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Author:  Bamba [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 14:56 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
clearly just trying to copy The Office at that time


Probably not a massive surprise given that:

Quote:
Ben Silverman...asked Greg Daniels to create a spin-off of The Office. Daniels co-created Parks and Recreation with Michael Schur, who had been a writer on The Office. The two spent months considering ideas for the new series and debating whether to make it a stand-alone rather than a spin-off.

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 15:45 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Come on, that picture took me minutes!

No crew.

Back row.

Author:  Trousers [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 17:00 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re singling me out when a number of people have said that they’ve switched off after the first couple because of them being unfunny, but if you feel you need to make a point somehow, :shrug:.

I'm not attempting to single you out or trying to make a point, I'm merely replying to the post you made.

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Starting to think Mimi watched a different show to the rest of us.


If you’re in a group of people where’s there a divide of opinion or peer difference, a bully or someone playing for power or dominance will often single out a single person with an opposing opinion to make a point of that one person having a different opinion from the rest of the group. Person X has a different opinion ion from the rest of ‘us’. They’ll often phrase it so that that one person seems to be different from the entire rest of the group, whether that’s true or not. Often they’ll do this to one of the people they see as weakest in a group. By singling one person out as an ‘US versus that one person’ in the phrasing it often stops those others who also have the opposing view from saying so as humans naturally want to have the ‘right’ view. It happens loads in playgrounds whether it’s brand of trainers, characters on backpacks, anything. Even more in offices and meetings. Relationships, friendships, whatever. So, whether you think you are or not, you are making a point and singling me out. Whether you see it as bullying or simply bolstering the validity of your opinion by making it out to be the popular opinion against what you paint as the weaker, lone voice, it has the same effect.


SHUT UP JERRY

(Not being mean to you Meems - it's just that what you have described perfectly fits the group's behaviour towards Jerry in Parks and Rec)

Author:  Mimi [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 17:51 ]
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:kiss:

Author:  Grim... [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 20:50 ]
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Kern wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Also I think every single classic ensemble comedy gets a lot better over the first few hours, as the cast and writers knit together.


My rule of thumb is most US shows peak in their third and fourth seasons.

Man, Firefly is doing to be great!

Author:  myp [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 22:14 ]
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We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.

Author:  devilman [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 22:18 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


The Good Place?

Author:  myp [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 22:21 ]
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devilman wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


The Good Place?

Sal has already watched it

Author:  TheVision [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 22:39 ]
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Seinfeld? I'm watching them again and they're brilliant.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Wed Feb 07, 2018 22:46 ]
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Detectorists. Funny enough but more than anything a relaxing and lovely place to spend 20 minutes. Like Witcher without the war. In Essex.

Author:  LewieP [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 0:19 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.

The end of the fucking world, on Netflix.

Author:  myp [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 0:32 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.

The end of the fucking world, on Netflix.

Seen it. It's brilliant.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 0:40 ]
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Californication.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 0:40 ]
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Or animated Black Dynamite.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:06 ]
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I've had Derry Girls recommended to me recently but haven't started watching it myself yet. The helicopter pitch is apparently Father Ted meets The Inbetweeners.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:08 ]
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Also, and this is going back a bit, but if you haven't watched Raised By Wolves then you need to fix that ASAP as it's fucking incredible.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:12 ]
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Also also: Man Seeking Woman is genius.

Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:58 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


Season One of Parks and Rec

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:14 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


Season One of Parks and Rec


:this: :this: :this:

Best opening for an ensemble comedy ever.

Author:  myp [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:17 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


Season One of Parks and Rec

Seen it all, at least twice! I didn't die.

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:19 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


Season One of Parks and Rec

Seen it all, at least twice! I didn't die.


Third time's the charm

Author:  LewieP [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:42 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Also also: Man Seeking Woman is genius.

I haven't really watched the show except for that one episode where Eric Andre was The Joker and I only watched that because I'd been saying for quite some time that he should play The Joker.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Feb 08, 2018 13:00 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Also also: Man Seeking Woman is genius.

I haven't really watched the show except for that one episode where Eric Andre was The Joker and I only watched that because I'd been saying for quite some time that he should play The Joker.


This is an incredible story.

Author:  Cras [ Sat Feb 10, 2018 13:54 ]
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Having seen lots of comments along the lines of "Travellers is surprisingly good", I gave it a shot. 5 episodes in and, well, Travellers is surprisingly good.

Author:  myp [ Sat Feb 10, 2018 14:10 ]
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Cras wrote:
Having seen lots of comments along the lines of "Travellers is surprisingly good", I gave it a shot. 5 episodes in and, well, Travellers is surprisingly good.

It's surprisingly good

Author:  GazChap [ Sun Feb 11, 2018 17:49 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.

Get yo'self a Plex account and the Plex app for your TV or whatever. Then send me your Plex username.

Author:  Mimi [ Sun Feb 11, 2018 17:59 ]
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Don’t sign him up to the GazChap comedy podcast without content warning, first. Humour differences aside the segments of you and that Hungarian man with all those goats at the waterwheel are just disturbing :/

Author:  Mimi [ Sun Feb 11, 2018 17:59 ]
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The Parsnip Angels are good though.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Feb 11, 2018 18:01 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
Detectorists. Funny enough but more than anything a relaxing and lovely place to spend 20 minutes. Like Witcher without the war. In Essex.


:this:

It's wonderful.

Author:  GazChap [ Sun Feb 11, 2018 19:17 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Don’t sign him up to the GazChap comedy podcast without content warning, first. Humour differences aside the segments of you and that Hungarian man with all those goats at the waterwheel are just disturbing :/

:DD

Author:  devilman [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 15:19 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
devilman wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
We need a new 20-min episode comedy show now we've finished S4 of B99. Any suggestions? Preferably on Netflix or Prime Video.


The Good Place?

Sal has already watched it


I imagine most people have seen a lot of this already, but Amazon added all nine seasons of Scrubs today. I might have to give it a watch myself as I've only seen a handful of episodes really.

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 15:22 ]
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Scrubs is great - Dr Cox is a legend.

Do yourself a favour and stop at the end of season 7, though.

Author:  Mimi [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 15:31 ]
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Aw, I love Scrubs. Dr Cox and the janitor are both great characters. All the characters are great characters. It’s hilarious and yet, occasionally, will make you very reflective and can be a bit of a tearjerker.

Author:  myp [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 18:05 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Scrubs is great - Dr Cox is a legend.

Do yourself a favour and stop at the end of season 7, though.

Dr Cox is a prick at the start but I love his journey.

Author:  asfish [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:08 ]
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Amazon has bought the rights from the Tolkien estate to do a TV show, rumor is they paid $250 million for the rights and are sinking another $750 million into 6 seasons of the show.

They are going to do a Conan the Barbarian show as well.

By all accounts, they are not seeing the success with internally scripted shows as Netflix has, so are buying in established stories to try and get their subscription figures up.

Author:  JBR [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:17 ]
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That's a fairly hefty investment. More than just a (NO! - Ed) Tolkien gesture.

Author:  markg [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:20 ]
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I'm sure that anyone spending a billion pounds must know what they're doing but I can't help wondering if there's really going to be the appetite for a more twee version of Game Of Thrones.

Author:  asfish [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:32 ]
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markg wrote:
I'm sure that anyone spending a billion pounds must know what they're doing but I can't help wondering if there's really going to be the appetite for a more twee version of Game Of Thrones.


I was thinking that the main stories have been done in the films, so you have to wonder what the show will be about over a possible 6 seasons.

The article I read said the Amazon has sunk $4.5 billion into their TV business already and were frustrated that they haven't see the results they expected for the investment.

A billion is peanuts to Amazon so no guarantee they won't make a mess of this, still, with over $100 million a season budget, you have to hope it will be good.

Author:  Kern [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:34 ]
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A four-camera sit-com where hilarity ensues as Frodo has to cook a dinner for his boss.

Author:  Mimi [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:46 ]
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markg wrote:
I'm sure that anyone spending a billion pounds must know what they're doing but I can't help wondering if there's really going to be the appetite for a more twee version of Game Of Thrones.

I love Game Of Thrones. I love twee!

Author:  asfish [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:56 ]
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/ ... how-series

Looks like there will be a lot of new shows with big budgets coming out in the next few years, Amazon, HBO, Dinsey, Netflix, and Apple are all competing for subscribers and are going to use their deep pockets to make shows to get them.

Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:27 ]
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asfish wrote:
A billion is peanuts to Amazon...

I can assure you, no matter how much money a company has or plans to have, if a billion dollar investment doesn't pan out the bosses don't just shrug and go "oh well!"

Author:  RuySan [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:13 ]
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Anyone has seen "Electric Dreams"?

First episode was ok, but the themes that were explored were much more deeply done in other PKD novels.

The 2nd and 3rd were much more to my liking. Very eager to watch the rest, even though the intro looks like something out of a geocities webpage from the 90s.

Author:  LewieP [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:25 ]
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Yeah, it's hit and miss, like most anthologies, but certainly worth a watch. They got some great actors in there.

I think Bryan Cranston is a PKD fan, since he said the reason he was in the Total Recall remake wad because it was going to be a more faithful adaptation (didn't work out that way though).

Author:  RuySan [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:40 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Yeah, it's hit and miss, like most anthologies, but certainly worth a watch. They got some great actors in there.

I think Bryan Cranston is a PKD fan, since he said the reason he was in the Total Recall remake wad because it was going to be a more faithful adaptation (didn't work out that way though).


That's funny because for me the original Total Recall feels the most authentic PKD adaptation, even more than a "A Scanner Darkly" which was almost a copy of the book.

Author:  MaliA [ Wed Feb 21, 2018 17:34 ]
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Amazon to make Culture series. Which is amazing.

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/966312919079112705



Author:  myp [ Wed Feb 21, 2018 17:34 ]
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Hmmm.

Author:  RuySan [ Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:08 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Yeah, it's hit and miss, like most anthologies, but certainly worth a watch. They got some great actors in there.

I think Bryan Cranston is a PKD fan, since he said the reason he was in the Total Recall remake wad because it was going to be a more faithful adaptation (didn't work out that way though).


Seen fourth and fifth episodes.

The 4th (the one with steve buscemi) was by far the weakest. Very confusing tone and not very focused. But it was worth it for the sexy synth lady. :kiss:

5th (the one with Anna Paquin) was pretty cool, although these themes are probably too cliched now in a post Black Mirror world, but PKD invented them, so it's ok.

Author:  markg [ Wed Feb 28, 2018 18:29 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
Having seen lots of comments along the lines of "Travellers is surprisingly good", I gave it a shot. 5 episodes in and, well, Travellers is surprisingly good.

It's surprisingly good

I think reading these comments must have raised my expectations a bit too high. It was alright until after they did the main mission and then there were some stupid filler episodes and now I can't see us bothering with any more.

Author:  Cras [ Wed Feb 28, 2018 18:45 ]
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Season 2 picks things back up a bit

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