crew he worked with in 1973 were just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. His room number, â2Bâ, is his sleeping unit; his old precinct, âHydeâ, and his new precinct, the â125â, are based on the name of the spacecraft â âHyde 125â; his neighbor, Windy, is the name of the computer A.I.; Frank Morgan, an FBI agent in the series, is the Mission Control flight director; in a reversal from her struggle to be taken seriously as a police officer in 1973, Annie Norris is the shipâs commander. To sustain the crew, their minds were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality âneural stimulationâ programs of their own choosing, but Samâs choice of a scenario where he was a police officer c. 2008 was abruptly changed to a 1973 setting by a computer glitch induced by a meteor storm.
Ive been rewatching the series in the background while working, and ita a great show. Miles ahead of any other sitcom airing in 98, aside from obvious outliers like Frasier (already established) and Freaks and Geeks (dead in 1 season.) For a freshman show in 98, it hits all the marks.
That said, does the new caat look way too young? Are these kids actually 14-16 year olds unlike the original cast who were all over 18 (sans that lying liar Kunis?)
The two dudes pining over Wednesday are definitely shit characters and I didnât think that got better. The other classmates grew on me. I thought Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia was a good one. Luis Guzman is funny as hell, he just doesnât look the part but it worked imo.
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this is my feeling exactly. i was initially thrown by guzman as gomez because gomez has canonically always been thin and handsome but like 5 minutes into it i canât help but be charmed by luis guzman.
and i was thrown by christina ricci because through wardrobe decisions and the tim burton filter or whatever he uses to make all the actors look extra strange, i thought they had deepfake age-reversed sally field.
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A bunch of these in Tokyo as well. Didnât realize it was an Australian chain.
yeah, tracing where chains started can get fun results. there is still one mister donut left in the USA and it is hella vintage.
Iâm getting a kick out of Fleischman because itâs set in my neighborhood and uses several locations that I go to regularly. The 92nd street Y that features prominently in the first episode is where my kids go for after school care, although I donât necessarily agree with the narratorâs characterization of the social set there.
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this seems to be an extremely good sign in my book.
I still donât get why Toby
1) Didnât ask the moms at the grocery store to take him to his wife in the park and 2) Didnât think to ask the concierge at his old apartment building if he had seen her (before he knew she was sleeping with that douche).
wtf, how is there a series with Casey Anthony on Peacock. I donât even want to watch the preview that is fucking weird.
Yeah thatâs completely indefensible. Itâs one thing to do it with Amanda Knox (real doubt as to guilt), but Casey Anthony 100% murdered her baby. Disgusting.
At first I thought there was a reason for it. At the start of episode 4 he doesnât even know how he got back to his apartment. But I figured he would then go out and find her. Instead he breaks into her apartment. I mean technically he letâs himself in but he knows that heâs not welcome. Itâs all very odd. Like heâs determined to find her but also not do anything to actually directly find her. All of his information is second hand or inferred.