Television, the boob tube, devil box: the bastard little brother to cinema. I am curious if any of you anons have TV recs. Sometimes, I do not want to indulge in a movie, but still want something to watch. Or to put on with a group. Some examples of what I like (but I'm open to anything at all): Two Fat Ladies - A British cooking show from the 90s featuring two rotund women, who visit new places and cook their cuisine. It's short and sweet, doesn't require much investment at all. A very comfortable affair as well, with some aside commentary balanced with interesting cooking. I particularly like that this show toes this line well, sometimes cooking shows get too in the weeds or are basically never about cooking at all (looking at Anthony Bourdain...). Jeeves and Wooster - Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry play an English aristocrat and his manservant, adapting P G Wodehouse's stories from (I think) the 1920s. It's humorous, in an overwhelmingly dry sense, and has a kind of through line plot, but can also just be put on in any order. Laurie and Fry's chemistry is the best part by far. The Leftovers - Early 2010s HBO drama that is "sci fi-ish" about a possible rapture event occurring and taking away 10% of the world's population in an inexplicable manner. The show focuses on the lives of various people in the near aftermath, mostly following Justin Thereux who is an upstate NY cop (if Im remembering correctly). This is an interesting show, because I liked it a lot when I was a teenager, and have recently rewatched it and was not sure if it held up. Would be curious to hear if anyone else has opinions on it. Pic unrelated
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
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>>4567
>>4563
>right-brained dysphasic dream logic
What do you mean?
I didn't know it was the same guy who did Lost lol, I probably should have. I remember trying to give Lost the old college try, but it didn't stick well. Maybe it's worth revisiting.
I like that The Leftovers is a piece of art which resists an urge for explanation. It still utilizes logic, emotion, even the profundity of both of those, but doesn't give much way in terms of actually being able to sit with them in a satisfactory manner.
Speaking of, season 3: You especially like it? Interesting, because on my second viewing, I liked it more but season one had my heart from the beginning. The first felt like it held better balance between the need for drama to move a story forward and the urge to philosophize on itself.
Season three felt like it threw drama to the wind (maybe because of the whole budget issues) and decided to say fuck it. Which, its boldness has great success, but also some weirdness such as the very last scene where I'm unsure if we are given a real explanation or if it's made up metaphor, an unsureness which I'm a little sure is intentional.
However, I'll always enjoy The Leftovers for the hotel episode. I always liked that one. A kind of mundane dream merged with the real weight of afterlife and life.
The Leftovers is pure kino, especially seasons 2 and 3. It's all right-brained dysphasic dream logic but it fucking WORKS.
I think about it as Lindelhof's better purer version of the same themes as Lost. Internet nerds ruined Lost by trying to solve it -- reducing an artwork to a puzzlebox. Leftovers comments on this by having several characters at several moments say "there is literally no use in explaining this by rational terms. All that matters is what we do now in the aftermath."
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.4567
>>4568
>>4567
(Nice get)
By >right-brained dysphasic dream logic
I mean that if you just trust in the themes and vibes you'll never be disappointed in the Leftovers.
Very THC-heavy I feel.
>>4712We were talking in another thread about The Young Pope. It is beautiful and strange.
>>4567
Leftovers is very good I find. Season 3 even made the search for an explanation tedious (like in real life: whatever the grief, you can't cry forever, or ask why forever. At some point, it just gets boring).
>>4563
The Leftovers is pure kino, especially seasons 2 and 3. It's all right-brained dysphasic dream logic but it fucking WORKS.
I think about it as Lindelhof's better purer version of the same themes as Lost. Internet nerds ruined Lost by trying to solve it -- reducing an artwork to a puzzlebox. Leftovers comments on this by having several characters at several moments say "there is literally no use in explaining this by rational terms. All that matters is what we do now in the aftermath."
>right-brained dysphasic dream logic
What do you mean?
I didn't know it was the same guy who did Lost lol, I probably should have. I remember trying to give Lost the old college try, but it didn't stick well. Maybe it's worth revisiting.
I like that The Leftovers is a piece of art which resists an urge for explanation. It still utilizes logic, emotion, even the profundity of both of those, but doesn't give much way in terms of actually being able to sit with them in a satisfactory manner.
Speaking of, season 3: You especially like it? Interesting, because on my second viewing, I liked it more but season one had my heart from the beginning. The first felt like it held better balance between the need for drama to move a story forward and the urge to philosophize on itself.
Season three felt like it threw drama to the wind (maybe because of the whole budget issues) and decided to say fuck it. Which, its boldness has great success, but also some weirdness such as the very last scene where I'm unsure if we are given a real explanation or if it's made up metaphor, an unsureness which I'm a little sure is intentional.
However, I'll always enjoy The Leftovers for the hotel episode. I always liked that one. A kind of mundane dream merged with the real weight of afterlife and life.
>>4567
>>4563
>right-brained dysphasic dream logic
What do you mean?
I didn't know it was the same guy who did Lost lol, I probably should have. I remember trying to give Lost the old college try, but it didn't stick well. Maybe it's worth revisiting.
I like that The Leftovers is a piece of art which resists an urge for explanation. It still utilizes logic, emotion, even the profundity of both of those, but doesn't give much way in terms of actually being able to sit with them in a satisfactory manner.
Speaking of, season 3: You especially like it? Interesting, because on my second viewing, I liked it more but season one had my heart from the beginning. The first felt like it held better balance between the need for drama to move a story forward and the urge to philosophize on itself.
Season three felt like it threw drama to the wind (maybe because of the whole budget issues) and decided to say fuck it. Which, its boldness has great success, but also some weirdness such as the very last scene where I'm unsure if we are given a real explanation or if it's made up metaphor, an unsureness which I'm a little sure is intentional.
However, I'll always enjoy The Leftovers for the hotel episode. I always liked that one. A kind of mundane dream merged with the real weight of afterlife and life.
(Nice get)
By >right-brained dysphasic dream logic
I mean that if you just trust in the themes and vibes you'll never be disappointed in the Leftovers.
Very THC-heavy I feel.
We were talking in another thread about The Young Pope. It is beautiful and strange.
>>4567
>>4563
>right-brained dysphasic dream logic
What do you mean?
I didn't know it was the same guy who did Lost lol, I probably should have. I remember trying to give Lost the old college try, but it didn't stick well. Maybe it's worth revisiting.
I like that The Leftovers is a piece of art which resists an urge for explanation. It still utilizes logic, emotion, even the profundity of both of those, but doesn't give much way in terms of actually being able to sit with them in a satisfactory manner.
Speaking of, season 3: You especially like it? Interesting, because on my second viewing, I liked it more but season one had my heart from the beginning. The first felt like it held better balance between the need for drama to move a story forward and the urge to philosophize on itself.
Season three felt like it threw drama to the wind (maybe because of the whole budget issues) and decided to say fuck it. Which, its boldness has great success, but also some weirdness such as the very last scene where I'm unsure if we are given a real explanation or if it's made up metaphor, an unsureness which I'm a little sure is intentional.
However, I'll always enjoy The Leftovers for the hotel episode. I always liked that one. A kind of mundane dream merged with the real weight of afterlife and life.
Leftovers is very good I find. Season 3 even made the search for an explanation tedious (like in real life: whatever the grief, you can't cry forever, or ask why forever. At some point, it just gets boring).
I don't think so watched season 3. Big gap and I never picked it back up. The show felt like it would never resolve anything meaningful and I don't mean that in the sense that I want everything nicely wrapped up. I mean the main skill of TV writers seems now to be a distracting song and dance and they have no deeper interests or background to say anything else besides that which is necessary to distract you with drama for a bit. If I liked that, I'd watch reality TV. I come to fully scripted television to experience something entirely different.
>>4851
I don't think so watched season 3. Big gap and I never picked it back up. The show felt like it would never resolve anything meaningful and I don't mean that in the sense that I want everything nicely wrapped up. I mean the main skill of TV writers seems now to be a distracting song and dance and they have no deeper interests or background to say anything else besides that which is necessary to distract you with drama for a bit. If I liked that, I'd watch reality TV. I come to fully scripted television to experience something entirely different.
But the last episode wraps everything up.
I finished The Sopranos for the first time recently. It was okay for Amerislop.
The Sopranos is definitely overrated, but it's great.