What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 5/21/2019 at 10:42 PM, Rubin Farr said:

The long in development Dark Crystal TV series will finally air on August 30 on Netflix.

  On 5/25/2019 at 6:06 AM, iococoi said:

please lordy, dont let them fuxx this up.

Binged watched Fleabag and I can't stop thinking about it. Haven't really had that feeling in a long time, an emotional high and even butterfly-esque feelings after watching a show or film that really resonated with you and left you wanting to talk about it and/or just immerse your self in thought alone. 

My GF and I binged Fleabag last week, and we both tremendously enjoyed it. Quite a surprise though, we barely had any expectations when we started to watch it. Great acting too, for instance I wanted to punch the stepmother every time she was on the screen.

  On 5/31/2019 at 7:58 PM, Nil said:

My GF and I binged Fleabag last week, and we both tremendously enjoyed it. Quite a surprise though, we barely had any expectations when we started to watch it. Great acting too, for instance I wanted to punch the stepmother every time she was on the screen.

Yeah that's a real testament to Colman's acting - she often plays very likable characters.

My wife suggested we watched it, not sure where she heard about it. She just concluded months of long work hours and we had newfound free time to watch it together. I heard a blurb about it on public radio by chance but otherwise no previous buzz. When I mentioned it to my coworker who saw it gave a enthusiastic approval.

True Detective season3. God damn, hbo can bring it

Couldn't stay away from Omar and McNutty forever.

got the flu so watching the full season in bed since yesterday

p.s. 90s fashion was bitchin'

Since I've been sick a lot recently, I've gone through several Netflix offerings.

Was skeptical about Tuca and Bertie, but ended up really enjoying it. Kind of a Regular Show with adult themes and problems. Hopefully there's a second season on the way.

I Think You Should Leave is mostly hilarious. Awkward situations and dialogue is its bread and butter, but I love the utterly absurd skits. The one with the dude honking his car horn all day and the guy that crashes the hotdog car are my favorites.

The Toast of London starts off a little rough, but gets quite good. I love the voice over reading scenes. Also, the makeup is remarkably good for a comedy show.

Two episodes into Chernobyl, excellent stuff imo; beautifully shot and scored

In terms of theme and vibe it's basically Tomorrow's Harvest: The Show

I didn't expect to like Fleabag because of the hype train but nope, it was brilliant and funny as fuck

I've been watching Altered Carbon on Netflix, fuck it's good so far! I really hope it doesn't jump the shark. This is how the film Mute should have been.

I tried watching Fleabag ages ago and could't get into it, I guess I'll try again but IDK. Chernobyl sounds P depressing so I'll save that for autumn perhaps. 

  On 6/2/2019 at 9:06 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Two episodes into Chernobyl, excellent stuff imo; beautifully shot and scored

 

In terms of theme and vibe it's basically Tomorrow's Harvest: The Show

Just watched the first episode last night; fuck me if this isn't sad and depressing, but amazingly shot. I was showing Mrs. Joyrex the Kid of Speed website (Chernobyl enthusiasts will know what I am referring to) and we were amazed at how accurate they got the exterior shots of the reactor building.

The bit where they had the emergency dispatch recordings with the Cyrillic text was straight up BOC

Chernobyl = Stranger Things for IDM nerds. 

  On 6/3/2019 at 7:10 PM, bendish said:

Chernobyl = how you make a proper moving picture with sound we call a movie (or in this case a series)

Good tv has surpassed film

Yeah, Chernobyl is excellent. 

  On 5/26/2019 at 6:03 PM, Candiru said:

I tried watching the movie The Dark Crystal and had to stop after like 10 minutes because it was so wack

I have a childhood memory of sleeping through this.

  On 6/3/2019 at 1:45 PM, MadameChaos said:

I've been watching Altered Carbon on Netflix, fuck it's good so far! I really hope it doesn't jump the shark.

It does.

The rebooted Twilight Zone was... mixed for the most part - too many SJW-themed episodes (they took the fact the original TZ was topical and timely to the extreme), and the finale was cringy af. Hopefully they find their feet in the next series.

  On 6/3/2019 at 9:54 PM, Joyrex said:

The rebooted Twilight Zone was... mixed for the most part - too many SJW-themed episodes (they took the fact the original TZ was topical and timely to the extreme), and the finale was cringy af. Hopefully they find their feet in the next series.

Conceptually, I don’t think that any of the episodes rang false - they only faltered here and there in execution (and in a clear failure to try to stretch 30min concepts to 60min episodes). Example being, Rewind could have been an all-time classic episode with a bit less dialog in the climax.

Unrelated: excited for the Chernobyl finale tonight. After the Game of Thrones disaster, it’s nice to be reminded that HBO can shit out great content at the drop of a hat.

What we do in the shadows - the series has strength. The bit when Matt Berry woke up in the animal sanctuary cage as human after being put there as a bat a few hours earlier was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 

  On 6/3/2019 at 10:42 PM, Lada Laika said:

Conceptually, I don’t think that any of the episodes rang false - they only faltered here and there in execution (and in a clear failure to try to stretch 30min concepts to 60min episodes). Example being, Rewind could have been an all-time classic episode with a bit less dialog in the climax.

 

Unrelated: excited for the Chernobyl finale tonight. After the Game of Thrones disaster, it’s nice to be reminded that HBO can shit out great content at the drop of a hat.

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Yeah, that's a good way to describe it actually - faltered in execution. I'd rate the episodes as such:

1. The Comedian - 4/10
2. Terror at 30,000 Feet - 6/10
3. Replay - 7/10
4. A. Traveler - 7/10
5. The Wunderkind - 2/10 (this was a terrible episode - almost as bad as the finale)
6. Six Degrees of Freedom - 8/10
7. Not All Men - 6/10
8. Point of Origin - 7/10
9. The Blue Scorpion - 9/10 (my personal favourite)
10. Blurryman - 0/10 (wtf)

Ah, Replay not Rewind. Whoops. Whatever. 

The buzz about Apple TV+ is that it's bland as Hell.  This looks aight, but Apple really needs to make Foundation their GOT and it could take off.

Watching the Strain. I like it, but keep feeling it might fall into the Hemlock Grove file of why the fuck did I watch that?