andyman wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:22 am Watched S1 of Welcome to Wrexham, the thing where Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a Welsh football team.

It's somewhat watchable, but there's an underlying feeling the entire time of it being very carefully crafted with a certain narrative. The two guys try to pass as humble dudes trying to serve a dying town out of sheer reverence for its history (even though there are so many towns just like it), while really the TV show is the product, not the team, and they want to create a merchandising empire.

penningtron wrote: huh... sounds like they unintentionally created their own version of The Curse

andyman wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:04 am

penningtron wrote: huh... sounds like they unintentionally created their own version of The Curse

Just to be clear, at no point in the show is this stuff shown or mentioned. On the surface it's a "feel good stories of the fans" documentary series and I imagine much of the audience likes it for that reason.
But if you read between the lines...

jonsolomon wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:07 am I am very much enjoying A Murder at the End of the World on Hulu.

Five episodes have been released so far, there will be seven in total.

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:01 pm

penningtron wrote: Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:28 am Will probably have to sign up for some free trial to watch Nathan Fielder's new show 'The Curse', anyone seen it yet?

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-cu ... 235786715/

It's a tough one: lots of detestable characters and cringiness with little humorous payoff. Will proceed though..

losthighway wrote: Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:07 am I've been watching movies on Kanopy. It's through the library system so you sign up with your library card. They have a massive and bizarre catalog that runs the gamut of B-movies, documentaries, erotica but also award circuit art house films, classic European and Asian Criterion type stuff, and classic 80's goofball comedies.

I finally caught up on Killing of a Sacred Deer (not fully successful but memorable and delightfully weird), and The Green Knight (I thought it was awesome, took some pages from The Northman or The Last Duel- like wait, Disney was wrong Medieval times were gritty!).

losthighway wrote: Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:07 am I've been watching movies on Kanopy. It's through the library system so you sign up with your library card. They have a massive and bizarre catalog that runs the gamut of B-movies, documentaries, erotica but also award circuit art house films, classic European and Asian Criterion type stuff, and classic 80's goofball comedies.

I finally caught up on Killing of a Sacred Deer (not fully successful but memorable and delightfully weird), and The Green Knight (I thought it was awesome, took some pages from The Northman or The Last Duel- like wait, Disney was wrong Medieval times were gritty!).