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The Ugly Stepsister - gory parts have stayed with me in the days since

Neighbourhood Watch - like comfort food

It was weird… Nice visuals and I enjoyed thinking about the concept once all was revealed, but narratively it was a bit weak and the actions of several characters don’t really make sense to me in context. It was enjoyable as like a super-extended flylo music video lol

Yeah, I start the shower hot then gradually increase the temp as I get used to it, and I’m usually in there until the hot water runs out. I’ve had housemates comment on how hot I have it based on the position I left the tap mixer. But it’s a critical part of my wake-up routine, the very first part of which is getting up to pee. So I rarely need to pee mid-shower. If I do, I just hop out and pee while dripping wet and hop back in.

Anyway, between that and my morning coffee I need to get up at least an hour before I leave for work. I’ll compromise with a takeaway coffee if I’m running late, but if I’m so behind that showering is gonna make me late, so be it.

To me it’s like saying, what are you actually doing when you get a massage?

Enjoying it

Have a Kodi add-on setup integrated with trakt and custom widgets. So whenever I load up Kodi I get a feed of

• New episodes for shows I already watch as soon as they air
• New trending shows (in descending order of current viewers)
• Newest shows on steeamers like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, BBC (which depend on the fine folk whom add them to trakt lists)
• Recommended shows from trakt

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)

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.

!showsandmovies@lemm.ee is locked, please redirect to !Television@lemm.ee 😊

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.

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.

The same can be said for many episodes in 10-episode seasons, and due to that constraint those examples are more disruptive to plot progression and tend to be counterbalanced with episodes which rush progression but aren’t actually good.

I’m a millennial and always felt this way, but after my industry of expertise was recently shut down domestically I moved into an entry level role elsewhere and it’s now much worse, even with semi-decent labour protections in my country

Moto g play 2024. Happy with it. My flatmate just got a new Galaxy, which cost about 9x as much. For my use case, I’m missing a brighter display, esim support, and gorilla glass. That’s not worth paying 9x. My battery also lasts significantly longer.

Usually a can opener, after the tabs on the woolies brand cans fall off. Thanks, duopoly!

You gotta actually break the procurement cycle where they receive books free to own themselves and it’s not some janky copy before they realise this way is better

Check their libraries for their favourite authors. Get them a Kobo. Load it up with their favourite author’s bodies of work before giving it to them. Problem solved.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for your parents hassling you for more books