Boyd, did you end up finishing Orphan Black? Was it worth it. I still haven't caught a single episode of season 4.
Boyd, did you end up finishing Orphan Black? Was it worth it. I still haven't caught a single episode of season 4.
I did. I think it probably was. It got better towards the end.Originally Posted by phonics
Are you still watching Mr Robot? I couldn't get into it again at the start of the second season. Is it worth sticking with?
Pretty amusing in your neck of the woods?
The first 4 episodes are yet another 'Look at how we lied to you visually' but I guess the twist kind of works. After that it really picks up and gets back to it's best.
Luke Cage is out today on Netflix. I'm looking forward to it, the trailers have looked really good. There looks to be a big undercurrent of Hip-Hop influences to it as well, so it looks pretty ideal for me on paper.
Freaks and geeks just got added to Netflix. Ace.
Watched the first two episodes of Cage thus far and they've nailed it again.
Not as strong out of the gate as Daredevil or Jessica Jones but it's got promise and the music is great.
The music during the scenes at the club (especially during the first episode like the above the video) are brilliant.
Didn't realise Luke Cage was out. I'll be all over that.
Watched the first two as well. The story isn't really grabbing me, it's kind of vanilla so far. A lot of the tension in scenes feels really forced as well.
I love the actors though, so I'll stick with it. I love the Shades-guy, and Misty Knight is fine as hell.
Westworld is off to a good start. The motifs are a bit too overt for my liking, but it looks absolutely gorgeous, the acting is uniformly excellent, and it's wonderfully creepy in places.
Agreed, especially on the acting front. Particularly the bloke playing Delores' father.
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+1 for Westworld. I've also watched the first two episodes of Luke Cage and enjoyed those. It feels less distinct from the other two at this stage than Jessica Jones did from Daredevil but does still have a bit of a different feel which is nice.
That Saadiq guy has a great voice too, might look up some of his stuff.
I thought the first episode of Westworld was pretty shit. Maybe I'm just not cut out for most television (Seinfeld is all I need). It also doesn't help the suspension of disbelief that all the absolutely gorgeous landscapes are about three hours' drive from my house.
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Why would that wreck suspension of disbelief? It's not like it's supposed to be set on Mars or something, it's just a tweaked version of here.
The scenery is beautiful enough that I was wondering where it was filmed while watching though, so thanks for that.
I know I'm late to this, it being on Season 18 or whatever, but The Good Wife is bloody fantastic television.
The last season was fucking horrendous, but it was very good for a long time.
Does the Husband conspiracy stuff ever disappear? It's a terrible B-plot.
There's always something.
I've just seen my first ever 30 seconds of Modern Family. Christ I hate those type of shows, never knew it was like that.
The Mrs informs me the type is a 'mockumentary'.
Yeah, I guess that's true. Maybe it's just that the scenery doesn't amaze me as much because it's so familiar.
I'd call Modern Family a sitcom as their camera use and lack of a narrator doesn't depict a mockumentary. Although, I guess the same could apply to Spinal Tap, maybe I'm wrong?
I've no idea. I just hate both that wobbly camera crap and when they talk directly to it in that format. Basically Office style.
Second episode of Westworld released early chaps.
Is it wobbly cam? I've never liked the characters enough to give it more than a passing glance when it's on the TV. Then yeah, it's a mockumentary.
Well I'm basing it on a very short view but what I seen was 50/50 'normal' scenes and interview type bits. Definite wobbly cam in the former.
Modern Family is technically a 'Mockumentary', but from what I've seen of it they fuck with the timeline of the interviews enough that it doesn't really fit into that category.
The next season of Archer will be set in the forties.
How's that going to work?
The Archer thing, I mean. Actually, it'll probably just involve Krieger inventing a time machine. So quite easily.
It's linked to the end of last season.
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I'll lay down money now on Lana being a jazz lounge singer at some point.
Mike Schur's new thing, 'The Good Place' is good fun. It's probably too high concept to last more than a year on a proper American network, and stick a healthy dose of genuine philosophising and jokes about Socrates on top and I imagine it'll be getting viewerships in the low double digits in the US, but I like it.
The scoreboards are particularly good fun, with each action a person can perform being assigned a number value and your lifetime score being used to decide whether or not you get into 'the good place'.
Finished Luke Cage today and whilst it's the weakest of the Netflix Marvel stuff it's still damn good.
It really ramps up around the third episode for me.
I'm three in and it hasn't hooked me the way the others have yet but I've enjoyed what I've seen.
Finished season four of the X Files last night and although it was late, had to watch the first episode of season five. I'm completely aware it will take a huge dip soon but the end of season four was a cracker.Toggle Spoilerand you wouldn't have known it wasn't true.
I'm a twit
The fuck is this Derren Brown shit on C4? He's gone all religious gobbledegook that the Americans like. Hopefully it all turns out to be a windup.
The Missing is back and it looks as though the 2nd series is going to be as good as the first. Brilliant tv.
Stunning footage. I've never seen a lion trying to take down a giraffe before.
That's going to be so good.
That does look fantastic.
Do we know when it starts?
I can't wait to watch that.
Time to buy drugs
I watched the first three episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (the Figgis arc). The jokes landed fantastically, but I was a touch disappointed by the plot. The villain didn't feel particularly threatening, and got taken down relatively simply. I know that B99 isn't really about the bad guys, or the police procedural, but I was hoping they'd up their game a little bit for the guy who drove them into witness protection for six months.
Still, the jokes clearly haven't missed a beat. Also, Ken Marino from Party Down!
I watched the first few episodes of season 2 when it first came out then stopped as I was waiting until the whole season was done to continue but never got back round to it. Just picked it up again and forgot how many proper laughs it provides.
Is Daredevil worth a watch?
Massively so.
Which UK channel airs B99? Anyone know when it's starting again?
No idea which channel it's on, but they're four episodes in in the US so I'd imagine it'll be starting back soon here if it hasn't already. Speaking of Brooklyn Nine Nine, I found out the other day that Andre Braugher's great 'HOT DAMN' in the scene where they're trying to puzzle out why Santiago is late was a complete improvisation. Well done that man.
I enjoyed the first run of Daredevil but I haven't been even vaguely tempted to watch the second.
Brooklyn 99 is on E4.
I'm a twit
I'd say that the second season edges the first.
The fight scenes are so much better and Bernthal is a fantastic Punisher.
I'll keep an eye out. I see the big bang theory is starting on E4 next week and they have around the same starting time in the US.
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