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Ericsson liveview mn8006/20/2023 ![]() They’ve published everything you need to know to hack your own firmware for the SmartWatch. But now Sony is taking it one big step further. It’s designed for use with your Android phone, and has always included an SDK that allows app developers to interact with it. John Cena brings his The Suicide Squad DC Comics character Peacemaker - a buff guy who wants peace so badly he's willing to be extremely violent about it - to the small screen, with James Gunn writing all the episodes (it was a COVID "fun" project for him) and directing five of them.This is Sony’s smart watch, which has been around for a while now. If you saw the surprisingly great The Suicide Squad (not to be confused with but of course it's going to be confused with the dud Suicide Squad), you know the tone of this, with Gunn riding the gross-out humor of The Suicide Squad into an origin tale of the best character from the film who wasn't a walking weasel and Cena showing off his magnetic star power as a doofus meathead. The first episode starts off a little rocky, but by the time someone explodes and Cena is in his underwear near the end, it finds its groove. Superhero purists may scoff at this, but those who love muscles, violence, and perverted jokes will lap it up. Īlia Shawkat, John Early, John Reynolds, and Meredith Hagner, Search Party Mark Schafer/HBO Max Three episodes will be available to start, with new episodes coming weekly. Search Party originally aired on TBS, where it was generally ignored for its first two seasons, but thankfully, HBO Max rescued it from getting lost in the shuffle of cable TV. The satirical comedy stars Alia Shawkat as Dory, an aimless twenty-something living in Brooklyn who decides to assign purpose to her life by tracking down an old college classmate who has recently gone missing. Since Season 1, Search Party has gone to all kinds of audaciously dark places, boldly switching genres every season by adding in elements of crime thrillers and court dramas, and continuously upping the dramatic stakes all while retaining its signature sharp sense of humor. It's the kind of show that keeps you on your toes, the kind of show that never reveals what direction it's headed in. John Wilson, How to With John Wilson Thomas Wilson/HBO It's a trip, but if you're willing to go along with it, you're in for a great ride. ![]() There's lots of "see the world through my eyes" programming out there, but the correct response to most of it is, "Thanks, but my own eyes would have sufficed there, pal." Not so with How to With John Wilson, a philosophizing Peeping Tom series that undergoes two sets of different "through my eyes" filtration. ![]() First, through its creator John Wilson, an introverted master of observation who distills complex social interactions to their simplest explanations, and second, through the lens of the camera he carries around New York City (as well as Idaho, Florida, and other spots his investigations take him), which concentrates his viewpoint into a single image, like that weirdo from American Beauty. It's all edited together to tell his story in ways no one expects. ![]() This makes How to With John Wilson sound like some pompous film student project, but it's anything but. It shares the same humor and hope of Nathan for You ( Nathan Fielder is an executive producer) in the way it shines a light on those who rarely get seen, like that guy who makes a living selling kits to restore foreskin (and was all too eager to demonstrate it), or Wilson's elderly landlord, the subject of the dazzling Season 1 finale in which he tries to cook her risotto as New York City enters COVID-19 lockdown. Wilson is able to take these ill-fitting themes and massage them into a cohesive, touching rumination on existence.
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