melodrama trying to be prestige TV
anyone else concerned about that longass squiggly vein that goes from John Cena's right bicep to his chest?
HQ's most unhinged episode yet
I got whiplash from this show going from legitimately decent to bad to decent and back and forth throughout the episode
not terrible as far as international adaptations go but the Swedish original Älska mig ("Love Me") just had a smoother, easier flow to it which this show sporadically attempts to ape, only occasionally capturing the tone successfully. Hugo Weaving's experience is evident here and Bojana Novakovic really really captures the essence of Clara and is the most watchable and interesting on-screen presence
man if you're gonna do an adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days in 2021 it should be fun and filled with a sense of adventure, occasionally the show tries to do that but there's a pervasive aura of self-seriousness and more a sense of grandiosity and pomposity throughout instead of a zippy spirit of adventure and fun and devil-may-care
“A very bright, enterprising woman who wants to make dicks and butts better”
you can track a person just from inserting a logo into an e-mail?!?!?! out of everything in this docuseries that made my jaw drop
and I thought Diana: The Musical would be the most cursed musical I saw this year...
Freddie Fox pulling a Jacob Rees-Mogg liedown on Parliament bench, amazing
wait how is Ana alive? no way she survived without food and water for the 12 days between getting locked up/the crash and Elias getting back his memory and finding her
another foreign-language show HBO Max's captions are fucking up (cutting off the subtitles e.g. "I'm going to go to the..." and the next subtitle is the next line of dialogue instead of finishing that one, happened for a bunch of the lines), still, got the gist of it. David character was likeable, bit of a dolt but he's trying
"you're grasping at nothing like Biden!"
is this what Portuguese television is? what have I been missing out on
sometimes you watch an old British show and watch a future star and see how much talent they had even in a small, early role. sometimes you get Tom Hardy sniffing Felicity Jones's hair and alternating between speaking in an indecipherable accent (or is that really his normal voice) and literally grunting/rasping/snarling while Felicity Jones attempts, without much success, at selling dialogue largely consisting of single entendres in the guise of double entendres
also Harry Treadaway wasted as an almost-mute socially reclusive teenager
so many 'so bad it's good' moments
[after showing a clip of the balloon championships] "3 people desperately trying to keep a balloon in the air, what a metaphor for this segment"
shit now I want Jay Duplass to be my stay-at-home-not-Husband and cook me salmon
Sandra Oh speaking Korean! :heart_eyes:
probably the most dour final 2 contestants in HQ history
lol at them reporting on a pub called the Bell End, bell-end being a British slang for the tip of the pen1s
Flula Borg so good, should definitely do more voiceover work
god I hope the music guy isn't a recurring segment, there's already one cultural correspondent segment I watch at double speed
oh we all still collectively gaslighting Crystal into being blamed for Ace breaking someone's leg?
Is the girl fcking stupid or something? She JUST saw a man kill her Russian informant then throw a bottle of nerve agent into an elevator and her superior is telling her to gtfo and evacuate the mall and what does she do? Try to pry open the damn elevator doors THAT HAS FUCKING NERVE AGENT IN IT instead of being a damn professional and clearing away civilians??? smh this shit made me check tf out
Is the girl fcking stupid or something? She JUST saw a man kill her Russian informant then throw a bottle of nerve agent into an elevator and her superior is telling her to gtfo and evacuate the mall and what does she do? Try to pry open the damn elevator doors THAT HAS FUCKING NERVE AGENT IN IT instead of being a damn professional and clearing away civilians??? smh this shit made me check tf out
there was no episode of 60 Minutes on Sep 19 2021, it was preempted for the Emmys on CBS. There was a 9/11 20-year-anniversary special the week prior (9/11/21), nothing on 9/19/21, and then a proper regular episode on 9/24/21
"...decked out in his gold medal and Olympic blazer, Clay visited Times Square where he paid to have a novelty newspaper printed up with the headline "Cassius signs for Patterson Fight," tried his first slice of cheesecake, and at Birdland, a popular jazz club, asked the bartender for a coke with a single drop of whiskey."
"they can imprison us but they can't imprison our souls" an unironic piece of dialogue from a teenage male character jfc :face_vomiting:
"Flag of South Africa"
"close...Garfield"
the way Jen, Noelene's sister, half-heartedly and full-confusedly returns Rob's bow lol
