Paramount decided not to put Yellowstone up on their streaming service (Paramount+) so it went to Paramount Network. Then it got huge. Paramount wants to promote their streaming network but their biggest show can't be on it now. So instead they made spinoffs to air on Paramount+ to ride its coattails

They're all on the seagull diet

They'll see a gull, they eat it

This. I was really sad The Last of Us was over but I finally started watching Yellowjackets and am obsessed lol

Watching that last episode always takes more of an effort for me. I do the same with video games and books. I'll find myself avoiding them when I'm close to the end so that I don't finish it up. I've been making an effort to finish series lately though. There's always a new one I'll get obsessed with around the corner so I try to complete the old one. I still need to watch the last episode of The Orville though. Also trying to push myself to finish up The Last of US 2.

The Vortex in Atlanta will serve a bypass burger (also can get a double, triple, or quadruple which are insane) that is a burger between two grilled cheese sandwiches with egg and bacon. I got it just for the gimmick and I actually really enjoyed it. Ended up taking half home. Each bite tasted like a burger, breakfast sandwich or a patty melt depending

Exact same end as the videogame that had me going "what??? Are these the end credits?? What???"

I stopped watching The Walking Dead because it felt so hopeless. Just death after death. No hope for a cure. The world was ugly and grotesque and lacked any beauty or compassion

The Last of Us is a post apocalypse zombie story with an overall theme of "Love". Love between siblings, between mother and child, between father and daughter (adopted or otherwise) between men, between women. All of it. The beauty, the tragedy, the heartbreak, betrayal, forgiveness, sacrifice.

It focused on the humanity and compassion that people can show even when the world has ended for them (physically or figuratively) it was about hope overcoming despair and the beauty of the world peeking through the ugliness of death and violence.

As someone who was burned out by generic zombie shows loaded with intestines being pulled out of people's guts and brains being splattered onto walls, it was a breath of fresh air for me.

Andor can be watched alone. In fact, I'd almost say it should be watched before anything else as it describes the universe and sets up the conflicts in the first released film.

The Mandalorian is action/adventure but takes place after Return of the Jedi and assumes you know the world. There are tons of Easter eggs for fans, and even famous characters.

Andor is much more of a spy thriller and I can see people liking it just for what it is as it is different from most other SW stuff.

But The Mandalorian is more Star Wars. If you don't like Star Wars you probably won't like it.

Yeah. He just walked out of the room when he heard about it. Came back with a sore hand and bruised knuckles. Cops picked him up and on the way to the station they stop at a light and he looks over and sees his kid's school principal who he had to meet with earlier to discuss the kid's bad behavior at school. He smiles at him and waves with the handcuffs on lol.

One of my favorite scenes that takes place while the credits are rolling

People are fascinated by what scares them. I kind of chalk it up to how men will watch war movies. The threat of having to go to war is a lot more real for men than women with selective service and such.

Being stalked or sexually assaulted or being targeted by a serial killer who hates women is more of a threat to women. So it's a more visceral fear to explore for then.

It's kind of odd because I hate to hear about that stuff. But I live with an elderly religious woman. She can't handle cursing at all. Her daughter had to stop watching shows on HBO and such because she'll always complain about how much the cursing bothers her. But half the time I go by her room I get to hear about awful stuff done to some poor woman being described by a narrator.

The article posted elsewhere in here says it's kept the MA rating on Tubi and is not censored.

But Tubi is ad based and if they are going to have ad breaks I really wouldn't want to watch it there anyways

I am seeing Part 1 of The Nevers is for sale for about $4 on AppleTV. I wonder if they'll eventually put Part 2 up for sale.

I'm really hoping it ends up somewhere it can be streamed one day. I can't really watch it live streamed.

The Nevers Part 1 isn't even on HBO Max anymore. They moved it to Tubi. And supposedly they will live stream The Nevers S1 Part 2 on Tubi March 1-3 or something?

I want to watch it and don't understand how lol

Edit: I see the site is for the UK so I honestly don't know if it is up there due to being a different region. It's not on the U.S. HBO Max anymore

I do feel like I should warn you that The Last of Us game series does have violence against animals. Especially in some pivotal scenes that I do expect to show up in the series. Not a bunch but at least one scene for season 1.

There's a website called doesthedogdie.com which is a database of sorts where people can enter in violence towards animals that occurs on shows to give others a heads up, which might help researching other shows as well

I don't think I've used a single streaming app that didn't bug out anytime I need to fast forward or rewind.

The CW app is the worst for me. Fortunately after this season of Superman and Lois I can't imagine any reason I'll ever need to use it again

I'm old enough to remember when the guy who coined the phrase made the website jumptheshark.com to keep track but then sold it to TVGuide

Lol this just came across.my YouTube feed and actually shows how they filmed it. They did use face tracking cameras! And motion capture suits. This scene specifically shows them filming >!the dehydrating scene and explaining how to do it to the actors!<

https://youtu.be/LvxZ10Ra0Hk

Honestly, the first book is a straight up mystery story that doesn't get really crazy and takes place in current times. That one seems like the easiest to film as it's almost just a buddy cop story with a scientist and hot headed detective

The 2nd and 3rd book though are just full of huge scifi set pieces and theoretical concepts that I had a hard time fully visualizing. They're just chock full of stuff that would need to be CGI to show.

I can't wait for that. That's when the book went from "wtf?' to "holy crap that is insane". There are so many moments like that where something will happen and I think "well you can't explain that scientifically" and then it does haha

It's weird because some stuff, like when there is a lot of smoke, it looks like a PS2 game. But other times, when the CGI characters are talking, you can "see" the actors face in their CGI character. It's so weird. I don't imagine they did mocap on the faces like Avatar lol

EDIT: It's also so weird to see >!the Trisolarians dehydrate. I always thought they'd just dry out into like a strawman. And later on didn't even picture them as human beings. But in the show they lay down and just start flipping out with water squirting everywhere!<

Honestly surprised at how much of the VR stuff they're doing and the production value of the CGI. It's not amazing by any means, but it looks surprisingly good at times. I believe in the Netflix version they'll be doing all those scenes with actors on a green screen.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's so slow with the 30 episode run, and the cinematography and areas they film are so beautiful at times. It's nice to just turn on and chill and watch.

Loved the books after reading them just over the past few months and I have serious concerns with the Netflix version as this does not seem like a book series you can really turn into a short, bingeable streaming show. But they are going hard into the books on this version, for better or worse, and I don't imagine anyone else would do such a faithful translation to the screen.

Yeah it looks good to me. You can definitely see that they're doing some interesting fighting scenes utilizing monsters and magic straight from the game. Good cast.

If you look at the history of the past D&D films they were all made for Syfy and written by a bunch of people who had no interest in the role playing game. But WotC is involved with making this an actual D&D movie. Not a generic fantasy film with a few mentions of familiar spells or a single monster from the game floating by for a second.

I'm really looking forward to The Three Body Problem. Just finished the books last week and am watching the Chinese version on YouTube

But I'm also really wary about how it will turn out lol

The Chinese version is going into the books hard. 30 episode series. And it's kind of showing the flaw with that as some parts really drag. But there's a ton to cover and they're really doing it justice, for better or worse.

The Netflix version already seems very different as they're having an international cast (kind of seems like an obvious choice if you're adapting a Chinese book with almost all Chinese characters into something you're hoping will be an international hit) but the casting is concerning. Benedict Wong is a great addition but if he's playing Wang Miao and not Da Shi it'll be a serious miscast. But other sources say he is playing Da Shi and the guy who played Sam on GoT will be Wang Miao (which I also think is bad casting).

Also, I don't see how they'll shove this book into a bingable series for mass audiences. So much of it is just narration explaining scientific theories and concepts. Most of the characters can be very wooden, especially the main ones, as I guess they're more meant to represent concepts than actual people.

Should be a trip. Especially if they start doing books 2 and 3. Book 1 is kind of a detective mystery thriller. The other two are wild with different dimensions and huge passages of time.

Neither did I. But partly because that was my theory the whole time. So for me she just confirmed it. Never considered she might be lying until I looked online