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The first season came out almost two and a half years ago. Netflix quickly renewed it, but then the world sort of shut down for a little while there. The second season moves even farther beyond the original source material to adapt Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book (which already got a Ralph Bakshi version way back during the Cold War). [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 13, 2022 - 0 comments

A group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel attempts to complete a film. A Netflix original starring Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Pedro Pascal, Leslie Mann, Vir Das, David Duchovny, Keegan Michael-Key, Fred Armisen, Maria Bamford, Kate McKinnon, Rob Delaney, Peter Serafinowicz, and many others. Directed by Judd Apatow.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 1, 2022 - 18 comments

First MadTV castmember to host SNL. Also, Kenan joined SNL the year Olivia Rodrigo was born. [more inside]
posted by rhizome on May 16, 2021 - 18 comments

An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever. (Netflix, musical) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Nov 14, 2020 - 8 comments

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) famously wrote Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 words to win a bet with Bennett Cerf. Netflix is estimated to have spent more than a million times that on this 13-episode series, cramming it full of stars like Oscar-winners Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, Tony-winner Daveed Diggs as a mouse, John Turturro as a goat, and Eddie Izzard as the Trumpian villain. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Dec 1, 2019 - 3 comments

This week:

• President Trump suddenly agrees to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, reversing decades of precedent on a whim.
• International Women's Day, "that one special day for half the population of Earth. Knock yourselves out, three-and-a-half billion people!" A roundup of disturbing and disgusting responses from across the media, finishing with Vladimir Putin.
• And Now: An MSNBC Guest, Brought On To Discuss Gary Cohn's Departure, Can't Get Over The "Bachelor" Finale.
• Main Story: Cryptocurrencies, "Everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers." In a field fulled with ridiculous terms like HODL and LAMBO, LWT invited an inspirational speaker (Keegan Michael Key) to promote their new way of dealing with cryptocurrencies, responsibility: "Instead of being HODL, you have to be CRAEFUL!"

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posted by JHarris on Mar 11, 2018 - 16 comments

Is anyone else watching Friends from College? I've checked and haven't seen any FanFare discussion so far.
posted by bunderful on Jul 15, 2017 - 2 comments

Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang. [more inside]
posted by rmd1023 on Jan 25, 2017 - 18 comments

When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all.
posted by donajo on Aug 6, 2016 - 13 comments

Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 22, 2015 - 3 comments

Bertram Skilling (Key) and Dante Pibb (Peele) host the CCN Super Bowl Special, featuring Enos the football robot, Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch's very different takes on interviewing, a Craig Robinson halftime show, and Alison Janney starring in everything else on the CCN family of networks... and the world.
posted by Etrigan on Jan 31, 2015 - 6 comments

Sketches include a parolee meeting his unorthodox parole officer, a Nazi shaggy dog story, and "a man with a neck brace walks into a bar." [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Oct 2, 2014 - 3 comments

Sketches in the Season 4 premiere include an alien invasion of Earth; a family reacting to a gay relative's wedding; and surprising views from a couple of racists. [more inside]
posted by gladly on Sep 25, 2014 - 10 comments