TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[heyzeus]

Boooooooooo

[thrill]

Dumb

[thrill]

Hey ghost, Gandalf is appearing earlier than in the books, no? The harfoots bring his first friend is cute tho.

[ghostrunner]

Possible it’s another wizard but that was my first thought

[BottenFieldofDreams]

You guys don't understand what this Amazon LOTR thing is all about. The Stranger is very obviously Rob from Catastrophe. And Adar is Jack Ryan's basic training drill sergeant.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

I don't care how many times they do the same bit. Watching the vampires act like lame humans on What We do in the Shadows will always be hilarious to me. Nandor in the Dream Team uniform does it for me every time. I could just put a poster of that on my tv and probably be happy.

The home makeover episode was dynamite.

[Popeye_Card]

I think this goes in the TV thread. I've started watching the Trainwreck documentary on Netflix, about the Woodstock '99 festival. It has made me realize a few things.

1.) Every once in a while I like to think that the 90's are a top 3, maybe top 2 music decade, mostly on the strength of hip hop but also on alternative offerings from the early 90's. Then I remember that a 1999 concert features Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, and others as supposed headliners, and realize the alternatives at the time were boy bands and jiggy-era hip hop. I need to rethink my musical decade rankings. ~1996-2006 may be the worst 10 year run of popular music in history.

2.) Maybe the reason the world is going to hell is not in fact the boomers, and not the millennials or gen z. This was a late Gen X festival, and the behavior of everyone involved was just horrific. This is the generation of frat boys that are now high level managers at most corporations. Thankfully Gen X has somehow ducked out of politics at the federal level, though maybe they are more entrained at state levels where they are eff'ing everything up.

3.) I said recently on this board that I miss college. After seeing this festival again that is a microcosm of college life in those days, I immediately retract that statement.

[ghostrunner]

I don't care how many times they do the same bit. Watching the vampires act like lame humans on What We do in the Shadows will always be hilarious to me. Nandor in the Dream Team uniform does it for me every time. I could just put a poster of that on my tv and probably be happy.

The home makeover episode was dynamite.

It's so damn good. I think it's the only comedy I've stuck with the past several years, not counting stuff like the Good Place that also has a narrative. What's nice is it's a silly premise there's really no good reason to stick to a formula and so they don't. I kind of miss the old Colin Robinson but also I've seen that, so what they did with him has been pretty fun.

I don't think Matt Berry can say anything without being funny.

Feels like they've gotten looser this season. Like when they were being interviewed by social services and it was just like they said what other scenario can we try and just kept doing them. Made no sense at all but they did it anyway. I could see that getting annoying but it's not a big deal once in a while.

[Smith Corks One]

I think this goes in the TV thread. I've started watching the Trainwreck documentary on Netflix, about the Woodstock '99 festival. It has made me realize a few things.

1.) Every once in a while I like to think that the 90's are a top 3, maybe top 2 music decade, mostly on the strength of hip hop but also on alternative offerings from the early 90's. Then I remember that a 1999 concert features Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, and others as supposed headliners, and realize the alternatives at the time were boy bands and jiggy-era hip hop. I need to rethink my musical decade rankings. ~1996-2006 may be the worst 10 year run of popular music in history.

2.) Maybe the reason the world is going to hell is not in fact the boomers, and not the millennials or gen z. This was a late Gen X festival, and the behavior of everyone involved was just horrific. This is the generation of frat boys that are now high level managers at most corporations. Thankfully Gen X has somehow ducked out of politics at the federal level, though maybe they are more entrained at state levels where they are eff'ing everything up.

3.) I said recently on this board that I miss college. After seeing this festival again that is a microcosm of college life in those days, I immediately retract that statement.

I had almost the exact same thoughts about 90's music - soooo much great [expletive] that I still listen to, but man was there a lot of just plain [expletive]. Just awful.

As far as the behavior of the fans, yeah, all of the sexual assaults and violence were inexcusable. But I was a little sympathetic to some of the "rioting"/destruction of property when I learned just how horribly this thing was produced and run. Full cavity search everybody coming in so they don't bring in a crumb of food or a drop of water, so you can then charge ridiculous prices for food and water, then run out of food and water. Security just non-existent. Disgusting toilet facilities. Just on and on with how they tried to squeeze it for every dollar they could.

Basically, I agree with you that there were a lot of Gen-X a-holes in that crowd, but the biggest a-hole of them all still ended up being a boomer: John "the women basically deserved to be raped because they chose to take their shirts off" Scher (although I think that particular quote - which I actually paraphrased, but not by much - was in the HBO doc, not the Netflix one).

[go birds]

I think this goes in the TV thread. I've started watching the Trainwreck documentary on Netflix, about the Woodstock '99 festival. It has made me realize a few things.

1.) Every once in a while I like to think that the 90's are a top 3, maybe top 2 music decade, mostly on the strength of hip hop but also on alternative offerings from the early 90's. Then I remember that a 1999 concert features Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, and others as supposed headliners, and realize the alternatives at the time were boy bands and jiggy-era hip hop. I need to rethink my musical decade rankings. ~1996-2006 may be the worst 10 year run of popular music in history.

2.) Maybe the reason the world is going to hell is not in fact the boomers, and not the millennials or gen z. This was a late Gen X festival, and the behavior of everyone involved was just horrific. This is the generation of frat boys that are now high level managers at most corporations. Thankfully Gen X has somehow ducked out of politics at the federal level, though maybe they are more entrained at state levels where they are eff'ing everything up.

3.) I said recently on this board that I miss college. After seeing this festival again that is a microcosm of college life in those days, I immediately retract that statement.

oh please---everyone in high school at the time had limp bizkit and kid rock jammed in their cd player.

those guys don't define the 90s though