l'official march 2023 tv thread

[gauchojake]

Perry Mason is back for season 2 which is pretty cool. The set design and wardrobe are excellent as is the acting. I really liked the first season and ep 1 was pretty good. I like a good LA crime noir film/series.

[betcheckbet]

I know we have a few horror fans on here. Guessing you guys have seen "x" . Well now "Pearl the prequel is streaming as well. Both very well done. It's also fair to say that Mia Goth has the cluster B girl down to a tee. No coincidence she is married to Shia labeouf.

[sonatine]

i just started watching the final season of snowfall and im not going to fucking lie; im 3 eps deep so far and this shit is a serious, serious, serious bummer.

[betcheckbet]

Yellow Jackets season 2 just launched. Yet to watch but season 1 was great

[sonatine]

caught up on snowfall. if you stop and think of the major events in the previous season that brought the show to this point, its basically nonsense.

like not even a spoiler why on fucking earth didnt the CIA kill franklin _then_ steal his money? theres literally no reason whatsoever to leave franklin alive. it simply makes no fucking sense. they killed a reporter, they killed his dad, they drop bodies all over the place, but they are squeamish about franklin? really?

same with the dude coming back from africa after having some sort of spiritual epiphany, realizing it was a huge mistake, being told by his best friend and mentor to get the fuck back to africa, and then sticking around to get into gunfights and sell crack again? its just impossible to respect any of this.

they easily could have had franklin somehow survive the attempt on his life and then conduct a war from the shadows that got us to this point.

its all so arbitrary and jarring and weird, like its the final 6 hours of the series, why make it all so cartoonish?

also they straight up stole their new opening splash screen deal from gomorrah and i see them.

[sonatine]

thoughts on s3 mandalorian;

it could be a lot worse, im just saying.

[sonatine]

thoughts on s3 mandalorian;

it could be a lot worse, im just saying.

for all the indefensible acting, dialog, and editing, those vfx do slap on occasion.

[gauchojake]

I started Mando 3 but then got sidetracked. Watched "The Consultant" which was ok. There's some pretty big holes in the story but Christopher Waltz is just too fun to watch. It also reminds me of many of the consultants I know so there's that.

I started Rabbit/Hole and watched the 2 eps that are out. Apparently Kiefer Sutherland really became a vampire all those years ago filming Lost Boys. It's ok but Perry Mason is the best thing out right now. My humble opinion.

[sonatine]

i just started watching the final season of snowfall and im not going to fucking lie; im 3 eps deep so far and this shit is a serious, serious, serious bummer.

the most absolutely dumbshit lazy ass sort of writing is when a major character gets clipped and then, even tho you have 4 fucking eps left, you spend 25% of them ruminating on everyones fucking trauma and emotional needs.

[sonatine]

honestly so much of mandalorian feels like someone asked chatgpt to write video game quests.

[sonatine]

Couple things here - first of all no chance Disney releases Ahsoka while mandalorian is airing. I’d expect a summer release at earliest.

Secondly these screen rant trailers are fan made and annoying as shit as they just recycle scenes from either previously aired scenes or scenes from already released trailers. Thus the terrible Luke voice over. That’s not to say his voice doesn’t sound weird in the scenes he’s actually in as using the de-aging techniques they use I’m sure creates other challenges.

my man nailed it, summer release.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzNZ0Mdx4I

[sonatine]

season 2 last of us pay:

According to Variety, Pedro Pascal will be paid $600,000 per episode for his role as Joel Miller in HBO's The Last of Us, while Bella Ramsey will be paid $70,000 per episode for her role as Ellie Williams. This means that Pascal will earn $5.4 million for the season, while Ramsey will earn $630,000.

people seem super confused about the discrepancy in pay and its becoming really clear that a lot of people simply have no idea how pay works, perhaps in any context.

[sonatine]

that said... the more i think about it, the more i think she should be making like 125k per ep minimum but lets be honest, hbo fucks everyone on pay if they arent a major draw.

[sonatine]

the thing about mandalorian is, also, that grogu could and should end each episode about half way through by force-popping some dudes heart from across the galaxy and then everyone eats ice cream.

[sonatine]

oh snap, wes chatham from 'the expanse' is going to be in ahsoka.

https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-ahsoka...nto-1850327606