Ty Watches "Only Murders in the Building" Season 3

My wife and I just finished season 3 of "Only Murders in the Building" last night. We have been fans of the show from the start, but it took us a minute to watch this most recent season. Let’s discuss.

For a show that has the same formula each season, the writers really know how to keep it fresh. The show focuses on three people who live in the same apartment building, Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez, and they host a true crime podcast while they solve a murder within the building. Pretty simple, right? But they find new ways to make it better every season, and this new season is no different.

The second season ended, spoiler alert, with Paul Rudd's character collapsing on stage. That is where we pick up season 3, and when it starts, it really gets going. This season felt like there was more action. The pace seemed quicker, the multiple storylines came at you fast, and that made it all the more watchable. Adding Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep was an absolute home run. Those two, especially Streep, are wonderful actors and seemed to have a blast this season. Rudd played a superhero, broey version of himself this season. I loved his performance. He was an asshole with some secrets. They even found a way to make him look like he was a redeemable person. Streep played an actress who couldn't seem to find a break, which is wild when you remember that you are watching Meryl freaking Streep. She is one of the best actors of my lifetime, and seeing her try to play a bad actress was hilarious. But, much like Rudd, she nailed it. I bought her every step of the way and want to see more of her in the future of this show. They also added Jesse Tyler Williams in a bit role and he did a wonderful job. He was funny and charming and I liked his character a ton.

Really this show is all about the three stars and boy oh boy did they do a great job this season. Steve Martin got to do a ton of fun stuff and he was exceptional. I really enjoyed when he would go to the "white room" while rehearsing the play. Martin Short got to do a bit of dramatics this season, which he crushed, but he was the funniest one of them all. I think he is the most underrated one on this show, but that should change after this season. And Selena Gomez was front and center this season. She really carried the show and did a phenomenal job. She is really proving how good of an actor she is. She is a shining star here. The rest of the cast is amazing as usual. The guest stars are big time names and they do a wonderful job. The new actors they brought in bring even more weight to this already wonderful tv show.

"Only Murders in the Building" is one of the better shows on streaming networks right now. If you are not watching it, remedy that. This is as funny as any other show and it has three tremendous actors in the leading roles. And the writing staff is second to none. This show is great. Watch it. 

Ty

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Ty Watches "Don't Look Up"

I just finished "Don't Look Up". I am being as literal as possible. I just turned off my tv after watching the movie.

First off I loved it. It is a great movie, very well made, the acting is superb and it is wonderful. I do not understand the bad reviews. My only critique is that it is a bit too long, but it did not feel like any of the footage was overused or unnecessary. The movie is very funny, but also horrifying. I actually look at this movie more as a horror movie than a comedy.

For the people that do not know, the movie is about a comet the size of Mt Everest coming to Earth in six months. There are scientists, astronomers, doctors and other very smart people that want to do whatever they can to stop this comet. Then we have the politicians, their followers and the tv people that just want ratings who choose to ignore the smart people. We also have a tech company leader, a la Steve Jobs, who is a money grubbing genius, and may be the most evil of all the villains in the movie. I am not going to spoil the movie because people must watch this movie. It is an important piece of pop culture that perfectly encapsulates our modern society. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play the scientists, along with Rob Morgan. Lawrence discovers the comet, she tells her teacher and mentor, DiCaprio, about it and they celebrate, until they find out how disastrous this comet is going to be. They have done the calculations over and over again, and it keeps coming up that the comet will destroy Earth in just over six months. They tell Morgan's character this, and since he has connections to the White House, he gets them in front of the president.

Meryl Streep plays the president, and my goodness she is wonderfully scary in this role. She is this media obsessed, money grubbing scumbag of a person. She doesn't care about anyone but herself and she is all about her image and her votes. She crushes this role. Jonah Hill is her son and chief of staff. And he is woefully terrible at his job because he doesn't know what he is doing. There is a great runner that starts when the White House and scientists meet, and a general charges DiCaprio, Morgan and Lawrence for their snacks. Then they realize that they are free. It is truly the funniest bit in the movie.

From this meeting on out we get the whole social media circus. Tyler Perry and Cate Blanchett play a morning talk show team that just wants ratings. They loathe Lawrence and love DiCaprio. When Lawrence tells everyone the truth, she is immediately made out to be the pariah. She is memed to death. She is portrayed as the "bad guy", She is the only one that lets everyone know the truth from jump street. But that doesn't stop everyone from finding a person to bash. That is exactly what people do everyday now. It is maddening. And this movie shows that to perfection. Streep as the president takes even more of a heel turn when she gets rid of the original crew who told her what to do, and tells everyone to simply not look up. The comet is in the sky, we can all see it, but she is too busy worrying about the upcoming election. She goes so far as to put a hat on. It is frighteningly hilarious. And when stuff does hit the fan, the way people reacted, it sent chills up my spine. It was like looking at the real world. I cannot fathom what we would do as a country if this really happened. I have sat here just typing and thinking about how truly scary all of this would be. Then I remember that we have something similar with COVID. It is so wild and so scary.

Watch this movie now. It is required viewing. It is important to watch and discuss. Everyone must, must watch this movie. Please.

Ty

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Ty Wants to Applaud the Incredibly Awesome Meryl Streep

Cheers to you , Ms Streep

Almost a year ago, I wrote on this website how fed up I was with Meryl Streep movies. I thought that they did not get the same criticism and same harsh reviews that some similar movies did, and do. This was just coming off seeing "Ricki and the Flash", which I still think is pretty bad.

Today I need to unequivocally apologize and say that, not only do I think that Meryl Streep is NOT overrated, I know that she is one of America's greatest actors of all time. Her movies just aren't for me. Look, I'm not stupid. I can watch her in a movie and realize how great of a talent she truly is. She is the greatest actress of all time. I have no doubt in my mind about this. After seeing "Ricki and the Flash", I was just in the moment, and I wrote what I felt at the time. Had I slept on it, I probably never would have written that piece. But, that is how it goes.

Take "Ricki and the Flash" out, I can watch movies like "Death Becomes Her", "Julie and Julia", "Doubt", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Angels in America", "Adaptation" or "Marvin's Room", all of which I have seen, and realize she is the best actor on the screen. She has been in those movies with super duper stars like Goldie Hawn, Amy Adams(twice), Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Anne Hathaway, Jeffrey Wright, Nic Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio, and she is the best actor on screen by a wide margin. She is well deserving of all the accolades that she gets. She has earned it. She has been pretty incredible in everything she has done, so I get it now. She is above criticism. She is that level of star.

Same thing can be said for some of her former co stars. DiCaprio has been in some crappy movies too, but he never gets the bad exposure. Amy Adams is the new big thing, and for the most part, she is pretty good in everything she has been in lately, regardless if the movie is good or bad. George Clooney is another guy like that. He is so far removed from criticism, he can be in a movie like "Tomorrowland", and while it was critically panned, Clooney was never panned. It all makes sense now.

It is the same with star athletes. Michael Jordan's Wizards years are looked at as successful, but truth be told, he looked old and tired. Serena Williams may be the greatest tennis player of all time, but she recently had a poor performance and people just shrugged it off, as they should. It was a blip on her tremendous career. Nick Saban just got beat in the title game, but I do not think people will suddenly say he is overrated.

This all leads me to my 2 main points for today. First off, I was wrong, and I have learned to sleep on things before jumping to conclusions. Sure, I did not like "Ricki and the Flash", but that does not mean that Meryl Streep is "overrated". As I have said, she is probably our greatest living actor, and I do not think it is even close. I'm sorry for writing that Meryl Streep, and I take back all the negative things I said back then. You are a treasure, and I cannot wait to see what you do next.

Second, when accepting her Cecil B Demille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes the other night, she gave one of the best speeches that actually gives me hope we will get through the next 4 years of this abomination of a government that we now have. I know I said I was done with politics, and I am, but I have to talk about this incredible speech that Streep gave.

I do not watch the Golden Globes. I do not watch any awards shows. I find them boring and useless. This goes for everything involving awards, be it movies, music, TV or sports. I cannot stand awards shows. So, I saw Streep's speech the next day on social media, and I was moved. She came right out and called out that monster that only 46 percent of the country voted for. Some people called her out with claims that she "lives in a glass house" and she doesn't know what the working class really thinks. I say to those people, shut your god damn mouth. She was speaking for the people that voted for Hilary. We all feel the same way as Streep. She was right. For that pig to mock the disabled, then lie about not doing it, then go on Twitter to rant about Streep, I mean, he is a train wreck, and Streep was just pointing this out.

I know that some people, Trevor Noah being one, and I really like Trevor Noah, said she didn't have to do this, but I disagree. People like me, my wife, 99 percent of my friends and my family, we do not have a platform to the whole world to call this monster out. Streep had that platform, and she not only used it brilliantly, she used in perfectly. Everyone was talking about it the night of, and are still talking about it today. I have loved the people on social media coming to her aid as well, not that she needs help, Streep can more than stand up for herself.

When idiots like Meghan McCain, who was born and raised with a silver spoon in her mouth, and knows nothing about the glass ceiling, comes out and says that Streep's speech is one of the reasons that Voldemort got elected, I loved seeing the response she got from famous people like Billy Eichner. He roasted her on Twitter, and it was glorious. I highly recommend going to read that thread. It is awesome. I already loved Billy Eichner, and now I respect and love him even more. I hope his defense of Streep gets her attention and she agrees to be on "Billy on the Street", which would be his dream come true.

I applaud Meryl Streep for using her platform to speak her mind. We live in a country that was built on free speech, and she used it the absolute correct way. This also shows these dipshits politicians that the "left" or "democrats" or "liberals", whatever you want to call us, are not going to be silent during this atrocious administration. As I have stated, I am going to fight the fight as quietly, but as hard as I can as long as this injustice goes on, and I'm more than thrilled that I, and at least 54 percent of the country, AKA the majority, have the wonderful Meryl Streep on our side. I love you Meryl Streep.

I am so sorry about my previous article, and I offer you my humblest apologies. You are a national treasure, and just like I'm ready to go to war with Run the Jewels, I am also ready to fight the good fight with you. Thank you for all you do, and all you will continue to do. You are one of a kind Meryl Streep. Thank you.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. Meryl Streep joins Ina Garten as something Ty, and all women over the age of sixty, can agree on. Follow Ty on instagram and twitter.

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The Oscar Nominations Came Out Today, and They Mostly Suck

I am not sure the Oscars really know what is good.

I know I promised everyone a greatest American band blog today, but I'm putting that off until next week. There's bigger fish to fry for me today.

The Oscar nominations were handed out this morning and I have two big, big problems with the nominees. First off, why all the white people again? Do the people who vote on these awards think that there are no people of color that act in movies these days? There were a decent number of people that were well deserving of, at the very least, a nomination. What about Samuel L Jackson for his performance in "Hateful 8"? He was awesome. What about Michael B Jordan in "Creed"? Stallone gets nominated, but the lead of this great movie gets no love? That's lame. And even though the movie "Concussion" didn't have its desired effect and wasn't very good, Will Smith was excellent and totally deserved a nomination. I guess the people that give out the nominations are racist, old white people that wish it was still 1950. It's a shame that they refuse to nominate actors that aren't white, especially in 2016. It's upsetting to be frank. I wonder how long it will actually take for actors of color to get their due. It's time, and there are so many great African American, Asian, Indian and so on and so forth of any ethnicity well deserving. I'm sick of all the same white people being nominated. I'm done with Meryl Streep and Matt Damon and Jennifer Lawrence being the people that get nominated no matter how bad or repetitive their performances are. Eddie Redmayne belongs with the people I mentioned above too. I'll take Michael B Jordan, Will Smith and Samuel L Jackson any day over the four actors I just mentioned.

Second issue, my biggest problem, why is Charlize Theron not nominated for her role, Furiosa, in "Mad Max: Fury Road"? How on earth does this happen? How was Jennifer Lawrence's performance in "Joy" aka "Silver Linings Playbook 2", more deserving than Theron? Or Cate Blanchette in a movie I've never heard of, "Carol", more deserving? In fact, Brie Larson in "Room" is the only one that I have no problem with being nominated. "Mad Max: Fury Road" got a ton of nominations, but none for acting. That's wrong. Theron was the best actor in the best movie of the year, possibly of all time. She was so fantastic and perfect in her role. She played the part expertly. She was tough when needed, vulnerable when needed, sad and angry when needed, basically, whatever George Miller asked of her, she did it and did it phenomenally. She was so, so great in this movie. I know it's called "Mad Max", but Furiosa, not Max, was the star and leader of this movie. This may be one of the biggest snubs of all time in Oscar history. I just don't get what else she could have done. Maybe the movie needed to be foreign, or she needed some kind of disease, or she needed some kind of smaller indie role that the academy loves now. That's all bullshit. Why won't they reward the actors from the movie that's widely considered the best movie of the year? It makes absolutely no sense at all. I wrote before, and I still believe, Theron not only deserved the nomination, but she 100 percent deserves the Oscar. There was no better performance all year from anyone, man, woman or child. Theron was head and shoulders above anyone that's been nominated this year. Another shame.

I guess I should know by now to be disappointed in what this dumbass academy does every year. They clearly don't care for minorities and they are just flat out wrong when it comes to nominating actors and actresses. You'd think they'd be more conscious in the 21st century, but they're still racist and stupid.

The morons that give out these nominations suck.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man podcast. He was once nominated for a grade school acting award, but lost it to the kid playing tree #2. Follow Ty on twitter @tykulik.

Ty wants to rant about the overrated Meryl Streep

The inside of every Diet Coke bottle Meryl Streep buys

With the release last week of "Ricki and the Flash", I want to take time out today to call out critics and, most importantly, Meryl Streep.

I don't get the love that's given to Meryl Streep. Sure, she's a fine actress, but all the accolades and the awards being given to get baffle me. Case and point, "Ricki and the Flash" has a rating of 59% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus being, "while the narrative is trite and predictable, Streep shines in her role as an aged rocker reuniting with her family". First of all, when I first saw the preview for this movie, I thought Funny or Die, or The Onion made a joke preview. There was no way this was a real movie. Meryl Streep is easily in her sixties and they try to make her look like she's in her forties. You look great Mrs. Streep, but you don't look like your in your forties. The preview also makes the movie look like a melodramatic piece of garbage. AKA, a typical Meryl Streep movie and role. I cannot believe critics convinced themselves to, not only see this movie, but heap praises on Streep. Put someone like Naomi Watts or Maggie Gyllenhaal, two great actresses, in this exact same role and I guarantee you, critics would have crushed the movie. But not with Streep. She or her people must have given money to the critics association with the understanding that they'd never bad mouth her. That's not fair to other actresses and actors out there. Even guys like George Clooney and Brad Pitt get bad reviews when they're in bad movies. That doesn't happen to Meryl Streep.

Not only does she get rave reviews no matter how bad the movie is, but she gets nominated, and sometimes wins Oscars for bad movies. Last year the movie "August, Osage County" was released. It got luke warm reviews. It was about a family full of people with mental problems. It was another typical melodramatic movie that wanted to be a play. In fact, I think it was originally a play. Anyway, Streep plays Julia Roberts mother that has dementia, or something like that, and she spends the movie basically yelling her lines and, as Jon Lovitz would say, ACTING. She chews so much scenery in that movie. Did she get blasted by critics like a lot of the other actors in the movie? No, in fact, she got nominated for best supporting actress. What a crock of shit. That movie is garbage and her performance is really rough to watch. I don't recommend that movie. The same thing can be said for "The Iron Lady". This is the Margaret Thatcher movie and it got slammed by critics. I think it was below 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's not good, in fact, that's pretty bad. That's "Pixels" bad. But, once again, not only did Streep get nominated for an Oscar, I think she won it that year (ed note: She did win the Oscar). So, a movie that's given such a bad review for how terrible it is, gets awarded for with an Oscar. WTF! That makes ZERO sense!

I guess, I don't, and probably never will understand the love for Streep. I haven't seen many of her movies because I'm not into melodrama, but the love for her makes no sense to me. She's a very good actress, but I'll take Maggie Gyllenhaal or Naomi Watts or Jennifer Lawrence or Octavia Spencer over Meryl Streep any day.

No question.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the co-host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He is really annoyed that everyone in his family loves Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia. Follow Ty on twitter @tykulik.