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What TV SHOWS are you watching?
I've been enjoying CHEF'S TABLE: BBQ lately as well. Amazing people absolutely busting their asses to make barbecue, which is probably the USA's grandest culinary tradition.
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The effects budget is a little dodgy but they got some good actors in there. Poor Leslie Bibb plays a teenager in half of her stuff and now is an octogenarian or whatever
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I don't know if you go in for GBBS for the baking or the exceedingly charming good nature of the contestants, but I've found the Great Pottery Throwdown to be a good substitute. It's got the same niceness and camaraderie, but here they're making pottery. The host/judge couldn't be more opposite of Paul Hollywood in temperament. He literally cries when he sees great work.jeb wrote: We've wrapped up all the GRET BRITISH BAKING SHOWs as family time. They are great and the most recent champ copped to getting into baking because of previous GBBO seasons, so now it's officially self-fulfilling. Matt Lucas is a huge upgrade, and Paul Hollywood is a tremendous asshole. Enjoy.
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jason10mm wrote: Watching it right now as well. Juuuust enough hook, especially the last 2 minutes of each ep, like a lot of shows these days (is that a well documented writing/editing trick?). Fortunately it is not YA like I thought, much more like The Boys minus most of the OMG moments. Still, I'm about done with daddy issues being a prime character trait leading to near obsessive compulsive behavior.
The effects budget is a little dodgy but they got some good actors in there. Poor Leslie Bibb plays a teenager in half of her stuff and now is an octogenarian or whatever
The comparison to THE BOYS crossed my mind as well -- while I prefer their take on "modern deconstruction of superheroes," sometimes the performative edginess gets a little "oh come on." JL is pretty solid mid-tier as far as superheroic TV shows goes. I'd put it on par with the better seasons of Flash or Arrow. Entertaining; hope they continue it but apparently the reviewers are panning it so it might not get another season.
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Edit: I never watched the second season of The Boys so I guess I didn't like it very much.
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So it’s above average and worth a look once you’re done with Ted Lasso. Have to do something with that remaining year of Apple TV.
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jason10mm wrote: I just realized why the time jumps in Jupiters legacy are so easy to follow. They change the aspect ratio for each period (and lean into the color grading). A LOT of shows could learn from this because as this style of show editing becomes basically mainstream it can be very hard to follow. Sisyphus was a disaster because of it (for me).
The equivalent of this has been standard operating procedure on computer screens for a couple of decades, where different fields, even different screens have a different color background or text depending on what you can do with them. I project I did ten years back had read-only screens that were just the slightest shade creamier than the data entry screens and end-users subconsciously picked it out by day four of production go-live.
Shows I've seen in the past use black and white for flashbacks, but conceptually this can be done across a broader spectrum of tells. Often flashbacks with feature music from the era to announce where you are (when you are I guess) which is also useful.
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Legion switched to Cinemascope when it was a different time period than the main timeline.
Black Mirror's Trek episode used 4:3 in the prologue and 16:9 for the rest of the episode
Westworld (series) went form 16:9 to 2:35:1 for multiple scenes, showing that they're taking place in virtual reality.
Homecoming did this with different time periods.
Wandavision changed aspect ratios when moving between the augmented reality and the real world.
But changing the color grading like that is a new and fantastic idea.
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Despite that, I’ll stick with my “solid mid-tier” assessment. I will watch season 2 if they make it, and be disappointed if they don’t (especially given the twist in the last episode), but I don’t feel compelled to rewatch season 1.
I would be all over a pulp superhero show set entirely in the 20s and 30s. Just jettison the modern-day stuff and give me globe-trotting, jazz, Lucky Strikes, speakeasies, and maybe a little Nazi-punching.
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