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RedLetterMedia |OT| Very Cruel.
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when they were frienly with he who shall not be named, they ripped into his movies on HitB. Well specifically, Mike was trying to be nicer with his criticism and clearly awkward and Jay gave ZERO FUCKS about any potential friendship and went ham
For anyone wondering what's up with Max Landis describing himself as a "holistic" consulting service, there's this writer named Douglas Adams who wrote a very famous sci-fi/comedy called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and he also wrote the lesser-known "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency".
Max Landis was in charge of that book's BBC/Netflix adaptation, which ran for two seasons before being canned when he was outed as a predator.
Max Landis ain't letting go of a better writer's joke.
wasn't that show canned before shit hit the fan with him? i think it ended pre-bright, at least.
i know, and i think they both aired before landis was really outed as a perv. i think the show just got canned like any other show, because not enough people watched it.
The second season had half the viewers of the first, BBC America cancelled it and Netflix wasn't interested in picking it up.
hope they watch Invisible Man this weekend and we get a half in the bag. reviews have been much better than i expected. excited to see it myself this weekend.
Looking into it, apparently the show was cancelled Dec 18, 2017.
‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’ Canceled at BBC America
The Elijah Wood starrer will not return for a third season.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
And then six days later, on Dec 24, 2017, Max Landis started making headlines.
Max Landis Accused of Sexual Harassment by Multiple Women
Max Landis, son of Hollywood heavyweight John Landis, has been accused of sexual assault via Twitter.
‘Bright’ Screenwriter Max Landis Accused of Sexual Assault
Several women have taken to Twitter to allege that the writer of Netflix’s first blockbuster film—and son of legendary ‘Animal House’ director John Landis—has a history of abuse.
www.thedailybeast.com
I just remembered, I was a bit late to the show (and had already heard it had been canned), and I think I watched the first episode and I was like "Hmmm, this show seems really good. I wonder why they canned it?" And then the credits came up and I almost laughed as I said "Ooooh, so that's why they canned it."
God these are so good. I love star trek, and these new shows are terrible, but watching Mike and Rich suffer through these series as well at least makes up for some of it
Knowing almost nothing about Star Trek and only experiencing it through these videos is the best. Being an actual old-school Star Trek fan sounds like an unending hell, no wonder Rich is such a bitter husk of a man.
I hope that last line is a teaser for the next episode.
IIRC, Mac watched TNG-era Star Trek, and he kept up with Mike and Rich in one of their side-conversations on an episode of BOTW.
Mac just needs to watch the show (which he might be doing anyways), and then he can appear at RLM in a month and chat with Mike about the completed season.
Of course, by this point (first episode, third episode, fifth episode) it seems like Mike would force Rich to do an end-of-season wrapup anyways, if Mac doesn't do it. But Rich seems burned out. Switching to Mac would freshen things up.
Mac just needs to watch the show (which he might be doing anyways), and then he can appear at RLM in a month and chat with Mike about the completed season.
Of course, by this point (first episode, third episode, fifth episode) it seems like Mike would force Rich to do an end-of-season wrapup anyways, if Mac doesn't do it. But Rich seems burned out. Switching to Mac would freshen things up.
I think Mike needs a win. Him getting more cynical isn't good for anyone lol.
Tbf, it looks as if the writers didn't ask themselves anything
Worry not, he's watching The Expanse and seems to be really enjoying it! Hoping for a video about it sometime.
I'm a self-medicating Star Trek fan. My medicine is staying far away from modern Trek, it's really not interesting to me.
That one was pretty good. Prerec in general didn't really work for me because compared to the their movie stuff they seemed way more out of their depth.
should probably pass on that lol. i dont know whats up with that guy but throwing yourself in the middle of everything seems like a bad idea.
I don't think I have ever sat through a single episode of Star Trek but I have listened to the new Picard RLM review probably 3 times and it makes me crack up every time. The way Mike delves into insanity, asking questions absolutely no one on this show was thinking about and Rich's dead silence while trying to bring Mike back to reality is just comedic gold. "Why was Picard there!?" "Because his name is in the title of the show!"
Yeah, that was a really great episode. I'm not really a Trekkie although watched a fair bit of TNG with my dad when I was growing up, and I have little interest in the new stuff (although Beyond was good). But watching Mike and Rich slowly lose their minds as they analyse this stuff is pure gold.
Mike posted Manu's apology post in the video, so Mike's done about as much as he can do. Manu apologized for his stupidity, so he's done about as much as he can do (apparently Manu thought he knew Kevin Spacey, and Manu attacked Rapp before Manu learned/accepted that he was wrong about Spacey). Anthony Rapp was big enough to accept Manu's apology, so there's that.
If the wider Star Trek community is not so forgiving and still hates Manu for that time he ignorantly attacked a rape victim, then more talking isn't going to help anyone.
It was a shit-tier "apology" and for them to insert that in as if it was the petition crowd being unreasonably bloodthirsty makes me reconsider ever watching them again. That whole section trying to cast Manu's comments as "political" was gross. Like an inverse of "damning with faint praise".
Saying "I didn't think it was assault and it's none of my business but you don't know if he did it and Kevin Spacey is a cool dude" is not an apology for "That child wanted to be raped". It even sinks below the "I'm sorry if you were offended" tier apology.
I don't think Mike was trying to say that the petition makers were being unreasonably bloodthirsty. He saw someone say that Manu wasn't cast because of "some political stuff" that Manu said, so Mike looked into it, found the actual tweets, said that what Kevin Spacey did was horrible, and pointed out that Manu called the allegations against Spacey "liberal pussy nonsense" and worse.It was a shit-tier "apology" and for them to insert that in as if it was the petition crowd being unreasonably bloodthirsty makes me reconsider ever watching them again. That whole section trying to cast Manu's comments as "political" was gross. Like an inverse of "damning with faint praise".
Saying "I didn't think it was assault and it's none of my business but you don't know if he did it and Kevin Spacey is a cool dude" is not an apology for "That child wanted to be raped". It even sinks below the "I'm sorry if you were offended" tier apology.
Then Mike pointed out that Star Trek Discovery writers (who work with and plainly like Anthony Rapp) also write Star Trek Picard, and they wrote the scene where Icheb was horrifically murdered. That's not "political", it's "personal", but Mike was loosely using the word "political" as shorthand, because politics had been invoked several times already.
And then Mike asked if it's weird that real-life political situations with actors can spill over into fiction, resulting in fictional characters being burned in effigy. And yeah. It's kinda weird. Like... Two and a Half Men ran over Charlie Sheen with a train. I can't say that I object, but it's a little weird.
I think Mike tossed Manu's apology in during the video editing phase just to be thorough, because they never talked about his apology during the review, as it had nothing to do with what they were talking about. But Mike did just put Manu's shit up for everyone to read, so it's a bit responsible to point out that Manu did make an apology. You can weigh his apology for yourself and make your own judgements.
I posted Anthony Rapp's acceptance of Manu's apology because I think that was really big of Rapp, and it really made me respect him. But Manu did something pretty terrible with his words (not as bad as Kevin Spacey, obviously, but still pretty bad), and none of us are required to be as forgiving as Rapp is, not you, not me, not the petition signers, and not the Discovery/Picard writers.
IMO, Mike said all there was for Mike to say on the subject. And Manu has already said all there was for Manu to say. So there's little-to-no point in Manu appearing on RLM.