What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 10/18/2016 at 8:47 AM, Rubin Farr said:

did anyone check out Tutankhamun, is it worth watching?

 

My mad racist Grandad is a fan.

Been rewatching some old Klovn episodes, hilarious and outrageous as it is, it really made me crave for new Curb episodes, can't wait for the new Curb!

AHS is getting much better as the Roanoke mythology is expanded upon, it's infinitely more interesting than the bland interracial couple. I like how they keep going back thru each owner of the house, but I didn't make it to episode 6 yet.

  On 10/20/2016 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

AHS is getting much better as the Roanoke mythology is expanded upon, it's infinitely more interesting than the bland interracial couple. I like how they keep going back thru each owner of the house, but I didn't make it to episode 6 yet.

 

episode 6 is going to blow your fucking mind.

Mamoru Oshii directing a 5-part 25 minute OVA for Toonami called Sand Whale and Me:

 

http://otakuusamagazine.com/LatestNews/News1/Mamoru-Oshiis-Toonami-MicroSeries-Details-Revealed-8310.aspx

  On 10/20/2016 at 9:57 PM, olo said:

 

  On 10/20/2016 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

AHS is getting much better as the Roanoke mythology is expanded upon, it's infinitely more interesting than the bland interracial couple. I like how they keep going back thru each owner of the house, but I didn't make it to episode 6 yet.

episode 6 is going to blow your fucking mind.

It wasn't that mind blowing, but I had a hunch that's where it was headed after one particular scene where they broke character before. Sarah Paulson was teasing this on the Tonight Show, and said there is yet another twist coming up.

 

I'm curious to see which actress will play the "real" Butcher, or is there a Butcher at all? Is all of it bullshit?

Recently finished Better Call Saul season 2. Prob not as good as the first but still enjoyable, ending was a little predictable.

 

Black Mirror tonight...

  On 10/21/2016 at 11:11 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 10/20/2016 at 9:57 PM, olo said:

 

  On 10/20/2016 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

AHS is getting much better as the Roanoke mythology is expanded upon, it's infinitely more interesting than the bland interracial couple. I like how they keep going back thru each owner of the house, but I didn't make it to episode 6 yet.

episode 6 is going to blow your fucking mind.

It wasn't that mind blowing, but I had a hunch that's where it was headed after one particular scene where they broke character before. 

 

 

Sorry, my comment was internet sarcasm. Is there a sarcasm emoji?

What is AHS?

american horror story.

 

hatewatch if you dare.

 

 

 

 

Hell no, watched the first season, absolute rubbish.

Black Mirror, you magnificent bastard, you.

The two episodes I've watched today (nosedive and shut up and dance) were gripping. This programme rarely gets anything wrong.

 

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catching up on atlanta, the B.A.N episode had me in tears..

New Black Mirror is very yankified. It feels like the first season of a completely different show sometimes.

I love Black Mirror, but I'm usually left with a feeling of "we knew this already" in that it can be a little obvious. On the other hand, it can also be early and not obvious in certain ways. I enjoy it more when I don't feel like the story is an allegory for something in the real world. I'd rather have them be taken literally and then expand on how a piece of technology might be used in the future. Although it can do both brilliantly, like in the last episode it covers drone bees while making an allegory for mob justice and so on.

 

The first episode can also be seen as an allegory, but what makes it more interesting to me is that there are several people who want these voting systems created on blockchain technology, so there is something concrete in there too. The episode with the soldiers with brain implants to see monsters was cool, but I don't want to see it as an allegory for immigration or whatever as some people seem to have said. The thing here then is that the technology and literal aspects of the show need to be fleshed out enough to stand on their own, and the allegory shouldn't be too obvious. I find the Outer Limits from 1990s to be better, but I still come back to Black Mirror hoping for that next level shit, but it hasn't brought it except in a few certain instances. 

  On 10/22/2016 at 6:22 PM, coax said:

I love Black Mirror, but I'm usually left with a feeling of "we knew this already" in that it can be a little obvious. On the other hand, it can also be early and not obvious in certain ways. I enjoy it more when I don't feel like the story is an allegory for something in the real world. I'd rather have them be taken literally and then expand on how a piece of technology might be used in the future. Although it can do both brilliantly, like in the last episode it covers drone bees while making an allegory for mob justice and so on.

 

The first episode can also be seen as an allegory, but what makes it more interesting to me is that there are several people who want these voting systems created on blockchain technology, so there is something concrete in there too. The episode with the soldiers with brain implants to see monsters was cool, but I don't want to see it as an allegory for immigration or whatever as some people seem to have said. The thing here then is that the technology and literal aspects of the show need to be fleshed out enough to stand on their own, and the allegory shouldn't be too obvious. I find the Outer Limits from 1990s to be better, but I still come back to Black Mirror hoping for that next level shit, but it hasn't brought it except in a few certain instances.

You are mental

P.S. Brain implants episode was about ideology not "immigration"

Why mental?

 

This is the immigrant thing I was referring to, and yeah, ideology/whatever, it was just to bring up an example, didn't write too much about it

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/new-black-mirror-isnt-quite-charlie-brookers-bleakest-blackest-best-netflix/

"while "Men Against Fire" is a timely but on-the-nose metaphor about the way we treat immigrants."

  On 10/22/2016 at 9:24 PM, coax said:

Why mental?

 

This is the immigrant thing I was referring to, and yeah, ideology/whatever, it was just to bring up an example, didn't write too much about it

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/new-black-mirror-isnt-quite-charlie-brookers-bleakest-blackest-best-netflix/

"while "Men Against Fire" is a timely but on-the-nose metaphor about the way we treat immigrants."

The point is way more broad and timeless than just "immigration"

This is how ideologues view out-group members

And WHY they view them that way

Right-wing fascism (which is what we're really talking about, here) is *always* about purity, disgust and contamination

That is why out-group members are always described in terms of infestation, impurity, contamination

Immigration is just one instantiation of all this

Yeah I understand, that was a very offhand quick thing I included just as an example, but it was a bad way to put it. I was more interested in the literal vs metaphor aspect and how the series executes that. Also the outer limits did the same story in the 90s (season 4 ep 3 about soldiers taking a drug which makes human enemies look like alien monsters) which changed my perspective on the whole thing a bit. We can talk all day about the details and metaphors that are in the show but that wasn't what I was focusing on at the time

Black Mirror s03e02 holy shit that was annoying. two gold stars for overacting

haven't seen anything season 3 yet - is it less good than earlier things, maybe even shit?

If so, theory: this somehow has something to do with Netflix.

  On 10/23/2016 at 12:40 PM, phling said:

haven't seen anything season 3 yet - is it less good than earlier things, maybe even shit?

If so, theory: this somehow has something to do with Netflix.

It's not exactly shit, but it feels like a de-fanged American remake. Definitely loads of US TV style overacting. Episode 2 seems to have been well received, but I thought it was a series low point tbqh.

it did get kinda shite, the only episode i liked was the san junipero one because of how different it is tonally, stylistically and thematically, didn't seem so self important as well. the 1st one was ok too, if a bit cringey. but the others are just this overwrought pessimistic darkness and edginess with some kind of shallow message about tech and society. maybe the first seasons were like that as well but just seemed fresh and exciting, so it's just diminishing returns. but yeah, a big meh. the "not the bees!" episode is the worst, like some kind of lame CSI episode that just goes one for a length of the whole film for no reason.

Edited October 23, 2016 by eugene

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