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ranbalam said:
Wow, you have really helped me gain more understanding on some of the nuances of the show. I think a second viewing would help me catch more of this and be able to discuss it on a deeper level. It truly is outstanding, and yet it doesn't seem like many people have watched it.
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I now want to do a Netflix party with you and @Indymisanthrope with Rectify.

Should we try? I'm totally serious. Indy's insight and our conversation about it all would be so engaging. But also, it might be challenging to schedule so.....
 
DUUUUDE!!!! HBO Max is a cartoon lovers dream. AT&T owning WB and Turner gives you a complete collection of classic Loony Toons and pretty much every original Adult Swim and Cartoon Network show AND all of Studio Ghibli. I am very pleased.

EDIT: they also have a Crunchy Roll collection (for all ya Anime nerds out there) so much good stuff!
 
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
DUUUUDE!!!! HBO Max is a cartoon lovers dream. AT&T owning WB and Turner gives you a complete collection of classic Loony Toons and pretty much every original Adult Swim and Cartoon Network show AND all of Studio Ghibli. I am very pleased.
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THIS IS AMAZING!! Thanks for the heads up.
 
Teeeee said:
I now want to do a Netflix party with you and @Indymisanthrope with Rectify.

Should we try? I'm totally serious. Indy's insight and our conversation about it all would be so engaging. But also, it might be challenging to schedule so.....
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That would make it even more fun to watch again. Well, fun and that show don't go together, I guess I mean it would motivate me to dive in again.
 
ranbalam said:
Wow, you have really helped me gain more understanding on some of the nuances of the show. I think a second viewing would help me catch more of this and be able to discuss it on a deeper level. It truly is outstanding, and yet it doesn't seem like many people have watched it.
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Teeeee said:
I now want to do a Netflix party with you and @Indymisanthrope with Rectify.

Should we try? I'm totally serious. Indy's insight and our conversation about it all would be so engaging. But also, it might be challenging to schedule so.....
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I don't know if I'd have much to say in the moment other than "oh I remember this one, it's really good." This show just really lives in my head: it feels like the more time I give it, the more it reveals itself.

Some of the things I've said above are things I don't think the show consciously addresses (like my thoughts re: Jared) -- the strength of the show though is that the world is so well developed that you can really think about it from any one character's perspective and get a whole new outlook on what this story is about. I'd put it up against The Wire as a show that can be political commentary about unjust institutions, and be a personal drama, and be kind of its own philosophical exploration, while also being a procedural crime story.

Anyway, yeah I've never done a Netflix party, but I would be willing to give it a try. Definitely not the best way to experience this show for the first time though.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I don't know if I'd have much to say in the moment other than "oh I remember this one, it's really good." This show just really lives in my head: it feels like the more time I give it, the more it reveals itself.

Some of the things I've said above are things I don't think the show consciously addresses (like my thoughts re: Jared) -- the strength of the show though is that the world is so well developed that you can really think about it from any one character's perspective and get a whole new outlook on what this story is about. I'd put it up against The Wire as a show that can be political commentary about unjust institutions, and be a personal drama, and be kind of its own philosophical exploration, while also being a procedural crime story.

Anyway, yeah I've never done a Netflix party, but I would be willing to give it a try. Definitely not the best way to experience this show for the first time though.
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Agreed, Netflix party is not conducive to first viewings of dramas. At all. I've used it for Nailed It and that weird show about making things out of plants and concerts.

I thought it would be a cool 2nd viewing tool.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
DUUUUDE!!!! HBO Max is a cartoon lovers dream. AT&T owning WB and Turner gives you a complete collection of classic Loony Toons and pretty much every original Adult Swim and Cartoon Network show AND all of Studio Ghibli. I am very pleased.

EDIT: they also have a Crunchy Roll collection (for all ya Anime nerds out there) so much good stuff!
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Yes! Lots of great content from the Turner networks too (TBS and TNT). For instance, it has Men Of A Certain Age, which I'd always heard good things about but had never found it streaming anywhere.

And the Ghibli films seem to be in both English OR Japanese which is nice.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
It was a really good show, no jk
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Oh, I am sure it is. I really do enjoy all of them as actors and I recall all of the critical acclaim attached to it when it came out. It reminds me of the similarly lauded The Good Wife, while I am sure they are quality shows, they lack a “coolness” that you would tend to associate with being hyped about. Again, to each they’re own. my small minded brain just found it a bit humerus.

It’s like a poster test, when someone talks about how rad something is I think about whether someone would hang a poster of it up on their wall, a Men of a Certain Age poster is kinda funny to picture. (Bring on the Etsy MOCA poster links).
 
Really, really enjoyed the first season of Dead to Me, but I didn't like the way they wrote their way into a second season at all. Just doesn't seem believable to me. They threw that really brief discussion in the first episode but it didn't seem believable either. Still like it enough to keep watching, just frustrating me a lot!

Edit:lol, maybe I should have waited til we finished the first episode? Guess I shouldn't have assumed I knew what happened? They played me like a fiddle I guess.
 
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I've been trying to get my kid to watch Buffy for a year or so now, but I made the mistake of telling her the first season kinda sucks and the show gets a lot better after that, so she's been resistant to it.

Well I finally caught her in a moment of weakness and now it turns out SHE F*CKING LOVES the first season and tore through 10 eps last night. I'm a little nervous now about whether she'll still like it when it actually gets good and the goofy "our teacher is a praying mantis / uh-oh, Xander is possessed by a hyena" stuff* is a thing of the past.

She's also the type of person who reads lots of spoilers, and I'm trying to tell her that doing that will ruin a lot of the fun this show has to offer, but I don't think she's listening, which is too bad. Buffy has some true surprises in store if you don't know what's coming.

(She doesn't know yet that Angel gets his own series eventually. I think it's going to be a fun thing this summer to watch her pack 12 seasons of this into her brain.)

*Edit: Speaking of that hyena episode, this show barely got through half a dozen episodes before one of its plot points was a group of teenagers eating their principal alive during the school day. And at the end of the ep they're all just like "meh, well, you guys didn't know what you were doing, you weren't in control." Those kids have not even pooped yet; THERE IS A MAN DIGESTING IN THEM and they're like "welp, see you in geometry, roll credits!"
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I'd put it up against The Wire as a show that can be political commentary about unjust institutions, and be a personal drama, and be kind of its own philosophical exploration, while also being a procedural crime story.
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Speaking of The Wire; this second viewing is revealing a ton more for me. One example is that I am way more invested in Bubbles' story this time around. (just finished 4 last night) And S4 really demonstrates the hopelessness of so many peoples' situations, especially the kids. It's gripping and heartbreaking at the same time. I probably rated the seasons after my first viewing, not sure I would have put S4 up top then, but this time around it has to be among the best of the 5 for me. Looking forward to S5.
 
ranbalam said:
Speaking of The Wire; this second viewing is revealing a ton more for me. One example is that I am way more invested in Bubbles' story this time around. (just finished 4 last night) And S4 really demonstrates the hopelessness of so many peoples' situations, especially the kids. It's gripping and heartbreaking at the same time. I probably rated the seasons after my first viewing, not sure I would have put S4 up top then, but this time around it has to be among the best of the 5 for me. Looking forward to S5.
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Yeah, I think 4 was the best too. Did HBO ever complete their HD remaster? I tried to rewatch my old DVD set a while ago and it looked so terrible on an HD screen that I gave up and donated it.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Yeah, I think 4 was the best too. Did HBO ever complete their HD remaster? I tried to rewatch my old DVD set a while ago and it looked so terrible on an HD screen that I gave up and donated it.
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I'm not sure. I've been watching it OnDemand on cable. I don't even have a DVD player anymore since my XBox blew up.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I've been trying to get my kid to watch Buffy for a year or so now, but I made the mistake of telling her the first season kinda sucks and the show gets a lot better after that, so she's been resistant to it.

Well I finally caught her in a moment of weakness and now it turns out SHE F*CKING LOVES the first season and tore through 10 eps last night. I'm a little nervous now about whether she'll still like it when it actually gets good and the goofy "our teacher is a praying mantis / uh-oh, Xander is possessed by a hyena" stuff* is a thing of the past.

She's also the type of person who reads lots of spoilers, and I'm trying to tell her that doing that will ruin a lot of the fun this show has to offer, but I don't think she's listening, which is too bad. Buffy has some true surprises in store if you don't know what's coming.

(She doesn't know yet that Angel gets his own series eventually. I think it's going to be a fun thing this summer to watch her pack 12 seasons of this into her brain.)

*Edit: Speaking of that hyena episode, this show barely got through half a dozen episodes before one of its plot points was a group of teenagers eating their principal alive during the school day. And at the end of the ep they're all just like "meh, well, you guys didn't know what you were doing, you weren't in control." Those kids have not even pooped yet; THERE IS A MAN DIGESTING IN THEM and they're like "welp, see you in geometry, roll credits!"
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I really really need to rewatch buffy. I say it is my favorite show but I haven't watched any of it in so long. The musical episode used to be my "falling asleep to after coming home from the club messed up" tv. Lol
 
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