TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

The first couple of episodes of the latest series of the Great Pottery Throw Down - very enjoyable soothing TV for inflamed times.

Featuring a big burly potter as one of the judges who is regularly moved to tears by people's work

[Darth Wagtaros]

Cursed. A werewolf terrorizes the good people of Los Angeles. Not essential viewing.

Is it Cursed 2 that has the guy's arm turning into a cobra?

[Barrister]

My kids though didn't really know what the hell to make of it, having zero concept of what even a sitcom is.

:shock:
I can expect modern kids growing up with cable and/or streaming TV to not see many repeats of Bewitched and the like but they've never seen more modern sitcoms?

What exactly is a "modern sitcom"?

My kids are 100% the streaming generation.  They have no concept of a show being on at a certain time - it's all Netflix (or whatever) for them.

Episode 2 of WandaVision leans more heavily into the "something strange is going on here" vibe.  I like it.

[Eddie Teach]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

[Barrister]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

[Eddie Teach]

A show can be funny and still be a sitcom.

[Josquius]

The office is absolutely a sitcom. E.g. #34 on a big greatest sitcoms of all time poll from a few years back.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/1919/only_fools_and_horses_britains_best_loved_sitcom/

Not that I expect kids to have enjoyed that one.
Modern family is a good shout though. Friends also seems to be undergoing a spell of re-popularity with kids.

[The Brain]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

Elaborate.

[Josephus]

From WIKI

The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series that depicts the everyday work lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It aired on NBC from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, lasting a total of nine seasons.[


I like how they do the math for you there.

[The Brain]

Cursed. A werewolf terrorizes the good people of Los Angeles. Not essential viewing.

Is it Cursed 2 that has the guy's arm turning into a cobra?

Not in this one anyway.

[Barrister]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

Elaborate.

A sitcom is done using a multi-camera set-up and often in front of a live studio audience (or at least with a laugh track).  The Office is done in a single-camera mockumentary style, and with no laugh track.

The most recent sitcom I can think of would be Big Bang Theory.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The first couple of episodes of the latest series of the Great Pottery Throw Down - very enjoyable soothing TV for inflamed times.

Featuring a big burly potter as one of the judges who is regularly moved to tears by people's work

heh, the wife and I have this thing going on where we try to predict when he'll start crying again. pretty fun

[Syt]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

Elaborate.

A sitcom is done using a multi-camera set-up and often in front of a live studio audience (or at least with a laugh track).  The Office is done in a single-camera mockumentary style, and with no laugh track.

The most recent sitcom I can think of would be Big Bang Theory.

So in your opinion, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Community, The Good Place, Schitt's Creek or Peep Show do not fit your definition of situation comedy?

[Barrister]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

Elaborate.

A sitcom is done using a multi-camera set-up and often in front of a live studio audience (or at least with a laugh track).  The Office is done in a single-camera mockumentary style, and with no laugh track.

The most recent sitcom I can think of would be Big Bang Theory.

So in your opinion, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Community, The Good Place, Schitt's Creek or Peep Show do not fit your definition of situation comedy?

No.

[crazy canuck]

A sitcom taking place nearer the present, like Modern Family, The Office or The Jetsons. 

I can' speak to Modern Family, but The Office is not a sitcom.

Elaborate.

A sitcom is done using a multi-camera set-up and often in front of a live studio audience (or at least with a laugh track).  The Office is done in a single-camera mockumentary style, and with no laugh track.

The most recent sitcom I can think of would be Big Bang Theory.

Sitcom: a television series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of comedic circumstances