I ended up pretty annoyed by this show, particularly Libby. Maybe it/she remind me too much of people I know. Wealthy white people who are actually pretty awful but things turn out well anyway. And the show seemed to take itself so, so, seriously. But I am definitely open to the possibility that it just cut way too close to the bone, me being a (relatively) wealthy white person for whom things have turned out pretty well despite a pretty checkered past.
I am the same class but the hitting close to home is why itās so great.
I donāt know, does the show know the characters are pretty awful? It doesnāt seem to, if anything it seems to romanticize their ātroublesā.
The whole theme is the show is people, all people, are both awful and great.
I get that. I think Iām just being judgy about their awfulness, for the above mentioned reasons, and not giving credit for their good parts. I have more respect for people who work on their faults.
In any case Claire Danes should get nominated for something for āherā episode.
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I thought the finale was pretty amazing to switch perspective again yes tell all three stories at the same time. Not sure I have ever seen that before.
A lot of stuff is being cycled to ad-based streaming platforms.
Hereās how many titles got added to the three biggest ad-based streaming catalogs JUST TODAY:
Tubi: +718
Roku: +662
PlutoTV: +270
I thought it was nuts when they did it years ago with Mad Men, but the trend has continued and Iām kinda seeing the sense in it. They probs have all sorts of data now that shows which platforms generate more profit for specific content, ie moving tons of stuff to Roku and Tubi that youād assume would stay on subscription-based platforms like HBO or Prime.
Kinda weird how we are cycling back to broadcast TV with commercials lol
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Last Chance U Season 2 delivers. A lot of those kids come from some unimaginably bleak, grim upbringings.
**** Netflix.
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Goddamn, Severance is really fucking great.
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Jumping into the middle/end of seasons of tv should be more of a thing. Sure you run the risk of missing context, character arcs, and (carefully?) crafted payoffs, but there is something kind of cool about not knowing anything about anything; you could either just not think about it or you can try to infer things, and then you can read about what you didnāt watch after and pat yourself on the back for things you may have ascertained correctly or be surprised about how wrong you were; and look thereās only so much time in a day to watch tv (unless it is Magnus PI).
So some thoughts on the Fleishman Is in Trouble finale, having watched episode 7 with next to no idea what it was about and thinking it was great.
Maybe Iām overestimating the severity of it, but it seemed to me that in episode 7 Homeland lady was in serious, serious trouble (hence the title?). I found the depiction of her alienation and unraveling to be moving and true to life. I expected to see much more of a resolution to that in the finale, more on that in a second.
Zuckerberg seemed like a fucking moron bordering on a psycho when the narrator person tells him about what Homeland lady was going through. And heās supposed to be a doctor?? Like Iām not saying he could have turned off the anger and the resentment on a dime, but jfc my dude itās the 21st century, knowing about the scope of a mental health crisis should be in his range.
Didnāt mind the narrator lady stuff, although I found most of that sentimental and not particularly deep, plus her husband came off as a beta douche and she should have left him.
The part that bothered me the most was that Homeland lady justā¦ comes back at the end? Just like that? You donāt really just come back from what she was depicted as having gone through in the previous episode, that was deep trauma exploding in to her ability to function. Show didnāt deal with the aftermath of that revelation at all, it was just like an oh okay people have different narratives, his narrative was: my wife is an ambitious selfish narcissist who abandoned me and her kids, and hers was: I was sexually assaulted while giving birth causing trauma and ambivalence about my child, I have no actual friends, everyone misunderstands my motives, and yeah itās all too much and now Iām going to sleep in the park and when Iām not sleeping in the park Iām going to go all shut-in Howard Hughes in my apartment.
And just like that she comes back at the end, idk, very unsatisfying way to end it.
OK finally finished and Iām still confused
Can you ELI5 what the fuck happened? What was the world in which the games were taking place. I did not get it at all
Damn it.
We donāt know if she came back or if it was more fantasy. The ambiguity was awesome.
In this universe, when you have a NDE, you go to the Borderlands (between life and death). In the Borderlands, your strength and will to survive is tested via a number of death games. If you survive while all of the games are accomplished, you have the option of going back to your world or remaining in the Borderlands. Game masters are people who have previously survived the Borderlands and have chosen to stay. If you decide to go back, you keep your injuries and your soul remembers what happened, but your brain forgets. In this show, a meteorite struck central Tokyo leading to a huge number of people going to the Borderlands. Itās unclear whether people can join midway through the games, whether someone in a random car accident or w/e will be sent there too, what happens to people speaking other languages, etc etc. Arisu is the Japanese pronunciation of Alice, and this is his journey through the Borderlands.
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You guys failed me.
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I think the issue is, given the ending, they are basically pitching a whole new show to Netflix, one that is missing a lot of the puzzle-box mystery of the first season. I think viewer dropoff would have been substantial while onboarding of new viewers would be zero. I know I wouldnāt have watched a second season, I had stopped caring by the end of the first one.
I watched 7 episodes of 1899 when I had covid a few weeks ago, got five minutes into the eighth, and realized idgaf what the twist is anymore. I was intrigued for a while though.
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Man, the back half of season 5 of Breaking Bad is both absolutely incredible TV and a pretty tough watch, even knowing whatās coming.
I couldnāt make it past ep 3 on my rewatch.
Had to do a Star Wars rewatch 1-6 just to rejuvenate my soul.
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