Not sure if it was posted already but this is probably the best joke swap segment ever.
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In between two eps of The Curse, I thought it might be time for me to re-try watching āNathan for youā but nope, even though I find it hilarious, I cannot help but feel horribly bad for the āreal peopleā involved which makes it way too painful.
Anyway Iām glad Fielder branched into fiction, that way I can āenjoyā his cringe brilliance guilt-free. Looking forward to the finale next week.
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So it was finally time to watch The Curse. I had no idea it was on Showtime, we didnāt even have that app installed on our Roku. So I install that app, but it only for direct subscriptions, and I have Showtime through AT&T Uverse. To log in that way, you need Showtime Anytime. But hey guess what, Showtime Anytime has been discontinued. OK, Iāll just stream from my laptop. Nope, they wonāt let you do that either. OK, Iāll just watch Uverse, which I never do. But itās not available On Demand. So currently my only options are to set my fucking Uverse up to record The Curse, which means I have to wait until all the past episodes are collected and make sure I watch them in order, or pay to subscribe to Paramount+.
To say Iām frustrated would be an understatement. I guess I finally have to cancel Uverse and then subscribe to each of these fucking services individually. My wife is not great with this sort of thing so thatās going to be awesome. Ugh.
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Yeah itās ridiculous. Plus Paramount seems to be complete garbage or something, I always have streaming quality issues with The Curse that i donāt experience with any other app.
I see complaints with Paramount pretty frequently, and I guess Iām lucky. Always works smoothly for me. Peacock is the only paid app I really kind of hate using.
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I work in the business and am more-or-less directly impacted by content piracy so I am pretty strongly against it. Although I have much less judgement for those that do than I used to. Plus, a huge part of my income comes from television commercials, so I really want traditional cable/broadcast to survive, which is one of those things that makes it SO frustrating.
With that said, I can definitely live with the argument that Iāve already paid for this content and itās not piracy if Iām just using those sites to view it in a different way.
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How about those fuckers that keep re-releasing music every time there is no format when most of the times itās not actually different to the normal listener.
Iāve paid for the same songs on vinyl, cassette, cd, mp3, etc.
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Update on this! My wife ran into the guy in question and he was wearing a t-shirt that said āYes, I am the guy from Jeopardyā. Also the guy, who is recently and acrimoniously divorced from a friend of my wifeās, was in the company of a beautiful younger woman and pretended not to see my wife and walked right past her 
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Started watching a Korean show called Marry My Husband on a whim. Itās about a woman with cancer married to a dirtbag who is cheating on her with her best friend. When she walks in on them her husband accidentally kills her, and she wakes up 10 years in the past. Pretty good so far.
ETA: and somehow her dead father is a magical taxi driver
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Is there a razzie for television? If so the entire āVIPā cast of Squid Game deserves a lifetime acheivement award. It is by far the worst part of any good show ever. Mindnumbingly bad.
Did the creators really not think people would be able to understand the nuance of the bridge game without these exposition shouting garbage people explaining every step?
I give them half a pass because I think the show was aimed at a Korean audience.
Imagine if youāre watching a show in Engilsh and part of the plot requires a bunch of rich Koreans hanging out and betting on shit. If you donāt speak the language, then itās hard to appreciate how ridiculous their dialogue is, even with subtitles.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Finally broke down and binged The Curse. I have no idea what itās supposed to be really (I suppose thatās the point), but itās oddly quite compelling and was easy to fly through 5-6 hours of content in a couple days and itās not always easy for me to binge series like that. Ep. 9 was great and I canāt wait to see where this goes.
STILL, I have to say that I wouldāve preferred that Nathan had done something more in the vein of his previous 2 projects. Whereas the other 2 are easy 10/10s, I give this one a 7/10. Still good, but we donāt get a ton of Nathan stuff so I feel this is a bit of a āwasteā even though itās still good.
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Agree with your general rankings, I have The Curse well below his other two projects. Itās just kind of boring at this point, anyone know if itās a one season show or are we getting more?
I honestly think this is intentional. Thereās no way that everyone is a good actor except for everyone that happens to be in one group. I feel like itās hyping up the weird perverted ultra rich foreigner trope
Sure, but that doesnt excuse the thirty minutes of exposition dump in what should be the most exciting episode of the season. The very worst part is when Han Mi-nyeo pulls Jang Deok-su to his death, one of the more shocking moments of the show, and instead of letting us sit with this or showing the perspective of the other players, we IIMMEDIATELY cut to VIP ā ā ā ā 7 so he can quip āHell hath no fury like a woman scornedā and its like, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooou.
āOnly two numbers left, first or last, an intriguing choiceā
Yeah no shit, fuckwad. I HAVE EYES!
Damn I hope not.
Safdie commented on the possibility in a Variety piece:
The thing I hate about some of the streaming apps (Iām thinking of the TV apps, like on Roku, not on the phone) is that their UIs are terrible. More specifically, it can be difficult to see what is highlighted on the screen.
On Disney+, for instance, I believe the highlighted selection has a white, filled-in box, but at the same time, some things on the screen have a white outline. Iāve figured it out at this point, but they BOTH look highlighted, so I donāt know what Iām about to click on until I hit the arrow buttons to move the highlight marker.
I think Hulu uses an āoverlineā instead of an underline on the account selection screen. IIRC, itās also not obvious what show or episode is highlighted in the menus.
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