Yah, I’m torn. Most personal reviews I’ve read seem to indicate that it’s not great, yet it somehow has an impressive 8.7 on IMDB.
I think I’ll start with your Pachinko rec and then maybe dive into Yellowstone after.
Based on some social media I’ve seen, this is due to women wanting to fuck Cole Hauser.
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Oops, sorry @goofyballer and thanks
I started to watch new Netflix kdrama The Sound of Magic, but noped out once I realized it was a musical.
My mother and stepfather don’t watch any TV with a plot. If the TV is on it’s either the news or some low budget reality show like American Pickers. They have not seen a single episode of any critically acclaimed show released in the past 25 years. Mom thought Game of Thrones was a video game.
They have been raving about Yellowstone for months. It seems to be a show loved by people who are terrible at watching television.
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Deplorables seem to love the show. IME.
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Well that does sound familiar. Lots of people at least partially estranged from their free dumb loving relations.
Atlanta Season 3
I think leaning too much into the anthology hurt Atlanta. Atlanta has never been a purely chronological show with each episode feeding into the next one, it’s always been episodic, but even then there was a through line that you could follow. This season it switched one episode anthology and the next main story line. Some of the anthology episodes hit, and some didn’t, but the main storyline has lost its through line until now they’re kind of anthology episodes that just so happen to share the same people
Like Donald Glover and Zazie Beetz, are they together? why weren’t they together? why did they decide to come back together? and who’s watching their kid all this time? Their relationship has just been floating around this season
Paperboi goes from not doing a show because the audience is in blackface to doing an apology tour for some racist fashion designer because he needs the money
and who knows what Darius does or is doing in most of the these episodes.
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You can watch the Netflix documentary instead. When the story broke, some French documentarians showed up and the murder suspect agreed to give them access to the whole thing. It’s truly a really bizarre story.
I enjoyed early seasons of Downton Abbey, but at some point it became too much of a soap opera for me. Some of this might be because the show runners had to write out certain characters when actors moved on to other projects.
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Watched Yellowstone first and then 1883:
Of course our original protagonist, James Dutton, was a Confederate soldier. My read on the show’s politics is that it is written by shitlibs to appeal to conservatives
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2 years into this and I think I’ve found my key to being productive while I work from home is to have something on in the background that keeps from diving into more unproductive distractions. So today I start my Breaking Bad re-watch. Looking forward to it.
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Anyone else watching Love on the Spectrum U.S.?
Lol, I just finished a BB rewatch in the background while working. Great success! Since I know most of what is going on, it kept me on task while keeping something familiar and comfortable playing in the background that I don’t have to devote too much brain power to
Really enjoyed the UK version. Have not checked out the US yet
Watched the first 2 seasons and really enjoyed them. Didn’t know they were considered “UK”. Will probably watch US soon.
Australian, not UK.
Ep. 1, Love on the Spectrum
Thought this was a pretty brutal way to the end the date lol
Guy “Will I see you again?”
Gal “M-maybe one day. I’ll think about it. I’ll let my Mom know.”
Love on the Spectrum seems way too depressing to me.
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Yup, that’s the goal. So far so good. Over 3 episodes in and I got a lot of shit done today, and I avoided falling into the depths of the internet distraction land.
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