What TV series are you watching at moment?

gotta disagree with Eugene on Luke Cage, I'm half way thru and it's really solid. Taking the Marvel universe to a pretty bleak street level, there's no costumed nut running around, there are a lot of MCU references, but they make sense like these are the real people living in NYC and those crazy ass white folks uptown are a world away. It's all a tribute to the blacksploitation films of the 70s, mixed with some of the NYC crime films of the 90s like New Jack City or Sugar Hill.

The music is fucking excellent, Shaheed from A Tribe Called Quest really did a RZA level job of picking the best tracks for the atmosphere, and they vary according to the tone of the episode, lots of classic 70s funk/soul, contrasted with hip hop. They will definitely need to release a soundtrack if this series is as highly rated as the last two.

https://open.spotify.com/user/g0u1d1e1/playlist/6CdBcKJ5vXXkWJfmC45kqB

Dr. Katz, professional therapist. Every complete episode is on youtube!

I haven't watched the show, but this Netflix outage is the best marketing Luke Cage could asked for tbqh. 

holy moly, this show is trying hard... i liked the part where özil be like "fuk de süstemm!"

kinda interesting how after decades of headshaking hacking is depicted at least somewhat authentic and it's not even doing much for the narrative really (at least so far). just 2 eps in, curious enough to make me stay to see where things be going...

it's cheesy AF almost to a degree where it's unwatchable at times, but it's also pretty damn unique to a degree where most other series look really lazy compared to it.

  On 10/3/2016 at 10:23 AM, phling said:

it's cheesy AF almost to a degree where it's unwatchable at times, but it's also pretty damn unique to a degree where most other series look really lazy compared to it.

agreed as far as i can tell, not much of a series connaisseur anyway, in fact i just recently finished breaking bad lol, it took me like 4 years of on/off watching.

"i'm good at reading people. my secret: i look for the worst in them."

i rl loled at this one, some dank meme material right there... "all my life, who am iiii?"

The first episode of Westworld didn't blow me away, but there's enough good to bring me back for at least a few weeks.

i thought it was pretty cool. pilots being pilots are overstuffed with exposition and lots of dialogues are just an excuse to explain the setting, but in the second half, once it gets going, it gets pretty engaging.  it's gonna be pretty tough acting wise, one will have to act like a robot following a not-so-perfect wild west tropey script while showing hints of self awarness of the actual situation, and it already looks like evan rachel wood's not up to the job. hopkins is deece, but his charachter is this cliched, overly wise father/overseer/mastermind dude that begins to question his own project, meh. quite a few parts aren't really great (that over the top "she's still wriggling!" was really out of place) but as a whole i thought it was pretty exciting. basically it's a cross between three familiar ingredients -  truman show, AI stuff and a futuristic theme park, but that crossbreeding makes it quite fresh and engaging, it can go into lots of interesting directions. i mean it's just awesome to finally get high concept scifi in long form with hbo budget and production might.

Quarry - so far so good, doesnt overdo the retro & the tension is well-handled, handle-bar taches all round. Few cliches, but its building a world that you want to see more of.

Poldark - the things you do 4 Mums after sunday dinner, although the triangular hats could be a hipster feature in no time. Still contrived chest bursting out of shirts lust by suggestion 4 the ladies this autumn, good vs evil, locations never fail doe & Cornwall looks as good as it does in real life.

University Challenge - top ever personal score was 25-ish, but the mascots & the occasional "whoah" @ the inevitable uber-autistic twitcher never fails. The music though......

Watched first season of American Crime. Was impressed how dark and ominous it was, especially for a network show. Had a Kubrick-esque sense of lack of closure that was appropriately reflective of the current US justice system.

Watching Shameless most nights before I go to bed (the US version). 

My 15 month old son likes this show called Octonauts and I have to say it's really enjoyable for a kids show...nice pacing, not condescending, simple and clean computer animation. As the wiki for it states "The subject matter is reminiscent of Star Trek and Thunderbirds blended with Jacques Cousteau." 

finished season 3 of silicon valley. kind of inconsistent but some really good moments in there.

  On 10/3/2016 at 1:45 PM, doublename said:

The first episode of Westworld didn't blow me away, but there's enough good to bring me back for at least a few weeks.

I knew there was something i wanted to watch. Cheers for the reminder.

Damn, season 3 of Silicon Valley is out already? I still need to watch 2.

  On 10/3/2016 at 10:59 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 10/3/2016 at 1:45 PM, doublename said:

The first episode of Westworld didn't blow me away, but there's enough good to bring me back for at least a few weeks.

I knew there was something i wanted to watch. Cheers for the reminder.

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  On 10/3/2016 at 11:03 AM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 10/3/2016 at 10:23 AM, phling said:

it's cheesy AF almost to a degree where it's unwatchable at times, but it's also pretty damn unique to a degree where most other series look really lazy compared to it.

 

agreed as far as i can tell, not much of a series connaisseur anyway, in fact i just recently finished breaking bad lol, it took me like 4 years of on/off watching.

 

"i'm good at reading people. my secret: i look for the worst in them."

 

i rl loled at this one, some dank meme material right there... "all my life, who am iiii?"

hm, ok so ep4 was pretty tripe.

the fact i'm a bit tired of the "dream/hallucination"-card aside i felt it was played faaar to early, at this stage characters are far from fleshed out enough to make em work / interesting on a "subconcious" level imo. hardly helped any plot progression, too. gimmicky. also the tie of the protagonist with mr. robot feels strangely jumpy. overall things got weird, just not in an (what i assume) intented exciting way, rather forced and mildly annoying.

dunno... still wanna see how things will pick up next episode.

First Westworld was really good, haven't seen the original movie so not sure what exactly to expect (though I have seen Itchy & Scratchy land of course so I can guess), acting was all pretty good, effects were all pretty subtle and nicely done, I like how they've not given too much indication about what the actual future looks like, hopefully they just introduce that in little dribs and drabs throughout the season. Only thing that annoyed me was the opening theme music, which was generic and lame (the rest of the music was fine though, liked the little bits of modern music on the player piano).

Luke Cake is pretty enjoyable so far, watched the first half. Not the most exciting storyline ever, but the acting is all pretty good and the music is excellent (Adrian Younge is great). It's better than Jessica Jones.

Atlanta - LOL at the extracting baby piss from diapers montage. Reminded me of the old Breaking Bad montages, a more comedic version.

Been watching the new series of High Maintenance.I was worried it wouldn't translate well from a web series but it's far totally exceeded my expectations

  On 10/5/2016 at 10:30 AM, caze said:

Luke Cake is pretty enjoyable so far, watched the first half. Not the most exciting storyline ever, but the acting is all pretty good and the music is excellent (Adrian Younge is great). It's better than Jessica Jones.

Still not sure how to feel about it - gritty crime thriller mashed with superhero silliness is a weird contrast. This comes out a lot in the music too, 80% is hip hop and then you'll suddenly get a cheesy theme when someone is shown getting up to no good. Jessica Jones handled the grit/comic contrast quite well (The main villain being cartoonish helped a lot) but Luke Cage is just weird for me.

  On 10/5/2016 at 2:57 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 10/5/2016 at 10:30 AM, caze said:

Luke Cake is pretty enjoyable so far, watched the first half. Not the most exciting storyline ever, but the acting is all pretty good and the music is excellent (Adrian Younge is great). It's better than Jessica Jones.

Still not sure how to feel about it - gritty crime thriller mashed with superhero silliness is a weird contrast. This comes out a lot in the music too, 80% is hip hop and then you'll suddenly get a cheesy theme when someone is shown getting up to no good. Jessica Jones handled the grit/comic contrast quite well (The main villain being cartoonish helped a lot) but Luke Cage is just weird for me.

The fighting choreography seems weak compared to Daredevil. The scene where he had the card door was laughable, the bad guys just fell down like dominos.

  On 10/5/2016 at 8:40 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 10/5/2016 at 2:57 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 10/5/2016 at 10:30 AM, caze said:

Luke Cake is pretty enjoyable so far, watched the first half. Not the most exciting storyline ever, but the acting is all pretty good and the music is excellent (Adrian Younge is great). It's better than Jessica Jones.

Still not sure how to feel about it - gritty crime thriller mashed with superhero silliness is a weird contrast. This comes out a lot in the music too, 80% is hip hop and then you'll suddenly get a cheesy theme when someone is shown getting up to no good. Jessica Jones handled the grit/comic contrast quite well (The main villain being cartoonish helped a lot) but Luke Cage is just weird for me.

The fighting choreography seems weak compared to Daredevil. The scene where he had the card door was laughable, the bad guys just fell down like dominos.

 

oh god

"We've got firearms but everyone just bunch up really close to him!"

I am not a series person, I have not seen anything since Lost, or the IT crowd, but I am giving Mr. Robot a try and I think is nice, I have seen 5 episodes and it has good rythm. Maybe some scenarios or procedures are a bit unrealistic, but I don't really care, the whole thing seems very well made and developed in all senses, psychology of the characters, script, plot, acting, music, etc

New Black Mirror trailer - 

Trigger Warning: American accents, Bryce Dallas Howard

nice nice

finally a thing to look forward to on fucking Netflix

uhhh quarry is alright. kinda wish marlo from the wire was the main character, feel like the lead actor went to the keanu reeves theater arts academy.

westworld is pretty entertaining and also completely fucking retarded, like pretty much all television.