Meyers left at the end of the 94-95 season. Ferrell came on board the following season, 95-96.
Never liked him either. He seems to be incapable of delivering a joke without looking at the camera immediately afterwards, looking extremely proud of his own cleverness. Like a toddler who just used the potty for the first time.
JoshL
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I think this is a later affectation of Meyers. He doesn’t do anything like it in So I Married an Axe Murderer, so far as I remember.
I have no idea how they got through more than 10 seconds of that scene without breaking – must have been 100 takes edited together.
Amazingly the blooper reel only had one moment from it.
Silent
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Just finished watching the two seasons of “The Order”. I had heard negative things about it when it first came out, but decided to give it a try. I really enjoyed it. If you like magic in a modern day setting, I suggest giving it a shot.
Unfortunately, season 2 just came out, so if it gets a season 3, it will be a wait.
I meant to mention that Season 2 of After Life came out. And if you enjoyed the first season, I recommend it. It’s once again bogged down by grief. I guess it’s realistic that just because he had a good day and a good attitude at the end of Season 1 doesn’t mean he won’t fall into a funk again. By the end of Season 2, it feels like he’s once again back in the same position he was at the end of Season 1: ready to improve, but not quite there.
So I can see how this show can go on in perpetuity. Or at least as long as Ricky Gervais is interested in making it. You start the season off with him backsliding back into depression, and have him improve over the season. I like it!
I really enjoyed the first season but haven’t started watching the second. Watching DARK right now and trying to work out all the relationships all over again.
I have to say it starts out with too much of an “angsty” vibe for my taste, but I like what they did with the show overall.
Silent
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Started watching Warrior Nun yesterday. Three episodes in and so far I’m enjoying it. Slightly reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, replacing vampires with demons, and more religious tones (It’s in the title, Nun). Looking forward to the remaining episodes.
Saw one ep. It’s interesting. I don’t love the internal monologue. I assume they are straight quotes from the comic book but they just seem a touch clumsy.
Patton Oswald had a new stand-up special last month. It’s funny enough, a nice pleasant stand-up routine. It’s nice to check in with him again after the amazing “Annihilation” and find that he’s remarried and is doing well. But after you watch it, his special just sits there in your “Continue Watching” list on Netflix, taunting you, even though you’ve already watched it. That’s because his special has an “Episode 2”, and Episode 2 is a comedian who is probably has the worst stand-up act I’ve ever tried to watch.
Anyway, today I got tired of Patton’s stupid special taunting me in the Continue Watching section, and I “watched” the other guy’s special by fast forwarding to the end so it will be considered watched.
I saw somewhere that Netflix was working on letting people control their Continue Watching section. I hope that rolls out soon.
I’m not sure if you can still do it, but in the past you could delete things from your “Continue Watching” list—possibly from your history, too—from the Netflix web interface (logged in via a standard browser).
It’s been awhile since I’ve done that, though.
The easiest way to do it these days is on mobile there’s an option in the three dots menu to “remove from row”. Or on desktop you can do the more extreme option of hiding it in your viewing history, which I think also removes it from Continue Watching.
Silent
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Finished Warrior Nun. While I enjoyed it, be warned that the last episode ends in a cliff hanger. It ends at a point where you would expect another episode, and there isn’t one.
Yeah, but I expected it.
Still, just an amazing show. Characters acting story and low with some good action.
This show isn’t great, but it’s much better than you might expect. Its biggest redeeming trait might be a ridiculous amount of casual murder and an almost complete lack of consequences to the world and characters. I say redeeming because while it seems extreme and unrealistic, the writers carry it out pretty brazenly and the characters just sort of shrug it off and move on whenever it happens, which isn’t something we see all that often.
Huh. Just noticed Netflix added a Ju-On television show. I didn’t even know that was a thing. I guess I’ll have to see if it’s any good.
