September 23
Fall 2022 Anime Season
September 7
Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space (Netflix)
Bee and PuppyCat is an American animated streaming television series created and written by Natasha Allegri. The series revolves around Bee (voiced by Allyn Rachel), an unemployed woman in her early twenties, who encounters a mysterious creature named PuppyCat (voiced by the Vocaloid program Oliver). She adopts this apparent cat-dog hybrid, and together they go on a series of temporary jobs to pay off her monthly rent. [more inside]
September 4
Book posts to include author name
Would it be helpful if the title of Book posts included the author? [more inside]
August 9
Best of?
What are everyone's thoughts on having a "Best of" thread every 3-4 months, like use Special Events or something and someone can just go through and kind of pick out things. This would require no additional coding and can be kind of subjective since we don't have ratings. I go through periods where I watch a ton of television and movies and then I get busy and missing things like "Severance" which was great. Not a definitive guide or anything but people could comment if things they think are missed, etc. Just a casual thing? [more inside]
August 5
Why are some posts anonymous?
Why are some posts as anonymous? 70 posts and 211 comments to FanFare are marked as anonymous and I don't see an option to anonymize things, not that I necessarily see a reason for even needing this as an option.
June 27
Purge Questions
Okay, I am rewatching the Purge film/tv series with my kiddo and I have a growing list of questions. Considering that it is likely impractical to corner James DeMonaco and ask him, I present them instead to whoever might happen upon this thread. [more inside]
May 4
Regular Comics Post?
Is there enough interest to do a weekly or bi-weekly comics post where we can discuss what current stuff we're reading or looking forward to? [more inside]
April 4
Snowpiercer?
What happened to all the Showpiercer TV series posts? [more inside]
March 29
Helluva Boss
Just discovered this series, it's on YouTube, and would love to discuss it with others! Any interest?
March 7
Multiverse club?
In advance of Everything Everywhere All at Once (trailer) coming out this month, I’m thinking about watching other multiverse shows. [more inside]
February 14
Archer seasons 11, 12?
Available on Netfilx, Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Google Play.
Anyone interested in a (re)watch of the last couple of seasons?
February 2
February Streaming
September 23
Fall 2021 Anime Season
AniChart. MyAnimeList. Remember to smash those "Like" and "Subscribe" buttons and... wait, sorry, wrong website.
September 20
Fall 2021 TV Season General Post
It's that time of year again - Fall TV premiere season. Calendars inside, if anyone wants to call dibs on posting anything. [more inside]
August 26
New Leverage: Redemption Oct 8
Ep summaries under the cut. Opening this thread for general squeeing, hyping up, shouting about how far away October is, etc. [more inside]
July 24
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Hi, I need to discuss the reboot of this serialized 40-year old toy commercial, can you please add it to the database of shows that we can post about? Thank you.
July 9
Blood Drive (2017)?
1 season SySy series in the grindhouse style. Anyone else see this, or want to see this? [more inside]
June 27
Summer 2021 Anime Season
As the northern hemisphere burns to death we're gonna stay inside and watch cartoons. AniChart. MyAnimeList.
May 18
Are livestream posts discoverable?
I was checking earlier if there was any Eurovision post on FanFare and didn't see one. So I figured there wasn't. Then I saw a link on the blue to this livestream post! Then I tried to see if I could find that post on my own. [more inside]
March 9
Spring 2021 Anime Season
Holy crap it's that time already. Place your bets! AniChart. MyAnimeList. [more inside]
March 1
Blaseball Season 12: The Return
February 16
Mother Tongue Film Festival
There may or may not be enough interest to talk about the films, but I just wanted to alert people to the upcoming Mother Tongue Film Festival. It will be free online February 21 to May 31, 2021. The theme for the Festival this year is "The Healing Power of Storytelling”. Main website link. [more inside]
February 1
Movies to grow up with
I'm working on a list of movies to watch with my kids (son, 7, daughter, 5) and trying to show them the right films at the right ages to expand their worlds and bring them joy. If you have opinions, you can help! Give me your #1 best movie and the age my kids should be when they watch it. [more inside]
Anyone else watching Servant?
It's on Apple streaming, so I'm guessing not many people have seen it. Also produced and occasionally directed by M Night Shyamalan...
Amazingly tight first season. Great performances. Lauren Ambrose is stellar...
January 12
Regency romance compare-and-contrast?
Ring of Regencies? [more inside]
January 4
Winter 2021 Anime Season
A new year, a new you, a new season of anime. AniChart. MyAnimeList [more inside]
Peacock Survey
Are you one of the vanishingly small number of people who subscribed to the paid version of Peacock? Or perhaps someone who is considering doing so because of The Office? Let's talk about what they have that is and isn't worth seeing.
December 24
Anyone taking The Stand?
I notice that it's already been put in the roster for TV shows, but I'm not seeing any episodes posted... is anyone else interested?
November 28
Watching The Clone Wars?
Any interest in watching and discussing The Clone Wars animated series? [more inside]
November 20
Ministry for the Future
This book was recently the subject of a thread on the blue. [more inside]
November 12
Chess movies and shows
Having seen The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, is anyone interested in watching some other things chess related? [more inside]
October 29
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Do people think there's a way to get an OK discussion of Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd/Mouser stories on FanFare? There are definitely problematic elements scattered through them that make me uncertain about even trying. [more inside]
October 24
The Bobiverse
Anyone interested in a discussion of the Bobiverse books? [more inside]
October 9
Super Rooster discussion
The Morning News' Tournament of Books just started the Super Rooster, a tournament of past champions. I'd love to discuss the match ups, not just the books. Is this a special event post for Fanfare?
October 7
Interest in the Earthsea Cycle?
Would anyone be interested in a reread of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea cycle? [more inside]
September 19
Fall 2020 Anime Season
Anichart. MyAnimeList. It's not like there's anything else going on in the world. [more inside]
September 17
Interest in Primeval (2007-2011)?
The discussion about Reign of Fire on the blue reminded me that it was time for me to rewatch Primeval (the original UK version, the the US remake). [more inside]
September 14
Horror Short Films for Halloween
I'm going to try to watch and post as many horror short films as I can find and find time for this year. I'm hoping to do 100, but we'll see how many I can round up to stream that IMDB can find for me to post. Feel free to follow along. I could also use a suggestion for a good tag. [more inside]
September 4
Any interest in at least a season one Borgen thread?
Today the existing three seasons of Borgen have arrived on US Netflix at last, ahead of the anticipated new 4th season set to arrive in 2022. Is there interest in full season threads for the existing seasons? [more inside]
Any interest in A Suitable Boy - book and TV show combined thread?
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy was dramatised by the BBC into a 6-episode miniseries. Would anyone be interested in a discussion of the series, with book included?
September 3
Any interest in a Cormoran Strike thread?
The fifth book in the Cormoran Strike series by “Robert Galbraith” (J.K. Rowling) is coming out this month, and the TV adaptation of the fourth book is currently showing on BBC. Any interest here?
August 30
'My Life Is Murder'
2019 Australian comedy/ crime/ drama TV show with Lucy Lawless as a police consultant. Anyone seen this?
August 24
Blaseball on FanFare
Any interest in following seasons of Blaseball on FanFare? How would this work category-wise? Is this a "special event"? [more inside]
August 18
Star Trek VI and Generations
Would a Trekkie care to fill the FanFare gap for these movies? [more inside]
July 17
Should we have a Kdrama club on Fanfare?
Is there any interest in having a Kdrama club on Fanfare? [more inside]
July 12
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas, as vindicated in the NYT
If you slept on it, Wyatt is still there for you.
The Second Season is a must-watch if you want to think "What does 're-opening' schools mean in the middle of a pandemic?"
HBO published all the episodes on Youtube in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
Earlier Fanfare posts 1 and 2 [more inside]
July 3
Disney+ Exclusives - Protocol?
I just finished watching Hamilton which is exclusively on Disney+. I'd like to discuss the production with other people, but its presence on a paywalled streaming service is, well, a barrier to entry. What is our protocol for discussing media when its behind this kind of gate?
June 12
Midnight Diner
Anyone watching Midnight Diner? [more inside]
June 10
Summer 2020 Anime Season
Anichart. MyAnimeList. A little bit enka and a little bit visual-kei. [more inside]
June 9
FanFare Book Club?
I just went through the book posts for the last three months. There's lots of books I'm considering reading, and one book I read a while ago but don't remember well enough to do deep insightful commentary. In order to get more synchronicity on this, does anyone want to start a book club? Or even a couple in different genres? I would love a romance, science fiction, fantasy and/or nonfiction book club.
May 30
Ten Forward
Hello, I suggest a rolling thread here in FF Talk which can serve as a catchall chatroom for Trek topics. This could be it, or maybe not. I was just musing about the range of upcoming Trek stiff coming up and our current on going TAS and TNG threads and thought, hm, sometimes I see a Trek thing I wanna share here but am always uncertain where.
So, if you’re open to the idea and MeFi’s UI can make it work appropriately, please step into Ten Forward. Rumor has it that Guinan will be returning in s02 of PIC, but in the meantime, I’ll do my best, and of course you’re all welcome to step behind the bar as the, er, spirits move you.
May 15
Star Trek comes full circle
CBS announced this morning that they've placed a series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the ninth Star Trek series to be aired. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck will all be returning as their ST:Discovery versions of Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock.
The series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
May 14
What books haven't you been posting?
I know there's an Amazon bug (or something), and they're working on it. But in the meanwhile, there's a Fanfare books DESERT out there! So: what haven't you been posting lately?
May 13
MCU Movie Rewatch in Chronological Order
Sooooo since I have a bit of time on my hands, I figured I'd catch up on the MCU movies. (I haven't seen all of them, but most.) I rewatched Captain America and realized that there wasn't a FF post and put that up earlier this week. Would anybody be interested in a chronological rewatch/first watch of the MCU movies? Is that a thing that we've done before? How would that work anyway? Would we just add commentary to any existing FF posts?
Chronological-order list pulled from here.
May 5
Ryan Murphy's "Hollywood" won't verify?
IMDB won't automatically pull up Ryan Murphy's Hollywood on the add a show request page.
May 3
NT Theatre Live: Frankenstein - what category to post under?
I'd like to start a FanFare post on the National Theatre Live recordings of the 2011 production of Frankenstein, as briefly discussed here. Both versions (Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Frankenstein and the Creature) are on the NT's YouTube channel, so under what category do I post them?
April 29
Hugo Awards 2020
I'm planning on going ahead with doing the Hugo Awards club again, doing one post a week between May 1st and July 31st. [more inside]
April 27
Add a series to Recent Activity?
Is there a way to add an entire series to recent activity? [more inside]
April 12
Xena Warrior Princess & Battlestar Galactica full-series SyFy marathons
Per TV Line - starting on 4/16, SyFy will air 10 episodes of Xena every Thursday, hosted by Lucy Lawless with various guest stars. There will be a Battlestar marathon of the miniseries and all seasons plus the tv-movies hosted by Tricia Helfer, starting 4/20 at midnight thru the morning of 4/23. [more inside]
April 7
Can we watch something that's on an "archival" stream?
There are certain shows, for example anime in the middle of decades long production disputes, that are on hosted at locations that are archival streams. These streams have varying legalities. Could we point towards a potential stream in a way that suggests their location despite locality in order to afford discussion?
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