You know, I’m trying to remember what was the last movie/TV show I’ve watched, and only thing I can remember recently (as in, more than half a year recent) would be Va Bank caught randomly on the telly while visiting the family.
It’s a Polish movie from the 1980’s, and I’m pretty sure the director is anti-communist. But the movie itself doesn’t seem to have any overt anti-com content. It’s a stylish heist movie, about a safe cracker returning from jail and deciding to pull of one more bank robbery in the name of justice.
I finished the Cuphead Show in a day or two. It was very light and pleasant to watch (which is what the show wants to be). I didn’t feel so well recently and a cartoon like this helped me with my general gloominess.
I’m finally watching Deep Space 9, from beginning to end. Currently I’m at episode 8, season 2.
So far, except for a couple of episodes, I’m loving it
Truly one of the best shows ever made. Such complex characters, storylines, and topics: imperialism, realpolitik, class struggle, feminism, racism, it’s all there. Hang in there because you’ve got some great episodes and story arcs ahead.
They haven’t been remastered like TNG has, so the show looks like it was filmed using a potato, but someone did release some AI upscaled versions on torrents that look great.
Forgot to mention. Once you finish or get close to finishing the show, I recommend this in-depth marxist analysis of DS9. Might be written by a trot but its still a good read.
Not only did your first comment make me even more excited for the show, but now I’m also itching to read that writeup. Gotta get back to watching!
Thanks mate :)
No probs!
I just finished that Waco miniseries that just released on Netflix and I’m debating whether or not to binge Bojack Horseman again because it really do be like dat sometimes. It’s like my comfort show whenever I’m blue
Bojack is a bodacious BOHO joke to stoke the chokes of laughter out your tracheatic windbox, when it’s not an awful romp across the noxious swamp of trauma’s jaw. A smorgasbord from smores to borscht. An animated mammal-saturated man-to-hate made actually sane.
You can’t fuckin fool me, Princess Carolyn, I know it’s you.
Real talk tho I love how deep it gets. I’ve never had a show speak to me on such a profound level before. It’s almost too eerie how much I relate to Diane. I could gush about it for hours but I don’t know anyone irl who’s watched it yet despite my recommendations lol. Time’s Arrow came in my life when I was taking care of a dementia riddled great grandmother. Luckily I didn’t loathe her like Bojack did his mom tho lol
Not loathing her might have made that harder for you, I imagine. My condolences, dementia is a terrible illness. My dad is exhibiting early signs and will likely end up like his mom at the rate he has been drinking for decades.
Yes it is a wonderfully and terribly deep show. I love how they make him do terrible things and show his perspective because I am always a firm believer in anybody and everybody being redeemable and every terrible act often making perfect sense within the context of a person’s life and their traumas. It’s a very humanizing show. Plus where else can you get jokes like Mr. Peanutbutter as the Face of Depression, the Bridge to Hawaii, and Philip-Morris-Disney-Fox-AT&T-Time Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader Joe’s (and other people like you!). The completely silent underwater episode, the funeral episode, the godawful existential nihlistic hell that is the drowning episode, the opioid trip episode, the death, the rant on the lady’s daytime show…what a cluster.
I want to watch Atlanta again, so I might try to get a Hulu free trial. I highly recommend it not only for being a good show for Black American hip hop culture, deep cut perspectived on racism, and its adjacent cultures within music and poverty, but it’s also just a really great show that is subtly deeply emotional and funny as shit and always keeps your attention. Shoutout Black Justin Beiber 😂 though that’s not half as good as the episode where Glover is in whiteface…
“Wash your hands…immediately!”
Sopranos is spectacular, Mad Men is really good and I like to sit back and have a drink while watching it. West Wing is like a really really good hate-watch. Aaron Sorkin’s mind is really something to behold. He sorta views everyone in the US government as motivated for a better US according to their ideals which is hilarious. He doesn’t really address issues of big money donors, sorta treats government work like it’s working at a club or something where it’s half work half palling around with cool people (as in the president of the US gets professional athletes to play on his team for impromptu sports games with other gov officials just because it’s a fun concept.) other than that I wanna watch Inglorious Basterds and Pulp Fiction bc it’s been a while and those are really cool.
I hold that West Wing is an AWFUL tv show. Sorkin is a garbage writer.
Mad Men has some good things, but some of it I can’t stand.
Sopranos is amazing
I’ll defend all of these despite my better judgement lmaoo. West wing is entertaining. That’s it, it isn’t smart or informative or funny or anything it tries to be. But it’s still entertaining. I can watch 40 minutes of it, thinking all 40 minutes of it was horseshit and full of bad writing but I wanna see what happens next so I can laugh at it. Mad men is very very accurate for the 60s. A few family members lived through the 60s and they said watching the show was like a mini-time machine. So if it appears a bit sexist or racist on the surface it’s because that’s what they want to show you about the 60s what commercials and TV shows from that era wouldn’t show. If they show corporate greed and childish behavior from the highest up in charge, it’s because the media of US 60s wouldn’t have ever considered that to be ok to talk about in the open, so in a way I consider the show to be a time capsule of the 1960s USA, everything made out to be so perfect and cute while in reality there’s a circuitry of (mostly) unspoken hierarchies. Sopranos is Sopranos, a masterpiece of digital storytelling
Yeah I understand what you’re saying about Mad Men. I know about the time period and it’s depictions are accurate. My problem is it becomes almost too much like a soap opera. And for the time period they were dealing with, and the story they were dealing with, it could have been much more interesting imo. I think it peaked when they introduced (I can’t remember his name) the British character and they start their own new firm.
Yes!! The British dude introduced many key plot lines, and I don’t entirely disagree with that assessment. It DOES definitely have a few soap opera-esque moments, hell, I even watched one of those episodes tonight.
I just felt like there was more there to explore, and they didn’t at all.
I’ve been watching Nope by Jordan Peele again, its funny but I actually watched it twice on a flight in and out of Africa. I’ve been watching the Expanse again and I’ve really began to enjoy it more.
I keep hearing conflicted things about the expanse, but there are enough comrades recommending it that I think its worth a go. Which season would recommend starting with?
Definitely Season 1, its just so good.
Currently watching Mad Men with my gf as she has never seen it. We’re combining it with Martijn Doolaard on YouTube, a guy building his own homestead in the Italian Alps.
I finished watching Europa Europa earlier this morning, a film about a Jewish boy who passes as an (impure) Aryan and survives in the HJ, narrowly avoiding arrest. It’s a nice reminder of what living in the Third Reich felt like, and it’s a rare example of a Western film where the portrayal of the Soviets isn’t (complete) crap.
It also taught me that the Third Reich removed Jewish gravestones, which, oddly enough, is something that never crossed my mind before. It makes me wonder if they even exhumed the coffins.
On a less serious note, I’ve been rewatching Regular Show as a means of passing the time. Naturally, it isn’t as entertaining as the first time that I watched it, but it is interesting enough to hold my attention.
Garfield And Friends is fun
I’ve also been watching some Godzilla movies.
Have you seen Lion of the Desert?
