What TV series are you watching at moment?

I've just started the latest series of that. Never really loved it that much but I keep watching. Entertaining.

preacher is a mess but i keep watching

Spend a good night watching American Crime Story yesterday

  On 6/29/2016 at 7:53 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 6/29/2016 at 6:51 PM, bubbhasdance said:

l m a o at people dumping on The Wire, I bet season 2 was your least favorite

ayyyy lmao season 2 was my fav actually

 

The one in the dock?

My favorite by far

Watched the last three Horrace & Pete's over the last two nights after taking a break from watching it for a few months, pretty great. It was quite an effective and emotional ending, and then I happened to watch that live stream of the guy getting murdered for having a broken tail-light.

  On 7/8/2016 at 3:03 AM, keanu reeves said:

preacher is a mess but i keep watching

yeh... dunno, basically by this point I'm only curious how it relates to the comic.

Disliking the main guy more and more each episode tho..

Re: Preacher.

I'm just waiting for the scene where he tells someone to go fuck himself, then i'll stop watching. show had an interesting tone at first but it's a trainwreck waiting to happen.

been watching the colorized ww2 things on netflix. apocalypse: the second world war, and world war II in colour. both basically entirely comprised of footage. think i like the latter one better, and it has more.

thoughts on hitler: people always make it about hitler. to me, the phenomenon of hitler seems to be more about the people that followed hitler. you can watch his speeches and what he's saying isn't all that compelling but the people are freaking out more than beatles fans.

world war i has got to be the source of it. world war i was incredibly traumatic, and the germans were the cause of it and they lost. the versailles treaty kind of snipped their balls and they resented it.

[by the way what was it hitler did with the actual versailles treaty when the nazis arrived in versailles? i remember it was something kind of childish and funny but its hard to search for because i just get sites about how the treaty caused ww2]

it seems pretty clear that there was some sort of very interesting psychological/sociological mechanism at play in how the germans felt at that time. the causes of ww1 were pretty convoluted, a web of alliances, military strategy regarding timelines of mobilization. you can kind of see how germans might feel that they werent wrong for causing it.

  On 6/23/2016 at 10:20 AM, phling said:

also Silicon Valley: seems they are running out of ideas.? not feeling it at all rn, used to be lots of lols but it's like all the characters just are sticking to their well established sort of one-two liners over and over and over again, and the plot is super boring as well so....

ya season 3 seemed weaker

about the wire, indeed at the time the wire was insane, but it has aged badly. bit like 6 feet under imo. while the sopranos or seinfeld is as excellent.

im listening to 12 monkeys. pretty bad but still want to listen smh

I still like Silicon Valley, but it's always a let down after Veep.

Mr. Robot S02 - Quality first episode. Nicely filmed & scored. Kudos to USA network for somehow circumventing the FCC & dropping the F-bomb without any censoring. And Craig Robinson? a pleasant surprise.

i hope they'll stop milking this fight club multiple personality thing asap, it opens up pathways to way too many trope-y, ridiculous and out there scenarios (that it kinda indulges in already). i think this show works better when it relates to irl stuff.

  On 7/14/2016 at 6:25 PM, eugene said:

i hope they'll stop milking this fight club multiple personality thing asap, it opens up pathways to way too many trope-y, ridiculous and out there scenarios (that it kinda indulges in already). i think this show works better when it relates to irl stuff.

Yeah that was my problem with season 1. They even used a fucking piano cover of Where is My Mind, like they were trying to see just how blatantly they could rip off Fight Club. Haven't seen the premiere yet but I hope this season moves in a new direction. I like the style of the show a lot.

just finished The Wire season 1 and the overall feeling is it's a great depiction of the big picture but it's pretty lackluster in individual character development and such, if you know what I'm saying... It's a huge amount of characters so none get much depth really, feels like a bunch of tropes: the good cop who doesnt obey no orders and is 2cool4school, the strong lesbian women who dont need no man, the agressive cop, the dumb idiot who turns out to be an unexpected genius... I mean it was a great watch either way but somehow it feels way easier to explain the couple things I didnt like than the thousand reasons why I enjoyed it

on to season 2 now

watched the entire first season of stranger things yesterday. so good.

me too, it was shite though.

Watched 5 episodes of it last night. Pretty fucking good.

watched the first ep of the night of. pretty good. guy has a hilariously large mountain of evidence stacked up against him, so the show seems to be setting itself up for some ridiculous writing later on.

I'm in the middle of Stranger Things, definitely going to finish it this weekend. It's way better than I expected, keeps surprising me with how consistent and intriguing it manages to be.

yeah, it was pretty cool.

lol

Is Stranger Things a lot like Super 8? I hate that kind of cornball Spielberg nostalgia.

I never did catch Super 8. It was too hyped then get mixed reviews so I never bothered to watch it. I'd imagine it treads the same nostalgic trends, but honestly the 80s tone of Stranger Things is pretty light in its relation to actual content. The story feels very much like a modern Sci-Fi with just nods to the past. Just finished the series and it was good right til the end.

amazing 2-part series; although i'm biased because i have a fascination with this case just like i do with charlie manson.

Re: Mr. Robot, I'm praying none of these dumb fan/recap writer theories come true. It would the quickest show has turned to shit since Homeland (which was never 1/10 as good as MRR).

  On 7/16/2016 at 10:48 PM, auxien said:

I never did catch Super 8. It was too hyped then get mixed reviews so I never bothered to watch it. I'd imagine it treads the same nostalgic trends, but honestly the 80s tone of Stranger Things is pretty light in its relation to actual content. The story feels very much like a modern Sci-Fi with just nods to the past. Just finished the series and it was good right til the end.

I'll give it a look then, the concept sounds like it has some potential.