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

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    You're welcome. S2 has me tempted though I've read it doesn't hit as hard.

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    It's alright, but not in the same league.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    Squid Game is excellent and should be watched by all.
    Watched 3 episodes tonight, it's fucking brilliant.

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    Squid Game is alright for the first 5 episodes then it nose-dives off a fucking cliff. Sub-Emmerdale shite.

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    Just done the whole of The North Water in an evening (and what an evening it was, like a 5 hour Revenant extended cut, wall to wall icebergs and animal gore). The story was largely bollocks I thought, but the performances (especially Colin Farrell) and general atmosphere kept me in there.

    I don't think I've ever seen so much gore in one production. Don't show it to PETA, that's for sure.

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    I do like Farrell. He's so charismatic he even makes the name Colin sound cool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    After 3 or 4 boring episodes I perserved with this and it picks up.

    It's unnecessarily long but once it gets going it's pretty good. Great concept, execution... meh.
    Ending to episode 5 is pretty great but yeah, the first 3 were a bit of a slog.

    Hoping the final 2 are episodes are good.

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    One of the people on a podcast I listen to is watching the Sopranos for the first time and now I kinda wanna give it another go. I watched season 1 about 10 years ago though and found it soooooooo boring.
    I'm a twit

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    I finished watching Agents Of Shield the other night. Great show overall, if you're into Marvel/sci-fi nonsense and a pretty satisfying overall ending. Not the best season but solid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    One of the people on a podcast I listen to is watching the Sopranos for the first time and now I kinda wanna give it another go. I watched season 1 about 10 years ago though and found it soooooooo boring.
    It didn't hold up great when I rewatched recently. I think I abandoned in season 3. It just felt pretty cheesy and basic.

    The Wire, on the other hand, is still incredible.

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    Watching Panic on Prime. Only 3 episodes in but really enjoying it. Have developed a crush on the main girl in the show, which is a worry as I'm far too old for her.

    I mean, I wouldn't get arrested for it, but doubt I'd be welcome to the family BBQ.

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    Finished Squid Game yesterday, and really enjoyed it. I didn't really notice the dropoff that DS mentioned after episode 5.

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    I spent four hours watching Murder in the Outback last night, about Peter Falconio's disappearance in the Northern Territories.

    It was really good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Finished Squid Game yesterday, and really enjoyed it. I didn't really notice the dropoff that DS mentioned after episode 5.
    Neither did I.

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    I also finished Midnight Mass last night. Pretty good but it's not as great as reviews have made out largely due to the slow start.

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    Having to stay at my parents for a bit and there aren't half a lot of shit-to-average police shows getting broadcast aren't there?

    Wycliffe had a cracking theme tune though:

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    I've started watching Brassic. It's not particularly funny but it'll do.
    I'm a twit

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    Sky really push that and it has got a third series so it can't be terrible but fuck watching it. Like the Sky Original Films, they have something about them that makes them the TV equivalent of off brand cola.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58838332

    Sick of their dodgy remakes of our TV programmes.

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    Ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58838332

    Sick of their dodgy remakes of our TV programmes.
    Looking forward to the new series of 守夜.

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    Squid game was a cute distraction. Nothing memorable.

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    Can't say I understand the love for it either. It was enjoyable enough, but it's hardly groundbreaking.

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    It's easy to consume and meme so I get why it kept people interested but I wonder how much of it going viral was manufactured by algorithms and bots. If it's genuinely impressed people to such a degree they're gonna blow a load when they come across that South Korean vengeance trilogy.

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    The masses have a hard on for Korean stuff generally at the moment. I might have to go on a lecture tour correcting them.

    Everything produced in that country is simplistic, accessible crap because they don't have any cultural layering.

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    I'll chuck that BTS/K-pop shit into my conspiracy theory.

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    Almodovar was robbed of that Oscar.

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    Just flicked on Manhunt, an HBO documentary about the hunt for OBL that's been on my Sky Box for a while.

    It started with an interviewee saying "Women make fantastic analysts, they have patience and perseverance", so I turned it off. Why is this divisive shit proliferating more and more of my viewing? When I watch something, for the most part I want to be entertained, not lectured to about the inequalities in the World. I wouldn't mind so much if it was an actual, genuine, copper bottomed issue in this case, but I'd surmise that if you work for the CIA and you're senior enough to be involved in the hunt for OBL, to the point you were able to play a key (or even leading) part in capturing him, you've probably done alright for yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    The masses have a hard on for Korean stuff generally at the moment. I might have to go on a lecture tour correcting them.

    Everything produced in that country is simplistic, accessible crap because they don't have any cultural layering.
    Everything Korean I've ever watched has just been:

    Episode 1: Honour
    Episode 2: More Honour
    Episode 3: Deep Honour
    Episode 4: DISHONOUR
    Episode 5: Sadness
    Episode 6: Revenge.

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    And yeah, Korean stuff is overrated wank for the most part.

    This was brought to my attention when Oldboy was released and everyone was raving about it. I watched it and it's alright, with a good corridor hammer scene, but the plot and ending is absolute balls.

    Parasite was shit and while Squid Game was alright, it was no better than much of the Saw franchise.

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    Parasite is tremendous.

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    Koreans are the largest Asian minority in America whose mother country is sufficiently advanced and 'free' to produce worthwhile media exports. That gives them a foothold in the West, and then they see it as a blank canvas to project all of their political and racial obsessions onto, which enables it to take off.

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    Anyone watching this Wu Tang: An American Saga Hulu thing?
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Koreans are the largest Asian minority in America whose mother country is sufficiently advanced and 'free' to produce worthwhile media exports. That gives them a foothold in the West, and then they see it as a blank canvas to project all of their political and racial obsessions onto, which enables it to take off.
    What about Japan?

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    There are slightly more Koreans, and Japanese stuff has been around for longer and is more resistant/less suitable to serving as a vehicle for Western pathologies, what with it all revolving around paedophilia and computer games instead of skin whitening and social climbing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Anyone watching this Wu Tang: An American Saga Hulu thing?
    Yes!

    I'm surprised by how good it is. I suppose having a big interest in the music itself helps though. My only main gripe with it at the moment is the guy who plays the RZA has dialled his "RZA voice" all the way up in season two and it's quite off-putting.

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    Al Murray has obviously never heard of America or Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    What about Japan?
    That's why we have so many nonces Anime fans these days. It's probably why Comic Conventions aren't seen as havens for freaks anymore too (wrongly).

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    There are weebs everywhere. Most of it is a 21st century western comfort complex about not wanting to leave childhood, I think, something that the Japanese never really do thanks to their seniority structures. I'll be expanding on that theory in my forthcoming book 'Things I think of mid-sentence while posting on an internet forum: profound but perhaps wrong'.

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    Anyone watching The Walking Dead?

    Spoiler for the latest episode:

    Toggle Spoiler

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    I gave up years ago and I'm so happy I did.

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    Overall the last couple of seasons have been great-to-good. There was a massive dip at one point where they were fucking about with all the cosplay dickheads and tigers and shit though, but it's definitely bounced back a fair bit

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    I thought about rewatching recently. From memory I gave up when Morrissey came on the scene.

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    The best episode of the walking dead is the first episode and it was downhill from there.

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    Is it still the exact same story every season?

    1 - New season but we're all still doing a sad
    2 - Oh look we've heard of these new people
    3 - Oh we've met the new people and everything's gonna be okay!
    4 - Oh no they're awful
    5 - ARE HUMANS THE REAL MONSTERS????
    6 - Murder.
    7 - Fin

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    Yes, but Daryl has a dog now

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    This changes everything.

    10/10.

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    I watched the first few of the newest season and was enjoying it but nothing made we want to keep watching all the same. I'll see who's died in the rest of the episodes and watch the last one, got to stay match fit for the 14 spinoff series and films still to come.

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    I got up to the season after the Prison and left it there. No idea how it's still going, but I appreciate the staying power of anyone still watching.

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    So I watched up until midway through season 2 the first time and got bored by Little Apocalypse on the Prairie and my mate told me I'd basically given up just as it was getting good again.

    Went back to it and got into it and then basically had the same as you, Wullie. I wasn't not enjoying it but I got to a point where I had about 8 episodes recorded that I hadn't watched and I just didn't care enough to binge.

    Are they still planning to give Grimes his own film?

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