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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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Just finished the S2 premiere of THE MANDALORIAN.

Cliche to say, but I think that Jon Favreau and company didn't miss a beat and continued the winning streak with this. Once again you are presented with a format/template right out of a 1950s/60's Western but it works. This episode also showed that Disney isn't playing around with the VFX budget. The episode used a VFX concept that probably wouldn't turn out with a normal TV budget. Without that backing, I feel that the story used could have very easily fallen flat (or at least lead to some very detrimental discussions regarding VFX that would have dragged the actual storytelling components down with it).

I'll come back with some spoiler stuff later on in the weekend because obviously most of y'all have lives and can't watch an episode every Friday at 7am or 8am ^_____^
 
SJHovey said:
Yeah we binged the whole thing Friday and Saturday.
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I plan to watch in a week or so when my paper is done.

surpised to see such an intellectual looking show tending so high in Netflix top ten- often it looks like hot garbage on their top ten list
 
I've been watching The Right Stuff on Disney+. It's a little more Mad Men than I was expecting*, but its all stuff I read (or was hinted at) about the original Mercury 7 astronauts, and it's been a fun series to see how the Mercury 7 were.

It does make me want to go back and watch the film too. It's been almost 30+ years since I saw it, and I didn't quite pick up on everything (other than at my young age it felt every bit of the three+ hours it was).

Disney sure has some home runs on their Disney+ service.



* I never watched the full series, just bits of episodes here and there. That's one series in my queue though.
 
Whoa The Undoing kicked it up a notch tonight. Good so far . Love Donald Sutherland
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Yeah, it was amazing.

I finished Homeland last night. I give them a lot of credit in the end. It was an interesting character study. I actually thought they stuck the landing.
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Yeah homeland sure had an interesting finish, could have been a lot worse
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Yeah, it was amazing.

I finished Homeland last night. I give them a lot of credit in the end. It was an interesting character study. I actually thought they stuck the landing.
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Spoiler:

They'd pretty well established that Carrie would fuck anyone to accomplish the mission.
 
Four episodes into season 4 of The Crown. First off, I just want to say how much I love the opening theme music from that show. Anyway, I've been reading bits and pieces on the season and a lot about Margaret Thatcher. I had no idea she wasn't really well liked. The guy playing Prince Charles is overly dull and full of despair. The girl playing Princess Diana - she does have the head and shoulder movements down pat. Hopefully as the show progresses she will show how much more confident Diana became. And while I had no issue on them showing the actual wedding, I really thought it odd they didn't include any of her family, other than her sister who Charles dated prior to dating Diana. Where was her father and step mother? Also, the music they played for Diana, when she was partying with her friends after the engagement - Edge of Seventeen wasn't released till a year or so after that happened. I think they were OK with her roller skating in Buckingham Palace to Duran Duran's Girls on Film as that album came out that year.
 
Scarlet said:
Four episodes into season 4 of The Crown. First off, I just want to say how much I love the opening theme music from that show. Anyway, I've been reading bits and pieces on the season and a lot about Margaret Thatcher.
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Thatcher was irredeemable CUNextTuesday. The media portrayals have gone a long way clean up her image and her legacy. She's looked upon very similar to Reagan, sunshine and happiness at first glance by people (and especially the media), but dig under the surface and you find a massive rot of unemployment and suffering.
 
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