I didn’t even make it through the first episode of Scarpetta on Prime. Way too gory for me, and the autopsy scenes were as well. Plot was all over the place. I normally love Jamie Lee Curtis but really disliked her character here. Oh well. I haven’t read the series so I don’t know how well they stuck to it. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…
Paging @linguafood !
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Don’t you mean… DR. linguafood? 
Thx for that article! 
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I just watched Fackham Hall (play on Fuck em all) on HBO. It was very silly but entertaining. It’s a cross between Downton Abbey and Monty Python, with gags coming a mile a minute like Airplane.
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Watched One Battle After Another last night, meh, 5/10 would not recommend.
Right? I really struggled with that one & didn’t ‘get’ the rave reviews. Too long, for one thing.
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Finally watched F1 last night. As my best friend says: big dumb fun!
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I’m surprised I watched it all the way through 
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I kept bitching about it while we watched. Although I wasn’t nearly as obnoxious as I was during Frankenstein.
We started watching Dead Ringers with Rachel Weisz. After the 3rd episode I’m not sure we’ll continue. Never mind that it is on Amazon Prime, which I would like to get rid off, like, yesterday.
I have a very vague recollection of the Jeremy Irons movie (who I thought was the hottest shit at the time) — mostly feeling physically uncomfortable, which any woman will understand.
Much as the twin thing is fun/weird, I just don’t know if it can sustain the show.
Another episode of the wildly weird DTF ST. Louis on HBO Max with Jason Bateman. We don’t know what to make of it, TBH. It’s billed as a dark comedy, and the tone switches from funny to weirdly sentimental in a beat. Intriguing enough to watch more.
We also started Rooster, yet another show trying to capture the wild and crazy world of academia. With Steve Carell and John C. McGinley, and clearly some of the writers behind Scrubs. It’s entertaining enough to continue.
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Yes, it’s a Bill Lawrence show; he is the man behind Scrubs, and also Shrinking.
I loved One Battle…. I think it might be a career best performance from Penn. I loved DiCaprio in schlubby weasel mode. Loved Benicio Del Toro.
On the length, Roger Ebert once said “No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough.”
I agree. When a film is good, a long run time means I get to spend more time in a world I like.
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I absolutely adore Magnolia, which is even longer — by 20 minutes, to be exact. My introduction at the time to William H. Macy, Tom Cruise’s best performance to date to me, a brilliant ensemble, excellent script, fantastic soundtrack… coulda gone on for longer IYAM.
So, the length wasn’t the issue for me as much as everything else. And I love del Toro 
Yup. We enjoyed the first season of Shrinking — I more so than my PIC, but the second season got a little too sweet for us & we lost interest after the second episode. Not nearly as sentimental as S2 of Ted Lasso, but … eh.
We also started both of those. Haven’t decided whether to continue, yet. I really did not like Rooster very much - so formulaic, and I am soooo sick of the “weird older man pursued by hot younger woman for no reason other than weird older man produces the show.” See also: that one with Ethan Hawke, I forget the name.
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Cringy and almost unwatchable for me, Penn was the worse character amongst really bad characters 
I’ve been watching the Oscars since I was born, but only made it for about 20 minutes last night. I don’t care for Conan O’Brien, and had only seen one of the best picture nominees (F1 which had less than zero chance of winning). I used to think the program was fun and interesting for the most part. but now it seems so formulaic and inane. Do I care about all this? I guess not. End of an era which, in my family, began with my parents listening to the Oscars on the radio. Anyone else feeling the same?
I don’t watch the Oscars anymore, but I do like Conan. My favourite host of the last couple of decades is Ricky Gervais. I’d probably start watching it again if they ever got him back as the host, which they most certainly won’t
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I’ve been watching the Oscars for a long time - not quite since birth but maybe since my 20s. I love watching the red carpet so I can see the starlets arrive in their fancy and sometimes outrageous ball gowns (the inflatable dress that Tamron Hall wore last night comes to mind). With the right host I still enjoy it. I liked Conan and I also liked Billy Crystal when he was hosting it.
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