i sat here and watched the entire thing laughing my ass off, this is great
bit of an odd pick, but i rewatched most of Scrubs for the first time since high school and i forgot just how funny and outright heartwrenching it was. the music is the highlight for me though, it feels as 2000s as it looks. lotta adult contemporary and acoustic rock that’s a complete blast from the past for me nowadays. i think props go to Zach Braff for most of whatever got picked to get played cuz it matches the same sorta atmosphere Garden State had
Loved Treme. And I loved Frenchmen Street, and Tipitina’s, both of which lived up to the expectations set by Treme, and my (at the time) obsession with The Meters, Galactic, New Orleans brass bands and more.
I did visit at Jazz Fest time though, which might account for my different experience from @re5et .
I’ve binged ‘only murders in the building’ , I enjoyed it a lot too , Martin short is perfect for the role , Steve Martin is very good and so is Selena Gomez who I wasn’t familiar with ( apparently a singer and very wealthy )
Good supporting cast … series 5 is close to ending atm .
“Task” with Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey is great. Mini series, last episode will be aired this week. Same creator as the “Mare of Easttown” mini series few years back which I also recommend.
A plea to TV people - more tightly made impactful limited series please, less regular old school TV structure that has season after season of more filler than a McDonald’s “hamburger” and perpetually unresolved plot points, rinsed out for max ad revenue, dragging it on until your tired writers come up with an extremely unsatisfying ending.
I think Devs fits that bill, a great watch. Annihilation was great, too. Alex Garland directed both - Apparently he’s working on an Elden Ring movie show, too. Seems in good hands.
If you can track down the old MTV Aeon Flux cartoons, they’re well worth a watch - very psychological and philosophical, voyeuristic.
I enjoyed Raised by Wolves for the couple seasons it aired, shame it got cancelled.
I’ve been gaming more heavily lately and had been considering a break, and kinda realise TV shows would probably fill the gap.
Yeah it was a great opening episode, I mean it’s gotta ramp up right? From what I’ve read it’s gonna be a 3 season deal exploring pennywises’ emergences every 27 years in reverse order so the final season will be set 54 years before this one, I love the idea of different period horror where the main antagonist is the same character kind of perfecting his m.o. over more than a century…
I’m stoked to watch the new episode of the Chair Company later tonight. I can’t stop watching Tim Robinson stuff. I don’t even know if I really like it, it’s just extremely compelling, and it’s the kind of thing that really benefits from watching while your phone is in the other room. Although on reflection that might be literally everything.
Anyway has anybody seen I’m a Virgo? I know I’m out of the loop but I can’t believe I hadn’t heard about it - I guess it came out in 2023.
Cootie is a 13-foot-tall (4.0 m), 19-year-old Black teenager raised by his Aunt Lafrancine and Uncle Martisse in Oakland, California. He is shielded from the outside world until being accidentally discovered by a group of teenage political activists.
It’s created and directed by Boots Riley from the Coup! His movie Sorry to Bother You is one of the greatest things anything has ever made and this sounds just as surreal and is hopefully just as awesome. Stoked to check it out.
Finally watched Raised By Wolves after reading comments here (and in the past) about it. I really liked the first season a lot, pretty interesting story and all the actors were decent in it. The second season was all over the place though, it was like they were throwing everything they could think of at the wall to see what would stick. Still, kind of a bummer it ended the way it did as it felt really incomplete with no resolution.
Oh yeah, forgot to add, I’m really enjoying the newest season of The Witcher. Bummer about Henry Cavill leaving, but Liam is doing a great job as Geralt I think. And the story this time is a little more focused which is nice.
I also liked Raised by wolves when watching it way back. I can’t say the same about the last two Witcher seasons but I don’t want you to stop liking it, I just think differently. I’ll let the critical drinker explain.
Edit: Sorry for the disturbing thumbnail. I’d have gone with an image of the new witcher characters but this guy wants the clicks.
