Random TV Show Thoughts

[Saturnal Snowqueen]

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Mr Robot got more engaging. Just took a minute. I DID call the prison twist! My head's in the right place for this series now. Just takes me a while with some shows.

Craig Robinson does villainous well and I'm surprised he's been typecast as a teddy bear for so long

 

[Saturnal Snowqueen]

 

[Luminous]

One of the actresses in Abre Los Ojos, I saw, was in Money Heist, which Netflix had picked up a few years back -- so i watched the opening episode today. Pretty decent. I look forward to watching the rest. It seems pretty smart and canny, as well as interweaving stories and personal narratives.

Also one of the best shows.

 

[Totenkindly]

One of the best shows ever, I think. I can't wait for more. I think I read there may be 5 or 6 seasons!

Yeah, basically they already know the ending, but could take anywhere from 3-6 seasons to reach that ending depending on what Apple is willing to pay for.

 

[Totenkindly]

Mr Robot got more engaging. Just took a minute. I DID call the prison twist! My head's in the right place for this series now. Just takes me a while with some shows.

My kid leaped back in this weekend, so we just watched episode 1-5 of Season 3. Wouldn't mind watching more, but that's a lot of episodes and I'm kind of burned out. It's great, just am gonna do something else so I don't feel like a total couch potato today lol

 

[Totenkindly]

Something a little different.. Lisa Simpson actress Yeardley Smith gets married. Thought the interview was fascinating.

I did not know she's been doing a crime/case podcast with her now-husband.

I still wonder whether she ever roleplays with Lisa's voice in their love life, haha ..that might be rather weird to experience.

‘The Simpsons’ Star Yeardley Smith Marries Former Detective She Met During Springfield Appearance (Exclusive)

While working as a detective, Dan Grice was hired to protect Smith and the chance encounter led to love and marriage: "We’ve seen it in movies and you always wonder, wouldn’t it be great if life was like that? Sometimes it is."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Totenkindly]

Been enjoying going through Mr. Robot with my son. We just finished s4e10 last night. Only three more to go. I love watching it with him and waiting to see/hear his reactions during certain scenes. Waiting for his response to the finale.

It's really cool watching once you know where it is going (i.e., on repeated viewings) because Esmail does leave breadcrumbs / ties things together at times. There were a few scenes I had totally forgotten about that actually comment strongly on later ones that I was like, "Wow, that might give the game away" -- but apparently not, lol. I think on first watch, the viewer is so intent on trying to understand what is happening and dealing with ambiguities that even things that seem obvious in hindsight are overlooked.

The acting is just so top-notch, and Esmail's writing/directing and the production quality is so much better than it had to be for a TV show. I really appreciate how the last few episodes really offer some payoff retrospectively for the entire series and the story is allowed to breathe. (it also reminds me of Better Call Saul in some of the dramatic structure.)

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Something a little different.. Lisa Simpson actress Yeardley Smith gets married. Thought the interview was fascinating.

I did not know she's been doing a crime/case podcast with her now-husband.

I still wonder whether she ever roleplays with Lisa's voice in their love life, haha ..that might be rather weird to experience.

‘The Simpsons’ Star Yeardley Smith Marries Former Detective She Met During Springfield Appearance (Exclusive)

While working as a detective, Dan Grice was hired to protect Smith and the chance encounter led to love and marriage: "We’ve seen it in movies and you always wonder, wouldn’t it be great if life was like that? Sometimes it is."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

I've seen her in other things and the Lisa voice is pretty much just her speaking voice, as far as I can tell.

 

[Totenkindly]

I've seen her in other things and the Lisa voice is pretty much just her speaking voice, as far as I can tell.

Well, it's definitely not as glamorous a change as Nancy Cartwright's.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

I like Hank Azaria's story behind how he came up with his various Simpsons voices. He said they all began as bad attempts at impressions of famous voices. I might be remembering wrong, but I think he said Moe originally began with him trying to a Pacino impression?

Then you've got weirdos like Jay Mohr who can do like one good impression, and everything else is just his boring Jay Mohr voice. The only reason anyone ever went to a Jay Mohr standup was in hopes of hearing him do 5 minutes of Walken. I did like him in Suicide Kings though

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I like Hank Azaria's story behind how he came up with his various Simpsons voices. He said they all began as bad attempts at impressions of famous voices. I might be remembering wrong, but I think he said Moe originally began with him trying to a Pacino impression?

Then you've got weirdos like Jay Mohr who can do like one good impression, and everything else is just his boring Jay Mohr voice. The only reason anyone ever went to a Jay Mohr standup was in hopes of hearing him do 5 minutes of Walken. I did like him in Suicide Kings though

Pacino, really?

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

Pacino, really?

I don't know, it was in a documentary I saw years ago about voice actors and he was listing off various simpsons characters and the origins of the voices. It may very well have been a different voice but I thought he said a bad Pacino impression was the root of one of his voices.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I don't know, it was in a documentary I saw years ago about voice actors and he was listing off various simpsons characters and the origins of the voices. It may very well have been a different voice but I thought he said a bad Pacino impression was the root of one of his voices.

That's crazy if true. Would never have guessed that.

 

[Totenkindly]

Now I'm laughing remembering Azaria's Jersey or Bronx accent in "Heat" against Pacino verbally slamming him around.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Now I'm laughing remembering Azaria's Jersey or Bronx accent in "Heat" against Pacino verbally slamming him around.

Yes, I actually am a fucking owl.

(I had to do it.)

 

[The Cat]

Any recommendations for some fun shows with a scifi/horror/fantasy aspect?

 

[Luminous]

Any recommendations for some fun shows with a scifi/horror/fantasy aspect?

If you have Apple TV+ (if you've got a Target account check and see if you get a free trial - I did, for like 4 months), Severance and Shining Girls. On Netflix, Locke & Key, Midnight at the Pera Palace, Love, Death, and Robots, iZombie, Hemlock Grove, Sabrina, Lucifer, Outlander, Living with Yourself. On Hulu, American Horror Stories and the regular AHS (some seasons but not others lol), The Handmaid's Tale, Dirk Gently, Timeless. On Amazon, Upload. Others: Person of Interest, Tru Calling, Lost, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies. I'll probably think of others and come back. Sci-fi and fantasy are two of my favorites.

 

[Luminous]

Any recommendations for some fun shows with a scifi/horror/fantasy aspect?

On Netflix, Daybreak, maybe Mindhunter if you consider that horror/no sci fi or fantasy, maybe Ratched (horror? anyway, really good), The Haunting of Bly Manor, Maniac is really good.

 

[Totenkindly]

She-Hulk: Attorney at Large e1 was enjoyable and funny, even if not quite stellar. It would be nice if they learn how to thread the needle better to give the character more depth by season end, but even as just a comedy it was actually amusing and true to the comic tone. It was nice to hear more from Bruce too, since he was getting schlunked in the films, and know more of his back story in integrating.

It's funny to listen to him describe hanging out with Tony, who couldn't stop drunk-whinging about Steve Rogers too.

The humor occasionally crosses out of family friendly, which surprised me a bit, but hey the comic was irreverent too.