ScoobyDoo
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I had not made the connection until now. I should have. Cool. The Netflix series is one of my faves as well. I love Cop/Law shows for some reason.
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TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title
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Slap Shot
I got nothing
Second, The first wasn't high art but enjoyable. S2E1 felt like a high-school production with some of the worst dialogue, terrible directing, it was just cringy.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
Smoke with Taron Edgerton and sorry I forget her first name Smollett. Pretty solid and Smollett has been outstanding, but I don't know that I fully enjoy Edgerton's portrayal of his character. Not enough dislike to not continue.
Human - BBC docuseries on exploring the 300,000 history of humanity. E1 was a bit of a slow start but otherwise 2 and 3 were very good.
The Institute - series adapted from the Stephen King novel. One of the better adaptations of a King novel after 3 eps.
Human - BBC docuseries on exploring the 300,000 history of humanity. E1 was a bit of a slow start but otherwise 2 and 3 were very good.
The Institute - series adapted from the Stephen King novel. One of the better adaptations of a King novel after 3 eps.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Seeing “plan and execution” in top ten of all time best tv episodes made me miss bcs, and since I have time on transatlantic flight, watched some episodes
Man, I forgot how funny it was when they played with Howard- that poor guy. Hookers in the country club, throwing the hooker out of the car in front of Ed begley jr…and lalo.
What a show
Man, I forgot how funny it was when they played with Howard- that poor guy. Hookers in the country club, throwing the hooker out of the car in front of Ed begley jr…and lalo.
What a show
ScoobyDoo
NPC
I just finished Ballard and Season 5 of Bosch.
Going into Season 6 of Bosch this week. It's holding my attention. I have quit other series when I either get bored, or just don't want to bother finishing.
I also am in Season 2 of Perry Mason (the original). Have a long way to go there.
Going into Season 6 of Bosch this week. It's holding my attention. I have quit other series when I either get bored, or just don't want to bother finishing.
I also am in Season 2 of Perry Mason (the original). Have a long way to go there.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
How are you watching that?
ScoobyDoo
NPC
Perry Mason
Follows the trials of master criminal-defense attorney Perry Mason as he works through the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.
Tubi had all the seasons I thought. Trying to find the rest now. It lists only through season 5 now for some reason. There is like 9 I believe.
Peacock has through season 5 I believe. I have been watching on Peacock for now, switching when I run out on that platform.
Found it. Pluto TV has ALL THE SEASONS.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Thank you.
Perry Mason
Follows the trials of master criminal-defense attorney Perry Mason as he works through the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.tubitv.com
Tubi had all the seasons I thought. Trying to find the rest now. It lists only through season 5 now for some reason. There is like 9 I believe.
Peacock has through season 5 I believe. I have been watching on Peacock for now, switching when I run out on that platform.
Found it. Pluto TV has ALL THE SEASONS.
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
The Wedding is one of the best episodes of the show period. What comes next is much better than episodes 4-6 for sure.
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
We enjoyed it a lot, too. They may do a second season. It will be interesting what they call it, since the name is pertinent to the plot in the first season only.
Interesting fact, the Knives Out movies were not all supposed to be called that. Each was supposed to have its own name. But marketing was afraid people wouldn't know the subsequent movies were about the same detective. Thus, Knives Out: <real name of movie>. I fear The Residence is going to be like that, too.
French Rage
NICKERSON HAS [CENSORED]
Didn't Netflix cancel it last week?
I agree it was very good. First episode was kind of slow and Ken Marino just kinda sucks overall, but really hit the ground running starting with the second episode. Uzo/Randall interactions were great.
But not surprising if we don't see more of it. A big cast so it probably takes a lot of time and money, and it honestly didn't get the buzz it needed when it debuted. It may have a long tail and pick up more of a following as more people get around to it.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
The Bear S4 E7, The Wedding
B
Spoilers:
B
Spoilers:
Overall, it was a good episode, but it did not avoid the show's overall bad trajectory.
The good: The series of short set pieces worked well, and some of them: Nat and Francie; Donna and Sydney; in particular Michelle and Tiff, were excellent. Donna (I'd have gone with Foreboding, but Apprehension works too) not being a freakshow tells me the writers have not completely started mailing it in yet. Richie's arc worked fine. Despite the desperate flailings beating us over the head with Syd this season, Richie is always the star of this show, and his closure gave me genuine relief.
The okay I guess: Carmy and Clare Bear had the first scene together that was watchable since The Fridge. I particularly liked how unflattering the closeup of Clare is -- a brave choice to un-Mary Sue her and show her as highly flawed and homely. Contrast with how most of the other women are portrayed at their best for the wedding, even, surprisingly and interestingly, Donna.
The bad: under the table as Ionesco's The Chairs could have been a far better scene if it hadn't been written so mawkish and poorly. The Bear is always at its best when it is oblique. Directness kills nuance, and this scene being played for Absurd But Sniff Piquant was cringey Emmy bait and for the birds. Sure, it was the season's "showstopper" to make the lofos yap about it, but it was in microcosm why the show has become lame: it was Try Hard. The Bear started as something in the corner of your eye, but 4 seasons in it is jumping up and down screaming Pick Me! The scene's failure wasn't enough to ruin the episode, because there was still so much quiet, delicate substance. But the show as a whole is overcooked now and needs to go to the trash.
Nothing good lasts forever. Two excellent seasons followed by 2 weak ones is a better track record than almost all shows in history (cough West World). But I still wish they could turn down the money, not smell their own farts, and quit after creating art.
Die young and leave a pretty corpse.
The good: The series of short set pieces worked well, and some of them: Nat and Francie; Donna and Sydney; in particular Michelle and Tiff, were excellent. Donna (I'd have gone with Foreboding, but Apprehension works too) not being a freakshow tells me the writers have not completely started mailing it in yet. Richie's arc worked fine. Despite the desperate flailings beating us over the head with Syd this season, Richie is always the star of this show, and his closure gave me genuine relief.
The okay I guess: Carmy and Clare Bear had the first scene together that was watchable since The Fridge. I particularly liked how unflattering the closeup of Clare is -- a brave choice to un-Mary Sue her and show her as highly flawed and homely. Contrast with how most of the other women are portrayed at their best for the wedding, even, surprisingly and interestingly, Donna.
The bad: under the table as Ionesco's The Chairs could have been a far better scene if it hadn't been written so mawkish and poorly. The Bear is always at its best when it is oblique. Directness kills nuance, and this scene being played for Absurd But Sniff Piquant was cringey Emmy bait and for the birds. Sure, it was the season's "showstopper" to make the lofos yap about it, but it was in microcosm why the show has become lame: it was Try Hard. The Bear started as something in the corner of your eye, but 4 seasons in it is jumping up and down screaming Pick Me! The scene's failure wasn't enough to ruin the episode, because there was still so much quiet, delicate substance. But the show as a whole is overcooked now and needs to go to the trash.
Nothing good lasts forever. Two excellent seasons followed by 2 weak ones is a better track record than almost all shows in history (cough West World). But I still wish they could turn down the money, not smell their own farts, and quit after creating art.
Die young and leave a pretty corpse.
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Kepler
Cornell Big Red
- Forks (S2E7) is one of the greatest achievements in TV history. Certainly the best The Bear has done so far and, given the trend, likely the best it will ever do.
- Fishes (S2E6) is not great drama but my god it is top notch entertainment. Likely the only other episode I will recall in a few years.
- Brigade (S1E3) was the episode when I realized the show was ambitious to be more than just hard paced derpfare. I'm still out of breath.
- Napkins (S3E6), a.k.a. Empowered Black Woman Forks, is memorable because while just a repeat of the same theme the lead actress is so amazeballs.
- Tomorrow (S3E1) is a brilliant tone poem and if you don't get it your loss there's always MCU.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Jesus. I hate Mcu and all comic based shit more than anyone and I still don’t see that particular bear episode as a masterpiece.
I agree with your take on every other episode. But I’m not a mouth breathing simpleton because I don’t love that one fucking episode
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
To kepler everyone is a mouth breathing simpleton. The dude wants The Bear to be some French Play because to him navel gazing pretentiousness is the height of entertainment.
Then again someone who watches reality TV unironically making fun of people who like comic book films is maybe the biggest "Pot Calling Kettle Black" scenario I have seen ever.
Then again someone who watches reality TV unironically making fun of people who like comic book films is maybe the biggest "Pot Calling Kettle Black" scenario I have seen ever.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Oh, I don't mind people not liking it. It's the people who think the concept is pretentious on the face of it who are the mouth breathers.
Sometimes, art creators try to climb out of the commercial slime and make something better than Ow My Balls. The people who scream like scalded babies when that happens are telling us about their limitations, not the attempt. The attempt can fail -- it usually does -- but the fact of the attempt, which does indeed expose the gen pop as subhuman, should be celebrated.
Breeding tells.