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Succession is delicious and torturous in equal measure. I truthfully couldn't handle it in 2020, being a snowflake and all. But I'm glad I fired it back up. It gets a little absurd in a couple spots in a way that doesn't seem to work. But it's a really good show that I love and hate.

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BottenFieldofDreams wrote:
May 5 21, 2:49 pm
Succession is delicious and torturous in equal measure. I truthfully couldn't handle it in 2020, being a snowflake and all. But I'm glad I fired it back up. It gets a little absurd in a couple spots in a way that doesn't seem to work. But it's a really good show that I love and hate.
Precisely. I think it's a show that asks its viewers: "Is this a comedy?" It is without a doubt a satire of a certain industry and class, if not just the Murdochs specifically. But in its short run so far, it's given us so many indelible moments: Jeremy Strong rapping, Cameron from Feris Buehler's vanity run for president as an outsider pseudo-intellectual libertarian, and specifically the line "in order to make a tomlette, you have to break some gregs."

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First run through I enjoyed it but really wanted them all to die. Second run I settled in and enjoyed it a lot more. It's a thrilling, invigorating bummer. Greg is the one decent person, but the show seems to suggest decency only happens when there's no outlet for ambition. Deadwood is optimistic by comparison.

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It is very cynical. But somehow the tone of it allows me to engage in a way where I hate it but it doesn't piss me off.

Rewatching Ted Lasso has been a good antidote.

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I got a little tired of The Boys so I started watching AP Bio on Peacock. I really like it. Its another B+ show for me.

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By the way, I also tried the new Michael Schur (Parks & Recs/The Good Place) show, Rutherford Falls. I was pretty excited because the reviews are excellent and I consider Parks & Recs and The Good Place place to be top ten shows. Unfortunately I think the show is pretty terrible. Ed Helms has no business being a leading man and most of the jokes don't work. I couldn't even make it past the first episode.

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I can't do Ed Helms.

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Michael wrote:
May 12 21, 6:55 am
I got a little tired of The Boys so I started watching AP Bio on Peacock. I really like it. Its another B+ show for me.
Season 2 is amazing.

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I just finished season 1 of "Resident Alien". I think they spread too little plot over the ten episodes, while having characters who the showrunner claims are central to the plot (Sam the doctor's wife; Linda Hamilton) almost never onscreen. It was okay, and the central core of characters were excellent, but I think they need to do some fairly serious retooling for season 2.

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thrill wrote:
May 12 21, 10:42 am
I can't do Ed Helms.
That's what she said!

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