What TV series are you watching at moment?

Binged the first season of American Gods, I guess it's good, but the messaging is a bit too on the nose for my taste. Dat Crispin Glover though.

On the second season of Happy Valley. I like it better than Broadchurch so far. The acting is masterful and the plot is pretty fucked. Highly recommended! 

Trying to finish Time After Time since the rest of the episodes finally got ripped from Amazon. They're not even included w/ Prime, you have to buy each one individually for $3. Fuck dat

  On 9/1/2017 at 10:39 AM, hello spiral said:

On reflection I'm not sure it was worth 20 hours of my time

i wanted to warn you of this

edit: eh it was fun enough, just mostly forgettable

new season is murder

F is for Family... tried to get into it, even made it to Season 2 but boy is it dull. It's billed as something that gets quite dark, but it's a fairly standard middle class slump tale. It's accurate, at least from my own experiences growing up, but not very compelling, especially when BoJack Horseman gets fucking bleak.

Rick and Morty Season 3 - The recent toxin episode was a bit of a miss but overall still great. I miss the "Twisted Adventure Time" vibe of the first couple of seasons but I like that they're forcing the characters to see what assholes they all are. Should at least temper the massively obnoxious fanbase who seem to idolise Rick.

Everyone is always complaining about this obnoxious fanbase, where are you all encountering these people?

on watmm

  On 9/3/2017 at 11:39 PM, Nebraska said:

 

new season is murder

it was deece, i enjoyed it overall and gobbled up the new episodes pretty quick, it was mostly the political and that us-dea-cia-columbian government relations stuff that was the most interesting and kept me hooked. but then a lot of it felt like rehashing the stuff from previous seasons despite focusing on a very different kind of cartel. the array of evil thing cartels can do has been exhausted already (all those wives and children murderings or threats of,  dismemberments, burtal massacres and so on), but yet they still feel the need have some basic amount of those to make it pulpy i guess. there was also an excess of those "is he corrupt or not" games from previous seasons and the rabbit-outta-hat actual real good guys appearances. many contrived tension building scenes felt like they were really stretching things even within the leeway that that opening message of "inspired by true events..." allows. i liked how it looked though, really vivid and luscious colors with lots of high contrast/shadows play, maybe it's a bit low brow in the cinematography biz but i liked it.

Newman is in it and I like that. 

Halt and Catch a Fire is enjoyable. 

i barely finished its first episode, it's just so dull, turgid and cliched. it really pales in comparison to silicon valley which kinda deals with the same stuff, but in much more fun, clever and vigorous way. take for example that ultra-hot and ultra-smart punk/goth/gamer/engineer/whatever girl that gets established as a main character in the first episode, it's just so stupid, it's borderline angelina jolie from 1995's hackers but without a hint of self awareness of its cheese. or that montage of american psycho guy ruining his apartment by hitting baseballs everywhere and looking all determined and serous with some 80's post punk song with overly literal lyrics for the scenes as a background, i mean come on.

SV deals with both "women in hi-tech" issue and with this wild and often misguided entrepreneurial ambition (in the form of bachman, for example) in a much more fun and ridiculous but nevertheless more illuminating way.

while the unapologetic sentimentality and existential subject matter of the leftovers always resonated quite deeply with a part of me i'm probably not the most proud of i've got to say:

that finale just fucked me right in the soul.

fuck.

(also quite remarkable from a technical point of view imo)

oh yeah and got s7 was a bit shit innit. "shame" ... 'specially following the s6 finale, which was one of the best.#

edit ozarkzzz.

  On 9/5/2017 at 7:32 PM, eugene said:

i barely finished its first episode, it's just so dull, turgid and cliched. it really pales in comparison to silicon valley which kinda deals with the same stuff, but in much more fun, clever and vigorous way. take for example that ultra-hot and ultra-smart punk/goth/gamer/engineer/whatever girl that gets established as a main character in the first episode, it's just so stupid, it's borderline angelina jolie from 1995's hackers but without a hint of self awareness of its cheese. or that montage of american psycho guy ruining his apartment by hitting baseballs everywhere and looking all determined and serous with some 80's post punk song with overly literal lyrics for the scenes as a background, i mean come on.

SV deals with both "women in hi-tech" issue and with this wild and often misguided entrepreneurial ambition (in the form of bachman, for example) in a much more fun and ridiculous but nevertheless more illuminating way.

Yes the riot girl is beyond cliche and so is the damaged patrick bateman dude...and the family man just trying to make his techy mark on the world...

and the nerd groups and their geek speak

and the battle versus corporate establishment 

ill give it a chance though

silicon valley is great...although it felt like it always had those tying up and making everything right endings and turns....and someone always just has a moment of blinding light innovation where the boys get back on top....funny though which is the point i guess

reckon they need more gamer gate parody shit in it

finished the leftovers. i've never seen a show that had so many great episodes of television with so many horrible moments in them. there's a sound design thing on this show, where like a rush of noise will build and then there's a hard cut to near silence. they do this over and over until it becomes parody. and the score made me never want to hear max richter again. and i felt the last episode was classic lindelof, with the penultimate ep teasing some ideas that never really get resolved and then the final concluding with an (extremely moving and well acted) monologue that felt like it should have been an entire episode. and yet, i loved this show. basically a premium cable version of lost with better acting, writing and direction. weird to think the woman who directed deep impact helmed like half the episodes of this show but hey, whatever works.

  On 9/6/2017 at 6:41 AM, zaphod said:

finished the leftovers. i've never seen a show that had so many great episodes of television with so many horrible moments in them. there's a sound design thing on this show, where like a rush of noise will build and then there's a hard cut to near silence. they do this over and over until it becomes parody. and the score made me never want to hear max richter again. and i felt the last episode was classic lindelof, with the penultimate ep teasing some ideas that never really get resolved and then the final concluding with an (extremely moving and well acted) monologue that felt like it should have been an entire episode. and yet, i loved this show. basically a premium cable version of lost with better acting, writing and direction. weird to think the woman who directed deep impact helmed like half the episodes of this show but hey, whatever works.

Max Richter was best when his music had that narrative space for your imagination....especially with pepperings of novels that worked well to enrich the score-like quality of his albums....when placed over adverts or films or tv series...the music just becomes sentimental emotive sap....a shame cause i have many a memory of walking dark streets of london with him as soundtrack of the gloom...

Going through Better Call Saul season 2 right now. I'm actually more interested in Mike's story at this point.

  On 9/6/2017 at 10:00 PM, Braintree said:

Going through Better Call Saul season 2 right now. I'm actually more interested in Mike's story at this point.

I really like the first season of this. It was well paced and a pretty good story in its own right. The next two seasons have their moments, sure, but it feels artificially slowed down so they can fit one season of content into two seasons. There was also a major drop-off in the humor that any story involving Saul requires. It sucked the life right out of the show. It's like they established his character so perfectly in the first season and then completely forgot. There was so much dead air that could have actually been entertaining. Honestly, you could probably skip the second season altogether and the third wouldn't be confusing at all, because not much really changed. I was also just really sick of Chuck as a character even though the actor did a great job. 

  On 9/5/2017 at 7:32 PM, eugene said:

i barely finished its first episode, it's just so dull, turgid and cliched. it really pales in comparison to silicon valley which kinda deals with the same stuff, but in much more fun, clever and vigorous way. take for example that ultra-hot and ultra-smart punk/goth/gamer/engineer/whatever girl that gets established as a main character in the first episode, it's just so stupid, it's borderline angelina jolie from 1995's hackers but without a hint of self awareness of its cheese. or that montage of american psycho guy ruining his apartment by hitting baseballs everywhere and looking all determined and serous with some 80's post punk song with overly literal lyrics for the scenes as a background, i mean come on.

SV deals with both "women in hi-tech" issue and with this wild and often misguided entrepreneurial ambition (in the form of bachman, for example) in a much more fun and ridiculous but nevertheless more illuminating way.

First season is the weakest one, I liked 2 and 3 more. The dramatic cheese is kind of the point - the characters' interactions become very entertaining in a weird soap opera sort of way.

I watched the first season of Silicon Valley and it was kind of forgettable. The humor fell flat a lot, even when it was successfully satirical. I liked the cast a lot, but not so much the writing. I was watching at the same time as Veep though, and I love that show so maybe it just didn't hold up in comparison. I'll probably check out the rest eventually and see if it gets better.

silicon valley was great until it became clear there is no end game for the show around season three. but that first season is very funny.

the one episode of halt and catch fire that i watched was terrible. like amc was clearly trying to make a prestige television show in line with mad men and failed miserably. it was so tv writers room in every aspect. 

  On 9/3/2017 at 11:39 PM, Nebraska said:

 

new season is murder

So the new season takes place in New York and Columbia? How is it so far?

better call saul is one of the few pieces of TV that i enjoy a lot more watching one episode a week than binge watching. the cliffhangers are so mild that you dont really crave another. 

  On 9/7/2017 at 7:31 AM, kichiguy said:

So the new season takes place in New York and Columbia? How is it so far?

imo it's like 95% columbia and 5% new york. so far, it's really good. not season 1 & 2 narcos good, but more like besides twin peaks this is the next best show good. 

i still miss pablo- the actor and character- but cali were a very different cartel who liked to think of themselves as legitimate businessmen- so the "action" is a little more toned down

colombia

Columbia's where the coke goes once it gets to New York.