Man in the High Castle is interesting at least, although I have a feeling it's going to concentrate on the resistance side of things rather than the broader political angles which would be slightly disappointing.
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Man in the High Castle is interesting at least, although I have a feeling it's going to concentrate on the resistance side of things rather than the broader political angles which would be slightly disappointing.
I started on Rick and Morty the other day.
I thought it was going to be a bit shit for some reason but I think it's brilliant.
I started watching The Path yesterday on Amazon. I don't think it's one of their own, it's just available on there for streaming. It's got Aaron Paul in it, he's in some sort of weird religious cult. It's seemed quite good based on the first two episodes.
Before that I finished season two of The Man in the High Castle. I felt the same way I felt about the first season, the story doesn't seem to actual advance much but I'm more than happy to keep watching it because it looks great and the premise is totally fascinating.
The first series is good. The second was fucking shit, sadly.Quote:
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High Castle gets much better in series 2.
There's a two-hour Sense8 Xmas special out, which I'm looking forward to. It was a cracking series - very Heroes-esque (the first season, before it turned into nonsense).
I've given this a second chance recently after watching the first episode ages ago and not really liking it. Glad I did now as it's great.Quote:
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Meeseeks is probably my favourite episode thus far.
:D
Yeah, that one was brilliant.
Started Westworld. Three episodes in. It's good.
Got laughed at when I first mentioned it on the old thread, now everyone jumping on the bandwagon...Quote:
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Just finishing season 2 of Fargo - really enjoyed it, although Kirsten Dunst's character annoyed the piss out of me.
Today shall be spent watching all four episodes of Stephen Kings The Stand. Can't remember the last time I watched something on DVD. Would have been easier to illegally download cos I wouldn't have to switch discs, but she wouldn't have been able to unwrap that and get chuffties cos she loved the book. :moop:
Hope it's better than the two part IT shitfest.
At least it's got the legendary Jason Patric in. I'm two episodes in though and it does seem bad. I hated the first series by the end though.Quote:
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I gave up after episode 3 of the second series. It was jist repeating the first series but with a new bloke and a suspiciously Indian sounding Spaniard.
All ten episodes done. It's just about alright. B to B+, depending on whether you have more tolerance than I do.Quote:
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Wildly overrated though.
Anyone else watched Goliath (Amazon original)? I'm 6 episodes in and it's not dreadful and probably worth it for Tania Raymonde's hooker turn alone.
So The Stand just fizzles out as if it didn't know how to end. I'm told the book actually ended differently, so I've no idea why the show didn't actually have an end. Was enjoyable enough, I guess. Hopefully the tv adaption of The Passage will show it how it's done.
Molly Ringwald is repulsive too. How she got so much work in the 80s and 90s boggles my mind. She is disgusting.
I too caught up on Westworld. What a load of wank. Who thought the intriguing part of a Wild West Robot story would be corporate infighting and a whiney b-tier writing crying about creative freedom? I assume it's supposed to be allegorical but it's just WANK.
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It's a decent little show on the whole though, I watched it all over the course of a couple of nights I think. Billy Bob is (predictably) great in it.
There's just always something about Amazon Originals though, don't you think? They never seem quite as slick or as well produced as their Netflix counter parts. I can't quite explain it, but they always leave me with that feeling that I'm not watching "proper" tele, if that makes sense.
Dee is coming back to Neighbours. Use to have a massive hard on for that lady.
Wasn't she the blonde with the huge jaws and a chin like an arse?
That's the one, she also had banging tits.
http://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/ori...v.jpg?djet1p5k
http://www.angelfire.com/nb2/ngirls/...inewest007.jpg
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Soaps are always resurrecting teen jailbait that's now turned into MILFs. It's a classic trope, and one I fully endorse.
On a different topic: anyone watched The OA or The Expanse on Netflix? I finished the former yesterday and am just starting on the latter. Both good, but I have some mild beef with how The OA ended. Felt a bit rushed and anti-climatic to me.
Same - Her baps! :drool: Watch her in Satisfaction too playing an escort.Quote:
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She's got 6 kids though! Has aged badley though http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...le-figure.html
edit: Explains why she looks diff - In July 2002, West was hit by a bus in Sydney. The actress was also robbed while she was unconscious. West needed reconstructive plastic surgery
Classic pic
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Shameful Lustage :drool:
She's still banging, even after 6 kids. Admittedly her vag may resemble a wizards sleeve in it's current state, but i'd still go there.
@Pleb That's harsh. Nothing shameful about Dee.
I must admit she's not my type but I would.
She's no flick.
Flick was a frog faced slag. Still would tho.
Remember Annalise?
She the one Dr K was horsing behind the wife's back?Quote:
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No that was Sarah. She was tidy as well though. I'll find some pics....
Yeah, Sarah ftw.
That Annalise was bonkers.
Her and Seven of Nine on Star Trek :drool:
She's no Kym Valentine.
Remember the old Neighbours thread :cool2:
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Saw Max on the last season of Ash vs Evil Dead playing a sheriff for a few eps
That was Izzy. I remember because Susan was hilarious in calling her Jezebel rather than Isabelle. :harold:Quote:
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Karl. :cool:
What a lad he was. He must have had at least a couple more affairs since I stopped watching it. I sort of miss Neighbours. I was a huge fan for a time, probably peaking during my university days. Never missed it. The Neighbours thread was my favourite thing on this board back then as well. We had a right little gang on the go in there.
If I remember right Dee was washed out to sea or something, never to be seen again? Which would basically make this a total re-hash of what happened to Harold.
Pretty sure Dr. Karl was in a band and played our Uni summer ball :cool:
He definitely was in a band. They were called "Waiting Room" I believe. :D
I think he just toured all the university campuses. I never saw them though. :(
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Dr K :cool:
Finished the first series of Happy Valley last night. Is the second series as good?
I thought the second series was better.
I finished Wayward Pines, thankfully. I can't believe there's a third season coming. :sick:
Midway through High Castle second series, I still fucking hate both Frank and Juliana. Stop poncing about the pair of you.
Inspector Kido remains the world boss.
Last 3 episodes or so got really good.Quote:
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Happy days. That's exactly what I have left to watch.Quote:
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The first half of series 2 is still much better than series 1 as it is anyway.
Izzy was so naughty looking. :drool:Quote:
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Cannie remember her having an affair with dr karl tho.
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I assumed it was done with.
Yeah, it does, although I say that having not seen that many of them. Goliath was a case in point though, it looked as though it was going to be a top quality production but by the end had fallen someway short in terms of both production values and writing.Quote:
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Still, I quite enjoyed it mind. Billy Bob was top notch, despite probably phoning it in.
Homeland (season 6) is back sooner than expected. Episode 1 available now.
I've started The Man In The High Castle.
Sherlock is getting universally panned then. It's understandably been going downhill since day one but I still thought it was better than most things on TV.
Caught up with 2016 Wipe. Probably Charlie's best. If only they let him do more Gameswipe. :(
Agreed. He nailed it. The only shit bit was cunk explaining the end of days.
It did remind me that I'm seeing Cox live in a few weeks talking about big data. I treat the missus well.
It was a bit crap.Quote:
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I've liked the lot so far as well although the one off before this was merely decent.
It was okay, but it's not as good as it was. The whole point of Sherlock is that he's supposed to solve complicated, strange, supposedly-unsolvable crimes in a brilliantly clever fashion. They have fantastic source material in the original stories and novels, and almost everything therein, especially in the short stories, is geared towards his solving of the crime. There's very little happens that doesn't have a material impact on his deductions and how he ultimately solves the case. That's the whole point.
The non-crime solving areas they're fleshing out massively in the TV series (e.g. John's marriage to Mary, Mycroft as a central character etc.) are, broadly speaking, superfluous in the context of what Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be about. They've basically moved it to a point where the actual solving of the crime is barely the central point of the episode any more.
I think they've just bought into the hype far too much. They really think they're somehow 'improving' the originals, and you get the sense that the need to actually solve a crime as part of the episode is almost an inconvenience. Take last night - solves the 'murder' within about fifteen minutes, solves the Six Napoleons aspect (from the original ACD story) by about half-way, and then the rest of the episode is spent indulging this borderline-ludicrous Mary Watson angle. At least they've killed her off, but even that was just stupid in its execution.
It's actually quite annoying, because the raw components are still there for it to be a really great show. As it is, you couldn't exactly complain if it was quietly shelved after this series is finished. If they do another series after this, they might actually destroy it and it probably doesn't deserve that.
Well whatever about the double episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine (had some good bits), dafuq was that ending?
End of High Castle.
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Season 1 or 2?
You know what.... I think it's done. I was prepared to forgive a few slow episodes, but the last 5 have raised about 3 lols between them. It needs to do some serious work to save this season.Quote:
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None of those 20 episode comedies should ever go past 3 seasons. It's always downhill from there.
Parks and Rec being the obvious exception. I'm only mid-way through the third season of Brooklyn 99, when is it that it starts to noticeably go downhill?
In that it started terrible and stayed that way? I guess.Quote:
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4th series, most of it. Though I quite liked the Florida bits.Quote:
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Don't worry, he's a souless gimp.
He can have the first season (although I still quite like it) but after that it's stunning.
You're still watching Archer.
Which, bar the Vice season, is amazing.
Yeah, that bit where he shouts LANNNNA just cracks me up every time. What a hoot.
edit: Oh man, just remembered 'That's how you get ants'. I think the 78th time he said it was just about the best delivery of a line since Shakespeare.
Archer is amazing, Phonics.
But, if you don't care for that kind of humour, you're simply missing out.
Bet you don't like Rick & Morty either (thought that said my lass loves archer but hates Rick & Morty, so I guess it's possible).
Apparently the new season is going to be "In Archers head" as he's in a coma and be a bit crazy. Not sure how chuffed I am about that but let's see. Basically, I think they feel they can't keep up his arsehole-ness if he actually ends up having a proper relationship with Lana, so I think they feel they need to sort of reset the series.Quote:
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I gave up on Brooklyn 99 after the first season.
Not a fan of those slapstick shows in self contained episodes with no overarching storyline.
Rick & Morty, Bobs Burgers, that shitty one about a horse.
They're all wank.
Just remembered that effing terrible one that is set inside a national park. They're all so, so bad.
Each to their own.
I agree with phonics.
Add Family Guy, American Shitgash and South Park to the list too.
Family Guy and American Dad you can have.
South Park is a work of art.
You and Phonics hate them all purely because of 'Cartoons are for kids lol' probably.
I agree with Baz on American Dad and South Park. Though the former is more just harmlessely nondescript as opposed to utter dross.
South Park was funny, but I don't know if that's because it's gone bad (like The Simpsons) or I've grown out of it.
The film was hilarious when it came out on DVD but I've not watched it since, and fear it may not live up to the memory.
It's nothing to do with them being cartoons, only aside from "not funny" it's the only thing that links them.
Exactly. People in liking different things shocker!Quote:
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P.s Adamski is wrong
Fair play.Quote:
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I assumed you hadn't given any of them a chance and were purely judging them for being animated.
I like most of these animated shows being mentioned but Bojack Horseman is on another level. It's art. It's one if the best things I've ever seen.
You must have watched quite a bit of it considering how much you hated it.Quote:
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Doesn't Phonics like anime? :harold:
Yep, hence the 'still' in the original post and as I said above it, no 20 episode comedy should be going above 3 seasons.Quote:
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Like 4 of them because they're badass. I'm being quite reasonable.Quote:
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So he enjoyed 4 seasons.Quote:
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It also got a lot better after the Vice season.
Archer has never done a twenty episode season, and your proselytising for Person of Interest makes this whole conversation laughable, Phonics.
5 episodes in to the man in the high castle and seriously bored. Is it worth continuing? (No spoilers)
I started watching The Expanse a couple of nights ago and I've only got three episodes left. Granted, it's only a ten episode season and they aren't aren't particularly long episodes. It's pretty great though. I haven't read any of the books it's apparently based on, but the world they're building up seems really cool and like it has a lot of legs.
I also finished The Path over the Christmas/New Year period and thought it was quite good too, interesting premise. It sets up really nicely for the second season too, which is only a couple of week away I believe. My only issue is that Aaron Paul is almost completely typecast in the role of Jesse Pinkman for me, to the point where seeing him act like a legitimate, responsible, grown up man with a family and shit is strange. That's my own problem though.
The first season is definitely slower and then it picks up a bit towards the end. The second season is better I would say, but it never completely picks up the pace. It's a very slow mover. Hard to say whether you should stick with it or not. I think the main draw to me is just that it looks nice and I find the whole "what if the Nazi's had won?" thing to be a really interesting set-up.Quote:
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I can definitely say that if there is a season three (and I assume there will be) I will watch it, but I no longer care at all what goes on with any of the three main characters. Julianna, Joe and the guy with the glasses (such a boring bastard I've totally forgotten his name), they're arguably the three dullest characters in it.
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I watched The Expanse a while back and rather enjoyed it, although it wasn't really good enough to warrant a recommendation. I'll be all over a second season whenever it appears though, because it left enough unanswered and did it well enough that I want to know where they're going with it.Quote:
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There are massive narrative and plot holes but I haven't read the source material, which I didn't know existed until these posts, so I'll give the benefit of the doubt that there's some Polyfilla handy.
My final Netflix binge over Xmas was on Travelers - it's pretty good, although there are some fairly honking great paradoxes in it. It's to do with time travel, so you have to let that go if you want to get into it, as anything involving that always turns out to be total bobbins if you look at it in too much detail.
Nice premise and some interesting story lines developing though.
I'm currently going through all the Black Mirror episodes, which are all more or less brilliant to be honest.
Just finished High Castle. Definitely worth sticking with.
Have made it three eps into High Castle. Think Frank annoys me more than Juliana.
Well I'd love to be able to tell you different, but that's not going to change.Quote:
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A six episode second season of Letterkenny has been released all at once. :drool: That's a lovely surprise on my first time visiting BtN in a week.
Frank and Juliana are both massively irritating tossers, as is Joe, but the side characters (mainly the Nazis and Japanese) more than make up for it. The finale was absolutely great.
I've not seen any of it, but presumably that'll just be a finale for season 2 and it's back for a third?
It really was excellent. Definitely agree that a lot of the background characters really make it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Kido is the best thing in it.
Kido is the fucking man. Rufus Sewell is brilliant as well.
I mean they can always do another season if there's money to spin out of it, I suppose, but the finale of season 2 felt pretty final to me.Quote:
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Sweet. Might get on that then.
I doubt it'll be back, as the series two finale was such that it neatly wrapped everything up.Quote:
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The antique shop owner was great as well.Quote:
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Obergruppenfuhrer Smith and Chief Inspector Kido were the two best characters in the programme.
Yeah. I suppose you could near call Kido and Smith main characters, Smith especially.Quote:
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I found Tagomi quite endearing too.
Yeah Tagomi's facial expressions are quality.
Kido spitting out 'Trade... Minister' :drool:
I enjoyed Heydrich as a swivel eyed loon (which he was) as well, they did a really good job of making proper characters out of the 'bad' guys rather than just making them all ranting villains.Quote:
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Oh, The Man in the High Castle is done? Might give it a go now then. I thought it was going to something that went on for about five seasons.
No, it's not done. They just announced a couple of days ago that they've renewed it for a third season.
And there it is.
Well they should have stopped it at this point (don't open the below spoiler if you haven't watched it).
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Oh ffs.
New Always Sunny In Philadelphia was a bit shit. Making a mini musical out of a comedy show is always a bad idea. Can anybody think of a time its worked? The Simpsons had some great songs, but the whole episode wasn't a musical so it was fine.
I've just realised that The Nightman Cometh episode of Always Sunny would probably count, and that is incredible.Quote:
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It was the worst thing to ever happen in Scrubs, despite it mostly being absolute dogshit and not funny.
Fans of The Americans! Did you know Matthew Rhys (Philip) is actually Welsh? I suppose the name hints at it but I never really paid that much attention to that and just assumed he was American. Also him and Keri Russell (Elizabeth) are a couple IRL.
I did. His accent seems pretty immaculate though so if you didn't know going in I doubt you'd get it from that. He voiced the Welsh nationalist bloke in Archer with his natural voice.
Ha, didn't know he voiced him.
Yeah, I think Scrubs got by on likeable/attractive characters mostly.Quote:
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The 'new series' section on BtN informs me that something called 'Murder Calls' has started. It's a series of dramatisations of real life cases where people have been killed while on the phone to 911. Why the fuck does the will to make that exist?
Quarry is a bit fucking good innit. Jaysus.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980696/
I need something else to watch now that High Castle is done and dusted. I'm going to do the last 6 episodes of the last series of Humans as I missed them but then I've found absolutely nothing. Might give the other series of Fargo a go, though I hated the one with Martin Freeman.
See my post above yours, the entire first season is out.Quote:
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If films and stuff are anything to go by, I'm safe in the knowledge that me and you would definitely not enjoy the same things.Quote:
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I finished series 2 of Happy Valley the other day. It was brilliant.
Did you enjoy True Detective season one, and stuff of that ilk?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
That's one of the best things I've seen, but I'm not into blood and guts and stuff.
This is in the same vein. Its just a drama/thriller, well acted, well written, no blood and guts and all that jazz. Guy comes back from Vietnam in the 70s after a scandal, society shuns him, shady guy offers him a job as a hitman and away we go.
I stand corrected then. I'll give it a go, sounds decent.
That does sound rather goodQuote:
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Hated?? I was away to say the second season is even better than the first but if you hated it then I doubt that would make a difference.Quote:
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Yeah tried a few times to finish it but couldn't.Quote:
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Have you finished the whole thing? If so;Quote:
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Caught up with the latest episode of Sherlock, which was miles better than the absolutely ridiculous contrived garbage they called the two episodes before that.
Still, I know they are going to come up with some massively stupid conspiracy stuff in the last episode, so it'll tank after that.
Yeah definitely the best one for a while. The search for the EVEN BIGGER FINALE scares me about the next one.
I really wish http://newstudio.tv/ wasn't in Russian.
Started watching Rick and Morty last night and wound up buzzing through well into the second season. It's fucking dark at times, isn't it?
It really fucks me off when shows don't give a brief overview/set the scene at the very start. I get it's a plot device but you spend half the time wondering what's happened and less about what's actually happening.
(man in the high castle)
That should fill in some without giving anything away. Just that bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ma...ernate_history
I'm the opposite. As I tend to just plough through a show in a short space of time, I have to skip it every time as I've just watched the prior episode.Quote:
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I started watching Mr. Robot and am just getting into season two. I'm about 13 episodes in and I'm still not sure I like it. Aside from the fact it'd be more descriptively titled if it was called Mr. Autism, the characters aren't very likeable and don't really have any redeeming qualities.
Also (spoiler for season 1):
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I wanted to know more of the history behind it but I don't think it made it hard to follow, the basic situation was pretty clear.
Yeah sorry I didn't mean a review at the start of each episode, more like what disco means
I gave up on Mr Robot a few episodes into season 2.Quote:
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I'm awful fearful this final Sherlock is going to be toss.
The first episode of this series was bang average, at best, but I really enjoyed the second episode. Helps that I love Toby Jones playing a cunt.
That does help cheers.Quote:
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That was way later in series 1. I can't remember if there was a flash forward though.Quote:
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Exodus hasn't mixed up episodes on you or anything has it? I found a lot of them under the wrong episode number.
Fuck :D
Can understand it being hard to know what's going on then :D
Episode 1 starts with Joe in a cinema. I must have seen that scene start at least ten times when it should have been different episodes.
It'll also be made to end on another cliffhanger, which I could live without.Quote:
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The big issue with the show as it's gone along is that it's been more about his relationship with John + others and less about him solving shit. I struggle to see that changing with this episode but there was more of it in the last one.
Wouldn't happen on torrents.Quote:
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It was all going well til the end. What the fuck was that?
That was rubbish.
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The series have gotten increasingly silly, there's a reason why the best ones were the ones more closely based on the source material.
Anyone tried Taboo? I watched the first episode last night and it seemed promising, without my having that much idea what precisely was going on.
Sherlock went a couple of years ago when they started writing it for the American/international audience.
Yes, I have Jimmy. I watched the second episode last night and, like yourself, still have very little idea about what's actually going on. But it's very intriguing and the cast is great, so I'm definitely sticking with it. I'm especially loving Jonathan Pryce as the old boy in charge of the East India Company.
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Nah not finished it all yet, drip feeding it so its spread out over a few weeks. Will report back when the season is done.
What a clusterfuck Sherlock was last night.
The first episode of Taboo looked great and the performances are all very good, but it's a bit bizness.
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Episode 2 of this series was good. The last one basically went 'full retard' though, so to speak.Quote:
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https://i.imgur.com/Lb2HDku.png
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What we've all been waiting for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZpi99wC0w
Ron Weasley will never be believable as a gangster. I hate to be pessimistic, but that looks fucking abysmal. The main plot looks way too similar to the film. Boxing, fixed fights, diamonds, blah blah blah.
Like the terrible Lock Stock series they tried to do yeeeeaaaaaarrsss ago.
Dunno if anyone's mentioned it, but the game show Taskmaster on Dave is actually really good fun. Greg Davies is an excellent host, and the panel regulars are largely good.
Never heard of it. But Greg Davies, I'm in.
It had its own thread, kinda, called Funniest Thing On Telly.Quote:
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First season was awesome, I stopped about halfway through the second but I'll probably pick it back up again before starting The Wonder Years.
Ed Westwick though :drool:
I wonder how long this boring phase of action films being turned into atrocious TV series will last. I doubt anyone will be able to top the hateful Wayans twat being cast in the Murtaugh role in Lethal Weapon, but it has to stop.
It's the new 'reboot'. Hollywood is fucked and everything is going to be on Netflix in the future, so it's a sensible idea in some ways.
I have to say Bad Teacher getting a TV show was probably the peak of that.
Series 5 of LOST really was a catastrophic crock of shit. The only things that made it watchable being Kate and Juliette :drool:
Series 6 is also much worse than I remembered. What a waste of fucking time this decision to re-watch it has been.
I was all set for a rewatch and then they took it off Netflix :moop:
I'd have thought Lost was one of the least rewatchable things ever made.
Finished the second season of Rick and Morty just now. It's basically what Futurama should have been. Very good.
There was a lot I liked about the episode, despite it being a bit of a convoluted shambles after the twenty minutes or so, but it had become absolute rot by the end.Quote:
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EDIT: Ooh, it'd totally passed me by that Endeavour started up again a couple of weeks ago. Will be getting on that.
I'm halfway through a re-watch of season 5 of 24. The best season. :drool:
Mary was the single worst thing ever happened the show anyway, so this episode should be no different.Quote:
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Amazon haven't half slipped their new thing, Sneaky Pete, out under the radar. It has Bryan Cranston and Giovanni Ribisi in it and it's co-created by Cranston and some combination of the DNA of The Americans, Justified, and House. How does a second tier streaming service not hype that to fuck?
They spent their marketing budget on Clarkson.
I wouldn't want to extract Lost from the last decade where it belongs. Ben Linus was a legend though.
Yeah, they do this all the time. I noticed a week or two ago they have some drama with Martin Freeman in it as the lead. It's been out since September and I had no idea. I'm not the guys biggest fan, but that's still a pretty big name lead for a TV show in my opinion. I assume they paid him a lot of money to be in it. They just never seem to publicise these things though.Quote:
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I always get this feeling though, that regardless of the money they throw at making the actual shows (which is undoubtedly a lot), there's always a decidedly budget feeling to Amazon Originals. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something a bit off about the whole setup. Netflix is just a much slicker operation.
I see Character Actress Margo Martindale is in Sneaky Pete too.
And Peter Gerety, of Judge Phelan in The Wire fame.
She's certainly not a character I've ever particularly enjoyed in the show. I hope if/when it comes back for more she's not constantly cropping up. Prior to this episode, where his appearances made some sense, I was getting a bit bored of the looming figure of Moriarty cropping up so much as well.Quote:
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I've seen some adverts for that Sneaky Pete, not as much as there should have been though.
Amazon seems to be largely focused on getting Twitter to talk about their shows, recommendations and general browsing.
The Good Place finished terrifically well. The whole thing was tightly constructed, very clever, and generally great.
I've binge watched almost all of Taskmaster over the last couple of days after the recommendations here.
It's so good :D
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Hmmm, probably series 1 at the top and then 2 and 3 fairly equal. It's all good though.Quote:
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Two episodes into Quarry, enjoying it so far. It's a bit jarring to see Marlo Stanfield a smiling family man for his brief time in the show, and the Scottish fella fresh from Mum now playing a southern crime boss.
Walton Goggins is fronting a 'conspiracy thriller' based around the hunt for a Bin Laden figure being undertaken by a fictionalised version of Seal Team Six. Done right that could be stonking.
I've finally finished Luke Cage. Daredevil and Jessica Jones I zoomed through, Cage I found harder going. It's decent but nothing about it hooked me the way the other ones have.
Soundtrack is ace though.
Didn't realise Workaholics is back. :youpi:
Threee episodes into season seven to catch up on.
Watching QI, my first episode hosted by Toksvig and she's surprisingly good at it.
Yeah, I've enjoyed the season a lot. I've been pleasantly surprised.
Started The Walking Dead this weekend...bit good, innit? Just coming to the end of Season 2.
I think GoT has immunised me to caring about characters too deeply nowadays as they all seem to fucking die. Also, as ever with these types of shows: the kids are the worst part.
Latest ACI is the Germanwings/Lubitz crash. Weird actually vividly remembering these ones. :drool:
I've watched a few things lately, enjoying all of them:
The Missing Series 2 - Cracking stuff. Did it in a day so it naturally dragged a bit in the middle, but quality production all round and might even be better than the first one.
The Night Manager - Lovely to look at, but lacked a bit of substance and was quite fantastical at times. Still, Hugh Laurie saying "Corky" will stay with me forever.
American Crime Story - Properly good. Bit of a slow burner at times, but the key players were fantastically realised and had me gripped even though I remembered much of the source material vividly.
Started watching "Bron" (= The Bridge). The original Swedish/Danish version. This is about 4 years after the rest of Sweden watched it.
Pretty good so far.
I watched The Night Manager in one sitting on a plane which is probably what it's best for. As you say Yev, it's rather empty once you get past the basic plotline. Looks lovely though.
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Yes.
Agreed on The Missing too, as good as the first season was.
Season two of The Good Place ordered. :drool:
It was. The the way Hugh Laurie said his name was awesome.Quote:
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Yeah, I really haven't felt myself missing Fry. Which isn't to say I didn't think he was great on it, just that they've replaced him very well.Quote:
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But then I was quite confident about that because I always liked her as a guest.
The best thing has been the exclusion of Sue Perkins thus far.
The Alan Davies pretending to be stupid shtick has been stale for about 10 years, he made the show unwatchable for me ages before the National Treasure flounced off. Davies at least had the integrity to offer to resign if they wanted to make a fresh start, and the BBC said no. Fuck sake.
I mean everything is subjective, but if you've regularly watched QI since it started, and still find Alan Davies shouting bollocks like a naughty school boy funny I reckon you must have learning difficulties.
It always seemed to me more like everyone else pretending he was stupid while he was actually obviously very bright.
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QI is probably one of my least favourite TV shows of all time.
Dennis Quaid has ruined Fortitude.
Finished season two of The Walking Dead yesterday. Dat end scene :drool:
Was it you that whizzed through The Expanse recently? Second series starts tomorrow night.
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I think I'm getting that right? Or not. It's all blurred into one.
I blitzed through The Expanse recently John, I don't know if Raoul did too. I didn't realise it was back so soon. I enjoyed it quite a bit, so that's good news. The Path is back as well, I've noticed.
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It's based on a network of novels and novellas so if the viewers stay it'll end up running for years. I think the authors have knocked out about ten books in a few years.Quote:
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My favourite touch was the 'belters' having lived in zero gravity for so long that they can't live on earth any more. There are plenty of clever little details like that which make the world building spot on, but the plot was hit or miss for me for a lot of it.
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I agree about the little touches in The Expanse too. It makes it all seem a bit more real, as a posed to people just tearing around in spaceships without a care in the world. I really like the scene in one of the earlier episodes where they perform the "flip and burn" manoeuvre to turn the ship around quickly and it's a huge deal, everyone has to strap in and inject some sort of fluid that helps them hold up to the extreme G-force.
It's not a particularly novel thought but I just started watching The Thick Of It for the first time in years and it's still amazing.
It's so re-watchable.
I watched episode one of The Expanse but I'm not really sold. Will give two a go though.
I started The Night Of. Two episodes in. It was the first episode that everyone raved about, wasn't it? I can see why.
The Noah Hawley X-Men thing 'Legion' is getting incredible reviews. The word 'masterpiece' is being used liberally.
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I decided the re-watch The Office (US).... the difference in quality from season 7 to season 8 really is huge. How on earth anyone thought that Catherine Tate would be a decent character should be shot. Also the writing took a massive, massive dip, too - so shit. '
The Office went downhill over the course of either season four or five, I forget which, and was nigh unwatchable by the point you're talking about.
Add Training Day to the list of films with crap spinoff series attached to them. Bill Paxton plays the Denzel role in this one, which is just about the most lol bit of casting I can think of.
Fuck me, Training Day? They really will stop at nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYsEQLv1hE
See how far into that you can get without cringing yourself to death. I managed thirty seven seconds, but the cringe started forming at about twenty.
Literally thirty seconds into the new 24 reboot (Jack Bauer out, Dr. Dre in) and an ex-miliary man has already been executed by (presumably) muslim terrorists, while the blood splattered corpse of his already dead wife lies adjacent. We even got a close up of his Army Rangers tattoo and a camera pan across his conveniently laid out medals of valour, just to drive home the point of what a set of evil bastards they really are. It never occurred to me until just now, but I bet The Donald is a HUGE 24 fan. :D
Without it being the Bauer Power Hour there really isn't much point to it is there?
I very much doubt it. I think I'm just watching for nostalgias sake, if I'm honest.Quote:
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Well, they certainly don't seem too interested in straying from the old formula. In just over forty minutes of television they've already managed to introduce the following 24 cliches:
- New, charasmatic presidential candidate
- Plucky, confrontational, non-conformist computer nerd working at CTU
- Possible mole inside CTU
- Straight laced, massively unhelpful, possibly not to be trusted dickhead in charge of CTU
- CTU being a fucking shambles in general
- The vague feeling your watching an extended car commercial for this season's manufacturer of choice
- Some sort of suburban terrorist sleeper cell
- Bauer mark II having a man bag every bit as spacious as his predecessor
- A regular old USB stick on the loose with loads of very important data about exactly what the terrorists plan to do on it
- Shady member of the main guys family popping up in a seemingly unrelated but probably somehow relevant sub-plot
No torture or "dammit!" yet though, but it's early days.
Fuck it, I'm going to watch the second episode. :D
Watch out for the villain being captured/foiled only for (yet) another layer of bad guys to be revealed and the process starts again until you get to Dennis Hopper.
I didn't watch 24 after the first season, but it feels like the sort of show where the bad guy being captured only for that to be part of his plan would have a fairly strong presence.
They must have done that at least once, most of them either got fed to a Bauer set piece or just contracted fatal irrelevancy and you never heard from them again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KJVVh1vmA
What? Why?
With this and the 24-reboot I'm getting serious 2005-vibes right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9OKL5no-S0
This though.
Iron Fist :drool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkIhte0R18I
Looks much better.
The Trip : Spain coming in April :cool:
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I've been watching House of Lies and I think I'm going to stop after about 5 episodes. It's pretty much the same jokes every episode.
Just finished A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) last night and it's pretty good. Apparently it's better than the film (which I need to see) and Neil Patrick Harris and Patrick Warburton are bloody awesome in it.
I gave it a bit longer than that, but eventually binned it after whichever episode Matt Damon was in. As funny and self lacerating as his appearance was they were still using essentially the same stock jokes, just twisted slightly to fit the plot of that specific episode, which made me realise it probably wasn't going to make the improvements I hoped it would. I'll watch anything with Ben Schwartz and go in with almost unlimited goodwill, so it was a bit disappointing.Quote:
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Legion has started really strongly.
Just a shame its a weekly thing, I really want to go on a binge.
I watched 'The Moorside', the BBC thing about Shannon Matthews, with my gran the other night and wound up reading a couple of properly lol articles whining about it. Apparently it's evidence of a media vendetta against the lower classes because nobody is making one about Madeleine McCann, the still missing and presumed dead child, or Tara Palmer Tomkinson, the friend of the royals who's been dead half an hour. As much fun as it is hearing toffs moaning about things, the bilge produced when some council estate twonk gets a platform is a hundred times more desperate and entertaining.
My Sky has decided it has no signal for about 75% of channels, so I couldn't record Legion or Emerald City (FOX and 5Star don't work) which is really annoying.
Instead of watching either of those I decided to start on Taboo, as at least BBC1HD works. Seems okay. Only one episode in can watch a few in a row when I've got a bit of free time. Heard good things.
First season of High Castle done.
Kido is such a fucking boss. :cool:
@John - I think you were wrong about The Expanse. It seems to be up on Syfy first, then will get onto Netflix at a later date as a complete season.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqiSBxvdws
I've had this in my head all day. I love it so much.
Finally finished Quarry last night. Best piece of TV since True Dick Season One.
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Even if I didn't know going in, I'd have guessed the bloke behind it was involved with Banshee on some level. Have you watched that?
I've had Quarry downloaded and ready to go for a while now, I've just not managed to get round to it yet. I shall have to get started with it.
I've started watching The Young Pope recently. Jude Law is in it, as the young Pope in question. It's a very interesting premise but it's quite a strange show, and I can't decide how much I like it yet. I'm also not sure to what extent (if any) it's meant to be a comedy either. I have only watched two episodes though.
Started Entourage recently after having been recommended it years ago. Love it. On season 3 currently.
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It's unashamed pulp nonsense, but it has some of the most innovative action sequences I've ever seen on television and it's far more fun than it has any right to be.Quote:
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Entourage is the bollocks. It's easy watching and basic acting, but the characters are very affable. And you'll be sad when it's over. I was. :(Quote:
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I've started watching Ballers to fill the void. Anyone into it?
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You've already watched the best seasons but it's worth sticking with.
Anything out there people.can recommend that has been on for 2 series max and isn't hard work?
Ballers is easy watching. Got the rock fella in it. It's about nfl footballers and their agents, lifestyle, etc....
Fits the bill :thbup:
The Walking Dead :drool:
SS GB should be worth a watch tonight if they've spent well on it.
Some TV show this morning was raving about Billions. Anyone see it?
I loved the first season. Paul Giamatti is incredible.
Violent scenes from the start. I'm out.Quote:
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Fired SS GB on.
Intrigued to see just how much more fuckery the paddies got up to to help Hitler.
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Read a history book to find out if Ireland helped Germany any further for them to win the War in a fictional TV show?
You OK hun?
I liked Billions but it was one of those shows where everyone is such a hateful cunt you'd rather every next scene was their massive house getting fire bombed so I never got past episode 3.
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Riiiiiiight. That was definitely a post for the sake of just saying something then.
Sorry you've lost me. I was speculating on something that might happen in a made up TV show.
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It's a bit shit though. Man in the High Castle it is not.
Disappointing. I was hoping it would be good but I kinda want to hold off and read the book first.
They've cast a whispering 12 year old as the lead in this SS thing.
Aye it's shite. Not a single leprechaun in it either.
I'd excitedly put this on series record and all. Not even worth seeing this episode out. Absolute yawn.
Seemingly we're getting a 2nd series of Blue Planet this year :drool:
Quality episode of Inside Number 9, that. Some superb writing.
Saw that. Was happy.Quote:
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They're basically getting as much Attenborough as they can in now before he kicks the bucket.
Got caught up with Billions this morning. It tailed off a bit but the first episode of series 2 is promising enough for them to ramp it back up again. I like that it's one that does a show a week and not just a big series dump each time too.
I like it for that kind of easy watching thing but for Walking Dead etc I want it all in a oner.
Bob's Burgers is back after the break.
They did a 'Love Actually'-style episode for Valentine's Day, which was a classic character episode. Haven't watched the newest one yet.
I've finished The Young Pope and it was, on the whole, excellent. Apparently a second season is in the works, but the last episode really gives the impression that it should be over with, so I'm not sure what to think there.
Started on Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency recently and it's pretty good. Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett work well together.
As I load up Amazon just to have a look at stuff there's an advert for a "Taken" TV series on Prime :cab:
Die Hard must surely be next.
Has anybody watched that new 24: Legacy? I assume its terrible. Without Jack Bauer it doesn't really have much to offer. I'm not sure how the new Prison Break will turn out. Obviously the story is bound to be a bit ridiculous, but I don't have a problem with that as long as its entertaining.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...air-until-july
"I've been disappointing various people around the world because it was meant to come out in April. It's July now, I think," Liam Cunningham told The Independent.
:(
It must be seriously difficult getting that ensemble cast together.
I'm sure I read about 6 months ago that it wasn't coming out until July. I remember having a good seethe about it.
It's been known that it's likely to be later than normal for a while.
Broadchurch is back. :drool:
Catastrophe is back. @Magic.
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Haven't actually seen it yet either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR3G1lWbnUU
Fincher. Serial Killers. Netflix.
Give it me now.
Netflix though.
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That looks interesting for sure. Maybe a bit of a Hannibal ripoff? Maybe not.
Anyone watched the New Edition tv show? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5574940/
They've made a tv show of Zombieland. :nono:
Has anybody watched Gomorrah? I've almost polished off the first season in the last week or so. It's really good.
Into season six of Entourage now. It's become pretty predictable now, but enjoyable enough for the decent totty on offer (Jamie-Lyn Sigler in the bath :drool: )
Decided to start on Santa Clarita Diet as I had heard good things about it.
Christ it's terrible.
The way they're unveiling the Game of Thrones season 7 release date is a shambles.
On the producers but more so on the people getting involved.
They've put up a live Facebook video with the date in a giant ice block and people have to type fire, when they get X amount they blast the block with a flamethrower.
I saw it in my feed and people are actually getting involved.
Iron Fist is taking a bit of a pasting.
Defenders mate.
Though saying that even that's going to be shite.
The Great British Bake Off's new line-up has been announced: Paul Hollywood with Prue Leith, Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.
Crikey.
I knew that Prue would get it.
Sandi and Noel though? Fucking hell, especially Noel?
He'll wear a kaftan based on the previous week's showstopper.
Has anyone seen Designated Survivor? I'm half way through the first episode and it looks ruddy brilliant.
I've heard good things about it.
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10 episodes into Iron Fist and I'm still really enjoying it but I have two big criticisms.
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I am still really enjoying it though but it is the worst of the Netflix series.
For me it's:
Jessica Jones and Daredevil pretty much tied then Cage and then Iron Fist.
Latest episode of The Flash was complete horse bollocks.
It provided absolutely nothing in terms of story.
Whoever thought that it would be a good idea to step away from the storyline to provide a 45 minute musical crossover with Supergirl is a massive cunt.
Just recently started watching Iron Fist. There's parts of it that are cringeworthy (random homeless guy with an iPhone, blatantly obvious BAD GUY characters). It's also not clear why he's actually come back and he seems to oscillate between being a hippy and not caring about money to trying to take down the rich twats and get "his" company back.
It's kinda watchable though and the Asian bird in it is phenomenal.
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I was stunned to find out that she was one of the awful Sand Snakes though.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/..._specials.html
Louis CK is doing a couple of stand up shows for Netflix with the first being released on the 4th of April :drool:
Grand news. :cool: I've been watching/rewatching a lot of his stuff recently. This chat thing - https://youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k - is good if you haven't seen it.
I've only watched the first four episodes of Iron Fist, but I've quite enjoyed it so far. I suppose the action sequences might be a little lacking. They're not as hard-hitting as Daredevil or Luke Cage, but I think that's sort of the point. Iron Fist isn't an out an out brawler, he's supposed to be some sort of martial arts demigod. He's not meant to go about caving peoples skulls in.
I feel bad for Finn Jones because I think he's doing a perfectly good job, yet somehow he seems to have been caught up in one of the more baseless internet backlashes in recently memory with this "Danny Rand absolutely should have been played by an Asian guy" bullshit.
If they had chosen to cast an Asian guy as Danny Rand then fine, nobody would have taken issue with that. In much the same way Idris Elba would be a fine and totally acceptable choice to play James Bond, were that to happen. And by the same merit is a totally great choice to play Roland in the Dark Tower film, come to think of it. But to chastise the entire production for casting a white guy to play the part of a character who actually is white in literally ALL of the source material is beyond ridiculous.
If people are actually saying that because he knows Kung-Fu an Asian bloke should have been cast on general principle then surely that's backwards on an entirely other level? I don't even know. But it seems to have gathered a ridiculous amount of steam online, and detracted from the appreciation of the actual show itself.
Review remains absolutely wonderful, but the final 'season' being three episodes long is a bit of a finger in the eye.
I was away to post that it started again but I didn't realise it'd be as short as three episodes.
Watching Peep Show on GOLD. So good. I don't think I'll ever tire of it.
Super Hans is too funny sometimes. :lol:
I've got to go back and re watch that. I think I'll have a greater appreciation for it as a failing 28 year old man than I did as a hopeful 20 year old.
It's probably just too depressing to watch now.
They haven't actually announced how many episodes are in this run, I don't think, but the third part of next week's episode title is 'Last Review' and there had been rumours floating around for a while that it would be a severely truncated order, so next week's is probably the last. Shame, as when it's on form I don't think there's a current comedy that even comes close in terms of proper, explosive laughter. Twenty odd episodes in they can still surprise me with the direction some of the reviews take, which is a minor miracle in itself.Quote:
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Masterchef: The Amateurs starts at 8pm :drool:
Best show on't telly.
Good man DS. I'd seen an ad last week but completely forgot.
Just finished with the first episode of the new series of Line of Duty. Best drama the BBC have made in years.
Took a bit of a break from Legion as I felt that the second and fourth episodes were a little weak.
Decided to watch the fifth just now and it's easily the best of the series, they really took a giant leap with this episode and I'm glad that I wont have to wait for another episode.
I put the brakes on with Legion after the second ep because the strangeness of it all and the way clues as to what was actually going on kept stacking up made it an obvious binge candidate. It finished last night so I've jumped back in tonight.
I couldn't disagree more strongly with the above appraisal that the fourth episode was weak. It was absolutely crackers, but it looped around to make a twisted sort of sense by the end and actually advanced things more than any other episode, including the pilot.
The fifth episode was basically a horror film, and a very good one too.
Apparently Noah Hawley was simultaneously writing and filming this, writing the third season of Fargo, and writing a novel while adapting it into a screenplay. The man must sleep about an hour and a half a week.
Watched 9 episodes of Iron Fist so far.
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Anyone watched Ascension? It starts slow but then goes in some bonkers directions. Very watchable stuff
Watching the first episode on iplayer.Quote:
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I want to slit the American bitch's throat.
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She's a right twat.
Got all excited as I saw that Rick and Morty was back but I've just seen that Adult Swim aired it for April Fool's Day (and kept replaying it for hours, COMEDY) but the actual season doesn't start until the Summer.
The new episode of Rick and Morty was crap.
The Legion finale was a bit of a bum note, but episode seven was a work of mad genius so it balances out.
Caught the first episode of Big Little Lies when the Mrs was watching it last week. Was just weird enough that I stuck on the other 6 tonight. Wasn't bad.
Crazy to think I started this thread 12 years ago.
Ahem.
Hope you're all doing well my lovelies xxxxx
Atlanta was dead good and that recent Dispatches on ISIS was stunning.
On a lighter note, Peter Kay's Car Share back on Tuesday 💓
Blimey, not a Harold IP either. Hey there.
Still in Swiss (Cottage), Phonics?
With some time in between, yes. The Wire is still the best show to come out between you posting this thread and this post as well which is a slightly depressing reminder that for all the worlds movement, nothing ever changes.
This is true. Good to hear you keeping well.
May have to scroll back through this thread to seek contrary thoughts but think Catastrophe is a pile of shit.
And they said this place was dead.
I'm in desperate need of a new TV show, if anyone can oblige.
I've watched the majority of the big hitters, looking for something that carries a theme over a season or number of episodes. Not interested in self-contained episodes, don't particularly want anything to do with cops. 3+ seasons already in the bank preferable.
The Americans.
The Americans.
Watched the first 6 or so and really enjoyed it but the missus wasn't properly hooked, so it's a chore to get it watched.
I love The Americans, though the latest series is getting a bit too AMERICA FUCK YEAH.
Holy shit SG
Billions.'Nuff said.
Billions is fucking awesome.Quote:
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What is it about? Watching a trailer made me no wiser at all, except it has that annoying Homeland guy in it which is a little off-putting.
Damien Lewis is excellent, you cretin.
He's an alright actor, it's not that.
He just annoys me, the way he looks and how he talks. He sort of over-pronounces S of F or something like that and he always sounds like he's holding in a massive shit when he speaks as well.
Aye Billions is really good.
I think I'm going to plump for one of the following:
Black Sails
Designated Survivor
Vikings
I really like Black Sails but the third season is pretty shit.
I've only watched the first episode of season 4 but it doesn't seem like they've turned it around.
It does do a lot of things really well though and it is an enjoyable watch, especially if you like seeing naked ladies.
Any poussin on show?
A little bit but none have been plucked.
Designated Survivor is bilge. Black Sails is decent fun in a very sub-Game of Thrones, tits and violence sort of way.
The Leftovers is back on Sunday, so if you want something a bit grim you could whizz through the first two seasons and be on track for when that starts.
Not that it bothers me THAT much, but this is a perfect description of him as an actor. I think it works better in Billions than any other thing I've seen him in though. See for example:Quote:
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I've been watching the US version of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
It's pretty good, but not perfect. It does capture some of the spirit of the books I think, with the winding storylines that like up as the story progresses. They need to stick the landing though.
Speaking of Car Share, this was by far the best bit:
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Didn't realise Better Call Saul was back already. Two episodes gone so far.
I've just watched the first of the new season.
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Archer is back too. There are about six great things back this month.
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First episode of taskmaster is online :drool:
Brilliant.
Line up looks a little weak though.
Lolly Adefope is a massive twat so her being included is shit.
When is it on tv?
Fargo is back this week, not sure if that's been mentioned yet.
Also I'm a bit late to the party but fired through Man In The High Castle in the last few weeks. Has there been much chat about it in here?
Don't think anyone touched on much apart from how boring the two leads were and how epic a man Kido is. Excellent show.Quote:
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I thought the first series was good and the second was really great.
I was pretty non plussed about it until the second half of season two which was brilliant.
Not loving the trade minister stuff though.
Kido's enunciation of ....Trade Minister is worth the whole thing on its own.
Agreed, that is brilliant. I find myself saying it randomly through the day to myself.
Tuesday I think.Quote:
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The Good Place is brilliant. Thanks, @John.
Although there's not enough of it. I've finished it already. :(
I've started watching Utopia again.
I can't remember whether it didn't end properly (IIRC Channel 4 cancelled it) or not so looking forward to getting back into it. Don't think there's been a show with more style yet it's no way lacking in substance. Fantastic stuff.
One of the most tightly constructed and satisfying seasons of comedy I've seen. Michael Schur can do no wrong.Quote:
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Fargo and Better Call Saul back, praise be to Jesus.
Does anyone else use Showbox?
It's generally quite good but it doesn't seem to have of the latest seasons of Archer or The Americans. Anyone have any idea why?
Silicon Valley and Veep back too. As I said before, there's so much good stuff coming back this month.
Thoughts on Saul so far, anyone? Have you watched episode 2, Mahow?
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Yeah, I'd agree with you.
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How good is Veep? I still haven't gotten past S1 of Parks & Rec and I need another excuse not to.
No you don't. Get on with it.
Yeah, skip it if need be. Season two of Parks onwards is one of the great comedy shows.
I seen Silicon Valley near the top of the list when I was looking for Billions last night. I should never have let that one go, always meant to watch it.
It's good, the wife doesn't love it but I find it quite enjoyable. It's not the best written thing in the world but definite easy watching.
While it's a slow start I never understood the hate for season 1 of Parks and Rec. I never felt I was forcing my way through it.
Speaking of actual shit, I stuck with Legends of Tomorrow for the second season but really need to bin it off. Flash is mindlessly watchable so I'll probably stick with that. Arrow is still the best of the lot and despite it giving Oliver the same personal arc about four times now it's once again repeating the trick of getting it's shit together as it gets near the end of the season.
I thought Arrow ended. Didn't they kill literally everyone last year?
Legends is indeed a steaming pile of shit and yet I can't stop watching it.
Never recall seeing an episode of that Parks and Recreation thing but Google tells me it's like a load of shows I've never really seen. Modern Family comparison does not bode well though.
Something in my head tells me it's very like what awful thing Larry David did before though, is it?
EDIT: Curb your enthusiasm.
Haven't been able to get hooked on Parks & Rec, think I've got as far as season 3 once.
They're similar in the sense that they're both mockumentaries but Parks is so much more superior.Quote:
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That's the word I couldn't think of for Modern Family. Can't be doing with them at all.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is so good, you fucks. Parks is probably my favourite comedy show but it's not really like Curb at all.
One or two, maybe? Not everybody and not anybody that anybody sensible actually cares about.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Curb is great you silly sausages!
I love Curb. One of my favourite comedies.
Curb is great except for the fact that it falls into the usual WHY AREN'T YOU AT FUCKING WORK trap that a lot of American sitcoms do.
Does it? They're all showbiz people, Larry David wouldn't be working 9-5 in an office.
Season One is weak. Season Two picks up, and after that, it's stellar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/hack...ck-1202403612/
Using the alias The Dark Overlord, the hacker reportedly stole other TV shows in the breach, according to the AP, and may have already uploaded the first episode of “Orange Is the New Black” Season 5 to an illegal file-sharing website.
He's uploading them. I've seen 1, 2 and 4 so far.
Aye they're all out there.
I love that he tried to get a ransom.
The Handmaid's Tale is fucking grim. It's also brilliant, but fuck me is it grim.
Is it only 3 eps and is it on Netflix or Amazon John?
Hulu, so you'll have to get it by other means.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
There are only three episodes out now, but I think it's going to run for ten. They released the first three all at once, then it'll be one episode every Wednesday for however many weeks.
Cheers.
What a bollocks release structure.
It's basically the standard episodic TV release structure, open up with a feature length episode then settle in to one a week, it's just really odd to see a streaming service doing it that way. It's not really suited to binging anyway, much too dark for that.Quote:
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I know it was announced a while back, but still fuming that Quarry has been cancelled.
Edit: ah it hasn't been, just not renewed which I can't see happening due to no-one tuning in.
The tracking shot in episode eight. :drool: Probably tops the one in True Detective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
I wouldn't be so sure about it not getting a renewal. Cinemax is owned by HBO, and they've always been willing to carry something with low ratings as long as the critical response is strong, which I think it was with Quarry, to give it a chance to find an audience. They gave Outcast a second season, and about three people watched that.
That whole last episode was insanely good
Holy shit. Billions this week was fucking incredible.
Legend, I had completely forgot about it with the bank holiday.Quote:
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Yeeeeeep.Quote:
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Fucking hell.
I smashed about 6 episodes of 13 Reasons Why yesterday and am too scared to look at IMDB to find out how old some the girls in it are. :moop:Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Addison shepherd from Gray's though :drool: and that blonde MILF.
I was on about Billions.Quote:
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American Gods is out now. Meant to be A Big Deal, so I'm going to get stuck into that tonight.
I started reading the book a few days ago so I'm going to have to hold off on the TV show for a while. My brother gave me it a couple of months back and told me it was great, and that a TV show was in the pipeline, but I thought it was still a month or so away for some reason.
I got half way through the book and ditched it. After a strong start it quickly descends into 'weird for the sake of being weird' territory.
I'm not particularly bothered about American Gods, but I hope it's brilliant and successful because Gaiman reckons it'll get a TV adaptation of Sandman off the ground.
I think I'm maybe about a third of the way in, perhaps a little less, and it seems alright. It is quite weird though, and I'm starting to get a vague idea of where it's going so I'm sure things will get weirder.Quote:
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My main issue so far is that, because I'm aware of the existence of the TV show, I now have no choice but to picture the main character in my head as Calvin from Hollyoaks. :moop:
The first episode (and the only one that's out :moop: how the fuck am I meant to binge it if there's only one episode) was pretty good, event though it's weird as balls. Enjoyable, well-acted/shot nonsense though.
Anyone else bothered watching this on Netflix? It's bloody good. Just finished it tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foe
I downloaded it yesterday, is it good then? I've got a few shows to watch, was considering choosing this next.
I would but it strikes me as the typical teen shitfest that you always love Foe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foe
Heard someone talking about it on a podcast today and it sounds a bit raw for me.
It's pretty fucking dark in places.
But yeah, definitely worth a watch. It's only 13 episodes.
Only...?
13 episodes total is pretty short when something like the wire, sopranos, mad men, breaking bad etc. have multiple seasons and therefore 50+ episodes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
I've read it's a pile of shite.
You're misunderstanding my posts boydy.
It's based on a book that I bought for my younger sister years ago, and which she then wanted to talk about constantly, so I know both that it's meant for young teenagers and that it has nothing new, interesting, or surprising to say about its subject matter. I've heard it's structurally interesting, but that's about it.
This season of Fargo isn't really grabbing me so far like the first two did.
Made a start on Iron Fist this morning. Quite liked the first episode, though I suspect Ser Loras isn't going to be an especially interesting lead.
I couldn't get past a few episodes of the first one. Is the Ted Danson series any better?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Shearer The 2nd
I've only seen the second season and really liked it, keep meaning to go back and see the first but it's on an ever-growing list.
It's the most meh of all that lot. The Asian bird in it is mint though.Quote:
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I found some guy has uploaded the whole of The Last Train (iconic 90's post-apocalypse drama) to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/0mni1 :cool:
Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. Luke Cage didn't hook me the way Daredevil and Jessica Jones did either. I binged my way through those.Quote:
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Thoughts on The Defenders trailer @Ian?
I loved it.
I really liked all of them but Iron Fist is the weakest of the four.
I have Jessica Jones just edging Daredevil and then Luke Cage just ahead of Iron Fist.
I did binge all of them.
Would you agree there's a solid gap between Jones/Daredevil (in whichever order) and Luke Cage, Mahow?
Yep, just watched it and the trailer's good.Quote:
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I would, despite enjoying Cage a lot.
JJ and DD have far superior villains and I found Cage to be a bit too slow at times.
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Cage was the most stylish of the lot, decent action and worked quite well around his slightly boring powers (and had a cracking soundtrack) but I just didn't really care. I had a gap of at least a month between episodes 7 and 8 or something.
Maybe I'm just a massive racist.
Cage was great. On a par with DD for me. JJ was tops though.
New series of Sense8 (from the Wachowski's) is out now :cool:
Was the first season of that any good?
Yeah, I really liked it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
I powered through Iron Fist despite it being a bit shit.
Quite aside from Finn Jones being desperately dull and all of the cast other than Rosario Dawson and Jessica Henwick being a inconsistent-but-okay, the action was mostly pretty dull, the big fights in the last few episodes largely anticlimactic and the story going nowhere the final episode was a lot of balls and barely anything any of the characters do towards the end seemed to make any sense.
Fuck Billions being over. Anything similar out there?
You could drop your laptop on your foot, breaking both. That should give about the same amount of pleasure.
HBO have officially listed The Leftovers as 'cancelled' which seems like an odd move given they announced that the third season would be the last when they ordered it a year ago. I wonder if they were considering renewing it or doing a spinoff or something if it had a sudden and improbably ratings bump.
Yeah, you're probably not the one to recommend seeing as you followed up posting about tripe like The Leftovers.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Watched the first two episodes of Goliath. Seems like nothing new really but a few interesting strands to keep attention.
Billy Bob :cool:
Billy Bob would be reason enough to give that a go.
At what point did you bin The Leftovers for good? If it was after that five minute opening scene in season two it's an even more hilariously ignorant dismissal than usual, because you posted at the time that you enjoyed season one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Anyway, I wasn't recommending it to you. I had two things to say and didn't want to double post. The next part isn't for you either, stick The Big Bang Theory on.
Hulu, the American mob doing The Handmaid's Tale, seem to be going all in on original programming, following the Netflix model about six years after Netflix did it. They're doing a season two of that, a Marvel thing about teenagers, and a sci-fi thing about Mars colonisation. We must be getting close to critical mass on Marvel productions, but if the latter is as well written and made as The Handmaid's Tale it ought to be brilliant.
Very much enjoyed those last two episodes of Billions. Intrigued to see how implicated Wendy gets.
My bad. We all know that TV is all about subject matter for writing essays about character development and over analyzing, rather than entertainment of any kind.Quote:
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Such a TV snob/bore.
When she gets sold out :drool:Quote:
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The best TV offers both. Anyway, in what way is what you've said there relevant to my post?Quote:
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Relevant to you Johnny boy my dear, relevant to you.Quote:
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The best TV is turn on, watch, turn off, forget you even seen it, get on with your evening. Without the need for a thesis on the story arc or character development. Or, better yet, do whatever you need to do instead of constantly sniping about what everyone else watches.
Imagine thinking this. :sick:Quote:
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That's right; who, not what. Why have a conversation when you can just talk complete nonsense in a vacuum of your own making?
So you don't constantly snipe at what everyone else watches?Quote:
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Correct.
2, 4, 3, 1, 5
Anyone been on The Trip to Spain (am just watching it on catchup)? Absolute class.
Righto, must be mixing you up with the other ragey John on there then.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
You needn't be mixing me up with anyone. It's more likely you're just inventing things based on your opinion of me.
It's a bit Smiffy, but you're welcome to go back through my posts in the thread and find some sniping. I think I have about three hundred posts in here, so it should take maybe fifteen minutes for you to skim them all.
I really enjoyed the Italian edition but the snippet of 'banter' used on the advert for the new one made my skin crawl. Is it as good as The Trip to Italy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Would take far too long, so do me a favour will you? Quote them all in one massive post for me but leave out some really relevant ones. Sound.Quote:
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Look, your both absolute wankers. Can we just leave it at that?
We already knew that without another absolute wanker stating the fact.Quote:
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Let's not turn this into a giant wankathon mate.Quote:
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I haven't enjoyed this season of The Trip as much as the Italian one. Not sure why, it seems a bit too contrived this time around. I liked that in the last one you were never quite sure if it was fiction or reality and it blurred the lines a little.
I did still really enjoy it, think I've got one left to watch.
Similar, I'd say. Replace Shelley/Byron with Don Quixote and themes of death and middle age, and it's the same beast.Quote:
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I can't think of a better paced comedy ever, although maybe that's because I have the longest attention span in the world.
It's good that about 12 people can now enjoy it being on sky.
I find the desperation in Steve Coogan's character too offputting as it goes on. Rob Brydon cheating on his wife like it was the done thing too, didn't like that.
Without wanting to sound like Mary Whitehouse, I thought the sex was the weakest part of the first two series, kind of at odds with the tone of the rest of it.
Is it not a documentary then?
No, they play slightly exaggerated versions of themselves touring restaurants for Steve Coogan's newspaper column. Rob Brydon tags along so they can compete over who does the best Sean Connery and Tom Jones impressions.
Yeah that's what I struggled with as well. Felt like it was a documentary for the first season and a half, then starting blurring.Quote:
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Also as Wullie mentions, the impressions initially felt very off the cuff, however they've obviously seen the reception they've got and ramped it up to a point where it just feels cheap.
Does anyone remember The Fast Show? That was a golden age of television.
I miss the 90's really bad
Paul Whitehouse is so underarated as an actor. Hes got such a range about him.
I remember The Fast Show fondly and still reference it from time to time despite only being about 8, I think. I don't know if its held up all that well as I haven't revisited. His Aviva adverts are shit.
Whitehouse is a cunt.
I reckon the bits that weren't repeated ad nauseum at school the next day will probably have aged better than the rest.
Monkfish will still be amazing.
I constantly fight the urge to cheerily introduce myself to people as Ed Winchester.
I watched quite a lot of Spitting Image on YouTube some time at the end of last year (whenever South Africa were playing a northern hemisphere team) and it was great.
I watched all of Brasseye on YouTube recently. Every bit as good as it was at the time. I'm still not fully having it that the people they 'tricked' weren't in on the joke.
Yeah, Brass Eye is amazing. Even The Day Today and Morris' Radio 4(?) stuff is great.Quote:
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I discovered On The Hour and the KMKY radio show a couple of years ago - they're both brilliant.
Latest episode of Better Call Saul was superb. Up there with the best hours they did on Breaking Bad.
It stands up well for the same reason Yes Minister does, good satire stays good and politics doesn't really change much over the years so a lot of what they're poking fun at is still relevant 20 or 30 years later.Quote:
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On The Hour! That's the one.Quote:
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Announcing the death of Michael Heseltine on Radio 1 was proper lol as well.
This was one of my favourite parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mcJ4G4LZMk
I think I'm two behind now, really strong start to this season so far.Quote:
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Just getting into season 3 of silicone valley and really enjoying it. Jin Yang is a great character :D
Need a new Netflix show to binge on. I'm trying to get into It's always sunny in Philadelphia but it's not gripping me.
The Killing?
Orphan Black?
Throw me some options.
I very much enjoyed Narcos, Stranger things, 13 reasons..
Always Sunny is pretty much the only thing I watch. The new season was much better than expected too.
Jian Yang is amazing. I sort of wish they gave him more screen time, but really the fact that they don't just makes it all the better when he does pop up to fuck with Erlich.Quote:
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I've watched the whole show start to finish this year, for the first time, and I agree on the latest season. It's a testament to how good it is that they're twelve seasons deep and still making some of their best episodes.Quote:
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I thought Season 11 they overplayed the whole Dennis is a serial killer and Mac is gay stuff, but this season it wasn't an issue. I wonder if Dennis has actually left the show or whether he'll just turn up next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
I did read about his apparently possible departure. Glenn Howeron, more so than any of them, does actually seem to be a very talented actor, so I'm sure he's not short of offers. I heard that he was sort of in the running to play Starlord in Guardians of the Galaxy at one point, which I think would have been amazing. :D
I hope he doesn't leave the sure though, I'm not sure it would really work without him. I did also read that they're postponing the next season by a year too, so hopefully that's to accommodate him and give him time to do whatever else it is he's wanting to do.
I didn't really like the last season as much at first, but it stands up to repeat viewings, the ski episode in particular. I'm saving the new series for a binge.
I don't care that much for Dennis, but the chemistry feels perfect so best not to go on unless he definitely won't come back within a reasonable amount of time. I wonder how long Danny DeVito has left in him too.
The implication, full on rapist, and the limo ride with charlie are still the three funniest moments I've seen on TV.
Not watched the last two series, absolutely no idea why. Might start from the beginning again.
Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?
I laughed so much at the Rickety Cricket episode in the current season.
Jack Kelly is possibly my favourite minor character in all of TV
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5711...iginal/640.jpg
He's still in it? :D
My favourite side character, his story arc throughout is phenomenal.
Edit: Rickety Cricket I mean
Yeah, RIckety gets his own episode. Just watch it. :D
The recurring characters are amazing. Jack Kelly is still going strong in the new series. "If I'd have known you were coming round I would have put my hands on."
That whole initial conversation where Dennis explains "the implication" to Mac might be all time number one Always Sunny moment. So good.Quote:
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Less than five minutes before Archer was in a jazz lounge, less than ten before Lana popped up as the singer.Quote:
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The second season of Master of None is out today, so I think I might get stuck in to that tonight. I've always been somewhat on the fence when it comes to Aziz Ansari (his stand-up and general persona can often come across as very try-hard in my opinion) but I really enjoyed the first season, I thought it was very well written and put together, and it always managed to ere just on the right side of being too contrived.
Happy to have that back too, @Alex. I thought it was surprisingly well written to be honest. From the first couple of episodes I expected more of a pure comedy but it had a nice storyline and the dialogue is very natural. I saw on some youtube video that he'd [slight spoiler ahead of the new season]Toggle Spoiler
Decided that for my "want to point my face at something without engaging brain" viewing I've decided I'm going to rewatch the two series of Daredevil, and Jessica Jones.
About halfway through the first Daredevil. It really was fucking good. Hope The Defenders is more like this and JJ than Luke Cage and especially Iron Fist. Hopefully the ensemble can dilute Loras' shitness.
Master of None Season 2 is up. 3 eps in and it's still amazing, and the parents are still the best part of it.
Edit: Missed your post Alex. :blush:
Opted for the thick of it.
It's pretty old, but quite amusing.
I've watched the first two so far.Quote:
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The second is brilliant.
Arnold :cool:
I wasn't feeling the first one, the kid was kinda shit, but I've missed the Arnold/Dev-dynamic so much. :wub:
The dad is incredible in the religion-episode, and the New York-episode is seriously creative.
Decided to watch the first two episodes of Line of Duty on a recommendation. Holy fuck it's brilliant.
Up to 4 now.Quote:
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3 was indeed great because of the Dad, I think he's utterly brilliant.
I think I'm six episodes in and the religion episode if my favourite one so far. The scene at the end, juxtaposing Dev in the bar mingling with all his friends and his parents at the mosque socialising with all their friends was so good, and a great example of why I think it's a really cleverly written show. He really has got a great knack for casting things a light that make me look at them in a way that I had never considered before.Quote:
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Twin Peaks back next week. :drool:
This season of Better Call Saul has been :drool:
Really enjoying Goliath as well, did you start it @Giggles?
Cast?Quote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q821mNXNw-I
Forgot about this. :D
That's brilliant. :DQuote:
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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.
Is that supposed to be funny? It's no surprise that the most miserable cunt on here and someone who barely soaks English enjoy it.
Soak it in, maaaaan.
Loooooooooool.
:D
Ah fuck it.
Lol that I thought SvN posted a gay reference rather than look at my post for mistakes.
Yeah, two episodes so far, it's excellent.Quote:
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The end of the second episode was rather unexpected.
Brooklyn Nine Nine has been renewed for a fifth season. Good stuff.
Got a lot better as the series went on.
99! :drool:Quote:
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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.
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.
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.Quote:
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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. :D
So the new X-Men-The Giffted tv trailer looks fucking incredible :drool:
The 'Hot Dog or Not' app from Silicon Valley is actually on the app store. :D
I seen that on Product Hunt, haven't seen the latest episode though so that was a nice spoiler from them.
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.
You 'saw' it, you fucking west coast inbred freaks.
It's real, no need for 'quotations'Quote:
Originally Posted by John
@Magic it was on my second screen at the time I was posting, ken?
So the sixth episode of Master of None:
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I thought that was great. I was surprised at how much I laughed during that bit too.
Definitely, it was really done well.Quote:
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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.
I'm trying to avoid even cast spoilers, but almost everyone who was in the show and almost everyone who wasn't.Quote:
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Oh and Francesca :wub:
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.
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.
Apparently there's going to be four spin-off prequel series to Game of Thrones. :cab:
Make that five.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItalAussie
Fucking hell.
Although I would like to see more of the Mad King.
You must need a budget the size of Italy's GDP just to make one of them. American TV is stupid.
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.
Its based on the books, not the game, so will probably be wildly different.
Also Game of Thrones is absolute fucking shit.
Robert's Rebellion is what I'm looking forward to.Quote:
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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.Quote:
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That said I think the author might've complained about CDPR's story so he may have said they have to be more faithful.
If Gwent is in it I'll watch, if its yet more fantasy mcguff then meh.
Martin's explicitly ruled that out.Quote:
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https://theringer.com/george-r-r-mar...g-4d312058434f
No Robert's Rebellion. No Dunk and Egg.
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.Quote:
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.”
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.
He wants to write 10 novellas and then do a show about them? Does he have access to the elixir of life?
He'll be dead by then anyway and someone will end up doing it.
Three Girls is astonishing and harrowing. Fantastic performances all round and it highlights how fucked the social services, and child welfare is around here.
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.Quote:
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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.
The Twin Peaks reboot kicked off last night with four episodes coming out at once. :drool:
I never got round to seeing the original series properly, is it a necessity before watching this?
Course it is!Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
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.
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.
Cheers John, that's what I've gone for.
Have you watched (any of it) yet?
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.
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.
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.
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?
@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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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. :sick:
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.
Finished Goliath, presumably it'll be a one off series by the looks of it. Anything similar?
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I quite liked Goliath. Had quite a unique feel to it (very creepy in parts). The storyline at the end felt a little unsatisfying though. All the actors were great, I should check out more of their stuff.
Bosch is another good Amazon series.
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I need to watch the new season of Bosch, I enjoyed the first two. It's nothing mind-blowing but it's a good, old-fashioned style detective show. I really like Titus Welliver too.Quote:
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Yep, he's good in it. Not seen him in anything else. I'll probably renew my amazon tv thing for a month so I can watch the new season.
He's one of those guys who does a really good job in supporting roles in absolutely loads of things but very rarely seems to play the lead character in anything, so I was happy to seem him get top billing in Bosch.
I had never heard tell of it at all before, but Bosch it is for me next.
The missus told me Season 2 was definitely out and definitely on Amazon so I was watching Goliath with a view to there being a second season. Did seem very final.
Characters were great, story was alright. Loved the noir parts.
I think season 7 of Archer is the most I've properly laughed at it in ages.
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Just started (the original) Twin Peaks. Fuckin love it, everyone's so weird. I wonder what kind of activities David Lynch does in his free time.
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Trying to convince my wife to finish it off so we can get started on the new ones, buts it proving tough.
The 8th is a bit lacklustre though, there are some good bits but a lot of 'meh'.Quote:
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I'd say that it's better than Vice but not by much.
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I'd reccomend people stay away from youtube for Twin Peaks Season Three stuff. It's hit big. I might rewatch the first two and grab Fire Walk With Me at some point. And Baz, 'FBI bloke he knows' is David Lynch.
That just makes it even funnier. :D
We stopped watching it when there was a weird (what-seemed-like) backwards bit played forwards at the very end of an episode. A) WTF was that?? And B) could someone please tell me which episode number that is so I know where to carry on?
That'll be the 'Man From Another Place', somewhere early in season two I think. They had him record some dialogue, then reversed it, transcribed the results phonetically, had him record that, then played that recording backwards in the actual program. David Lynch is bonkers.
I found the second half of season two a real struggle. It feels like someone less imaginative has watched the first season and is trying to replicate that sort of balls out strangeness.
More interestingly, Michael Cera is going to turn up in this. Presumably as a backwards ageing midget.
8 episodes into the new season of Kimmy Schmidt and I'm liking it more than season 2. Titus is still the best thing about the show.
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Watched it this morning. Not worth it. The extra long one about his relationship with Francesa was okay though, but not great. I'm watching two shows at the moment - Maater Of None and Handmaids Tale. The fact that I'm so much more entertained by the latter is telling. Don't get me wrong, Handmaids Tale is really good and possibly the best representation of a book ever (!) but I watch that for srs bizzness, and hoped to get light relief from Master Of None, but it's just boring. Only one to go though!Quote:
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Maybe you're just a shit person.
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By the way, Workaholics has been cancelled.
Did anyone watch '3 Girls'? I think it's turned me racist.
It was a long time ago.Quote:
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And nooooooooo, why? :cry: Genuinely distraught.
Does anyone watch BoJack Horseman? I've started recently and I can't quite figure out what it's supposed to be. It's not as funny as Archer or Rick & Morty, seems more like some sort of wonky cartoon drama almost, but something has me keeping watching it for some reason. It's mostly just weird.
Never seen it but it's shi....
Sorry, don't shout at me.
Anybody watched any of American Gods yet?
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Was a bit "Ricky fucking Whittle!?" when it was announced.
Anyone on Designated Survivor? Just started it.
Me too, he's quite good though. I think physically he's very well suited to the role. Obviously it's necessary for Shadow to talk and be expressive a lot more in the TV show than he is in the book (where he's basically just a big, surly, mute for quite a lot of the time) but he's doing alright, he's not over doing it. Ian McShane is predictably great as Wednesday. The guy playing Czernobog is also excellent.Quote:
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The intersperse the "Coming to America" sections from the book into the show really well too. I think my only issue with it so far is they're obviously taking it as slow as they can with the pace. But I get that, because the book isn't that long really and obviously they want a few seasons out of it at least. They've added a few bits in to flesh it out but it's been done pretty well. I think Gaiman is quite heavily involved in it all.
It's all very glossy and well made, but I couldn't get into it at all. I was tired when I started it so I'll give it another go at some point, but I lasted about half an hour before turning it off. The bar fight, whenever that was.
Instinctively Pablo Schreiber seems like a terrible piece of casting for that role. They should have just did what they very clearly wanted to do and got Conor McGregor in.
He is definitely an odd choice for it, but they actually had to re-cast him in that role at the last minute. Apparently Sean Harris was meant to play him, and I think had even begun filming, but he had to leave for "personal reasons".
What's the appeal for you? I find myself sort of keeping to watch it, but I'm not sure why. It rarely makes me laugh, I don't care that much about the characters. But for some reason I still find it pretty decent.Quote:
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Better Call Saul is ace, been an excellent season so far.
I missed this at the time. I binned it after the prison reveal. You can only take so much lying to the audience and then presenting it as a twist. I'll probably look up the ending on wikipedia.Quote:
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I think it's in a similar vein to Rick and Morty. I'm surprised you don't like it.
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Rick & Morty I find quite funny and clever. BoJack is not that funny, and sort of clever, but still has something.
Channel 4 have bought the rights to The Handmaid's Tale.
PJ Gallagher was racing about it on his podcast last week and he hasn't led me astray yet, but that sounds a bit rough for me.
Yeah it has been very enjoyable, it really picked up 3 or so episodes in. Excited to see where they take it, and how close they end up to Breaking Bad in the timeline.Quote:
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Couple of good interviews I've watched recently with the actors who play Jimmy and Chuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hFdFIsv4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Dwr5uLLCs
It's incredibly grim, and often in absurd, unexpected ways. Absolutely brilliant though.
Didn't they start airing it last night?Quote:
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They did. There are seven episode out there though, I haven't seen any of them yet. I do mean to watch it at some point though. The book is quite heavy in places, and the media are inevitably going to draw some (admittedly very over the top) links between it's dystopia and the current political landscape of America, so I can imagine why it's causing a bit of a stir.Quote:
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It airs on Hulu in American which, from what I can gather, is some sort of Netflix alternative that we don't have over here. They did the adaptation of that Stephen King book about time travel and the Kennedy assassination too. I forget the name. I haven't seen that either, it was also meant to be good.
11/22/63. The book was alright. I haven't got around to watching the TV show yet.
I started The Handmaid's Tale (the book) a few years ago but got distracted and never finished it. I want to read the book before I watch the show. It wasn't my copy though so I need to buy it again.
When it came out I didn't watch it because I wanted to read the book first, I'd heard it was one of his better ones. But I've not gotten around to it. I need to do that. It's quite a long read, isn't it? I almost picked up a copy a few months ago and it looked pretty weighty.Quote:
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The Handmaid's Tale isn't very long, 300 pages or so. You could definitely pick up a copy and smash through it really quickly before you get onto the TV show.
Yeah, it's pretty long. Longer than it needed to be, really. I don't think I've read anything else of his to know how it compares.
The media haven't been drawing Trump parallels as far as I can see, that's been the daft Trumpites who've seen the adverts and decided the whole thing is pure propaganda against him.
The Stephen King thing Hulu did was alright to a point, but it took itself far too seriously for what is essentially a campy time travel story.
In terms of production values Handmaid's Tale is better than even the best Netflix stuff, so Hulu obviously have their shit together. It'll be the best thing to appear on Channel 4 since Brasseye.
That Handmaids Tale just seems too grim to me.
House of Cards is out in an hour or so apparently.
It's been out since this morning.
House of Cards... Christ, I forgot it went a bit off the deep end last year. They're going to have to make one hell of a play out of it to make it worthwhile.
Is Fresh Meat worth watching? Need something on Sky Go for my train journeys.
Try one episode and you'll very quickly get a taste of what it's about. It doesn't change much.
It's okay. Some of it felt a bit too real for my liking but it's probably Whitehalls least annoying role.
I quite liked him in Bad Education.
Did House of Cards get good again after whatever season it was I gave up on it? It was the one where she was wanting to run for some sort of office and he was saying no and she ran off to her old homeplace in a huff. Season 3?
I'd forgot what happened in 4. It went bonkers.Quote:
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I think I liked season 3 quite a lot (not as much as 1 and 2), season 4 less so - but still probably worth watching if you're gonna watch the new one.
Oh, it seems it was season 4 where she stormed off home. I think I watched a few episodes at the start of it and then got bored.
The full Dexter boxset is Ł25 on Amazon at the moment. Not sure if that's the going rate, but it seems a good price.
Has anyone watched the new season of Archer? I'm planning to binge the entire thing on Sunday.
I've watched all but the final episode. It's good fun seeing the characters as sort of twisted versions of themselves, but I think it would have worked better as a four episode arc in a normal season than a season on its own. There's a sequence involving Krieger that's probably the maddest, most explosively funny thing they've ever done, but overall I think I'd only put it ahead of the Vice stuff if ranking seasons.
Finally watched 13 Reasons Why over the past week or so. The first episode was excellent, and I thought I was in for a real treat. By the end, I was glad to have finished it. Very "meh" overall, and all seems a bit patronising to me.
This season of the Flash has been largely bollocks having been steadily getting better up until late in season 2, and the finale was a lot of balls. They've managed to make Barry incredibly difficult to root for.
Indeed.
I was starting to like it more than Arrow for the first time but now there's a huge gap again.
And now I've finished Arrow. Could have lived without the cliffhanger ending but as usual the Arrow writers pretty much sorted their shit out for the finale. I guess it depends how they resolve it next, though. I'm also curious about the flashback stuff now.
After finishing the fifth season of House of Cards, I would say the first half of it was very good but the second half just becomes increasingly daft and convoluted. It's all over the fucking place by the time it wraps up.
That's a shame. I don't know about that season specifically, but I find it weird that so many American shows have a handful or more of different writers. It seems to my unknowledgeable self that that would lead to more chance of inconsistency and wayward storylines.
But then again some of my favourite programmes have many different writers, so er, be quiet Reg.
Anyone watched any of the new season of Flaked? Unsure whether to bother with it.
They decide on the broad storyline of each season and episode as a group, with the 'showrunner' having the final say on all matters, then individual writers are assigned their episodes and go off to write them. Once the scripts are turned in the 'showrunner' again has the final say and can adjust anything which doesn't fit. So while the collective writing approach will lead to some episodes having a voice, for want of a better term, that you don't like as much as others they don't have the freedom to just throw in a subplot or whatever if they fancy it.Quote:
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Ah I never knew what a showrunner did, only heard the job title. I thought the chief writer(s) would be in charge of that.
I thought it was interesting that Vince Gilligan sometimes writes the first couple of episodes and then others take over. I wonder if part of that is because he knows his later ideas/writing wouldn't match the early stuff.
The head writer is the showrunner, in general.Quote:
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Maya Rudolph has turned up for what I hope is a one episode part in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and as always the whole thing comes to a grinding halt the moment she appears. I can't think of a single actor, past or present, as ineffective as her in ostensibly comedic moments. If she wasn't friendly with half of Hollywood and married to a director she'd have had to get a real job a long, long time ago.
The 100 is utter nonsense but I just can't stop watching it. Same with Designated Survivor.
Watched The Thick of It a few weeks ago. Not sure why I hadn't got round it to before, it's brilliant. Didn't like the fourth series as much, although it had it's moments, but the series as a whole is probably one of my favourite British comedies. Imagine it's got decent re-watch value so can see me watching it again at some point.
Also watched The Keepers (netflix documentary), which was good. But nothing more than good, really. The girlfriend loved it but I think they dragged it out way, way too much. So bit of a poor man's Making a Murderer but decent enough.
Catching up with Doctor Who now. First couple of episodes been poor tbh.
I've re-watched it all a few times now. Doesn't get old.Quote:
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I finished the original run of Twin Peaks last night. It was very good on the whole, although it does seem to lose direction after they wrap up the whole "Who killed Laura Palmer?" angle, which I understand the network made them do at the time. So it did feel like a bit of a "so.....what now?" situation for a while after that.
But it gets a lot better again towards the end. I liked the stuff with Windom Earle and the Black Lodge, even if it was all a bit vague at times. I'm glad I can jump into the new season too, because that original ending must have been infuriating at the time, thinking it was just to be left like that forever. I'm going to watch the film first and then crack on with the new episodes.
Lynch's ability to go from laugh out loud funny, to just plain odd, to outright horrifying at the drop of a hat is quite something. I wouldn't say there were too many out-and-out horror moments in it, but when they occurred they were really something.
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The last episode of this series of Taskmaster was amazing.
The first (proper) task :D
Recently started on American Gods.
Emily Browning's character is such a cunt.
You'll change your opinion of her...Quote:
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I've already seen the nude screengrabs.
You'll have that on your tombstone
Season 3 of Better Call Saul was up there with the better seasons of Breaking Bad. That final episode, fucking hell.
I just finished it. Great television. Best season of Saul for me, too.
I spent the episode expecting that ending and at the same time not believing for a second it'd happen.
I already rate seasons one and two of Better Call Saul as better than a lot of the Breaking Bad seasons so jeez this third season sounds epic. I've cleared 1st July as a day to watch the entire season. :drool:
Yeah great season. The finale and the courtroom ep from earlier up there with the best Breaking Bad hours and the season as good as any BB season.
American Gods. Any good or a load of wank?
Wondering as well.Quote:
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The third season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has some wonderful throwaway wordplay. It even managed to make me laugh with one of the oldest joke formats around. 'That's like Simone Biles trying to ride a rollercoaster after the park is closed; too little too late.' It's definitely the weakest of the three seasons overall, but the throwaway gags are of vintage 30 Rock quality.
I felt like I was laughing more during the season and found it more enjoyable overall (bar Maya Rudolph killing an episode) than season 2.
One is the best overall by a wide margin.
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It's good. They are padding the absolute bejesus out of book, but the whole thing is weird and wonderful enough to still be entertaining despite dragging its feet.Quote:
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I think it's great.
Not 'ZOMG THE NEXT GAME OF THRONES!!!!' like the advert states but it's seriously watchable and visually stunning.
Also, I actually have.Quote:
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I'd quite like a good sci fi tv show to watch. Someone recommend me something.
'Good sci fi' is an oxymoron.
Battlestar Galactica would be the obvious recommendation, which is, mostly, amazing. But I would imagine you might have already seen that.Quote:
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The Expanse is a recent one that I liked. There are two seasons out and it's a really well put together show, I think. It took me a little while to get into the world of it, but once you do there's a lot of interesting characters and well written, overlapping story arcs.
Just watched the first episode of GLOW, it's brilliant and not just because you get to see Alison Brie's boobs.
She's absolutely perfect in the role and they've nailed the 80s vibe.
Battlestar Galactica is the best sci-fi show ever by a wide, wide margin.
Yeah, I've not seen it and I was thinking about it. Did it used to be on Netflix? I could've sworn it was.
It definitely used to be on Netflix, that's where I watched it. That was a few years ago though. I think they have removed it since.
Get hold of it however you can though, it's excellent. I bet you can pick up the box set for next to nothing now.
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It's up there with Master of None and Bojack for best original Netflix show.
So excited for the second season.
Just watched the first episode. Tone is quite different to what I expected but it has promise.
Up there with Bojack? High praise indeed.Quote:
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I'm 2 episodes in and I am enjoying it.
I've also made a start on Preacher. It's decent so far.
Tracey Ullman show, what shite.
I really like Firefiy. Short, but great. Mostly because it didn't have time to get rubbish.Quote:
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That's Glow done. Really enjoyed it. Wasn't quite what I expected but then I'd read practically nothing about it.
The latest episode of Twin Peaks is fucking madness of the absolute highest order. I'm not sure whether I mean that in a good or bad way either. I don't feel like I'm qualified to makes that call, even for myself.
Fair play to Lynch for getting that on television though, and to the network for giving him free rein to do it.
Three episodes into Better Call Saul Season 3 and the jump from 720p to 4K (from episode 2 to episode 3) has made it even better. :drool:
Such an amazing show.
Also seven episodes into season 2 of Twin Peaks. That's a bit of a slog but I'm still loving it, even though my wife hates it. I hope season 3 is out in 4K by the time I'm upto it.
I'm catching up with Better Call Saul season three now too. Two episodes in and it feels even more slow and deliberate than the most slow and deliberate sections of Breaking Bad. It's still brilliant and incredibly clever, but there comes a point where ten minutes of dialogue free, real time scheming becomes an indulgence, and they're getting close to it this year already.
I'm also becoming increasingly aware that BCS using the same 'previously on' guy as The Walking Dead annoys me far more than it should.
So much so, they also use the same guy for Preacher.Quote:
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Finished this season of Better Call Saul and it's easily the best of the 3.
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A cast member should do the 'previously on' bits, like on Sons Of Anarchy. A different one every time, no less.
Also finished. Wound up whizzing through six of them tonight. Mike remains the fucking man.Quote:
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When you put it like that, it is rather exceptional. :D
Caught up with some tv.
Better Call Saul Season 3 - Still a very good show, but the stuff with Jimmy and his brother scales the heights of dull tedium - it must be one of the worst storylines in an otherwise good show I can recall. When Jimmy's scheming or Mike and the Salazar/Gus stuff is involved it's great tv.
Twin Peaks - Properly good and I wish I'd waited for the whole thing, I probably still should from here on in. Episode 8 was so bonkers and brilliant it's hard to describe.
How does Twin Peaks stand up in comparison to the originals?
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It's equally as shit.Quote:
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Perfect.
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Because if so, I agree. It's was a cool plot device but it's gone on a bit too long now.
The new series has been mostly brilliant though.
Yep, that was what I meant. Worked for a time and allowed another interesting character to be brought in, but time to wrap it up now.
Archer Dreamland is doing very little for me.
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It gets off to a fairly poor start but it does improve as it goes. Not to the standard of the better runs, but still.Quote:
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One thing I never got used to was that incredibly shrill version of the theme tune.
I liked Dreamland, I enjoyed it more than the bits of Vice I saw. The last two episodes were particularly good.
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Yes.
Can't wait for 'thrones.
Twin Peaks S1 done.
This is what people are creaming their pants over? Don't get me wrong, it's decent enough and has some fun characters (Cooper in particular), but I really don't get what it is about it that makes it a such cult classic.
It's 26 years old mate.
I get that it's a product of its time, but the vast majority of people praising it didn't watch it when it aired and weren't starved for good shows. They watched it a few months before The Sopranos or whatever, and still go "omg you have to watch Twin Peaks".
The Expanse has turned into a pretty terrific little sci-fi show. It feels like it gets off to a slow start but it's all just world building that pays off in fairly short order, some of which is incredibly clever.Quote:
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It's not Battlestar Galactica, but I imagine it'll be a little easier to get hold of if BSG is off Netflix.
Cheers, John. Might give it a look.
What's with the mini-series of Battlestar Galactica that aired the year before the actual series started? Is that still part of it?
It was a sort of proof of concept/prequel. There's a particular event which kicks off the series proper, and the miniseries showed the build up to and beginning of that event.
Anyone been watching Broken?
I guess context is important, my mum loved it so I asked her. She said there was nothing remotely, remotely (!), like it out at the time. It was utterly consuming and mesmerising. So well written.Quote:
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Finished Better Call Saul. Not a patch on the first two seasons but still pretty great.
If I'm going to watch Battlestar, do I need to watch the pilot to have a clue what's going on? I got the first season and it's opened with 'Previously On' and a bunch of explosions.
You definitely do need to watch that, yes. It's basically a three hour mini-series that provides the entire premise for what's going on. It would be very confusing without watching it. Plus, it's awesome.Quote:
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4 days earlier than they originally announced :drool:
The 9th episode of Twin Peaks wasn't very good.
Yeah, I would say it was the weakest episode so far. I found myself switching off at various points, to the point where I feel like I need to rewatch it. I can't really be bothered though. What we were discussing further up the page, that really needs to happen ASAP.Quote:
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Hope I'm wrong.
Can someone who isn't John talk to me about The Leftovers season 2 onwards? Is it worth continuing to watch?
So Battlestar... I watched the mini series which was very good but the turn at the end made me realize where this could go very quickly.
I don't think 4 seasons of 'You're a cylon, no you're the cylon' will be great. I'm already sick of the relationship between the one in the red dress and the genius.
I'll watch season 1 and decide whether to go from there.
The first two series are definitely better than the last two.
Perhaps on the whole (I can't remember the exact timeline of everything now) but, for me, the absolute pinnacle of the entire show was:Quote:
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Which I think was early season three?
I forget, it's possible the last series has simply coloured my view of the third as well (the boxing episode is in there somewhere and that's great). Phonics you should at some point also watch the feature length thing they did from the Cylon perspective (The Plan?) that's pretty good too.
Yeah, that run of episodes has some of the most impressive television I've seen.Quote:
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Has anyone bothered to watch the ITV drama 'Fearless'?
It had a terrific cast and what appeared to be a fairly low rent and intriguing murder mystery. Then it turned out it was trying to address fifty thousand real world scandals at once, with an underage sex ring being linked to the onset of the Iraq war by a lawyer with links to ISIS who's under surveillance by the Americans using extra legal means.
What a load of shit it turned out to be. How that got made I do not fucking know.
I'm most of the way through Battlestar now (just before the two parter) specifically...
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And I don't think I'm going to make it past this season. I thought modern TV shows had some old filler but this stuff going down on Caprica... I get that it's trying to talk about the whole 'What makes a man vs a machine' but everything is so heavy handed I feel like they're hitting me with a pipe wrench over and over and over again.
Back to The Shield.
Have you not watched The Shield about six times?
The Game of Thrones lads' next project is going to be a speculative fiction about what would have happened if the South won and seceded, and in the modern day slavery was big business. They're going to get protested to death.
If it means set piece Dixie Land renditions, I'm watching.
If they're to avoid getting their addresses given out by Spike Lee they'll have to make every slave so obviously the best human being ever, and everyone even vaguely connected with the companies using them such a villainous caricature that it'll barely be worth watching.
I didn't realise how little those two had done outside of Game of Thrones until checking their CVs for any past work that might help them out. Weiss has done Game of Thrones and one episode of Always Sunny, and Game of Thrones came first. What a fucking break he's got there.
They could divorce that enough from reality that they should be fine.
How did Game of Thrones become so big anyway? The books weren't all that popular (outside of fantasy circles), were they? Did it start with a lot of fuss?
By being really good and having a huge HBO marketing push behind it.
Can't link it right now, but the new Stranger Things-trailer. :drool:
The new Walking Dead one looks pretty good too. Hopefully Negan beats the shit out of the priest idiot.
I like that new Star Trek trailer, didn't realise it's so far away though.
Good few light years away anyway.
Second episode in a row of new Twin Peaks that wasn't particularly great.
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Anyone watch Suits? I've just finished series two and feel like there was a whole chunk missing from the episode, which has left me a bit confused...
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Suits is absolute gibberish, so I wouldn't pay much attention to the "story". It's just loads of attractive people mooching about being sassy.
Twin Peaks.
The end of season two was an abomination. I'd have been soooo angry if I'd watched it in 1992.
Two episodes into season three and it seems turd. Sometimes it got zany and overly weird but at least it was fun and lighthearted. However season three is turgid tryhard seriousness. So so shit. Will persevere with it so hopefully it gets good, cos I absolutely loved the old ones, until the final episode.
Everything from about episode nine of the second season was pure bilge. I haven't watched any of the new stuff, but you're the first person I've seen being completely unimpressed with the early episodes.
I watched the latest episode of season 3 last night and it's rapidly losing me.
It's still very watchable, but it just isn't going anywhere, which you expect from Lynch stuff and that's fine if what you're watching is interesting, but, and this is the real problem, it just isn't particularly.
The new characters aren't a patch on the old and there are far too many of them, so little of it is set in Twin Peaks (seriously, almost none of it), so it's lost that mystique and there are times when it feels like you could be watching any old show (particularly when stalwarts of the American networks keep turning up) and we're now 11 episodes in and a story arc that should have lasted 8 episodes as an absolute maximum is showing no signs of stopping, to the point where it clearly won't.
There are other problems, but those are the main ones that spring to mind.
A character was imprisoned inside the doorknob on a chest of drawers for about six episodes in the second half of season two, has it gotten that bad?
I think people forget just how terrible it got in season two because most of the really iconic stuff also happened that year, but it was functionally two different seasons in one.
Five episodes in now. Jesus Christ is fucking SHITE. :cry:
Just finished GLOW and loved it :D
Yeah, I enjoyed that. The lead dude (Marc Maron is apparently his name) was really good, and likeable.
For me, only Bojack and Master of None are funnier Netflix original shows.
I've been watching a lot of Bates Motel recently. It starts out as nothing particularly special but it really grows as it goes along. It's got a couple of fantastic, really talented leads playing Norma and Norman too. Plus, it has that perfect, forty minute, ".....I'll just watch another one" episode length.
I've made it into season four in the space of a couple of weeks.
I haven't seen Seinfeld all the way through before.
I've watched a few seasons but always seemed to move onto something else so decided to give it a go as I've a few days to myself.
It really is good, I love that whole late 80's NYC vibe. Crazy to think Friends started while that was still going, they seem a few decades apart by the end of friends.
I've tried that a few times but can never get past the fact that Seinfeld himself just can't act.
I quite like him in it. Tbh in things like sitcoms that's never really something I think about for some reason.
Speechless, a comedy about the family of a kid with Cerebral Palsy, is really good.
Seinfeld is tragic but his stand up is ok.
Started watching Broadchurch. What a great show.
Did Broadchurch improve again as it went along? Loved the first series, gave up on the second about three episodes in.
Was actually relieved we couldn't watch any Twin Peaks tonight. You know it's dogshit when you'd rather go to parentcraft classes.
Gotta persevere and finish it off though, apparently.
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Season 1 is absolutely superb, you'll have no regrets there. Enough people obviously enjoyed 2 to get another done but maybe I'll give 3 a go.
I watched 1 and 2 back to back so I can't really remember what happens in which. I enjoyed both though. Haven't got round to the third yet.
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The top man at NBC has added an extra year to the already pointless Will and Grace revival, and has admitted that he's always trying to get extra seasons of ER, The Office, 30 Rock, and The West Wing made. Television is well on its way to becoming a giant nostalgia fuelled asphyxiwank.
A new brand is a risk, old brands are a guarantee. Just look at all the old bands reforming and doing tours while everyone complains that new music is shite these days. It isn't.
Speaking of new brands.
That will be batshit.Quote:
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is currently working on a new series, The Romanoffs, for Amazon Studios. Told in anthology format, each episode will focus on a person in the present day who believes that they are descended from doomed Russian imperial family The Romanoffs, who were executed by Bolshevik troops in July 1918. Aside from this thematic connection, the episodes will be otherwise unrelated, each a standalone story about, as Weiner puts it, “questioning who we are and who we say we are.”
Fucking hell I absolutely loved the new Rick and Morty episode.
Most of the way through Season 2 of Battlestar now. Specifically I'm
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I don't know why I'm doing this to myself. I'm actively on the Cylons side now, these people are idiots and deserve to be wiped out.
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It was terrific fun, but the therapist's monologue aside it was easily the thinnest episode they've ever done. It's a bit of a cheat to have one of the scenes in the title sequence be a completely random stinger scene too.
Oh WOW season one of Broadchurch was fucking great. Thrilling, really. Great telly.
Why are all your posts taking the form and tone of a clickbait heading these days?
I thought this weeks Twin Peaks was a marked improvement over the last couple of episodes. I really enjoyed it. Much more of it happened in Twin Peaks, for starters. I liked the Evil Coop stuff, and even the Dougie bits were pretty good. The more screen time Big Ed gets the better, as well.
Plus, it gets extra marks for resurrecting the cringeworthy musical exploits of James Hurley.
You'll never believe what happens next!
That Comrade Detective thing looks mental.
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The first season of Broadchurch was fantastic, I gave up on 2 after a couple of episodes, there was a particular point that was just an 'oh fuck off' moment.
If you can get into 3 without it being affected too much then I'll be all over that.
On a similar note, I finished the latest season of The Americans yesterday. It was okay.
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People of Earth is pretty good.
It's a comedy about a support group for people who have been abducted by aliens.
I'd agree with all that. The previous 4 were pretty bad, but that was a return to form somewhat.Quote:
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A return to form? This new season is an abomination and shouldn't be allowed to carry the Twin Peaks brand.
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I could go on but I've wasted enough of my time watching thirteen episodes of nonsense that then writing about it is almost as bad.
Mr Mercedes has me absolutely astonished that we haven't had another round of 'violence on tv causes violence in reality' outrage. It would have been far and away the easiest connection the offence seekers would ever have had to make. On Friday a program is released which centres on the hunt for a man who drove a car into a crowd, on Saturday a man drives a car into a crowd.
Maybe people have grown up where that's concerned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
Seen this floating about Twitter today.
I didn't intend to watch all of that but it drew me in. It's pretty good.
Me too - just finished it, very good.
It's mostly correct but I'm not having season 8 as the decline. It's the last truly great season.
Ozark is pretty good. First drama I've got into since season one of Narcos.
Anyone watch Ray Donovan?
Made a start on the Defenders. Three episodes in and I'm surprised by how patiently they've paced themselves at the start but I'm enjoying it so far.
I watched about half of the first series and keep wondering if I should go back and give it another go. I quite liked the acting and the story was decent but I just sort of lost interest.Quote:
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Yes. Are you up to date with it, or just starting out?
Last Chance U series 2 is most definitely not living up to series 1. It's a massive yawn 5 episodes in.
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Same.Quote:
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Finished The Defenders and I enjoyed it. While it still has the Avengers thing of you needing to have seen the previous stuff being eight episodes there is more to this than "Right, we've spent time shuffling these four into place lets have a load of fight scenes."
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One thing that was weird was the soundtrack. They were trying to capture the feel of all four shows which were of course different. So one big action scene you've got Daredevil-esque drama music and on another you've got hip hop like in a fight from the Luke Cage series.
Finally got into The Man in the High Castle properly recently. Almost through it all now. Couldn't help but laugh when one of the Japanese generals was giving his big talk and they all start shouting 'BANZAI!'.
:D
Don't fear that Big Ben is going mute for four years, lads, This Morning have found the replacement:
I mean, the inevitable bullies really want to be targeting her fucking parents because they're the ones who've encouraged her to go on TV with that shit.Quote:
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I've been watching Riverdale and it's actually really good. It's about a bunch of highschoolers, so ok, not exactly a MatureMan!'s show, but it's very well written. It's based of the comic book series Archie but it's pretty much a modern Twin Peaks, and they're doing (so far as I am in the series) a very very good job of developing characters, making them all relevant and multifaceted, as well as obscuring who the murderer is.
Bottled Broadchurch because I enjoyed S01 so much didn't want to ruin it.
Started on Fargo now, it's so badass.
I still need to watch the first season of Fargo. The third took a while to get going but was really good, once you get used to Ewan McGregor just being Ewan McGregor.
I'm still getting used to Martin Freeman being Martin Freeman.
The first season of Fargo is really great.
Lorne Malvo. :cool:
Ugh, they're bringing back League of Gentleman. The first series was incredible, two tailed off and three was fucking awful. I can't imagine this being an improvement.
LoG series 2 was great.
The first couple of episodes were good but the plot became too prominent.
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I loved the second and the characters were a lot better, but I think I preferred the third series as a whole.
New four-episode run (each episode is two hours) of Inspector Montalbano has started on BBC4 for those who like utterly magical Sicilian comic crime drama.
Started watching The X Files today. Don't know why I didn't before. Although I do remember being a bit scared of it as a kid. That theme tune still kinda creeps me out.
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Gonna watch it all? Seen many of them before?
Yes and no. Starting right from the start.
I forget where I gave up on The X-files but the early stuff is great. The best episodes were always the 'monster of the week' ones, not so much the UFO backstory.
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16th episode of the new Twin Peaks watched it it was very good, with a couple of very moving scenes.
I would agree with the Bloodline comparison. I probably enjoyed it a little more than Bloodline, if anything. It didn't take itself quite as seriously. There's always enough Michael Bluth in everything Bateman does to give it this sarcastic, darkly comic undertone, which I really like about it.Quote:
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That scene is indeed incredible. :D
Finn Jones is an impressively shit actor.
I've been enjoying this. The tone of it reminds me a little of Braindead, which is worth checking out just for the sung 'previously on' bits. It's much better written than that though.Quote:
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The Norwegian bloke playing the 'White' has terrific comic timing.
Watched the Twin Peaks finale last night, that probably should be that now.
Just finished it.Quote:
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Biggest pile of wank ever recorded to video.
:D
You really disliked the new season, didn't you Baz? I haven't watched the finale yet but, bar a very boring stretch in the middle, I think it's been quite good.
I've also started the new season of Narcos. It's surviving the loss of Pablo a lot better than I thought it would. The first couple of episodes have actually been very good.
That's an understatement. I should've known it wouldn't be any good after the total cop-out at the end of season two. :oQuote:
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I literally can't think of anything I liked in season three.
Finished The Defenders today, it's easily the worst of the Netflix series and despite enjoying it at times I found it difficult to get into at times.
Ian is on the money in regards to the soundtrack which is strange, as that was always a huge positive for the various series.
It's holding up pretty well actually. Pena is a pretty good lead. I'm about 7 episodes in.Quote:
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Yeah, I'm glad Pena is still in it. Cool bastard. :cool:Quote:
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I do miss the other bloke a bit though, the moustached white guy, Steve? I guess he's not coming back? The actor has sort of made it in Hollywood I think. I noticed him in Logan.
They kind of set it up at the end of series 2 with asking Pena what he knew of the Cali cartel so I'm pretty sure it'll be Pena centric.
Pena is great because he just doesn't give a fuck.
I loved the season 2 ending anyway, but in fairness I'm not sure Lynch and Frost knew they'd have to wait 25 years to follow it up when they filmed it.Quote:
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As for your second sentence, why did you continue watching it? That's what, 14 hours of something you hated?
My wife said I "forced" her to watch the first two seasons (she never liked it) so the least I could do was see it out. :moop:Quote:
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I stopped even trying to make sense of it earlydoors, but the whole Audrey thing really annoys me. What was the point?
As for the finale, it wasn't at all what I (or anybody for that matter) was expecting, and I wasn't sure how I felt about it at the time (apart from one bit, which I hated), but it's stuck with me and I'm still thinking about it.
I need to watch the whole thing again really, I can barely recall much of season 2.
This is true. I think my favourite new character in season two, bearing in mind I've only watched a couple, is Pacho. I like how he's super charismatic and also a complete nut job.Quote:
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David Simon's new thing starts this week, and it looks shit hot.
Started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I could take it or leave it and find the characters pretty annoying, but my wife loves it so we'll persist. Long way to go though - at least they're short episodes.
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How far in are you?
Also seen a few bus stop adverts for the new IT. Is it on telly or Netflix?
Cinemas. It's a film.
About halfway through season 2.Quote:
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Don't worry. It gets increasingly better as it goes along. Honestly, it's excellent.Quote:
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I immediately disliked everyone in Always Sunny, then just as I was beginning to settle into it after about six episodes they introduced Danny DeVito as the worst character in the history of the medium and I was out for good.
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I think you mean best. He's amazing!
I know this thread is generally for good TV, but I watched about 20 minutes of the first episode of that Quacks thing on BBC the other day.
It's astonishingly bad.
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How does it feel to be legitimately wrong about a subjective thing?
You ought to know. That's your posting career in sum.
Person of Interest card in 3, 2, 1...
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You seem to have got more entertainment value out of my post than I got out of that character. I'm glad.
New Bojack might be my favourite season yet and I'm only half way through. Feels like it's a lot funnier without losing any of it's other qualities.
It's out?!
I didn't realise. Why do Netflix send me emails about adding shows that I might like which I definitely won't yet they don't send me an email about the latest season of a show I've watched all of? Twats.
Only came out yesterday.
I've watched the first 3 or so and I'm loving it.
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Cannot recommend highly enough - as a 5 hour binge it's engulfing stuff.
Also, Master of None season 2 has been excellent. Particularly the deaf episode.
The adaption of the pseudo JK Rowling novel has been quite good. It's a bit obvious and trite but entertaining nonetheless.
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If so, yep - enjoyable enough.
Netflix are also funding/exclusively purchasing some utter gash too, but generally it's better than anything on terrestrial TV.
It's the private investigator who came from the war one. Isn't Lemony Snicket the Grimms Fairy Tales rip off?
Strike. The books are a lot better (inevitably for murder mysteries as you can put proper amounts of detail in) but the acting saves it a bit, especially the lead.
He is very good and even the assistant isn't awful, her husband seems written to be the worlds largest nobber though. Who would ever say 'She was the only half looker with a brain' about your fiance to her boss. Although she seems to treat him like absolute dog shit as well so maybe they're just two sociopaths in a pod.
I know it sounds petty but it's kind of nice to see people regularly smoking on TV as well, the way it is these days you'd think there's not a smoker left in the UK.
After a severe downturn in life, I've turned on Bake Off. It really is wholesome, feel good television.
It's the sort of shit I usually detest, but I quite enjoy it.
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That Siberian bird would GET IT.
Jeez the penultimate episode of Narcos was tense. Really enjoyed this season, best of the three and I haven't watched the finale yet.
How's Bake Off compared to previous years? I generally dislike Noel Fielding but I couldn't understand the praise Sue and Mel got.
Honestly, it seems the same to me. I haven't really missed any of the former cast. I hated Sue Perkins anyway, and Prue Leith is basically Mary Berry with a different hairstyle.
I'd come to detest post-Mighty Boosh Noel Fielding but I've found him quite enjoyable on this. Some awful, awful shirts though. He was wearing what appeared to be a dark blue frock with nipples all over it on the one I watched yesterday.
Turning up in an outfit that would make even Merse want to punch you is a big part of Noel Fielding's act. I expect he'll have on a shellsuit onesie at some point.
The main thing that stands out is the ad breaks which still feel weird. Noel Fielding's toned down the whimsy a bit and he's surprisingly suited to the voiceovers.
I always watch it an hour later, so I'd actually forgotten about that ad breaks because we skip them.
Anyone seen Loaded that was on Channel 4 a while back?
I remembered seeing the ads at the time and thought it looked like it might be alright. Watched it recently in All4 or whatever they call it these days and was really pleasantly surprised. I thought it was very good.
Has anyone seen 'Back' the new Mitchell and Webb vehicle? I've seen rave reviews but I don't know if it's worth plumbing the depths of C4 on demand to watch it.
I caught some of the first episode and it is Mark and Jez from Peep Show placed into different circumstances. Perhaps worth trying if you're a fan of that; I didn't find it as funny myself.
I've watched the first 2 and thought they were both shite, haven't laughed once. I loved Peep Show and I agree the characters are very similar, but it's just not funny. It needs Super Hans.
I can't think of a programme and it's doing my head in.
UK, maybe 2008-2012-ish... mainly piss take street reporting, some political stuff, a little bit dennis pennis-esq.... I remember accidently stumbling upon it on YouTube a few years ago, and it wasn't too bad, but I think it only ran for 3 series....
Any ideas?
I watched the first episode of 'Back' but I won't watch another. It isn't funny and it's not far off being cringeworthy.
This, though, is funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbhnmwosgBo
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Sounds like it's a better post-Peep Show vehicle than 'Back'.
Channel 4 have done some decent stuff of late. I caught up with a thing called Flowers recently and really enjoyed it.
Started Tin Star, it's really fucking weird. Tim Roth appears to be in a completely different show to everyone around him.
@John, you probably already know but just in case you don't, The Good Place is back tonight.
Also, how are you getting on with People of Earth?
Yeah, double episode tonight, then it goes to Thursdays as of next week. No idea what that's about.
I think I'm two episodes off being up to date. It's good fun, but the voice they have Peter Serafinowicz doing for The Cube makes it quite obvious they wanted Jemaine Clement and couldn't get him. I just hear Fart from Rick and Morty every time he pops up.
Been watching the second series of The Expanse. Not all the way through it yet. Still awesome. Can't understand the Indian (?) UN woman for shit though.
Miller :cool:
Binged on American Vandal over the last 2 days and I thought it was great.
It's really smart and funny with some great performances, especially by the guy who plays Dylan Maxwell.
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I asked my dad about it (he watches everything) and he just kept telling me to watch Mr Mercedes instead. Anyone watching that?
I've read the Mr Mercedes books and they're decent, but pretty much every series Based on a Stephen King book has been a disappointment. What channel is it on, anyway?
None on Sky (yet) but from his explanation I’d guess it’s on Hulu, like Handmaid’s Tale so may well end up channel 4.
I don't know what I missed with that Top of the Lake series which was on recently - since it got rave reviews - but I watched a couple of episodes when my mum had it on and thought it was total shite.
http://screenrant.com/hbo-watchmen-t...amon-lindelof/
If they do it justice :drool:
Only Fools and Horses is still so fucking good :drool:
Watched the new episode of The Good Place. It's on Netflix now which is handy. Not sure how well this season is going to work.
I've done exactly the same. After making the missus watch Jinx during a month of incessantly watching true crime documentaries and all of the C4 fly on the wall police stuff, it was a perfectly timed spoof and well pitched on the gently humorous vs farcical scale.Quote:
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I saw an episode of Tin Star. I'm not sure if it was the first or second but it was absolute rot and I can't take Tim Roth seriously after that FIFA bullshit.
I gave it one more episode but I don't think I can justify a fourth to myself. The oil boss and the buffoon assassins led by the fella from Coronation Street are all too hammy.
Discovery was promising.
Indeed.
It's also made me start downloading the entire back catalogue as I never watched anything of the old stuff.
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I'm going to be doing it in 'The Correct Order' as listed here:
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I enjoyed discovery. I've missed a good Star Trek series. Enterprise was naff sadly.
Only copped after that there was a second episode too.
I sort of started this undertaking myself a couple of months ago, but it's been a very half-hearted effort so far. I must be less than fifteen episodes into the original series. I'm not saying it's bad (because it isn't) but it's just very......of it's time.Quote:
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I started today.
Charlie :D
I like it a lot but I do get the 'of it's time' thing.
Just skip Deep Space 9.
I've been getting into my random pap on Sky Atlantic of late. 'I'm Dying Up Here' is quite fun and on a weightier note, the first episode of 'The Deuce' was pretty good as long as you don't mind baps and cocks.
Both feature a lot of 70s haircuts which somehow works on those filters they use.
You wouldn't skip DS9, it's the only one with a proper arc. If you're going to skip anything then make it Voyager, the good bits are not worth the investment of time.
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Exactly.
Janeway is great and the relationships in the series are one of the best reasons to watch. Being helpless in another part of space adds a cool twist.
Deep space 9 is cool for how un Picard like Sisco is.
Ps, why do Klingons always look different?
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DS9 and Voyager would be my favourite ones but I'd like to see both back to see if they aged as badly as TNG. Sisko > Picard > Janeway though.
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The new Klingons look like Idris Elba baddie from the last film.
Been watching the new season of Narcos, at a slow pace. It is what it is, but kind of nice to just sit and watch it as you aren't really fussed about the characters in it and don't care who kills who etc. Except Pena who is a boss :cool:
In parallel, watching Series 2 of Hannibal, which started off quite enticing but very quickly has become a little mundane. All these incessant flashbacks and visions etc that are going on are really tiring. But it's better than the first series, so I'll stick it out.
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The CGI is good enough, just about. If you can look past that and the unimaginative costume design (oh look, a 34th alien species that look like us bit with a little doobry on the nose/forehead/ear) then most of them stand up pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYkNHkwGg-c
Nice to see Giggles' Granddad on the show.
He's too well spoken.
:D
I think my favourite, "old school television" moment I've seen on it so far is the first or second episode, where that salt monster thing is posing as McCoy's ex-griflriend or something, and Spock is the only one who's figured it out so he just starts absolutely decking her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGv3vGHFhLQ
Just repeated, double axe-handles to the face. :D
Spock in general is brilliant with 'violence', his nerve grip/pinch is fucking outstanding.
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The lightest of touches.
Look at him, he’s definitely maxed out stealth. :cool:
I know I go on about Taskmaster, but the latest episode was a cracker. The Marmite task :D
Agreed. It's brilliant every week but I really liked this one. The spot the difference task was great too, as was Mark promising a sneeze "within 2-3 working days" :DQuote:
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Edit- They're doing a Champions series after this one, which should be absolutely fantastic.
I haven't started it yet but it's hard to imagine that it wont be the best season thus far.
Bob is fucking brilliant.
Yeah Greg was particularly hilarious in the latest one. I bloody love it.
There's something about Mark Watson I can't get along with, but he has his moments in this all the same. Alex Horne is always great
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Wasn't sure about season 3 of Narcos at the beginning but I'm really enjoying it now (on the penultimate episode). It's so tense.
Weird that David is Jaime from Broad City though.
He's such a fucking cunt, also reminds me of a dickhead from school which probably doesn't help.
Oh yeah, absolutely hate him in this.
But he's a really camp cheeky chappy in Broad City. It's odd.
Anyone watch Men Who Sleep In Cars (BBC4)? Fantastic.
Taking notes?
Also following it up about PAUSE in Hull about mums and kids in care. Stunning programming.
Yes, taking notes on that one too lolol
Good God. That was 2 hours of fucking outstanding television. Hard hitting as fuck but so well done. Wow. BBC4 you've done it again.
Really cool idea from Bob's Burgers this week but a little jarring at times.
@Boyd thought you'd be well in to this shit.Quote:
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I looked up that Men Who Sleep in Cars thing after you mentioned it. It's all in verse?
What was the other programme?
Child in Mind.
Just saw five minutes of 'Back' and it's upsettingly shit. Fuck knows how a load of reasonably funny people get together and make that pish.
So VICELAND is pretty much my favourite Sky channel (153) now. Has anyone watched Party Legends? It’s really Z-list celebs telling amusing stories, and they’re all animated differently. Some are just plain dumb but some (Ryan Sickler’s one, for example) are really funny.
Same channel also shows Its Always Sunny and something called Nuts & Bolts which is Tyler The Creator and Jasper Dolphin Just arsing about and “learning” stuff.
New Louis Theroux on BBC 2 now.
I struggle with his American stuff.
And hasn't he done Americans on drugs about 8 times already?
Their junkies seem a lot more normal than Dundee's at least.
Lol so the pharmas made synthetic opiods as a cheap painkiller, the Chinese have since found out the addictive qualities and are selling it to the Mexicans who are flooding the US with it. NICE.
Anyone watching Snowfall on BBC? Sounds like something I’ll really like, so will probably wait for the whole series to record so I can binge it.
EDIT I buckled and watched episode one. Yep, seems great and the music is boss. Looking forward to the next one. Recommended :thbup:
Mark Watson's entry for the prize task tonight is probably the best single entry they've ever had on Taskmaster.
Recently watched series three of Black Mirror. First episode wasn't quite as good as I've come to expect but loved the rest. San Junipero in particular as it was quite different (or at least, appeared to be initially).
Was that the trousers, or is there another episode online already?Quote:
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Thought he was genuinely robbed with the trousers.
Trousers. I just watch it when it comes on TV.
Fair play, I completely agree it was the best one ever.
Mindhunter is legit, just watched the first three.
Excellent, been looking forward to that for a while.
I've been watching the first season of The Affair recently, it's quite good. The way they split the episodes into halves, with a perspective from each of the two people involved in said affair, is very clever. It's got a good cast too. It's the first decent thing I can recall seeing Dominic West in since The Wire.
I love that sort of thing, going to give that a try.
What streaming service has it?
I've just been downloading them, but I'm pretty sure Now TV have the streaming rights to it.
Just could not get in to Black Mirror at all. First one was just obviously aimed at liberal wet weekends and the second one was a load of timewasting shit so I promptly deleted the lot. Charlie Brooker can be a testing cunt at times.
Second ep of Dark States tonight. :drool:
I'm on that one too. Quite good so far. I think I'm up to episode four.Quote:
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Also finished Fargie tonight. Can't wait for S02. :drool:
Latest episode of Star Trek Discovery:
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You don't need to watch them in order. Read the synopsis and watch the ones that appeal to you. White Christmas is probably my favourite.Quote:
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That was good. Shut up and Dance as well. The one that seems to get lauded most (San Junipero) is the one I gave up on. Although I've just realised I've still got the last two to watch.Quote:
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Nah I don't want to waste any more of my time. I can just watch BBC News for my PARODY and SATIRE these days.Quote:
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You should've at least watched the next episode, I reckon it would've really resonated with you.
Is it one about domestic abuse?! HhahahahahHhahaha!!11
Swing and a miss.
Just found out Mr Robot is back on. Did anyone make it through Season 2. I stopped after the Chinese started bumping people off and it was clear for the 80th time in 2 seasons that we were dealing with an unreliable narrator.
Discovery is shaping up well.
I chucked Mr Robot after the first episode of season two, when the twist they were very obviously going to end the season with was clear about half an hour in.
I've just read the Wikipedia and realised I watched every episode save the last one, the twist you're thinking of gets revealed about half way through.Quote:
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I managed to get through all Mr Robot, although to be honest it's total bobbins. I rate the actors in it though and it's fairly watchable (if you can shut down some of the critical thinking parts of your brain).
I found Mr Robot to be complete garbage only 2 episodes in. It was so edgy.