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The kids want to watch this one, so we might watch together. It looks like it could be a bit scary, but my youngest seems to dig that.
Bull Shannon
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Search Party season 5 is weirdly fascinating but not really doing it for me, for much the same reasons brought up already. The humor has gotten even broader and the influencer characters are really thinly and annoyingly drawn in a way that makes it tough to have to hang with them for so much screentime.
What really is confounding is the previous seasons, while each has been unique, have been drawing an arc of sorts for Dory, and this season has fully tossed that by the wayside in favor of this enlightenment storyline. To go from season 4, where her fantasy world crashes down around her and she realizes there are very real, terrifying consequences to her actions...to just make her characterization "placid assurance of enlightenment" for season 5 feels very empty. I still have two episodes to go, but Alia Shawkat has had nothing to do but play gaslighting guru; the performance is committed, but the character is one-note.
What really is confounding is the previous seasons, while each has been unique, have been drawing an arc of sorts for Dory, and this season has fully tossed that by the wayside in favor of this enlightenment storyline. To go from season 4, where her fantasy world crashes down around her and she realizes there are very real, terrifying consequences to her actions...to just make her characterization "placid assurance of enlightenment" for season 5 feels very empty. I still have two episodes to go, but Alia Shawkat has had nothing to do but play gaslighting guru; the performance is committed, but the character is one-note.
We tried watching the first episode and the hubs fell asleep on it. I hung in for the whole episode but, I wasn’t completely sold, but I wanted to give it a chance. Should I just abandon ship?
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Pretty much the same boat here. Mrs couldn't make it through the first ep. I made it through 3 eps, but the last one I watched I hit the 15sec skip a hell of a lot of times.
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
I’m watching it with a friend and we’re six episodes in. The Lee Pace/Empire stuff is actually really good, but the other half of the show is a contrived mess, poorly executed.
Stick to For All Mankind, imo.
Max Sterling
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I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but having read it, there's a reason it was considered unfilmable...
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
I think there were ways to make it work, but the story, character and narrative decisions they made (at least for one half of the series) are somewhat baffling to me.
This was what I was concerned about.
Hemotep
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Watching this with a bottle of wine is date night tonight!
Max Sterling
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Finally started Ted Lasso last night. This show is fantastic.
JohnnyCashFan
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starting this one. #1 one on Netflix.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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I have no clue about Broadway but a Fellows period drama with Christine Baranski and Carrie Coon being bitches to each other. I am all in. The first episode was beautiful.