What TV series are you watching at moment?

https://youtu.be/rrLR8Zolr3Y

really enjoyed the latest episode of Mr. Robot. Nice nagging paranoia throughout.

But, I think I'm starting to develop some kind of eye muscle strain from staring at the bottom left/right of the screen all the time. It was hip & cool framing of a scene to a point, but it's creeping into my real life where I'm always staring at peoples breasts or crotches whilst in conversation. No bueno.

Gilmore Girls on Netflix. getting it in before the reunion series is released.

Edited August 25, 2016 by robotrobot

Mr Jinx - Only watched the first episode but I like where this is going. I've kept from reading anything about it. Basically a body is found in bits in the sea and all points to a heir to one of the biggest property developers (or something) in New York. His wife already went missing years ago.

 

I was recommended it after watching Making a Murderer.

Mr. Robot - the paranoia is palatable. Funny thing is, the FBI is not really close with the investigation - unless that investment banker gave up darlene's name.

Really good episode that's moving the plot forward. The Susan Jacobs thing will come back to bite them in the ass though.

  On 8/25/2016 at 8:17 PM, spratters said:

Mr Jinx - Only watched the first episode but I like where this is going. I've kept from reading anything about it. Basically a body is found in bits in the sea and all points to a heir to one of the biggest property developers (or something) in New York. His wife already went missing years ago.

 

I was recommended it after watching Making a Murderer.

Have you seen The Staircase?

  On 8/25/2016 at 1:27 PM, olo said:

really enjoyed the latest episode of Mr. Robot. Nice nagging paranoia throughout.

But, I think I'm starting to develop some kind of eye muscle strain from staring at the bottom left/right of the screen all the time. It was hip & cool framing of a scene to a point, but it's creeping into my real life where I'm always staring at peoples breasts or crotches whilst in conversation. No bueno.

lol yes

 

Got to queue up Halt and Catch Fire (on season 2 now) after I watch Mr Robot to recalibrate my eyeballs (H&CF is pretty lushly shot tbqh; lots of good naturalistic lighting).

 

Edit: got to love how the Mr Robot camera gaze is basically that of an autist avoiding eye contact, though.

Edited August 27, 2016 by baph

 

great series. kinda like tales from the crypt or darkside

bojack the horseman - i find this style of humor where they machine gun you with those jewy, witty jokes as if checking if you're quick enough to get them all is pretty irritating, arrested development was kinda similar in that sense too (guess will arnett is attracted to this sort of thing?). every character being a fast paced joke generator is kinda messing up with coherence of the characters themselves - bojack can come up with those clever, multi level ironic constructs but can't gather enough self awareness to act a simple line in the movie script properly? kinda fishy. for a show that's hailed as cutting edge it feels a quite constrained too, like you know very well where its limits are and what places it won't go. i didn't get this feeling with rick and morty, for example, where it can get really wild and catch you off guard with its imagination and wackiness. i understand that the topic itself makes it stay pretty grounded to this irl holywood biz, but it's a fucking cartoon after all, you can do much more than just replace people with animals..

 

 

i still watch it because there are quite a few poignant and funny moments and just because i'm curious where they will go with it, but it's a big meh overall, i probably would ditch it if i wasn't in that limbo where i kinda make enough money and kinda have enough time to waste on mediocre shows.

Edited August 28, 2016 by eugene

john wayne stars in the wild frontier adventure, bojack the horseman

lol

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:54 AM, verticalhold said:

 

  On 8/25/2016 at 8:17 PM, spratters said:

Mr Jinx - Only watched the first episode but I like where this is going. I've kept from reading anything about it. Basically a body is found in bits in the sea and all points to a heir to one of the biggest property developers (or something) in New York. His wife already went missing years ago.

 

I was recommended it after watching Making a Murderer.

Have you seen The Staircase?

 

 

I haven't, though remember the guy who recommended it talking about a staircase murder series. That'll be next then. I presume it's worth the watch?

I started watching Hellsing and it's OTT ridix and I like it.

  On 8/28/2016 at 9:31 AM, spratters said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 5:54 AM, verticalhold said:

 

  On 8/25/2016 at 8:17 PM, spratters said:

Mr Jinx - Only watched the first episode but I like where this is going. I've kept from reading anything about it. Basically a body is found in bits in the sea and all points to a heir to one of the biggest property developers (or something) in New York. His wife already went missing years ago.

 

I was recommended it after watching Making a Murderer.

Have you seen The Staircase?

 

 

I haven't, though remember the guy who recommended it talking about a staircase murder series. That'll be next then. I presume it's worth the watch?

 

 

absolutely

  On 8/28/2016 at 12:11 AM, Nebraska said:

 

great series. kinda like tales from the crypt or darkside

I vaguely remember watching this and loving it as a kid. It starts and ends with Ray Bradbury talking in his workshop with all sorts of weird stuff laying about right? I'll definitely check it out.

only the beginning has bradbury talking in his office- mainly making references to things he has around and how he takes inspiration from anything to create a story. the endings are just simple end credits.

 

you can find the entire series on youtube in HD (although it looks more like standard definition)

Ah, nice!

The Night Manager - I mean it's definitely a higher quality of spy-jinks than Homeland, but it's still pretty poor. David Harewood us a deece actor afaik, but his American accent is dire.

Edited August 28, 2016 by doublename

only watched the first episode... does it get better, or worse?

also holy shit, Mr Robot. that last ep was pretty fantastic,

Mr. Robot - I still can't decide whether I like it. Sometimes it seems like it's just trying way too hard to be edgy. Also wtf was with that "Full House" episode? That was real shark jump material. At least the computer shit is fairly accurate (which honestly idgaf about unless it's hilariously off), even though they'll have like a real tense scene and the character driving it is... encoding a video w/ ffmpeg. Thrilling. Trenton is the most interesting character by a long shot. I would like to see more of her than the adolescent drama queens this show is full of (Elliott, Darlene, Angela, Mobley...)

Halt and Catch Fire - I like this one. 80s vibes aren't nearly as thick as Stranger Things which gives it room to develop characters. It does seem like the cast is maybe a little too big right now and they're trying to figure out what to do with e.g. that Ryan dude.

the ffmpeg thing - thought it was funny, because later Dom I think also used ffmpeg to split the video into frames.. not sure why she did that but it was like they and her used the same tools... kind of like as you would see both the bad & the good guys drink coffee or something: oh shit coffee! We are all just people! Only with ffmpeg :)

I love that the series can be so subtle about these things... but yeah sometimes it's not subtle at all and that's where sometimes it's the cringe...

 

also, I really like that it's focusing on the women right now. They're all being badass and weird and pretty cool

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:19 PM, phling said:

the ffmpeg thing - thought it was funny, because later Dom I think also used ffmpeg to split the video into frames.. not sure why she did that but it was like they and her used the same tools... kind of like as you would see both the bad & the good guys drink coffee or something: oh shit coffee! We are all just people! Only with ffmpeg :)

Haha, good point, I noticed that too but I didn't think about the fact that they're both using the same tools even though they're basically enemies. Kind of cool. As far as why she was doing that, I was guessing she was going to get some stills for forensic analysis - maybe they will break from their dedication to accuracy and have an "ENHANCE!" scene.

Serious question - what makes Trenton interesting? Other than being named after a place in Elliot's home state?

 

 

  On 8/28/2016 at 4:41 PM, phling said:

only watched the first episode... does it get better, or worse?

also holy shit, Mr Robot. that last ep was pretty fantastic,

 

 

I'd say it gets worse. The show is just loaded with really dull characters and tired espionage cliche's. 

Edited August 28, 2016 by doublename

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:22 PM, phling said:

I love that the series can be so subtle about these things... but yeah sometimes it's not subtle at all and that's where sometimes it's the cringe...

 

also, I really like that it's focusing on the women right now. They're all being badass and weird and pretty cool

Yeah, exactly. Every time they say "f society" I'm like omg this show is for 13-year-olds. Or when Elliott said "evil corp". And yeah other times it's got the level of subtlety of, like House of Cards. It's just wildly inconsistent which sometimes makes it interesting, even dreamlike. And other times that's just annoying.

 

Yes, I want to see more of the ladies, especially Trenton. She's still kind of an enigma even though they've been revealing more detail about her lately. Like she hacks "for her family", what does that even mean?