What are you currently watching on TV?

[VinylGuy]

i catched up with S2 of White Lotus and im really enjoying it.

huge fan of this season.

Aubrey Plaza and Haley Lu Richardson are so good.

[epilogue]

Started White Lotus 2.

Kind of a wonky premiere but I'm excited to see where it goes.

[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.

[epilogue]

Started White Lotus 2.

Kind of a wonky premiere but I'm excited to see where it goes.

I think it's great so far. My one big criticism is that Valentina is just not an interesting character, whereas Armand (the manager from S1) stole every scene he was in.

Imagery is more static so far (one episode in) than last season. There so much less of the "environment is another character" and "travel porn" stuff. Which is staggering to me given the locale.

The writing (again, in just one episode) is way more forced and on the nose. This feels like a rough draft at a set up. But there is a ton of potential, and most of the characters get at least one great moment.

It's less funny and weird than S1 right now, which is a bummer. But there's a lot to like and I'm certainly not bailing on it. I want to see more and I'm sure it'll build up steam as it continues.

But if I'm only comparing S1E1 to S2E1, S1 has it.

I agree with you about Valentina after one episode.

[BurtReynolds]

So as usual I'm watching forgotten 80s cartoons on YouTube and the classic Turbo Teen - the cartoon about a boy that transforms into a car - comes on. About ten minutes in, a very blatant cover of Laura Branigan's Self Control starts playing. At first I thought that Branigan ripped off a cartoon, but nope, Turbo Teen started in September of 1984, a full six months after Control was released. Though Turbo Teen feels much older, it was in fact just outdated crap. But how did it rip off a hit song at its peak? I'll have to research this more.

[wease]

Branigan’s version is a cover so maybe it was the original version in the cartoon.

[BurtReynolds]

Is it? Well I'll be damned.

[wease]

As was her first hit, Gloria.

[BurtReynolds]

What a hack.

[bada]

Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.

[wease]

Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.

How many episodes are out? Been wondering about it.

[bada]

Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.

How many episodes are out? Been wondering about it.

Just 1.

[VinylGuy]

Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.

yeah, i wanna see that

[epilogue]

Two more episodes into White Lotus and I love it.

[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.

[VinylGuy]

Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.

yeah, that was so fun.

[VinylGuy]

Two more episodes into White Lotus and I love it.

shaping to be a great season

[psychobain]

1899

[wease]

Watched the last season of Dead To Me this weekend. I love Christina Applegate so damn much.

[doug rr]

Two more episodes into White Lotus and I love it.

we're through 4 now and i just don't like it...it kind of pisses me off because i loved season 1