I'd tend to agree apart from Hugh Laurie's constant 'Jed daaaaarling'.
I'd tend to agree apart from Hugh Laurie's constant 'Jed daaaaarling'.
Archer has been amazing this season. Strength to strength.
They're really making perfect use of the characters, in a way that can only come from writers who really understand what they've created. The animation quality has improved dramatically, and it's also gotten a little darker. Some of the fight scenes, like the bare knuckle clown beatdown in the new episode, are pretty brutal. None of them rival to the fight scene they did entirely with sound over the phone an episode or two back though, which was equal parts horrifying and darkly hilarious.
If the second half of this two-parter is as good as the first, then it's up there with the best they've ever done.
I recorded the first episode of Angie Tribeca after hearing the Naked Gun comparisons but by fuck it is absolutely horrendous, worst thing I've seen on TV in a long time. Maybe it improves after the first episode, it can only go up.
The sense of humour stays basically constant so if you didn't like the first one you'll not like anything after that.Originally Posted by Giggles
I don't mind the parody, I really like that type of thing, I just thought everything from the jokes to the story to the acting let it down.
I thought it had some promise, but bits like the parkour chase went on about five times longer than it should have.
RE: Archer I've really struggled to stay interested after about four episodes of Archer Vice. Should I persevere?
You could skip it.
The season after is pretty good and the current season is brilliant.
The Vice season wasn't terribly interesting but six was excellent. I haven't watched any of this year yet. I prefer to let each season of that finish before touching it.
That did go on far too long. They got a bit better at incorporating that sort of endlessly running joke into the background of other scenes as it went on though. That said, they actually did it much better earlier in the same episode too with the mad slap fight between Giles and Edge, so maybe it was just an aberration.
This current season of Archer has started as strong as the show has ever been I think. The PI angle works really well, and there's less running jokes into the ground. (COCAINE-PAM)
My friend showed me this earlier and I'm with you it's awful, comparing it to Naked Gun let alone Police Squad is a travesty. And it has a stupid name.
Mahow has it exactly right. Archer Vice just didn't work, but it got back on the rails after that.
That's going to be a good idea here, because there seems to be a season-long plot arc that is actually really interesting.
Gotham's gone a bit shit again.
Punisher series on Netflix confirmed: http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multive...tflix-details/
Berenthal is great as Punisher and many of the last season of Daredevil's best scenes/episodes featured him heavily. The third episode in particular, with the rooftop scene.
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I think this might be the best season yet.
Person of Interest is back
Still haven't picked up on Orphan Black mind.
I'm not sure if it's purely a case of me expecting it to be so much better but I'm still finding Gotham to be complete horse wank.
I had to watch this weeks episode in 2 chunks because I couldn't get through it in one sitting.
The worst part is that I know I can't just give up on it :\
They only went and built a super computer out of PS3's due to the cell system
What a show.
I started watching Peaky Blinders the other day. Cracking series so far. Even Sam Neil's amusingly fluctuating accent can't knock it off track.
Just coming to the end of the second series now, and it's been ace
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The latest season of The Americans has been fantastic, if they nail the finale in a few weeks (which they will because they always do) then this will have been the best of the lot.
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I really liked the second episode of Angie Tribeca last night. Not sure if it was actually better than the first or I just was a bit too jaded when I watched it.
I really enjoyed Angie Tribeca when I fist watched it. However, when I went back to it when I wasn't in such a good mood - it did my head in. You definitely need to be in a good/silly mood to enjoy it.
Started House of Cards. 5 episodes in.
Bit "meh" so far.
I'd suggest watching the entire first series. If you're still not a fan, don't bother with the rest.
I'm enjoying season 4 a lot more than I did 3. It's pretty good again.
It's not terrible, I'll probably keep watching either way. It's well acted and the main characters are interesting, even if the writing isn't so good.
The latest season was great I thought. Far better than the previous one.
Is it just me or is Orphan Black not as good this season?
I'm getting a bit bored with it. Although I think it might be because I binged watch the other seasons but have been following this one weekly. That really kills the flow of a TV show for me.
Fucking Netflix doesn't have season 3 of The Killing and I can't find it via Kodi with English subtitles or on any torrent sites either. Bloody annoying.
Searching for its Danish name brought some results. Should have thought of that before, really.
Marcella went full Scandi, and then about three hundred miles past that tonight, lingering on a particularly distasteful death in a way that didn't really feel earned.
Can't find the proper thread so I'm just going to post it here.
Did anyone see the documentary about a family of refugee's from Syria on Channel 4 just then? Really compelling viewing.
I had very high hopes for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but it really just isn't very good. You can tell they knew as well, when they brought Tina Fey into a recurring role in the second season, but even that didn't help it enough.
I liked the first season a lot but just couldn't get into the second at all.
Dave Gorman's got a new thing on Dave, though it appears to be just the "best bits" from Modern Life is Goodish with, supposedly, some unseen footage. I'll still watch it despite no doubt having seen 90% of it before.
This weeks episode of Archer was brilliant.
Krieger is such a don.
I loved that they continued the gag of mirroring the story for so long.
Evel Nazi Bob Ross Knievel.
Two episodes into Billions and it's pretty great.
Yeah I'm enjoying it too. Think we've just finished episode 4. The only issue I'm having is that I'm often forgetting the names of minor characters, so when they briefly mention them in conversation, I'm left wondering who they're talking about.
And Billions only got better towards the second half of the season. The finale has some of the best character scenes I've seen on TV in a long time.
Chucks wife is pretty much my dream wife as well, aside from when she pisses on him.
Also, on a sidenote, I don't think there is a TV show that I've watched that hasn't had this chap appear in it at some point.
He's in everything.
I've only seen him in Suits and this, but I love him so much in Billions. Best character.
Edit: Damn, forgot that he's Gale from Breaking Bad.
Preacher starts on Sunday.
What are ITV up to with the last episode of Marcella? They've showed the whole thing on seven consecutive Mondays, then they're changing it to a Tuesday night for the last one. It's as if they're not comfortable unless it's going up against football for viewers.
Legends of Tomorrow is largely awful (Wentworth Miller and Arthur Darvill are the best things in it, for fuck's sake) and yet here I am, not deleting it from my planner. Were it not for my loathing of Batman vs. Superman I'd be thinking I'd become immune to the shitness of comic book films/TV.
It is indeed fairly shit but I do find it being quite watchable.
The only thing I dislike Miller in the show is his accent though, it's so shit.
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