I haven’t watched Succession but checking some clips he does sound different there.
Alright, Succession is now on my list. Cheers.
Because I read a short but positive review from someone I trust and whose politics I align with who led me to believe it was not so unseemly.
I think they were wrong.
They might be if the butt of the joke (or at least the premise of the joke) wasn’t that one just kind of “meh” character (or rather non-character) wasn’t in on it.
Or, you know, maybe it’s not that. Maybe it’s just that I think it would be better (less obviously filler) if the non-character “straight guy” was actually present and his reactions (credulous or not) were in some way humorous and actually shaped the scene.
I’ll be curious as to how you find it. There wasn’t a likeable character in the whole thing. The acting was good, but the plot line was repetitive, IMO, and I got bored with it long before it ended.
I think it’s just to convey that Guiteau was so fundamentally weird.
I know Sirens has been mentioned a few times in this thread. I’m halfway through it and have no idea where it’s going, but so far I’m really liking it.
I also just started a show called Trust Me: The False Prophet. It must’ve just come out today since everything I’m seeing about it online is only a few hours old. If you’ve seen Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey*, this functions as a good follow up to it. It goes into what happened to the FLDS people after Warren Jeffs ended up in prison and left a power vacuum. It’s interesting in that the people filming it, one of them being a cult expert, convinced the locals that they’re doing a doc to give the world their side of the story after Jeffs was arrested. In reality, they were gathering proof of what was going on and turning over the law enforcement.
(*I swear I didn’t know it was by the same people as Keep Sweet until I went looking for this trailer to post)
They did something in this doc that I’ve never seen before and haven’t decided how I feel about it. Instead of blurring out victim’s faces, they deep faked a different face over them. The faces are still blurred in the trailer. In the show itself, they didn’t transition to the deep fake thing until a little ways into the first episode.
Guiteau? Get out is more like it!
(Seriously, I loved that they found a way to incorporate that missive from his Oneida days into the story, and loved the… miniseries as a whole?)
Ted
Recommended.
I saw both Ted movies and thought they were pretty funny. Not amazing, but I do recall some funny scenes.
The sitcom is quite similar and does have a few great humorous moments in it. I prefer it to the movies, to be honest. The main human guy is only 17 or so and somehow, that is a better age for him to have a talking, walking teddy bear.
Nothing here will draw you in if you did not like the films.
I agree. I loved the first film, and was pretty Meh about the second. But I liked both seasons of the TV show even more than the movies. I binged both seasons when they dropped.
I love Succession, but it is incredibly cynical and dark.
I hate-watched Succession. It’s incredibly cynical and dark, and it’s also boring and eye-rolling unrealistic. No way an idiot like Roman, with no social or business skills, would get within a mile of a C-suite. They’d give him a title like Senior VP in Charge of Strategic Planning, and nothing of importance to do. And no one in real life uses that much profanity.
My sister watched it, but I didn’t. When she was watching the final season I did watch one episode with her, and it was jarringly overfilled with the profanity. It was like the writers tried to stuff as many f-bombs into one scene as they could, and it came across as really fakey and contrived. Didn’t make me more interested in the series, that’s for sure.
You should watch the documentary about the Murdochs on Netflix, many of the events of the show are taken from their lives.
You described my experience perfectly. The opening episodes of Season 1 were pretty good, but it went downhill and stupid after that.
A BritBox series called “The Jetty” (2024). A police procedural more or less, but dark and moody, with an incredibly angry protagonist (her anger is aimed at the right things, but it constantly undermines her, and she is often unlikeable).
The dialogue is fantastic, and Jenna Coleman is perfect in the role. I’m only recommending it if you can sustain that kind of mood for four episodes.
You… have a very optimistic view of wealth and privilege.
And no one in real life uses that much profanity.
I don’t recall anything remarkable about his profanity (which I guess is my roundabout way of saying… maybe I swear too much?).
I started watching season 3 of Lisa Kudrow’s show The Comeback. It’s been pretty funny so far.
Ever watch Welcome to Wrexham? The Wrexham coach Phil Parkinson drops multiple f-bombs per sentence on a regular basis, to the point where sometimes the show counts them. And he’s a nice guy.
The new series of Taskmaster has begun. Contestants are Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett, and Kumail Nanjiani (he’s so famous!). Available on YouTube, though not for me apparently.
That’s my main gripe about “Shrinking”, the Apple series with Harrison Ford and others. A funny show at times, but we’ve really gotten tired of it, and the constant profanity is part of it.