Film, TV, and Media

Discussion questions:

What TV shows or films have you watched recently?

What subscription services are you subscribed to, if any?

Question of the week:

What TV shows of 2023 are you currently enjoying?

For All Mankind is an AppleTV original that shows an alternate history retelling of the space race. In this AU, the Soviets land on the moon first, which extends the space race into a decades-long conflict.

The show currently covers about 30 years of alternate history showing the US and the Soviets establish a moon base, new propulsion systems, and eventually landing on Mars.

This show is really good. It's excellent hard sci-fi. It really sticks out to me, though, for its depiction of the Soviets.

See, in this universe, the Soviet Union doesn't collapse. At least not at the same time it collapsed in our own history. Instead, they stick around and consolidate significant power, winning victories they lost in our own timeline.

This means that by the 90s, communism has essentially rooted itself as a dominant ideology in most of the world.

Now, don't get me wrong: this show depicts the soviets as evil, with the KGB boogyman following every Russian character. But the show doesn't do a great job at depicting this. Instead, the Soviet Union ends up being an absolute economic powerhouse that consistently keeps up with the US at every turn, only starting to fall behind technologically for unclear reasons in the latest season. Hell, Mexico is communist in the FAM timeline.

I think this is telling. If you construct a universe where the Soviets 'don't lose,' they end up winning. Half of the world is communist and it's gotten to the point where it seems internally inconsistent that the US is managing to keep up.

I just wanted to post about one of my favorite TV shows. Anyone else watch FAM?

You can read the full article here if you can't get past the subscription wall:

https://archive.is/dybNy

Thoughts?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/489513

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/489512

I... actually liked the fourth episode (the recent racing episode) more than the initial two that took place on Dooku's planet of Serreno.

The third episode with Crosshair is, of course, the best of season 2 so far (and probably the best of The Bad Batch serial so far).

Also... Rampart's a dick.

Oh my

The GenXers will definitely be happy with this.

Tagging:

@ybl@lemmygrad.ml

@Samubai@lemmygrad.ml

@witlessworm@lemmygrad.ml

@aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml

@redtea@lemmygrad.ml

@Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml

@Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml

Questions:

1. What TV shows are you looking forward to in 2022?

2. What TV shows or streaming serials are you looking forward to beyond?

Also, shameless plug-in for a Discord server that me, BayArea415, and some good friends created:

https://discord.gg/qQmdd28CBR

Enjoy!

That's it, that's the post.

Any good TV shows you've seen recently, btw?

Anybody looking forward to anything?

I pretty much skipped on Wheel of Time.

Boba is back and I'm fucking excited.

😎

It’s a pretty good movie I saw yesterday with an anti capitalist message. I recommend it

Good anti-capitalist film that focuses on the effects sugar can have on the body, and how that affects poor communities; specifically, the southern United States and indigenous Australian communities.

Check it out here- https://archive.org/details/That.Sugar.Film.2014