What are you binge watching?

[nelsonmuntz]

So I have Peacock channel for the next month getting it for the game and then I also recently watched the SNL movie on Netflix. Figured I’d get around to watching the original season of Saturday Night Live today and got through a bunch of the first episodes. Super cool to watch the beginning stages of that show, it really was a ground breaker. Some of the skits are kind of cheesy or dated or not really that funny, but you could see what they were trying to do with the show.

Comedy often doesn’t age well.

I think of those early seasons as almost a history lesson of a huge cultural break occurring in America. SNL and National Lampoon were revolutionary compared to the silly, and deeply misogynistic humor of shows like Laugh In that came right before it.

 

[Deepster]

Comedy often doesn’t age well.

I think of those early seasons as almost a history lesson of a huge cultural break occurring in America. SNL and National Lampoon were revolutionary compared to the silly, and deeply misogynistic humor of shows like Laugh In that came right before it.

Good call. I can’t say I laughed a ton at those episodes but I was still interested seeing how the show was put together originally. And highlighting someone like Andy Kaufman certainly pushed an envelope back then.

 

[ZooCougar]

The new Vietnam Doc on Apple is super. Episodes are short and they cover quite a few things that many people didn’t know about.

It’s mostly about the war’s impact on Americans but quite a few Vietnamese are interviewed.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Good call. I can’t say I laughed a ton at those episodes but I was still interested seeing how the show was put together originally. And highlighting someone like Andy Kaufman certainly pushed an envelope back then.

Michael O’Donoghue was crazier than Kaufman, if that is possible, and he was head writer. The show got more professional in Lorne Michaels 2.0, and I think it got more consistent.

 

[storrsroars]

I first discovered her in Life. An underrated show that starred Damien Lewis.

I hear your plot criticisms, but it's early enough in the series that I'm gonna let it play out. Without giving away any spoilers, we still don't know who else is around outside of their immediate community.

OK, this week's episode finally started to put some things into place. Although I still have to wonder about the decision to include a bunch of carnival equipment in the "must have" stuff for the new community. And what happens after all the booze is consumed?

 

[billythekid]

OK, this week's episode finally started to put some things into place. Although I still have to wonder about the decision to include a bunch of carnival equipment in the "must have" stuff for the new community. And what happens after all the booze is consumed?

It's definitely not a particularly memorable show, but it's entertaining enough to provide content. I'm pretty good at suspension of disbelief, just hope things don't get too preposterous.

And you're right, when they run out of free Poppy Van Winkle, there will riots.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Even though How I Met Your Mother was a Friends' rip off, I feel like HIMYM has aged better. It is still great for background if you are working late or doing something else but would like the TV on.

 

[ZooCougar]

I was pretty excited to watch American Primevel until I actually saw it.

It’s a Western with the music from Friday Night Lights. It has almost zero historical accuracy. And I just can’t excuse that because it was like Peter Berg decided that the original history was too boring. But there simply was no massacre of US Army Troops like that in the Utah War. The Meadow massacre took place hundreds and hundreds of miles from Fort Bridger and it comprised nearly all of the 150 casualties in the Utah War.

I branches off into to two stories. Some lady running from Bounty Hunters with Taylor Kitsch and Jim Bridger/Brigham Young/Utah War story.

Neither are very satisfying.

Peter Berg has been replaced by Taylor Sheridan.