I didn’t watch it but I’m assuming we can add smallville to @LockeCJ list.
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I’m not sure why this is a guilty pleasure, Dave Gorman’s great!
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Not sure why any of it was so just picked a program.
I watched all 10 seasons.
It mostly gets a pass for being a purposefully fictional Kansas, although one where anyone (not just Superman) could just pop back and forth between Smallville and Metropolis in no time at all. Sort of the opposite of that episode of United States of Tara in a way.
Smallville had many problems. It’s depiction of Kansas is a fairly minor one. The fact that the main character doesn’t fly (as Superman) until the final episode is chief among them.
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Just watched:
It’s good; the most honest and accurate war film in quite some time, IMO.
A lot of the critics seem to dislike it, but it looks to me as if they just didn’t get it. They’re criticising it for being an unfunny comedy or an unsatisfying drama.
But it isn’t intended to be either comedy or drama. It’s tragedy.
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I watched the first few episodes when it was new.
I spent a bit of time wondering if it was intended as parody, but then realised that they were serious. Astonishingly badly made.
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GoT S1 and S2 so far on Amazon, thumbs up.
Excellent swords and proper sandals, looking forward to moar dragons.
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What were its, let’s say, two biggest shortcomings?
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It was a long time ago, but my recollection is primarily of cartoonishly clunky scriptwriting and high-school drama club acting quality.
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Guilty pleasures, round 2: just finished watching Sharknado 4.
Seriously.
Like I said upthread, I have no taste. 
If you’re willing to accept that the movie has no sense or logic whatsoever (Dustnado? Bouldernado?? Firenado??? Lightningnado??? Nuclearnado???) then it’s silly enough for a laugh or three. I must be getting out of touch since I didn’t recognize half of the cameos this time around.
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I just finished watching Eating Raoul. It has a very 80’s feel and the comedy still works. The snooty nerdy couple getting in over their heads - so well done. A good family movie (if your family would enjoy a comedy involving perverse sexual fetishes and routine murder).
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Well then it’s spoiler time!
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I’m still waiting for this.
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one of the best things is since I need reading glasses any spoilers you offer will look like this text, and I will refuse to focus on it!
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It’s like 30 miles, which even with crazy Johnson County drivers takes 45 minutes or so.
30 miles is a different drive depending on where you are in the country. In the Plains states or the Southwest, it’s your kids’ commute to school, or your drive to WalMart if you’re lucky. In bigger cities like NYC, LA, Chicago, and Houston, you’re still in the burbs after 30 miles. If you’re in Boston, it’s “OMG, you’re going to [place 30 miles away]? Did you book a hotel room for the night?”
This stuff always confuses me. In TV shows, anything with a Midwestern-sounding name is portrayed as really remote and backwoodsy. I’ve seen this apply to places like Des Plaines IL (in Cook County where Chicago is) and Evergreen Park IL (95th and Kedzie, in Chicago). Don’t writers of these shows 1) know how to use maps, and 2) realize that people watching their shows live in these places?
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I was really not sure who she was supposed to be. I could make guesses based on appearance, but with her, it wasn’t so much the character as that it wasn’t a character to her, but a real-life persona that she felt spiritually attached to. She was her in-ring persona. There was something about that that just… got to me… on some level.
Also, I remember the drama between Liberty Belle and Vicky The Viking as being something based on real-life events… and having occurred many times before and since 
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You’ve seen Tampopo? less cannibalism, still a great 80s food movie.
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I finished I Love Dick, which j’t’adore! Very artsy and very interesting commentary. Amazed something so alternative in content could get on Amazon.
Now I’m deep into Ozark which I’m pretty meh on (knock off of Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, only set in the Ozarks). One of my beefs with the show is that they use Southern accents and not midwestern accents. My dad is from the Ozarks and no one talks with that twang there. The accent is more flat. The Ozarks is a freakin’ weird place and I think they could have done a lot with it if they had actually captured the oddness of it better. Instead it’s sort of generic Hillbilly, which, uh, guys, that’s Appalachia.
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I’ve considered it, but am holding off for now. I’ll see it soon enough.
The Ozarks accent is kind of both
and neither at the same time. It’s the Bill Clinton accent, more or less. Sounds vaguely Southern but is closer to a Kansas accent than to any accent I consider Southern.
It’s also worth pointing out that hillbillies and rednecks are not the same people either.
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My dad is from Neosho, MO. Arkansas is a little different and this show is set at the Lake of the Ozarks, so I could see the accent being different there. My dad’s family, they definitely speak with a very particular accent that is not twangy.
The way he grew up is fascinating, especially when contrasted against the commercialism of the 50’s in other parts of the country.
Frankly, I find the area he grew up in pretty depressing.
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