Disney + streaming video recommendations thread

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I’d much rather watch like Loki even when confusing or if it might conflict with pre-existing canon than any Marvel series that might be faithful and coherent with the wider MCU developing story arc but are an uninspiring bore fest- which most series to date have been.

It's not really a confusing story though. It is only confusing because characters have odd unnatural motivations that only exist to serve or pad out the plot. It's a real shame, because the first series was adequate and laced with enough mystery and intrigue to keep you going.


There was no reason for Loki and Mobus to think X5 knew where Sylvie was. Why where their characters so adamant that he knew?
X5 had no reason or motivation to withhold information, he just did until the plot needed him to give it up.
Sylvie simply wont listen to loki and fights him just because the plot demands a confrontation. . . Until it's time for the plot to move on, and then she flips.
Sylvie is ruthless . . . except when she lets Renslayer live. . . with miss minutes and presumably a tempad. Not very thorough now. . .why? Because script.

Weirdly the best bits so far have been loki 'timeslipping' which was only a last minute rewrite to adjust the story after the writers strike made quantumania come out before season 2.
Miss Minutes being in love was a fun sinister moment, but a bit of a boring sentient robot trope. . . just thrown away. Seemingly it was just an invention to tread water from one exposition to another.



It's not confusing because there is a clever 'timey whymy' plot, it's confusing because single throwaway lines at the beginning of a scene set up flawed reasoning that breaks down under any scrutiny.

It's really disappointing.

 

[fucthest8]

You all need to stop watching that marvel shite, it's all beyond a joke now, just self-serving money spinning bullshit.

Mr Inbetween, on the other hand, is cracking telly.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You all need to stop watching that marvel shite, it's all beyond a joke now, just self-serving money spinning bullshit.

I agree. Guardians were fun, and there are some other fun films, but trying to connect it all together with an overarching story is ruining even the more left field fun jaunts.

Mr Inbetween, on the other hand, is cracking telly.

Yes.

 

[krtek a houby]

We tried the first one and everyone agreed that we wouldn't be watching any more.

I expect nothing less

 

[Karl Masks]

I'm going to rewatch Buffy.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Rye Lane - nice little Peckham/Brixton-based romcom

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Interesting.
I love spotting Croydon in comedy TV shows. (Peep show, IT Crowd, Uncle etc), maybe it's time to move a bit further north.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Fleishman is in Trouble.
Massive turd, but I stuck it out to the end. It kept tricking me into thinking it was going somewhere, but it was actually leading to the shit conclusion that it had always been building up to. . . poke poke "Hey nice Fleishan is actually the jerk", but I already thought he was a jerk. . oh he is not a jerk, we are all jerks (or something).
A show preaching to you about problems and midlife crisis, from the perspective of people with zero problems, who are barely 40.


Another 'the bear' where it irritatingly thinks it is something better than it really is by chucking in a few bits 'for the awards'.

 

[Karl Masks]

Wandavisioins is just a sitcom wrapped around a depressing psychodrama about a woman who can do anything but somehow manages to be intensely depressed and chooses the worst life she can. Then a witch appears

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wandavisioins is just a sitcom wrapped around a depressing psychodrama about a woman who can do anything but somehow manages to be intensely depressed and chooses the worst life she can. Then a witch appears

I would have loved it to keep the sit com going, but it pretty much gave up (mostly) after the second episode. Then it just became just more marvel bullshit.

 

[krtek a houby]

Fleishman is in Trouble.
Massive turd, but I stuck it out to the end. It kept tricking me into thinking it was going somewhere, but it was actually leading to the shit conclusion that it had always been building up to. . . poke poke "Hey nice Fleishan is actually the jerk", but I already thought he was a jerk. . oh he is not a jerk, we are all jerks (or something).
A show preaching to you about problems and midlife crisis, from the perspective of people with zero problems, who are barely 40.


Another 'the bear' where it irritatingly thinks it is something better than it really is by chucking in a few bits 'for the awards'.

The Bear is one of the best dramas in recent years. Thought they couldn't top the one shot penultimate episode of season one, but the Xmas family gathering ep was horrifically magnificent.

Adding Fleishman to "must watch" list. Cheers fella!

 

[Lazy Llama]

Liked “The Bear”, especially the second season, didn’t like “Fleishman” - a lot of episodes to very little end.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Bear is one of the best dramas in recent years.

I only watched series one. Super irritating. Reeks of overacting and upitsownarseness. Characters flip attitudes & motovations (and back) or have arguments just to suit the story of the day. Lazy, tedious, irritating. Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Not sure why I stuck Fleichman out. I thought it was going somewhere interesting, but it took the most boring road possible. Were we supposed to get behind Feichman and then have a 'oh no I see it from the other side now' moment? Because they were all basically rich moany irritating cunts. Wankers.

 

[Nivag]

Looks like a new series of What We Do in the Shadows has started.

 

[Karl Masks]

Looks like a new series of What We Do in the Shadows has started.

BAT!

 

[magneze]

Looks like a new series of What We Do in the Shadows has started.

On Disney?

 

[krtek a houby]

I only watched series one. Super irritating. Reeks of overacting and upitsownarseness. Characters flip attitudes & motovations (and back) or have arguments just to suit the story of the day. Lazy, tedious, irritating. Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Not sure why I stuck Fleichman out. I thought it was going somewhere interesting, but it took the most boring road possible. Were we supposed to get behind Feichman and then have a 'oh no I see it from the other side now' moment? Because they were all basically rich moany irritating cunts. Wankers.

Regarding The Bear, you must have been watching a different show.

The acting was top drawer, the situations in the restaurant were very relatable, and in season 2 the characters are given more room to breathe and develop. The soundtrack is perfectly suited and Chicago itself is a star.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Regarding The Bear, you must have been watching a different show.

The acting was top drawer, the situations in the restaurant were very relatable,

The situations (apart from the end of season one) were fine. . . but characters would argue or make up just because the script demanded it to move the story, The 'for camera' conversations and dialogues were often tedious dramatic stage monologues.

I guess I also didn't enjoy everyone being unlikeable angry shit heads.

 

[krtek a houby]

The situations (apart from the end of season one) were fine. . . but characters would argue or make up just because the script demanded it to move the story, The 'for camera' conversations and dialogues were often tedious dramatic stage monologues.

I guess I also didn't enjoy everyone being unlikeable angry shit heads.

Season 2 expands the characters and gives a bit more background as to why they might be the way they are.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Season 2 expands the characters and gives a bit more background as to why they might be the way they are.

I have no problem with the general set up of the characters season 1. They all had reasonably good motivations, but they would all just flip flop for no other reason than to escalate or resolve an episode. I understand that all TV shows are written, but in the bear the characters always seemed to be stretched out or squeezed to fit / hit the plot points rather than the plot evolving naturally around them and their actions.

 

[Chz]

I guess I also didn't enjoy everyone being unlikeable angry shit heads.

Now that's fair, but it is still well done. And it doesn't make me hate everyone nearly much as Boiling Point has. But I still can't turn it off.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Now that's fair, but it is still well done. And it doesn't make me hate everyone nearly much as Boiling Point has. But I still can't turn it off.

It's well done. . . except the lazy script intricacies / character motivation abnormalities, which is an irritating hurdle to fall at. The magic writer fix at the end of season one just about sums it up for me.

 

[Karl Masks]

Is the actor who plays OB in Loki the kid who once played Data in the Goonies?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Is the actor who plays OB in Loki the kid who once played Data in the Goonies?

Yes.

Ke Huy Quan | Actor, Stunts, Additional Crew

Known for: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies

www.imdb.com

Also “Short Round” in The Temple of Doom

 

[Karl Masks]

Yes.

Ke Huy Quan | Actor, Stunts, Additional Crew

Known for: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies

www.imdb.com

Also “Short Round” in The Temple of Doom

he's better off in Loki by all accounts

 

[T & P]

If I recall correctly the article I read about him, he’d actually quit acting altogether around 2002, as he’d been getting crap minor roles in mediocre films for most of his adult acting career and was crestfallen about the industry.

Then two or three years ago, a good friend of his (who might not have even had any previous experience as an actor’s agent IIRC) convinced him to have another stint as an actor and let him become his agent. Shortly after he got a role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, won an Oscar for it, and now he’s the hottest ticket in town

 

[T & P]

Moving onto other Disney+ recommendations, Goosebumps the series is turning out to be fairly decent. A bit like Chucky, but none of the gore or swearing.

 

[krtek a houby]

Is the actor who plays OB in Loki the kid who once played Data in the Goonies?

He's 52, not a kid.

And just how difficult would it be to use his name, Ke Huy Quan?

 

[Chz]

He's 52, not a kid.

And just how difficult would it be to use his name, Ke Huy Quan?

This is Urban, not a debating society. We count ourselves lucky there are still enough people who want to waste 20 seconds posting without demanding they spend another 90 seconds researching it first. Heavens, I can make a cup of tea in that time, and I know which I'd rather do. Rather that than figure out what the short dude from Top Gun is up to these days.

 

[krtek a houby]

This is Urban, not a debating society. We count ourselves lucky there are still enough people who want to waste 20 seconds posting without demanding they spend another 90 seconds researching it first. Heavens, I can make a cup of tea in that time, and I know which I'd rather do. Rather that than figure out what the short dude from Top Gun is up to these days.

It's lazy and disrespectful. But I should expect that from Awesome Welles.