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New Netflix series: Pepsi, Where's My Jet
Oct. 26th, 2022 09:38 amThis ought to be fun!
It started in 1996, here's John Scalzi's original column from when he was a newspaper writer: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/10/26/pepsi-points-and-the-jet-a-column-from-1996/. Kid sees this ad on TV that you can get a Harrier Jump Jet for 7,000,000 points. Then he sees a shortcut: you can buy Pepsi tabs straight from Pepsi for $0.10 each. $700,000. He gets some wealthy people to back him.
Pepsi laughs at him and refuses to give him the jet because they don't have one.
He takes them to court.
I remember hearing about this a few years ago, I do not remember the outcome. I look forward to watching this!
Oh, man - this was brilliant! I've only watched the first ep thus far, but I loved it, and I'm spoiling the first five minutes or so of it. Little girl is diagnosed with autism, at the age of five hasn't spoken yet and is rather unresponsive. Walking back home with her dad (mom apparently passed away, cause unrevealed) dad is confronted by their landlord and accused of sleeping with landlord's wife and is assaulted.
The little girl freaks out at the violence and starts speaking, citing Korean criminal code regarding assault! Turns out she's memorized law books (where they came from, as they are in the house, apparently isn't a point worth discussion) and has them down letter perfect. Jump forward some 15 years or so and she's graduated law school at the top of her class and is reporting to her first job at apparently a pretty prestigious law firm.
And is handed what appears to be a fairly simple assault case, where a wife is going to be tried for whacking her old husband in the head with an iron, which Woo wants tried as an attempted murder as it actually is a civil case. The details are interesting.
Beautifully shot, with ingenious CGI inserts that are well-woven with her autism. Feels a bit like Monk, substituting autism for OCD and the practice of law for law enforcement. Lots of chuckles, feel good bits, and the final scene of the first ep was a big "Whaaa?" moment. The second ep should be quite interesting and I'm looking forward to watching it.
I'm not normally a fan of law or law enforcement shows, partly from working at a major police department for nine years, but this one I really like.
I was actually planning on watching a program that I'd just heard about called Kleo, but for some reason decided to watch Woo, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll get around to Kleo later.
The little girl freaks out at the violence and starts speaking, citing Korean criminal code regarding assault! Turns out she's memorized law books (where they came from, as they are in the house, apparently isn't a point worth discussion) and has them down letter perfect. Jump forward some 15 years or so and she's graduated law school at the top of her class and is reporting to her first job at apparently a pretty prestigious law firm.
And is handed what appears to be a fairly simple assault case, where a wife is going to be tried for whacking her old husband in the head with an iron, which Woo wants tried as an attempted murder as it actually is a civil case. The details are interesting.
Beautifully shot, with ingenious CGI inserts that are well-woven with her autism. Feels a bit like Monk, substituting autism for OCD and the practice of law for law enforcement. Lots of chuckles, feel good bits, and the final scene of the first ep was a big "Whaaa?" moment. The second ep should be quite interesting and I'm looking forward to watching it.
I'm not normally a fan of law or law enforcement shows, partly from working at a major police department for nine years, but this one I really like.
I was actually planning on watching a program that I'd just heard about called Kleo, but for some reason decided to watch Woo, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll get around to Kleo later.
Looks quite good!
The Ars article is quite interesting, alas, there is no definite release date. Possibly this Fall.
Can't wait!
Co-showrunner Miles Millar said "The ambition of the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie." And they got Tim Burton!
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/first-official-teaser-for-wednesday-is-deliciously-burtonesque/
The Ars article is quite interesting, alas, there is no definite release date. Possibly this Fall.
Can't wait!
Co-showrunner Miles Millar said "The ambition of the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie." And they got Tim Burton!
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/first-official-teaser-for-wednesday-is-deliciously-burtonesque/
I found a documentary called Before The Flying Circus and got around to watching it tonight. It's only 55 minutes, made in 2000, and was quite good. Takes them through their school years, up through the inception of Python and the broadcast of the first episode. It had a lot more detail that I was previously unaware of.
If you're not a fan of Monty Python, then don't bother. If you don't have Netflix, then you can bug a nearby friend who does!
If you're not a fan of Monty Python, then don't bother. If you don't have Netflix, then you can bug a nearby friend who does!
Loved that ending!
For those who haven't seen it, it's sort of a hard R-rated version of Bill Murray'sCaddyshackGroundhog Day, updated. Nadia leaves her 36th birthday party with a stranger for sex, sees her cat Oatmeal that's been missing for three days, runs across the street to get it, gets hit by a car and is killed.
Finds herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier. Rinse, repeat. Always finding herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier after she dies, it's her game savepoint or something.
The trailer is amazing and makes it look a lot more amusing than I found it - it's a very dark program of eight approx. half hour episodes, so it's a fast binge, Russet and I did it in two nights though I'd previously seen the first one or two episodes shortly after it released to check it out before roping her in.
One thing that I really did not like about the show: I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NEW YORK CITY! I realize that not all New Yorkers are like Nadia. But I'm just tired of so many movies and TV shows being set there. I've been in and through something like 80% of the continental USA states and there's so much more to this country than NYC! My sincere apologies to people who live or have lived there.
But the production values! Man, the continuity people must have been going insane with this production, not to mention the costumers! This one definitely deserves some award nods when the next awards season come along. And a great rocking sound track! And some great dialog! "You carry so much guilt around with you, you should have been a Jew!" says the born into but non-practicing Jew. Another fantastic line that I won't say as we think it's revelatory. I would have loved to have been working on that production as a video historian!
It's going to be interesting to see what they do with the second season!
The show was created by Natasha Lyon, who plays Nadia (also in Orange is the New Black), and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping With Other People), and Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation, SNL). The three of them are also executive producers, so they're maintaining firm control.
It's good stuff. Very foul language, strong adult topics, and some pretty sudden and violent deaths. And recommended if you have Netflix. I might buy this when it comes out if it has a lot of good bonus material. Not my normal cup of tea, but still, we enjoyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Doll_(TV_series)
For those who haven't seen it, it's sort of a hard R-rated version of Bill Murray's
Finds herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier. Rinse, repeat. Always finding herself in the bathroom at her birthday party that she'd just left a few hours earlier after she dies, it's her game savepoint or something.
The trailer is amazing and makes it look a lot more amusing than I found it - it's a very dark program of eight approx. half hour episodes, so it's a fast binge, Russet and I did it in two nights though I'd previously seen the first one or two episodes shortly after it released to check it out before roping her in.
One thing that I really did not like about the show: I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NEW YORK CITY! I realize that not all New Yorkers are like Nadia. But I'm just tired of so many movies and TV shows being set there. I've been in and through something like 80% of the continental USA states and there's so much more to this country than NYC! My sincere apologies to people who live or have lived there.
But the production values! Man, the continuity people must have been going insane with this production, not to mention the costumers! This one definitely deserves some award nods when the next awards season come along. And a great rocking sound track! And some great dialog! "You carry so much guilt around with you, you should have been a Jew!" says the born into but non-practicing Jew. Another fantastic line that I won't say as we think it's revelatory. I would have loved to have been working on that production as a video historian!
It's going to be interesting to see what they do with the second season!
The show was created by Natasha Lyon, who plays Nadia (also in Orange is the New Black), and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping With Other People), and Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation, SNL). The three of them are also executive producers, so they're maintaining firm control.
It's good stuff. Very foul language, strong adult topics, and some pretty sudden and violent deaths. And recommended if you have Netflix. I might buy this when it comes out if it has a lot of good bonus material. Not my normal cup of tea, but still, we enjoyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Doll_(TV_series)
