So based on ER and long running TV shows, yeah more makes sense. The major problem with The Pitt, of which there are few, is that it has to cover a year worth of stories in one 15 hour shift.
You look at characters like Louie, it’s clear we’re meant to fall in love with him over a long period of time. I think they’ve done an excellent job with his story in the two seasons we’ve had, but his story is meant to be a slow burn, where 25+ episode seasons are happening.
Mike Colter and Finn Jones, who played Luke Cage and Danny Rand, respectively, on the original era of live-action Marvel-Netflix shows, were spotted filming new Daredevil: Born Again episodes with Krysten Ritter.
We’re getting the band back together. 11/10.
Resurrection felt like classic Dexter, so I say let’s keep it going as long as the quality remains.
Excellent. The first season is usually the roughest when it comes to Star Wars animation, so knowing that we’re already moving forward is great news.
(Although it’s weird now because it’s Filoni approving of Filoni.)
There’s a lot of world-building across the season’s slow-moving ten episodes, which feels like a waste given how familiar even casual TV watchers are with the original series.
I still plan on giving it a watch, but that’s a bummer.
I thought Handmaid’s Tale told a great story, even if it went on a little long. I had hoped this series would be telling a new or different story that we hadn’t seen before.
The end of our previous story looked like it was setting up a future that needed and was in the process of being fixed. With Aunt Lydia returning I thought we might get a long redemption story (redemption is probably the wrong word, but a character truly trying to make up for their mistakes.)
So Cohn did mention comprehensive privacy laws and the ability to leave platforms. These are absolutely things that need to happen.
However as an individual there are still things you can do. Cohn mentions Bluesky because it has no algorithm (except the “Discovery” feed). Cohn also mentions (in the video) Mastodon. And the truth is you don’t need to switch fully, just don’t only slurp down the concentrated hate machine(s).
Look at Lemmy. Reddit decided to be pricks and a bunch of individuals jumped over here to create what I think is a pretty good community. That doesn’t mean the problem is solved. That doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t still a problem. That doesn’t mean Lemmy is perfect. But that is a win and something individuals can do.
Additionally, those are things you can do now. You don’t need to wait for some law to be passed to fix things. You can make the move now. (While still advocating for laws to fix things.)
I also use Debian Testing with GNOME and it works perfectly fine.
Think of Ubuntu as a supported version of Debian Testing.
If you’re going to build on top of something, it’s helpful to build on top of something that is supported and tested.
(FWIW I also run Debian Testing.)
Overall I liked this season more than season 1. I wasn’t sure after watching season 1 if this season would work since I think season 1 ended fairly weak, except for Xavier’s story, and I feel the same again.
First, I don’t care about the bunker people plot. We’re murdering people and no one really seems to care. I think Sinatra as a character is interesting, but if she’s dead now that’s fine by me.
Second, Xavier’s story is excellent. It is ridiculous, but excellent. I’m guessing the reveal in season 3 will be that all his unlikely adventures were planned by our Alex supercomputer. Link meets a guy who traveled across the post apocalyptic United States, found his baby momma, has his baby, and then traveled all the way back to Colorado just to reveal the baby. There is a 0% chance of that happening.
Third, I don’t recall any hints in season 1 that this show was going into sci-fi and time travel. So the season 2 reveal feels like a huge shift. I’m in, but it just feels like a huge shift.
It feels like they’ve lost the plot a bit with this trailer. It was one thing in season one where it’s high school students exploring sex and drugs, especially as they overdo it and take it to extremes. The special between specials looking at it retrospectively. Season two digging us further into the hole. And I suppose season three is the logical next step now that they’re adults. I guess I would have hoped our characters grew more. Or reflected more directly the adult stories that were slowly revealed.
I’m still interested in watching, but I’m concerned.
I guess shout-out to !asoiaf@lemmy.world
And since TV/film discussion is like 75% of the reason I use any of these sites shout-out to,
*(I mod these, so Liz Lemon high five.)
Lemmy feels about the same, but Reddit seems much worse.
Now to be fair I don’t know if Reddit is actually worse, because when I browse Reddit now it’s while I’m logged out and via a browser (force old.reddit.com and OldLander extensions). So the site is A) harder to navigate than it used to be and B) my experience is less curated and I see more crap and C) because my experience is less curated I’ve lost access to many of the niche communities.
As an example if I want to read some discussion about the recent Game of Thrones prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” I can find a small community here on Lemmy. Nice people, but too few of us.
So I go to Reddit. If I search I find r/AKOTSKTV which is fine, and I find r/GameOfThrones which is fine. But I have to know, as a previous Reddit user, that maybe r/ASOIAF is also a great choice. Or if I want some real shit r/freefolk is where the glory lives.
So for that universe I know where to go. But for a new series? For a new niche? For a new community? I don’t know shit. I’ve found some of the more niche communities by luck. That’s what I would have been subscribed to in the past. I would have been in the community and in the comments and discovery was natural.
But nowadays I just get the front page of Reddit, and the front page kinda sucks.
But Lemmy? Yeah it sucks sometimes too, but at least there is a community.
When asked by Entertainment Weekly for the publication’s cover story if a reboot — potentially a gender-swapped spinoff now centering on Leah — could be next, Kaczmarek replied: “It’s a whole new set of characters and circumstances that are ripe.”
It worked for [Boy,Girl] Meets World and Full[,er] House, at least for a few seasons, so I can see why it might happen.
The ratings for the inaugural episode…drew a respectable 226,000 viewers
Online, and particularly YouTube, where “SNL” skits tend to have their most successful half-life, Fey’s opening monologue attracted over 1.6 million views in less than 48 hours, followed by the Keir Starmer cold open with 1 million views.
It’s interesting because those YouTube views are roughly in line with the viewership of SNL in the US (on YouTube).
I wonder if the same people are watching both series.
Jensen Ackles is great. Aya Cash was severely underutilized in previous seasons so I’m glad to see her back.
A prequel series is always tricky to do well, so I hope it works well, but we’ll have to see.
The plus side to being a prequel is that it’ll give Gen V plenty of story freedom. (Technically Gen V should have been lower stakes, but that didn’t happen, so if you’re going to have large stakes then keep it with one series.)
Exactly. The balance is key. But it is a difficult problem.
Especially because I assume certain details are decided before they are written. The Pitt could be 8 episodes, or it could be 25 episodes. The story they are telling is flexible.
But that isn’t true for every show.
"And one of the things that kind of got neglected was, for lack of a better word, broadcast-style shows… so more than seven or eight episodes – in the case of The Pitt, 15 episodes – and really the ability to return on an annual basis, which is somewhat of a lost art.
I mean obviously broadcast TV still does this, but glad to see streaming services finally picking up on it.
Some series are still best told in 8ish episodes, but some need more room, so hopefully we see more of this.
I mean it’s not a carbon copy of Dragon Quest Builders 2, but it’s made by the same team/company and has obvious overlap. They definitely took DQB2 as a starting point and made it Pokemon themed.
It’s the rare show that I think gets better season after season.
We’re on Minecraft 26.
I’m still amazed Jessica Jones didn’t appear this week. Daredevil is in a vigilante prison, freeing vigilantes, and he frees Swordsman who immediately begins helping everyone else. It was the perfect moment to free Jessica.