The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[coldbrightsunlight]

I loved Midsommar, one of my favourites from last year. The atmosphere of disorientation is brilliant and the visuals are fantastic

[$harkToootth]

MIDSOMMAR made me miss being young. Characters are what? 21-24? Imagine MIDSOMMAR for the early 30s.
Would you like to travel to my village?
No, I have a dominos coupon I have to use and need to post about lasers on ILF.
F I N

[$harkToootth]

You guys should come to this festival me and my ding dong family does every now and then!
So much arby's and not enough time... you and your ding dong family can keep it to yourselves

[$harkToootth]

Keeping it on topic.. I loved the first season of 13 REASONS! The second was... was what it was but the characters are so well written and the show is shot and directed well... I liked it enough (it violated my willing suspension of disbelief but not my willingness to forgive bad writing)... Season 3.. seemed really unnecessary. I just like the world they created though so I watched all the clips on youtube and read the synopsis (cause I just HAD TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED). I then watched 2 episodes but... it's honestly NOT AS BAD as everyone is making it out to be (not trigger warning wise... just narrative wise... not as terrible as people are saying).

I mean... it's not gooooodd but... you know... I don't hate the decision for the new character to frame the narrative via voice over. I even like the character. But the writing... it's like... take it easy there Brett Easton Ellis / Chuck Palahniuk (who I actually love so..) fans
Unless this show is so meta I can't wrap my feeble mind around it.

[coldbrightsunlight]

MIDSOMMAR made me miss being young. Characters are what? 21-24? Imagine MIDSOMMAR for the early 30s.
Would you like to travel to my village?
No, I have a dominos coupon I have to use and need to post about lasers on ILF.
F I N

Yes!!

"I'm sorry I can't, I need to feed my cats and houseplants and ponder the existential dread which creeps up on me slowly with every year."

[jirodreamsofdank]

Hype is on Prime and there are a dozen awesome garage bands I'd either never heard of or forgot about, then Mudhoney is introduced, after them it's just a steamroller of incredibly boring grunge. Bonus points for the flashbacks to '90s fashion in the live scenes - still many good looks on women, horrifying facial hair on all the men.

[$harkToootth]

Hype is on Prime and there are a dozen awesome garage bands I'd either never heard of or forgot about, then Mudhoney is introduced, after them it's just a steamroller of incredibly boring grunge. Bonus points for the flashbacks to '90s fashion in the live scenes - still many good looks on women, horrifying facial hair on all the men.

Thanks for the req. I can do this. Thank you!

[jirodreamsofdank]

Bummed that Dig! isn't streaming anywhere, highlighting the specific cultural moment when someone thought it was a good idea to spend money on a documentary about the Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre.

[$harkToootth]

Bummed that Dig! isn't streaming anywhere, highlighting the specific cultural moment when someone thought it was a good idea to spend on money on a documentary about the Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Totally. I look back very fondly at that era. Even watching Dandy Warhol music videos in those years is such a time capsule.

[jirodreamsofdank]

I don't like Doctor Who or Sherlock but Dracula is another level of terrible.

[behndy]

only 2 episodes in, but i think Watchmen is awesome.

[adamajah]

I don't like Doctor Who or Sherlock but Dracula is another level of terrible.

I tried that Dracula show. Couldn't even finish episode 1.

[calfzilla]

Lots of shows getting the axe in 2020, and I'm not excited about a good chunk of them

[Olin]

Watched a documentary about Canucks living off-grid in various provinces on Prime. Out of the 10 families or so, 7 were so overwhelmingly smug and pretentious that it made me want to stop watching and cool my interest in that life, but the other three were chill and cool. One of them was condemning people who want to live off-grid with all the amenities of an on-grid house because "that's not progress", as if it 1) isn't an astounding technological feat that you can live as luxuriously as we do with such a small environmental footprint and 2) as if shoveling your own shit and struggling to stay warm in the winter is progress. Another insisted "humans have been doing this for millions of years" in such a matter-of-fact and sure way that it must be you who is the idiot for even thinking "hey wait a second, humans haven't even existed for a couple hundred thousand years, let alone millions". Others seemed to largely have an attitude of "you have to be a real smart guy to be able to do this" and in the next sentence "it's really simple and easy, I don't know why everyone isn't doing it", followed up with a pat on the back about how great and clever they are for doing it, very frustrating to watch because a lot of it is actually interesting.

Give that a 6.5/10 for being well shot and directed, without any obvious bias at all from the director, asking the right questions and not censoring people, loses points for the people being tossers.

In hindsight, this probably should have gone in the "spite, hate [...]" thread lol.

[coldbrightsunlight]

That sounds irritating. It's a lifestyle I'm fascinated by and I'd much rather watch a doc about nice people doing it.