What TV series are you watching at moment?

Call the Midwife

 

surely the work of the antichrist

 

whoever does the music should be institutionalized

Iron Fist seems to be generating a mini SJW scandal before it even airs, as journalists who viewed preview episodes are going off the rails criticizing casting a Caucasian actor as Danny Rand??  

 

 

https://moviepilot.com/p/finn-jones-delete-twitter-iron-fist-cultural-appropriation/3809740

It sounds kinda bad anyway though.

 

edit - all of Marvel's Asian characters are laughable 1960s stereotypes and/or inscrutable mystics, so they're always going to end up pissing someone off.

Edited March 14, 2017 by doublename

  On 3/14/2017 at 4:39 PM, doublename said:

It sounds kinda bad anyway though.

 

edit - all of Marvel's Asian characters are laughable 1960s stereotypes and/or inscrutable mystics, so they're always going to end up pissing someone off.

 

yeah but Danny Rand is white, that's what so ridiculous, a lot of these "journalists" are pre-judging the show with no knowledge that the most well known incarnation of Iron Fist is a honkey.  Shit, even the current run is white boy Danny.  Now, recasting The Ancient One in Doctor Strange as a white British woman was stupid, they really can't win in the pc climate of today.

Maybe just dont make the milquetoast comic into a tv show

Aw mang, the brilliance of Inside No. 9 continues. Can't believe thats 4 episodes already. Only 2 left. Gonna be hurtin.

Mutiny on Channel 4, exciting stuff. + some of the bickering & bantz is quite entertaining.

  On 3/14/2017 at 11:31 PM, keanu reeves said:

Maybe just dont make the milquetoast comic into a tv show

 

an tv show of the actual milquetoast comic would be cool

 

edit: actually it would probably suck

Edited March 15, 2017 by dr lopez

legion is so tedious, holy shit

Just caught up to the end of s4 of The Americans. Best drama on TV. Criminally underrated.

  On 3/15/2017 at 3:36 AM, keanu reeves said:

legion is so tedious, holy shit

 

How far in are you? Felt the same way for the first few episodes, but the last 2 or 3 got me all in.

  On 3/15/2017 at 5:02 AM, ladalaika said:

Just caught up to the end of s4 of The Americans. Best drama on TV. Criminally underrated.

it is, so glad it's back. among the copious amounts of shit i watch, it's the only series that i'm really looking forward to from week to week. easily the best since sopranos in that "fucked up family drama" genre (at least among the shows i checked out).

 

and actually it has been consistently rated very highly, maybe it's just not popular in the u.s?

Edited March 15, 2017 by eugene

  On 3/15/2017 at 12:54 PM, eugene said:

 

  On 3/15/2017 at 5:02 AM, ladalaika said:

Just caught up to the end of s4 of The Americans. Best drama on TV. Criminally underrated.

it is, so glad it's back. among the copious amounts of shit i watch, it's the only series that i'm really looking forward to from week to week. easily the best since sopranos in that "fucked up family drama" genre (at least among the shows i checked out).

 

and actually it has been consistently rated very highly, maybe it's just not popular in the u.s?

Totally possible, I know no one who watches it here. Just started getting Emmy nods last season too, bit late. I haven't done any research into its overseas ratings though.

Hardly anyone watches the Americans, sadly.

Parks & Rec has been 10/10 so far

Legion EP6 - Some quality shit. A few standout scenes visually & aurally. The cricket slumber sequence was balling. Aubrey Plaza strip tease/cabaret dance sequence...yes please. 

Edited March 16, 2017 by olo

  On 3/16/2017 at 12:37 PM, olo said:

Legion EP6 - Some quality shit. A few standout scenes visually & aurally. The cricket slumber sequence was balling. Aubrey Plaza strip tease/cabaret dance sequence...yes please. 

 

so David was born with this parasite inside his brain, is that what it was telling him?  Good to see a mention of Xavier finally, this one is really a slow burn.

  On 3/16/2017 at 2:17 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 3/16/2017 at 12:37 PM, olo said:

Legion EP6 - Some quality shit. A few standout scenes visually & aurally. The cricket slumber sequence was balling. Aubrey Plaza strip tease/cabaret dance sequence...yes please. 

 

so David was born with this parasite inside his brain, is that what it was telling him?  Good to see a mention of Xavier finally, this one is really a slow burn.

 

 

Sounded like it. Mentioned hanging with him in the womb. Who's the mom btw? Not a big comic fan, so I have no idea.

Slow burn, but I wasn't bored by any means.

  On 3/16/2017 at 2:34 PM, olo said:

 

  On 3/16/2017 at 2:17 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 3/16/2017 at 12:37 PM, olo said:

Legion EP6 - Some quality shit. A few standout scenes visually & aurally. The cricket slumber sequence was balling. Aubrey Plaza strip tease/cabaret dance sequence...yes please.

 

so David was born with this parasite inside his brain, is that what it was telling him? Good to see a mention of Xavier finally, this one is really a slow burn.

Sounded like it. Mentioned hanging with him in the womb. Who's the mom btw? Not a big comic fan, so I have no idea.

Slow burn, but I wasn't bored by any means.

Gabrielle Haller

 

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Gabrielle_Haller_(Earth-616)

 

 

also, Legion renewed for season 2

gave up on legion on the fourth episode. the whole choreographed sequence at the end of the girl/man getting beat up then shot was so corny i felt embarrassed watching it. lot of track to lay to get there as well. this might be the most needlessly convoluted show i've ever seen.

oh yeah, that action scene was really bad. but the 5th ep is actually pretty neat. so far only the 1st  and the 5th episodes were good. ( i haven't watched the last one yet). it's ambitious and adventurous style and direction wise, so it's worth watching just for that, but when it comes to the actual story that's when it gets really dull like all those comic book adaptations. this whole marvel superhero origins thing is just pretty much exhausted by now, and this show snaps onto those rails even when the hero is supposed to be completely out there.

  On 3/16/2017 at 11:42 PM, eugene said:

 it's ambitious and adventurous style and direction wise

 

that's why i was still watching it, reminded me of hannibal in that sense. actually it's a lot like hannibal in that it's really tedious but cool looking.

I didn't realize Iron Fist would be so much corporate boardroom drama. Very slow getting stared.

lol

v lol