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TenderLovingKiller® said:
DUUUUDE!!!! HBO Max is a cartoon lovers dream. AT&T owning WB and Turner gives you a complete collection of classic Loony Toons and pretty much every original Adult Swim and Cartoon Network show AND all of Studio Ghibli. I am very pleased.

EDIT: they also have a Crunchy Roll collection (for all ya Anime nerds out there) so much good stuff!
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Yes! Lots of great content from the Turner networks too (TBS and TNT). For instance, it has Men Of A Certain Age, which I'd always heard good things about but had never found it streaming anywhere.

And the Ghibli films seem to be in both English OR Japanese which is nice.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
It was a really good show, no jk
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Oh, I am sure it is. I really do enjoy all of them as actors and I recall all of the critical acclaim attached to it when it came out. It reminds me of the similarly lauded The Good Wife, while I am sure they are quality shows, they lack a “coolness” that you would tend to associate with being hyped about. Again, to each they’re own. my small minded brain just found it a bit humerus.

It’s like a poster test, when someone talks about how rad something is I think about whether someone would hang a poster of it up on their wall, a Men of a Certain Age poster is kinda funny to picture. (Bring on the Etsy MOCA poster links).
 
Really, really enjoyed the first season of Dead to Me, but I didn't like the way they wrote their way into a second season at all. Just doesn't seem believable to me. They threw that really brief discussion in the first episode but it didn't seem believable either. Still like it enough to keep watching, just frustrating me a lot!

Edit:lol, maybe I should have waited til we finished the first episode? Guess I shouldn't have assumed I knew what happened? They played me like a fiddle I guess.
 
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Indymisanthrope said:
I'd put it up against The Wire as a show that can be political commentary about unjust institutions, and be a personal drama, and be kind of its own philosophical exploration, while also being a procedural crime story.
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Speaking of The Wire; this second viewing is revealing a ton more for me. One example is that I am way more invested in Bubbles' story this time around. (just finished 4 last night) And S4 really demonstrates the hopelessness of so many peoples' situations, especially the kids. It's gripping and heartbreaking at the same time. I probably rated the seasons after my first viewing, not sure I would have put S4 up top then, but this time around it has to be among the best of the 5 for me. Looking forward to S5.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I've been trying to get my kid to watch Buffy for a year or so now, but I made the mistake of telling her the first season kinda sucks and the show gets a lot better after that, so she's been resistant to it.

Well I finally caught her in a moment of weakness and now it turns out SHE F*CKING LOVES the first season and tore through 10 eps last night. I'm a little nervous now about whether she'll still like it when it actually gets good and the goofy "our teacher is a praying mantis / uh-oh, Xander is possessed by a hyena" stuff* is a thing of the past.

She's also the type of person who reads lots of spoilers, and I'm trying to tell her that doing that will ruin a lot of the fun this show has to offer, but I don't think she's listening, which is too bad. Buffy has some true surprises in store if you don't know what's coming.

(She doesn't know yet that Angel gets his own series eventually. I think it's going to be a fun thing this summer to watch her pack 12 seasons of this into her brain.)

*Edit: Speaking of that hyena episode, this show barely got through half a dozen episodes before one of its plot points was a group of teenagers eating their principal alive during the school day. And at the end of the ep they're all just like "meh, well, you guys didn't know what you were doing, you weren't in control." Those kids have not even pooped yet; THERE IS A MAN DIGESTING IN THEM and they're like "welp, see you in geometry, roll credits!"
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I really really need to rewatch buffy. I say it is my favorite show but I haven't watched any of it in so long. The musical episode used to be my "falling asleep to after coming home from the club messed up" tv. Lol
 
TheMythOfSisyphus said:
You’ve been watching.
But is it good?

I saw its marker being advertised and I gave watching it a thought. I don’t really have much nostalgia for She Ra (although I watched He-Man).

Is it good as its own thing (ie not banking on viewer nostalgia)?

When it was announced the wife (@MsLoganHenney) and I commented on it. She’s into animation so she may like it.
She loves the reboot of Voltron and (she’ll correct me if I’m wrong) I believe one thing she liked was its more adult tone.
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Yes, I liked the Voltron reboot. I originally started because of my nephew, but I finished if for ME! It was a surprisingly good storyline with decent character development.

Teeeee said:
I know their parents are doing an amazing job of raising them to be kind and accepting of others and themselves. I just sometimes like to dip in to make sure ALL of the diversity is covered. They get princess-falling-in-love-with-another-princess books from me, that kind of thing. My bro-in-law is actually the one that watches this with them on weekend mornings - he let's my sister sleep in. He texted me one morning while watching and I was skeptical of it. He told me to look up the writer and to give it a shot. It's cool. She Ra and Princess Glimmer (SHUT UP! THAT'S HER NAME!) are BFFs and go to the Princess Prom together. Which is something I wish I knew was ok when I was growing up - going with a friend. Bow may perhaps be transgendered but I'm not entirely sure. But also, that is why the show is cool. No one "comes out" because they shouldn't have to. They just are. Stuff like that.

I've also watched all 3 Descendants movies - solely because of my nieces. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Ooohh! I'll definitely check out She Ra! I remember the original She Ra but wasn't sure about this remake. I was curious about it but worried they would change so much about the show it would lose the nostalgic charm for me like the original My Little Pony did after the newest remake. Although, I have heard great things about the new version. There's a show on Netflix called "The Toys that Made Us" that did a great job of giving the background on them too. It also talks about She Ra on the He-Man episode. On the plus side, I have the complete box set of the original My Little Pony for memory lane.
 
Is anybody else watching "I Know This Much Is True"? The tone and subject matter of it are so heavy, and I know everybody probably wants to take a break from all things heavy right about now. Still, the acting is amazing. From everybody. I have a feeling it will clean up come award season. If there is an award season. Ruffalo is fantastic playing twin brothers. Rosie O'Donnell is excellent in a supporting role. She was also really good in "Smilf"...maybe the best part of that show actually. Kathryn Hahn has been used sparingly, but is wonderful whenever she appears. I'm not sure Juliette Lewis appeared long enough to even be considered for any awards, but she definitely stole scenes in the first episode or two. Even the younger actors playing the brothers in flashbacks do excellent work.
 
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Aron said:
Is anybody else watching "I Know This Much Is True"? The tone and subject matter of it are so heavy, and I know everybody probably wants to take a break from all things heavy right about now. Still, the acting is amazing. From everybody. I have a feeling it will clean up come award season. If there is an award season. Ruffalo is fantastic playing twin brothers. Rosie O'Donnell is excellent in a supporting role. She was also really good in "Smilf"...maybe the best part of that show actually. Kathryn Hahn has been used sparingly, but is wonderful whenever she appears. I'm not sure Juliette Lewis appeared long enough to even be considered for an awards, but she definitely stole scenes in the first episode or two. Even the younger actors playing the brothers in flashbacks to excellent work.
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I want to. But I'm sticking to lighter fare for a bit. It looks good though.
 
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Aron said:
Is anybody else watching "I Know This Much Is True"? The tone and subject matter of it are so heavy, and I know everybody probably wants to take a break from all things heavy right about now. Still, the acting is amazing. From everybody. I have a feeling it will clean up come award season. If there is an award season. Ruffalo is fantastic playing twin brothers. Rosie O'Donnell is excellent in a supporting role. She was also really good in "Smilf"...maybe the best part of that show actually. Kathryn Hahn has been used sparingly, but is wonderful whenever she appears. I'm not sure Juliette Lewis appeared long enough to even be considered for an awards, but she definitely stole scenes in the first episode or two. Even the younger actors playing the brothers in flashbacks to excellent work.
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I'm watching it and find it quite compelling. As you mentioned, Ruffalo is fantastic in both roles. 👏
 
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