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    Yeah, it definitely turned a corner mid-way through this season. The last half of last season, and beginning of this were pretty average - it's got better lately.

    Anyone still watching The Americans... I loved the first 4 seasons, however, the last 4 or 5 episodes of season 5.... literally nothing has happened. It's so boring.

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    I've seen critique that this season of it is dragging elsewhere and I can totally see where it's coming from. There's no clear "arc" this season as opposed to earlier, which amplifies it as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    That's brilliant.

    I'm three episodes in. The religion one is probably my least favourite so far. I find his parents kinda annoying because their acting is terrible.

    Second one was probably my favourite. Him and Arnold bromancing around Italy was great and I love all that quarter/third-life crisis angsty stuff.
    Maybe I'm alone on this, but Arnold is probably my least favourite thing about the show. I find him really annoying. I know it's a comedy, but all that "hey cutie" nonsense just made cringe, I just want to punch him in the face.

    I agree with you on the quarter/third-life crisis aspect of the show though, that's one of my favourite things about it. I think I mainly enjoy that because it's somewhat reassuring to see depictions of people roughly the same age as you who also don't really have their lives together.

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    So the new X-Men-The Giffted tv trailer looks fucking incredible

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    The 'Hot Dog or Not' app from Silicon Valley is actually on the app store.

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    I seen that on Product Hunt, haven't seen the latest episode though so that was a nice spoiler from them.

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    I don't know how 'Product Hunt' have gone about reporting that, but if all they've done is mentioned that the app exists and is linked to the show then it won't be much of a spoiler.

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    You 'saw' it, you fucking west coast inbred freaks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I don't know how 'Product Hunt' have gone about reporting that, but if all they've done is mentioned that the app exists and is linked to the show then it won't be much of a spoiler.
    It's real, no need for 'quotations'

    @Magic it was on my second screen at the time I was posting, ken?

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    So the sixth episode of Master of None:

    Toggle Spoiler

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    I thought that was great. I was surprised at how much I laughed during that bit too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    I thought that was great. I was surprised at how much I laughed during that bit too.
    Definitely, it was really done well.

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    I binge-watched the whole second season over Friday and the weekend, and it's the best thing I've watched in months. So well written, believable, funny, warm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    Cast?
    I'm trying to avoid even cast spoilers, but almost everyone who was in the show and almost everyone who wasn't.

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    Oh and Francesca

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    Dev doing the instagram name bit in the thanksgiving episode had me howling with laughter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Dev doing the instagram name bit in the thanksgiving episode had me howling with laughter.

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    I think after I've finished this I'm going to watch all two seasons again. I was going to watch the first one again before starting the second but couldn't wait when I saw you lot chatting about it on here.

    I love it so much.

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    Started on Peaky Blinders the other day and I love it.

    Currently on season 2 and I should probably hate Tom Hardy's accent but I don't, I think it's amazing.

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    Apparently there's going to be four spin-off prequel series to Game of Thrones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ItalAussie View Post
    Apparently there's going to be four spin-off prequel series to Game of Thrones.
    Make that five.

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    Fucking hell.

    Although I would like to see more of the Mad King.

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    You must need a budget the size of Italy's GDP just to make one of them. American TV is stupid.

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    A 'Witcher' TV series has been announced for Netflix.

    Not sure how I feel about that. If they do it right that could be great.

    If not....well.

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    Its based on the books, not the game, so will probably be wildly different.

    Also Game of Thrones is absolute fucking shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ItalAussie View Post
    Apparently there's going to be four spin-off prequel series to Game of Thrones.
    Robert's Rebellion is what I'm looking forward to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soldier View Post
    Its based on the books, not the game, so will probably be wildly different.
    Surely any media will be so long as the author has the rights? They can still take a leaf out of CDPR's book as long as they don't thieve the story outright. They're doing it because of the success of the games anyway.

    That said I think the author might've complained about CDPR's story so he may have said they have to be more faithful.

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    If Gwent is in it I'll watch, if its yet more fantasy mcguff then meh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd View Post
    Robert's Rebellion is what I'm looking forward to.
    Martin's explicitly ruled that out.

    https://theringer.com/george-r-r-mar...g-4d312058434f

    No Robert's Rebellion. No Dunk and Egg.

    So Robert’s Rebellion, the massive civil war before the massive civil war on Game of Thrones, won’t get its own show because “by the time I finish writing A Song of Ice and Fire, you will know every important thing that happened in Robert’s Rebellion.” The Tales of Dunk and Egg, the ongoing series of prequel novellas costarring a future Kingsguard commander and a future Targaryen king, won’t happen either, because “I’ve only written and published three novellas to date, and there are at least seven or eight or 10 more I want to write … I don’t want to repeat what happened with Game of Thrones itself, where the show gets ahead of the books. When the day comes that I’ve finished telling all my tales of Dunk and Egg, then we’ll do a TV show about them … but that day is still a long ways off.”
    I mentioned this in the book thread, but I find it vaguely satisfying that he's irked by the show getting ahead of the books.

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    The 'Dunk and Egg' thing is irritating. If he wants to write Robert's Rebellion himself rather than allowing it to be made on TV first then he should fucking well get to writing it, rather than doing a load of fun little novellas.

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    He wants to write 10 novellas and then do a show about them? Does he have access to the elixir of life?

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    He'll be dead by then anyway and someone will end up doing it.

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    Three Girls is astonishing and harrowing. Fantastic performances all round and it highlights how fucked the social services, and child welfare is around here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    I think after I've finished this I'm going to watch all two seasons again. I was going to watch the first one again before starting the second but couldn't wait when I saw you lot chatting about it on here.

    I love it so much.
    I re-watched the first season not too long ago, and it definitely pays to watch it again. I'm going to have to watch the second season again in a few months - it's so damn good.

    Surprised to see mixed opinion about episode 1. I thought that was great. It got across the feel of the city really well - maybe it was just the overhead shots of the cobbled streets.

    The whole thing feels so polished.

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    The Twin Peaks reboot kicked off last night with four episodes coming out at once.

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    I never got round to seeing the original series properly, is it a necessity before watching this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    I never got round to seeing the original series properly, is it a necessity before watching this?
    Course it is!
    I'm a twit

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    What's the crack with the Twin Peaks episodes? I downloaded what I thought was 1 this morning, but then saw it was 1hr 50mins long. Is that 1 and 2 then, or are there another three after the 1hr 50min opener. I'd use Google to look, but I don't want any spoilers.

    Loved the opener by the way, but more on that later.

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    All I know is that they opened with a double episode then released two more online immediately afterwards, so presumably some downloads are combining one and two and just labelling it one, while others are splitting the feature length opener into two episodes.

    I'd just download two anyway, since rewatching thirty seconds and turning it off isn't as problematic as accidentally skipping an episode.

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    Cheers John, that's what I've gone for.

    Have you watched (any of it) yet?

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    I've downloaded the lot, but I won't get into it until tonight.

    There's far more good TV this month than I have time to watch, so I've just been hoarding stuff for weeks. Fargo, The Leftovers, Better Call Saul, and The Americans will all have to be binged when they're done, so there's a chance I'll be running about three weeks late on Twin Peaks at all times.

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    I thought I was done with Gotham after the second season but for some reason I decided to fire up the first episode of the third.

    I really wish I hadn't as it's somehow even worse and I know that I wont be able to stop.

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    Finished the first 4 episodes of Twin Peaks. Given the original series raised the tv bar and has been copied so much since, I couldn't really see how Lynch could bring Twin Peaks back and keep it loyal to its roots without it looking dated.

    Fuck me has he managed it though.

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    The first two thirds of the original run was pure genius, but the minute the original mystery was solved it very quickly went very, very deep into the toilet, so the bar wasn't quite as high as it probably should have been.

    One of my favourite things about the original series was how it managed to fit in profoundly odd little diversions which were utterly pointless but somehow never felt indulgent, like Sully from Commando turning up in the middle of a family meal with a bag full of cheese baguettes and everyone just abandoning the meal to riff on how good they were for ninety seconds. Is that stuff still in there?

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    @phonics do you still watch Mr Robot? I finished season 2 last night and I barely know what's going on now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post

    One of my favourite things about the original series was how it managed to fit in profoundly odd little diversions which were utterly pointless but somehow never felt indulgent, like Sully from Commando turning up in the middle of a family meal with a bag full of cheese baguettes and everyone just abandoning the meal to riff on how good they were for ninety seconds. Is that stuff still in there?
    I thought so. There are some lovely touches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I thought so. There are some lovely touches.
    Excellent. A Maizy Doats reprise will make me a very happy man.

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    I thought the first two episodes of season two of Master Of None were really good but since then (I'm five in, I think) it's lost its appeal. The fun-factor of 'hahaha it's his real mum and dad' has completely gone away and that Religion episode was so so bad, it was like watching a Primary school assembly.

    I'll stick with it and finish it, mainly due to the positive things said on here, but I'm still not a fan. I didn't like season one because I felt like it tried too hard to drive its point home, whereas season two is just not entertaining. Watching Dev sulk in a taxi listening to Soft Cell for what felt like three minutes isn't interesting.
    I'm a twit

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    Finished Goliath, presumably it'll be a one off series by the looks of it. Anything similar?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    I thought the first two episodes of season two of Master Of None were really good but since then (I'm five in, I think) it's lost its appeal. The fun-factor of 'hahaha it's his real mum and dad' has completely gone away and that Religion episode was so so bad, it was like watching a Primary school assembly.

    I'll stick with it and finish it, mainly due to the positive things said on here, but I'm still not a fan. I didn't like season one because I felt like it tried too hard to drive its point home, whereas season two is just not entertaining. Watching Dev sulk in a taxi listening to Soft Cell for what felt like three minutes isn't interesting.
    Keep going till you get to the Thanksgiving episode.

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