I’m so sick of cable providers (and make no mistake - YouTube TV is a cable provider) refusing to negotiate carriage rates and just dropping channels in retaliation. Customers don’t get any discount from these “principled stands”, that’s for damn sure.
I remember when my cable provider got into a tiff with Cox and neither side could agree on carriage rates. Each side blamed the other and nobody would compromise. As a result I had no CBS affiliate for over 2 years.
Then cable providers have the nerve to gaslight us by saying customers “don’t really want à la carte plans”? Yeah fuck that. I’d rather knock $30 off my monthly fees by not paying for 30 sportsball channels that I’ll never watch thank you very much.
Thread started in general as well.
And in thanks for all the what I watched she starred in that enriched my life.
It was a weird way for the show to end the year. They very easily could have cancelled and moved the pre-tapes online. I guess if the show can’t go on, a show must go on instead. It’s Paul Rudd, so I’m not actually complaining.
What’s funny is that I assumed that last week’s episode was actually the Christmas episode and last of 2021.
Watching s2 of the Witcher.
Lots of allegory to current times, and why racial hatred and fascism must be fought and resisted.
I need a guide to follow along with the political machinations because i’m not familiar with the fiction but yeah, the broader themes are right there. The world feels way more expansive as well this time.
No real need, unless that’s how you like to nerd out, in which case have at it.
In a nutshell:
Elves, mages and witchers have been/are being persecuted wholesale, and people’s general bigotry and mindless hatred of anyone “Other” has been weaponized to further the ends of some nefarious asshole who’s pulling strings behind the scenes.
Speaking of watching stuff…
I’m late to Superman & Lois but the BBC started showing it and i’m pleasantly surprised by how good it is, i didn’t really stick with the other Arrowverse shows but this still has my attention.
Also loved Spider-Man: No Way Home, it might be my favourite of the live action Spidey films so far.
It’s out?
On my list; thanks.
I think that was because of threads pulling together.
The first season was little windows: a vignette here, a scene there, giving us these small, detailed, but disconnected pictures of what was going on. And it was only once we started to realise that they weren’t all happening at the same time that we started to see what sort of relationship with each other they had. And it wasn’t until they started to intersect that we could see them laid out so that there was obviously a bigger picture into which they all fit.
The second season drew more connections between those vignettes, adding detail into the space between them, so that you could start to see how the bigger picture actually looks, and drawing connections so that some of the details were given a context which made them more important than they seemed from first glance.
(Also, I loved the port guard critiquing Jaskier’s song (aka: the first season), for, among other things, mixing up timelines: “It took me until the third verse to realise they were all happening at different times.”)
I think the UK had it slightly earlier but yeah, it opened last week here.
It’s great and all what they were aiming for but i will admit to getting totally confused by the time jumping without the benefit of reading episode by episode reviews. It feels now the story can really get started, am i right in thinking the first season was based on the short stories? The animated film is also worth watching, with a number of callbacks to that.
This show is… weird.
Annie Murphy from Schitt’s Creek in a terrible, unfunny sitcom that isn’t a sitcom at all, it’s a dark drama hidden inside a sitcom instead.
Weird good or weird bad?
Oh, yeah… weird good.
It’s more commentary on women-as-sitcom-wives, it’s all the tropes like fat, idiot husband, stupid friends, crappy job - but it does it in a way that isn’t her having a fantasy life.
Like, what would it really be like to be Lois Griffin. The sitcom parts are fucking awful and unfunny and that’s the point.
Weird good.
Cool! Thanks! I saw the trailers and thought it looked interesting… I’ll have to check it out at some point.
I liked it; especially how they flip the shitty trope of the ‘dumb lovable oaf’ of a husband whose hot, smart wife still loves him anyway, no matter how badly he fucks up.
I have to admit I was really disappointed that Kevin didn’t die at the end of s1.
Yup! Its a good flip and I was not-secretly rooting for that too.
It’s gonna be a long wait till we get new episodes, so in the meantime…
Compared to the other DC shows, they really invested in making this one feel special. It seems to be shot differently, and they spent more time on making these characters feel lived in. Keep your eye on Lois. She’s the MVP of the show.
