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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Finally started watching Seinfeld and oh boy, I'm mad at myself for not starting sooner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought people were protesting Seinfeld because Jerry is a pedophile and Zionist. Nonetheless, it is a funny show. Also, try Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Longlegs. Pretty good movie that leaves you guessing with a neat twist at the end

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Beat Bobby Flay and I’m salivating over a Korean BBQ meatloaf. (He won)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I bet he used Calabrian chilies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Accountant

  • It was fun

Project Power

  • loved this one

The Fall Guy

  • it had some good scenes, but I found myself getting bored during a lot of the dialogue
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

My wife and I watched the fall guy while we worked last night. We both thought it was a really good movie but weren't fully paying attention. There were a few scenes that had us both shutting our laptop lids a little waiting to see how it played out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I caught Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and it was a fun time, I appreciated the practical effects and dourly hilarious dialogue and characters. Not a huge Juice head, but I thought it was a fun popcorn movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

finished DARK. Woahhhh!!! Starting The Acolyte. So far kind of meh. If by next chapter doesn't improve, I'll stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Slow Horses Season 4 which is excellent as always, and Bad Monkey which is my favorite thing on TV right now. It’s just brilliant.

Both on AppleTV+

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Deep Space 9, Episode 6.

I've never watched anything Star Trek before, and DS9 is shaping up to be a pretty damn good start to the series. Benjamin Sisko was a super engaging character right away, and I'm really enjoying moving through each of the cast and getting to understand them.

This one was the O'Brien episode with Tosk.

DS9 'Captive Pursuit' spoilerI really like weirdo characters that make sense within their own context, and Tosk definitely checks those boxes. Even if the whole institutionalized bloodsport thing is fucked up, by the end of the episode it was hard not to think of OBrien's call to let the hunt continue as the correct choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Was on the road working this whole week. Watches “You” on Netflix and caught up on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Star Trek Voyager

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rings of powers, only Murders on the building and Snowpiercer.

For movies Kind of Kindess, love it. Latitmos is the best. The Favorite and Poor Things were good, but didn't felt as much as their style, but Kind of Kindness is right on his field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Am I on the minority for liking rings of power?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think is Ok, and I like it like that. People expect every show to being Game of Thrones 9.9/10, and anything that doesn't get to that is completely trash, but they're space for 7/10 shows too.

I'm enjoying the pace of this season, were they don't feel the need to show every character on every episode, and they don't feel all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Blue Lights

Highly recommended.