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What are you currently watching on TV?

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kinch said:
With the May 30 episode "Twilight and Starlight," My Little Ponies is getting dark. I used to love the cheer, but I want to have to enjoy the show without understanding the worthlessness and absurdity of Camus and Sartre.
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I don't know anything about some fucking little pony but it is a fine line with Camus/Sartre and absurdity (less so with Camus). Beckett was absurd. Pirandello was absurd. Sartre maybe toyed with the absurd but don't fuck with Sartre--ok? Really, justifying my existence hinges on reading way too much Sartre. Otherwise, I'm just a nihilist. Sniff. Wait, you're talking about tv? Eh. When does GOT start?
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
american gods: aimless. slow. dialogue is a bloated, look-at-me attempt at wit. but i still watch because the set-up has tremendous potential.
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Currently watching.. this show is for folks with a messed up mind and ADD... I'm intrigued but its like a wreck I just can't look away from. I love the premise and that's why i started watching. Dialogue is kinda bloated but Ian McShane is great
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
I don't know anything about some fucking little pony but it is a fine line with Camus/Sartre and absurdity (less so with Camus). Beckett was absurd. Pirandello was absurd. Sartre maybe toyed with the absurd but don't fuck with Sartre--ok? Really, justifying my existence hinges on reading way too much Sartre. Otherwise, I'm just a nihilist. Sniff. Wait, you're talking about tv? Eh. When does GOT start?
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Does it really matter? Does anything? In the end we are all just history, unaccounted for or not, and does that matter? Where is my cat?
 
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To be real: Beckett seems a comedic rational's take on irrationality, a more popular man's John Barth. Camus is total absurdity of life and living. Sartre is more existentialism.

And fuck I need a TV show. I have none. Maybe Dancing With the Stars?
 
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kinch said:
Does it really matter? Does anything? In the end we are all just history, unaccounted for or not, and does that matter? Where is my cat?
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Well, after it being 101 yesterday and 56 this morning I can tell you my (daughter's rather old) cat was running around like a kitten. For about two minutes. After knocking around for a million or so years---give or take a few epochs and a few dead end family trees--I figure we've had a pretty good run (and possibly already facilitated another branch). I call it positivist nihilism. Why drink sad when you can drink glad? I kind of just made that up so apologies if I infringed on any trademarks. Your an attorney right? Any money in this?
 
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kinch said:
To be real: Beckett seems a comedic rational's take on irrationality, a more popular man's John Barth. Camus is total absurdity of life and living. Sartre is more existentialism.

And fuck I need a TV show. I have none. Maybe Dancing With the Stars?
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OK. While Myth of Sisyphos certainly started out absurdist I think it becomes more realist every freakin' day. Really. Every. Freakin'. Day.
I got sucked into America's Got Talent. Kind of justify it by comparing it to Ed Sullivan (without Ed Sullivan).
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
OK. While Myth of Sisyphos certainly started out absurdist I think it becomes more realist every freakin' day. Really. Every. Freakin'. Day.
I got sucked into America's Got Talent. Kind of justify it by comparing it to Ed Sullivan (without Ed Sullivan).
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Congrats on out-nerding me dipshit. I haven't read that. So. . . it is like America's Got Talent pretty much? I can just watch the show?
 
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kinch said:
Congrats on out-nerding me dip[Mark May]. I haven't read that. So. . . it is like America's Got Talent pretty much? I can just watch the show?
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OK, this is funny (if you're into this kind of shit--and really it is kind of esoteric). A 5 minute, Calvin and Hobbes meets Looney Toons-- with a thickly accented Indian (?) narrator-- break down of Camus' Myth of Sisyphos. Fuck, I'm drooling all over another shirt.
 
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So I finally took a lot of people's advice and started watching Parks & Rec a couple months ago - and just due to my wife and I having off schedules right at the start, I missed the whole first season - which I know some people even recommend. And I'll just say thanks to anyone who kept pushing that show, because that was just a really nice TV watching experience. I don't mean to "damn with faint praise" when I say probably the most charming show I've watched. One of my favorite all-around casts ever - everyone was so great (except for Craig).

Then that led me to follow Tom Haverford over to Master of None on Netflix, and what a great show that is too! Really nice surprise how much I enjoyed both seasons of it, especially these two together:



They were especially good together in the 1st-season episode "Old People".
So then I was feeling pretty good about Netflix half-hour comedy programming, so I gave GLOW a shot the past few days. Well worth it - another '80s nostalgia trip with a deep cast and solid character writing. I didn't really know Alison Brie since I never got into Community, but she's a strong actor here. Definitely a little crazy, in a good way.

 
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