01-21-2026, 10:45 PM
Boiling Point has a poor name because not only is it the name of the movie that the series spun-off from but it's also the name of the very first Gordon Ramsay series ever. The movie serves as a pilot and so combined with the series there's about six episodes of content. The movie is different because it's shot in a single take and the series has multiple locations. But I slightly preferred the series because it didn't have to try to fit all the plot and setup of things into events happening during a single service. The movie has people randomly bringing up background info unnaturally in conversation. Every episode has over the top DRAMATIC EVENT, but I guess people prefer that compared to the subdued ways of something like the aforementioned Whites. (Which because I watched is probably why this was recommended to me.)
Sprung is from the guy who did My Name Is Earl and references suggest is set in the same universe. Actors mostly come from Raising Hope which was the same. I liked this though it was a bit weird how the episode lengths vary so wildly, from 32 minutes to well over an hour. I guess there's no reason that streaming shows have to be any length, but it does make for an odd watch because of what we're so used to. Yeah, that episode felt like half as long because it really was! The COVID aspects were probably the biggest source of humor but I was glad that like Earl the characters were as clueless about pretty much everything while thinking they knew what they were talking about. For example, they don't intend to shoot bleach because Trump said it but because it's just so obvious to them that would work considering the other things they are shown to believe about how things work. They believe Trump is truly telling them shooting bleach works because they derive all their knowledge from barely paying attention to equally awful sources and extrapolating from there including ignoring the same source telling them otherwise about a topic. As such, they don't attach to Ivermectin like I think a less clever show would have also done because that would require a level of commitment and investigation these characters could never have. They similarly ignore all the valid advice from the Trump pressers and officials because they don't truly listen to any of it, they take up bleach because it was the one time the one character was actually paying attention for an entire 20 seconds. Other plot relevant stuff comes from the same methods, such as assumptions about how computers work or whatever.
Sprung is from the guy who did My Name Is Earl and references suggest is set in the same universe. Actors mostly come from Raising Hope which was the same. I liked this though it was a bit weird how the episode lengths vary so wildly, from 32 minutes to well over an hour. I guess there's no reason that streaming shows have to be any length, but it does make for an odd watch because of what we're so used to. Yeah, that episode felt like half as long because it really was! The COVID aspects were probably the biggest source of humor but I was glad that like Earl the characters were as clueless about pretty much everything while thinking they knew what they were talking about. For example, they don't intend to shoot bleach because Trump said it but because it's just so obvious to them that would work considering the other things they are shown to believe about how things work. They believe Trump is truly telling them shooting bleach works because they derive all their knowledge from barely paying attention to equally awful sources and extrapolating from there including ignoring the same source telling them otherwise about a topic. As such, they don't attach to Ivermectin like I think a less clever show would have also done because that would require a level of commitment and investigation these characters could never have. They similarly ignore all the valid advice from the Trump pressers and officials because they don't truly listen to any of it, they take up bleach because it was the one time the one character was actually paying attention for an entire 20 seconds. Other plot relevant stuff comes from the same methods, such as assumptions about how computers work or whatever.