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The wife has been blowing though The Big Bang Theory of late. I had forgotten just how mean that show could be (often towards Penny) but also to a lot of the other characters. Bingeing it really brings out the repetitive "comedy" cycle. Kinda like Friends it's lukewarm comfort food at best.
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About the only really awesome thing they could do at this point to save this series would be grizzled old Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady wandering into town to torch it all to the foundations
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I know this is the tv show thread, but it is a bit relevant for me to mention a movie that I started watching last night. I recently re-watched the Cube trilogy on Amazon Prime, because I learned that there was a Japanese remake of the original Cube movie, just last year. So, I finally got to the Japanese one last night, and had to jump through some annoying hoops with Amazon just to get English subtitles. Tonight, there were subtitles when I watched True Detective on Max, even though the show is already in English and I didn't choose to have subtitles. Even the brief commercial before the start of the episode had subtitles. So, uh, that is a thing. Since I am not finished with the Japanese version of the Cube yet, I left the subtitles alone for now.
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Cranberries wrote: I have been enjoying Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. It sort of veers between ridiculous and heavy emotion. Something doesn’t quite work but I can’t name it, although I churned through the first season and liked it.
Apparently Phoebe Waller-Bridge worked on the show, and her and Glover also worked on the Solo movie. Waller-Bridge left the show in production and they recast the lead. Bummer to see two talented artists having a tiff.
""It’s like, 'This is how I run my ship.' 'Well, this is how I run my ship,'" he said. "And it’s such a big idea, this show, I don’t think it can have two captains. I mean, she rewrote the pilot, and I saw her script and I was like, 'It’s definitely not my style,' but if she’d done it with her in it, we’d all be like, 'This is a great freaking show.'"
As for how Waller-Bridge ultimately left the show, Glover repeated that it was "like a real divorce where the hardest part is knowing when to say it’s over."
In hindsight I definitely got some "Killing Eve" vibes--like a diluted Killing Eve.
If you need to sell your girlfriend on the show:
Glover told BI that showrunner and co-creator Francesca Sloane, a prior collaborator who had worked with him on "Atlanta," told him that she wanted him to be "sexualized" in the show. Much of that, as he recounts in the production notes, comes through in the 1970s-inspired wardrobe, which saw him dressed in form-fitting, sheer, and tasteful clothing.
For the less-clad, shirtless scenes in the show, Glover underwent a pre-filming process of drinking orange juice and doing pushups. But even the fully clothed moments left an impression on him.
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Overall this season is not as funny as prior ones have been; I did get the occasional laugh.
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