What’s on your watchlist? Any upcoming shows/movies you’re looking forward to?
Just finished watching The Idea of You. I would rate it a 6/10. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t amazing. I didn’t really like with the third part of the movie and that weighed it down.
I just started it. I got to the scene where the main character encounters an adult August Moon fan and instantly wanted to crawl under the sofa. As an elderly Harry Styles fan, I felt so ashamed. I'll finish it after I get home from vacation.
We just finished it, and I couldn't agree with your opinion more. That said, was your movie kind of dimly lit? We thought something was wrong with our TV until we saw all other movies and channels were bright enough.
edit- forgot a word.
I didn’t notice the lightning that much or it wasn’t an issue. I was watching on my iPad and then had to switch to my phone!
I've been watching the latest season of one of my favorite Netflix guilty pleasures, The Circle. I'm not entirely sure why I'm so attached to it because I definitely think it's overstayed its welcome - it was somehow perfect during Covid quarantine, which I think is when the first US season was released, when it showed people who were isolated and only able to communicate through devices but were somehow still able to form bonds and friendships with each other. Now though it doesn't feel as relevant and the contestants are all obnoxious wannabe influencers in their 20s - I miss the diversity in age and backgrounds from the earlier and non-US seasons. Now the contestants are all from the same generation and clearly all consuming the same TikTok microtrends so the conversations are a lot more boring and catfish are more easily able to evade suspicion.
Not TV per se but I've also discovered Game Changers from Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor). It's a game show where three comedians play a different game each episode, and they don't know in advance what the game is going to be. The games are usually twists on classics like Simon Says or Charades. It's one of the funniest things I've seen in AGES, like multiple times per episode I have to pause the TV to laugh. Some of the comedians who participate are amazingly talented at improv and are genuinely witty as well, a far cry from how I remember CollegeHumor from back in the aughts. There are six full episodes available for free on youtube but I actually subscribed to DropoutTV to be able to watch the rest of the episodes. It's perfect for when you just want to turn your brain off at the end of the day.
Adding in a rec for Very Important People on Dropout as well. Not every character has hit for me, but some of the interviews have had me like wailing with laughter.
I stopped watching The Circle because even by the second season, it just wasn't as fun and endearing to have everyone acknowledging that they were actually competing. I don't really watch reality tv at all but The Circle was so perfect in 2020 and I appreciate the mention of that.
Make Some Noise on DropoutTV is also amazing! It's a spin off from Game Changer.
I know I’m late to this; I started What We Do in the Shadows this week—omg it’s so funny! It was recommended on a podcast that I love but I didn’t have Hulu. It’s described as a comedy horror mockumentary which on its own is funny. It’s a group of vampires living in a home on Staten Island and a documentary crew is following them. If I had to describe some of the plots, they would sound so unhinged. This has been so fun!
oooh, you are in for a treat!
Oh my gosh, if you haven’t yet started season two I am so excited for you! It has such a great run of episodes.
Season 2 is the best in my opinion because it gave us Jackie Daytona
The latest episode of Palm Royale felt like a fever dream. I cannot imagine having Allison Janney on contract and making her
edit: also on the one hand I feel like they are wasting Carol Burnett
Palm Royale is such a mess. I may as well see it through, but I still don't know what they were going for.
I really like Sugar. I spoiled myself as to the genre-bending element, but I'm curious to see how they get there. Colin Farrell is so charismatic and I'm always happy to see Amy Ryan.
Palm Royale is such a mess. I may as well see it through, but I still don't know what they were going for.
Same. I feel like it's the tv show equivalent of that old style advice that goes "before you leave the house look in the mirror and take one thing off" or whatever it is lol. It's very "it's going to be about THIS and THIS and THIS and we're going to do THAT and THAT and THESE are going to be in it". There are just way too many ideas and storylines, they should have scrapped at least half of them.
I am really liking Sugar too! My husband and I are speculating the genre bending element still. I’ll be curious where it goes!
Only 2 episodes in, but so far loving Shogun. It’s an FX show but I stream on Hulu.
So good. SO violent though but amazing.
It’s such a great show. My husband is out of town and I’m mad he’s holding us up!
I watched the original (not when it aired) miniseries adaptation and I’ve heard really good things about this new adaptation!
Recently finished Fallout and Halo. We rewatched Season 1 of Halo because we felt lost when we started season 2. I really wish Fallout would have given us more vault content.
I’m a week behind on Next Level Chef, but the challenge where they had to recreate a picture for the challenge wasn’t very good. I’d much rather they just give them a challenge and let them do it without having to memorize what was in the picture along with being under pressure to create the dish.
Survivor is still meh. I can’t tell if I’m just not the demographic any more or if it really is just turning lane (there is only so much crying I can take.) Plus they don’t seem to be making the best decisions on who to send home.
“New Era” survivor has some positives and some negatives. I think the three tribe split and, more importantly, no longer giving the teams rice, are detrimental to the game.
I think the no rice would be fine if they were at a location that they haven’t used a million times. I’d love if they brought back actually building their shelter, trying anything and everything to start a fire, and different challenges. It also seems as if when they filmed has changed because it doesn’t appear that they’re getting as much rain as they used to. The three tribes would be fine if they switched them up if one tribe is always at tribal, and the not merge merge is already old (give them back their actual feasts for making it to an actual merge, and THEN do the split two tribes/two tribal councils and BOTH of them go to jury.)
I completely understand why they’re never moving from Fiji again. I miss the early season exotic locales but it seems like they have a win-win formula with the Fijian government, and there’s much less risk with logistics. The three tribes/lack of food means that more often than not it’s a snowball effect for one team who gets their tribe decimated. I also miss the proper merge feast! It feels cruel (and deprives everyone of the ‘omg food yes’ bonding experience.)
I am watching Baby Reindeer and Under the Bridge and my goodness I am so stressed watching both. The main characters decisions stress me out so much. I cannot watch more than one episode of each and need a break, thank goodness I caught up with UTB and have to wait weekly now hah