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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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SNL with Molly Whatever was great. The Please Don't Destroy video was one of the best they've done, and Update was perfection. I started out not wanting to like the hostess but she was solid in all her skits. Keenan and the ugly se-xy chick carry that cast.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I always liked her. I thought her two big skits that she did homage to last night were good.
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If it's the one I'm thinking of...

Yeah, it is. Blah. The only time that character got a chuckle or two out of me was the time her Catholic school was playing b-ball against a Jewish school and she had a crush on the star from the Jewish team.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
If it's the one I'm thinking of...

Yeah, it is. Blah. The only time that character got a chuckle or two out of me was the time her Catholic school was playing b-ball against a Jewish school and she had a crush on the star from the Jewish team.
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She has two. The Catholic High Schooler, and the 50 year old Woman.
 
I'm starting to see Rick and Morty being mentioned in the past tense. And casually, not just as a hot take.

Maybe it's dead, Jim. Personally I would not like to see it continue with another voice actor. Roiland is apparently absolute scum, but this is his art. Leave it as his.

The legacy of R&M should have this painful center of biting on tinfoil. It's actually the perfect elegy. Roiland really was Rick. There is no happy ending.
 
Here is my reaction to the last episode of Succession All spoilers obviously:

The death was great writing as it violated every death trope we have been trained in for a hundred years of mass entertainment. No last words, no dramatic teetering on the edge, just the sudden almost comical hook from off stage.

The reactions by the children were perfect. These absolutely horrific people are still thrown into an overwhelming universal human experience. We watch them swaying in and out of their genuine human frailty and their monstrous lack of empathy and character. Every actor was excellent, but Roman's performance was for the ages.

The second great set of performances was the execs on the plane. Again, these are highly flawed people -- not (other than Tom) monsters like the Roys, but still their enablers -- yet their nonsense is blown away by the reality of the moment. For a brief time, their bullsh-t business pathologies are suspended in the recognition of a moment of reality, and they are people. Then the derp drips back in, as the present is annihilated by the future and their machinations and their hypocrisies.

This was one of the best episodes of tv I've ever seen. All that remains now is for the children to destroy each other and themselves, but even that seems like anticlimax.
 
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It is hard to write a 30 minute scene that is simultaneously comedic, heart wrenching, aggravating and cringeworthy, but the writers on Succession pulled it off.
 
Handyman said:
Sounds like a Writers Guild Strike is coming next month. Looks like the studios have been screwing them over on the residuals for streaming services.

A solid explanation of why things have gotten bad for writers: https://twitter.com/ashleyn1cole/status/1646148217086820352
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It's kinda funny how the last WG strike was for residuals for DVDs sales right before those went off a cliff. Makes you wonder what will replace streaming shortly.
 
Nothing. Streaming is owned by by studios they can deal with dropoff in ways they couldn't with DVDs.
 
Kepler said:
Here is my reaction to the last episode of Succession All spoilers obviously:

The death was great writing as it violated every death trope we have been trained in for a hundred years of mass entertainment. No last words, no dramatic teetering on the edge, just the sudden almost comical hook from off stage.

The reactions by the children were perfect. These absolutely horrific people are still thrown into an overwhelming universal human experience. We watch them swaying in and out of their genuine human frailty and their monstrous lack of empathy and character. Every actor was excellent, but Roman's performance was for the ages.

The second great set of performances was the execs on the plane. Again, these are highly flawed people -- not (other than Tom) monsters like the Roys, but still their enablers -- yet their nonsense is blown away by the reality of the moment. For a brief time, their bullsh-t business pathologies are suspended in the recognition of a moment of reality, and they are people. Then the derp drips back in, as the present is annihilated by the future and their machinations and their hypocrisies.

This was one of the best episodes of tv I've ever seen. All that remains now is for the children to destroy each other and themselves, but even that seems like anticlimax.
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Spoilers as well, because like you, I'm not an a_ss

100% agree. It was so jarring that my wife and I thought it was a ruse until we saw the the compressions being done. You kind of went through denial and everything just like Roman. Just shocking.

and I think everyone needs to watch the 10 minute clip about the episode after the episode. They go into how technically difficult that scene was because it was essentially a 28-minute single cut scene. It's going to win them every goddamn award for that single episode. It was damn near perfect.


And if Kieran Culkin doesn't win the Emmy this year, that award loses all meaning. He probably should have won it last year too. It's one of the best acted characters I've ever seen.
 
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