{"id":13999,"date":"2021-01-14T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2021-01-10T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:20:07","slug":"tv-q4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13999","title":{"rendered":"TV\/Q4\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV roundup for the second half-ish of 2020<\/p>\n

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\nOn Cinema at the Cinema<\/em> seasons 1-? (201?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Labor Day, since I’d already seen Bisbee ’17<\/a><\/em> I watched season one of On Cinema<\/em> on the Adult Swim roku app while repainting the furniture… then I drank some, and watched seasons two and three? Or maybe also season four… or just season two, I don’t know how to figure this out.<\/p>\n

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\nSearch Party<\/em> season 3 (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dory and the gang become absurd anti-celebrities during their murder trial. We know she is found guilty because of the flash-forward intro of the first episode, but this turns out to be a good fakeout – after being declared innocent, she’s kidnapped by a maniac. Not my favorite season – I’ve never loved court dramas, and the final episode is too Seinfeld<\/em>, but I’m still here for whatever’s next.<\/p>\n

Newbies: Dory’s rookie lawyer is Shalita Grant of the series You<\/em>, and Drew’s lawyer is Louie Anderson. The all-business prosecutor is Groundling Michaela Watkins, lately of Brigsby Bear<\/a><\/em> and Sword of Trust<\/em>. Wallace Shawn is a shady businessman who gets Chantal arrested by the FBI.<\/p>\n

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\nRussian Doll<\/em> season 1 (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is like The Game<\/em>. I’m Michael Douglas!” Writing this up is a lotta pressure because since finishing this I’ve watched time-loop movies Tenet<\/a><\/em> and I’m Thinking of Ending Things<\/a><\/em> and Bill & Ted Face the Music<\/a><\/em>, and it seems like there are a lotta details in this four-hour existential comedy that I’ve forgotten. Natasha Lyonne keeps dying then waking up back at her birthday party hosted by Greta Lee (Inside Amy Schumer<\/em>) with “Gotta Get Up” playing, and tries to discover why this is happening, then runs into fellow time-looper Alan (Charlie Barnett of TV’s You<\/em>). I think it’s possible that everything gets fixed at the end, but maybe not since a second season is rumored.<\/p>\n

The slimy-Cagney-lookin guy she goes home with is Yul Vazquez… her psychiatrist is Elizabeth Ashley of Treme<\/em>… her drug dealer is Waris Ahluwalia (The Life Aquatic<\/em>)… Tinfoil Kevin is a regular at the bodega run by Ritesh Rajan (Mowgli’s dad in the latest Jungle Book<\/a><\/em>), and her mom in flashback is Chloe Sevigny. Co-created by Amy Poehler, directors include Leslye Headland (Terriers<\/em>) and Jamie Babbit (But I’m a Cheerleader<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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\nThe Tick<\/em> season “two” (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Destiny is on the phone. It’s a party line and we’re all invited!”<\/p>\n

Such good writing – even if I saw some of the season-long story endings coming, each episode is full of pleasures. Dot discovers she has powers, can see the near future, and their father-in-law Walter has been an agent under deep cover. Tick’s new nemesis\/partner is a bank-robbing lobster. Aegis Commander Ty Rathbone, who has a black-hole heart, recruits Arthur and Tick and Lint to the Flag Five, which is sabotaged by Dr. John Hodgman. Superion spends a few episodes depressed on the moon deciding whether to spin the earth backwards to reverse time. Lint’s sidekick is a computers\/weapons whiz named Edgelord.<\/p>\n

Writers include original Tick comics creator Ben Edlund, two Detective Pikachu<\/em> writers, two writers of teen comedy On My Block<\/em>, and Kit Boss (King of the Hill<\/em>). Directors include a DP of Dexter<\/em> and True Blood<\/em>, a Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em> and Black-ish<\/em> director with over a hundred other credits, the script supervisor of Mallrats<\/em> and Dogma<\/em>, the editor of Roger & Me<\/a><\/em>, and an AD on Buffalo Soldiers<\/em>. Flexon is on the new Snowpiercer<\/em> series, the Aegis paperwork twins are in The Assistant<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nDocumentary Now!<\/em> season 2 (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bunker<\/em> is a War Room<\/a><\/em> parody, Hader doing a southern accent.<\/p>\n

Juan Likes Rice and Chicken<\/em> is a celebrity-chef doc about a difficult little restaurant that makes a basic dish but with impossibly high standards.<\/p>\n

Location Is Everything<\/em> is a Spalding Gray parody! Lennon Parham (personal advisor to Veep<\/em>) plays his girl Ramona, who is onstage refuting all his stories.<\/p>\n

Globesman<\/em> is of course Salesman<\/em>, which I’ve still never seen, but I doubt the original involves a rival atlas salesman who stalks and torments our protagonists.<\/p>\n

Final Transmission<\/em> is a really specific Stop Making Sense<\/em> parody with Armisen as Byrne, Hader as Tina, Maya Rudolph and Jon Wurster, I am in heaven. Why did they stick a Tom Waits parody into this?<\/p>\n

“As a bald kid with a dead dad, movies became my refuge.” Double episode Mr. Runner Up<\/em> is doing The Kid Stays in the Picture<\/em>, which I didn’t realize, about an awards-obsessed movie producer who’s only constitutionally able to create schlock, mostly starring his unfunny Italian comic friend Enzo.<\/p>\n

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\nPrimal<\/em> season 1 (2019-2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gruesome and lovely. Caveman and Dinosaur each saw their families eaten by predators, but found each other as friends and protectors. Perfect show, with one heck of a finale – introduction of a woman with metal implements and a spoken language, collapsing even more of history together. I think of Genndy as the Dexter’s Lab\/Powerpuff<\/em> guy, but everyone involved in this also worked on Samurai Jack<\/em>, which I probably should not have skipped.<\/p>\n

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\nBarry<\/em> season 2 (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe less fun than season one, but deeper, as Barry tries to control his rages and stop killing people, and leads the acting class in experimenting with telling personal truths. In the end, of course, he falls into a massive rage and kills many people, Fuches turns on him tragically and repeatedly, and the people who cop out on personal truth and tell lies are rewarded for it.<\/p>\n

Noho Hank’s Chechen bestie Cristobal (Michael Irby of True Detective<\/em> s2) forms an unstable alliance with Ester, head of a Burmese crime family (a deadpan Patricia Fa’asua). Sally’s abusive ex Sam (Joe Massingill of Die Hard 5<\/em>) returns to stalk her. Gene tries to reconcile with his estranged son Leo (Andrew Leeds of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist<\/em>), and is told that Barry killed his girlfriend Janice. Janice’s ex-partner Loach (John Pirruccello, a Twin Peaks<\/em> s3<\/a> deputy) tracks down Barry and gets Fuches to wear a wire. And most wonderfully, the Loach plot ends in the one time Barry and Fuches work together all season, when Loach “hires” Barry to kill the guy sleeping with Loach’s wife, a stoned Tae Kwon Do master (stunt\/action regular Daniel Bernhardt) with a feral daughter.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso sampled quite a few shows:<\/p>\n

– Star Trek Lower Decks<\/em> seems bad
\n– Central Park<\/em> seems good, going to see if Katy wants to watch it (we still haven’t returned to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em>)
\n– Black Jesus<\/em> is good but I dunno if it’s got a whole season in the tank.
\n– Infinity Train<\/em> looks imaginative, but for kids, not for me.
\n– Los Espookys<\/em> seems up my alley, would watch more.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd of course I watched a pile of concerts and livestreams and other things, including Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer<\/em>, which probably would’ve gone to theaters, had there been theaters.<\/p>\n

Waco Brothers:<\/em>
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Robyn & Emma:<\/em>
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Cave:<\/em>
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Pigface:<\/em>
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