BrainDead - General Discussion

[Guest]

This topic replaces the old BrainDead forum which has been vaulted at the location below:  http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2485-braindead-v/

[ParadoxLost]

I just came across this on Amazon Prime.

I miss previouslies sung to a jaunty tune.

[tessaray]

I didn't know it was on Prime.  I won't have time to rewatch it now but hopefully they'll keep it around a while.  

[ParadoxLost]

I've entered into a string of episodes where they are focusing on the vote for war and Luke's cheating and Gareth/Laurel relationship angst (the Michael Moore joke isn't as funny the second time around).

I miss Gustav and the zany bug hunt.

Did notice that the douche bag documentarian is Joel on Mrs Maizel and Luke's pregnant wife is the new Isabel on the new Roswell reboot.

I did find it hysterical that, as I was thinking how much I missed the more comedic elements of Gustav/Laurel/Rochelle fighting the alien bug infestation, a new previously came on singing about a bunch of stuff happening and then admitting it got too stressful so he skipped the last show and then proceeded to explain what happened on Gunsmoke.

[tessaray]

I remember that one!  It's on Youtube. 

[SoMuchTV]

I just got a year of paramount plus with my cell provider so I’m checking this out. Glad to see there’s a vault so I can read comments episode by episode. I’ll have to come back here and post if I have any strong feelings. So far I’m loving the musical previouslies. I think I could just watch those and get a pretty good idea of the whole season. 

[tessaray]

The downside of so much great streaming content is that I can't keep up with the new stuff, much less rewatch old favorites. (Things haven't changed much since my 2019 comment above.) But I thought Braindead was brilliantly different than anything else on TV. It helps to have a weird sense of humor and be a politics and sci-fi nerd to enjoy it properly. 🙂 

[SoMuchTV]

On 12/6/2021 at 9:26 PM, SoMuchTV said:

I just got a year of paramount plus with my cell provider so I’m checking this out. Glad to see there’s a vault so I can read comments episode by episode. I’ll have to come back here and post if I have any strong feelings. So far I’m loving the musical previouslies. I think I could just watch those and get a pretty good idea of the whole season. 

This is odd.  I just watched episodes 1-12 on Paramount+.  No mention of episode 13 (the finale).  Turns out the whole season is on Pluto TV, which apparently is free to anyone.  Anyway, I did enjoy it and I'm glad I remembered it existed and went back and watched. 

[fishcakes]

I started this a few days ago and ended up binging the last six episodes yesterday. It would have been fun to see it renewed (apparently, the four-year-plan if it was renewed was season 2: Wall Street, season 3: Silicon Valley, and season 4: Hollywood), but even as a self-contained mini-series, it was pretty great. I feel like the comedy probably would have been more pronounced if I'd watched this in the summer of 2016; much of what we've seen out of Congress over the last few years has made it almost impossible to satirize. Coincidentally, last Wednesday I watched the episode where Luke is trying to get the drug trials restarted to save the Iraq War veteran and says something like, "no one is going to vote against veterans," and that was the same day the PACT act (the burn pit bill) was blocked in the current Senate.

[shapeshifter]

This is one show that, 6 years after cancellation, I still think should have continued. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯