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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

Slap Shot said:
I just watched the Pediatric Oncologist episode of The Studio. The juxtaposition of Seth Rogan's character being on the phone talking about a movie trailer with explosive diarrhea in it, while his girlfriend's doctor character right next to him is talking to a child's mother about cancer treatment after Seth described what they both do as "very serious" was brilliant.
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just a brilliant episode
 
Slap Shot said:
I just watched the Pediatric Oncologist episode of The Studio. The juxtaposition of Seth Rogan's character being on the phone talking about a movie trailer with explosive diarrhea in it, while his girlfriend's doctor character right next to him is talking to a child's mother about cancer treatment after Seth described what they both do as "very serious" was brilliant.
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The single shot episode and the noir episodes were also great. Though with winning awards, don't get me wrong, it's a good show, but of course the show about show business is going to win a lot of awards, that always happens.
 
Kepler said:
Speaking of SNL, Marcello Hernández is their best new talent in at least a decade. He is starting to remind me of Steve Martin. Comes on the scene with what look like limited, niche characters played for low ball laughs, but the more of him you see the more you realize oh shit this person really has depth and breadth.
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He also got pulled onstage at a Sabrina Carpenter concert because of the Domingo sketches, so expect to see a lot more of him and that character. Lorne wants anything that the young people like, and she was a top artist last year, and he wants to have things appealing to the youngsters rather than old farts like us.

Also, is it me, or does the guy from PDD feel weird in sketches? Like, I'm used to him being in those shorts, he feels out of place in live sketches, right?
 
French Rage said:
He also got pulled onstage at a Sabrina Carpenter concert because of the Domingo sketches, so expect to see a lot more of him and that character. Lorne wants anything that the young people like, and she was a top artist last year, and he wants to have things appealing to the youngsters rather than old farts like us.

Also, is it me, or does the guy from PDD feel weird in sketches? Like, I'm used to him being in those shorts, he feels out of place in live sketches, right?
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Weird and out of place is his schtick. It's getting a bit old.

He's the opposite of Hernandez. He's a one trick pony.
 
Missed this yesterday.

42 years ago last night ABC ran the made for TV movie "The Day After" and 100 million people simultaneously shit their pants. My mom was the Civil Preparedness Director for our county and was honest with us as kids; I was thankful we had three high value targets nearby and I would be incinerated in the initial attack rather than slowly starving to death or dying of radiation poisoning in the horror of the aftermath. It was highly censored, and reduced from two nights to one because the network rightly anticipated that no one would want to advertise on part two, much less want to watch. It is claimed that upon screening it at the White House President Reagan, a former actor, realized the power of the film and it eventually led to the Geneva Summit (40 years ago this week) and a thaw in the Cold War.

It's available on YouTube, if you're in the mood to reminisce. Make it a double feature and watch the 1984 BBC film "Threads" to have a really depressing evening.
 
ticapnews said:
Linear, but there are parts where you don't know if what you're seeing is real or a hallucination caused by "It"

I assumed the end of the first episode was a hallucination but..nope.
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That’s what I assumed too.

I just got bored with it by episode 3. Just kind of old country buffet horror.
 
Kepler said:

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Why not both? I've read The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, by Robert Middlekauff and The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord by Ray Raphael. I know there's more and I should probably revisit.
 
Slap Shot said:
Why not both? I've read The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, by Robert Middlekauff and The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord by Ray Raphael. I know there's more and I should probably revisit.
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I'm not down on the Burns story -- war epics are fun. But the distinction is important. It is about The Revolutionary War. The American Revolution is a very different kettle of fish.

I disagree with Tad though that telling the latter story is necessarily divisive. Withdrawing popular support from a political order that has lost its legitimacy, and remaking a new order that fits our needs, sounds like the single greatest common cause for the vast majority of Americans right now.

It is not so much that Americans don't want to hear about it. Though you and I can guess who does not want Americans to hear about it.

Thank you for those references, I will check them out. Others I know of: Ideological Origins by Bailyn, From Resistance to Revolution by Maier, Prelude to Revolution by Schlesigner, Creation of the American Republic by Gordon Wood, famously quoted in the best scene in Good Will Hunting.
 
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There are certainly two stories to be told, and he chose to focus on the war, which is kind of his calling card. Not to mention, Cleetus, Hunter, and Duke will be more likely to watch it.

You could do another 9-part series on the pre-war era, but only us wonks would probably care. The derps prefer to waive the flag to the sound of cannon and musket fire.
 
The Franklin series with of all people Michael Douglas as Franklin had warts but was mostly faithful to the book it was based off of - Stacy Schiff’s 2005 A Great Improvisation - and tells a very interesting 'non-war' narrative while the war ongoing, and the first few episodes of HBO's John Adams focuses on several years leading up to the first shot.
 
I would watch a 12-hour, $30M budget production on Thomas Paine.

It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together.
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Slap Shot said:
The Franklin series with of all people Michael Douglas as Franklin had warts but was mostly faithful to the book it was based off of - Stacy Schiff’s 2005 A Great Improvisation - and tells a very interesting 'non-war' narrative while the war ongoing, and the first few episodes of HBO's John Adams focuses on several years leading up to the first shot.
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You mean Mandy Patankin? (Who I believe is still voicing Franklin in the American Revolution; and Paul Giammati voicing John Adams in a nod to that series.)
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
There are certainly two stories to be told, and he chose to focus on the war, which is kind of his calling card. Not to mention, Cleetus, Hunter, and Duke will be more likely to watch it.

You could do another 9-part series on the pre-war era, but only us wonks would probably care. The derps prefer to waive the flag to the sound of cannon and musket fire.
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Granted I'm only a couple of episodes in, but they do an OK job focusing on pre-fighting pieces, but I imagine once the war gets going it will be war-heavy. All that said, the idea of a documentary on the American Revolution isn't exactly groundbreaking, it's been covered a million times, so he's not exactly covering new ground here. But even still, having already read and seen lots on it, I still find it interesting and am learning a few new things from it.

Giving the overall populace a deeper dive into the war part of the Revolution isn't by itself a bad thing. Most people remember, like, three or four things about it from school, so having one central place to go over the war in more detail and refresh everyone can't hurt. And it is an interesting war; if for no other reason than for most of it the only winning move for Washington was not to play. Yes, focusing on just the war misses all of the non-war parts of the overall "revolution", as others have said. But you still need to basis of knowledge and facts of the war part to build further context for. We here are probably not the group that needs that, so it's covered too much already-tread ground for us, but as we all should have well learned by now, we are not the average crowd. You want more insight into the overall revolution, gonna have to read a book; in the meantime, a documentary that's better than a History Channel drama-doc is a net-positive despite not being perfect.
 
Kepler said:
famously quoted in the best scene in Good Will Hunting.
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Listen, I love Good Will Hunting and think it's one of the best movies out there, no wasted lines, no wasted characters, but to call that the best scene is ridiculous, and, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's very much not surprising that you like the scene where two characters are practically jerking themselves off by reciting books they've read to appear superior to the other.
 
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