Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-28 (Friday) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 08:01:51 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <924127625.741361157.596548.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:01:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8ec399659ba1c0248035c614fc12b5bd"; logging-data="4177077"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18t8dZYfYvAJYcGh2bsTm3r" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VirLoWDGgzScUxH31JMGaB46Tic= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <924127625.741361157.596548.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 3443 On 6/29/24 7:22 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Ubiquitous wrote: > >> I watched: >> >> Nothing. >> >> What did you watch? > > Hey, thanks for asking! > > I watched worse than nothing as I suffered Ian‘s revenge for the short form > movies. > > AGE OF THE LIVING DEAD (2018) Prime and Plex. > > A.k.a. Era of the Living Dead > > It’s a six episode miniseries about which almost nothing is known and what > is known is wrong. For instance, IMDb says there are three seasons of six > or seven episodes each but it’s pretty clear they only made one six episode > season. There’s also a video game that nothing is known about. You can't trust IMDb, no matter how much I try to "fix" it!! > This is an absolutely dreadful incompetently made series that’s pretty much > like “hey kids let’s remake the strain with the grade school video club“ > > You may recall that I can’t stand the strain. > > I am pretty sure this suffers from Defiling Gravity syndrome, where the > first and last episodes are written by one person and the rest is just > fill-in. Credits say the same guy wrote them all, but the credits are > standardized and identical for every episode so I suspect they lie. > > 10 years ago vampires somehow took over New York City and now there are 250 > million of them occupying the East Coast of the United States from the > Atlantic to about Chicago. The 150 million remaining American humans live > pretty much in California. In between is a no man’s land, that works pretty > much like Star Trek where nobody’s allowed to go in it at all. The > vampires haven’t leached over the Canadian or Mexican borders at all and > the British seem to think they don’t exist anywhere else in the world even > though many of them talk like a bad satire of Bela Lugosi and have been > around for hundreds or thousands of years. > > [snip] > > As all these weird storylines collide, the show doesn’t end it just stops. > > The best thing I can say for it is it has several attractive actresses. That's the only reason I want to watch this, though I would probably "watch" this as pure background noise (e.g. while listening to music). > All shot in horrible handheld, constant shaky cam.