We like episodic stuff, not long drawn out story arcs. Simple stuff for simple minds.
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Omfg each episode is short and stand alone. It’s topical following this guy in ny: John Wilson. One episode might be about how to split a check. Or how to cover furniture. It’s a documentary comedy. It’s brilliant. And uplifting. Many episodes. It’s a brilliant show
Knock knock.
Have I had a chance to talk to you about The Leftovers?
Everything good HBO has made is on there I believe.
Watch how to with John Wilson. @Marvin the Martian you would really enjoy it
I'm definitely going to check it out now. Thanks my brother!!
Probably Season 1 of White Lotus or Barry. Barry are 30 minute episodes and season 1 is more dark humor vs just being dark like season 3 and 4.
Season one of White Lotus is pretty funny on its own per episode but it has a season arc. Season two is great also but it's not as quirky/funny. Season 2 is more serious in tone.
Going off the gf factor...she LOVES and was instantly hooked on White Lotus. She also loves Succession but it took about half of season one.
She has no interest in HOTD, Leftovers, Season 1 Westworld or Barry once it got darker (but did kind of enjoy season one, particularly Stephen Root as Fuchs) which is weird because she's a complete murder show junkie.
The Staircase (both the documentary and the HBO movie) hooked her quickly. Plus I don't want to doxx myself but my sister had a decent role in The Staircase. Gotta give her props for making a career out of background characters but she's gotten to do scenes with Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and now Toni Collette. Not too shabby!
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There’s an episode where he’s at an mtv concert that is hysterical. Ridiculous
The leftovers
HOTD
GOT
Succession
Curious case of natalia grace
Chernobyl
Mare of east town
True detective seasons 1 or 3
Station Eleven
You’ve probably seen many but you get the idea
Holy shit! That was insane and those people are wackadoodles! Thanks for the recommendation. I love documentaries and I kind of have a thing for little people too, so this was right up my alley. Can’t believe I don’t remember the case.
Yep, grands. She scored 12 goals today, lol. They switched her to the other team at half, but there wasn’t anyone to sub for her, since some kids were out. She’s got an allstar type thing coming up end of summer. Will be interesting to see what they do, as they just bought a lake place and aren’t going to want to travel every weekend when she gets older. Oh and she was playing against all boys part of the time. The older isn’t competitive, but this one is.
Side note: the 9 year old is going to Taylor Swift tomorrow in Chicago. Has your daughter hit you up for that, Mcmurty?
Watched the 3 part documentary on catching Jared Fogle on Max. The journalist from Sarasota made it all about her.
Can we go ahead and change the Zionsville mascot to Predators?
Lol I figured. We got them in the midst of the Ticketmaster mess when they first came out. It’s quite a phenomenon. Little girls to old folks like her. My college girls are mostly going. Even saw Aaron Rogers last week. You’d be Dad of the Year.
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My daughter is going tomorrow. Sat next to a woman on a plane this last week from NYC flying in to see the Friday show. Said she's the same age as Taylor and is her biggest fan. I found it . . . odd. She had many opinions about Matty Healy and that no-good manipulator, John Mayer.
As for movies, if anyone has kids or loves comic books, the new Spiderman: Across the Spider-verse is superb. The animation is as good as the first one and I liked the story. In fact, I think this and the last one are the perfect way to do the whole substituting POC for white people thing. They don't harp on it, instead they just cast different, minority groups and go along and tell a story without preaching. Very well done. I think my son likes Miles Morales more than Peter Parker and I don't blame him; I might, too (and Spider-Man was always my favorite comic growing up).
Watched the first episode of White Lotus. Please tell me it gets better. It has to. Even if you say so, I'm not sure I can get the Boss to watch another one...
We quit after that episode, so I cannot answer. But I don't know how people kept with it
Probably my mood. I’m sometimes triggered by whiny sounding voices. Probably projection. Who f*cking knows.
Hmmm I'm kind of surprised the boss also didn't like it. Obviously you started with season 1 (the head of the hotel is a dude and I think it's in Hawaii . Season two is in Italy/Sicily and the head of the Lotus is a chick).
Season two takes awhile to get going but season one for us was a quick grab.
My bad. It won like a billion Emmys and was the trendy show of the time.
'HBO's “The White Lotus” was the most-winning show of the night, receiving five awards during the night including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and 10 total awards when combined with the Creative Arts Emmys.Sep 28, 2022'
Goes to show different strokes. I really liked white lotus. Only saw the first season. Look what that bitch Lars wrote about the show I love
I'm definitely going to give your show a watch, it's sounds right up my alley.
Right now the gf and I'm in deep with Netflix's 'Dark' and loving it
Plus I've always loved Steve Zahn's humor. He was classic Zahn in the White Lotus.
I did forget to warn that there is a shocking thing in about every episode, like when Zahn is worried he found a lump in his balls and the camera cuts right to his nuts. It's kindof Borat like in that manner.
Watched the first episode the other night (based on your recommendation) and it was pretty good. The stuff at the MTV spring break party in Cancun was hilarious - especially the part where MTV was freaking out because he was always looking the wrong way and obviously appeared out of place.
Silicon Valley, if you haven't seen it. God I love TJ Miller. Am I cancelled yet?
