TV thread

[Elon Musk]

yeah that episode was super touching, id take a full season of those two

[Banedon]

Finished watching Wednesday last night and I really did NOT expect to enjoy that show as much as I did!

[chopsx9]

That was another beautiful hour of TV.

Spoiler: show

I think generally it made a lot of sense to take a bigger swing away from the source material here of all places too. The Bill stuff was fun in the game more for game play than for story reasons.

Also are we going to get a bunch of nerd rage over tonight's episode? I feel like it was implied pretty strongly that Bill and Frank were a thing but never explicit. The types of dudes who would hate tonight's episode are the exact types to completely whiff on all that subtext.

Beautiful hour of TV. I sort of knew this episode was coming and beforehand I thought it might have been a bad decision to spend an hour on a character who doesn't appear in the story before or after, but after seeing it I completely get why it makes total sense and loved it.

I don't know if it made "total" sense and I usually loathe episodes like this one where the 10 minutes of plot progression takes over an hour of screen time but it was absolutely one of the best single episodes of a TV/Streaming series I think I have seen. Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett were phenomenal. The use of "Long Long Time" was inspired. Whatever the opposite of jumping the shark is (ducking the emu?) this was it. I have almost zero awareness of the plot of the game so this "detour" is less jarring to me. I'll even forgive Nick Offerman walking down the middle of the road when being stormed by the raiders.

[chopsx9]

Finished watching Wednesday last night and I really did NOT expect to enjoy that show as much as I did!

Same here. I kept expecting it to go full CW and it never really did. I also expected Wednesday to epitomize "Mary Sue" and she was a complete horsefeathers and gets called out and held accountable for it. And she was wrong about so many things...so often. Much better than I anticipated.

[17 Seconds]

episode 3 of tlou is a gd masterpiece

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[Sammy Sofa]

[Derwood]

My kid is watching "Willow" right now, and horsefeathers is the dialogue cringey. It sounds like it was written by a 17-year old

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Praise be all those who suggested watching Shrink on Peacock. Let's bring this show back.

[CubinNY]

I still cannot get over that episode. It was perfect. Every shot, every line, every setting, every second.

[CubinNY]

My kid is watching "Willow" right now, and horsefeathers is the dialogue cringey. It sounds like it was written by a 17-year old

I loved the movie, who didn’t. But the show reminded me of a WB show.

[Sammy Sofa]

My kid is watching "Willow" right now, and horsefeathers is the dialogue cringey. It sounds like it was written by a 17-year old

I loved the movie, who didn’t.

Plenty of adults who saw it at the time; it got pretty middling reviews, and mostly lived on as a bit of a joke until the kids who saw it got old enough to do their usual "if I liked it as a kid, it MUST be amazing!" thing (and I say that as someone who really enjoys the movie, but it is mid as hell).

But the show reminded me of a WB show.

The show is pretty clearly aiming for a younger audience. I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would; felt like a bunch of middle schoolers playing a D&D campaign. It's just OK, and that's OK.

[WrigleyField 22]

My kid is watching "Willow" right now, and horsefeathers is the dialogue cringey. It sounds like it was written by a 17-year old

I loved the movie, who didn’t.

Plenty of adults who saw it at the time; it got pretty middling reviews, and mostly lived on as a bit of a joke until the kids who saw it got old enough to do their usual "if I liked it as a kid, it MUST be amazing!" thing (and I say that as someone who really enjoys the movie, but it is mid as hell).

But the show reminded me of a WB show.

The show is pretty clearly aiming for a younger audience. I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would; felt like a bunch of middle schoolers playing a D&D campaign. It's just OK, and that's OK.

Yep, pretty much my feelings on all of it.

[WrigleyField 22]

Waiting for NFLX to tank...

[Derwood]

Waiting for NFLX to tank...

That doesn't fix password sharing at all. If I use Netflix at least once per month then my kid in college can share my password? Ok, easy

[mul21]

That's not what it says. You have to log the device being used onto your home network at least once a month, so a Firestick or Roku 500 miles away won't work.

[UMFan83]

Waiting for NFLX to tank...

That doesn't fix password sharing at all. If I use Netflix at least once per month then my kid in college can share my password? Ok, easy

The article is saying that any device using the Netflix account has to log in while using the home network. So your kid in college would have to bring his device using Netflix home every 30 days or your entire account is banned.

Edit: or maybe just the device is banned, not the app entire account

[Derwood]

Ah, got it. My bad.

[WrigleyField 22]

Waiting for NFLX to tank...

That doesn't fix password sharing at all. If I use Netflix at least once per month then my kid in college can share my password? Ok, easy

The article is saying that any device using the Netflix account has to log in while using the home network. So your kid in college would have to bring his device using Netflix home every 30 days or your entire account is banned.

Edit: or maybe just the device is banned, not the app entire account

Yea I think just the device is blocked. Presumably blocked just from that one account, but would be pretty hilarious if it bricks an entire device from using their app.

Like - obvious privelege scenario, but just say you're a person who has two homes. While you can of course hold two subscriptions, those accounts aren't linked. So when you stop watching in location one you can't pick up again from location two where you left off. And just generally a huge turnoff for people who for example travel a lot (and may primarily watch on a device like a tablet while traveling and then a fixed smart device at home)

Like on some level, if they are insistent on cracking down on sharing (lame still, but whatever), it should just be you have a profile that you can own for free and then you go access that profile from any "box" that pays for the streaming access. It would at least create a lot less friction for users and allow them to keep content they curate even if they move among households. The way it's done here seems 100% destined to just turn people away.

[Bertz]

The smart move would be not to ban mooch accounts, just subject them to ads.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

The smart move would be to provide better content and let the moochers mooch away.

[WrigleyField 22]

The smart move would be not to ban mooch accounts, just subject them to ads.

Well they did come out with an ad version. Which I thought about doing anyway to save a couple bucks (need those ad breaks to properly scroll my phone anyways).

But yea, you could probably do a combo of both. Like the premium package that allows 4 devices is $20 compared to 1 device at $10 or add supported 1 device at $7. The fact they're okay with 4 devices under one roof at a time, but can't have 4 locations under one plan...?

Make it make sense (you can't)

[chopsx9]

That's not what it says. You have to log the device being used onto your home network at least once a month, so a Firestick or Roku 500 miles away won't work.

How is a "Home" network determined?

[WrigleyField 22]

That's not what it says. You have to log the device being used onto your home network at least once a month, so a Firestick or Roku 500 miles away won't work.

How is a "Home" network determined?

From article / Netflix faq

Netflix uses information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity to determine whether a device signed into your account is connected at your primary location.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, but how do they know what the "primary location" is? What if I signed up for Netflix while on vacation? Is my "primary location" the dumb hotel where I first signed on to Netflix?