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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Strat wrote:For some strange fucking reason we are watching 13 reasons why. Season 1. Its clearly bad but we're stuck and have to know everything now.
Is that the teenage suicide series?
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Rangi Guy wrote:
Strat wrote:For some strange fucking reason we are watching 13 reasons why. Season 1. Its clearly bad but we're stuck and have to know everything now.
Is that the teenage suicide series?
It is.

Trag: No clue but a couple of seasons are on netflix.

Its fine but a little "on the nose" and often time feels like an after school special.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah I just knew that first season caught a lot of flack. Didn’t realize they made a second season, I guess I just assumed that they pulled it
There might be 3 or 4 seasons....

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tragabigzanda wrote:Mrs Fletcher (HBO). I love Kathryn Hahn and so far this is pretty good.
First two eps were solid. Haven't watched the rest yet.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Wife and I are currently on season 2 of Handmaid's Tale. Shit is so depressing.
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Joesanity wrote:Wife and I are currently on season 2 of Handmaid's Tale. Shit is so depressing.
It sure is, though it does better in season 2. We're halfway through season 3.
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Flipping through the channels I see Mike Lindel, the MyPillow guy, hawking his pillows on The Jim Bakker Show. I knew he was super conservative & popped up on Fox as a commentator on occasion but I never knew he was a religious kook who did huckster televangist programs too.
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I watched the Modern Family Christmas episode this morning. It was a bottle show with Cam & Mitch hosting Christmas dinner. The older cast does work extremely well together and they had a chance to show that off in a fast paced, mostly witty first two thirds of the episode. There was the old sitcom set up for person A trying to avoid person B who was trying to avoid person C and so forth with Cam trying to keep everyone together. But then the final act it was revealed that Cam is being considered for a coaching job in Missouri and that this could be their last Christmas together. Which led to other characters they have chances to move on by next year too and everything almost ended all tidy and cheery. I think that's the first time in-show they acknowledged this is their last time around before calling it a wrap.
I say "almost" because Manny & Luke's argument blows up again right in time for the family picture. And that was the weakest subplot of the evening; the Manny character has always been badly written (and cast?) and I swear Nolan Gould was a pretty good child actor and one point but he's gotten worse as he's matured. Haley got a good storyline last year being pregnant but the writers/producers have never figured what to do with the younger characters on they show as they've grown into adults.
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Mrs. Bam just told me a new season of Fuller House is up on Netflix so you know where to find me.
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Bammer wrote:Mrs. Bam just told me a new season of Fuller House is up on Netflix so you know where to find me.
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Bammer wrote:Mrs. Bam just told me a new season of Fuller House is up on Netflix so you know where to find me.
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every morning this week at 7am I have watched an episode of the six million dollar man..
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doug rr wrote:every morning this week at 7am I have watched an episode of the six million dollar man..
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durdencommatyler wrote:
doug rr wrote:every morning this week at 7am I have watched an episode of the six million dollar man..
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this mornings episode featured a young louis gossett as a double agent stealing government secrets
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doug rr wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
doug rr wrote:every morning this week at 7am I have watched an episode of the six million dollar man..
I love you
this mornings episode featured a young louis gossett as a double agent stealing government secrets
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Currently doing a rewatch of Fringe with the wife. We need a show or two to watch at this point. Our ideas are to give killing Eve a try or watch the BBC war of the worlds, but i hear the WOW is pretty bad. Any recommendations welcomed.
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