What TV series are you watching at moment?

Anybody watched The Night Of? I enjoyed the veryWiresque line-up

Yep it's good so far

Edit to hoggy

  On 2/24/2017 at 5:40 PM, msalami said:

Anybody watched The Night Of? I enjoyed the veryWiresque line-up

First ep was great but it dropped off a lot by the end.

March / April / May looking good for Spring premieres:

Iron Fist

Fargo

Better Call Saul

Gotham (ymmv, lol)

The Last Man on Earth

The Americans

Into the Badlands

Archer

Samurai Jack

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Doctor Who

American Gods

Twin Peaks

finished the Metal Evolution series, fookin' fantastic and an easy 9/10

where's the industrial episode though? No Killing Joke, NiN, Ministry, Prong???

The Fall with Gillian Anderson. I'm in the middle of season 2.

Serial killers are such dicks.

High Maintenance....if they'd set it another country it might have worked, but that way of talking so endemic in the States really started to boil my piss with every character seeming like a self-involved narcissist (apart from the Asians & the actual dealer)

structurally it worked, the premise, the episodes link & build characters, funny in the right places but my god apart from the swingers & chlamydia i wanted to knock most of the cast out

same with Girls, someone needs to tell these folks the world doesnt revolve around them and their fuckin neurotic self-centered world views

gonna have to hit the vape just from the flashbacks these hacks have caused

I thought Mary + Jane was actually funnier, and more ridiculously stoner nonsense.

  On 2/26/2017 at 9:03 PM, cwmbrancity said:

High Maintenance....if they'd set it another country it might have worked, but that way of talking so endemic in the States really started to boil my piss with every character seeming like a self-involved narcissist

lol 

i tried watching this show but it's no good. it's like girls, i take exception to the characters to such a degree that i can't see through my hatred. i also know a lot of people who speak in the drawn out, vocally fried, nasal way that literally everyone on this show speaks and it drives me insane. i think it's american millenials and younger gen x people who employed too much sarcasm as children and short circuited their ability to vary their vocal mannerisms.

  On 2/24/2017 at 10:02 PM, beerwolf said:

finished the Metal Evolution series, fookin' fantastic and an easy 9/10

 

where's the industrial episode though? No Killing Joke, NiN, Ministry, Prong???

Have u watched Fix, the documentary on Ministry? Basically all those guys are in it, but it focuses way too much on Al Jourgensen's heroin addiction sometimes, and not enough on the music. It is funny to see the heyday of 90s industrial rock reflected on by the musicians who were there.

Just watched The OA's first episode. Looks very promising.

  On 2/24/2017 at 5:15 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Legion needs to figure out where it's going, I mean have the kid turn on a TV or something to show what world this exists in. Was the Mutant Registration Act passed in this continuity? Is Section 3 or whatever part of the Feds, or some villainous org, who runs it, funds it? Playing mind games will get old after a while, this episode seemed to heavily lean on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, IMO.

If the alien blob guy is the same as the comics, this whole thing could be the cosmic reality show with none of it being real. Hopefully it goes in a different direction, but all signs are kinda pointing that way. Blob mind blocking, young David talking to stars, etc...

  On 2/27/2017 at 1:46 PM, hoggy said:

 

  On 2/26/2017 at 9:03 PM, cwmbrancity said:

High Maintenance....if they'd set it another country it might have worked, but that way of talking so endemic in the States really started to boil my piss with every character seeming like a self-involved narcissist (apart from the Asians & the actual dealer)

 

structurally it worked, the premise, the episodes link & build characters, funny in the right places but my god apart from the swingers & chlamydia i wanted to knock most of the cast out

 

same with Girls, someone needs to tell these folks the world doesnt revolve around them and their fuckin neurotic self-centered world views

 

gonna have to hit the vape just from the flashbacks these hacks have caused

 

about Girls - you mean the characters? I mean, they are supposed to be selfish, that's part of the point of the whole thing - at least that's how I see it. And I know Hannah is awful but I really love that character

 

I was really enjoying Girls until season 2, it just got even more self indulgent than it already was and I found myself just hating Hannah. So why carry on watching it?

I've been watching Seinfeld from the beginning recently. Now if I'm going to watch a show where I hate the people but find them entertaining, that's the one for me.

  On 2/27/2017 at 2:02 PM, Blanc Canvas said:

 

  On 2/27/2017 at 1:46 PM, hoggy said:

 

  On 2/26/2017 at 9:03 PM, cwmbrancity said:

High Maintenance....if they'd set it another country it might have worked, but that way of talking so endemic in the States really started to boil my piss with every character seeming like a self-involved narcissist (apart from the Asians & the actual dealer)

 

structurally it worked, the premise, the episodes link & build characters, funny in the right places but my god apart from the swingers & chlamydia i wanted to knock most of the cast out

 

same with Girls, someone needs to tell these folks the world doesnt revolve around them and their fuckin neurotic self-centered world views

 

gonna have to hit the vape just from the flashbacks these hacks have caused

 

about Girls - you mean the characters? I mean, they are supposed to be selfish, that's part of the point of the whole thing - at least that's how I see it. And I know Hannah is awful but I really love that character

 

 

 

I was really enjoying Girls until season 2, it just got even more self indulgent than it already was and I found myself just hating Hannah. So why carry on watching it?

 

I've been watching Seinfeld from the beginning recently. Now if I'm going to watch a show where I hate the people but find them entertaining, that's the one for me.

 

i absolutely hated girls for this reason aswell. hannah was such an absolute boner. 

That whole "you're meant to hate the characters" thing is bullshit. Girls plays it straight most of the time, you're obviously expected to empathize with these people. I think lena dunham thinks highly of hannah, probably feels girls speaks to a universal

experience. And even if it were just hateable horrible people, be entertaining! Seinfeld was, so is curb and always sunny.

theres a difference between the savagely funny hypocrisy & uber ironic rage of Larry David in CYE & the self-centered narcissistic sense of unfulfilled entitlement that pours out of shows like Girls & High Mainenance

thats not a sexist comment, more a case of portraying this collective "look we have everything & we still moan about everything" world view

& to flip the feminist critique, ALL the males in Girls are fukn gimps, props for emasculating so-called emotionally stunted dicks

its shallow, boring & not even funny, but the demographic supports this type of toss so networks keep making it

CYE is genius, more ridiculous than Seinfeld (which is also over-rated) but ultimately funnier than anything in eons.....The Weatherman, The Swan & Palestinian Chicken....theres been nowt better since Richard Pryor

quality>quantity & theres a record surplus of bs with competing broadcasters, but even papers like the Guardian do wanky episode reviews so assholes can lock themselves into "yeah i'm watching this which keeps me culturally informed" blah

vape time, deffo

  On 2/27/2017 at 7:36 PM, keanu reeves said:

That whole "you're meant to hate the characters" thing is bullshit. Girls plays it straight most of the time, you're obviously expected to empathize with these people. I think lena dunham thinks highly of hannah, probably feels girls speaks to a universal

experience. And even if it were just hateable horrible people, be entertaining! Seinfeld was, so is curb and always sunny.

you hate them when they act like horrible people, you empathize and support them when they behave well and succeed... seems pretty normal for characters in drama. would be hilarious if a bunch of over 30 straight men started complaining WOW COUNT VRONSKY IS SUCH AN ENTITLED SHIT AND HORRIFIC ANIMAL ABUSER WHEN HE KICKS THAT HORSE AND HAS AN AFFAIR WITH A SIMILARLY ANNOYING AND ENTITLED MARRIED WOMAN. UGH SO UNLIKABLE WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN READ THIS.

talking about that show is really painful on this board but I'll just say this - I haven't seen a TV show that so perfectly captures a world and a cast of characters in that world, however small and annoying that world is (which it very much is) I'm not speaking for anyone but myself here but I unfortunately live in that world. the educationally privileged but not always financially successful 20-somethings in New York who love themselves and talk about themselves all the time. (like i'm doing now) the show is not a sitcom like seinfeld or curb at all - it's a (melo)drama - if you wouldn't like pride and prejudice then you wouldn't like girls (for men to like melodrama it has to be sci fi garbage or have dragons, swords and rape lol so ghey to me)

w/e I know i'm talking to the wroooong group here. at least theres hoggy

You forgot weepy 15 hr WW2 epics.

men don't need melodrama to have those things to be appreciated. I'm a big fan of Pedro Almodovar for example, his films are just funny, with great acting, and interesting characters (many of whom you wouldn't like if you met in real life, but they're fun to watch, unlike the characters of Girls, who just make you want to kick the TV screen while you're watching - not only are they unlikable, but they're dull and rarely funny).

...I also loved Rectified, which was ridiculously melodramatic.

  On 2/27/2017 at 11:37 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 2/27/2017 at 7:36 PM, keanu reeves said:

That whole "you're meant to hate the characters" thing is bullshit. Girls plays it straight most of the time, you're obviously expected to empathize with these people. I think lena dunham thinks highly of hannah, probably feels girls speaks to a universal

experience. And even if it were just hateable horrible people, be entertaining! Seinfeld was, so is curb and always sunny.

you hate them when they act like horrible people, you empathize and support them when they behave well and succeed... seems pretty normal for characters in drama. would be hilarious if a bunch of over 30 straight men started complaining WOW COUNT VRONSKY IS SUCH AN ENTITLED SHIT AND HORRIFIC ANIMAL ABUSER WHEN HE KICKS THAT HORSE AND HAS AN AFFAIR WITH A SIMILARLY ANNOYING AND ENTITLED MARRIED WOMAN. UGH SO UNLIKABLE WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN READ THIS.

 

talking about that show is really painful on this board but I'll just say this - I haven't seen a TV show that so perfectly captures a world and a cast of characters in that world, however small and annoying that world is (which it very much is) I'm not speaking for anyone but myself here but I unfortunately live in that world. the educationally privileged but not always financially successful 20-somethings in New York who love themselves and talk about themselves all the time. (like i'm doing now) the show is not a sitcom like seinfeld or curb at all - it's a (melo)drama - if you wouldn't like pride and prejudice then you wouldn't like girls (for men to like melodrama it has to be sci fi garbage or have dragons, swords and rape lol so ghey to me)

 

w/e I know i'm talking to the wroooong group here. at least theres hoggy

Listen bitch, i like melodrama just fine. I don't find the "world of girls" worthy of my attention. Don't make that a gender thing. I read plenty of female writers who actually do what dunham is claiming to do. The difference between jane austen and lena dunham is jane austen had talent and died a kissless virgin, a regency era neckbeard who made the literary equivalent of intricate slice of life anime. And dont let me catch you calling sci fi garbage again. Final warning.

its ok i like it too.

i like keanu too, esp when he calls me a bitch

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Fortitude s2

Watching Ronja the Robbers Daughter with my kid. Pretty good series.

The OA is pretty awesome. I even liked the ending.