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A place for shows presented as streaming only — for example Netflix Originals, Amazon Prime Streaming, Hulu Plus, Yahoo, and other sites. (Note: Shows that are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe shall be discussed in that thread.)
Spoiler Policy: Spoiler font two weeks for content presented all at once. Content presented as weekly episodes may be discussed with no restrictions as it is released.
Netflix: Our algorithms tell us that people like 80s nostalgia and horror. Can you make a show for us?
Duffer Bros: Hold my beer.
Netflix: Our algorithms tell us that people like Arrival and Battlestar Galactica. Can you make a show for us?
Some Random TV Producer: Uh, sure, I guess?
Yeah. It feels like asking someone to make a ship out of Legos. Stranger Things is like a they went out and got a kit for the HMS Warspite and put it together carefully while Another Life is just getting a bunch of random blocks and putting something together while watching a cooking show.
I read someone's Live Tweet of the Another Life and it was... I had no idea what show it was because they didn't identify it until the end but it sounded so so so bad.
I watched up through episode 5 or 6 of Another Life this weekend on the off-chance that Netflix's patented "hook 'em by episode 4" thing would kick in, and I can safely report that it did not. I'll probably finish off the season anyway because I am stubborn.
How bad is Tyler Hoechlin in that, anyway?
Anyone watch The Great Hack documentary on Netflix about Cambridge Analytica? Holy shit.
The media embargo on Dark Crystal Age of Resistance has lifted and I am ready to report that I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I want to skip work today and spend hours putting screenshots of it next to screenshots from Farscape because wow, the Henson Company sure is committed to a very specific visual style.
It starts out a little slow but there's a point in ep 5 where we all just sat up straight and gaped, and when it was over my 12 year-old said it should be called Game of Thra'ns. (No, he has not seen or read any of GoT, but cultural osmosis in middle school is a thing, you know?)
The writing throughout is earnest and funny and warm. The mythology is lovely to soak in. It's family-friendly without being childish or simplistic. The puppetry, naturally, is amazing.
Mark Hamill doesn't voice the character you think he does, but he's great anyway, as are all the rest of the cast.
Oooh, that's exciting, JessiMoon!
Does Fizzgig appear in it?
Yes, kind of - fizzgig, at least according to this show's canon, is the name of the species. So there are a few of them here and there, and also it means that Thra's ecosystem and culture were devastated by this war to the extent that about a century later, Kira named her dog "Dog" and nobody thought it was an odd choice.