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HBO Max and Discovery Plus are going to be merged or bundled or something because of the ..whatever merger that is causing us to go closer and closer to an epic entertainment monopoly. I may wait and see what the pricing will be for that and decide about getting HBO Max.
Oooh, OK. I've been thinking of getting Discovery+ to feed my unfortunate home reno show addiction, and I couldn't justify adding that and HBOMax. But word of Taika Waititi Hotness had me conflicted. This might solve that quandry.
OFMD is a fast watch, very enjoyable. I also watched Bridgerton this weekend - didn't like this season as much as the first one. But watching those two close together and then reading The League of Gentlewomen Witches made for some nice thematic leisure time. I would like more pirates now, please.
Apparently Our Flag Means Death is not available on HBO Max on Hulu. oh never mind I see I have to go to hbo max and sign in with a provider (hulu) and now I can watch OFMD
Yes! Everyone join me in the brainrot!
askye, the Max exclusive stuff cannot be watched on Hulu. You can only watch them the way you ended up doing it.
Yeah. So this also means I can watch Gentleman Jack.
Ok so I was worried OFMD would be an issue for me to watch because of the whole--Stede trying and not being good at what he is doing and having people talk about him, etc. I can't watch The Office because of that. It just brings up a lot of uncomfortable emotional stuff. BUT I realize that there is a lot of support in OFMD and it doesn't turn into what I feared. However I'm kind of skimming through a bunch of episodes so I could kind of get an idea of the level of that and now I'm going back and watching it.
I've been finding OFMD to be somewhat cringeworthy and difficult to watch, too. But then again, I've been having trouble watching all kinds of seemingly innocuous stuff since the pandemic.
But then again, I've been having trouble watching all kinds of seemingly innocuous stuff since the pandemic.
It's super soothing to watch old Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans episodes. (The throughline there being Tara Strong.)
I have seen the first four episodes of OFMD and I am fully onboard with this show. (I only didn't binge the entire season because I had to go to bed.)
Yeah, I feel like OFMD doesn't lean too hard into mocking or cringe-y humor. So the humor isn't usually very sharp; it's often rather gentle and affectionate, but sometimes that means it's also less laugh-out-loud funny than it could be.
In all honesty, as much as I love it, I feel like the tone of the show is hard to pin down: it veers from broad humor to genuine darkness to moonlit romance to improv-style comedy to gory (if cartoonish) violence to heartfelt drama, and the character beats sometimes suffer a bit. On the other hand, it's giving me so much of what I want out of my stories that I don't really care about its flaws, I'm just over here being a walking heart-eyes emoji.
