Fair enough. I think it subverts the genre tropes enough to keep it interesting. More so than The Boys for example.
Plus I still get plenty revved up over a good action sequence featuring an indie band I like, like Amyl & The Sniffers (whom it seems Black Mirror just discovered as well)
Invincible?
It can be funny as like a case study in emotional manipulation by producers.
And then you realise people actually are gullible enough not to see through it and it's not funny anymore.
I use game pass all the time, but I still have access to alternatives so I can stop without giving up treats really
I've just been replaying it again since it was included in gamepass - already have hundreds of hours racked up between PC & Switch.
Definitely my favourite roguelite. And the soundtrack is so good. Haven't tried Exit since I heard bad things, and I never really got to the point where I'd fully completed the first. But that teaser got me super pumped.
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This week I watched:
Ludwig - excellent
Deli Boys - not bad
Cassandra - made me sad
Curb - hadn't caught up on S12 yet
The Studio - super interesting but not convinced I really like it yet
You can't really have a 'flagship series' with 6 episodes per season. By the time weekly viewers have determined it's worthy of water cooler conversation, it's finished. Bingers blast through it in an evening. What a waste of talent and resources.
It's cold. Good on hot days or to use in an iced coffee/latte etc.
Most of the time it's not worth the extra time, in my opinion.
Can you heat it before drinking it?
Sure, it's just bean water either way. Should be a bit less bitter than a regular brew.
I think the trope developed over the course of the TV renaissance period post-early 2000s. At the time The Sopranos S1 was released, it didn't exist. The most interesting season of The Sopranos is S6, because it subverts expectation of a series runtime to experiment as a kind of celebration of the established universe and characters and their interactions. It is more than a pastiche of itself though, as it goes in genuinely new directions. 21 was the number of episodes which naturally suited the creative direction of the season and series, within reason of course. Not an even number or multiple of 5, not a number designed to perfectly fill a network timeslot.
GoT (earlier seasons) & Better Call Saul are great examples of shows that effectively harness the 10-episode constraint and deliver great story arcs in spite of them, as I recall. The Wire is another. I think Mr Robot S3 is harmed by the same constraint, where focus was diverted away from storytelling and toward marketability, both to studios and audiences. A different runtime could have improved the show, but by that point in the industry & culture that isn't something that would reasonably be on the table. The more modern version of what Sopranos S6 was is Ozark S4 - forced. Format is now restricted to a 'full length' 10-episode season or fewer, or it is purposefully different as a contrivance of industry. And I highly doubt that was a boon for those highly rated & popular full length series, good as they are.
Shrinking S2
The Devils Hour S2
Teacup
Constellation S1
Mr & Mrs Smith S1
Boy Swallows Universe S1
I think most series are constrained to their respective runtimes and while those constraints do shape the nature of the themes they have the capacity to explore, it isn't always a problem even for series with fewer than 10 episodes. I haven't watched either of those recently enough to speak on them, but I think 10-episode series have become a de facto standard that is problematic for many shows and seasons. Severance S2 and The Bear S3 come to mind as recent examples. Both tend to experiment with the form of episodic storytelling in a way which, while interesting and worthwhile in my opinion, ultimately serves to make their respective season arcs less cohesive as a direct result of that constraint.
Have a Kodi add-on setup integrated with trakt and custom widgets. So whenever I load up Kodi I get a feed of
And then a separate similar set of widgets for movies. I find the trakt recommendations include a lot of old movies too. So if I can't find anything I want from the feeds of new stuff, I just pull up the trailer for one of the old movies I'm recommended and take a punt on it if I'm interested.
For YouTube I just use the recommendation algorithms (delivered via SmartTube)