What TV series are you watching at moment?

the wire s05 - wtf happened? a pretty big chunk of it was really fucking stupid.

it started going downhill in season 4 imo

i'd go with the crowd and also say  that s04 overall was the best. maybe just because the topic of school fucked-upedness itself hits closer than others covered. the kids did a really good job (kinda wary of googling them further in order not to be burned just like with snoop who was an actual murderer, lol/wtf) plus the interlocking mayoral race was also very well done and engaging. i think maybe simon is more of an ethnographer at heart, i felt more educated and impressed with the depth, the thoroughness, his interest in ties between the systems that he covers and the overall quality of their portrayal rather than by the artistic and cinematic turns. he most probably realized very well himself, that no one one would watch it without omars, titty sucking lesbian cops and the incessant one liners.

back to usual programming:

american gods first episode-  overstylized and hackneyed stupidity with awful dialogue and phony cgi with some pretensions at deep symbolisms or whatever. i pretty much laughed through half of it.

americans - i respect its measured pace and patience, but it really became a bit of one note dreary snoozefest for the last 4-5 episodes or so. at some points it even feels like they artificially prolong the pauses between the sentences in the dialogue. hope it's not just going to kinda fade out limply like rectify did at the end.

  On 5/7/2017 at 9:11 PM, eugene said:

the wire s05 - wtf happened? a pretty big chunk of it was really fucking stupid.

agreed, especially the newspaper stuff, but i remember really enjoying the series finale

hating all television and yet still watching it must be an incredibly rewarding pastime. 

(rick and morty is the tits)

i don't see anyone saying they hate all television but my reading comprehension is admittedly pretty low

  On 5/6/2017 at 11:59 PM, dr lopez said:

why do you guys like rick and morty? i found the burping really hard to deal with.

It seems like every other person I run into is into this at the moment. Some friends introduced me to it about 3 years ago and I could not get into it at all. They were really, really into it to the point where I felt uncomfortable expressing how little I was enjoying it. It wasn't like I hated it, it just had absolutely 0 appeal to me, but yeah, being polite it made me enjoy it even less.

first two American Gods were enjoyable, Fuller's grandiose style is far more suited to this fantastical setting than it was with Hannibal, which always stretched the limits of credulity (though I still enjoyed it). Was never a fan of Neil Gaiman, so not sure what to expect with the plot or whatever, but it's good to see Lovejoy back on the telly if nothing else.

  On 5/4/2017 at 8:47 PM, Braintree said:

Starting to go through the new MST3K on Netflix. I'm very much enjoying it so far. Having the new characters and voices was a bit off-putting at first, but I warmed up to it. It seems like the pace is faster with a lot more jokes crammed in.

Couldn't get into this either. The first episode was just limp dick for me. Did it get better after that?

I wanna watch Atlanta and Handmaid's Tale but I don't have cable or Hulu and I don't feel like hunting for sketchy streaming sites.

Finished Narcos s2. Decent series, but I felt the constant back-and-forth retaliations got old fast. It treads too closely to the Walking Dead plot structure of set up camp > camp gets attacked > set up camp > camp gets attacked > set up camp > camp gets attacked, and so on.

All caught up with Better Call Saul s3 too. It hasn't really gripped me as much as the previous seasons did, but I'm still enjoying it, so far.

Other than that, I'm patiently waiting for Fargo to air in the UK, and for the return of Twin Peaks.

Tried the first episode of The Leftovers, at the recommendation of someone.

Got to the end credits and saw the name Damon Lindelof, and realised that I didn't need to see that name to know that it was a waste of a fucking hour of my life.

Season 2 is great, but yeah The Leftovers doesn't start well at all.

loads of Harvey Birdman and Space Ghost

The Leftovers has to be one of the dumbest tv shows ever created, it's quite enjoyable though, and the acting is great.

S03 of the wire rewatch. It's taken some time to adjust to the time frame of the series. This time around I really appreciated season 2 much, much more.

Rewatching BrBa with a younger relative who didn't catch it at the time. We've been binge watching like mad and are now at the final season. It feels like such a weird way to watch the show, everything happens so fast. I still clearly remember the week long waits, the almost reverent feeling when a new episode was out, and of course the unbearable tension and waiting between seasons. It almost doesn't feel like the same show.

4 episodes into the Handmaids Tale & its a class act

Elizabeth Moss is superb & the tone is as nuanced as anything else lauded over from the last couple of decade's worth of US telly

Ann Dowd also shines as the uber-cunt midwife come gestapo-type, a face that beams love but that can switch to psychopathic in a heartbeat

Just finished Atlanta. Very good.

  On 5/10/2017 at 6:33 PM, cwmbrancity said:

4 episodes into the Handmaids Tale & its a class act

 

Elizabeth Moss is superb & the tone is as nuanced as anything else lauded over from the last couple of decade's worth of US telly

 

Ann Dowd also shines as the uber-cunt midwife come gestapo-type, a face that beams love but that can switch to psychopathic in a heartbeat

Between THT and Leftovers, Ann Dowd is my new favorite Margo Martindale

  On 5/6/2017 at 6:56 PM, dr lopez said:

rick and morty - i watched one episode and it's pretty close to unwatchable. doesn't look good, voice acting bad, jokes that i don't care about (cartoon marriage on the ropes etc). everyone and their spectrum brother seems to rave about this one (often a bad sign) and my fears were confirmed. it's probably one "you just have to get into" but I'm not going to do that when rewatching space ghost is better than most television. especially "indie" TV. or oh my god that new hulu category of "edgy animation" chinesus clist that's stupid.

You used to be such a nice boy.

  On 5/8/2017 at 5:01 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 5/4/2017 at 8:47 PM, Braintree said:

Starting to go through the new MST3K on Netflix. I'm very much enjoying it so far. Having the new characters and voices was a bit off-putting at first, but I warmed up to it. It seems like the pace is faster with a lot more jokes crammed in.

Couldn't get into this either. The first episode was just limp dick for me. Did it get better after that?

 

I wanna watch Atlanta and Handmaid's Tale but I don't have cable or Hulu and I don't feel like hunting for sketchy streaming sites.

 

Watch 'Time Travelers.' If you don't like that one, you won't like any of them.

with the upcoming brexit and everything..

HYPERDRIVE

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481449/
 

rick and morty is terrible

i can barely sit still in a room near it

some good concepts but mainly it's worse than king of the hill or that elk. fuck it.

careful dude they'll start trashing u on discord with that kind of anti-rick and morty talk

lol

damn page break

  On 5/14/2017 at 5:30 PM, fenton said:

i can barely sit still in a room near it

lol

lol

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anyone watching Fargo S03? Hadn't even realized there's a new season until recently.

The new main bad guy is quite fantastic, but not feeling this season as strongly as season 2, so far..