2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread

movies, television, cable, games, videos, podcasts, music, ANYTHING streaming on ANY streaming platform.

i just want to know what people are seeing/watching/hearing and what they think. and i want to go to one place. in a casual way. so sue me!

but no DVDs or movies you see when you go to THE CINEMA. that way the SERIOUS film people can have their own fun. there is a film sub-baord. make it a thing again!

if you think something should have its own thread, start one! its a free countr....oh wait. if enough people love it or hate it they can talk about it there.

and there you have it.

i just wish i had remembered that the Roku Sports channel was showing the X Games all weekend. I love the X Games! oh well. i'll watch the reruns.

also, Go Eagles.

okay, i'm going back to Chopped. the one chef who had cooked for Kissinger and Lucian Freud had one whole finger of her glove filled with blood and she was still cooking. Ewwwww!

I watched the four episodes of The Pitt that are currently available on Max and they were OK, but I don't know if I'm gonna remember to watch the next one when it pops up on Thursday. ER + 24 = not as genius an idea as its creators thought.

I actually think The Pitt is getting richer as it goes - which is not what my expectation was. There were definitely moments in the first couple episodes that felt like clumsy track-laying (eg, when will the victims of the school shooting show up?). But now onto episode 4 I’m getting more comfortable with the characters and I think Noah Wylie is really holding it down.

Noah Wyle should have kept going with The Librarians

I watched a couple of the documentary shorts that were nominated for Oscars. Two that I watched by coincidence made a *perfect* double feature and a highly recommend watching them back to back in this order:

First, THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA, on Netflix - about the first woman to play in the NY Philharmonic starting back in the 60s, on the occasion of her retirement after 50+ years. She is so humble and knows her role as a bassist in the orchestra.

Its made all the more compelling if you then switch over to YouTube to watch INSTRUMENTS OF A BEATING HEART, about a second grader in a Tokyo school who *desperately* wants to be in her school band as a percussionist. She is so adorable and the doc is very compelling, especially for something as mundane as small children doing a school assembly performance.

Watching both docs takes less than an hour and they both make the other richer and more inspiring. A real highlight of my day.

thought about watching Gladiator 2 on Paramount+ but then i make the mistake of watching the whole trailer and it all just looks so phony baloney with the cgi and everyone's face is all digitally smoothed and colored...bleh. i kept thinking that one guy was harry pooper. the young guy. i have no idea who he is. he looks like harry pooper. the only people i even recognize are denzel and the mandalorian. i had no idea who pedro pascal was until he was seemingly everywhere and world famous. i guess after mandalorian. i didn't even know he was in game of thrones until the other day. i didn't watch narcos. maybe he got famous from that. he must have switched agents at some point because he was in stuff for years and years before narcos.

He got famous for the Last of Us.

really? that seems so recent. i thought it was star wars people who made him famous. i did not love the last of us. it did make me watch the walking dead again though. with maria and cyrus. that was fun. until negan shows up then i stopped.

Will def watch that Japanese short, thanks.

I liked Chopped best when I used to watch it at the gym with the sound off, much more relaxing without their dumb music cues.

Pascal was def famous before The Last of Us. I first heard of him when he was on The Mandalorian -- never saw it bc I don't care about Star Wars, but it seemed like a big deal at the time. But he was also on Game of Thrones before that.

Which you already said! (I was skimming too fast.)

Pascal attracted attention for being on Game of Thrones, then he was on Narcos on Netflix. Then the Star Wars thing was sold as "starring that guy from Game of Thrones and Narcos!" And by The Last of Us, people knew his name.

Watched Alien Romulus. It’s well-made but doesn’t really add anything new to the franchise. Just feels like a rehash.

he's not young. his credits start in 1999. talk about working it. good for him. he seems nice. not that exciting to me but a lot of leading men now seem generic to me. hollywood leading men. maybe its easier to CGI someone if they have a really normal face. at least he has an interesting backstory what with his family being a part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. and then...tragedy struck...

"Two years before Pascal's birth, the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, leading to the country becoming a military dictatorship.[12] Both of Pascal's parents were listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime and the family eventually fled Chile when he was nine months old,[12] after seeking refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago for six months."

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I haven't watched Romulus. I'd probably like it. I don't care if its a lesser Alien movie. They all kinda are after the first three. Phil Tippett, the director of one of the greatest American movies of the 21st century, Mad God, did the stop motion rat in Alien: Romulus. HOW WAS THE RAT, PGWP?

The rat was nice.

It’s definitely not a disappointing movie - it’s exciting and tense and all that. You’ll like it if you like Alien movies.

I watched about half of Romulus and I don't even remember a rat. Maybe it showed up later.

i should watch it. i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason. now that its on netflix.

i would see some of these at the movies but the guy who bought the local theater is trumpy. its unfortunate. its good that someone took on the old heap of a movie house but on the other hand... i don't want to go there. they showed 2000 Mules there.

Pascal's real starmaking turn was being in a viral gif with Nic Cage IIRC

all of a sudden everyone knew his name. it seemed like it anyway. like olde-tyme hollywood. he probably got invited to a lot of swanky parties. does he have to hang out with george clooney now at Lake Como. with matt damon.

i'm watching american football right now and i like the ad where doja cat lurks around a taco bell.

i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason.

Very, verrrrry skippable. (But I am the only person on earth who hated Fury Road, so.)

oh i liked fury road. i like movies that never stop moving. that have forward motion.

i know its easy to make fun of tom brady but he is such a nothing broadcaster. he's no tony romo! he's so meepy.

Romulus is EXTREMELY disappointing; it’s a load of crap.

post malone/shane gillis beer ad is a big noooooooo. i never want to see shane gillis's grinning head.

but by what standard, james? is it even good as pulpy horror fun? cuz i'm fine with that.

my standards aren't very high anymore. but i do stop watching stuff a lot if it looks too dumb. it has to be pretty dumb or just low-budget filler that is boring. there is a lot of it out there. i want to watch good stuff.

i'm still watching the Eagles win but i'm also watching amy sedaris on david letterman. man, you don't see the likes of her anymore. unless its her. she would go full weird on national t.v. i'm also watching tom green on all the late night shows a long time ago. crazy. amy can make me laugh hard! not too many people can anymore. don rickles. her. some others.

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

I liked Furiosa better than Fury Road, it's 25% less '90s music video.

Furiosa is good - it's not as good as Fury Road, but then nothing is. But it does recognise that funny dumb Chris Hemsworth is the best Chris Hemsworth.

I’m on my little kick of watching things that were nominated (after watching almost no movies all year), and starting with the movies that are free to stream. Therefore I’m getting in those films nominated for best visual effects (Alien) and now costumes—Gladiator II, since most of the prestige films haven’t hit streaming yet.

I don’t think I ever saw the first Gladiator so I dont have the baggage of comparison. Nevertheless I had low expectations for the sequel but it was better than I expected it to be. I doubt I’ll think about it much but it was a nice way to spend an afternoon.

Romulus is not good fun, it's mostly incredibly awkward callbacks to better scenes from the earlier movies. It really is terrible, and in a really small, scuzzy way, not even terrible and preposterous on a grand stage like the two idiotic Scott Prometheus movies.

gotcha.

Many xps Pascal was a known actor before LoU, but after he became a subject of celebrity media, which is a different thing.

fun thing about Pascal is his friendship with Sarah Paulson, it's really sweet.

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses? i finished binging it and wanted to continue in that vein. tried day of the jackal but it feels very slow and cheesy.

I think people are split here on The Agency? or maybe its just me who got bored of it. I really liked the first episodes and then it just dragged for me. didn't love the characters that didn't help.

I liked the first season of the Night Agent on Netflix. I've canceled my subscription but there's a second season now.

i liked that first season of The Night Agent on Netflix even though the lead guy is kind of a generic dud. it was still entertaining spy stuff. more action-y though. maybe more Tom Clancy territory.

great minds...uh...think alike! haha!

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses?

I enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And just started Black Doves, which seems promising.

i saw that the Recruit has a new season starting on Netflix and i can't remember if i even watched the first one. i probably did. and forgot all about it.

i want to go back and watch old stuff. MI-5 and the like. loads of stuff i've never seen.

Berlin Station looks kinda cool but i think its one of those odd ones that isn't streaming on the stuff i have. mgm+ or apple+ or something.

Xpost recent spy shows. Black Doves was good. However if you missed The Americans, highly recommended to see that instead

The Diplomat is sort of a spy show. That one is good.

I thought The Agency was skillfully made, but every now and then I remembered it was about the US trying to maintain control over the world, which was a bummer. I wonder if I'd like the French original better.

thanks all. maybe i'll give black doves a shot. or maybe i'll rewatch the greatest spy tv show of all time (patriot)

oh no its Post Nirvana!

eh could be worse. its always nice to see harpo marx on a big stage. they should do a germs song.

david byrne again. why not? might as well. singing with robyn. robyn is as old as christina ricci.

doing that song that the other guy did after she did.

who knew that miley and brandi would be my fave things tonight. i just like those songs.

seeing talking heads live on snl was a big deal to me. it felt so strange. i just hadn't seen anything like them. 1979. too bad they couldn't get the band together for this.

cher.

more gaga. i thought cher was it. why am i not sick of this song. i just like it. sue me.

oh no jack white oof goodnight moon

I avoided The Sex Lives of College Girls because the name seemed pretty creepy but it's cute. Kind of a combo of CW and premium cable throwback - no frontal nudity from the stars but you get some background dong.

The Sly Stone documentary, SLY LIVES!, on Hulu is really, really good.

Seconded. Interesting on the music, band, cultural context and his journey. Some amazing old interview footage and insightful contemporary commentators

yeah i loved it: the footage is so great, and edited really well to grab things/reactions i feel like i’ve not seen before

and i love that long interview that’s woven in throughout, the way he says one thing but his eyes tell you so much more

YES that interview was incredible

thing i loved the most was the underlying positivity. So much about Sly is so dark and it is so often summarized as a very bleak flameout but Quest does a great job I think of keeping it somehow uplifting without avoiding some of that dark shit.

The story his daughter tells about chopping rails of colored chalk was O_O

Or when he asks Geoge Clinton what crack is like & Clinton just says “Like when you nut” and the whole room bursts into laughter

Like we know & can takeaway for ourselves what the darkness IS, we don’t need the interviewees to take us all the way there.

I was really struck throughout by Sly Stone's speaking voice. I knew he started out as a radio DJ, but I wasn't prepared for his diction. (And he had incredible teeth. You wanna know how he had kids by three different women? He smiled at them.)

he really was a beautiful looking dude

FLOW (the Latvian cat movie) is on Max now and my wife and I just watched it. Fantastic. Highest possible recommendation.

Paging Ned, I think they recommended FLOW a couple of months back. Saw it in the theater - excellent indeed

Max or Criterion Channel? Or both?

Criterion's doing the blu/4K release but I don't know if they've said it'll be on the Channel. It's on Max now.

Yay, it's Tuesday — new episode of Paradise, the stupidest fucking show on Earth!

The last episode of Paradise I watched killed the best/possibly only good character.

I will give it credit for not being as repetitive and dull as Silo, the supervillain billionaire working out her trauma is no Tim Robbins though.

you guys are really tempting me...

It's like if you asked ChatGPT to combine This Is Us and The Prisoner, and unplugged/rebooted the server halfway through the process.

I can't believe I watched This Is Us for as long as I did. It's like I was brainwashed and finally woke up and said: what the fuck am i doing? i liked mandy moore though. she should have a good show of her own.

It was no Parenthood...Lorelai beats Jess any day of the week.

i watched the first ep of Paradise finally and while the twist makes it v stupid it’s not a very enjoyable watch, everything is so ponderously belaboured & endless flashblacks & we’re all feeeeeeeeling things & just, all the parts i hated about This Is Us with the volume turned up

so its a no from me dawg

i cannot hang

xp I don't know who you mean by Jess, but I loved Lauren Graham as Lorelai in Gilmore Girls and as Sarah in Parenthood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jJhwPjyok

for fans of Michael Mann, jazz scores and incredible car footage

"I don't know who you mean by Jess"

jess was rory's beatnik love interest on gilmore girls and the dead dad on this is us.

I must resurface mentions of COMMON SIDE EFFECTS which has become my new favorite thing on tv this month.

i watched the first ep of Paradise finally and while the twist makes it v stupid it’s not a very enjoyable watch, everything is so ponderously belaboured & endless flashblacks & we’re all feeeeeeeeling things & just, all the parts i hated about This Is Us with the volume turned up

As it goes on it's more about the big twist than the emo flashbacks (though those never go away)... you might want to stick with it for another episode or two and if you find yourself laughing (as I do) strap in for the full ride because it is just SO FUCKIN' DUMB.

On the other hand, the new season of Reacher will be here tomorrow. (Which will piss me off in another way thanks to its blatant visual trickery. Alan Ritchson is 6'2"! I am 6'3"! They're surrounding him with dwarf co-stars and filming up at him from knee level to make him look like a behemoth, when he is just a regular-sized dude! I wouldn't be surprised if all the furniture on-set is specially built at 3/4 size! This is some bullshit, I tell you.)

I’m down for more Reacher! Anthony Michael Hall is this season’s baddie i think? i miss the characters from s1 tho, that was the most enjoyable version of the show for me

Reacher's back? I'm hoping this will scrub the average S2 from my brain.

Edit: just watched the trailer (on silent) and there is a 'oh, you thought Reacher was big, did you?!' character. I'm in.

Was there any discussion of Outer Range when it was on? There is no thread for it.

We just finished the first season which had some issues but I enjoyed overall. The parts I disliked about it reminded me of Lost: characters obviously knowing more about what was going on and just annoyingly withholding info from other characters (and the viewers). Everything else was pretty good. Interesting premise, some good actors, real stakes.

I had the season ending reveal figured out by about midway through the season. Looking forward to Season 2.

Looked around for some talk about it but apart from some mentions on the but is it on Netflix thread there was not much. Started watching it recently, at ep7 now. It's enjoyable but I expected more tbh

I watched the first season of Outer Range and enjoyed it, but so much time went by between seasons that I forgot a lot of what happened. I started to watch the s2 premiere but felt lost and didn’t want to put in the effort of a rewatch, so I let the show go.

We're watching Season Two now. The batshit brother who breaks into song reminds me of Tim Heidegger a bit.

I like how out of control they allow the Poots character to become.

Yes, to both.

They would be terrible characters if they were more serious or reigned in a bit, but without that they approach a Lynchian vibe. The way every time they make out there is all this weird spittle between them is hilarious.

Reacher S3E1 - not looking good for recapturing the magic of S1

yeahh its a bummer. but but I kinda liked it anyway.
that lady’s “maine accent” is TERRIBLE

started the Gilded Age and lol at spelling things out for the audience "you are the FUTURE they are the PAST" nah man I couldn't catch that from the first hour of the show

I started watching Day Zero last night on Netflix because why not? Robert De Niro! love of my life Lizzy Caplan! me after Ozempic and i marry Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons! Angela Bassett! Connie Britton! Joan Allen! evil Matthew Modine! evil Dan Stevens!

does matthew modine's agent just say: well, you've got that hair so you're just the evil guy now, i don't know what to tell you, matty, my old pal.

Zero Day is getting bad reviews across the board and yet I feel compelled to check it out

its watchable! before i knew it i was almost 3 episodes in. i mean its pulp. i got no problem with that.

did Court of Gold on Netflix get mentioned here? Nicely done series on men's basketball at the Paris Olympics last summer. They go behind the scenes with the US, Canada, France and Serbia. Only thing is how jarring long distant past of summer 2024 is in context with the current state of affairs here in Feb 2025.

I'm not opening the specific thread yet (because spoilers and I'm rewatching the last few episodes of season 2 first) but heads up that Yellowjackets is back

That one is enjoyable to binge. Can't imagine watching it week by week.