What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:23 PM, doublename said:

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

The rest the crew are pretty stereotypical scruffy nerd types that seem mostly driven by their craving for validation but she's much more quiet and conservative so it's not obvious why she's working with them.

The conversation about iPhones was kind of funny but I was surprised they made Mobley look so dumb. Everyone makes mistakes I guess.

wait, house of cards was subtle? *turns to look at camera*

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:33 PM, keanu reeves said:

wait, house of cards was subtle? *turns to look at camera*

lol. It had its moments.

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:30 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:23 PM, doublename said:

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

The rest the crew are pretty stereotypical scruffy nerd types that seem mostly driven by their craving for validation but she's much more quiet and conservative so it's not obvious why she's working with them.

 

The conversation about iPhones was kind of funny but I was surprised they made Mobley look so dumb. Everyone makes mistakes I guess.

 

Okay, I guess she's always seemed a bit underdeveloped to me.

Re: mobley - I swear there's an almost identical neckbeard underestimates grill scene in Hackers too. 

I get what you guys are saying about the female characters, but I wish they would spend more time with Joanna. I need a break from Darlene and f society.

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:38 PM, doublename said:

I get what you guys are saying about the female characters, but I wish they would spend more time with Joanna. I need a break from Darlene and f society.

Hmm, I forgot all about Joanna. I feel like she and her husband are only in the show to stir xenophobia toward Scandinavians. To what end, I do not know. A Darlene vacation would be great though, yeah. She has enough teen angst for the entire show and it just spills into all the scenes.

yeh, Darlene has probably murdered two people (the swing of that bat at least seemed lethal...?) ... there ought to be major consequences

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:25 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  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?

 

I feel the same about the show - I keep watching and enjoying it but I feel like it could be a lot better if it didn't try so hard to be cool and meta, it kinda feels like the show is winking at its audience too much.

It really succeeds stylistically though, the music and the look and feel of the show is always spot on and makes it reliably entertaining even when I start losing interest in the plot. And yeah the hacking is pretty fuckin fun to watch, it's cool to see a show really dramatize command prompts

  On 8/28/2016 at 5:30 PM, sweepstakes said:

The rest the crew are pretty stereotypical scruffy nerd types that seem mostly driven by their craving for validation but she's much more quiet and conservative so it's not obvious why she's working with them.

I think she talked about it in season one, her parents are in massive debt, so she wants to wipe out all debt.

Man those VMAs were even more of a train wreck than usual.

I'm genuinely shocked by how big a deal they were this year. 

edit:

I don't know about anyone else, but I was p satisfied with the ending of The Night Of.

thought it was ok good. better than ok, but not as good as the series had put upon itself by starting off on a high note. thought the "lets get him" thing was kinda unconvincing...

yeah, they definitely overcooked the last 20-30 minutes, felt kinda like the lord of the rings finale. they got into this mode where they wanted to tie quite a few (not-really-loose) ends that didn't really need that as the vectors of their development were already pretty well established. we knew that naz got pretty fucked in the prison, that his relationship with the mother too was a wreck. there were enough clues given that he will be stigmatized in his community. we knew that the prosecutor accepted the idea that that other guy is quite possibly the killer, so hamming it up with "let's get him" was over the top. the cat thing too was just saccharine and needless. i knew that this episode was longer but kinda lost the track of time because the first hour was very good and tense and i fully expected the show to cut to black after that brutal rikers' gate is opened in front of naz, but they kept piing on and on for another 20 mins..

i strongly disliked the last two eps, basically ruined the show

the last The Night Of was excellent, the whole thing, great finish to a good series. only quibble was that I lolled at the dog/cat charity ad, which they kind of ruined by showing the cat afterwards.

edit: wrong thread

Teh Night Of was pretty good, I bet James Gandolfini would have done a great job.

and that sweet sweet smack too

of the 4 junkies i've known, 3 got their habits doing time, ironically all 4 now work in NHS detox programs

Oohhh. This is gonna be right up watmm's hall of tinfoil hats...

http://www.pbs.org/program/911-inside-pentagon/

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ashamed but I have liked it finally

It took me a while to warm up to Vice Principals, but after they dropped acid, I'm on board now.  lol

  On 9/1/2016 at 8:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It took me a while to warm up to Vice Principals, but after they dropped acid, I'm on board now. lol

Super disappointed with this show

Mr. Robot eps2.7init5.fve - Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. You can chew on the paranoia.

  On 9/1/2016 at 9:06 AM, verticalhold said:

 

  On 9/1/2016 at 8:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It took me a while to warm up to Vice Principals, but after they dropped acid, I'm on board now. lol

Super disappointed with this show

 

yep, i tried but it stinks

  On 9/1/2016 at 1:32 PM, olo said:

Mr. Robot eps2.7init5.fve - Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. You can chew on the paranoia.

It just keeps getting better, Esmail just needs to chill with those door knock cliffhangers