It's funny... I have bought enough Apple stuff to score a free year of Apple TV but never really watch it. I'm getting yelled at by my boss for not watching Severance. It does sound like they are killing it, and I should pay more attention to what they're doing.
I've been watching The Pitt, about 6 episodes in. Easily the best show I've watched in the last few years. As someone who just starting being an EMT again and is embarking on EMT-I training, it's wildly accurate when dealing with ER staff. If Noah Wyle doesn't get an Emmy it will be criminal.
I think medically, it’s the most accurate medical show I’ve ever seen. I spent 4 years in a level 1 trauma so that part was good. The only thing I don’t like about the show is the amount of shit that happens in 1 day between the people on a personal level. On my worst day at the hospital, we saw no where near that amount of shit. But I suppose in order to make it good tv, you need more than just blood and guts.
Completely agree, that was a hang-up for me as well. The amount of catastrophic shit in one day was hard to believe. Most of the time it's toddlers with fevers or old people with shortness of breath. But fentanyl overdoses + measles infection + mass shooting was a little far-fetched. But I get it since the point was to illustrate how overwhelmed emergency services can be. My other hang-up was how everything was wrapped up so quickly. Lab and CT results are not back in 10 minutes, and an overwhelmed ER is not going to tell you to come back for a check-up. You will be immediately referred to primary care. Those issues aside, I love it so far.
Andor season 2 fires up tomorrow. I’m super excited for it! Arguably the best series in the Star Wars universe (close fight with the Mandalorian in my books), but it’s finally a place where stormtroopers are scary and can shoot.
Season 2 of the last of us kicked of two weeks ago. Episode 2 debuted last night and was damn good IMO. But it did piss a lot of people off, Lol.
I definitely didn't see it coming, but I also didn't play the games. I read that some people were mad that Jay Leno was cast as the main girl while the other girl should have been cast as main girl. Whatever who cares. Show is fine, but I don't think it's as good as last season, albeit after only 2 episodes.
I made the mistake of clicking on "Last of Us" subreddit at one point and the number of fucking basement dwellers who are focused on whether or not this or that character is hot enough, or has the right cheekbones, or whatever... frightening. There was a multi-paragraph post about how Pedro Pascal's facial structure wouldn't look like he does if he had really gone through the experiences that the main character on the video game went through. Endless comments about how Ellie isn't sexy enough, even in season one where, I believe, Ellie is canonically 14 years old. Entire groups of people getting heated about the fact that a 14 year old girl in a post-apocalyptic survival movie isn't hot enough for them. Enabling shit people to share their opinions loudly enough that other shit people think they have a community is one of the worst parts of the internet.
Read enough of that trash and your brains are going to end up on the screen by your own hand. These are fat-titted retards swimming in a sea of 500 ml Code Red empties. You’re not wrong at all— the fact social media gave a voice to people who would never, EVER have the most remote confidence to say pretty much anything is the great disaster of our time— society’s lowest common denominator are now given a very public megaphone in order to shout their loserness to everyone. “Comic Book Guy” from the Simpsons is a real guy who is everywhere now, not just where you encounter geek culture. If there was ANY way to make these creatures of the night slink permanently back into the shadows and not be heard, I would make that sacrifice regardless of virtually any context.
Back in the day they were the guys who spent $500 a week on lap dances, so that entitled them to refer to the stripper as their “girlfriend” outside of the bar. …they, at least, had to leave their house.