romad1 Posted June 22 Posted June 22 1 hour ago, oblong said: yeah season 1. It's been on my radar since the beginning. My wife and I have different tastes in shows and movies. It's hard to get her over the hump into "serious" stuff. But she also loves Mathew. The arc between those two characters matches a lot of male professional relationships that i have experienced. I had a co-worker that I was literally sick to death of and working to have a government boss fire and by the end we were brothers. He just hit me up about his retirement over Iran. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 25 Posted June 25 (edited) I caught a bit of this last night. It's streaming on Nexflix. Extremely well done a nice collection of historians and former political leaders as well https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-american-experiment-documentary-release-date-news https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/the-american-experiment-trailer Edited June 25 by CMRivdogs Quote
Edman85 Posted June 25 Posted June 25 On 6/22/2026 at 8:01 AM, romad1 said: If you mean Season 1...its the best stuff those two have ever done. By "those two," do you mean Woody and Matthew, or Ben Verlander's ex? Quote
Edman85 Posted June 25 Posted June 25 I am looking forward to Larry David's new show tomorrow. The reviews are saying there is a mystery narrator. I assume it's Obama, since he is producing the show, but my dark horses are Mel Brooks and George W. Bush. Quote
romad1 Posted June 25 Posted June 25 1 hour ago, Edman85 said: By "those two," do you mean Woody and Matthew, or Ben Verlander's ex? all of those Quote
Edman85 Posted June 27 Posted June 27 On 6/25/2026 at 5:49 PM, Edman85 said: I am looking forward to Larry David's new show tomorrow. The reviews are saying there is a mystery narrator. I assume it's Obama, since he is producing the show, but my dark horses are Mel Brooks and George W. Bush. Samuel L Jackson it is... Quote
Deleterious Posted July 9 Posted July 9 Variety said Tom Hardy will not be fired for season 3. Negotiations are underway to bring him back. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted July 9 Posted July 9 45 minutes ago, Deleterious said: Variety said Tom Hardy will not be fired for season 3. Negotiations are underway to bring him back. that's certainly an over the top cast for an over top concept! Quote
oblong Posted July 13 Posted July 13 The Bear lost me last season and this year so far thru episode 4 that’s continuing. I just can’t get past massive flooding and roofs caving and people doing prep work in the next room. Quote
Deleterious Posted July 14 Posted July 14 Yeah, they are taking a beating over that on restaurant/culinary forums. Still better than seasons 3 and 4. I also thought the finale was pretty well done. Quote
chasfh Posted July 14 Posted July 14 I crapped out on The Bear toward the end of Season 1 Episode 1 because I have zero interest in stories about blithely damaged people. Quote
Edman85 Posted July 14 Posted July 14 On 7/12/2026 at 9:40 PM, oblong said: The Bear lost me last season and this year so far thru episode 4 that’s continuing. I just can’t get past massive flooding and roofs caving and people doing prep work in the next room. I haven't been in a rush to watch the newest season. I do know my sister-in-law auditioned to be a background extra in either Season 3 or 4 but didn't get it. Quote
oblong Posted July 15 Posted July 15 I do like the short episodes. Anything over 40 minutes becomes kind of a chore. We need to catch up on Lasso this summer. Quote
romad1 Posted July 15 Posted July 15 (edited) 18 hours ago, chasfh said: I crapped out on The Bear toward the end of Season 1 Episode 1 because I have zero interest in stories about blithely damaged people. You don't just go hang out at 12 step meetings just to feel something? Edited July 15 by romad1 Quote
romad1 Posted July 15 Posted July 15 I've had 99 Luftballons in my youtube feed a bit lately. In the show Deutchland 83 they really convey just how tense things were in 1983 especially among "the kids" in West Germany. This song has the best translation of the German lyrics. 1 Quote
oblong Posted July 15 Posted July 15 I can't hear that song without thinking about Dirk and Reed running away from Rahad while Cosmo (He's Chinese) lights his firecrackers. Quote
chasfh Posted July 18 Posted July 18 On 7/15/2026 at 8:24 AM, romad1 said: You don't just go hang out at 12 step meetings just to feel something? This is tricky to articulate, but, I’ve had my own peculiar type of damage throughout my life that I constantly acknowledge and work on, so I have enjoyed shows about people who struggle with their own damage and work to overcome it. That can be inspirational to me and I root for them to succeed. I do find shows that practically celebrate people’s damage—where it’s portrayed as a good thing because they pretend the damage is necessary to feed their talents, so they lean into it and flaunt it and win with it—to be off-putting, because that doesn’t feel real to me. That’s a very different thing than living with the damage and doing the best you can with it while working on it. I hope I threaded the needle right on this one. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted July 18 Posted July 18 43 minutes ago, chasfh said: This is tricky to articulate, but, I’ve had my own peculiar type of damage throughout my life that I constantly acknowledge and work on, so I have enjoyed shows about people who struggle with their own damage and work to overcome it. That can be inspirational to me and I root for them to succeed. I do find shows that practically celebrate people’s damage—where it’s portrayed as a good thing because they pretend the damage is necessary to feed their talents, so they lean into it and flaunt it and win with it—to be off-putting, because that doesn’t feel real to me. That’s a very different thing than living with the damage and doing the best you can with it while working on it. I hope I threaded the needle right on this one. I buy that. The Bear's infamous Christmas episode is one of those things that exists as art like Guernica that don't necessarily make us feel good about humanity. Although the John Mulaney part is very amusing. Quote
chasfh Posted July 18 Posted July 18 33 minutes ago, romad1 said: I buy that. The Bear's infamous Christmas episode is one of those things that exists as art like Guernica that don't necessarily make us feel good about humanity. Although the John Mulaney part is very amusing. I’ve never heard of that episode, but just read about it, and that seems like the thing I’m talking about. It seems to suggest that kind of chaotic and violent atmosphere, leading to the main character’s damage, is essential to creating and maintaining his talent. So then the conceit of the show becomes, he requires this damage in his life so he can produce at the high level he does, so not only does he not work on addressing it, the show suggests that he should not work on addressing it, because then his talent would disappear, and we the viewers can’t root for that. That’s the part that’s offputting to me. It just doesn’t seem like reality. But then, I’ve had plenty of exposure to worlds like that, especially when younger and have actively sought to avoid them, so maybe I’ll simply never understand why they work for some people. Quote
romad1 Posted July 18 Posted July 18 1 hour ago, chasfh said: I’ve never heard of that episode, but just read about it, and that seems like the thing I’m talking about. It seems to suggest that kind of chaotic and violent atmosphere, leading to the main character’s damage, is essential to creating and maintaining his talent. So then the conceit of the show becomes, he requires this damage in his life so he can produce at the high level he does, so not only does he not work on addressing it, the show suggests that he should not work on addressing it, because then his talent would disappear, and we the viewers can’t root for that. That’s the part that’s offputting to me. It just doesn’t seem like reality. But then, I’ve had plenty of exposure to worlds like that, especially when younger and have actively sought to avoid them, so maybe I’ll simply never understand why they work for some people. Both my wife and i had alcoholic parents and were subjected to 1970s/80s Alanon briefly and both of us chose to reject that model in favor of rejecting the self-indulgent people who we were supposed to look up to as parents. Instead we have inside jokes about the people who hurt us. When she’s mad i ask her if her Dad is in the room with us and so forth. Quote
oblong Posted July 19 Posted July 19 On 7/13/2026 at 8:25 PM, Deleterious said: Yeah, they are taking a beating over that on restaurant/culinary forums. Still better than seasons 3 and 4. I also thought the finale was pretty well done. It was indeed well done. I wasn’t distracted at all. They did a good job. My wife was crying of course. Quote
pfife Posted August 14 Posted August 14 I searched the thread and Dtrain mentioned it in 2024.... but Lioness on Paramount plus is pretty darn great show Quote
smr-nj Posted Sunday at 08:48 AM Posted Sunday at 08:48 AM Chad Powers on Hulu. 😂 Just happened across this a week ago. Had me laughing out loud. Just so goofy/funny. Season 2 - September 3rd. Quote
romad1 Posted Sunday at 02:11 PM Posted Sunday at 02:11 PM You want to know how I know someone shares my sense of humor? I tell them to seek this out and report back to me. If you get the humor -- which requires a degree of patience, some suspension of the so-called left brain logic, and an appreciation for the music history behind all these -- you still must understand this isn't spoon fed humor. This is fine dining, not McDonalds. Quote
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