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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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Kepler said:
The Curse.

The pilot was great. Excellent writing and direction, and IINM it's the principal guy who does both. Stone's fine as the other lead. It treats you like an adult, which is jarring after the last 30 years of copy-paste clever irony and/or adolescent fart sniffing.

Love it so far.
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I am so uncomfortable watching it, but I can’t stop. Nathan fielder is really, really good at this
 
I finally got around to watching Good Rivals (3-part series bout the US-MEX soccer rivalry) and did so because I watched the first 2 released episodes of The Billion Dollar Goal which traces the evolution of soccer in the U.S., mostly centered around the USMNT but with plenty of coverage on the rise and fall and rise of professional soccer.
 
I watched the 90-minute Frontline documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. It is extremely well done but dammit I could use a hug. Oh and f**k Russia.
 
In preparation for the New True Detective coming in January I am watching the first season of True Detective. Which I had never seen. I had seen seasons 2 and 3. Go figure.
 
Started watching The White Lotus, finally. So far I like season 2 much better than season 1. And as much as I love Jennifer Coolidge, her character is really annoying.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
In preparation for the New True Detective coming in January I am watching the first season of True Detective. Which I had never seen. I had seen seasons 2 and 3. Go figure.
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S1 is very good, although I thought the ending was kinda cheap, and the epilogue was full on insultingly stupid.

I've been warned off the rest as crap.
 
Kepler said:
S1 is very good, although I thought the ending was kinda cheap, and the epilogue was full on insultingly stupid.

I've been warned off the rest as crap.
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S2 is not great (except for one shootout scene I thought was ok). S3 wasn't bad I thought. Much better than 2, but not as good as 1. Hopeful for 4.
 
Season 3 is, to use a word dx uses a lot, cromulent. Parts of it are great, and the acting is wonderful IMHO but the ending was rather weak and I think they went a bit too far with the multiple timelines. I get they wanted to make it better than S2 (which I never even finished it was so blah) but its almost like they decided to go too far the other way. Season 1 was great in part because it walked a very fine line with the philosophical and mystical and downright evil. (and then kind of goes off a cliff at the end but I think handled it pretty well overall) I mean Woody Harrelson is basically half the audience mocking McConaughey when he goes on his little mystical rants. There is a character for everyone in the audience to latch onto. That was non-existent in season 2 and in season 3...I dunno I never really found anyone to say "hey that is what I was thinking!" so it kind of lost me at the end.
 
I have not read the books so I can't tell if the actor playing him in the Reacher TV series is a complete stiff, or if he's accurately portraying him from the books. I mean being no-nonsense is one thing, but this is beyond that. It's almost robotic.
 
Slap Shot said:
I have not read the books so I can't tell if the actor playing him in the Reacher TV series is a complete stiff, or if he's accurately portraying him from the books. I mean being no-nonsense is one thing, but this is beyond that. It's almost robotic.
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I watched season 1, and the stoic bit played heavily in it during the first half of the season. It’s still there for the second half, but less so. I later read that he played the character far closer to the book character than Tom Cruse did when making the movie some 10 years ago.
 
Well Jack Reacher is supposed to be a 6 foot 5 and graduated from West Point who was awarded a Purple Heart and became a military cop. Pretty much the opposite of Tom Cruise.
 
Kepler said:
This.
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I know the character Reacher is supposed to be super imposing, etc. I was more referring to the fact the actor in the TV series is very robotic like and I have no idea if that's intentional or if he's a terrible actor. I never watched the Cruise movie and have no desire to.
 
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix), which could be also be called The Wonderful 40-minutes of Anyone Watching This Film. It was adapted by a short-story by Roald Dahl.

A short-film somewhat presented in the form of a play with Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch. As I was watching I had the sense the creators were heavily influence by Wes Anderson, only to find out after he was a writer and co-producer. And one particular scene felt like it was an homage to Monty Python.

I enjoyed the speedy cadence of the dialogue, the quick changing sets and costumes, as well as the deadpan delivery of the characters.

It is supposed to be the first of a four-part series all of which were adaptations of Dahl. I really enjoyed this and if you're even remotely a fan of Wes Anderson would highly recommend.
 
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