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Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Yeah. An interesting approach to release the resolution of your cliffhanger in a 50 second teaser of all things. But also smart, because the amount of excitement it pumped back into the hype machine is incalculable.
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Agreed, plus it’s out there and everyone knew that it was gonna turn out to be that way. Might as well move on to the next storyline.
 
My wife and I binged the first six episodes of High Fidelity last night. I’ll hold off on reading the reviews that have titles leading me to believe they are less than favorable. I dig it. So does she. Really digging the music, which makes sense since Questlove is the executive music director.
 
Lee Newman said:
My wife and I binged the first six episodes of High Fidelity last night. I’ll hold off on reading the reviews that have titles leading me to believe they are less than favorable. I dig it. So does she. Really digging the music, which makes sense since Questlove is the executive music director.
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I watched the first episode last night and really enjoyed it. The only slightly weird thing was I know the movie so well I could almost quote some of the lines verbatim! Looking forward to seeing this through.
 
tvham said:
I watched the first episode last night and really enjoyed it. The only slightly weird thing was I know the movie so well I could almost quote some of the lines verbatim! Looking forward to seeing this through.
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Its way better than it has any right to be. Also has is doubly weird for me, because as well as knowing the film so well, they filmed a lot of it (and its specifically set) in my old neighborhood of Crown Heights.

Totally making me miss NYC.

Three unrealistic parts though...

1) Why does the lead character have a house phone? No one under the age of 45 has a house phone.
2) The idea that a record label would pay for an apartment for a Scottish musician to live in NYC for some reason.

and most important of all.

3) There is no record store in Crown Heights. Believe me, I would know.
 
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Yeah so I started High Fidelity tonight and already like it quite a bit. I wanted to see what they did different in a tv format but so far it’s very similar to the movie. But I already like Zoe Kravitz a lot so I was into it pretty quickly. Yeah she’s still kind of the sorta jerk that Rob is in the movie (and book) but still incredibly likable. In fact, so far the whole small cast is very likable. The one thing I thought might not have been as good was the music conversations and arguments but so far I have no complaints about that. I dig it.
 
So I also watched all of Cheer this weekend... My girlfriend was interested in giving it a try, I was kinda unsure but willing to see how the first episode went. Pretty quickly got into it. It's like other "following a sports team" documentaries, but that doesn't take away from all the good in it. Namely, the people you follow. It's also a side of cheerleading I never thought about, or have seen on film before. And now watching how hard these kids work, damn. It's pretty intense and insane. Recommend if you're into sports-related docs in any way whatsoever. Or if you're just into learning about something you might not know about.
 
Aron said:
OK, so, I just started season 5 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". This was apparently the season where the Rhoda character left for her spin-off show, but, I guess that was only covered on the "Rhoda" show and not on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". I thought there was going to be some transitional episode where they explained she was leaving, but...she's just not there at all. Which is really odd because one of the big things about this show is that Rhoda is always popping in at Mary's apartment or even at the news station where she works. I'm sure it made sense during the original network broadcast run, but watching it on a streaming service all these years later without any context was rather disjointed.
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Yeah it was. There’s a few crossover episodes when Mary comes to visit and when Rhoda gets married!

Hopefully it’s on YouTube.
 
girlnevergoesout said:
Yeah it was. There’s a few crossover episodes when Mary comes to visit and when Rhoda gets married!

Hopefully it’s on YouTube.
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Her absence really hangs over the show, but, I do like the fact that they totally acknowledge it. There was an episode I watched last night where Mary is talking to Georgette, and she compares how the conversation would have gone with Rhoda. The writers of that show were very much in tune with things, by and large.

You definitely start getting more Ted beginning in season 4. Of all the characters on the show, his has aged the poorest. To their credit, the storylines tend to call him out on his bad behavior for the most part, but, he still says and does a lot of cringey stuff by today's standards.

The one good thing about the loss of Rhoda is that it allowed time for the emergence of Betty White's Sue Ann. The nuances that White puts into that character are fascinating to watch. And terribly funny too.
 
ayayrawn said:
Am I emotionally fortified enough to handle the final episodes of Bojack Horseman? Tune in this week.
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It's been a one-episode-a-week slog for me; I've struggled with that show for its entire run. First, when it started as a broad comedy before settling into a smarter, more emotionally raw place. Then, around season 3 or 4, I got really tired of Bojack's constant backsliding; every step forward was met with two steps back into a deeper, darker rock bottom.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but sometimes it felt like the show (and reviewers) was proud of itself for simply portraying depression, while it often failed to elevate the discourse above "being depressed hurts, and self-destructive behavior has collateral damage." I may be oversimplifying, and I may have a chip on my shoulder; having done standup for several years, I’m pretty jaded about lip service towards mental health and joking about depression in place of seeking help.

Knowing that things are headed towards a conclusion is helping me see it through, and you know what? I think we don't praise this show enough for its comedy. I watched the episode with Mr. Peanut Butter's surprise party and loved the pacing and delivery of all the visual gags. So much contemporary animation fails to take advantage of the ability to throw countless visual gags at the audience, but Bojack delivers in spades.
 
Bull Shannon said:
It's been a one-episode-a-week slog for me; I've struggled with that show for its entire run. First, when it started as a broad comedy before settling into a smarter, more emotionally raw place. Then, around season 3 or 4, I got really tired of Bojack's constant backsliding; every step forward was met with two steps back into a deeper, darker rock bottom.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but sometimes it felt like the show (and reviewers) was proud of itself for simply portraying depression, while it often failed to elevate the discourse above "being depressed hurts, and self-destructive behavior has collateral damage." I may be oversimplifying, and I may have a chip on my shoulder; having done standup for several years, I’m pretty jaded about lip service towards mental health and joking about depression in place of seeking help.

Knowing that things are headed towards a conclusion is helping me see it through, and you know what? I think we don't praise this show enough for its comedy. I watched the episode with Mr. Peanut Butter's surprise party and loved the pacing and delivery of all the visual gags. So much contemporary animation fails to take advantage of the ability to throw countless visual gags at the audience, but Bojack delivers in spades.
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I love Bojack. A lot. The fact that it gets dark at points was a surprise when I first watched it, and I do enjoy that aspect. I think it gets things right for the most part, mostly about addiction, and how that kinda fuels Bojack's self-destructive streak. But yes yes yes to the comedy not getting enough credit. It's such a brilliantly written and animated comedy show, with countless jokes packed into every episode. On that front, I think it's my favorite straight up comedy show in a long time.
 
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