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Thread: Do we live in a golden age of television?

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    Been watching Brooklyn Nine Nine recently and I'm absolutely loving it. It's got a real (american) Office vibe.

    I had been put off it before as I was under the impression there was no real character development or story but there seems to be at least a bit. Yeah, it's essentially the office in police setting (without the interviews and camerawork maybe).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Finished Jessica Jones season 2 and it was alright but obviously let down by going from an amazing villain to meh. Which follows the Daredevil path but they had a lot more going for it.

    It's worse than Jessica Jones and Daredevil season 1 as well as Punisher and I'd have Cage just ahead too.
    I think I'm about five episodes in so far and I would largely agree. It's been alright but there's definitely a giant, Kilgrave shaped hole that's proving difficult to fill. I'm pretty sure I've guessed who the person they're setting up as the villain is going to be too. It seems really obvious to me at the moment. I would speculate further, but I can't really without the spoiler tags.

    One thing I will say though, is it just me or does her best mate (Trish?) nearly always come across as a really needy, pushy, self-entitled tosser? I really don't like her.

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    Oh man episode two of season two of This Country is absolutely hilarious. The first season was proper slow going with the occasional lol, until the last episode which was really good. The first episode of season two was okay but oh boy that second episode was a cracker. The bit with the wheelbarrow should go down if potential gif folklore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I think I'm about five episodes in so far and I would largely agree. It's been alright but there's definitely a giant, Kilgrave shaped hole that's proving difficult to fill. I'm pretty sure I've guessed who the person they're setting up as the villain is going to be too. It seems really obvious to me at the moment. I would speculate further, but I can't really without the spoiler tags.

    One thing I will say though, is it just me or does her best mate (Trish?) nearly always come across as a really needy, pushy, self-entitled tosser? I really don't like her.
    I go through staged with Trish. In the first season it was more good than bad, in the second it's largely bad.

    I had also guessed the villain set up too.

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    I've just started the handmaid's tale. Very leftovers in the sense it's very unsettling and positively mental.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    I go through staged with Trish. In the first season it was more good than bad, in the second it's largely bad.

    I had also guessed the villain set up too.
    I don't remember her bothering me at all in the first season, but it's like her default setting in season two is just to be a massive twat.

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    What are the best episodes of Black Mirror?

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    One Million Credits was one of my favourites, largely for an astonishing piece of acting from Daniel Kaluuya but the premise and progression are both up to par too.

    Really what you should do is miss the pilot, which is entirely unrepresentative of what's to come, watch the rest, then loop back once you've got a taste for it. The pilot is good, but it's operating on a different frequency from everything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    What are the best episodes of Black Mirror?
    S01E02: Fifteen Million Merits
    S02E01: Be Right Back
    S02E04: White Christmas
    S03E01: Nosedive

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    The Jon Hamm one.

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    Nosedive was utter shit and put me off watching any more.

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    Cheers. I saw the first series when it was originally aired, but all I can remember is the PM and a pig. I'll do a few from the above (but will no doubt watch them all).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Nosedive was utter shit and put me off watching any more.
    Nah.

    It's not rollicking fun like others, but it's one of the best episodes for exploring social impacts in technology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    One Million Credits was one of my favourites, largely for an astonishing piece of acting from Daniel Kaluuya but the premise and progression are both up to par too.
    He is ridiculous, isn't he. One of the best working today.

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    White Christmas is probably the best although they're all very good for the most part. The standout weakest ones for me are The Waldo Moment and Metalhead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    What are the best episodes of Black Mirror?


    What’s the best way to watch everyone you know be murdered?
    I'm a twit

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    I like The Entire History of You and White Christmas the best, I think.

    From the most recent season, "Hang the DJ" was my favourite.

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    The latest episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine is the funniest they've done in ages. I would watch a twenty two episode season that was nothing but Holt and Kevin being overly formal with each other.

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    I'm still only around the start of the 4th season so have a bunch unwatched left

    I kinda both wanna finish all that as soon as possible but also don't wanna run out of episodes to watch.

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    Who was that recommended Person of Interest to me on here? @phonics? It's great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Who was that recommended Person of Interest to me on here? @phonics? It's great.
    It's one of the best shows ever. The last season or two is a bit off the rails but it's a great dystopian world with loads of badassery. Where you up to?

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    Think episode 6 of the first season was the last one I watched. I was pretty much hooked from the first episode. Fucking love Michael Emerson.

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    The handmaid's tale is brilliant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Think episode 6 of the first season was the last one I watched. I was pretty much hooked from the first episode. Fucking love Michael Emerson.
    He's very good in it right up until the last episode, he carries it on its back. The cop lady seems like a shitty cliched character at first but really grows into the role.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    The latest episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine is the funniest they've done in ages. I would watch a twenty two episode season that was nothing but Holt and Kevin being overly formal with each other.
    Only 5 in to the series but looking forward to that

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    Yeah, it was brilliant.

    The last bit of the intro set it up so well for what they were going to do.

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    Just started season two of Silicon Valley. I’m way into it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Think episode 6 of the first season was the last one I watched. I was pretty much hooked from the first episode. Fucking love Michael Emerson.
    Just watched episode 7 of season 1. Fucking quality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Just watched episode 7 of season 1. Fucking quality.
    Elias

    I'll say no more. You really need to binge the next 3 seasons so I have someone to talk to about it.

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    I'm three episodes into the new Netflix thing, Not On My Block. Really enjoyable so far.

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    Has anyone else watched the adaptation of American Gods?

    I watched the entire first series at the weekend and liked it but I can't decide if it's actually good or I just enjoyed a new version of something I already like.

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    I watched the first episode of that and couldn't get along with it at all. Nick Sobotka as the leprechaun bloke is among the stranger bits of casting I've ever seen.

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    There are some annoying bits to it (Nick Sobotka as John mentioned is one, as is the fact that Laura Browning's character is such a cunt). It did help having Ian McShane as the main old god though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Has anyone else watched the adaptation of American Gods?

    I watched the entire first series at the weekend and liked it but I can't decide if it's actually good or I just enjoyed a new version of something I already like.
    I would have liked it to have moved a bit faster (they managed to make an entire season of television out of, what, the first hour or so of the book?) but, on the whole, I think they built on the source material well and it was pretty good.

    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I watched the first episode of that and couldn't get along with it at all. Nick Sobotka as the leprechaun bloke is among the stranger bits of casting I've ever seen.
    I agree he didn't really fit the bill, but I thought he did a decent job. He was actually thrown into last minute I believe, the first choice (I can't remember who it was off the top of my head) dropped out right at the last minute I seem to remember.

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    Given how they styled him presumably the original choice was Conor McGregor.

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    It was meant to be Sean Harris:


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    Okay, David Platt's been raped on Coronation Street. Golden. Age.

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    Fucking hell, watched the whole season of American Gods and failed to realise Pablo Schreiber was playing Sweeney. Given how many times I've gone over S2 of The Wire that's a bit special.

    I really enjoyed it, but agree with Niko they dragged the fuck out of what is essentially just the initial scene setter in the book. Still, it was well realised and more accurately so than Amazon did with Preacher (which was nonetheless fucking brilliant).

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Given how they styled him presumably the original choice was Conor McGregor.


    Fair comment.

    On an unrelated note I've started watching Person of Interest, on the back of the Boydy and Phonics conversation of a couple of days ago. I've only watched the first episode so far but it seemed alright. Interesting premise. Although the awful, and presumably fake, beard Jim Caviezel is sporting at the beginning of the pilot episode made me think of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman after he gets sacked from the news channel.

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    I never finished Person of Interest.

    I've got like 3-4 episodes to go, the last season is pretty bollocks.

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    That's definitely going to be 100% amazing.

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    I've binged on dirty money today. Great stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    I've binged on dirty money today. Great stuff.
    Isn't that what you do every day?


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    He's not gone to Deutsche Bank yet.

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    What episode number is that good Brooklyn Nine Nine one? It'll be weeks before I naturally get to it.

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    Twelve, I think. It's the most recent one but the couple before it have been unusually plot driven so only skip right there if you don't mind getting the end of the story before the beginning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Twelve, I think. It's the most recent one but the couple before it have been unusually plot driven so only skip right there if you don't mind getting the end of the story before the beginning.
    I just watched 6 but had to stop there and I think I watched 5 a few weeks ago. I'll hold off a while and see what the weekend brings.

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    Started on Wild Wild Country today and after 2 and a half episodes I'm hooked. I knew nothing about the story of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh/The Rajneesh movement but it's completely mad and fascinating.



    It's a really good documentary series.

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    Caught up on B99 after doing very little today. That last episode really was good.

    Also watched the last Billions again to catch up for Monday.

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    I giggled like a loon at the closing joke.

    I think Kevin's only been in like six episodes, so it's testament to how well drawn he is that that joke seems so absolutely perfect. Marc Evan Jackson is probably the most underused comedic actor around. I've only really seen him in Mike Schur shows but he gets a laugh out of pretty much every line he says.

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