What are you currently watching on TV?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I really dislike Domnhall.

[Malloy]

seems like the bear is ted lasso with slightly different facial hair and patois and tattoos.

not liking it

I don't think they're the same at all. Ted Lasso is a dressed-up 90s sitcom, The Bear might share some emotional notes here and there but is much more invested in understanding what it means to create something. I found it to be both profoundly engaging and affecting.

since i'm only five, maybe six episodes into the series, it's possible i'm wrong. but so far it's been five episodes stuffed with feel-good schlock about a "work family," smothered with cheesy character development (the relationship with the sister, the donut guy). it is fundamentally the same show as lasso. (and i feel compelled to say the only reason i watched lasso was because i was bedridden and suicidal for abut six weeks in 2020.) the particularly cloying flavor of face acting in each, of which ayo edebiri's performance is most salient. the lame way chicago is filmed, its shallow frenetic aesthetic.

it's another half-hour, feel good dramedy. and that's fine, but that's all it is.

[Malloy]

the writing on the show is straight up bad. we're clearly watching two different shows, ms.

[Malloy]

in the treacly spirit of lasso, the bear should do a st. paddy's special each year

[Mickey]

the writing on the show is straight up bad. we're clearly watching two different shows, ms.

You should try watching The Bear, produced by FX and streaming on Hulu.

[Malloy]

the writing on the show is straight up bad. we're clearly watching two different shows, ms.

You should try watching The Bear, produced by FX and streaming on Hulu.

spider-mans pointing meme

[Mickey]

the writing on the show is straight up bad. we're clearly watching two different shows, ms.

You should try watching The Bear, produced by FX and streaming on Hulu.

spider-mans pointing meme

I dunno man maybe I have a simple brain but I think your characterization here is wildly unfair. There's a gap between having a generally positive character arc and doing Christmas specials.

[Malloy]

the writing on the show is straight up bad. we're clearly watching two different shows, ms.

You should try watching The Bear, produced by FX and streaming on Hulu.

spider-mans pointing meme

I dunno man maybe I have a simple brain but I think your characterization here is wildly unfair. There's a gap between having a generally positive character arc and doing Christmas specials.

cousin!

[Malloy]

also we both know you aint simple. you're just wrong here.

one day history will corroborate my position

[Mickey]

Well, a second season is unlikely to help my position, but I maintain that the first season is not nearly as treacly as you wish it to be.

[The Argonaut]

I just watched the first two episodes of the FX/Hulu show The Patient, featuring Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleason. It's from the creators of The Americans. It was good, I liked them. Only two eps out so far, and we must wait for the others.

I wish they had all just dropped at once. The week is an artificial, astrological construct. Unlike the year, the month, and the day, the week has no basis in astronomy. It does not even have a biological basis, like the way our mathematics is built around the number ten, for our ten fingers. Some Babylonian wanted to honor seven gods and now my television diet must suffer? Why do I have to get episodes dripped out to me based on this nonsense?

Abolish the week!

Yeah I agree with all of this. First two episodes were good, I think Gleason is underrated as an actor.

You agree with all of it? Even the bit about the Babylonian?

[Mickey]

I just watched the first two episodes of the FX/Hulu show The Patient, featuring Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleason. It's from the creators of The Americans. It was good, I liked them. Only two eps out so far, and we must wait for the others.

I wish they had all just dropped at once. The week is an artificial, astrological construct. Unlike the year, the month, and the day, the week has no basis in astronomy. It does not even have a biological basis, like the way our mathematics is built around the number ten, for our ten fingers. Some Babylonian wanted to honor seven gods and now my television diet must suffer? Why do I have to get episodes dripped out to me based on this nonsense?

Abolish the week!

Yeah I agree with all of this. First two episodes were good, I think Gleason is underrated as an actor.

You agree with all of it? Even the bit about the Babylonian?

[Rangi Guy]

I just watched the first two episodes of the FX/Hulu show The Patient, featuring Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleason. It's from the creators of The Americans. It was good, I liked them. Only two eps out so far, and we must wait for the others.

I wish they had all just dropped at once. The week is an artificial, astrological construct. Unlike the year, the month, and the day, the week has no basis in astronomy. It does not even have a biological basis, like the way our mathematics is built around the number ten, for our ten fingers. Some Babylonian wanted to honor seven gods and now my television diet must suffer? Why do I have to get episodes dripped out to me based on this nonsense?

Abolish the week!

Yeah I agree with all of this. First two episodes were good, I think Gleason is underrated as an actor.

I had forgotten this had started. Watched the first episode last night. Pretty good, although the episode length seemed really short

[Mickey]

Especially if you're only going to drop two at a time!

[The Argonaut]

Especially if you're only going to drop two at a time!

Even worse, it drops to one at a time starting next week. And releases go until the end of October. If I had known this, I would've just waited until they were all out.

Episode 1, “Intake”: Tuesday, August 30
Episode 2, “Alan Learns to Meditate”: Tuesday, August 30
Episode 3, “Issues”: Tuesday, September 6
Episode 4, “Company”: Tuesday, September 13
Episode 5, “Pastitsio”: Tuesday, September 20
Episode 6, “Charlie”: Tuesday, September 27
Episode 7, “Kaddish”: Tuesday, October 3
Episode 8, “Ezra”: Tuesday, October 11
Episode 9, “Auschwitz”: Tuesday, October 18
Episode 10, “The Cantor’s Husband”: Tuesday, October 25

[Mickey]

Looking forward to "Auschwitz"

[Malloy]

but I maintain that the first season is not nearly as treacly as you wish it to be.

i just gave up on the series in the middle of episode six. the scene? sydney begins to mediate a dispute over territory between some wise guys. how does she do this? by telling them her name. i don't wonder how the gambit paid off.

[dad]

but I maintain that the first season is not nearly as treacly as you wish it to be.

i just gave up on the series in the middle of episode six. the scene? sydney begins to mediate a dispute over territory between some wise guys. how does she do this? by telling them her name. i don't wonder how the gambit paid off.

they needed to take their dispute elsewhere.

[The Argonaut]

OK, yeah, that was a weak scene

[tragabigzanda]

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.