Among other things, I learned that the prison where he died is a 5 min walk from my workplace.
Do you live under a fucking rock? The whole story was under a microscope, day in and day out. There were probably federal officers in Chevy Tahoes blaring by your office taking him to and from court 4 days a week.
Do you live under a fucking rock? The whole story was under a microscope, day in and day out. There were probably federal officers in Chevy Tahoes blaring by your office taking him to and from court 4 days a week.
Wow, chill. A 5 minute walk in Manhattan covers a lot of ground.
But I'd be remiss if I didn't post more video of the Beef House to give you an idea what's in store:
If you've ever had to endure something like the TGIF line-up, anything by Chuck Lorre, or the Disney Channel, this could be therapeutic.
Haha yeah! There's also Brooklyn Bridge smack in between.
I appreciate the enthusiasm Pippin .
Wrapped up S3 of Westworld this afternoon. This was the least complex season and it felt like everything went downhill. Weak story, there was no world building as such to explain how AI affected this world and big reveals fell flat. Maybe they could've taken more time with it - breaking this season into 2 parts. The characters and their motives are dumbed down. Fights were boring and drawn out - you'd expect AI to be quick and strong but not in this season. There's just less of whatever you may have liked in S1 and it never improved.
Also wrapped up S2 of Ramy that's on Hulu. We put a hold on our subscription for 6 months and forgot about it. Got charged and went "Oh, we forgot to cancel ... now that we have it for a month, I guess we can watch S2 of Ramy" and it was so worth it. I loved S1 because it wasn't outright funny in the normal sense. S2 feels more real and it gets a lot darker. It also dedicates a full episode for other main characters and those were some of the best this season, especially the one about his racist, misogynistic uncle Naseem. Mahershala Ali is awesome as the Sheikh.
gotta check it out.
Anyone else gonna check out the last season of Dark on Netflix? It's landing on Saturday.
Anyone else gonna check out the last season of Dark on Netflix? It's landing on Saturday.
If you've ever had to endure something like the TGIF line-up, anything by Chuck Lorre, or the Disney Channel, this could be therapeutic.
Glad you mentioned this. Watched the whole thing in one night. Im not a huge fan of Tim and Eric (their style gets old pretty fast and I think they limit themselves by staying constrained to the Adult Swim brand of absurdist random comedy) but when they hit, it's a home run.
Hannibal -- I really feel like I tried with this one. Got maybe 5 episodes in. While I do quite enjoy Mads on screen in most scenes, the big problem I have is with Will Graham, AKA Edgelord McTryHard. Holy shit, this guy. His over-the-top serial killer re-enactment scenes are cringe-worthy every single time.
And the sheer number of times just in 5 episodes that Hannibal cooks up a nice dish for an unsuspecting guest, then dramatically pauses to watch them savoring the taste of human meat, it's just so damned corny. I think it's already been 3 times, and it's pretty much the exact same set up every time. And yet they somehow manage to overplay their hand every time ("ya see what we're doing here? ya see it? you get it? YOU GET IT?!" "I get it.")
I understand that the series gets better. Maybe I'll chew through the remaining episodes of the season one day, but I mostly found it boring, with very little to sink my teeth into.
Dark is mostly busywork.
I checked out after the season 2 finale, it jumped the shark and I (correctly, it seems) guessed that the 3rd season would be a mess.
Also binging it was bad for me, because I was dreading how every episode ends with a slo-mo montage and an absolutely god awful song.
Finally started watching The Wire. Only 5 episodes in, but what a show.
Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is peak T&E. Equally funny, unsettling and poignant. Nothing can touch it.
EDIT: Forgot about "On Cinema At The Cinema", it's definitely my favourite, but doesn't include Eric (which I don't mind, Tim seems to be the most creative of the two)
Hannibal — I'm at the last episode of Season 1. But first, an anecdote. When I was in high school, I dated a girl who watched General Hospital. It was something she and her mom bonded over. For those who don't know, this is a stock-standard US "Soap Opera." The quality of the show being so low that it's pretty much there to be a flimsy cardboard cutout of entertainment propping up the commercials that it runs between. It's really that bad. When I visited her, sometimes I'd be subjected to the last 30 minutes of an episode, to the extent that I could weigh in on the conversations about where Sonny's true loyalties lied, with the mob, or with his wife. Deep stuff!
Now back to Hannibal. I've never struggled with maintaining interest in a show as much as this one. Mads is great, but feels underutilized. They don't push him, or give him interesting challenges on screen. Everyone else in this show is just a fucking bore to watch. It feels like shitty CSI with Mads Mikkelson tacked on. Welp, onto the season finale!
Now THAT's a fucking show.
I appreciate On Cinema more than I actually like it or Tim's extremely unlikable version of himself (the universe is amazing though, especially the trial). I also think there's an irony in the Tim character taking himself way too seriously as a goof and a spoof, because Tim really does take himself that seriously, just with better talent and politics, though I'm not sure self-awareness unless he's just always on, which is admittedly possible. =)
BTW, can we all agree the Billion Dollar Movie is a real misfire? I literally enjoy everything else they've ever done and yet found it embarrassingly uninspired and genuinely unfunny. This was not their format to be sure, and the end result makes me think they didn't have an idea for a movie before they were offered one, and didn't really care (otherwise this would not be what you made with your shot). Happy to be proven wrong, like it was secretly a brilliant takedown of how bad movies are, but... it was more like if someone made a movie making fun of Tim & Eric comedy as hacky bullshit. Was that the joke!? No, I'm giving them too much benefit of the doubt; it was just bad.
Now back to Hannibal. I've never struggled with maintaining interest in a show as much as this one. Mads is great, but feels underutilized. They don't push him, or give him interesting challenges on screen. Everyone else in this show is just a fucking bore to watch. It feels like shitty CSI with Mads Mikkelson tacked on. Welp, onto the season finale!
I just finished watching a bunch of the highlights from the trial last week -- fucking fantastic stuff. I still can't tell if those were actors, or actual lawyers he hired. I don't even want to know.
Yea I agree, Tom Green already did that with his movie (although the opening where you need to synchronize with the screen by blinking furiously with each eye was pretty genius).
I'm with you man. I tried several times and never made it halfway through season one. I'm sure it's better than a lot of shows on tv but I can't watch 99% of anything on television.