The has been the best season behind Asylum, showing actual true real life horror as opposed to the usual nonsense. A few seasons like Hotel, Coven, Apocalypse I gave up halfway through but this I binge watched due to the immense storyline. It just goes to show that you don’t need supernatural forces, monsters or aliens. I can understand why some believe it to be inferior to prior stories, but forget past seasons and just enjoy it for what it is, a good portrayal of a true horror story.
I really liked this season, and the anthopomorphosing aspect of it too, as well as some very twisted benevolent serial killers?
Some more conspiracy theories too - Was the start of AIDS really so innocent or a deliberate plot...?
Quite a few homophobic morons in the comments I see.
Just an overly violent show about a bunch of predictable and horrible one-dimensional characters where the suspension of reality is constantly needed to push the story along. If Tim McGraw's Dutton knew this was how his offspring would turn out he'd have ended the family line in 1883.
Another take. It's like Dallas but with no one as likeable as Patrick Duffy.
Some hard-care right-wing revisionist propaganda. Poor oligarch rancher-victim and Indians who steal cattle. That said, I'm not halfway through season one and I don't how many bodies they've piled up. It's worth a watch but it's clearly got an agenda.
Absolutely hilarious to me that the very goofy super entertaining openly melodramatic cowboy soap opera has become a culture war talking point for the kind of insufferably tedious people that spend all their time on Twitter virtue signaling about how much they hate virtue signaling instead of spending time with their grandkids or something.
Yellowstone is purely ridiculous in its plotting, completely removed from the reality of modern ranching in a microcosm and 'western' politics as a macrocosm, and incredibly fun because of it - especially Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley who 100% realize what kind of show they are in and what kind of performances it needs - but good lord, the absolute irony of its most ardent and passionate fanboys who take it way too seriously being the kind of fake cowboys that the show itself considers its internal enemy is so delicious that it actually makes the show better in of itself. Newsflash, if you think Yellowstone is owning the libs or whatever I can guarantee you are closer to the try hard out of towners in the valley desperate for 'authenticity' and cosplaying in their cowboy hats than you are to the Duttons, the same way most people who think they are Ricks are really Jerrys.
The first three seasons are all good and get better the more over the top they get, but season four seems to be running out of steam, most likely because almost half of the running time was used as backdoor pilots for at least three spin offs which we all know is the signal of a show stretched too thin, but as long as they resist some of the more obvious pitfalls due to it catapulting into the mass audience it should stay solid.
For fans of Deadwood, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, and Passions.
Classic Buñuel!
Shot in Spain rather than Mexico, just before his masterpiece of surreal claustrophobia that was The Exterminating Angel, this is another pitch black comedy featuring his distinctive visual style and very own brand of delicious blasphemy.
People like clear cut films with the message spelt out. They get frustrated when you have to figure it out on your own. Films like Viridiana are the best kind of films.
The second half of this season was so much better! I actually grew fond of Phoebe. Not so much her friends and I have definitely not warmed up to Kate whatsoever. The twist with Rhys was predictable but still interesting and I like how it showed just how much Joe was deteriorating. I'm glad the writers made him less likable and showed more of how dark he truly is.
Now when he jumped off that bridge I thought 'what will they do with the rest of the episode?' but they took a turn. A TURN! O my, I'm still processing. The joy of knowing Nadia helped save Marienne but the direct agony of seeing what her heroic actions brought her. The way Joe coldly told her that nobody would believe her and the absolute insanity that is Kate... KATE STAYING WITH HIM!? I mean who is worse here? At least with Love it was clear that she shared a darkness with Joe but Kate with her 'changing the world' bull is not in fact as Joe states 'a good person'. She is just as fake as her friends in my opinion.
I love how the ending is fitting to the theme of the show. It's dark and sinister and should in no way be romanticized. The hallucination was a nice touch too... seeing Beck and Love again. I wished they'd brought back Peach and Candace as well but that must've not been possible in terms of the actors and their schedules... I guess? And I didn't even expect to be THIS happy to see Beck but looking back I think we can all agree she was a real victim of Joe.
Goodbye, You.
Very charming and talented rising stars getting the spotlight they deserve. The most interesting part is seeing Gadsby wrestle with the special in the first place, much like the other shitty billionaire they worked with, and again settling in ‘fuck it, better than this not existing.’ Is that the right call? Is this whitewashing Netflix and providing them cover? I’m not sure, and yes, definitely, respectively. But I have to respect the candor. Each comedian had at least one great moment, and I hope to see more of them.
Absolutely hilarious people griping about "woke themes" - you know The Boys is also extremely woke, right??? It's a nonstop critique of fascism, U.S. imperialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and every other power structure that exists. So...yeah.
Anyway...Gen V fucking rocks and I am so excited to see what's next and where they go with everything. It's everything I would have wanted from a spin-off with a younger cast. I'm obsessed with this universe!
I see people complaining this show is too “woke.” I think it is great. I’m liking even more than The Boys.
One of the better shows of the past 3 years, honestly. It's amazing so far.
Don't trust the comments though, very little about this is overtly "woke" - the only thing I can think people are talking about is the fact one of the main characters has the super power to change the shape of their body into male and female at will and thus are referred to as them or they. Or the fact that gay people exist in the series which I guess must mean it's propaganda or something, right? lmao.
i can't take seriously anyone using he word woke (a word that stopped being serious since i don't know, 2014) as a criticism, and i haven't been disappointed yet. these people are hilarious.
show is fine, not a masterpiece but fun.
Wonder how many seasons it's going to take for the anti woke crowd to realize that the series has always been woke and they are being made fun of every episode.
I'm always amazed that the anti woke people don't realise The Boys is making fun of them
The boys is a gritty take on the superhero genre, with similar characters to DC and Marvel comics but make them evil and based on fortune 500 run franchise(s) in america with the top 7 been monetized an corrupt and lets you see the seedy underground when the lights go down. The show is not for the light hearted or your usual christian bible thumper, but is a great watch, start to finish. It's a R-18 rated show and shows it, so don't complain if that offends you. But i recommend "The Boys", i enjoyed it greatly and await the second season!
This decision makes no sense. 2 wins against well nothing
It really warmed my heart to see how almost everyone in the house stood up for Thomas. Even though he was never really liked, they still recognized how wrong it was to ruin a man’s life over something he can’t change about himself, and I really respect them all so much for that.
Maybe it wasn’t entirely realistic, considering how homosexuality was viewed in that time, but I’d like to think that there were still people out there back then who had a compassionate heart and recognized how this cruel treatment would be evil and wrong.
On another note, I just want to point that Edith has grown so much this season! She used to always be so insecure and overlooked, but she’s clearly fed up with it now. I love seeing her have all these strong opinions and working so hard to stand by them. She’s really making something of herself, and I’m very happy for her!
This incredible pilot remember me why I love so much David Lynch. I think I'll love this tv show.
starting this. I hope to be on a journey as absurd as everybody goes about. this is definitely in the David lynch realm already, but it's also so funny AND moving. The principal's speech was so sad.
The same beguiling atmosphere as Lynch's own Blue Velvet, but with the added benefit/distraction of being a TV pilot. Benefit is it doesn't need to wrap up itself within one feature length, so the seeping in of dark surrealism and unease can feel more invitingly slow-burn, natural and intoxicating. The distraction is that it really has to depend on further episodes down the line about what it has established here, so a bad solution (I've heard about mixed reception for season 2 over the years) can lessen this a bit. For now I will cherish one lingering, unexpected grace note among the montage of darkness, disturbance, and terror at the end: Donna's warm and tender interaction with her dad about soothingly mundane stuff.
Compared to the previous seasons this was a disappointment. Well, this one had disgusting gore and splatter galore but it lacked the subtle horror of the previous seasons.
I thought this was absolutely brilliant. The ambivalence in the story paired with the great satire of the filthy rich and self-obsessed it’s just... chef’s kiss :kissing::ok_hand:
The key takeaway of the film, to me, is its subtle offhand remark of American yuppie culture; the tasteful thickness of the way they jab (okay I'll stop) at how everyone is trying to be like everyone else - "trying to fit in," in Bateman's words - that everyone mistakes someone for another and someone like Patrick Bateman can get away with murder.
The whole film is about him needing to fit in but at the same time stand out.
The film toys with the idea of the murder scenes being an imagination that all happened in Bateman's head, but I say the line is only drawn when the things get more ridiculous. It's even earlier than the one they displayed in the third act - when the ATM shows the message to feed it a cat - but when Bateman started hanging out in Paul Allen's apartment. An investigation was going on: why would Bateman intentionally spread their fingerprints all around? Partly perhaps he did want to get caught - the desire to find out who he really is beneath the mundane sameness of corporate life - as the conversation with the lawyer suggested. Partly, however, is his active imagination playing bigger and bigger role as he descended into madness in this third act, as you can see that right after that scene we get the ATM scene and the car explosion scene where even Bateman himself couldn't believe it just happened.
The director did admit that the ending give viewers a wrong impression of what really happened in the course of the film - so I'm basing my comments on that. The surreal last act seems to be ambiguous, but when you consider the change of demeanor from the realtor in Paul Allen's apartment (and the all-white, recently painted rooms) and the lawyer Bateman talked to, that should be telling of the point of the third act. The eerie interaction, tense acting, and the music really made the last act as the best of the film.
Even when the film is intended as a commentary of 1980s hedonistic yuppie culture, I can still see it being relevant today. The consumerist, "getting into the fad" corporatist culture endures even into the culture of Silicon Valley workers. Patrick Bateman is a that obnoxious guy who really likes to hear himself talk - the kind of Twitter people and YouTube video essayists with celebrity syndrome - and the whole Pierce & Pierce young executives competing against each other to sound smart and look posh are just your typical tech workers taking a jab at politics. Their understanding of the events are just skin deep, but they want to look like the best among themselves. This is why the film is great even in 2022 and I think it will stay great at least in the next 10 years.
this show had a 34% score before it even started airing...homophobes are PRESSED!!!
Another great episode! Also, I don’t dislike Tamara, but I think she’s borderline obnoxious. Just a little too extra. Ginger and Michael, on the other hand, are absolute class acts. Excited for the finale.
What a great roast and runway, literally no one missed a beat
It's a shame Banksie had to go, but that lip sync was not it...
A mix between babadook and it follows, horrific, makes you doubt everything. I liked it ! The shots were pretty cool too
