What TV series are you watching at moment?

It's weird how different they made Jessie's character from the comic version. Maybe they felt that tough-talking, arse-kicking, cowboy wouldn't play well in 2016.

Preacher is a mess

  On 7/20/2016 at 3:21 AM, doublename said:

You just have to ride with the callowness of MR. Robot sometimes. I think it generally overcomes its most eye-rolling moments.

Agreed.

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it started on monday... :)

it's funny if you liked eastbound. i happen to think that's in the top comedies ever. this probably is a step down, but it's deece. goggins owns it.

ya, first episode of vice principals was like the last seasons of eastbound. to me, only the first season of eastbound was really special

  On 7/21/2016 at 4:50 AM, Ayya Khema said:

ya, first episode of vice principals was like the last seasons of eastbound. to me, only the first season of eastbound was really special

No

  On 7/20/2016 at 10:05 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 7/20/2016 at 3:21 AM, doublename said:

You just have to ride with the callowness of MR. Robot sometimes. I think it generally overcomes its most eye-rolling moments.

 

Agreed.

 

 

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Does anyone else think it's Tyrell behind the hack on Scott Knowles (current CTO of Evil Corp)?

 

 

Not sure what to think. The fantasy/reality lines are pretty blurred. Enjoyed last nights episode. Fun pill-popping montage. Also liked the design touch of the spinning dryer & the reflection in Elliot's pupils. Damn mac death wheel.

https://youtu.be/nkOKkS7mKfY

so looks like the entire second season is los pepes vs escobar

didn't like vice principals, it's to eastbound is kinda like hot fuzz was to shaun of the dead. it feels like it's very similar in style and packaging and even concept, but completely hollowed out of the brilliance of the predecessor.

fwiw i heard it gets really good about four eps into the season, we'll see. i thought it had potential in goggins performance which is always a joy to watch but i do agree, it's just a weak concept compared to eastbound. whoever said eastbound was only good for a season is crazy, that show ended on such a high note.

on paper "two douchebag, imbecile vice principals battle for school principalship" sounds more fun than "a douchebag, imbecile baseballer's adventures in modern day florida" actually, but the former is just not as sharply written when it comes to comedy. it just tries to f-bomb the funny in with brute force and it just falls flat most of the time.

although now that i think of it that "fucked up florida"/south settings added quite a lot to the feel of eastbound, and there's nothing of that kind in vp.

  On 7/18/2016 at 1:18 AM, doublename said:

 

  On 7/17/2016 at 9:27 PM, keanu reeves said:

two eps into stranger things. is there an original idea anywhere in this show? so far it seems to be on autopilot, although it is pleasant enough in its 80s/spielberg/king nostalgia. i just don't see what the big deal is.

I'm also two episodes in and about ready to quit. I don't get it.

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 2:06 AM, data said:

what don't you get? the show relies pretty heavily on 80s spielberg nostalgia and tangerine dream-like synthmusic, which obviously doesn't appeal to you. for me it would be a lesser show if you took away those elements. the actual plot etc isn't exactly original.

 

it's mostly style over substance, and im completely fine with that (though i did like most of the characters and the writing as well).

Lot of the sci-fi horror plot seems heavily influenced by anime / Japanese VG but transplanted into a Twin Peaks/Donnie Darko/[insert small forested American town here]-esque setting. I fucking love it.

  On 7/18/2016 at 4:39 PM, GORDO said:

  On 7/20/2016 at 6:34 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 4:39 PM, GORDO said:

Stranger things has a neat soundtrack.

 

 

btw: started watching this last night. it's pretty good but not as great as i thought considering the rave reviews it has been getting. it's kinda like a mixture of ET, amazing stories, tales from the darkside and goonies.

 

i think the casting of the cops is probably the biggest letdown- the parents and kids all sell the story, but the cops kinda don't fit who they're supposed to be. neither do the scientist/conspiracy people.

 

production design is really good and i like the d&d gaming (although i noticed, for jr high kids, they have only posters of films and none of saturday morning cartoons or atari?)

 

Nice cassette j-card art.

I like how you found one gripe about them not having some other staples of a kid of that that year. But holy fuck huge kudos to the production and prop crew. EVERYTHING looks like it's from 1983. They even toned down the color editing to make it look like a HD 80s film and not some modern tv or film show with too much orange/blue color saturation (like Hot Tub Time Machine) and didn't go the rout of loud lazy, stereotypical props from the era. Every piece of furniture, every car, and every single item of clothing looks very accurate. It actually reminded me a lot of my grandparents house when I was a kid in the very early 90s - they hadn't bought anything new so it looked exactly as it did 10 years before that.

  On 7/17/2016 at 6:02 PM, Atop said:

Loved Stranger Things. The music is awesome, created by members of SURVIVE.

They are excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWpfY27FwU

Floating cube is the shit.

I persevered with Orange is the New black for 3 seasons and onto the fourth even though I never really thought it was brilliant, but something kept me watching. Now onto season 4 I think it's mach better than previous seasons. Only a few episodes from the end but it makes me want to watch from S1 again just to see if I view it in a more positive light second time around.

  On 7/22/2016 at 2:32 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 1:18 AM, doublename said:

 

  On 7/17/2016 at 9:27 PM, keanu reeves said:

two eps into stranger things. is there an original idea anywhere in this show? so far it seems to be on autopilot, although it is pleasant enough in its 80s/spielberg/king nostalgia. i just don't see what the big deal is.

I'm also two episodes in and about ready to quit. I don't get it.

 

 

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 2:06 AM, data said:

what don't you get? the show relies pretty heavily on 80s spielberg nostalgia and tangerine dream-like synthmusic, which obviously doesn't appeal to you. for me it would be a lesser show if you took away those elements. the actual plot etc isn't exactly original.

 

it's mostly style over substance, and im completely fine with that (though i did like most of the characters and the writing as well).

 

Lot of the sci-fi horror plot seems heavily influenced by anime / Japanese VG but transplanted into a Twin Peaks/Donnie Darko/[insert small forested American town here]-esque setting. I fucking love it.

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 4:39 PM, GORDO said:

  On 7/20/2016 at 6:34 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 7/18/2016 at 4:39 PM, GORDO said:

Stranger things has a neat soundtrack.

 

 

btw: started watching this last night. it's pretty good but not as great as i thought considering the rave reviews it has been getting. it's kinda like a mixture of ET, amazing stories, tales from the darkside and goonies.

 

i think the casting of the cops is probably the biggest letdown- the parents and kids all sell the story, but the cops kinda don't fit who they're supposed to be. neither do the scientist/conspiracy people.

 

production design is really good and i like the d&d gaming (although i noticed, for jr high kids, they have only posters of films and none of saturday morning cartoons or atari?)

 

 

Nice cassette j-card art.

 

I like how you found one gripe about them not having some other staples of a kid of that that year. But holy fuck huge kudos to the production and prop crew. EVERYTHING looks like it's from 1983. They even toned down the color editing to make it look like a HD 80s film and not some modern tv or film show with too much orange/blue color saturation (like Hot Tub Time Machine) and didn't go the rout of loud lazy, stereotypical props from the era. Every piece of furniture, every car, and every single item of clothing looks very accurate. It actually reminded me a lot of my grandparents house when I was a kid in the very early 90s - they hadn't bought anything new so it looked exactly as it did 10 years before that.

 

Just started watching this with my daughter - totally agree about nailing the 80's vibe and aesthetic. Fantastic show, too. Up to Chapter 5 so far...

Here's SURVIVE's BandCamp and SoundCloud page: https://survive.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/s-u-r-v-i-v-e

They have an LP coming out in September, and are from Austin, Texas!

Sheriff Hopper has good taste in beer

  On 7/22/2016 at 9:16 PM, Schlitze said:

Sheriff Hopper has good taste in beer

Loved Stranger Things, and the soundtrack has got me in the mood to make arpeggios all day.

Gonna crack open Bojack season 3 tonight

BoJack is on top form as expected in season 3 so far. Loved the underwater episode, music was very lush, reminded me a lot of Tycho. Seems a fourth season is confirmed too, not that there was much doubt.

stranger things: guess i'm one of the haters. ultimately i felt it was just a saccharine, paint by numbers affair with nothing original about it. i grew up on those movies and am a huge tangerine dream fan so when i see this kind of thing there is some kind of gut feeling drawing me to it but in the end i just feel like it's hollow pastiche, just copy/pasting from the 80s and using what's been proven to work before. lots of music out there does this same thing.

also some really weird decision making and some absurd writing at times. e.g., why go through all the trouble to meticulously craft a period piece like that and then use cg for the monster? totally ruined the vibe. couple of nit-picky things: flol @ playing tangerine dream's "exit" during a heated teenage fight scene. wtf kind of choice was that? also lol that the bully brought out a knife, held a kid hostage with threats to slice his mouth apart and then demanded the other kid leap off a cliff where just days before his friend was found dead. that's kinda...upping the stakes there. these kids are like 12 years old. lucas was utterly hilarious, constantly yelling and absurdly incredulous and hostile. that moment when he yells at mike telling him that eleven was using them to get food and shelter by helping them just enough to get what she wants but always short of giving them what they want and that mike is blind to this bc unlike the girls at school she pays attention to him and did he ever think that they've been spending all this time looking for a monster and maybe she's the real monster! again, these kids are 12 years old, wtf kid has ever said anything like that?

i suppose at the end of the day i didn't mind watching it after dinner, relaxing with Lady Alco so maybe i can't say i'm a complete hater. but ultimately it didn't do much for me.

bojack is too good

  On 7/24/2016 at 3:39 PM, Alcofribas said:

these kids are like 12 years old. lucas was utterly hilarious, constantly yelling and absurdly incredulous and hostile. that moment when he yells at mike telling him that eleven was using them to get food and shelter by helping them just enough to get what she wants but always short of giving them what they want and that mike is blind to this bc unlike the girls at school she pays attention to him and did he ever think that they've been spending all this time looking for a monster and maybe she's the real monster! again, these kids are 12 years old, wtf kid has ever said anything like that?

 

yes. that also bothered me. i think i also mentioned earlier how i find it slightly 'unrealistic' how they only have posters of films and no cartoon posters or kids shows?

the night of continues to impress