Whatcha Watchin'?

May be this should go in this list.

Whatchya Workin' On, O Creatives?

Just rewatched Do The Right Thing, one of my all time favorite movies. It is so good, so fresh, so relevant.

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ETHNIC, RACIST, AND SEXIST HUMOR - This episode has it ALL!!!

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This trailer doesn’t quite represent the movie.

It’s actually quite innocent, tedious and boring.

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That’s what my ex sai…

err, I mean… yeah, I never would have gotten that from the trailer.

:stuck_out_tongue:

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The basic plot of the movie could have been… something, if it was produced by anyone with talent.

The most interesting thing about it is that it is one of Adrienne Barbeau’s earliest movies. I believe that’s her standing in the background about 1 minute in.

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I don’t watch as many documentaries as I would like to, owing in part to my need to be in the right frame of mind for them. I don’t know if I would qualify this as good, but I found it fascinating and engaging, and a little bit sad.

This is a delight, and I’m enjoying watching it with my family.

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This is a lot like Farscape

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I’ll take that as a high recommendation, and seek it out.

Farscape is one of my favorite shows of all time, and is my go-to for when I want something on the tevee that I don’t have to track closely (since I’ve seen it quite a few times).

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I found the first episode confusing but the Farscapiness becomes really obvious in Episode 2—the bad guys are Space Fascists, somebody is an exiled monarch, there’s one character from Earth, they don’t even bother explaining how he got there, it doesn’t really matter

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Fifteen minutes no one gets back.

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Been watching Ozark, which is pretty good. I’m enjoying Laura Linney and I’m team Ruth all the way…

Just started on Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, which is super-cute and adorable and if you need some light, fun fare (especially if you have kids) I highly recommend it.

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Ozark is great, and Ruth is a real piece of work. I think I’m behind now, and need to get caught up. I did not know that there was a ā€˜team Ruth’.

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I don’t know if there was, but there is now. She’s awesome-sauce, that girl.

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Not team Darlene, tho. Man, that woman…

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I’ve been watching ā€˜Space Force’ the last few days. Before watching it, I had seen a review that panned it quite a bit…

Workplace comedies need a strong ensemble to connect with, and there’s not a single character here that the audience can get onboard with. Naird lacks the one thing that made Michael Scott bearable: a heart. He’s just straight up a dick.

So my expectations were… tempered.

What I got, though… I wouldn’t call this a comedy, honestly. It’s funny in places, downright ridiculous in places, but in others it really plays thing painfully straight. While the main character starts out a bit of a dick, after two or three episodes it felt to me more like people just trying to hold things together against a tweeting president and other all-too-real issues. Some of the characters could use a good bit of expansion, but with only 10 episodes I can only fault that so much.

That review made a lot of comparisons to The Office, which I’ll admit I’ve not seen aside from the viral memes which are everywhere. So I don’t really have the cultural point of comparison the review author was going for.

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I watched part of the first episode. I found it totally boring and a waste of a lot of star power. I didn’t find the setup very interesting to begin with. Lisa Kudrow seemed promising but of course it was going to focus on the menz. I think she had 2 sentences.

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I’ve made it through three episodes, but, yeah… doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

I am intrigued though why Lisa Kudrow’s character is in jail, so I might keep watching just to find out.

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