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Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 28 2020 03:10 PM

We're 5 years too late but getting through SILICON VALLEY now. Anyone watch this? Funny stuff.

LWFS Jan 28 2020 05:40 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Seen bits and pieces, and enjoyed what I've seen. With that lead-- Middleditch, right?-- Martin Starr from FREAKS AND GEEKS, Kumail Nanjani, and Zach Woods (skinny Gabe from THE OFFICE) t's like a murderer's row of former-indoor-kid actors. Just finished both seasons of FLEABAG, which I enjoyed immensely (wifey liked the fourth-wall-breaking and Hot Priest, but didn't love the crazy-in-spots vulgarity) and MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, which I like a little less with each season (the plot machinations get more and more convoluted, although the lead performances are great). In between scarfing down Oscar nominees, we're making our way simultaneously through a belated UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT run (with some real pathos beneath the joke-a-minute, 30 ROCK-ish pace... and Titus is maybe my favorite TV character), CHEER (addictive documentary series about competitive cheerleading), and the third season of GLOW.

whippoorwill Jan 28 2020 05:42 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 25 2020 04:04 PM

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Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 28 2020 06:08 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

The lead in Silicon valley was the rapping McNuggets guy. I just found out today that Guilfoyle was the Freaks + Geeks actor but I knew I knew him from somewhere. The "middle-out" scene (I will say no more) is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV. I'm with you on the increasing suckiness of Mrs Maisel which I really liked at first and still like, kinda. It's got a ways to fall before deteriorating worse than that Mozart in the Jungle show ... I also liked FLEABAG but probably not as much as the Internet does. Will look up Cheer.

TransMonk Jan 28 2020 06:38 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I enjoyed the first couple of seasons of SILICON VALLEY. I watched it in it's normal time slot which was on Sunday nights with GAME OF THRONES and VEEP, so it was a pretty nice night of quality shows. I gave up on it this past season (maybe it's final?). It did not have the other shows to support it in the time slot. Plus, the premise of the show continues to be about these guys failing up again and again and again...it started hilarious, but it's hard to root for that forever. I've been watching THE OUTSIDERS on HBO and it's as decent a vehicle for Stephen King I've seen in a long time. Jason Bateman is a sneaky-good director and I'll watch pretty much anything that Ben Mendelsohn is in.

Ceetar Jan 28 2020 08:13 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good!

LWFS Jan 28 2020 08:16 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=Ceetar post_id=30687 time=1580267636 user_id=102] finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good!

It TOTALLY is. (YoungerPooper is just starting to get into it herself.) Similarly brilliant (and a fun crash course-light in philosophy): THE GOOD PLACE.

Lefty Specialist Jan 29 2020 08:51 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Don't know how I missed it up to this point, but just finished bingeing all 4 seasons of The Expanse on Amazon. Totally Frickin Awesome. Now I have to wait until December for them to drop season 5.

Ceetar Jan 29 2020 08:56 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Lefty Specialist wrote: Don't know how I missed it up to this point, but just finished bingeing all 4 seasons of The Expanse on Amazon. Totally Frickin Awesome. Now I have to wait until December for them to drop season 5. I actually went to a ..drawing a blank on the word.. a research panel thingy on that show before it came out. paid me $100 for my thoughts on the marketing and advertising. I thought it sounded pretty good but I guess i should actually consider watching it.

Willets Point Jan 29 2020 10:17 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=Ceetar post_id=30687 time=1580267636 user_id=102] finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good!

Everyone seems to love it but I watched like 4-5 episodes and found it wasn't for me. I've resigned myself to being the outlier on this one.

Willets Point Jan 29 2020 10:19 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Doctor Who launched a huge, surprise twist this week. I had been disappointed in the past season and a half, but now I'm interested again.

Ceetar Jan 29 2020 12:06 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Willets Point wrote: finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good! Everyone seems to love it but I watched like 4-5 episodes and found it wasn't for me. I've resigned myself to being the outlier on this one. give it a little longer, or start later on. I almost gave up on it a few times over the first season and a half or so. I found the before/after scenes fairly funny, and that's what kept it going for me, but they really find their stride a little later. I don't know if I can nail down one episode where it was like "oh, this is good now" but once they started fleshing out Ben's character it really seemed to settle in. Wikipedia even references that: "The series received mixed reviews during its first season (reviews similar to that of The Office, a sitcom also produced by Daniels and Schur), but, after a re-approach to its tone and format, the second and subsequent seasons were widely acclaimed. " I only sporadically watched episodes of the Office, so maybe they fixed this too, but I always found that show erred on the side of being fake and stupid and doubling down on the stupid, but Parks is capable of like, real emotion and seems to break the tropes occasionally, which is nice, and the characters actually seem to grow and develop.

41Forever Jan 29 2020 12:25 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I'm waaay late to this party, but discovered Schitt's Creek late last year. It's really funny.

LWFS Jan 29 2020 10:22 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Willets Point wrote: finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good! Everyone seems to love it but I watched like 4-5 episodes and found it wasn't for me. I've resigned myself to being the outlier on this one. give it a little longer, or start later on. I almost gave up on it a few times over the first season and a half or so. I found the before/after scenes fairly funny, and that's what kept it going for me, but they really find their stride a little later. I don't know if I can nail down one episode where it was like "oh, this is good now" but once they started fleshing out Ben's character it really seemed to settle in. Wikipedia even references that: "The series received mixed reviews during its first season (reviews similar to that of The Office, a sitcom also produced by Daniels and Schur), but, after a re-approach to its tone and format, the second and subsequent seasons were widely acclaimed. " I only sporadically watched episodes of the Office, so maybe they fixed this too, but I always found that show erred on the side of being fake and stupid and doubling down on the stupid, but Parks is capable of like, real emotion and seems to break the tropes occasionally, which is nice, and the characters actually seem to grow and develop. Starts to get good once Season 2 kicks off and they quit trying to make Leslie a manic caricature... and it gets GREAT-- like, live-action "Simpsons" Season 3-8-level in spots-- once Mark leaves/Rob Lowe and Adam Scott hit town.

Edgy MD Jan 30 2020 06:54 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Willets Point wrote: =Ceetar post_id=30687 time=1580267636 user_id=102] finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good! Everyone seems to love it but I watched like 4-5 episodes and found it wasn't for me. I've resigned myself to being the outlier on this one.

My brother.

dgwphotography Jan 30 2020 07:28 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Regarding Parks and Rec, try starting midway through the second season. That's where it really gets better. MrsDGW was watching The Goldbergs last night. What happened to timing and pacing? Everyone was talking too fast, there were no beats to the show, and no time to let the audience breathe. I then put on Frasier on one of the other channels, and it was so refreshing. Guilty pleasure time. LittlestDGW has been binging New Girl, and I hesitate to admit that I really enjoy it.

Ceetar Jan 30 2020 07:38 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

New Girl had it's moments (though we dropped off, mostly accidentally, a few seasons in) but I always found it a little too silly.

Ceetar Jan 30 2020 07:38 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I NEED to catch up on Dr Who, and then I need to watch Altered Carbon, I really enjoyed the first two books and i heard the show is good.

Fman99 Jan 30 2020 10:38 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Fboy and I watched episode 1 of Star Trek: Picard and enjoyed it. Special effects are movie-quality, much as they were for Star Trek: Discovery.

Vic Sage Jan 30 2020 10:39 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Willets Point wrote: Doctor Who launched a huge, surprise twist this week. I had been disappointed in the past season and a half, but now I'm interested again. i totally gave up on the doctor. I like her, but the whole PC "Scooby Gang" of companions is just awful, as is the writing.

seawolf17 Jan 30 2020 12:20 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Really? We are absolutely all in on DW this season. They've definitely pulled a little bit of that Moffat timey-wimey stuff out of their bag of tricks.

Lefty Specialist Jan 30 2020 12:59 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=Fman99 post_id=30797 time=1580405892 user_id=86] Fboy and I watched episode 1 of Star Trek: Picard and enjoyed it. Special effects are movie-quality, much as they were for Star Trek: Discovery.

We went to Aruba a few weeks ago and found that ST Discovery was on Netflix. So we binged season 2 in the evenings and put off buying CBS All Access. But Picard could make our resistance futile.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 30 2020 02:57 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Edgy MD wrote: Willets Point wrote: finally getting into Parks and Rec. that show is really good! Everyone seems to love it but I watched like 4-5 episodes and found it wasn't for me. I've resigned myself to being the outlier on this one. My brother. I never got past the first few eps myself but am encouraged to learn it got better. Wifey Bucket accidentally subscribed to a service called ACORN that has a bunch of import shows from UK, Ireland, Sweden, Australia, etc. (she hasn't figured out how to cancel). We've seen like every contemporary British police procedural ever--some are good, but they blend into one another after a while. Right now we're getting through a silly/serious caper show called THE BLUE ROSE which focuses on a doll-face legal secretary and her friends who uncover shady hyjinx at the firm in New Zealand. Love the accents. Better than most Australian shows we've tried. [YOUTUBE]fA_IZv0jqzY[/YOUTUBE]

Edgy MD Jan 30 2020 03:08 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I could fall deep into a TV hole during unemployment if I let myself, so I try to stay off the FLIX, but I'm darned near crazy about the re-imagined Lost in Space, so I indulge on that. Great to hear old John Williams scores get new life, too.

kcmets Mar 14 2020 07:42 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

We've watched Marvelous Mrs. Maisel over the last couple of months and caught up last night. Except for parts of the episodes in the Catskills this show just has me totally Maisel-ized. Bummed to see there's no specific timeline for Season 4.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 16 2020 10:38 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Some TV notes from yeaterday: Saw John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight!". Surrreal. Taped at some remote location against white background, not in the studio. No audience. No laughter. Caught a Monkees episode on MeTV. Wow. So funny. Still holds up. Like a Marx Brothers romp. I enjoyed it so much, I would've binged the entire series run right then and there till I conked out if !I had the episodes.

Edgy MD Mar 28 2020 09:09 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Man, Picard is a bore.

LWFS Mar 28 2020 11:28 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

So... to borrow phrasing from another Netflix streamable… are we going to talk about this Tiger King white nonsense?

Fman99 Mar 29 2020 04:22 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Edgy MD wrote: Man, Picard is a bore. We've enjoyed it. It picked up after the first 2-3 episodes.

seawolf17 Mar 30 2020 05:56 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=LWFS post_id=34277 time=1585459691 user_id=84] So... to borrow phrasing from another Netflix streamable… are we going to talk about this Tiger King white nonsense?

We watched the first two episodes last night and OMG.

LWFS Mar 30 2020 12:38 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Oh, if you liked the first two, you will loveloveLOVE the next three. 6-7 land things in a distinctly Dateline-y fashion.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 30 2020 01:00 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I was up late last night and channel surfing like at 3,4, 5 in the morning. I watched an episode of I Love Lucy. I never noticed this before but they (The Mertzes and Ricardos) just barge into each others apartments without even knocking or ringing a doorbell. And the doors are unlocked, which I'd guess they'd hafta be for them to be able to just barge in unannounced. I guess in the 50s, no one walked around in their own homes naked.

41Forever Apr 02 2020 09:30 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=LWFS post_id=34378 time=1585593505 user_id=84] Oh, if you liked the first two, you will loveloveLOVE the next three. 6-7 land things in a distinctly Dateline-y fashion.

Watched it all the other night. Now I know filmmakers can and do take liberties as they edit. But if even half of that stuff is presented accurately -- wow. My wife thinks the only one who comes out of that looking remotely sane is the Walmart staffer/campaign manager. He was able to get 19 percent of the people to vote for Joe Exotic!

TransMonk Apr 02 2020 10:26 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=41Forever post_id=34555 time=1585841449 user_id=69]My wife thinks the only one who comes out of that looking remotely sane is the Walmart staffer/campaign manager.

Same.



I was amazed at how many absurd characters kept being introduced as the show went on.

Frayed Knot Apr 20 2020 02:12 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Just so I have this straight: ESPN is showing a TEN HOUR special on the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls? But wait, it's actually NOT on the Jordan-era Bulls, it's on just the final season of that era's Bulls. Ten Hours?!?!? It seems to me that the action footage would start to wear a bit thin at some point. Part 5: Michael ties his shoes

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 20 2020 06:15 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

If you watch only 1 Dutch mystery thriller series this year make it Schouwendam 12. Two teens vanish from a small town, 25 years later one of them returns. Or do they? Actually this was better shot and interesting than great on its own, but the 1st Dutch series we ever tried.

LWFS Apr 20 2020 08:06 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Just came out of a trash-comfort-TV hole... and swinging the other way, with OKJA, THE LADY VANISHES, and 400 BLOWS during grownup watching time, along with pulling a JCL and rewatching The Wire by my lonesome each night before bed. #whereswallacestring

kcmets Apr 26 2020 11:37 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

We started with episodes of Picard last night. There's no way I'm giving CBS an additional subscription fee but Prime has a free 30 day trial. We really liked it, we're not Trekies per se but know more about the brand than the average bear. Make it so.

kcmets Apr 30 2020 07:21 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

KB is watching Survivor episodes from Seasons 1-3. I'm sure it will pass, but the brief thought of just shooting myself crossed my mind passing through the living room before. Thankfully have an episode of Young Sheldon DVR'd.

Fman99 May 01 2020 06:48 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=kcmets post_id=35996 time=1587922662 user_id=53] We started with episodes of Picard last night. There's no way I'm giving CBS an additional subscription fee but Prime has a free 30 day trial. We really liked it, we're not Trekies per se but know more about the brand than the average bear. Make it so.

My son and I enjoyed it very much, as we did also with Star Trek: Discovery (season 3 due out later this year).

RealityChuck May 02 2020 10:18 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=kcmets post_id=35996 time=1587922662 user_id=53] We started with episodes of Picard last night. There's no way I'm giving CBS an additional subscription fee but Prime has a free 30 day trial. We really liked it, we're not Trekies per se but know more about the brand than the average bear. Make it so.

Spoiler alert: the final episode is the most egregious example of fan service and cheap pandering in the history of television. I watched it boggling as the cynical manipulation of it all.



The show wasn't all that good to begin with, but the final episode is nauseating treacle. A complete waste of time except for the most uncritical of fans.

MFS62 May 02 2020 10:28 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=RealityChuck post_id=36281 time=1588436326 user_id=82] the final episode is the most egregious example of fan service and cheap pandering in the history of television. I watched it boggling as the cynical manipulation of it all.

That almost sounds worthy of a thread where we could come up with other examples.

Later

Frayed Knot May 15 2020 06:35 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I late to the party on this one (that's nothing new, I tend to be late to most things) but I'm enjoying the often dark humor on HBO's BARRY ex-SNL'er Bill Hader is the title character, an ex-military hit man who can barely function in polite society but would sure like to try and thinks maybe being an actor is the route to go after infiltrating into an acting class in order to kill one of its members. Stephen Root is an absolute hoot as Barry's completely immoral mentor/exploiter/co-dependent/guardian. Henry Winkler runs the acting school where Barry is hoping to find his calling (and maybe even land the cute blond) if he can just break free of Root's character as well as the Chechen war lords, Bolivian drug gangs, LA cops, psycho ex-marines, and various other folks who dominate the world he's trying to leave. Am now most of the way through Season 2, the most recent one to air. The cast was in the midst of reading through scripts for the third season when Covid shut everything down, so It'll likely be a while before it picks up again. I hate when that happens ... I go through 16 episodes in a three to four week span and now I'll probably have to wait a year or more for the next eight.

ashie62 May 15 2020 07:34 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

If you like Jon Hader and Fred Armisen 'Documentay Now" on IFC is terrific Episodes like "The Bunker" a parody of a young Carville and Stephenopoulis in a an Ohio legistive race are piss your pants funny "The Blue Jean Committee" is a 2 parter of two Chicago meat workers who corner California light rock. Ends with one owning all the songs due to nefarious ways. A situation befallen by many a musicali Have not seen a bad episode to date

kcmets May 15 2020 09:18 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=RealityChuck post_id=36281 time=1588436326 user_id=82]Spoiler alert: the final episode is the most egregious example of fan service and cheap pandering in the history of television. I watched it boggling as the cynical manipulation of it all. The show wasn't all that good to begin with, but the final episode is nauseating treacle. A complete waste of time except for the most uncritical of fans.

Lol, our 30 days are dwindling so I may never know what had your

boxers in a knot over a Star Trek brand tv show.



Unless you tell us.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 16 2020 09:26 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Amazon hypes the shit out of all their shows so we usually try them, even when they turn out to be only okay like UPLOAD (guy dies, hijinx ensue when the afterlife turns out to be a shitty app). As it turns out my cellphone plan gives me "free" (commercial-filled) Hulu. We've just gotten thru BETTER THINGS, about the woman who voices Bobby Hill as a single mother of 3 girls. She's very funny, though not much happens, the show becomes ragingly feministic, kids become unbearable, and like a lot of shows these days seem to want to include more and more performance pieces inside the shows, just like the Bradys. One of you guys recommended I watch LETTERKENNY which I've been trying when Wifey isn't around. Kinda funny? I dunno.

TransMonk May 17 2020 02:20 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Frayed Knot wrote: I late to the party on this one (that's nothing new, I tend to be late to most things) but I'm enjoying the often dark humor on HBO's BARRY ex-SNL'er Bill Hader is the title character, an ex-military hit man who can barely function in polite society but would sure like to try and thinks maybe being an actor is the route to go after infiltrating into an acting class in order to kill one of its members. Stephen Root is an absolute hoot as Barry's completely immoral mentor/exploiter/co-dependent/guardian. Henry Winkler runs the acting school where Barry is hoping to find his calling (and maybe even land the cute blond) if he can just break free of Root's character as well as the... I like Barry a lot. I believe Hader and Winkler both won Emmy's (Lead Actor and Supporting Actor) for Season 1.

Frayed Knot May 18 2020 06:13 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

And I've also officially given up on KILLING EVE Season One was good; Season Two less so. But now the ongoing Season Three is a mess. I have no idea where they're going with this one and, more importantly, I no longer care.

TransMonk May 19 2020 07:18 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Stumbled upon Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics on Netflix last night. It's a loose documentary/comedy show on LSD and psychedelics, but is really just celebrities and comedians talking about tripping. It was a little sad as the movie interviews both Anthony Bourdain and Carrie Fisher prior to their deaths. There is also a Ben Stiller interview where he talks about calling his dad while on acid for comfort. Talking to Jerry Stiller while tripping sounds like a trip in itself. Lastly, there is a cameo featuring Fred Willard near the end. Interviewees still among the living include: Sarah Silverman, Sting, Nick Kroll and A$AP Rocky. Nick Offerman and Adam Scott are the guides throughout the doc.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 19 2020 07:38 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

The stupid thing about the pandemic and streaming TV is that it's making me watch too much TV that we'd never have considered essential until now. Less sports, less nights out, also affects that. We're getting through a show called TERRIERS, which follows the hijinx of buddy-private investigators in San Diego with all the cliche trappings (it's a recovering alcoholic heartbroken ex-cop who never played by the rules, and a gifted small-time criminal gone straight) but it's pretty funny and distinct in spite of it. Had no idea this was a cancelled 1 season regular-TV show from 10 years ago, though the dated cellphones they use gave it away.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 05 2020 06:07 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

IN THE FLESH: they've cured the Zombie uprising with makeup and medication, so "partially deceased" citizens are among the living. Hijinx ensue when a young undead man returns to his rural hometown. See if you can't connect it to the immigration debate and other Trump-era intolerance! Which is kinda something as this show is pre-Brexit and pre-Trump

LWFS Jun 05 2020 06:32 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Speaking of prescience: with its pointed portrayal of a tindersticks national political climate, building crisis, and masks as symbol of fear AND public service, it turns out that WATCHMEN was ahead of its time... by nine months. If you haven't seen it yet, it's brimming with great performances (led by Regina King), it's incredibly timely, it's better than any other "Watchmen" property, save the original Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons business, and it's still available to stream on HBOGO. SPACE FORCE, though? Surprisingly toothless and medium-funny at best.

metsmarathon Jun 07 2020 07:49 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

really, i'm LOVING space force. it strikes a chord. it's like, my life. or at least, the muprhy's law version of my life. i see so many generals and colonels and lt colonels in carrell's character, and so many civilian scientists and engineers in the rest of the crew. the nuance, the absurdity, the details. i mean, i could see how someone would watch it and think, meh, where's the funny - they're just doing stupid shit. the stupid shit, that's what hits. i think in a way, it's kinda like watching the office as a kid versus as a cubicle-dweller. all the little things, the dynamics, the things that happen between the things that actually happen. as a kid, you think, there's no way it could be like that, and so it isn't nearly as funny. as a civilian member of the military working r&d... ooh, it hits close to home. i really hope it has legs and sticks around.

kcmets Jun 12 2020 08:18 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I've been DVRng 'Route 66' on an obscure channel via coaxial cable. Hope it's ok for the cord--cutted posters here in the streaming thread. This show is great! I have no memory of seeing it, loaded with memorable actors.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 21 2020 07:18 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Got thru 1st 2 seasons of FARGO. It's much better than I thought it would be, actually quite clever as you can pick up dozens of subtle and not-so-subtle homages and references to the Coen Bros catalog in it. But like LORDS OF FLATBUSH being not violent enough this is probably *too* violent. Does it get better? I liked season 2 maybe more than 1.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 21 2020 09:18 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I thought season two was the best FargoTV. I watched all three seasons.

batmagadanleadoff Jul 21 2020 11:18 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I've been binging Breaking Bad on DVD this and last week. I've seen every episode several times, already. This time around, I didn't identify and root for Walter White as much as before. Not that I didn't already know, but it's become much clearer, what a horrible person he was. And boy, did he treat Jesse like shit. It's just that on past viewings, I was guilty of identifying with him and very much rooting for him. TV can be so manipulative like that.

Ceetar Jul 21 2020 12:33 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I've only watched it once (so far?) but yeah. Early on it's easy to root for him, a beaten down nice guy who finally snaps and starts working the system instead of getting worked by the system. You probably catch all the signs that he's become a bad guy a lot earlier on a rewatch. I didn't really care for the movie that came out last year.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 07 2020 10:17 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Here's an interesting one coming soon ... Ratched ... the origin story of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest iconic and creepy head nurse. The new Netflix series, premiering September 18, imagines the origin story of Nurse Mildred Ratched, the unforgettable character played by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2020/07/netflix-ratched-first-look ... and the trailer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU9ZtlkSnnE

Fman99 Aug 25 2020 01:15 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

We added Netflix a few months ago when I decided, first, that YouTubeTV has almost nothing on, ever, and that I needed something to watch during the long hiatus from baseball. Plus Fgirl had a roster of shows she wanted to watch. So I have been enjoying some of their original content. First I watched season 1 of Narcos: Mexico, not realizing that it was actually a spin-off of another show also called Narcos. Enjoyed that quite a bit. Moved on from that to a German language sci-fi show called DARK, which, I have to say, is utterly spellbinding. I'm most of the way through season 2 and will be sad when I get through the end of the series (I have a dozen or so episodes left in total to watch).

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 25 2020 01:44 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

We've been watching a convoluted Polish murder mystery called THE TEACHER, in which the titular character returns from the big city to a depressed and corrupt small town in the forest to investigate the murder of a long-ago lovechild. Hijinx ensue! (all cop shows set in small European towns have enormous police forces for some reason) Also I zoomed through several seasons of ALONE, the reality-show that strands survivalists in inhospitable locales and reveals the greatest danger to human existence in the wild isn't cougar attacks but a) loneliness and b) the inability to catch fish.

whippoorwill Aug 25 2020 04:03 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Can I ask why this is called steaming yellow magic? Should I RMPL?

whippoorwill Aug 25 2020 04:04 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

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Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 25 2020 10:03 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I don't know. It was a combo of streaming tv and the Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 26 2020 08:54 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I thought it meant that some of us like to urinate on our televisions.

Fman99 Aug 26 2020 12:04 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Yeah I assume we were going for some sexy "water sports" reference here. But I'm a degenerate so

Frayed Knot Aug 26 2020 12:17 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

The reference was beyond me as well. Simon & Garfunkel once referred to TV as the 'Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine' ... but that was back in the days of cathode ray tubes so I suppose an updated moniker is apt.

Lefty Specialist Aug 26 2020 02:56 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I thought it was because of this.... https://i1.wp.com/retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screaming-yellow-zonkers-featured.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1>

Fman99 Oct 09 2020 09:06 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Fboy and I have thoroughly enjoyed the first season of the animated "Star Trek: Lower Decks" series on CBS. It really does a great job at balancing the in-jokes for the long time Trek fans with a casual cartoonish humor and sensibility. I recommend it, for those of you with the CBS All Access service.

Fman99 Oct 09 2020 09:07 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Also, on the Netflix front, plowed through the only 2 seasons of "Mindhunter" to be saddened by the fact that the show is on permanent hiatus.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 10 2020 05:30 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

It seems like with little new out there, the streamers are going old and foreign. We survived all 3 seasons of a 1990s Aussie melodrama called TANGLE, about a mom, her two kids, her cheating husband, her husband's best friend and estranged brother who both want to fuck her (and eventually succeed), her troubled sister who comes to visit and her son, who's father is a local politician and raising the bastard, who's probably gay, across town with an uptight wife who's never forgiven him. Hijinx ensue. We did like imagining life as suburban Catholic Melbourners with flip phones

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 23 2020 12:20 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

MIRZAPUR: Two brothers, one smart and resourceful, the other a meathead strongman, wind up in debt to a mob leader in their titular shithole India town and rivals to his rotten son. Violent Hindu Hijinx ensue! This is an Amazon action-crime show, incredibly violent, lacking any real good guys, and sort of funny-weird (the mob scion, for example is motivated in equal parts to be a feared gun-runner, and by running for class president at the local college, and has the hots for the Meathead brother's hot girlfriend). Lots of people die, a guy gets his dick chopped off, another set on fire. But the performances are pretty darn good. New season just started. Gotta use subtitles.

Johnny Lunchbucket Nov 11 2020 10:25 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

We've watched all kinds of subpar foreign tv series during the pandemic but are really enjoying DEUTSCHLAND 83 and sequel DEUTSCHLAND 86, about a young East German soldier recruited to infiltrate the West German army in 1983, telling a made up story around the real life Able Archer nuclear scare. A little too whacky and convolulted story but fun, lots of action, and a dynamite period soundtrack. The sequel set in 86 uses the same characters to tell geopolitical stories of the fall of Apartheid and Chernobyl, and the new 89, which we haven't gotten to yet, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Very 80s, with AIDS and clothes and Reagan, in German. Parts are very funny and much tragedy, some boobage [YOUTUBE]HDzMUjoJqDE[/YOUTUBE] https://youtu.be/m4WIfrO0aig

LWFS Nov 16 2020 01:43 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

So, yeah, yeah, QUEEN'S GAMBIT is excellent (even if the last episode has some... um... Marvel-y denouement action going on). I've enjoyed ol' Big Eyes the lead since The Witch and Split.

MFS62 Nov 16 2020 02:10 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Watched some of movies in the Twilight series this weekend. Teen angst and vampires don't mix well. Later

Edgy MD Nov 22 2020 11:21 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Baby Yoda is a dick.

LWFS Nov 23 2020 11:01 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Edgy MD wrote: Baby Yoda is a dick. He REALLY is.

Lefty Specialist Nov 23 2020 04:02 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Yeah, Baby Yoda is every temporary babysitter's nightmare. Surprised he didn't end up as Frog food.

metsmarathon Nov 23 2020 04:20 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

he's a 50-year old toddler. so, yeah, that tracks.

A Boy Named Seo Nov 24 2020 09:40 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

If any of you have AppleTV or want to add a 19th streaming service to your arsenal after you've "cut the cord", I highly recommend the goofy, endearing Ted Lasso. Jason Sudeikis stars Texas college football coach Ted Lasso, who is brought overseas to coach the fictitious English Premier League side AFC Richmond. It's a twist on the Major League plot where the evil female owner is intentionally trying to sabotage her own franchise, but it's silly and charming and supremely bingeable. Here's the SNL-style fake commercial that spawned the show. [YOUTUBE]6KeG_i8CWE8[/YOUTUBE]

LWFS Nov 24 2020 10:44 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

A Boy Named Seo wrote: If any of you have AppleTV or want to add a 19th streaming service to your arsenal after you've "cut the cord", I highly recommend the goofy, endearing Ted Lasso. Jason Sudeikis stars Texas college football coach Ted Lasso, who is brought overseas to coach the fictitious English Premier League side AFC Richmond. It's a twist on the Major League plot where the evil female owner is intentionally trying to sabotage her own franchise, but it's silly and charming and supremely bingeable. Here's the SNL-style fake commercial that spawned the show. [YOUTUBE]6KeG_i8CWE8[/YOUTUBE] You're the fifth or sixth trustworthy recommend I've heard on this. Showrunner is the guy who did Scrubs, so... that checks. Also on the hey-why-not-subscribe-to-something-ELSE tip: if you like your comedy bone-dry (think Nathan For You or the sharpest, most underplayed Chris Guest mocumentaries) How-To With John Wilson-- in which the titular host walks around NYC filming random stuff/trying to solve a personal deficiency is some primo blow. [YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/w7aSybHRa6s[/YOUTUBE]

A Boy Named Seo Nov 24 2020 10:59 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

Of course we have HBO, too. I'll have to try that show on.

Fman99 Nov 25 2020 09:15 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=LWFS post_id=50757 time=1605559406 user_id=84] So, yeah, yeah, QUEEN'S GAMBIT is excellent (even if the last episode has some... um... Marvel-y denouement action going on). I've enjoyed ol' Big Eyes the lead since The Witch and Split.

Watched episode 1 tonight. Pretty damn entertaining.

Johnny Lunchbucket Dec 10 2020 11:37 AM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

=Fman99 post_id=51398 time=1606364142 user_id=86] =LWFS post_id=50757 time=1605559406 user_id=84] So, yeah, yeah, QUEEN'S GAMBIT is excellent (even if the last episode has some... um... Marvel-y denouement action going on). I've enjoyed ol' Big Eyes the lead since The Witch and Split.

Watched episode 1 tonight. Pretty damn entertaining.


We got thru the whole season in like 3 nights. Couldn't stop looking at her face.



A little too sports-movie-ish in that everything rides on every match and victory and defeat are almost always total when irl there's lots of draws.



Started Ozark. Michael Bloom is part of a family with criminal ties trying to look straight but not in an Arrested-Developmental Way.



We stayed at Lake of the Ozarks once and it's about as Rednecky as pictured. Also pretty cool and pontoony

TransMonk Dec 18 2020 07:41 PM Re: Streaming Yellow Magic: TV in 2020

I've liked, but not loved THE MANDALORIAN through two seasons, however this week's episode has brought me back closer to my eight-year-old self than the eight movies since 1983 have. Jon Favreau has done a good job of balancing all of the iterations of STAR WARS through the years into a cohesive and mostly original story.