Hidden Gems of Hulu and Hulu+

Loved all three seasons of Legion! So weird, so good.

For a real hidden gem, I loved the two seasons of The Riches.

I remember being really upset when that wasn't renewed. A really good show.

Lately I've been watching season two of Lodge 49. It's such an weird show, but compelling and oddly hopeful. I've been telling people it's like a mixture of Big Lebowski and Twin Peaks.

I do love Eddie Izzard, but that accent is crazy.

Mixolyde wrote:

Loved all three seasons of Legion! So weird, so good.

Yeah, finally getting to watch the final season, about halfway through. Gonna miss this weird gem of a show.

Also glad to see The Shield is available through this FX deal, been wanting to watch this for years.

So is Disney planning to fold FXNow into Hulu, then?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

So is Disney planning to fold FXNow into Hulu, then?

I think so? I do know that every season of It's Always Sunny is there.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

So is Disney planning to fold FXNow into Hulu, then?

Well, if you have a cable subscription, FXNow is still better than paying Hulu. But since we finally dropped any cable subscription, including streaming cable, getting all FX shows one day later on Hulu is pretty great.

Makes up for losing USA and AMC as channels with pretty great prestige TV. Those shows end up on Netflix or Prime anyway. Mostly hope this is a trend, to move content to the big streaming services. It's more like Hulu just acquired a major studio that is pumping out new prestige TV series at a rate exceeding the AMC or USA, by a lot.

I hope it is super profitable, and USA and AMC follows suit.

Devs is goooooooooood. And horrifying.

Was disappointed not to see The Americans in the crop of FX shows that arrived. Hopefully won't be too long before it shows up, as that's definitely one of their best.

beanman101283 wrote:

Was disappointed not to see The Americans in the crop of FX shows that arrived. Hopefully won't be too long before it shows up, as that's definitely one of their best.

Looks like it will be on Amazon only for now.

I'm sure some of this stuff is just waiting for licensing to run out, just like Disney+ when it launched and didn't have all the Marvel and Star Wars stuff.

Devs episode 3 was spectacular... And absolutely horrifying. Absolutely incredible show.

AcidCat wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Loved all three seasons of Legion! So weird, so good.

Yeah, finally getting to watch the final season, about halfway through. Gonna miss this weird gem of a show.

Also glad to see The Shield is available through this FX deal, been wanting to watch this for years.

I finished the third season of this tonight. Very good. Definitely weird but in the best way. And the use of music this season was amazing. I was shocked by the appearance of a certain band in episode one because I’m a huge fan of them. And the song in the final episode was perfect and in retrospect, inevitable.

Speculation about Devs epsiode 5

Spoiler:

Did anything we saw in episode 5 for sure actually happen? The entire episode was presented as um, blonde woman looking at their Time Netflix with perfect clarity. In the previous episode we saw um, kid, get fired for introducing magic to the project, that the projections were not to be trusted because they dont represent OUR universe, necessarily, but any universe.

Much of the episode was devoted to talking about quantum mechanics and all possible outcomes existing in many worlds/multiverse. This was movingly demonstrated in scenes like blond woman leaving the class and the car crash. Since everything we saw was in the perfect clarity of the kid's demonstration it seems safe to conclude that everything we saw was a possible thing but not necessarily a real thing.

So did anything happen?

I finished Ozark season three, and for some reason wanted another crime show. I just rewatched the first episode of Justified.

Still so great. I miss this show.

Justified is sooooo good! Loved it from beginning to end.

I enjoyed Prospects. Good scifi edge to it.

Mario_Alba wrote:

Justified is sooooo good! Loved it from beginning to end.

Since I got to the point where I had exhausted every other show I was interested in, I started a Justified rewatch. Currently in S3 and this show really holds up, I rarely rewatch shows but this is a great binge show, before I know it like 3 episodes have passed in what feels like only an hour.

AcidCat wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:

Justified is sooooo good! Loved it from beginning to end.

Since I got to the point where I had exhausted every other show I was interested in, I started a Justified rewatch. Currently in S3 and this show really holds up, I rarely rewatch shows but this is a great binge show, before I know it like 3 episodes have passed in what feels like only an hour.

At the risk of repeating myself, Justified is sooooo good!

I'm glad to hear it holds up!

I started a Justified rewatch too. Can confirm it still holds up.

I am a trendsetter!

My wife and I watched the first episode of Orville last night. It has potential and we'll give it at least a couple more episodes this week.

I've been working my way through the old Bond movies and uh man wow. Those are some things to watch. Wrapped Thunderball today and I was roflcoptering during the tense underwater Judo fights with the mini breather. Oh man to relive those days where that might have been good?

Going to watch Detective Pikachu soon with my daughter and catch Parasite as well. pretty good round of movies lately.

karmajay wrote:

I enjoyed Prospects. Good scifi edge to it.

It's on my watchlist so good to hear.

Fans of Randy Rainbow might enjoy S4E6 of Better Things. He plays a long time friend of Sam’s that is getting married in New Orleans.

Like most of the episodes Pamela Adlon is writing and directing since Louis CK was ditched, there is less narrative and more showing things she loves, in this case New Orleans.

She lays diversity on pretty thick at times, enough that it can almost come off as condescending. If you follow the show, you know that Adlon emphasizes inclusion of people that do not always get their stories told in pop culture.

One of her concerns are how women are treated once they reach their 40’s. She turned 50 last season, and used it to celebrate women in her life, putting their stories and experiences front and center.

She’s a single mom and former childhood star actor raising three daughters in LA as she works and fights for the scraps given women that society wants to ignore. What she packs into half hour episodes.

A fantastic example of her story telling is found in S2E6, Eulogy. It’s one of my favorite episodes of TV ever, and if you don’t cry, you are not human.

This is the last scene, so it’s a spoiler. The premise of the scene is that

Spoiler:

Sam’s daughters seem to not care about her work at all, and someone says they will say nice things at her funeral. This leads to hurt feelings and Sam storming out. She returns to be Eulogized.

The scene spoils nothing, really though. It definitely doesn’t spoil any kind of larger plot.

What she packs into half-hour episodes is amazing. It helps that she feels absolutely zero pressure to lock down a narrative, preferring to let anything drop it n order to show more. The idea is that is how our lives work, and that we limit ourselves by creating narratives of our lives, which can hide the random beauty, or ugliness, we need to see to actually understand the world.

I’d suggest that there might not be a more pro woman TV series going right now. It is 100% the world view of women that is privileged here, without apology. There are plenty of men in their world, both great and terrible. But we see them through women’s eyes, and I find it insanely moving.

Feel free to check out the episodes. While there tends to be a season long arc in each season, it is not really plot driven. We see things like her kids dealing with terrible experiences, and we don’t get resolution so much as we get how we help each other get through stuff, and how often we fail, but keep trying and adapting.

New season of What We Do In The Shadows is up - well the first two episodes, will be weekly on Thursday.

AcidCat wrote:

New season of What We Do In The Shadows is up - well the first two episodes, will be weekly on Thursday.

Oh! Woohoo!

BAT!