How It's Made. Funny You Should Ask. Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
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Obligatory one piece (spss one pace spss)
thunderbolt fantasy
I just found an archive of complex era desus and mero
. Curb Your Enthusiasm
. Drawn Together
. King Of The Hill
Succession, perhaps the best script I've ever experienced
My wife has gotten into watching Green Acres. Omg the writing is so sharp, just one joke after another. The characters do get repetitive but that is the way with all sitcoms.
The Mary Tyler Moore show is very rewatchable. The writing and characters are so well done. Ted Knight and Betty White are brilliant.
I'm gonna download Green acres rn, thx.
I love Vox Machina. Give it three episodes though, it needs the Briarwood ark to really get going.
A lot of my picks are already mentioned so I'll pick an odd one:
Air crash investigator (called Mayday in NA). It's dramatizations of the reports from air crashes, organized like a murder mystery. Surprisingly compelling.
I've never been nervous about flying but this show really underlined how safe flying is, it's actually kinda crazy how thorough the reports are and how often they lead to rule changes. I wish the same institutional dedication to safety was practised in other industries (especially cars).
Episodes that take place in the 80s have you face palming at how stupid the mistakes are, more modern episodes are almost always a combination of many many different small low chance events and minor mistakes from the pilot piling up. I usually skip the terrorist episodes though.
Yes! I binge watched Mayday. Very well done documentary with only a minimum of dramatization, you do get some "Get this into the lab!" type acting and shoop shoop edits but not much. Looking into the events they are good about getting like 90% of the info. They have the actors reading straight from the CVR records. It really does point out how the vast majority of accidents require a lot of star all lining up. It also points out how important thorough maintenance is. You've got things failing in ways you'd never expect if they had only, say, put some grease on a single screw. The really frustrating ones are where the crew ignore their instruments thinking they (the pilot) must be right or the crew sit and watch the pilot fuck up without intervening. The cash in Portland OR where the pilot obsessed over a landing gear light and ignored that they were running out of fuel is a case in point.
The most disturbing ones are where a pilot likely suicided and took all the innocent people with him or someone attacked the crew. Insanely selfish a-holes.
After watching all of the episodes, some repeatedly, I think I could assist a crew in a crisis now.
Scrubs
Halt and Catch Fire.
Set in the 80s, itβs about a company in Texas trying to build a computer to rival IBM. Er, thatβs how it starts. I liked it so much, I bought it.
- Deadloch
- Colin From Accounts
- Shrinking
- Silo
- Landman
- Arcane
- Lower Decks
Secret Level.
The Outsider
I just watched the pilot episode of "Servant" and it looks promising. M. Night Shyamalan.
Jury Duty, binge watched and loved it, I couldnβt stop laughing.
Silo.
Severance (rewatching cause season 2 is around the corner).
Star Trek Strange New Worlds (also rewatched waiting for next season).
Came here to say Severance. Great show, I just watched it this week.
Severance is an all too graphic caricature of life in corporate America and I had a visceral reaction to watching it that made me feel dead it was awful donβt watch it because the show is magnificently well done and immaculately satirical stay away from this terrifyingly good show watch it
Years ago I picked up the book 'Gone Girl.' I got about twenty pages into it and put it down because I couldn't stand the smug, entitled yuppie narrator.
Later, I watched and enjoyed the movie, and read some of the author's other books.
It made me realize what a good writer she is; she made me hate a character so much that I couldn't read the book.
When I played Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time, I chose the βnomadβ backstory which defines essentially a character who has been so burned by late stage capitalism that they ran away to live in a small commune in the desert.
While playing through the game, I thought the advertisements littering Night City were incredibly jarring like they were supposed to be from a Borderlands game, or at least one that was way more tongue-in-cheek. The world of Night City was far too depressing to reasonably include those utterly ridiculous ads and it made it hard for me to feel immersed. Then it hit me; thatβs exactly how I was supposed to feel, and then it paradoxically made me feel like this game set in a future world with insanely high-tech appliances available to all its citizens was indistinguishable from my own. I literally forgot multiple times that this game was set in an alternate future and not just in some city in California
Nice story. Thank you for posting it
The ones I've been watching and it's been good are:
- Dark Matter;
- Severance;
- Silo;
- From;
Dark Matter season one, yes. Not a fan of season two myself.
From
Mr. D (think Michael Scott but a teacher)
Shrinking (low stakes like Ted Lasso)
Taskmaster UK (if you like comedy panel type shows. Although it's not really a panel in the traditional sense)
The mick
Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]
The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.
I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.
Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator's premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new 'companies' begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry
Welcome fellow gen-xer!
I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can't get past Patrick McGoohan's acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.
I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.
Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his "connections". Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could've just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol "These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb..." oy!
I kind of think that lloyd's of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.
I'd say it was a coincidence. It could've been a pub and we'd be talking about the creation of beer instead.
I just finished Monster, an anime from 2004 that is really good
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