[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

first time for me and almost done at the rate of 1 episode per day

i'm curious about the book. not sure if i'll ever read it. but my understanding was the tv characters were inspired by the book, and the cases the first couple of seasons came out of that. then again i havent actually read it hahaha

what i really enjoy is the prelude to the wire. i can see where david simon made his bones. for me, he had appeared out of nowhere like a comet in the sky. but as it turned out, he had a history

of all his prequels i had only seen "the corner" but that was more documentary than anything (with actors "reconstructing" real situations). not great drama, just sad business, so kinda meh in recollection. "informative" i guess

Aside from the Wire and Homicide the only other thing of his I've seen is Generation Kill, which was also great. As far as I'm concerned The Wire is the bench mark against which all other 21stC TV is judged, so... I don't end up watching that much TV.
I'd recommend the book, there's a lot more to it than being the basis for the TV show, I gave up trying to work out who was based on who, because it's not clear. IIRC at the end of the book there's an added afterword where he goes in to how the TV show grew out of the book.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

The new season of The White Lotus.

What I love about that show is that literally everyone is fucking insufferable, and nearly every interaction is deeply uncomfortable to watch, but it still manages to be pretty cozy viewing.

[verme (prevaricator)]

Parker Posey was amazing in the last season of the white lotus.

[Rob Instigator]

You know you may be on the spectrum when friends and family text you asking if you've seen Love on the Spectrum....

[Toilet & Bowels]

This may be old hat to a lot of you but Brand New Cherry Flavour. If you haven't seen it and are someone who enjoys Twin Peaks (OG series), Repo Man, Boots Riley or 90s Greg Araki then I'd say stop reading this and fire up Netflix pronto

[!@#$%!]

bloomberg

[_tunic_]

The original The Addams Family TV series from 1964.
Quite pleasant to watch, even tough every episode is more or less the same: For some reason a guest arrives, soon enough he is freaked out by the lion walking down the stairs and runs out the door screaming

[_tunic_]

Also:
Red Dwarf, season 4 I think. Brilliant series.
Apparently there's also a book I only know now because I searched here first

[tw2113]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

Also:
Red Dwarf, season 4 I think. Brilliant series.
Apparently there's also a book I only know now because I searched here first

There are like 3 or so novelizations of the show.

[Antagon]

X-Files with my significant other. We needed to see more Duchovny after having enjoyed his appearance as Denise on Twin Peaks during our latest rewatch. We realized none of us has ever actively watched it before. Only I remembered bits and pieces from its original run when I was little. Oh, the 90s - when conspiracy theories were still fun little inspirations for entertaining fiction. Quaint, really. Unfortunate new contexts in these, our fucked up times, aside - really solid writing. And the chemistry between Duchovny and Anderson is right there from the get-go. Fun, so far.

[!@#$%!]

de martha stuart and josé andrés chow about de sheffs

(read it with a spanish accent)

also buffy reruns on amazon... she has her own channel on prime video now lololol

[Diesel]

Adam Curtis' Shifty on the BBC iPlayer.

[Diesel]

Steps

https://youtu.be/xKGKp_cuKgE?si=tjI9GWfsXZlkSrUo

[Diesel]

This channel is brilliant.

Right Said Fred: https://youtu.be/PXY_jb-J1Qs?si=4mWeVKh76PjiflMs

Blue: https://youtu.be/MxaaHdzSFDo?si=rw6Ia5YhyQ-5bPG8

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Adam Curtis' Shifty on the BBC iPlayer.

This was alright but a lot of it was stating the obvious

[Genteel Death 2]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

This was alright but a lot of it was stating the obvious

Like all his documentaries.
Dude also needs to use a lo more recent footage, rather than rely on vintage footage to tell his supposedly insightful history missives.

[Diesel]

I enjoy the cinematography in the auld VHS footage. There's a particularly nice shot of Manors car park in Newcastle looking empty, grey, and dystopian, (similar to Get Carter's multi storey car park nearby in Gateshead (or the Barbican for ye' Londoners)) typical brutalist architecture of the time. These days' the area is overcrowded and in the latter case gone.

Also enjoyed the comedic juxtaposition of the North Shields riots interspersed with footage of upper class people in London on a night out complaining the unfairness of their illegally parked cars being towed. The history lesson was simply a bonus.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death 2

Like all his documentaries.
Dude also needs to use a lo more recent footage, rather than rely on vintage footage to tell his supposedly insightful history missives.

idk if the power of nightmare was obvious stuff, but the philosophical parallels between neocons and islamists were news to me, and got me interested in political philosophy a little bit, yeah

i tried the one about freud's nephew and advertising but that was was kind of obvious and i quit

but anyway i do like popularizers of knowledge like old man carl sagan (rip) or bill nye the science children's show or this one

also in art, the old man from civilizations and the young whippersnapper of the antirenaissance, what's his name

documentaries are basically what we got as replacement when long print journalism died. but journalism is very rarely avant garde, yeah... idk if this because the requirements of the form or because of the shallow depth of journalists themselves haha. but overall i like...

[!@#$%!]

whet i get a chance im watching "ap bio" with dennis reynolds as a harvard philosophy reject on a revenge mission while working as a high school teacher. funny and only 30 minutes long and since the show is over (2018-2022) you can pick it up without having to wait for new content. and did i say it's just 30m... i love short programs

[Rob Instigator]

ENTITLED

supa crazy horror comedy