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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 3:15 am
by Mickey
Prestige TV was at one point an emerging and relatively disruptive cultural space but has since been captured and homogenized by corporate influence until it is just another receptacle for bourgeois values. After a long day of reading the damn Grundrisse I'd like to turn my brain off, please, not watch another interminable domestic drama called like "A&R" or "The Chair"
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 3:21 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 3:35 am
by Mickey
Miss me with that cop shit
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 5:32 am
by scrub12
Anyone watch Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist? Only two episodes left for me to catch up on but really enjoying this show.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 2:44 pm
by Rob
Finally got around to finishing The Good Place last night. Excellent show, glad they kept it to 4 seasons and didn't drag it out.
Gonna start season 2 of After Life next.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 3:34 pm
by epilogue
Rob wrote:Finally got around to finishing The Good Place last night. Excellent show, glad they kept it to 4 seasons and didn't drag it out.
Gonna start season 2 of After Life next.
Four season was perfect for The Good Place. I agree that they did the right thing by pulling it when they did. Great show.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 3:39 pm
by EJ
Watched the first episode of Upload on Prime last night. Decent and will keep watching. Like a very lighthearted Black Mirror.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 4:02 pm
by Anders
wease wrote:
Anders wrote:Started Ozark for the first time today. Seen two episodes so far. Enjoying the show.
Were a couple into the third season. Man, what a show.
Loved the first season. Really glad I started this show. A bit uneven perhaps, but the highlights were great.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 8:00 pm
by wease
Anders wrote:
wease wrote:
Anders wrote:Started Ozark for the first time today. Seen two episodes so far. Enjoying the show.
Were a couple into the third season. Man, what a show.
Loved the first season. Really glad I started this show. A bit uneven perhaps, but the highlights were great.
Good deal.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 7:41 pm
by Farmer John
I've been rewatching Community and Season 4 is even worse than I remember. It has its moments, but yikes. Season 5 is such a breath of fresh air after that. Donald Glover's last episode is one of the very best.
Still one of my all time favourite shows.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 8:54 pm
by Rob
Farmer John wrote:I've been rewatching Community and Season 4 is even worse than I remember. It has its moments, but yikes. Season 5 is such a breath of fresh air after that. Donald Glover's last episode is one of the very best.
Still one of my all time favourite shows.
First 3 seasons (esp 2 & 3) were so awesome.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 9:22 pm
by VinylGuy
Farmer John wrote:I've been rewatching Community and Season 4 is even worse than I remember. It has its moments, but yikes. Season 5 is such a breath of fresh air after that. Donald Glover's last episode is one of the very best.
Still one of my all time favourite shows.
Everyone kept telling me about season 4 being a disaster, and i actually enjoyed it. Season 5 was good and i havent finished S6 but you can tell its kinda tired.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 9:28 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 9:32 pm
by VinylGuy
tragabigzanda wrote:I will never understand the love of that show.
I assume you dont like Harmon. Rick and Morty.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 10:31 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 10:31 pm
by VinylGuy
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:I will never understand the love of that show.
I assume you dont like Harmon. Rick and Morty.
i love Rick and Morty, the few episodes I've seen anyway. I just found Community to be so toothless. It's like that damn afterlife show with Veronica Mars and Ted Danson, what's it called. That one sucks too.
Oh community is anything but toothless. Its sometimes deranged even.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 10:37 pm
by Farmer John
VinylGuy wrote:
Farmer John wrote:I've been rewatching Community and Season 4 is even worse than I remember. It has its moments, but yikes. Season 5 is such a breath of fresh air after that. Donald Glover's last episode is one of the very best.
Still one of my all time favourite shows.
Everyone kept telling me about season 4 being a disaster, and i actually enjoyed it. Season 5 was good and i havent finished S6 but you can tell its kinda tired.
I'm in the middle of Season 5 in my rewatch, but from what I remember of Season 6, I thought it was pretty great and ended fairly strong.
Jonathan Banks is such a great addition in Season 5 and, from what I remember, Keith David was great in Season 6. I often think about this gem of a scene:
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 2:27 am
by wease
Keith David is a national fucking treasure.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 4:30 pm
by VinylGuy
I just finished season 1 of NOS4A2.
im a huge fan of the book, and daaamn this series was impressive really. So well done. Zachary Quinto is great as always but daaamn Ashleigh Cummings is just fantastic. Im so impressed.