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Apple TV+ cancels 'The Afterparty' after two seasons
You’re super wrong, it was obvious from episode one of the first season that they were mimicking different genres (the first suspect is very art house from memory), season two was just more of the same.Xed said:slow n easy said:
The article probably didn’t phrase it in the best way, but both seasons did each episode in a different genre or sub-genere. For example: Action, Mystery, Animation, etc. The last episode of season 2 did Soap Opera which would be more TV than movie genre.Xed said:I enjoyed both seasons and fully expected a cancelation. It's not something you easily keep rehashing. If I have one question is why hadn't anyone thought to do a Rashomon-style narrative for a murder mystery a long time ago?
That wasn't until season two, where they mimiic different directors filming styles.
Each episode was also filmed in different ways, using the language of film genres to differentiate between the retelling by each suspect.
At least I have the next Agatha Christie murder mystery directed by Branagh to look forward to when it hits streaming.
I don't recall that at all. I guess I'll have to rewatch it to see what genre or style each episode mimicked in the first season.mike1 said:
Not true at all. First season was also filmed with each episode recreating a different film genre.Xed said:I enjoyed both seasons and fully expected a cancelation. It's not something you easily keep rehashing. If I have one question is why hadn't anyone thought to do a Rashomon-style narrative for a murder mystery a long time ago?
That wasn't until season two, where they mimiic different directors filming styles.
Each episode was also filmed in different ways, using the language of film genres to differentiate between the retelling by each suspect.
At least I have the next Agatha Christie murder mystery directed by Branagh to look forward to when it hits streaming.
edit: I checked. I see no genre theme per episode in S01, just the unique POV of the character being interviewed, like in the classic Rashoman.
I enjoyed both seasons and thought it was a great show - but not at all surprised it’s finished, season two came to a completely natural end for all the main characters and it would have been stretching credibility a bit too far to have the same couple involved by chance in yet another murder at yet another after party.
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Apple will issue iOS update to appease France over RF exposure row
As always AI falls over itself to defend Apple, but a reading of 5.4w/kg does not just “slightly exceed” the legal limit, it’s 35% higher. Regardless of what margin there may be between the legal limit and a harmful effect, ignoring it to the tune of 35% is unacceptable.
If you go 35% faster than the speed limit, you’d best expect you’re going to be booked for it.
Assuming it isn’t just a faulty test (and that seems pretty unlikely) Apple have some explaining to do. An iOS update now is all well and good, but this is a three year old phone which may well have been breaking the law for three years.
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Gizmodo author sues Apple over 'Tetris' movie
Ackerman may or may not have a case depending on whether there were fictionalised elements in the book that made it into the film - but it’s worth remembering that “the Tetris company” he’s suing is the legal entity set up by two key characters - Tetris’s inventor and distributor - ie the people whose story is told in the film. So for him to effectively sue those individuals for telling their own story in their own film is.. interesting. Trying to claim prior ownership of their own lives is a pretty bold legal move.
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Twitter has now rebranded as 'X'
You forgot the bit where all the cool kids moved to a different school, and the principal burned down his own cafeteria while “owning the libs” and rebranding it as a dumpster fire.Michae1 said:After Musk bought Twitter we learned the depths to which it has been used to promote certain certain narratives, and suppress other ideas. As someone who never used the service, I was only mildly interested in the steps he has been taking to democratize it, monetize it, and revitalize it. But what has been highly entertaining to me is watching how butthurt people have gotten over these changes. The principal came into the cafeteria and told the “cool kids“ that they don’t get to decide who sits at their table anymore.
Twitter wasn’t perfect, but if you think that amplifying actual nazis is “democratising” and “revitalising” the platform then, well, perhaps you’d better sign up after all, clearly you’re the target market.
As for monetising, you’re no doubt aware that income is through the floor and the genius Musk has managed to literally halve the companies value even before dumping the brand (arguably its most valuable asset). Kerching!
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Sketchy rumor suggests Apple Watch will be able to sync with Mac & iPad
Who said anything about the watch completely untethering from iPhone? This is just about the watch interacting with more devices, not less.Xed said:
Have you actually explored the Watch app on your iPhone? Can you imagine setting up an enter Watch with that small tech screen? I can, and it sounds like a miserable experience which is why I don't think we'll be seeing the Watch completely untethered from the iPhone. At best I think we can hope for making other devices conduits for the Watch.petri said:Makes a lot of sense and it’s always seemed weird to me that the watch wasn’t linked up to all these things before anyway.
I can control my phone music from my watch, that’s great, but why can’t I also control my iPad playback? It has better speakers so I often use it as a portable music player, my watch can be used as a remote for Apple TV so why can’t it be a remote for my iPad?
Theres a fitness app on my iPad already, why don’t I see any of my fitness data there? It’s all in the cloud anyway, why do I have to dig my phone out of my pocket when the iPad is right there in front of me?
Virtually everything else in the Apple ecosystem is synced across devices and just picks up right where you left off on whichever device… why was there ever this weird, artificial wall sealing in just the watch + iPhone?
