What are we watching now?

[laxu]

Watched more of The Bear and I still can't tell if I like it or hate it. Almost all of the characters are unlikable so far and it's mostly a stressful show to watch.

The cinematography doesn't help. It looks good but is just talking heads all the time. Like you can have two people sitting right next to each other on the bench and you still stick the camera up their nostrils.

We also watched Man On The Inside on Netflix. Ted Danson is always fun and any Michael Schur (of Parks & Rec and The Good Place fame) show will be at least wholesome. It's maybe not that funny, but it's enjoyable.

We've also been watching the latest season of What We Do In The Shadows. Unfortunately it seems like a collection of skits for each episode where it doesn't really have a plot that goes much of anywhere. This is supposed to be the final season too. Still some fun bits in there, but I feel like Harvey Guillen is kinda phoning it in this season, or the writers don't know what to do with the character anymore.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Watched more of The Bear and I still can't tell if I like it or hate it. Almost all of the characters are unlikable so far and it's mostly a stressful show to watch.

The cinematography doesn't help. It looks good but is just talking heads all the time. Like you can have two people sitting right next to each other on the bench and you still stick the camera up their nostrils.

We also watched Man On The Inside on Netflix. Ted Danson is always fun and any Michael Schur (of Parks & Rec and The Good Place fame) show will be at least wholesome. It's maybe not that funny, but it's enjoyable.

We've also been watching the latest season of What We Do In The Shadows. Unfortunately it seems like a collection of skits for each episode where it doesn't really have a plot that goes much of anywhere. This is supposed to be the final season too. Still some fun bits in there, but I feel like Harvey Guillen is kinda phoning it in this season, or the writers don't know what to do with the character anymore.

The Bear shows disfunction. What I like about the show is the realness of it. That christmas evening, it's human. That one person everybody keeps an eye on for what might happen, I recognize that. But man, the obsessive nature of the main character, how he is losing it .. while he is on such an extreme high level of performance. Every character has major flaws.

I also really like the almost philosophical viewing of the calm and beautiful life of the restaurtant where the guests are and the total chaos of the kitchen. Isn't that a lot like life? People acting to the outside world that they are fine but inside they struggle, like everybody else?

That I found beautiful about the show. It's really raw. And the humor in it relieves the tension.

 

[laxu]

The Bear shows disfunction. What I like about the show is the realness of it. That christmas evening, it's human. That one person everybody keeps an eye on for what might happen, I recognize that. But man, the obsessive nature of the main character, how he is losing it .. while he is on such an extreme high level of performance. Every character has major flaws.

I also really like the almost philosophical viewing of the calm and beautiful life of the restaurtant where the guests are and the total chaos of the kitchen. Isn't that a lot like life? People acting to the outside world that they are fine but inside they struggle, like everybody else?

That I found beautiful about the show. It's really raw. And the humor in it relieves the tension.

I find that it's much easier to root for dysfunctional characters if there is something that makes them likable. But many of The Bear's characters are weighing more on the asshole scale for me. They show these glimpses of their human side, only to revert them back to broken assholes in the next episode.

Maybe the show is not for me because the chaos of the kitchen mainly plays to my own anxieties.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

I find that it's much easier to root for dysfunctional characters if there is something that makes them likable. But many of The Bear's characters are weighing more on the asshole scale for me. They show these glimpses of their human side, only to revert them back to broken assholes in the next episode.

Maybe the show is not for me because the chaos of the kitchen mainly plays to my own anxieties.

That is very true. They don't become more likeable. That uncle does. In the beginning you think he is THE asshole.. In season 2 you start to think he might be the most sane of them all.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Ahhh commonnnnnn F offff so now brother and sister are telepathic / spiritually by the Yellowstone trees connected with daddy so they knew…. ?????

F offffffff

 

[JiveTurkey]

Ahhh commonnnnnn F offff so now brother and sister are telepathic / spiritually by the Yellowstone trees connected with daddy so they knew…. ?????

F offffffff

BROE HE HAD VISHUNZ

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

BROE HE HAD VISHUNZ

And Beth… in the car .. *deep breath* … “something happened”

… and that chick just getting a job by asking “sure i will make some room”

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

And man my wife and I cant stop laughing about that Indian guy. Is his only purpose in life to be there for Kayce?

 

[GTR37]

Just watched the season finale of FROM
Was a slow season but interesting ending

 

[Rock Chalk]

Ahhh commonnnnnn F offff so now brother and sister are telepathic / spiritually by the Yellowstone trees connected with daddy so they knew…. ?????

F offffffff

And Beth… in the car .. *deep breath* … “something happened”

… and that chick just getting a job by asking “sure i will make some room”

And man my wife and I cant stop laughing about that Indian guy. Is his only purpose in life to be there for Kayce?

Only 75.5 hours till the next episode.......can't wait......

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

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That ending was okay

 

[Aelred]

Rings of Power: How Amazon spent $1 billion to secure limited rights to the Tolkien estate/IP and make something that looks so cheap and has so many plot-holes and awful actors in horrible roles is quite fascinating.

Volcanos do not explode that way, castles are not held together by rope, the Harfoots are vile creatures who leave their kin for dead then laugh about it and Galadriel was not a warrior, nor so stupid, in any other adaptation. That is a quick and very short list.

And that's just Season 1! We are yet to hear about Renewal for Season 3, despite being touted as 5 Seasons.

 

[Frankencat]

The Godfather for the 110000th time.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Heard a great joke about The Sixth Sense.

 

[DrewJD82]

Major hangover today, which means I’m bound to the couch all day. Went to watch From but really couldn’t remember anything about it aside from people being stuck in a town. I watched the first two seasons when they aired originally, but I just started S2 up again today to get a good refresher in before starting 3.

 

[Frankencat]

X-Files.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, then The Money Pit. The first was better than I remember, and the second is every bit as wonderful as I remember.

 

[norminal]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, then The Money Pit. The first was better than I remember, and the second is every bit as wonderful as I remember.

 

[norminal]

Watching The Agency, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dune: Prophecy, From, Landman, Lioness, Silo, and Slow Horses.

The weather is shit, I’ve met my mileage for the month, so it’s ten toes up, a bag of weed, and TV this weekend.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

Watched “our little secret” with the misses

Cheesy romantic comedy where you know all that will happen.