By DiPro Go To Posti don't find it funny but it's a show you can pick 3-5 random episodes and just turn off your brain.
Honestly I think that's why she likes it. Background noise kind of thing.
By Laboured Go To PostHonestly I think that's why she likes it. Background noise kind of thing.It was my fav show on acid or shrooms, never even watched it sober.
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostNo idea what Industry was before today, but reading up in it and it sounds like my jam.Yeah unlike succession it took a minute to find itself. I think HBO is really going to push it for season 3 now that succession is done
Seems first season is average but second season is much better.
By Lupercal Go To PostAnyone been watching Silo on Apple+ (or distro)Drops off pretty hard after the first three episodes imo. Hope they'll shifts gears again soon.
2 Episodes in and pretty decent so far. Set design is amazing though.
The big mystery of what happened outside is on the back burner and I don't care much for the political strife inside. The people in power are corrupt and lying to the inhabitants of the silo. No shit.
By turkey bacon Go To PostDrops off pretty hard after the first three episodes imo. Hope they'll shifts gears again soon.
The big mystery of what happened outside is on the back burner and I don't care much for the political strife inside. The people in power are corrupt and lying to the inhabitants of the silo. No shit.
I’m still digging it quite a bit. And am caught up to episode 6 I enjoy the inner political stuff more but also think it’s giving us part of the mystery. Like not being able to build a conveyance system or magnify above a set amount. And then there’s that corridor att the bottom she can’t get to. And judicial killing people …
Also I’m really enjoying Ferguson. Show would be mid without her. The turbine scene was bonkers
I do feel like 4-6 changed pace. Like the first two episodes showed the big mystery but now there’s seven little ones that have to do with the main
By Fenderputty Go To PostI do feel like 4-6 changed pace. Like the first two episodes showed the big mystery but now there’s seven little ones that have to do with the mainAlso another part I think explains why I dislike 4-6 is the fact that 1-3 had very solid main characters who fit their respective roles. The sheriff and his wife were very charismatic and Ferguson was great as the working class hero. Her new role as out-of-her-depth sheriff does not gel with me. The deputy, mayor, and Ferguson's love interest were great too, but they're dead.
Presumably Ferguson will come to grips with being sheriff and all the backroom politics soon as the mysteries start to unravel, but as for now I'm not really enjoying her.
We’ll see but I think the show has to pick up some here. who was watching the TV’s that were spying on Ferguson looking at banned images? They can’t let her show people those. Seems like an element above judicial?
My gut thinks its a fucked up generational social experiment. bit that seems too obvious
In any case it’s not amazing, but I am interesting in the whole mystery
My gut thinks its a fucked up generational social experiment. bit that seems too obvious
In any case it’s not amazing, but I am interesting in the whole mystery
I'm invested enough to see where it's all going. Past three episodes have been a little dull, but then again they're setting things up. They've planted enough seeds to make things interesting. Hope the latter third of the season will bring it all home. Currently I'm hedging on Judicial puppeteering everything, including mass surveillance. No clue on the big why. A vault 101 scenario were the inhabitants are never allowed to leave as the outside world remains uninhabitable is too obvious yeah.
By Laboured Go To PostMy wife is obsessed with Bobs Burgers and I will never, ever understand it. Barely gets a wry smirk out of me.Basically love anything with H. Jon Benjamin
Great article on the sorry state of streaming.
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html
By Zabojnik Go To PostGreat article on the sorry state of streaming.
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html
“I had done the calculations. Half a billion hours is the equivalent of over 61 million people watching all ten episodes in 18 days. Those shows that air after the Super Bowl — it’s like having five or ten of them. So I asked my lawyer, ‘What does that mean?’” recalls Ryan. As it turns out, not much. “In my case, it means that I got paid what I got paid. I’ll get a little bonus when season two gets picked up and a nominal royalty fee for each additional episode that gets made. But if you think I’m going out and buying a private jet, you’re way, way off.”Motherfuck
Ryan says he’ll probably make less money from The Night Agent than he did from The Shield, the cop drama he created in 2002, even though the latter ran on the then-nascent cable channel FX and never delivered Super Bowl numbers. “The promise was that if you made the company billions, you were going to get a lot of millions,” he says. “That promise has gone away.”
“The entire industry,” says the director Steven Soderbergh, who has been navigating structural changes in Hollywood since 1989’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape, “has moved from a world of Newtonian economics into a world of quantum economics, where two things that seem to be in opposition can be true at the same time: You can have a massive hit on your platform, but it’s not actually doing anything to increase your platform’s revenue. It’s absolutely conceivable that the streaming subscription model is the crypto of the entertainment business.”
“The entire industry was spending money with no regard to making money,” says an executive who helped launch a Netflix rival.Always a good sign being compared to crypto
It’s easy to see this now as self-immolation, but at the time, investors rewarded the spending as an investment in the future and a hedge against the trend of cord-cutting. Disney’s share price — which had been trading in the $100 range when the company announced its streaming strategy — flirted with $150 in the weeks after Disney+’s launch. COVID further juiced the value of companies whose primary market is serving shut-ins. Netflix added 36.6 million subscribers in 2020 — its biggest annual gain ever — and Disney+ did even better, finishing its first full year of operations with 86.8 million customers. Iger retired on the last day of 2021. All that was missing was a MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED banner.
I mean most financing is sustained by hopes and dreams, and not by real results/profits. Late stage capitalism innit
The writers are already on strike, the actors will probably join them in July and the same thing could happen with directors on August.
By RATHasReturned Go To PostWhat in the worldLittle Kuriboh is also the creator of the excellent Yu-Gi-Oh abridged series.
Watch it.
By domino Go To PostGlad this is coming back
😭
Really enjoyed Barry, an incredible show from S1 to 3, but wasn’t the biggest fan of S4. Kinda felt like a different show.
Noho Hank was a goat character.
Noho Hank was a goat character.
By data Go To PostIn living color and mad tv were both always better than snlILC for sure. Mad TV meh... some of the star-studded casts were nuts with SNL
Finished Yellowjackets S2… that was a lot less enjoyable than 1
By n8 dogg Go To PostJust watched the barbershop ep of atlanta. LmaoPhenomenal episodes. Still, my favourite is B.A.N (Florida and the Goofy episodes are up there too)
Just watched the teddy perkins ep of atlanta. wtf
By JesalR Go To PostFinished Yellowjackets S2… that was a lot less enjoyable than 1
Yeah, pretty uneven. Strays into silly / slapstick territory far too often.
I’m on the finale of Yellowjackets S2. Lost all focus. All the grown ups are in completely different shows. Bored of the cult shit.
kinda weird this season 3 of Dave is about a tour just like season 3 of Atlanta
pretty good stuff tho
pretty good stuff tho
By diehard Go To PostDave is good?yeah its pretty good. its not as esoteric as Atlanta gets
I feel like i might asked that before.
By diehard Go To PostDave is good?Unseasoned Atlanta
I feel like i might asked that before.
My merry group of Netflix quasi-freeloaders and I are thinking of cancelling the sub and switching to a different streaming service. I'm thinking either Prime or HBO Max. The former's tied to an Amazon account, I assume, which makes sharing inconvenient, but what about Max? Any sharing limitations?
By Zabojnik Go To PostMy merry group of Netflix quasi-freeloaders and I are thinking of cancelling the sub and switching to a different streaming service. I'm thinking either Prime or HBO Max. The former's tied to an Amazon account, I assume, which makes sharing inconvenient, but what about Max? Any sharing limitations?As far as I can tell HBO Max would let 3 concurrent people stream, plus allowed profiles, not sure about 'Max' though
By JesalR Go To PostAs far as I can tell HBO Max would let 3 concurrent people stream, plus allowed profiles, not sure about 'Max' thoughIt's still HBO Max over here, Max isn't available around these parts yet, slated for 2024, I assume the same rules (will) apply.
Guess I'll sub for a month and check it out.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostNew Black Mirror dropped.
Finally something decent to watch and Netflix block me for using someone else's account