What TV series are you watching at moment?

Born to Kill

Typical edgy Channel 4 drama/thriller. No tension, entirely predictable.

Fargo season 3 finally started airing here in the UK last night. Slightly predictable, but I definitely enjoyed it. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an absolute goddess as always.

Fargo ep.7 - Quality episode with things falling into place. That bus crash with Nikki was nicely done. Wondering if there's more to her character in regards to Varga than just a loose end. Also Ennis is looking more important than just an accidental kill...

The leftovers ep.7 - aff its nut/10

  On 6/1/2017 at 4:10 PM, messiaen said:

The leftovers ep.7 - aff its nut/10

The flopping penis sound was allegedly made by dropping a guinea pig onto a blanket

  On 6/1/2017 at 1:59 AM, ladalaika said:

 

  On 6/1/2017 at 12:17 AM, messiaen said:

just finished battlestar galactica. good cheesy fun.

OG or the RDM one?

 

the 2004 version.

  On 6/1/2017 at 5:45 PM, messiaen said:

 

  On 6/1/2017 at 1:59 AM, ladalaika said:

 

  On 6/1/2017 at 12:17 AM, messiaen said:

just finished battlestar galactica. good cheesy fun.

OG or the RDM one?

the 2004 version.

fukken yeasss I love that shit hoo wee

  On 5/31/2017 at 11:47 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 5/31/2017 at 11:33 PM, cwmbrancity said:

aka Mr Style Over Content

 

The Handmaid's Tale rocks, i could give a fuck about Trump and analogies to contemporary US politics/circus, its real strength is that its underpinned by a novel that was ahead of its own time when written

 

does it justify the hype and probable guardian blogging? possibly not, but then there will always be contrarian commentaries to something solid regardless, so pro's/cons

 

5/10 is just plain mean, i love the original score, not the pop shit, the droney dissonant string sequences & Ann Dowd is the kind of lady who is a credit to her industry, its easily as good as anything else wanked over in the last 30-odd years (disregarding Twin Peaks as that occupies a universe & style unto itself)

It's not mean. I'm not reviewing the book. If I wanted just the 'content' then I would've read the book.

 

Trying to make out that the visual look of a TV show doesn't matter is reductionist.

 

In any case, my opinion about the show (and the rating I gave it) is subjective. Just because I don't love it as much as you, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

 

if you think it looks wanky, i'd disagree on that front....there is more than enough scope to enhance the tones & moods with the black, grey/slate colour schemes & the puritan-themed scarlet/reds of the handmaid's themselves

surely thats part of the adaptive process, to try & create this cloak of distempered dislocation? so yes, imho the visual elements work in its favour rather than against it, particularly when the chronologies switch between before & present time-frames or maybe people want jazzymatazzz graphic colour schemes slapped across their screens to hold their attention

if you dont like it, well theres plenty of wank out there to dissolve into these days, i was just a bit surprised to see such a low score, you can dislike it all you want no-one's gonna interfere with that so much as challenge your perception a tad

  On 6/1/2017 at 5:45 PM, messiaen said:

 

  On 6/1/2017 at 1:59 AM, ladalaika said:

 

  On 6/1/2017 at 12:17 AM, messiaen said:

just finished battlestar galactica. good cheesy fun.

OG or the RDM one?

the 2004 version.

Did you watch the 3 spinoff movies as well

  On 6/1/2017 at 1:23 PM, olo said:

Fargo ep.7 - Quality episode with things falling into place. That bus crash with Nikki was nicely done. Wondering if there's more to her character in regards to Varga than just a loose end. Also Ennis is looking more important than just an accidental kill...

Many questions left; why do Vargas' men want Nikki, why did he call off the hit on her, how did DJ Qualls get past all of those cops and out of the building without even being spotted, why would a trained bus driver completely swerve in the snow bc of a single man in the road?  That was far fetched.

I liked Nikki's capture, a call back to William Macy crawling out the bathroom window in the movie.  Also, Stussy's reaction to the cop was hilarious, I had to let out an "oooh he's fucked"

  On 6/1/2017 at 9:32 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  Also, Stussy's reaction to the cop was hilarious, I had to let out an "oooh he's fucked"

Yea, he done. He was going full Bravado just the moment prior with his dinner party to full on shit the bed with the cop. 

Nice also seeing Mr. Wrench on the bus next to Nikki.

wtf DJ Qualls indeed.

I know I recognized that guy, but it escaped me. So he's the only character to appear in all 3 seasons huh.

The new police chief is the worst part of the show, really poorly written. He exists just to antagonize Gloria Burlge and move the plot forward.

That character takes me out of the show every time he's on screen. He's like a South Park parody of the clueless police chief trope. 

It's like mashed potatoes.

well if the dr. van something can build a machine to bring the people back and forth then why the fuck he didn't industrialize the whole process and brought the 2% back to the 98% world to solve the whole problem, huh? cunts.

the Long Strange Trip for a Pigpen-era Dead fan looks a good prospect, talk about a band who deserve and serious anthology, my thesis supervisor is on the official archive caucus, theres so much material to sift thru just hope it delivers

proper musical archaeology, hopefully, as was the BBC's Beatles anniversary Sgt Pepper musicology blurb, somehow the presenter does his job v well cos it opened up the craft in much more depth than was expected and theres masses of gear on this lp alone, succinct and fun without cracking the magic of the album detrimentally

  On 6/5/2017 at 1:45 PM, eugene said:

well if the dr. van something can build a machine to bring the people back and forth then why the fuck he didn't industrialize the whole process and brought the 2% back to the 98% world to solve the whole problem, huh? cunts.

He said he left to go be with the 2%, presumably he never told anyone about the machine and only built it again after she nagged him about it a bunch. And that's if she's telling the truth - which is completely irrelevant anyway.

I dunno, I though it was the best finale I've seen in years. Top 5 show for me overall.

The fuck are you talking about though?

Leftovers I'm assuming?

  On 6/6/2017 at 3:19 PM, olo said:

Leftovers I'm assuming?

got it in one

Really enjoyed leftovers. Perfect overall length for a show that didnt really make a lot of sense. I thought the final answer was quite anticlimactically satisfying and believable all things considered aswell

Finished Narcos yesterday. Watching Better Call Saul and Mr. Robot.

Fargo ep: Who rules the land of denial - I've been up and down with this season, but last nights episode may be one of my favorites of the whole series. Definitely up there. At least those first 30 minutes. Fucking great stuff. Props to Ray Wise. He is the yang to Varga's yin. Love the cosmic bowling alley as a place of judgement.

2 more episodes left.

edit: Big fuck yea to Mr. Wrench.

  On 6/8/2017 at 1:31 PM, olo said:

Fargo ep: Who rules the land of denial - I've been up and down with this season, but last nights episode may be one of my favorites of the whole series. Definitely up there. At least those first 30 minutes. Fucking great stuff. Props to Ray Wise. He is the yang to Varga's yin. Love the cosmic bowling alley as a place of judgement.

 

2 more episodes left.

 

edit: Big fuck yea to Mr. Wrench.

was Ray Wise the Sam Elliott character from Big Lebowski; God, the Universe, omniscient observer?  that whole scene seemed like either an homage, or straight up connection to Lebowski-verse (that makes the 3rd Lebowski reference this season I count).  The rest was who the fuck knows, "a year later" it seems so far fetched, are we gonna get a "we were dead the whole time", or "it was all a fevered dream, coma" etc.  Something is afoul in Minnesota, doncha know.