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Binged this over the past 4 months and finally caught up during the week of the new season premiere. What a great series if you watch it at once, but thinking over what they were doing and up to in real-time with the breaks in seasons and Covid must have been fun too. I haven’t seen Succession but that’s next on the list. Hopefully this season gets as much hype in the media as their last season did.
An absolute powerhouse of a documentry. Up there with Sunshine Hotel and Streetwise for having such a time-capsule view of the past. Fascinating commitment to stick with the stories, some very fly-on-the-wall filming that does have graphic scenes. The characters are well developed and you really end up caring about them and go through their highs and lows. Focus on the person, not the drug itself. Watch this and be grateful for who you are and what you have.
Social media influencing is like being an athlete or sex worker. Eventually the clicks and influence will fade and these people will have to find a new career and life. For every Mr Beast or Pew Die Pie, there’s countless nobodies. This stuff shouldn’t be glamourized. There’s good articles out there about how hard the transition is from social media to normal entertainment for people like Aspen Rae and others and how it’s not been very smooth or an ideal response. I guess if you take it for what it is and just have fun there’s no harm, but don’t expect TV shows like this or the public to embrace you.
A decent season but they couldn’t do much activities because of Covid. The three finalists were the best all season and the one who won was bound to win. Have a crush on Kelsey and Autumn, they’re beautiful and so talented.
Have you seen him since he ditched the audience? He’s the one host who has excelled and his confidence has grown ten-fold without them. It’s now a pretty groundbreaking show as I don’t think the audience will return.
Hey man, I remember Rodney King, too. But nobody’s calling the 90’s the “civil rights” decade. We’ve had more movement and attention on that front in the last decade and way back in the 60’s than ever happened in the 90’s. And police still profile minorities to this day, such as Border Patrol/other law enforcement having legal exemption to stop people who “look Mexican.”
I agree that the LA Riots were an important part of history in America, but (unfortunately) no major national legal changes or societal movements occurred as a direct result. Most of the criticism and reforms were focused on the local level, and on the LAPD. Not saying that’s how it should be, just saying it didn’t come to symbolize the decade (or take on national importance) the way BLM or the civil rights movement have come to symbolize their respective periods.
Edit: I don’t want to undercut the merit of your post, so I hope you don’t take it that way. I do think it’s funny that this conversation has gotten way more historically “real” than any episode of this silly TV show, haha.
I agree with you. The Rodney King thing didn’t inspire country-wide protests and were specific to the LAPD. There was no George Floyd bringing of people together. It was a big event, though, and one well documented in the OJ documentary, as well. As I mentioned, compared to the breakneck cycle of the internet and cable news of today, the 90’s seemed a breeze to my average American kid coming of age self. If anything, we were too innocent.
Every decade has had it’s bad / good. But I can no say at no time has it been a utopia. It’s just unless you sought out to be more informed you wouldn’t neccessarily hear what was going on. I recall listening to the BBC world service on CBC radio Canada to hear about conflicts in the world.
I admit I wasn’t well-informed and that there were surely other things going on. But this is an American 90s show. Not a lot of dark things happened in America in the 90s, or at least not as you say to my knowledge. I stand by my people’s rose coloured glasses being broken after 9/11. There was a lot that happened then but the internet wasn’t big enough and the news media wasn’t as big as they are so you just didn’t know about it like you can now. Also, this series doesn’t hold back. It’s Vice and their wrestling ones are pretty real, so if there were bigger, juicier issues, I’m sure they’d have done those instead.
Also, the 90s aren’t generally known as some idyllic decade to begin with. politics, economy, civil rights. All a terrible mess.
I’ve never heard anyone say the 90s were bad to live in. You must haven not lived in them. One of the reasons 9/11 shook so hard is because it represented the end of the utopia days.
This was a great show and an original true crime/criminal show. I hope to get more links because it was really ahead of its time and A&E when it was great.
Great first season of the New Zealand spin-off of the show. New host and advisors, and interesting to see it done elsewhere. Good cast, too.
“Filmed entirely on the Muscogee Nation reservation in eastern Oklahoma, the network says the half-hour comedy is the first show on cable TV in which all the writers, directors and regular characters on the series are Indigenous.”
Lots of controversial calls but great fights altogether.
Why don’t you like Brent? I would have loved to see Travis come for Frenchie.
I like Brent, my target would be Frenchie out of the 2.
Great finish and thankfully not a Brent HOH. Would love to see Brent and Frenchie up or one of them get backdoored. It’s too early in the summer for such hard game play.
It took a helluva a lot of blood for Frenchie to get through his first week. It’ll come back to haunt him.
People acting like Bruce Willis is Daniel Day-Lewis when it comes to acting quality.
looking at the comments, it looks like yet another failure of bruce wills. He needs to change the genre of his projects. Surely he has realized by now action movies are bygone? Why does he keep picking up those?
Frenchie is an idiot. Going around telling everyone what his plan is. Thinking he is all that. I can’t wait until they put him on the block next week. He makes my skin crawl.
It’s always interesting to see how the first HOH will play out and cringey when they blow it.
An amazing movie that felt like a documentary time capsule. Classic Cameron Crowe and love story, and the music is awesome. Try and get the special edition DVD if you can, it comes with a bunch of cool stuff. I think they even released a version that has Stillwater LPs.
This show had such good heart. It was a good career boost for Justin Long, Michael Ian Black and Julie Bowen.
Great biography episode for Andre. This is a good series full of great memories.
I would be sure to watch this every night at 6:30 on TVO. It was a wholesome show, ahead of its time with such diverse casting. It’s dated now, but still a great family show.
There’s a ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ episode about this that puts it all into perspective.
I really enjoyed this. It’s quite a time capusle of a certain kind of poverty not seen much in NYC anymore. Some interesting characters, and it was a fun deep dive about the hotel and its current state now. If you like social documentaries, this one is worth a try.
There was a new episode, I’m sure of that. I’ve seen multiple podcasts about it, and you can find reviews/recaps of the episode on youtube. Apparently this was the last episode with eliminations before they run the final. I tried to research without hearing any spoilers, but wasn’t successful, I unfortunately already know which 4 go into elimination and who wins, but I still Wanna See it :)
Hum, this is usually posted the same day as it aired. Anyone else out there need their fix like me?
I’ve been waiting too but can’t see it. I’ve tried Googling it and am unsure if there new episode this week. There’s no torrents for it, only last week’s episode.
This is a great series, even if you’re not a wrestling fan. The stories they chose are pretty intriguing and defined the sport.
This was a great show and I am glad how everything ended. It was wholesome, while dark, but a great workplace comedy with a lot of memorable characters. I will miss it as it’s been a Thursday staple for me for years now. Don’t sleep on this show!!
Good ending. It was rough in a lot of spots and next year they should have more activities and games set up.