The Television Streaming Thread: Part II - Hot Takes, Jags Fans, and Bert

I gave up after the first season.

I wonder how much of Westhead’s ā€œspeechesā€ are real.

Adapted from the article:

I love this show. It is extremely queer allied. I promise it’s just the first half of the breakdown that’s about the bad rep in a single episode.

The other part is about the AWESOME gender funky rep in season five.

Found out that there was a Roast Battle Canada (hosted by Ennis Esmer and featuring Russell Peters as a judge and that it is currently in its third season. Since this is exactly the humor I love, I binged the first two seasons to listen to some impolite Canadians talk shit to each other.

For those that are fed up by post apocalyptic fiction (like me): The bolded is a bit of a misrepresentation; what the movie is about would have worked totally without nukes imo. It’s an excellent movie and discomforting in it’s realism, but not like The Day After or something. Btw it has some magic realism going on! :transmet_smiley:

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Lol you got me. Def more like Never Let Me Go, but not QUITE as brutal an ending.

First two episodes of season 3 for Only Murders in the Building dropped last night. Seems like a strong start

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I was underwhelmed by Only Murders season 1 and then just dropped out entirely at some point in season 2. I have great admiration for Steve Martin, so it’s bothersome to me that he has a fairly popular project and I don’t seem to like it.

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How old are you? I think it skews to an older demographic both in pacing and the writing.

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I’m 43. So I wasn’t alive when Steve Martin made his initial big splash, but I lived through what seems like the latter half of his biggest success as a comic actor. I’m very much into his usual style of humor. Martin Short is hammier in a way that straddles the line between funny and annoying, and I can generally take or leave him.

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Only Murders has a legitimately great theme song and title sequence—a real rarity these days

To me, Only Murders is the definition of ā€œfineā€. My wife likes it and we can watch together. I would likely never watch it on my own. It’s comfortable and occasionally amusing. In general I’ve had more Jane Lynch than I’ll ever need, but she’s great on it.

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I’d imagine a huge part of it getting made was the touring that Steve Martin and Martin Short did, but I agree with LFS, it’s fine. I only finished watching the 2nd season because I saw a preview of season 3 and am a recovering theater nerd.

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That is a ridiculous amount of Matrix references in a single trailer lol

I really like that they’re reaching for a new kind of dynamic set within the same universe as John Wick rather than trying to repeat the experience of a JW movie.

If the show is half as fun as the trailer :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

Slightly off topic but are the JW movies worth watching if you haven’t seen any of them? I assume so if there are spinoff TV shows. Anyone know where they are all streaming?

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I hadn’t seen any of them until #3 came out. I turned on #1 assuming it would be a generic action movie I could have on in the background while I did some computer work. My eyes were absolutely glued to the screen for basically the entire movie. 5 bags

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I give it 1 bag, totally generic and boring action movie that I turned off after 45 mins. Note, I generally don’t like shooty action movies. But loved the hell out of mad Max fury road.

I have finished most of season 1. Hope season 2 is as enjoyable, and of course 3.

As for Winning Time, I am almost done w s1. Love the casting on this show and John c. Reilly has been amaze balls the whole way. Still remains fairly farcical, but good stuff. I also didn’t know how the coaching drama played out. My memory didn’t include coach jack at all, and had westhead as the coach, then into Riley.

Women do have mostly shit parts and there is a lot for wasted talent in that regard.

Aww man. The first r rated movie I ever saw was The Jerk, whom my dad unknowingly took me and my little brother when we were kids.

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