My plan to turn this into the taskmaster thread seems complete.
My plan to turn this into the taskmaster thread seems complete.
When is the new series of Storage Wars starting?
Park Chan Wook directing Le Carre
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171105000133
Masterchef Pro tomorrow.
The two episodes of The Flash I've seen of this series are an improvement, but Arrow really needs less mopey bullshit and more straight-up action goodness for a bit.
I've given up on Legends of Tomorrow altogether. Arrow, when it's good, is still miles better than Flash and Stephen Amell is still really good but they don't seem to know where they're going with it.
Ghosted, the new thing with Adam Scott and Craig Robinson, has a father unfortunate sequence in its first episode. They're talking about the multiverse, and how it would mean there's more than one of everything and everyone, to which Craig Robinson's character replies 'I think we got the best Kevin Spacey'.
Terrific timing.
Really enjoying Stranger Things S2 so far, apart from the episode I've just finished where they follow the edgy Scooby Doo gang which I hated. It's like when the Walking Dead leaves the action for a few weeks to focus on how Rosita chose her nail colour but somehow more jarring as it feels as if the episode was made by somebody else entirely like they've shoehorned in a spinoff.
That series finale of Discovery was excellent.
Yep.
Especially as the previous episode was a little weaker (it's been done on TOS).
There's a popular fan theory that started weeks ago which is becoming more plausible I reckon.
Is it still just centred on the same one character?
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After that episode I'd say it's a given in one form or another. I'd agree on the last episode too, weakest by far for me but at least it built up to this one.
@Disco, not so much as the series has went on. Still fairly prominent but definitely not centered around her, they've focused on a good few of the others.
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Yeah that's the fan theory.
Looks pretty spot on to me. Kinda pissed I've seen it now.
Completely forgot that The Punisher was out today.
Starting on it now
I started The Orville with zero expectations this morning. Seven in, and it's not bad at all.
After catching an episode I decided to binge Peaky Blinders seasons 2 and 3 to catch up. Fantastic show but season 3 was quite a nonsense.
I've been struggling to get through 3 for a while now, it's garbage.
Season three was definitely the worst, it was still alright though. I think the new season has started off really well.
I watched the first couple last night, I really liked them. They're not messing about when it comes to the violence either. Daredevil and friends take note, this is how you effectively fight crime. Frank Castle would have sorted The Hand fucking ages ago. He would have just turned up at one of those not-so-secret meetings their leaders are always have in New York office buildings with an M16 or something.
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I'm almost finished with the whole thing now and I think it's great. Not as good as Daredevil and JJ but it's not far behind unlike Iron Fist and The Defenders. Really glad that they gave him a series as it's a brilliant character which is done right by Bernthal.
I am 9 episodes in watching the Punisher and i can unequivocally say that Bernthal is top-5 superhero casting choices ever.Putting that side,the action is top notch,a bit too heavy-handed on the talking for my liking and the performance ofToggle Spoiler. It doesn't quite top DD season 1 or JJ but it's definitely in the top 3.
The penultimate episode
Wont be able to watch the final one until Monday though.
In regards to the series as a whole:
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Episodes 12 + 13 of the Punisher
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Just finished with The Punisher, I think the final 2 episodes put it a lot closer to Daredevil and Jessica Jones than I thought it would be. A little slow moving at times throughout the series but I enjoyed that and felt that it needed that at times.
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Bernthal is easily the best cast character across the whole collective Netflix series (is that the plural of series? Nothing else looks like it would be right), it's almost scary how perfect he is for it.
Search Party season two has been getting some very good reviews so I downloaded the first and had a look. It absolutely nails the sweet spot between sinister and funny, and somehow stays pleasant to watch despite every character being fucking awful.
TBS seem to be on a bit of a roll with shows that cross comedy with some other genre and absolutely nail the tone.
2 and a half episodes into the first season of Stranger Things and it's starting to annoy me, as I suspected it would.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but for the most part, you can.
It reeks of formulaic mince and is nothing I haven't seen anywhere before. The head of the sinister (no doubt government sponsored) organisation is that guy and we seem to have already reached padding things out territory, a problem that plagues tv shows on networks desperate for the next hit these days.
I like the cop though, I'll give you that.
Ok, the end of episode 3 was fantastic. I'm back in the room.
Not like you to jerk your knee.
Just the end of an episode Boyd.
Overall it's good, but it has too much of a 'young adult' (Twilight, Maze Runner) etc. feel to it for me. And I know I say that as someone who's obviously not part of that target demographic.
It smells a bit formulaic because it wears its influences as an ostentatious hat but it largely skews them just enough, or combines them in just the right way that it never become a wholesale rip off. There's some originality in there too, obviously but it's about 70% reconstituted parts.
There's a moment in the fourth episode that'll probably make Yev cancel his Netflix account if he's on the fence. I was loving it and I did a full Undertaker eye roll.
The real (pronounced derpalisation) is when the lead character, with the same name in the goonies as the main character in stranger things, turns up.
I'm a twit
In terms of overt and silly references that barely counts. It's not even the daftest thing about that character's name.
Because he has the same name as the default Dad in The Sims?
I'm a twit
He's the one new character who isn't filling a role in the story taken by another character in the first season and they've called him fucking Newby. Very subtle.
That he played Mikey in The Goonies and there's a character named Mike in this is barely a reference, never mind a lol one.
He was the best part of season 2.
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The Good Place renewed for a third season.
Finished Season 1 of Stranger Things. Thought it was pretty good overall, but not brilliant.
It excelled on the emotional/heartstrings stuff, with the episode I mentioned above and the finale being brilliant examples of that. Where I wasn't so won over was with the general young adult tone of it all and not a huge amount of jeopardy as a result and the fact that much of it was so derivative.
Still, pretty good effort overall and a lot better than most of the stuff on tv.
Saw what I think was the series finale of Curb last night on Sky. I've only seen a couple of episodes from the series, one of which wasn't that good, but I laughed like a drain through this one.
Next week is the finale.
Oh right, I thought it said ep 9 of 9 on the planner.
There really was something about Cowboy Jeff, wasn't there?
Stuff I'm watching at the moment:
- The Punisher - was freaking awesome. Probably the best of the Marvel ones?
- Timeless - not amazing, but just about pulls through to good with some decent and smart lines. Pretty good historical settings/stories, it's got Johnson out of Peep Show in it and it's about time travel. What more do you want?
- Glitch - Australian show about some random people in a town who come back to life. Low budget but really well done and some solid acting. Interested to see where it's going