What TV series are you watching at moment?

[cruising for burgers]

Anyone watching Barry? It's like all the dark humor and morality mindfuck of Breaking Bad compressed in 8 episodes.

Blew through the first season. Love Bill Hader, nice to see him try out a dramatic role. Also Noho Hank is easily my new favorite side character.

i haven't but now i will, thanks 4 the tip! :thumbsup:

[eugene]

she's gotta have it - spike's lee own remake of his older film for tv. it's really quite striking how skillful and imaginative he is as a director and how deft and light his touch is. great pacing, editing, montages, framing, photography, music and other stylistic choices working in tandem really make for a fun, brisk and engaging watch even if i don't really care for the topic much. other high-end tv outings just look like a fucking chore when compared to this.

watmm administration - please remove the quoted post.

[Nebraska]

 

interesting documentary about a hippie cult that relocates to a small town in oregon from india then slowly begins to take it over- then things begin to get out of control

[bendish]

 

she's gotta have it - spike's lee own remake of his older film for tv. it's really quite striking how skillful and imaginative he is as a director and how deft and light his touch is. great pacing, editing, montages, framing, photography, music and other stylistic choices working in tandem really make for a fun, brisk and engaging watch even if i don't really care for the topic much. other high-end tv outings just look like a fucking chore when compared to this.

watmm administration - please remove the quoted post.

 

Why? Changed your mind?

[eugene]

it's just embarrassing. it's kinda like if your liberal black dad just discovered the afro-feminist SJW scene and just wouldn't fucking stop e-mailing you its memes.

[zaphod]

you need to learn to own your shitposts 

[usagi]

The Terror looks up my alley.

[eugene]

The Terror looks up my alley.

just don't ditch it when you meet this guy, it's good regardless:

[perunamuusi]

you need to learn to own your shitposts 

 

or just use the 'delete post' button

[zaphod]

barry was good but i kind of don't want it to come back for another season

[pcock]

really enjoyed the chirpiness of the hairless chechnyan gangster.

[eugene]

i tried the first ep before and ditched it. seemed very tv, kinda very obvious plot-moving writing and this indie-comedy farce that rarely works. but trying it again i thought that it's actually pretty sweet. like a tighter, better conceived take on that thing "the last man on earth" tried to do with its goofy humor and punchline-to-punchline drive.

 

the realization that nothing is true all of the time is what i take from this experience.

[caze]

The best thing about Barry is the characterizations, all the actors seemed to have made a big effort to come up with believable and unique personalities, even if they only have a few lines. And yes, Noho Hank is great.

[WeAreOceans]

Arca tune in this week's Handmaid's Tale opening.

[hello spiral]

If there's one thing that put me off with Handmaid's Tale, it was the heavy handed music choices. nearly Suicide Squad levels.

[caze]

Yep, there was one bit in season one that was really cringey, they were all walking in slow motion while smirking like a bunch of bad asses while some awful shite played in the background, was terrible. All of the flashback stuff had bad music choices too.

[hello spiral]

^yeah that was fucking awful. The one I hated most was:

 

 

After that character had just watched her lover hanged and woke up to find they'd surgically removed her clit.
It was a geniunely unpleasant and disturbing scene, which was then completely ruined by some loud shoutey 'punk' music as she screamed into the camera
In think it was a Jay Reatard track or something lol

 

[zaphod]

lol that show sounds fucking horrendous

[dr lopez]

I wish jay reatard was still alive and everyone got mad and made him change his name

[eugene]

I actually thought some of the background ambient soundtrack stuff in Handmaids tale was quite good... agreed that the songs suck tho ...

 

I gotta say I love watching Serena ... she is always great on screen ... good character

that last episode with focus on serena was probably the first decent episode in the entire show.

probably back to sitting in a bath full of vaj blood in slo-mo with a dreary score in the next one. it's actually a good metaphor for the whole show.

Edited May 28, 2018 by eugene

[usagi]

 

The Terror looks up my alley.

just don't ditch it when you meet this guy, it's good regardless:

 

 

finished ep 3 now. fucking great use of Lustmord, off my favourite album of his.

[usagi]

btw just saw that HBO is working on a miniseries about Chernobyl. super keen for that.

[WeAreOceans]

 

 

The Terror looks up my alley.

just don't ditch it when you meet this guy, it's good regardless:

 

 

finished ep 3 now. fucking great use of Lustmord, off my favourite album of his.

 

 

uh what kinda fucking rad TV show uses Lustmord?? Adding this to my list

[Nebraska]

 

wow this is really cheesy but brings back a lot of memories. all those late 80s/early 90s haircuts, one long earring and the 90s dyed jeans- not to mention each episode had an anti-drug (and occasionally) use condoms message behind it because it was the regan era. this should be required viewing for todays teenagers

[usagi]

uh what kinda fucking rad TV show uses Lustmord?? Adding this to my list

 

this track:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrq84yClS1E

 

it was completely appropriate.

Edited May 29, 2018 by usagi