This was the ep of Fleishman I've been waiting for.
Unless they botch the end, this is easily the best show of the fall/winter. And maybe the best show of the year (though Severance is also right there).
There is something so visceral and heartbreaking and real about watching Claire Danes cry. It's like watching your sister breakdown and not being able to do a goddamn thing about it. I should probably see a therapist actually about my feelings/relationship to Claire Danes.
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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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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The Bear
The Boys
Better Call Saul
Painting with John
I was overall let down by Atlanta, tbh, and S2 of How to with John Wilson didn't quite reach the greatness of S1. And I think maybe Nathan Fielders's The Rehearsal was a bit too mean-spirited for me to fully endorse. And I enjoyed Stranger Things, I really did, I'll say that. I didn't watch a ton of TV this year.
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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BurtReynolds wrote:Why do people watch anything but YouTube? Shows are such garbage. I'm watching 3 hour video of some dudes building a house. Much better.