TV series, news, recommendations
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@Rucket I’m waiting for the whole series to drop before I re-sub to watch it, but I’m so pumped!!!
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It isn’t TV or even generally accessible but…
The play To Kill a Mockingbird is freaking AMAZING.
I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson. We laughed, we cried, I squeezed my husband’s hand hard at particularly stressful moments…
It is brilliant art.
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@junipersky said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I never want to hear that many white men use a particular racial slur again, but the sheer discomfort it caused really drove home the lesson.
I can’t remember who said it, though I think it was Jamie Foxx who said something akin to “if we’re going to tell the story of my people, we’re going to have to get used to seeing white people doing horrible shit and saying horrible things.”
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I didn’t see it mentioned, and having just finished the first season a few days ago, Severance is something I would recommend. Especially if you like psychological thriller/mystery box things. I am excited to see where it goes with the second season.
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If you like police procedurals, I highly recommend Will Trent. It’s based on a series of mystery novels (that I haven’t read) and it’s real good so far.
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@Zephyr said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I didn’t see it mentioned, and having just finished the first season a few days ago, Severance is something I would recommend. Especially if you like psychological thriller/mystery box things. I am excited to see where it goes with the second season.
Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.
Also tricky to recommend to people because the best I can come up with is some version of “You just have to trust me, this show is amazing but I will ruin it by saying pretty much anything.”
But I have got like ten people to watch it and now they are all fans of a waffle party.
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@shit-piss-love said in TV series, news, recommendations:
@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.
Also tricky to recommend to people because the best I can come up with is some version of “You just have to trust me, this show is amazing but I will ruin it by saying pretty much anything.”
I dunno, I find the basic premise – that you learn immediately in the show, nothing that’s spoilery – is already pretty fascinating on its own? Like, I’ll tell people that it’s about people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side, and that the show explores all of the implications of what that would mean to a person, in life, and in an American workforce, in a really thorough and fascinating way. (That is: it is sci-fi at its very best. Exploring the implications of technology and also using it to comment on our current world.)
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side
That’d be a fucking blessing.
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@Pavel said in TV series, news, recommendations:
@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side
That’d be a fucking blessing.
There’s a whole show about how it really kind of isn’t…
God, if only I could remember what it was called…
I feel like it’s right there in front of me.
<.<
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See I think even asserting what the show is about in some specific terms takes some of the power out of the many red herrings and competing themes.
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@Pavel said in TV series, news, recommendations:
@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
people who have their work life and personal life split so that they don’t remember the other side
That’d be a fucking blessing.
Except for your work self.
@shit-piss-love said in TV series, news, recommendations:
See I think even asserting what the show is about in some specific terms takes some of the power out of the many red herrings and competing themes.
I guess I feel like everything I said is the most basic of descriptions of the premise! And aren’t items that are challenged.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
I guess I feel like everything I said is the most basic of descriptions of the premise! And aren’t items that are challenged.
I think this is an interesting debate but I also can’t illuminate my position without doing the very thing so I concede my minority perspective.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Except for your work self.
My work-self is already fucked.
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@Roz said in TV series, news, recommendations:
Severance is AMAZING. Like — one of the best things I’ve seen in years.
Agreed!
I started watching it, and at about episode three I recommended someone else in the house watch it because it was so good. They started it after me and finished it before I did because they got so caught up in it.
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The new DCU plans announced by James Gunn are certainly not just going to be about TV shows, but since they encompass it as well as movies and video games I guess I’ll stick the link in this thread.
… How do you feel about it?
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@Arkandel absolutely WILD that they canned nearly everything/everyone existing and decided to kick the new era off with…ezra miller’s flash?
Scary swamp thing might be cool.
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@Arkandel DC has a long way to go to prove to me they plan to stop apologizing for their IPs. If the next few movies come off as sincere rather than apologetic, then sweet, awesome. Still doesn’t mean they’ll be good but at least I won’t think the company is being run by twelve-year-olds trying to pass for sixteen-year-olds.
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If you like creepy as fuck podcasts that based on real events narrated by the people who experienced them, I recommend Radio Rental.
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@Arkandel said in TV series, news, recommendations:
The new DCU plans announced by James Gunn are certainly not just going to be about TV shows, but since they encompass it as well as movies and video games I guess I’ll stick the link in this thread.
… How do you feel about it?
I have no faith in Gunn’s ability to make a successful DCU. I can’t even get remotely excited about that Batman movie even though i’ve been waiting desperately for them to introduce Damian Wayne. But I know it’s just going to be another let down with yet another slow motion recap of Batman’s mother’s pearls falling in the alleyway. And if Gunn’s at the helm of a Superman movie - lol, I can’t even begin to imagine what that would look like but it’s going to be a travesty for sure.
And honestly? The fact that they STILL plan to release The Flash just makes me so sick to my stomach that I can’t even begin to care about the so-called DCU future, and this is coming from somebody who is a huge Michael Keaton fan and was SO excited to see him reprise his role.
