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  • #871
    Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I love punk rock so obviously I don't need everything to be cerebral.

    BTW I haven't watched the Bachelor in ten years now. My guilty pleasure now is computer games. That's where I get my zen downtime.

    A show is "too clever" only if it has nothing to say. Community is a great example of a show whose meta-meta-meta cleverness worked exactly because it had things to say. c.f Atlanta, Gary Shandling, Fargo, BoJack.
    No it didnt...well sometimes it did...but no the clever for clever sake stuff got old fast. Meta isnt clever anymore, in fact it is almost cliche and they definitely cliched it out after about season 3. The last season and a half was completely unwatchable. (I hate watched it but I couldnt even binge it I hated it so much so it took forever)

    Shandling did it better, because Shandling is arguably the most unique comic mind of the last 40 years. Harmon is great, but he couldnt hold Shandling's jock.
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    • #872
      Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

      Originally posted by Handyman View Post
      No it didnt...well sometimes it did...but no the clever for clever sake stuff got old fast. Meta isnt clever anymore, in fact it is almost cliche and they definitely cliched it out after about season 3. The last season and a half was completely unwatchable. (I hate watched it but I couldnt even binge it I hated it so much so it took forever)

      Shandling did it better, because Shandling is arguably the most unique comic mind of the last 40 years. Harmon is great, but he couldnt hold Shandling's jock.
      Harmon is great.

      The last season sucked because he wasn't there.

      We get it, meta makes you angry. Irony and violence make me angry. You have 3 or 4 shows and movies to complain about a year. I have 96% of American popular culture to avoid. You'll live.
      Last edited by Kepler; 05-08-2020, 12:26 PM.
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      • #873
        Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

        No you don't get it. I like meta. I don't like it when it is all you have. Meta is good in brevity. It is why Abed went from my favorite character to the character I wanted to die.

        Just because something is meta doesn't make it clever. Sooner or later you need something else or you are just as lame as the stuff you are mocking.
        "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
        -aparch

        "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
        -INCH

        Of course I'm a fan of the Vikings. A sick and demented Masochist of a fan, but a fan none the less.
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        • #874
          Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

          I found with Amazon Prime I can binge old shows like House, Psych, Burn Notice, and Monk.

          And yet, I have a whole bunch of papers to write...
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          • #875
            Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

            Originally posted by Handyman View Post
            No you don't get it. I like meta. I don't like it when it is all you have. Meta is good in brevity. It is why Abed went from my favorite character to the character I wanted to die.

            Just because something is meta doesn't make it clever. Sooner or later you need something else or you are just as lame as the stuff you are mocking.
            Meta is like condiments or seasoning for a burger/steak. It enhances, but does not take over, the flavor.
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            • #876
              Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

              Patton Oswalt's "Star Wars filibuster" in a 2013 episode of Parks & Recreation proves to be prophetic, Boba Fett is a character in season two of The Mandalorian. Will be played by Temuera Morrison, which makes sense seeming he played the clones in the prequels.
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              • #877
                Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
                I found with Amazon Prime I can binge old shows like House, Psych, Burn Notice, and Monk.

                And yet, I have a whole bunch of papers to write...
                Oooooh Burn Notice. I really liked that show. Hey...wasn’t Psych supposed to come back somehow? Another movie? Or James and Dule introducing old episodes or something? I vaguely recall seeing a commercial with them.

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                • #878
                  Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                  Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                  Oooooh Burn Notice. I really liked that show. Hey...wasn’t Psych supposed to come back somehow? Another movie? Or James and Dule introducing old episodes or something? I vaguely recall seeing a commercial with them.
                  They reran seasons 1-8 in April.

                  I missed that (studies), so I plan on catching up as much as I can via Prime (when I'm not studying).
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                  • #879
                    Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                    Showtime is free on Comcast again until the 17th. FYI.

                    Or at least billions is
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                    • #880
                      Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                      Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                      Oooooh Burn Notice. I really liked that show. Hey...wasn’t Psych supposed to come back somehow? Another movie? Or James and Dule introducing old episodes or something? I vaguely recall seeing a commercial with them.
                      Psych has their second movie coming out this year. They also had a binge-a-thon where they had Zoom reunions during the commercial breaks.
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                      • #881
                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        Showtime is free on Comcast again until the 17th. FYI.

                        Or at least billions is
                        Suggest you binge the hell out of it!
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                        • #882
                          Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                          Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
                          They reran seasons 1-8 in April.

                          I missed that (studies), so I plan on catching up as much as I can via Prime (when I'm not studying).
                          Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                          Psych has their second movie coming out this year. They also had a binge-a-thon where they had Zoom reunions during the commercial breaks.
                          Oh man, how did I miss that??? I blame you guys for not posting a lot about it while it was happening thereby reminding me it was on.

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                          • #883
                            Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                            Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                            Oh man, how did I miss that??? I blame you guys for not posting a lot about it while it was happening thereby reminding me it was on.
                            Handy, we messed up. We should have posted about that more often.

                            Meanwhile, I'm bribing myself with Psych to get work done. Write 2 pages. Psych. Write 2 pages. Psych. And so on.
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                            • #884
                              Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                              I dvred it
                              "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
                              -aparch

                              "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
                              -INCH

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                              • #885
                                Re: TV: A Succession of Watchmen in The Good Place

                                Originally posted by PrezdeJohnson09 View Post
                                Suggest you binge the hell out of it!
                                I got cut off halfway through season 2.

                                I do an episode a night most free nights. Maybe two if Mrs. 316 is working.
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