The Streaming Thread+ • Page 32

This entire time I heard Waller-Bridge was doing a Tomb Raider show I just assumed she was playing Lara Croft herself.

 

Just started Unknown Number. Love how it opens with the town throwing a Halloween party in Oct 2020

And then 15 months before going to the cops?

 

They made it seem like there were no texts between the party and way later, right?

 

Yeah it was weird. They got texts around the party and then it seemed like there was a year with no texts and then suddenly they started again full time.

 

need to watch

 

it’s good

 

Paramount+'s cancelled live action Halo series coming to Netflix

 

I enjoyed a lot of Wednesday S2, enough to finish it anyway. but keep in mind i have no emotional attachment to any previous iteration of The Addams Family. it's a decent YA family drama slash murder mystery primarily set in a school for magical beings. they have this cool idea for a show, then they slap a well-known IP onto it

That's what Netflix does with its adaptations, and most of the time the results don't turn out so good. I personally did enjoy the Resident Evil show for what it was, despite having hardly anything to do with the games. and while Cowboy Bebop deviating from the source material may have largely missed the mark, I admire the ambition of some of what it was trying to do.

Anyway, where Wednesday S2 kindasorta doesn't work for me is that it's two concurrent storylines, two separate mysteries playing leapfrog, things get a bit messy and convoluted. While the titular family certainly plays a big part in the story, at its heart are Wednesday and Enid. I don't care what Netflix says or what their intention was, the tension and longing in that relationship is so utterly sapphic coded it's hard to not read it that way. Jenna and Emma are so likable in these roles that no matter how frustrating or annoying i find some other elements of the show to be, i can't help but keep watching

 

Hard Truths is good. Technically a 2024 film but sitting in my top 10 for this year since I don’t believe it went wide til 2025

 

apparently Orphan Black is currently a top ten show on Netflix. why the resurgence, was it not on there before?

 

Hard Truths is very very good.

 

finished Hacks (for now). i don't think we've laughed that much in a long time. bring on season 5.

 

Watched Unknown Number tonight…

The whole bodycam sequence was like an out of body experience. How was no one in that house freaking out? The daughter’s expression didn’t even change the entire time. Even the way the cop presented the details was so strange, like “ahh well, sorry we figured it out.” That whole family needs therapy for the rest of their lives.

 

I thought the same but attributed it to her being so young plus legit actual shock.

 

Just started Ozark, currently three episodes in. It’s ridiculous but I am Entertained

 

It's a very entertaining show

 

Unfortunately gets worse each season with the last being laughably bad

 

I've watched every show in The Walking Dead franchise, nothing can hurt me

 

Wow

 

I didn't even know this was possible, wow

 

I started watching Dexter again for the first time since college. Forgot how addicting it is in the beginning. Never actually finished the last couple of seasons with how bad it gets over time lol but maybe I'll suck it up this time around just to see how it goes

 

It does not go well

 

Haha yeahh I know, it just bugs me to never finish a show that I initially really enjoyed, even if it's trash