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Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Wed November 16, 2022 12:05 am
by VinylGuy
VinylGuy wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Wed November 16, 2022 6:06 pm
by epilogue
Started White Lotus 2.
Kind of a wonky premiere but I'm excited to see where it goes.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Wed November 16, 2022 7:50 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: Wed November 16, 2022 7:55 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:epilogue wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu November 17, 2022 2:09 am
by 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.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu November 17, 2022 2:51 am
by wease
Branigan’s version is a cover so maybe it was the original version in the cartoon.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu November 17, 2022 2:57 am
by BurtReynolds
Is it? Well I'll be damned.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu November 17, 2022 3:46 am
by wease
As was her first hit, Gloria.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu November 17, 2022 4:14 am
by BurtReynolds
What a hack.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Fri November 18, 2022 5:00 pm
by bada
Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 12:32 am
by wease
bada wrote:Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.
How many episodes are out? Been wondering about it.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 1:02 am
by bada
wease wrote:bada wrote:Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.
How many episodes are out? Been wondering about it.
Just 1.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 1:24 am
by VinylGuy
bada wrote:Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.
yeah, i wanna see that
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 3:10 am
by epilogue
Two more episodes into White Lotus and I love it.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 3:14 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: Sat November 19, 2022 4:17 am
by VinylGuy
bada wrote:Enjoyed the hell out of the first episode of Tulsa King.
yeah, that was so fun.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat November 19, 2022 4:17 am
by VinylGuy
epilogue wrote:Two more episodes into White Lotus and I love it.
shaping to be a great season
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sun November 20, 2022 11:01 pm
by psychobain
1899
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Mon November 21, 2022 2:40 am
by wease
Watched the last season of Dead To Me this weekend. I love Christina Applegate so damn much.
Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Mon November 21, 2022 3:16 pm
by doug rr
epilogue wrote: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