EarBear

Take your time, Spencer. You're doing God's work.

tl; dr - admitting something is camp and reveling it its 'what the fuck is happening' sensibility can go a long way to developing an audience.

Netflix is, to some extent, figuring out their business model. They are making a shitload of money, now officially a billion dollar company with more subscribers than HBO. That said, there are sectors of the tech investor community that have been hesitant to get behind them, mainly due to hidden payout costs they could need to dole out to some content owners with certain contracts if their content hits big. To my knowledge, that hasn’t really happened yet. But they have fundamentals of their streaming audience down – chiefly, they know people like watching episodics more than movies. Even the movie industry knows that at this point – we’re all gonna see Fast and Furious 6 and/or Hangover 3 this summer. So if Netflix can pay a lump sum for the first season of a show that they get to stream exclusively and in perpetuity without incurring futures costs, it’s kind of a no brainer. I am looking at ‘House of Cards’ vs. ‘Hemlock Grove’ as sort of a strategic feel out on Netflix’s part. Netflix was sort of dipping their tow in the water with ‘Lilyhammer’ – an in-offensive show that managed to entertain some existing subscribers while bringing a few new users on board. ‘House of Cards’, to echo the salient points of previous posters in this thread, seems to be a one prong of their next step. It’s well produced, the acting is pretty good, the writing is a hair above average, and it has curse words and the occasional boob. While they haven’t, to my knowledge, made their streaming figures public on it, they have ordered a second season. So they must feel that the investment on an exclusive, slick, thoughtful and adult show is worth it. ‘Hemlock Grove’ is the other prong, and one where our beloved HDTGM aligns with in a very unique way. I watched the first episode of ‘True Blood’ on HBO when it was broadcast. I thought it was awful and never watched it again. But it has gone on to have several seasons of devoted fanfare. ‘Hemlock Grove’ could be the Netflix attempt at a campy, adult horror soap. Netflix knows people stream quality entertainment, but they also provide a lot of crap. Several HDTGM featured movies have gotten bumps from all of us as companion piece watching, from Birdemic to In the Name of the King. I am a Netflix subscriber and have yet to invest in ‘Hemlock Grove’, mostly cause it seems like a pile and I don’t want to waste my time. But that’s the beauty of camp / crap – and the beauty of HDTGM. Crap is kind of awesome when you have people to rip on it with. The only way I’m gonna watch this show is if the crew of HDTGM does a few episodes on it. If I’m gonna partake in crap, I want to revel in its crappitude. Eli Roth seems like a smart dude, and he’s got a great sense of humor. I assume he knows they weren’t trying to make a ‘Sopranos’, or even ‘House of Cards’, and one of the best ways for his show to develop a following is to not just admit what it is, but revel in it.

*shudders*

No need to apologize, you did a great job, Brett.

I'm a little too joyous to see some of the earwolf meme backgrounds I made saved on your desktop, BRR2. Too joyous, indeed. I'll admit... ...it moved.

what the fuck

AdamFlowers went for the deep Sacramento cut. I grew up outside of Sacremento in Rancho Cordova, this shit took me way back. Reminded me of Tom LaBrie. LaBrie was the owner of LaBrie's Waterbeds for many years, and sponsored / hosted the late-night movie broadcasts on local UHF station Channel 40. Here's some gems of his:

I like it when people post positive comments!

Bumping this. Paul, if you see this, I sincerely think you should do a one off episode with June hosting and all female co-hosts / guests.

Fuckin', THIS. As much as I love Zouks and Paul riffing, I regularly miss June being given the chance to provide her perspective. If I was gonna muster up one general complaint on the show, it would be that. I always hope a female guest will remedy the problem, but it only does some of the time...

I am so very tickled that Paul saw this pile of waste in the theater on his 22nd birthday.

If you want hirsute I can post topless pics of myself. That will definitely kill this thread, likely the board and possibly the entire Earwolf co., though. Actually, fuck that. If i kill Earwolf, I better get money from Hardwick for doing it...

MEMEZOUKAS IN THE NEWS... sort of. http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/03/the-league-and-its-always-sunny-renewed-will-move-to-fxs-newly-launched-comedy-network/

Too long has the spectacle of wheelchair anal sex been omitted from the canon of American cinema.