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Going back and watching The Newsroom - the bit where Will (Jeff Daniels) goes off on a tirade at a University got me interested (it's been floating around on TikTok). After the first episode, I'm sold that this is going to be a great binge. :)
 
fischersd said:
Going back and watching The Newsroom - the bit where Will (Jeff Daniels) goes off on a tirade at a University got me interested (it's been floating around on TikTok). After the first episode, I'm sold that this is going to be a great binge. :)
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One of the best shows ever.
 
Caught this on Reddit and it really hit home. The amount of bad movies out there is crazy, I'll often sit with my phone looking at reviews for every new or different movie I see on a streaming service and it seems like 95% of them are terrible.

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One service that stands out above them all to me lately is Tubi, their categories are simple and inventive, including one that only shows those that have scored well on Rotten Tomatoes. I have a hacked version that shows no ads on my Roku player but if they offered a paid tier for it I would gladly pay.
 
Darby and Joan. Australian and phenomenal. Especially for those of us off a certain age. It's wonderful to see a show with the stars in the 60+ category who are still active in every way. Season two is out now with new episodes on Saturdays.
 
Alli said:
I saw that! That means we'll get the entire story arc. So happy!
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I'm definitely in.

I've already read the books, and while they have been making numerous changes for the sake of the show, I don't have complaints at this point. For example, the books kinda just drop Lukas in fully formed, so it's actually neat to see him get a character arc and grow into the character we get in the books. Same with the general events in Silo 18 while Juliette is not there which the books gloss over as it's all written from her POV during this period.

Fingers crossed they stick the landing, but so far this is a good example of how to adapt books when changes are needed for the new medium.
 
Eric said:
Caught this on Reddit and it really hit home. The amount of bad movies out there is crazy, I'll often sit with my phone looking at reviews for every new or different movie I see on a streaming service and it seems like 95% of them are terrible.

5q2r82ie7ice1.jpeg


One service that stands out above them all to me lately is Tubi, their categories are simple and inventive, including one that only shows those that have scored well on Rotten Tomatoes. I have a hacked version that shows no ads on my Roku player but if they offered a paid tier for it I would gladly pay.
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I agree it's getting really bad! I recently watched the movie "Detained" because of the 74% Rotten Tomato score. I don't actually know how it got that much.

I was able to guess the plot in about 10 minutes, and the acting was just awful. Spoiler: The only good acting came from the baby. I stuck with it to the end, because I was invested in finding out if I guess the plot right.
 
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I agree it's getting really bad! I recently watched the movie "Detained" because of the 74% Rotten Tomato score. I don't actually know how it got that much.

I was able to guess the plot in about 10 minutes, and the acting was just awful. Spoiler: The only good acting came from the baby. I stuck with it to the end, because I was invested in finding out if I guess the plot right.
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Gotta check that Popcorn Meter, where the people have their say instead of critics. This particular movie doesn't have one which speaks volumes about it, I never trust those.
 
Silo finale. Severance debut. All. On. The. Same. Night!

Loved the season finale of Silo. It was just great! If I hadn't been able to too directly to the season premier of Severance I would have been really depressed.

Severance. Holy shit! What are they doing?! I knew Helly wouldn't want to admit who her outie is.
 
Alli said:
Silo finale. Severance debut. All. On. The. Same. Night!

Loved the season finale of Silo. It was just great! If I hadn't been able to too directly to the season premier of Severance I would have been really depressed.

Severance. Holy shit! What are they doing?! I knew Helly wouldn't want to admit who her outie is.
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I am very confused by Silo, mostly, I assume, because I read the books, and things have diverged by a huge amount from them. I assume the reason for this is that the screenwriters decided that having the main character solve things by engineering skills would be too boring. (They also spent very little time with the main character this season.) And the way they ended the last episode is something that comes up later (and isn’t being handled the same way, it looks like).

i found the pacing of this season to be pretty slow, too. First season was great (and kept to the books pretty closely, fwiw).

That said, they didn’t depart from the books as severely as Foundation has. But I actually like the deviations in Foundation and find them pretty clever. So I dunno.

Severance is great. I have no idea what’s happening, but it’s great.
 
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I am very confused by Silo, mostly, I assume, because I read the books, and things have diverged by a huge amount from them. I assume the reason for this is that the screenwriters decided that having the main character solve things by engineering skills would be too boring. (They also spent very little time with the main character this season.) And the way they ended the last episode is something that comes up later (and isn’t being handled the same way, it looks like).

i found the pacing of this season to be pretty slow, too. First season was great (and kept to the books pretty closely, fwiw).
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Yeah, unfortunately, I expected this season to feel a little long in places. Keep in mind, we got (most) of the final act of the book across this season, which would have never filled a full 10 episodes. So I’m not upset that we got to see more detail around what was going on in Silo 18 while Juliette was away, but it does feel like they wanted everything to happen all at once in the final episode which does detract a bit from what I liked otherwise.

Some spoilery thoughts here (including book spoilers):

I am a bit confused why they decided to keep so many loose threads while adding another one. We could at least have gotten a resolution to the encounter between Juliette and Bernard in the airlock. I personally would have tried to squish down some of the earlier action so that this episode could be more focused on the final climax. Give us some resolution to Bernard’s story up to this point, and then given us the Donald and Helen teaser at the very end. I’m not really annoyed that they decided to tease us with that, more that I don’t think it should have taken time away from giving us some sort of conclusion to the events of the season.

I am also left wondering if we’re going to see Bernard kept on as a character, due to the changes of how the airlock scene went. Because it is Tim Robbins, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if he’s kept on and given a redemption arc of sorts, ending with a sacrifice.

I’m also wondering what the goal here is with Simms at this point. I originally thought that by having him take the position of head of IT, he would be a bit of a foil during the next season. But since it looks like Donald is officially here, I’m now thinking Simms’ wife is now going to be Donald’s confidant, and so it’s left up in the air where Simms will land as ally or foil.
 
The Pitt, on Max. It’s a lot like ER, with some actual ER creatives involved, which has resulted in a lawsuit from Michael Crichton’s estate, who owns ER, due to some definite similarities between the shows.

But it’s also like the old show 24 because each episode is one hour, and the first two episodes are on the same day so I’m starting to think this season is going to be one shift. Entertaining so far, episode 2 hooked me.
 
Cmaier said:
i found the pacing of this season to be pretty slow, too. First season was great (and kept to the books pretty closely, fwiw).

That said, they didn’t depart from the books as severely as Foundation has. But I actually like the deviations in Foundation and find them pretty clever. So I dunno.

Severance is great. I have no idea what’s happening, but it’s great.
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I only read Wool. The show seemed to cover all of it in the first episode. As soon as I heard they were turning it into a series, I stopped reading. We all determine what scenes are important to a plot, and I rarely agree with screen writers.

Foundation is crazy. Fortunately it's been 41 hearts since I read it, so I don't recall everything with clarity. That being said, I've also disagreed with them leaving out parts that I feel are necessary to the *point* of the story.

I can't wait to see where this season of Severance takes us. It's so creepy!
 
I think the biggest problem I had/have with Foundation is that it took a story where psychohistory is about being able to calculate the flow of masses, where individuals were insignificant, and ignored it so it could have larger than life characters. Salvor Hardin was the one to solve the first crisis in the book, but if it wasn’t him, it would have been someone else to find the solution. He wasn’t special, per se, but because it was him, he reaped the rewards for doing it. But we’re veering very much into chosen one tropes with the lead characters which I feel undermines the idea of psychohistory in the story. I get they want continuity of characters, but I feel this series would have done better as a sort of anthology series where we kinda reboot it every season.

That said, the exploration of the slow collapse of the empire was probably the most interesting bit of writing in show, so I know they can do some interesting things if they wanted to.

Alli said:
I only read Wool. The show seemed to cover all of it in the first episode. As soon as I heard they were turning it into a series, I stopped reading. We all determine what scenes are important to a plot, and I rarely agree with screen writers.
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I try to give writers leeway in adapting so long as they capture what I interpret as the essence of the work. Villenuve’s choice with Dune to put on display Paul’s cowardice, along with his willingness to put aside the larger issues for his revenge and to survive, was a good one. Silo (so far) hasn’t strayed from the source material in a way that I think undermines it, but it has done the somewhat tropey thing of "always end on cliffhangers" dramas like to do these days, which is maybe a bit more subjective on how one feels about it. But I’m still onboard with Silo in a way that I am very much not with Foundation.
 
American Primeval (2025)- Excellent portrayal of the bloody time in Utah’s history, Mormons and the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, the US Army, Fort Bridger, the Shoshone, and Paiute Indians, during the Utah War. I have an abundance of sympathy and admiration for the Native Americans.

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