Random TV Show Thoughts

[Totenkindly]

Three years after Shogun:


Love.

Unattainable.

Forbidden.

Forever.

Thank you, lol!! My memories were apparently running together!

 

[Z Buck McFate]

Thank you, lol!! My memories were apparently running together!

What's funny is that I remembered him being a priest too, when I read your comment, so I googled it. All 80s Richard Chamberlain made-for-tv roles kinda run into one.

 

[The Cat]

Its fun to imagine all the Richard Chamberlain rolls like that as a man living the same life over and over again reincarnating like Sam Beckett leaped Quantums.

 

[The Cat]

She really was the best.​

 

[Totenkindly]

Netflix Cancels The Grimm Reality Series From Dark Producers Despite It Finishing Filming - IGN

Netflix has cancelled the urban fantasy drama The Grimm Reality from the producers of Dark, despite the project having finished filming.

www.ign.com

 

[The Cat]

I really like Agent Hendrickson's arc in Supernatural. I think this is how an anti-villain is done right. I would use a federal agent like this in a Chronicles of Darkness chronicle. I figure a character like that would be a good fit for a hunter the vigil chronicle could be a good bridge from tier two to tier three play.

 

[GoggleGirl17]

It's very rare that I find a show I like enough to watch by myself, but I love Baby Reindeer and for the longest time kept trying to get someone to rewatch it with me, but everyone is too uncomfortable! Now I'm addicted to watching Atypical. Luckily I did find someone to watch that with. I love shows where I get to watch characters go through intense, complicated emotions, especially when it leads to self-destruction, cringe, and a struggle to grow. It's like being able to see what it's like to experience life down a path I've never been down, even if it's dark. It feels like gaining some kind of hidden knowledge. The person did try to skip some scenes and we were laughing because I didn't want them to (I want to see people's reactions to things.) It's a little sadistic of me lmao! We skipped them though. Even when I'm sharing some true crime story I find I get really excited to share the details because to me it's such an insane thing that happened, but I forget people are squeamish sometimes. I want to find more shows that will shock my system, although I'm not a fan of anything gratuitous in nature.

 

[The Cat]

It's very rare that I find a show I like enough to watch by myself, but I love Baby Reindeer and for the longest time kept trying to get someone to rewatch it with me, but everyone is too uncomfortable! Now I'm addicted to watching Atypical. Luckily I did find someone to watch that with. I love shows where I get to watch characters go through intense, complicated emotions, especially when it leads to self-destruction, cringe, and a struggle to grow. It's like being able to see what it's like to experience life down a path I've never been down, even if it's dark. It feels like gaining some kind of hidden knowledge. The person did try to skip some scenes and we were laughing because I didn't want them to (I want to see people's reactions to things.) It's a little sadistic of me lmao! We skipped them though. Even when I'm sharing some true crime story I find I get really excited to share the details because to me it's such an insane thing that happened, but I forget people are squeamish sometimes. I want to find more shows that will shock my system.

Sometimes the audience is the real show.

 

[Totenkindly]

It's very rare that I find a show I like enough to watch by myself, but I love Baby Reindeer and for the longest time kept trying to get someone to rewatch it with me, but everyone is too uncomfortable!

I watched the first episode and hope to finish it, I just haven't made it a priority. It seemed well-done and I like that some of it is murky in terms of not really villainizing anyone one episode in. There are some unsettling things, but the guy seems to also do things from time to time that don't help the situation.

Now I'm addicted to watching Atypical. Luckily I did find someone to watch that with. I love shows where I get to watch characters go through intense, complicated emotions, especially when it leads to self-destruction, cringe, and a struggle to grow. It's like being able to see what it's like to experience life down a path I've never been down, even if it's dark. It feels like gaining some kind of hidden knowledge. The person did try to skip some scenes and we were laughing because I didn't want them to (I want to see people's reactions to things.) It's a little sadistic of me lmao! We skipped them though. Even when I'm sharing some true crime story I find I get really excited to share the details because to me it's such an insane thing that happened, but I forget people are squeamish sometimes. I want to find more shows that will shock my system, although I'm not a fan of anything gratuitous in nature.

Yeah, I don't mind shocking things either and often they can be more interesting, although sometimes things can get kinda cringe and while I still watch it, I'm kinda getting squeamish. (Violence of different types doesn't really bother me if it makes sense for the story, I have a high tolerance for that; but social situations where someone is fooling or being embarrassed can make my skin crawl, lol -- like, I think Nathan Fielder is really awesome, but sometimes I have trouble watching his stuff because of the cringe factor.)

 

[GoggleGirl17]

I watched the first episode and hope to finish it, I just haven't made it a priority. It seemed well-done and I like that some of it is murky in terms of not really villainizing anyone one episode in. There are some unsettling things, but the guy seems to also do things from time to time that don't help the situation.


Yeah, I don't mind shocking things either and often they can be more interesting, although sometimes things can get kinda cringe and while I still watch it, I'm kinda getting squeamish. (Violence of different types doesn't really bother me if it makes sense for the story, I have a high tolerance for that; but social situations where someone is fooling or being embarrassed can make my skin crawl, lol -- like, I think Nathan Fielder is really awesome, but sometimes I have trouble watching his stuff because of the cringe factor.)

Yes he definitely does a lot of things to dig his own hole and make himself susceptible. That's what I find so fascinating because I've known many people in real life to act against their own best interests, even when they can see it for themselves that something is not a good idea, and because from the outside we know how counterproductive it is to do certain things, we don't think as much about what they're psychologically getting out of it and what their experience must feel like.

I agree, if the violence makes sense or actually happened, I will have a morbid curiosity and want to watch, even if I do get squeamish. That's so interesting about the contrast with how you feel about embarrassing social situations though! I don't remember having been affected the same way by those kinds of things, so I am curious if you have an example of one of his clips that makes your skin crawl! I'm not familiar with him, so maybe I'll change my outlook after watching haha

When it comes to social cringe, do you find it is more secondhand or does it remind you of something similiar you've experienced? (My bf is also sensitive to social cringe, and says it happens when he sees a caricature that reminds him of how he used to be, and feels the shame personally, so I wonder how others experience cringe.)

 

[Totenkindly]

I agree, if the violence makes sense or actually happened, I will have a morbid curiosity and want to watch, even if I do get squeamish. That's so interesting about the contrast with how you feel about embarrassing social situations though! I don't remember having been affected the same way by those kinds of things, so I am curious if you have an example of one of his clips that makes your skin crawl! I'm not familiar with him, so maybe I'll change my outlook after watching haha

I don't know if I have any clips available or time to look through, but basically it's reminiscent of some of the early Daily Show stuff too that Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert used to do (and were really great at, because they never broke character) before they got famous -- basically mock interviews and the like where it was so deadpan that the person being interviewed didn't realize they were actually in a mock interview and getting played the whole time but would probably be really pissed off if they caught on.

A good example that you might be familiar with is the Borat films with Sasha Baron Cohen -- he's another guy really great at this, plus Maria Bakalova from Borat 2. (That whole thing with her in Rudy Giuliani's hotel room is one example... hilarious and cringy and embarrassing, although I don't feel that bad for Giuliani.) If it's someone who really deserves to be trashed, it doesn't bother me as much but when it's just an average person who hasn't done anything to deserve it my skin crawls.

It basically takes someone with great comedic sensibilities, who can be completely deadpan, and just twist the screws as hard as possible at the other person's expense and who isn't afraid at all if they figure it out and blow up, and who can wing it on a dime in the situation no matter what happens. I think I just feel the embarrassment for the other person once they figure it out and also that they'll explode in a violent outburst or something.

When it comes to social cringe, do you find it is more secondhand or does it remind you of something similiar you've experienced? (My bf is also sensitive to social cringe, and says it happens when he sees a caricature that reminds him of how he used to be, and feels the shame personally, so I wonder how others experience cringe.)

Yeah, I think I am empathizing with the "victim" so to speak. I have always easily felt embarrassed in social situations -- there are things I've done years ago that aren't that big a deal but at the time I made a social mistake -- and I still cringe when I think about them.

Oh, one dumb thing: I wore a t-shirt once to a gathering with my in-laws at the time that had a huge face of Mr. Bean on the front (you can laugh, this is also funny) and I didn't realize they were planning to take pictures. So we took this picture and everyone else looked nice and I had this huge Rowan Atkinson face on my shirt totally popping out between people in the photo and I could tell them were mad at me -- even though no one had told me, and they weren't going to say anything directly, although snide side comments were made from time to time. I felt so awful about it that even though desktop photoshop wasn't super advanced at the time (this is more than two decades ago), I spent time just coloring in my shirt black and ended up sending them / printing the photo without the Mr. Bean face. Personally, it's funny, but I also find a lot of shame in it emotionally -- enough that I felt I had to fix it somehow.

I can cringe over things I did even as a teenager -- where I misunderstood a situation and realize now I said or did something stupid or accidentally offensive. Yeah, it's my anxiety acting up. "WHY DID I DO/SAY THAT??" It could tie into shame I felt with my parents too, I dunno. My dad was quite the asshat and capable of making anyone feel stupid when they disagreed with him and not giving them any word edgewise.

If the context is not regarding embarrassment I identify with, I'm not really bothered. I can listen to the nastiest/worst jokes and not feel any kind of cringe about them, regardless of what I think about the joke, for example.

 

[The Cat]

Sometimes I imagine they still do this. People lose their minds.​

 

[GoggleGirl17]

I don't know if I have any clips available or time to look through, but basically it's reminiscent of some of the early Daily Show stuff too that Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert used to do (and were really great at, because they never broke character) before they got famous -- basically mock interviews and the like where it was so deadpan that the person being interviewed didn't realize they were actually in a mock interview and getting played the whole time but would probably be really pissed off if they caught on.

A good example that you might be familiar with is the Borat films with Sasha Baron Cohen -- he's another guy really great at this, plus Maria Bakalova from Borat 2. (That whole thing with her in Rudy Giuliani's hotel room is one example... hilarious and cringy and embarrassing, although I don't feel that bad for Giuliani.) If it's someone who really deserves to be trashed, it doesn't bother me as much but when it's just an average person who hasn't done anything to deserve it my skin crawls.

It basically takes someone with great comedic sensibilities, who can be completely deadpan, and just twist the screws as hard as possible at the other person's expense and who isn't afraid at all if they figure it out and blow up, and who can wing it on a dime in the situation no matter what happens. I think I just feel the embarrassment for the other person once they figure it out and also that they'll explode in a violent outburst or something.


Yeah, I think I am empathizing with the "victim" so to speak. I have always easily felt embarrassed in social situations -- there are things I've done years ago that aren't that big a deal but at the time I made a social mistake -- and I still cringe when I think about them.

Oh, one dumb thing: I wore a t-shirt once to a gathering with my in-laws at the time that had a huge face of Mr. Bean on the front (you can laugh, this is also funny) and I didn't realize they were planning to take pictures. So we took this picture and everyone else looked nice and I had this huge Rowan Atkinson face on my shirt totally popping out between people in the photo and I could tell them were mad at me -- even though no one had told me, and they weren't going to say anything directly, although snide side comments were made from time to time. I felt so awful about it that even though desktop photoshop wasn't super advanced at the time (this is more than two decades ago), I spent time just coloring in my shirt black and ended up sending them / printing the photo without the Mr. Bean face. Personally, it's funny, but I also find a lot of shame in it emotionally -- enough that I felt I had to fix it somehow.

I can cringe over things I did even as a teenager -- where I misunderstood a situation and realize now I said or did something stupid or accidentally offensive. Yeah, it's my anxiety acting up. "WHY DID I DO/SAY THAT??" It could tie into shame I felt with my parents too, I dunno. My dad was quite the asshat and capable of making anyone feel stupid when they disagreed with him and not giving them any word edgewise.

If the context is not regarding embarrassment I identify with, I'm not really bothered. I can listen to the nastiest/worst jokes and not feel any kind of cringe about them, regardless of what I think about the joke, for example.

Oh I relate so much with your Mr. Bean shirt story (though yours is definitely way funnier)! One year I'd gone to a walk-through haunted house with family and friends where they had cameras inside snap candid pictures of people's reactions, and I was caught with a very unflattering expression. My mother had posted it to her Facebook after sharing it to our entire group, who ended up uploading it to all of their pages as well. I was so horrified that I superimposed a spooky eyeball over my face so I looked like a cyclops and asked her to tell everyone to re-upload that version instead because I was severely camera shy and this was 10x worse than a normal picture.

 

[Totenkindly]

Oh I relate so much with your Mr. Bean shirt story (though yours is definitely way funnier)! One year I'd gone to a walk-through haunted house with family and friends where they had cameras inside snap candid pictures of people's reactions, and I was caught with a very unflattering expression. My mother had posted it to her Facebook after sharing it to our entire group, who ended up uploading it to all of their pages as well. I was so horrified that I superimposed a spooky eyeball over my face so I looked like a cyclops and asked her to tell everyone to re-upload that version instead because I was severely camera shy and this was 10x worse than a normal picture.

oh wow, lol! Yeah, that's just awful to imagine, esp with the pic going viral.

I think your "save" (the cyclops eyeball) is pretty imaginative.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I remember catching this after the end of Parks and Recreation and it got me hooked. I didn't know what was going on, but it was funny.

I wish they did more City College vs. Greendale stuff because it was gold every time they did it. But perhaps it would have stopped being so special if they kept returning to that well.

 

[The Cat]

I remember catching this after the end of Parks and Recreation and it got me hooked.

The first episode I saw was Star Burns Funeral episode. I got into when it was in its 4th season, I had to go back and binge to catch up. What a ride to come into the middle of. Lot of fun was it.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I also think Big Oil was keeping Starburns's cat car idea down. We could have solved global warming with that.

 

[Totenkindly]

The first episode I saw was Star Burns Funeral episode. I got into when it was in its 4th season, I had to go back and binge to catch up. What a ride to come into the middle of. Lot of fun was it.

I missed the entire thing, so I got to just start watching on streaming from the very first episode!

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It's interesting how so many of these Twilight Zone episodes about time travel have the same moral: The past isn't as great as you remember it.

That seems contrary to today's zeitgeist, where the past is everything, where we're going to revisit everything over and over.

It illustrates the loss of a forward-thinking mentality, perhaps.

 

[The Cat]

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