at this rate the 6th episode of the 3rd season is just gonna be the cast apparating around you and berating you for 80 minutes straight
Can't remember the last show/episode that has made me laugh out loud so heartily and so often as this did
what a stupidly fun episode
Chet Hanks & Ziwe is the perfect marriage of subject and interviewer
I'm just here to stan Alyson Hannigan
what an insanely good episode
Tom telling the blind girl not to use the word 'watched' because it's insensitive to the visually-impaired is a Hard Quiz moment that will never be beat
favorite group of contestants yet
Plays out like a thriller. A real life, better version of Taken. VICE isn't going through the motions in its last month on air.
reading up on Bolshevik history
"he took out her tonsils" "AND HE WON'T GIVE 'EM BACK!"
the 30-year-ago versions of the Derry Girls
matching baby blue suitsCanadian American James
uncasually dropping Bolshevik history into conversation
"he left on account of things getting bomb-y"
"Don't Sicilian spiral"
"Thanks for the off put"
"Dawn do a spit take for me"
"Knock knock. But not literally because I just had surgery for a knuckle-skin lift"
"I am IN LOVE, and I am NOT pretending to be happy"
"Why did you just quote my wedding vows?"
"You thought you were dying because a cat was following you"
"I was at a nursing home and that cat kept following people before they died"
Nuggetizer
"My parrot also impersonates construction noises"
"I can't be pregnant I took 3 pregnancy tests. Oh wait they're thumb drives. I peed on thumb drives in the dark"
"We have a quorum now let's get it started"
is this what Portuguese television is? what have I been missing out on
"Flag of South Africa"
"close...Garfield"
promising start, easy rapport between Melanie and Tim, each amiable in their own right, breezy pace, solid jokes and good delivery (and affability to shrug off ones that don't quite land) on a range of topics. I coulda done with the whole episode being just Melanie & Tim, if there's a weakness it's the segments with the culture/sports commentators felt lesser than the two co-hosts just feeling like they're shooting the shit with each other. looking like a solid addition to my AUS media diet
occasionally good
I was whelmed
"What I REALLY want from post-apocalyptic zombie sci-fi is a melodramatic high school soap opera"
-No one ever
Also the principal could've easily talked to Billie's teacher to check that she was in class at the time that that girl was attacked.........
the pacing is so bad it felt like a clip show
the camerawork during the warehouse/Daredevil fight just pulled way too much attention to itself, was focusing more on the camera movement than the fight. the 1-shot scene preceding it also felt done just for the sake of having a 1-shot, flashy & gimmicky with no purpose, everything about the fight scene (albeit generally competently staged & executed) felt far too choreographed
every moment this season predictably goes exactly where you think it will and takes a longass time getting there
did they just casually mention the pandemic (and retcon this whole season show as taking place during the pandemic) for the first time when absolutely no one had been wearing a mask or socially distancing or acting as if the whole world had been in a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic during every single previous episode???
if you get stabbed you don't pull the object out unless/until you're able to treat the wound lest you bleed the f out and someone of joel's intelligence and experience as established by the show would know that
Guess I'm in the minority but I really really didn't care for this ep
The whole thing felt icky, like, I get it, it's suppose to put us in Diana's shoes and feel hounded and the claustrophobia of always being in the midst of paparazzi or even normal civilians turning into hoards (Elizabeth Debicki saying filming those scenes made her feel physically 'trapped') but I absolutely did not need a one hour slow walk into her death it felt like prestige-bait tragedy porn and all the bits about Dodi maybe summoning up the strength to stand up to his father and Diana being one day away from seeing her boys and how she didn't want to be in Paris in the first place and Diana and Dodi magically solving each other's issues and their lives ahead were gonna be so grand!!!!! were just so patently pulling at heartstrings to make the viewer go oh if only she hadn't been in Paris/the driver didn't tell the Paps/the driver wasn't drinking/etc etc they could've had a grand life!
the weaknesses of the first episode really came to the forefront here from the annoying new family going through the whole "what no this can't be true!" routine to some creaky writing ("if you find the right spot even a nightmare can look like a dream" :face_vomiting::face_vomiting::face_vomiting:) a lot scenes that were very effortfully trying more than actually doing
:pray:thankful Barry Keoghan dodged this bullet
melodrama trying to be prestige TV
how did that lady jump out of the backseat of the cop car do the back doors of cop cars in Spain (actually I think it was in England but it's hard to tell with each episode changing locations at least 9x) not lock or something this show has gotten so stupid
I'll watch this at work during break I said
If there's anything NSFW I'll just dim the screen and hunch over my phone I said
Gen V Episode 1 33 minutes 22 seconds: Challenge Accepted :smiling_imp:
covers some interesting ground but the host's questions were so mind-numbingly bad, looked him up after the ep and yeah, model & entertainment reporter, makes sense
3 years into Brexit and this was the best segment they could muster about it? Drone-shots of coasts on sunny days and talks about tectonic plates about when Britain was literally physically part of the European landmass? There are so many intricacies and dimensions to Brexit the segment didn't cover, shedding shed nary a light on why a good portion of the UK population voted for Brexit, about European rules made in Brussels that do make life harder for a decent segment of the population (bureaucratic stipulations over fishing limits impacting livelihoods of working-class fishermen), the difficulties and all the policies, trade agreements that need to be severed and rewritten to disentangle the UK from Europe, to say nothing of the noise, disinformation, scare tactics, exaggerations, and outright lies in the war of words, the faltering of the Labor Party, strengthened LibDems, etc etc. Instead the segment was made for 6th graders who'd never heard of Brexit before.
Delicious has gone from sparing, effective sentimentality to unearned sentimentality to forced sentimentality. Cloying/Schmaltzy/Cliche dialogue (especially the voiceovers) doesn't help things
oh look, another episode this season where the cliffhanger fundamentally-changes-the-show event from the end of the last episode is undone in the opening minutes
