TV 20 - Sorry no fancy title

[St. Clown]

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.

Well, that tracks with how the book was written.

 

[Slap Shot]

Hearing good things about the new Ken Burns series about the American Revolution. This one is definitely in my queue.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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.

just a brilliant episode

 

[French Rage]

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.

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.

 

[French Rage]

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.

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?

 

[Kepler]

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?

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.

 

[ticapnews]

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.