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Subrick
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:01 pm 
 

Thoughts from being high:

Hell’s Kitchen is the fakest, most self-defeating reality show ever. Not only are the contestants willingly signed up to be verbally and emotionally abused by an Englishman putting on an act that would almost certainly be fired from any real kitchen if he treated his staff that way (and didn’t already own the place himself), but they are all made to look like the most incompetent sacks of shit ever through manipulative editing and having PAs run into the kitchen while the chefs are doing something else and deliberately fuck with them, doing stuff like dumping in more of an ingredient than needed and turning burners down or off so as to undercook the food.

The self-defeating part of this show, and this is probably deliberate in the part of the producers and network, is that the contestants are portrayed as such utter fuckups that it’s caused the winner to be refused the grand prize by the hotel or restaurant’s investors, as they all thought that hiring people like THIS to run a multimillion dollar restaurant was too risky. Can you blame them?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:51 am 
 

Good Australian show I watched recently about an Aussie hitman:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7472896/?ref_=rvi_tt

Definitely worth a watch, based on a movie called The Magician (I think) which I have been unable to find. Anyway, basically like an Aussie Breaking Bad, not as intense, but if you like that kind of stuff (and really, who doesn't) you'll like this.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:25 am 
 

Today I discovered that Columbo films were still being released in 2003 ! Happy Sunday surprise.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:46 pm 
 

Methuen wrote:
Today I discovered that Columbo films were still being released in 2003 ! Happy Sunday surprise.
I used to watch hours of that show with my Father. I always root for the bad guy and was a fan of Patrick McGoohan, in the few episodes that he was in. The criminals always believe Columbo to be this bumbling idiot. Then Columbo asks that famous line "can I ask you just one more thing?" Then the question that puts all of the pieces together, yet is something so trivial. How long have you done photography? How long have you smoked Lidel Brand Cigars? That's a beautiful car in the driveway, how often do you change the oil in it? Boom, case solved, from a trivial piece of information. One of the criminal of course never considered.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:07 am 
 

Yo did anyone else watch the Jake Paul / Ben Askren fight? that entire event was fucked dude. The only professionals involved with that event were Cunningham and Mir who are both excellent warriors. The only other redeeming factor was Snoop Dogg yelling at the top of his lungs about the "two million motherfucking dollars, on the set cuz!" lol. He yelled more about his bet than the actual fight :lol:

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:27 am 
 

Gunslinger21 wrote:
Yo did anyone else watch the Jake Paul / Ben Askren fight? that entire event was fucked dude. The only professionals involved with that event were Cunningham and Mir who are both excellent warriors. The only other redeeming factor was Snoop Dogg yelling at the top of his lungs about the "two million motherfucking dollars, on the set cuz!" lol. He yelled more about his bet than the actual fight :lol:


I've never heard of either.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:52 am 
 

Gunslinger21 wrote:
Yo did anyone else watch the Jake Paul / Ben Askren fight? that entire event was fucked dude. The only professionals involved with that event were Cunningham and Mir who are both excellent warriors. The only other redeeming factor was Snoop Dogg yelling at the top of his lungs about the "two million motherfucking dollars, on the set cuz!" lol. He yelled more about his bet than the actual fight :lol:


I can't think of a worse way to spend $50. Agreed that Cunningham and Mir was definitely the highlight, although Regis Prograis is an animal too. The ending to his fight was one of the stranger things I've seen, but that shouldn't take away from him at all.

I'm not even sure why I bothered with this in the first place, but after watching that PPV, I am never going to spend a single dime on anything Jake Paul-related again.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:00 am 
 

Now that we've finally finished How I Met Your Mother (didn't even mind the ending, though the 'alternative' ending is a litle neater), we've been catching up on Supernatural, and tried out Parks and Recreation (nope), a couple of magic-based things on Netflix (not my cup o' tea), and finally settled on 'How to Get Away With Murder'.

Which, a few episodes into the first series, is actually really good. Decent writing, pacing, acting - the only problem I can see it is that, and I can see it coming a mile off, is that they'll bog down the whole interesting premise in badly written schoolgirl relationship drama at some point (everything from Bones to House to the aforementioned Supernatural has done this, bores me to tears).

So far so good, though, nice to have another TV progamme to watch :D

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:26 am 
 

Methuen wrote:
Now that we've finally finished How I Met Your Mother (didn't even mind the ending, though the 'alternative' ending is a litle neater), we've been catching up on Supernatural, and tried out Parks and Recreation (nope), a couple of magic-based things on Netflix (not my cup o' tea), and finally settled on 'How to Get Away With Murder'.

Which, a few episodes into the first series, is actually really good. Decent writing, pacing, acting - the only problem I can see it is that, and I can see it coming a mile off, is that they'll bog down the whole interesting premise in badly written schoolgirl relationship drama at some point (everything from Bones to House to the aforementioned Supernatural has done this, bores me to tears).

So far so good, though, nice to have another TV progamme to watch :D


That's a pretty good description of the problem I have with most TV shows anymore.

Interesting concept and setup, but like you said, after a couple episodes you can sense the monster looming over the horizon of bogged down, schoolgirl relationship drama that just completely obliterates any chance of me ever finishing.
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 4:42 am 
 

So I just binged WandaVision and I seem to have the unpopular opinion here that the first three episodes were brilliant, but once the fourth hit it turned into completely generic Marvel movie slop, with the usual Marvel franchise-spawning cliffhanger ending, promising that if you just watch whatever next is on the Marvel menu, you'll totally get all the answers and a finite conclusion.

Yeah, right. Fool me for the hundredth time, shame on me. Way to squander a fantastic premise, film-level production values and a star-studded cast by shoving this delightfully round show into a square hole and stripping everything unique about it in the process.
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 8:59 am 
 

^ Pretty much... first few episodes were cool and different and had some interesting horror-ish subtleties. The last episode was a snooze-inducing fight scene. Like how many of these do we need with no blood and entirely predictable outcomes?
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 12:48 pm 
 

I see anything to do with Marvel or superhero stuff in general, I avoid. It's worked out pretty well for me!

With an exception or two, I watched Legion for a bit.
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Legion is brilliant... definitely give season 2 a watch if you haven't finished that. I think it's entirely separate from regular superhero stuff.
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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2021 11:53 pm 
 

yeah as a psychology person I liked a lot of the messages in that show, trying to sort of rehabilitate/destigmatize certain conditions as potentially having things to offer (with the right supportive environment and relationships and whatnot).
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2021 10:09 am 
 

How To Get Away With Murder is going well - we're now up to 2018, positively modern for our viewing habits. Series 4 now !

Hidden incase anyone hasn't watched it (I know I'm behind in the world of TV, someone else must be too)
Spoiler: show
The only niggle with it so far (the angst and drama being far less than expected !) is the every-other-episode 10 minute softcore sequence - the story stops dead for some bad synth music a montage of (relatively chaste) grinding from the main cast. Why these directors don't just shoot porn and get it out of their systems that way I don't know - they used sex in a couple of episodes to actually service (snigger) the plot, but otherwise it's boring old Operation:"look at our young things in their underwear, again" time. Space in the narrative to pour a drink, I suppose.

Also - absolutely the whole cast are absolutely awful human beings. It's very Game of Thrones-y in that regard; everyone is awful, and a part of the experience is working out who is going to be awful about what 'this week'. At least the characters in House (for example) had some redeeming features (or were at least doctors - this lot of thieves, rapists, racists, nihilists, and murderers don't really provide much of a reason to care about them. Some of the background villains are moustache-twirlingly evil, too - I half expect the Darth Vader theme for one of the character's fathers. That said, some of the evil is very funny - working out precisely why people are killing / appearing to kill others is again very interesting.

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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2021 11:56 am 
 

finally got around to watching Them on Amazon Prime.. ahh ok, this is such a brilliant work of film and the story is just so nuts..

"cat in the bag!"

is all . I. will. say.

holy damn what will season 2 bring, since this is after all an anthology series, each season different from each other and exploring horror in America. season 1 is set in the 1950s so, you can paint it from there.
highly worth it and recommend watching this.
prepare to be gutted though
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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2021 8:57 am 
 

This is my third time watching Game of Thrones, my wife says I'm a maniac. But I don't bother her with my hobbies. I sit looking in headphones from a computer. Fortunately, I bought a new BenQ ZOWIE monitor and now I can conveniently watch what I want from a screen with a considerable diagonal.

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2021 5:49 am 
 

Finished 'How to get away with murder' last night - satisfied with the ending, which I won't describe in-case anyone else is going to watch it ! I can understand why the programme was cancelled; the quality of the writing had declined, some arcs were just silly, and the previous series' slew of 'monster of the week' American social ills episodes lead to a lot of very forced (and quickly abandoned) passionate-caring-about-ISSUES. A lot of the dialogue in later series 4 / Series 5 was also atrocious - whole conversations were like reading arguments from a Reddit thread. Nothing against a programme wanting to address the world, but doing it in the manner done here made it all feel quite plastic - especially given the behaviour of the main characters outside of these isolated dramas -
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They all suddenly care about immigration, until Michela has the gay victim of one of their crimes deported from his hospital bed to Pakisan, a country he wouldn't be welcomed in, didn't have the language for, had never visited. This is of course completely forgotten and she's then the 'best man' and a gay wedding. WHAT ?! or how they suddenly deeply care about prison reform for five minutes until it becomes time to get someone sent to prison via deceit and plotting, or how they care deeply about an underfunded legal aid system for about ten minutes until it's time to get some more money out of a blue-chip legal company, all the while working to throw the public legal system into total disorder. I mean, come on writers !


I've never disliked an entire cast of characters quite so much :lol:

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 4:15 am 
 

acid_bukkake wrote:
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Season 15 was a fucking mess, right from the start. After the incredible closing of S14, the final season began with a series of weak "monster of the week" episodes that paled in comparison to even the lamer runs, like S10-S12. It wasn't until near the mid-season break, when COVID fucked everything up for everyone, that the episodes felt like they were actually building toward something again and, with the final season's story literally being the Winchesters taking on God Himself? That was a bad omen.

That all said, the penultimate episode tied the major story closed in the way that was hinted at a few seasons prior, but without anything close to the emotional resonance of finales like "Swan Song" (S5, still the greatest moment of the entire show) or even S14's epic cliffhanger (wonderfully set to Motörhead's "God Was Never On Your Side," of course). S7 even had a better conclusion and that is seen as the worst stretch of the series (though it introduced fan-favorite Charlie, played by Felicia Day, and one of the best overall villains in the entire show, Dick Roman).

The actual final episode, an epilogue for the series proper, is an emotional send-off that few other shows could come close to matching. This is entirely due to the journey up to that point and paying it all off. The only real negative I can say, beyond production issues (some weak makeup and effects, again thanks to a rushed production due to COVID), is that Kansas's "Carry On My Wayward Son," the anthem to the entire series, did not play in full. When a band understands the lasting legacy of its work is so intrinsically tied to another body of work, Kansas showed when they bid the show adieu, it would be most fitting to let the song play out in its entirety.

Overall, Supernatural is still a top 5 series for me. The great comes from how it played with the actual lore of the various cryptids and spirits that featured on the show; the overarching theme of the importance of storytelling; and, of course, the depth of the characters themselves. The awful comes from when the show, at the behest of the network and an eventual rotating door of showrunners, leaned too heavily into its own self-importance by trying to subvert itself one too many times, leading to later seasons feeling very directionless compared to the golden tier first five.

My favorite arc, though, was when Dean accepted the Mark of Cain, itself an allegory for leaning into one's destructive behaviors under the guise of them aiding in their success. Substance addiction and destructive behaviors were dealt with earnestly by addressing the mythology and treating it with respect, leading to the last great storyline of the show.

A worthwhile investment of your time now that it's all over, but be weary that the ending isn't going to be easy to sit through, for reasons related to both quality and whatever emotional attachment you may form with the various characters
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Finally, finally got to the end.

I have to agree-and-disagree. I thought the last series as a whole was a bit of a mess, yes - they were just doing a greatest hits thing, with helpings of fan service along the way. Fine. The last episodes though - In my headcanon, Supernatural ends with S15e19. That was the perfect way to wrap it up - big silly finale, some nice drama, clear out almost all of the remaining antogonists, and ride off in that daft barge of a car into the sunset. The perfect, silly ending for a programme like that. I thought it was cute that the writers threw a bone to one of the more niche fan groups, too.

The last episode though ? That was baaaaad. Total tonal shift from episode 19. Basically a hard-reset; the character development over the last three / four series is just ignored ? They reset to 'it's series 3 and we're just doing the job' ? I thought it was a pretty cheap way to make the ending 'final'; the epsiode 19 ending was more cinematic, over the top, fit exactly where the show was at that point. Episode 20 would have fit as an ending if it'd stopped back in series 4 or something.

Supernatural had a good run, some of it was great, some terrible, and it's nice that they ended on an odd number. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:35 pm 
 

^Huh. All you posted is tempting me to dip back into Supernatural and this time ride it out until the end. It used to be a favorite way waaaaaay back and then (like American Horror Story) just became immensely goofy and kinda insufferable.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:32 pm 
 

We're three episodes in, but season 5 of Rick and Morty has started off extremely strong. If it continues this quality, it'll obliterate season 4.

I also binged Justin Roiland's other show, Solar Opposites. It was alright. Not as good as Rick and Morty but it was entertaining enough.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:42 pm 
 

This new AHS trailer....CAAAAAAAAMP.
What the actual fuck is going on? It's going to be so overblown ugh :lol:

Spoiler: show


Anybody watched any good TV lately?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:22 pm 
 

We're almost done with the Good Place, and it's a good balance of perfect casting and clever writing to tackle something heady like "the consequences of even seemingly good decisions" with a plethora of jokes that can often boil down to "shrimp" and "lol Florida."
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Watched AHS anthology 1-4, with 3 and 4 being garbage. Started Black Summer season 2 and it could easily be binged watched, particularly for Walking Dead fans.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:46 am 
 

If you guys haven't checked out this version of The Name of the Rose yet... well, you should. Ignore the critics, it's a far better retelling of the novel than the movie, which I already thought was decent. Turturro owns.

The only significant departure from the book is the insertion of A Strong Female Character since the book barely had a woman let alone one acceptable by today's standards, but personally I think it's done tastefully and integrates well... enough with the story.
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"Hacks" on HBOMax is a great show. Smart, fun writing, great performances. As a stand-up fan it was also a lot of fun in that way. Can't wait for season 2.
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If you thought Black Mirror: The Entire History of You was one of the best episodes of TV, you owe it to yourself to watch Soulmates on AMC. I'm only 2 episodes in, but these two stand head and shoulders over most other anthology shows and that includes most of Black Mirror.

Episode 1 is a meticulously paced, well-acted emotional drama about the doubt that creeps into every marriage, but this doubt is amplified to a fever pitch thanks to a new technology and all the social pressures that brings.

Episode 2 is among the best hours of TV I've ever seen, made even better by its placement in the season. Saying any more could dull the impact of the episode, just know that TV like this doesn't come around often. I would say "just start with this one because the first ep, while excellent, is a bit dry," but part of what makes it so good is that it's the second, not the first.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 12:40 am 
 

^
Just watched those two episodes based solely on your post (hadn't even heard of the show before) and both were excellent, especially the second one! Thanks for the rec., mate. It really does have a solid Black Mirror vibe but with the speculative element a bit more subtle. I do love Black Mirror, but honestly the episodes vary wildly in quality over the whole series, and the most recent couple seasons were pretty weak. Glad I've discovered this new show.

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Woo! My girlfriend told me, "so there's this new anthology show about relationships chosen by genetic mapping that we should watch" and I'm ashamed to say I made an inaudible groan. She has good taste but I expected a well-made but weepy drama about a black lesbian cop with a heart of gold getting matched to a meth dealer or something. Instead it was just The Entire History of You the TV show since it's really about the side effects of something (seemingly?) unambiguously good made with (seemingly?) the best intentions. It's definitely asking the same questions as Black Mirror but in a fresh way.

That said we haven't watched any more yet so I'm not responsible for what comes after :lol:.
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R.I.P (Omar) Michael Kenneth Williams. A favorite from The Wire, I also thought he was great in Boardwalk Empire and it was good to see him again in Lovecraft Country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/arts ... -dead.html
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Metal_On_The_Ascendant wrote:
R.I.P (Omar) Michael Kenneth Williams. A favorite from The Wire, I also thought he was great in Boardwalk Empire and it was good to see him again in Lovecraft Country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/arts ... -dead.html


He was even great in Community despite not getting much screentime. RIP.
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Brand New Cherry Flavor is a must-watch. That is all.
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Subrick wrote:
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Hell’s Kitchen is the fakest, most self-defeating reality show ever. Not only are the contestants willingly signed up to be verbally and emotionally abused by an Englishman putting on an act that would almost certainly be fired from any real kitchen if he treated his staff that way (and didn’t already own the place himself), but they are all made to look like the most incompetent sacks of shit ever through manipulative editing and having PAs run into the kitchen while the chefs are doing something else and deliberately fuck with them, doing stuff like dumping in more of an ingredient than needed and turning burners down or off so as to undercook the food.

The self-defeating part of this show, and this is probably deliberate in the part of the producers and network, is that the contestants are portrayed as such utter fuckups that it’s caused the winner to be refused the grand prize by the hotel or restaurant’s investors, as they all thought that hiring people like THIS to run a multimillion dollar restaurant was too risky. Can you blame them?

As someone who just recently started watching Hell's Kitchen, I kept reminding myself that chances are, 99% of the shit is fake. I'd heard vague stories about producers fucking with the contestants during service and it doesn't surprise me in the least, but I'd never heard about winners being refused their prize due to investors getting spooked. That sounds pretty fucked.

That being said, even knowing all of that, I still can't look away from it. I just have to watch it while reminding myself that it's essentially a soap opera with contrived drama. Especially when contestants like Raj are allowed to even be on the show. The man is either a hired, professional troll or they intentionally kept him on knowing it would cause drama.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 6:25 am 
 

It has the word "kitchen" in it. That alone should disqualify that. The stupid idiotic "storylines" or whatever don't help its cause in the least bit.

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acid_bukkake wrote:
Brand New Cherry Flavor is a must-watch. That is all.


I've heard good things about it, some even said it was pretty Lynchean at times. Would you say it's the case?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:00 pm 
 

Waltz_of_Ghouls wrote:
acid_bukkake wrote:
Brand New Cherry Flavor is a must-watch. That is all.


I've heard good things about it, some even said it was pretty Lynchean at times. Would you say it's the case?

I wouldn't say Lynchean, necessarily, because it's not just weirdness for the sake of weirdness, but it does play with some mindfuckery in the first half of the series. Episode 4, in particular, gets very Cronenberg.

The last two episodes kinda peter out after how insane the rest of the series was, unfortunately, but the three main actors (Rosa Salazar, Eric Lange, and Catherine Keener) are perfect.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:31 pm 
 

Binged all three seasons of Netflix's Sex Education over the last couple weeks. Great show with great writing and a great cast.

It follows Otis Millburn (Asa Butterfield), the son of renowned sexual therapist Dr. Jean Millburn (Gillian Anderson), as he and the school's "bad girl" Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey) open an underground sex clinic on their school campus, helping the other students navigate their sexual identities and relationship woes. Along for the ride are Otis's best friend Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), head boy and star athlete Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling), Maeve's best friend Aimee (Aimee Wood), and a plethora of other students with their own hang ups revolving around their identities and sexual hijinks.

This isn't just "lol penis" kind of humor. There's plenty of it, sure, but it navigates itself through some great character arcs and a deeper idea of today's issues (sexual and gender identity play major parts in seasons 2 and 3). Great, great show, and one that doesn't cast any character as one-note. Everybody has a chance to shine and flex their chops, and if the series ends as the final episode of S3 does? So be it. It may even be better for it.

Highest recommendation.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:38 pm 
 

Two eps into 'Midnight Mass' from Mike Flanagan. Very Stephen King in the small coastal town, secrets, familial and neighborly strife, etc. It's starting to get pretty weird. Gonna probably finish it all today as my car broke down and I can't go anywhere else.
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I need to check out more Mike Flanagan stuff. It seems like everything I've seen of his immediately works for me.
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There was a long period where he was doing good but not great stuff like Oculus and Hush, but then Gerald's Game followed by Haunting of Hill House to me really made him the premier talent I knew he could be.

Incidentally he's done both of the King stories I never thought could be filmed - Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep. Impressive stuff.
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