Oh! If you haven't watched Never Have I Ever yet, you could do that! It's on Netflix, and it's a very funny and positive teenager comedy/drama about an Indian-American family dealing with the sudden death of the dad/husband.
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I've never even heard of Ted Lasso before so I'll look that up to see what it's about.
Seconded. I had literally never heard of it until the past couple of weeks, and now I feel like I hear it mentioned a couple times a day, in sometimes surprising contexts. The first few times the name slid off my brain like teflon, but it eventually gained purchase just by sheer volume.Ted Lasso is one of those shows that, despite being like halfway through its second season, seems to have somehow just came into existence two weeks ago when everyone started talking about how popular it is.
I just finished episode 5 last night. This show is going a direction I wasn't really expecting*. I'm a little bummed the horror elements aren't really as pronounced as his Haunting shows, but I can appreciate that he's really trying to hit on something else this time. Also, re: the Stephen King homage, Beverly reminds me so much of that terrible terrible lady from The Mist. I know it's a kind of stock character archetype, but she is such an awful person.I'm about halfway through Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan's new show (Mike Flanagan of Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor) and it feels pretty uneven. It looks great, the sets* and shooting locations are visually quite nice, the acting is great (it turns out Penny from Grey's Anatomy is actually a good actress, it's just that the material and directions she was given in GA were trash), but everything else is a bit....
The concept seems a bit more Stephen King homage than the more horror-focused Hill House and Bly Manor (and obviously those shows also weren't really "about" the horror elements), and I'm finding the actual supernatural spook 'em up element to be kind of dumb so far. Also the plot line they've given Rahul Kohli so far is real bad, and it maybe wouldn't be an issue if he was just a component of his character instead of the only thing he's really gotten a chance to talk about!
I just finished episode 5 last night. This show is going a direction I wasn't really expecting*. I'm a little bummed the horror elements aren't really as pronounced as his Haunting shows, but I can appreciate that he's really trying to hit on something else this time. Also, re: the Stephen King homage, Beverly reminds me so much of that terrible terrible lady from The Mist. I know it's a kind of stock character archetype, but she is such an awful person.
* Yeah I definitely wasn't guessing Catholic Vampires.
Yeah so I was mistaken when I wrote that post and it was actually episode 4 I finished, but now I've seen episode 5 and... just wow. That immediately bumped the show into "can recommend to anyone even mildly curious."I think the show improved after I posted that since it did go in a different direction than I expected it to. Spoiler for thing you have seen at that point: The end of episode 5 was actually incredible, the actress's wails of terror are unmatched.
I have never heard of this (last time was ten years ago, when Michael Bay, or some other action hero guy, wanted to make a movie out of the Foundation. Weeeelll...the trailor looks way too action-y for me, but I guess you can't just have people talking, for 90 % of the time, in a TV show. I'm surprised that they chose the fall of Trantor, instead of the actual Foundation stuff, but ok, that part is interesting too. Or could be.I've watched the first episode of The Foundation.
I've not read the Isaac Asimov books they're based on, but the ideas in them are so foundational to a lot of sci-fi that the ideas expressed here feel both fresh and stale at the same time, if that makes sense. Fresh in that there's been nothing in recent memory that attempts the scope and ambition of speculative sci-fi like this. Stale in that again, all these ideas are now 70 years old and have permeated the culture to become part of it.
I've got a lot of thoughts and feelings on just this first episode. This first episode was wonderful to look at and very well written and very interesting to watch and have unfold and full of delightful acting jobs. But the core ideas at the heart of this are extremely simple and honestly kind of bad. Like, Ayn Rand levels of bad this isn't how any of this works and has and will give the wrong people all the wrong ideas. Like, I find it telling that apparently Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich have both professed the source materials were great influences on them.
If you're adverse to sailing the seven seas, there's tons of ways to get free Apple+ test trials. I'd recommend maybe waiting until the season is finished and then marathon a trial. Or find someone who has like a half year or a year sub that typically comes with new iphones/ipads that they aren't using and to use it.I don't think I actually have the means to see any of this, for now.
There is almost no traditional action in the first episode. Plenty of expensive CGI to demonstrate the wonder of the cosmos and hyper-tech, however. I only vaguely know about what happens in the book series, so take my evaluation with a grain of salt but it seems like they're abridging the prequel books into the first episode, then moving on to the meat of the original book in the later episodes.
The first episode: Starts with the POV character traveling to Trantor to take an apprenticeship with Hari Seldon, and is immediately greeted with charges of sedition when she lands b/c Seldon's mathematical voodoo is seen as subversive by the Empire. They get tried in a kangaroo court by Dr Bashir, and just as they're going to be taken out back to get executed, terrorists destroy the orbital elevator in a big flashy and horrifying sequence. The Emperor pragmatically shifts his designs to allow Seldon to create his Foundation, but exiles him to the far reaches of the galaxy where he can't actively foment rebellion, only serve as a symbol of hope to maintain the status quo for as long as possible. The episode closes out on Seldon and his protoge setting off on a decades long trek to reach their destination at Terminous. So it seems like they're saving the actual Foundation stuff for the rest of the episodes imo.
If you're adverse to sailing the seven seas, there's tons of ways to get free Apple+ test trials. I'd recommend maybe waiting until the season is finished and then marathon a trial. Or find someone who has like a half year or a year sub that typically comes with new iphones/ipads that they aren't using and to use it.
There's some flashes of the time skip in the first episode as well, but the rest of the show doesn't really catch up to that until the 3rd episode. (and it sandwiches in some loose skipping around to the past of the Empire in there just to be extra confusing, haha)I mean, there are changes here, which is fine. And yeah, I assume they will do a time skip...it's kind of important that Seldon is already dead, I think.
But the core ideas at the heart of this are extremely simple and honestly kind of bad. Like, Ayn Rand levels of bad this isn't how any of this works and has and will give the wrong people all the wrong ideas. Like, I find it telling that apparently Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich have both professed the source materials were great influences on them.
We've been watching the latest season of Sex Education on Netflix, and it's good. At this point in the 3rd season, the major characters were pretty well fleshed out, so they picked two of the secondary characters and give them depth. They chose two of the most unlikeable characters and turned them into actual people, maybe with more nuance and flaws than the main set.
If you want a sex dramedy set in high school but starring much older people so you're not skeeved out by it, this is pretty good. It's very LGBTQIA+ supportive, and introduced a couple non-binary people this season. It doesn't have much on-screen representation of trans people, it feels like enby's is the "cause" in this season. Sometimes the dialog screams "I'm a writer composing a tweet showing how supportive I am about everyone's sexuality" and not something that actual teens would ever say. Barring that, it's a fun teen show, and Gillian Anderson is still great.