The Official Television Thread

[Draconic Aiur]

The reason probably is because Netflix.

[Silver]

Wynonna Earp, bleh.  

Got a couple episodes in, and I found nothing interesting about the show.

The deciding factor in not continuing was the token black guy the show attempted to force onto the viewer, because honestly it felt as though he simply didn't belong in the cast whatsoever.

[Rev. Rye]

Going through most of the rest of Season 5 of Bojack Horseman, and here are (some of) my thoughts:

• I may very well be one of the few fans of the series who doesn't care for Pickles. It may be because I find the whole idea of a young (presumably attractive) girl having the face of a pug bizarre to me. It reminds me of an old joke film idea I once had: "an old man opens his door to find a pug puppy on his doorstep. It telepathically communicates to the old man that it can make all his dreams come true, but on one condition: GIVE ME SEX." And presumably, the old man would be played by Tom Waits, and the telepathic mind voice of the pug puppy would be Chris Brown.
  
• Vance Waggoner is easily the most impressively repulsive one-shot character I've seen in a half-hour series since Mister Daniel Lumis, and part of me wants to see him return to do some even more horrible things, and insult more random ethnicities and whatever random human aggregates in the process. I know that's part of the problem Raphael Bob-Waksberg is pointing out, but, let's face it, evil is far more interesting than good, and evil may be closer to the core of humanity than good anyway.
  
• It's not often you see a real-life brother and sister play mother and daughter on screen, and it never ceases to amaze me that David Sedaris was so unrecognisable in the role. Also, I can't help but wonder how Sadie can cope with having a half-porcupine baby in her uterus.
  
• If Dad didn't know how much of a low opinion I had of my mother before she died and said I probably shouldn't do a eulogy, I'd probably be doing something like the entirety of "Free Churro." 
  
• The levels of self-delusion people do to get themselves through life never cease to amaze me, whether it's Bojack meeting with Diane's therapist and willfully refusing to recognise her as such, Mr. Peanutbutter's optimism reaching the point where it takes him decades for him to figure out that his parents died decades ago, or Diane's strong belief that society should actually give a shit about justice in a way that isn't jacked towards the powerful, even though it never works EVEN IN-UNIVERSE, let alone in the real world.
  
• The Halloween Party episode has an excellent structure, with four parallel timelines focusing on the same Halloween Party, in 1993, 2004, 2009, and 2018. It's a pity that it seems to introduce a bunch of timeline issues (for one thing, I'm pretty sure Mr. Peanutbutter wouldn't need to introduce Katrina to Hank Hippopopolous in the 1994 flashback in "Hank After Dark" when he's part of the gate-crashers (along with Katrina) who force Bojack to host a Halloween party for them the previous year, and I'm pretty sure the introduction of Todd becomes a bit more confused when one considers that Season 3 established he started crashing at Bojack's place in 2006.
  
• Henry Fondle sounds like something I'd create. Then again, I'm still a bit flummoxed with my issues with the amp Dad and I are working on, so that might not be the case.
  
• Diane would probably save herself a lot of misery if she just reconciled herself to Brooker's Law: "There is no idea so horrible or boneheaded that it cannot gain a significant audience willing to make it reality. Especially if it’s both." Black Mirror's Jeremiads on technology leave no doubt about Charlie Brooker's views on how technology can go awry. Hasn't stopped damn near EVERY EPISODE (with the exception of "Playtest", "San Junipero," "Hang the DJ," and MAYBE "Men Against Fire") having a crucial plot point turning from science fiction to cold, hard, reality. If scientists who should know better still have no qualms with making the Black Mirror dystopia happen, can she seriously not expect at least some viewers to take her deconstruction of toxic masculinity and embrace it as good?
  
• And with Episode 10 dies my hope for the series ending like this (with Bojack in Malcolm McDowell's place and Diane in Helen Mirren's):
  

Then again, since Diane didn't use the one "fuck" allowed per season, it's not totally over for Bojack and Diane.

[Silver]

Catching up on season eight of The Walking Dead.

[Draconic Aiur]

Always love a Blade movie

[Clueless Morgan]

Catching up on season eight of The Walking Dead.

Are the trash people still around? I stopped watching because of them.

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I found an Oliver Stone series on Netflix about American history we're not taught about in school, like how the Soviets role in WWII is totally underplayed in US education, Truman's attitude about using The Bomb and how often the bomb was threatened with use under Truman and Eisenhower, the potential difference it would have made to US history and progress if Wallace had remained Roosevelt's VP instead of switching to Truman in his 4th term... Wallace was very progressive, giving speeches about equal pay for equal work, women's and racial equality, government serving the common man, not corporations, etc.

Good series. Kinda sad that I slept through about half of each episode

[Silver]

Are the trash people still around?  I stopped watching because of them.

For half the season.

[Silver]

Somewhere Between

A mother tries to change the fate of her 8 year old daughter, as she knows where, when and how she's murdered, but doesn't know who kills her and why.

[Crossless2.0]

Somewhere Between

A mother tries to change the fate of her 8 year old daughter, as she knows where, when and how she's murdered, but doesn't know who kills her and why.

Tell me it’s the mother.

[Rev. Rye]

Starting my viewing of Curb your Enthuaiasm Season Nine. I've heard that there's an episode where Larry David pretends to be on the autism spectrum. Looking at the previous eight seasons, I get the impression that Larry doesn't really need to do that much faking to make it look like he's on the spectrum.