And Now, Our Special Presentation
Jun. 26th, 2020 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatSince live shows have largely dried up during the pandemic, there are a lot of streaming shows nowadays, and I'll admit I haven't watched that many of them. It's more difficult to concentrate with everything that goes on at home. I did watch a Zoe Boekbinder show back in April, but not the more recent one she did for the Prison Music Project. I sort of watched the reunion of The State with Beth, although I don't know that much of their comedy. I'm more familiar with some of the participants' later work; I've seen Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter do stand-up, and I was a fan of Stella, which the two of them did with David Wain. And I've seen Wet Hot American Summer, albeit long after it came out. Beth has shown me a lot of sketch comedy. We saw all of Mr. Show and we're on the last season of Kids in the Hall. On the other hand, she doesn't really care for Monty Python, a sketch show I was a fan of before I met her. She has The State on DVD, so I'm sure we'll watch together in the future, although I believe some of the songs were edited out due to copyright issues. I will say "Porcupine Racetrack" was very clever, although isn't it a rip-off of Sonic the Hedgehog? I mean, prickly mammals running?
Last night, there was a Kevin Geeks Out livestream, the theme of which was made-for-TV movies. I'd say they're not really a thing anymore, but there are actually a crapload of them nowadays; it's just that since they're usually streaming, it's not like everyone is watching them at the same time, so they're not events in the same way. Many of them were from before I was born, but the presentation style looked familiar, so I suppose it lasted through the 80s. Kevin Maher talked about how many people saw The Day After, a 1983 movie about the aftermath of a nuclear strike on Lawrence, Kansas, and there was even a news broadcast discussing it. He also discussed Rescue from Gilligan's Island from 1978, which reunited the entire cast except for Tina Louise, and served as a long-waited coda for the show. It was shown in two parts, and the second part, where the castaways develop a distaste for society and end up right back where they started, got much lower ratings than the first. Amanda Reyes recounted the history of the format, and how they were largely intended to appeal to housewives. Emily Intravia talked about the Ewok movies from the 80s, which I think I'd heard of before but have never seen. They looked really cheesy, but they seemed to have the vibe of other fantasy movies I grew up with, so I'm sorry I never watched them. Burl Ives and Wilford Brimley appear in them. I also still need to watch Clone Wars, but I'm kind of confused because there are two different shows with that name. Like, is the second one a reboot or a follow-up? The final guest, Suzen Tekla Kruglnska, discussed Whatever Happened to Rosemary's Baby, which never really answers the titular question. As Kevin mentioned after her segment, it's strange how both that and Battle for Endor have an evil woman who turns into a bird. Suzen made a mention of how the books of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives were written by the same guy, which I didn't know but makes a certain amount of sense. They're both horror stories about a guy screwing over and gaslighting his wife, the supernatural elements almost secondary to the spousal abuse themes.
Last night, there was a Kevin Geeks Out livestream, the theme of which was made-for-TV movies. I'd say they're not really a thing anymore, but there are actually a crapload of them nowadays; it's just that since they're usually streaming, it's not like everyone is watching them at the same time, so they're not events in the same way. Many of them were from before I was born, but the presentation style looked familiar, so I suppose it lasted through the 80s. Kevin Maher talked about how many people saw The Day After, a 1983 movie about the aftermath of a nuclear strike on Lawrence, Kansas, and there was even a news broadcast discussing it. He also discussed Rescue from Gilligan's Island from 1978, which reunited the entire cast except for Tina Louise, and served as a long-waited coda for the show. It was shown in two parts, and the second part, where the castaways develop a distaste for society and end up right back where they started, got much lower ratings than the first. Amanda Reyes recounted the history of the format, and how they were largely intended to appeal to housewives. Emily Intravia talked about the Ewok movies from the 80s, which I think I'd heard of before but have never seen. They looked really cheesy, but they seemed to have the vibe of other fantasy movies I grew up with, so I'm sorry I never watched them. Burl Ives and Wilford Brimley appear in them. I also still need to watch Clone Wars, but I'm kind of confused because there are two different shows with that name. Like, is the second one a reboot or a follow-up? The final guest, Suzen Tekla Kruglnska, discussed Whatever Happened to Rosemary's Baby, which never really answers the titular question. As Kevin mentioned after her segment, it's strange how both that and Battle for Endor have an evil woman who turns into a bird. Suzen made a mention of how the books of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives were written by the same guy, which I didn't know but makes a certain amount of sense. They're both horror stories about a guy screwing over and gaslighting his wife, the supernatural elements almost secondary to the spousal abuse themes.
