What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 6/10/2019 at 3:55 AM, Stickfigger said:

I revisited love death and robots last night and watched a few eps at random. I enjoyed it. Had very low expectations going in compared to the first time around and this did help things along a bit

Yeah, started watching this randomly a couple of weeks ago (good w/ busy life to have episodes that are only 17 mins long at max or whatever) . . . *shrugs* seems pretty enjoyable. Interesting blend of animation styles w/ short little sci-fi vignettes. Lot of these could be little snippets from episodes of something larger (that I might not watch but are great in small doses). Don't get the hate. 

  On 6/10/2019 at 6:29 PM, lickneonlights said:

Quite liked new Black Mirror. Don't understand all the negative comments I see... I mean, surely this season is not so dystopian and maybe it's not a welcome change of tone for some, but all 3 episodes were interesting to watch and enjoyable. Good bits of humour as well. 

Same thing here - I . . . don't get the hate? Show is experimenting with diff things and changing it up in some places. . . Striking Vipers in particular felt was an interesting examination of gender identities/effect of tech on how we view these sorts of things. Dunno - if there had been 0 prior seasons of Black Mirror people would be shitting themselves over it, maybe just suffering under weight of its own expectations. . . 

I wish I had stopped at the first ep of Black Mirror this season. It was still a B, B+ for me, but at least it was interesting. Andrew Scott was great in ep2 but it would have been a big wet fart without him and is basically an Emmy reel. I have no idea what to make of ep3. It was like a kids’ movie with swears. 

I can't seem to settle on anything at the moment (probably because there's just too much to choose from)

So decided to finally watch The Sopranos (yep never watched it!!). Almost done the first season, and I'll definitely be sticking with it.

  On 6/10/2019 at 9:57 PM, Lada Laika said:

ep2 would have been a big wet fart without him

But it's not, and he's in it, and it's great. Why would you envision an impossible scenario to belittle a show or take away from the experience? (just curious, don't mean to be a dick)

Like, surely, the same thing could be said about anything – A would have been awful without B. Breaking Bad would have been boring without Jesse and his signature bitch, Stranger Things would have been a weird kid show without 11 and her story arc, and so on and so forth. That's the thing. Andrew Scott was in that episode and it was brilliant to watch.

  On 6/10/2019 at 10:08 PM, beer badger said:

I can't seem to settle on anything at the moment (probably because there's just too much to choose from)

So decided to finally watch The Sopranos (yep never watched it!!). Almost done the first season, and I'll definitely be sticking with it.

An excellent thing to decide to watch. It'll get you to ponder the mysteries of life

Shane Meadows is back on Warp with The Virtues. Quite the gut punch as per usual. Also seems to have been a catharsis for Shane, exorcising his own demons via Stephan Graham's intense performance. Spoilery interview with Shane here where he bears quite a bit of his soul with us. 

  On 6/10/2019 at 11:18 PM, lickneonlights said:

But it's not, and he's in it, and it's great. Why would you envision an impossible scenario to belittle a show or take away from the experience? (just curious, don't mean to be a dick)

Like, surely, the same thing could be said about anything – A would have been awful without B. Breaking Bad would have been boring without Jesse and his signature bitch, Stranger Things would have been a weird kid show without 11 and her story arc, and so on and so forth. That's the thing. Andrew Scott was in that episode and it was brilliant to watch.

Breaking Bad was terrible and Smithereens was terrible. 

  On 6/10/2019 at 11:36 PM, Stickfigger said:

He is now the black guy from Season 1 Episode 2. 

He always was. That's my fave episode because of how meta that one is. That's basically Brooker's career and he is fully aware of it.

That Miley episode did fucking suck tho. Also, you can apparently get a tie-in tshirt on the NiN website. Great way to undermine your whole hamfisted message guys!

Apparently everyone is watching Chernobyl and it's currently the highest ranked show on IMDB. Can't wait to check it out.

  On 6/11/2019 at 2:24 PM, hello spiral said:

That Miley episode did fucking suck tho.

oh my god it was so bad. It was like watching a Disney channel movie. The other two were decent enough but if I were to make a ranked list of episodes all three would be near the bottom. It was just a bad season overall.

Watched Fleabag based on your comments here. I enjoyed it! It had all the makings for a cringe show but it dodged all the bullets and I have to say it is one of the best TV shizznits of the last few years.

Fleabag was great, but was there just a little too many shots of her looking wryly at the camera? 

Caught up with the latest Black Mirror. Really enjoyed Striking Vipers. Great episode that had the euphoric, heady feeling I remember from watching some of the early episodes. Not too preachy or dystopian, more a fun and optimistic study of balancing a kink with normal life and making it work. 

  On 6/11/2019 at 10:31 PM, Brisbot said:

Apparently everyone is watching Chernobyl and it's currently the highest ranked show on IMDB. Can't wait to check it out.

if you have to tell people how to behave at the site of the biggest nuclear accident, then we've already lost 

Apparently he's referring to this. Jfc. 

Found a nice summary in the comments: "Wow, people lost their lives, lost all of their belongings, were getting sick for years to come and now some chicks use it as a background for nudes, seeking Internet fame. This is wrong."

  On 6/12/2019 at 9:31 PM, Nebraska said:

if you have to tell people how to behave at the site of the biggest nuclear accident, then we've already lost 

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Aggretsuko is such a funny show

Springwatch

Ingredients: empty home, lube, 15-30mg of Diazepam, 350mg of decarbed botanicals eaten 90mins previously, 1 brightly covered puffa jacket, then the fun begins.

Michaela "The Hitman & Her" Strachan crying over hatchlings getting devoured by polecats, pine-martins & other ninja cunts. As much as i love birds, leaving dead chick corpses & faecal sacks all round the gaff is asking for it. Does the hawk spare the mouse? Some top rate savage deaths & came real fkn hard a few times. However, Chris Packham (sp?) has to be the most English person i've ever experienced, massive turn off, the voice intonation, sitting cross-legged, weird clothes, sprouting shit about nothing that will stop all these species & habitats getting annilatered in the next 100yrs.

Over to you Chris.

Guardians of the Galaxy animated series, guilty pleasure.

  On 6/13/2019 at 12:44 AM, cwmbrancity said:

However, Chris Packham (sp?) has to be the most English person i've ever experienced, massive turn off, the voice intonation, sitting cross-legged, weird clothes, sprouting shit about nothing that will stop all these species & habitats getting annilatered in the next 100yrs.

Over to you Chris.

He's Aspergic.

https://vimeo.com/252876361

fully aware of that, however:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chris+packham+springwatch+clothes&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0_IT41OviAhUPTBUIHfvzCXEQ_AUIECgB&biw=1366&bih=604

plus:

https://www.chrispackham.co.uk/chris-packham-clothing

The new North Face? Would Terry Nutkins don these psychedelic monstrosities?

The detour is back s04

can't get hulu to finish beverly hills 90210 so, been watching this every morning:

Half-way in to "The Act". Terrifying story, solid acting on both parts but a bit of a snoozeville at times, the pacing could have been a little more dynamic. I guess it's intriguing because I'm not aware of what it's based on and I just want to see how it's going to unravel and end.

  On 6/20/2019 at 8:01 PM, lickneonlights said:

Half-way in to "The Act". Terrifying story, solid acting on both parts but a bit of a snoozeville at times, the pacing could have been a little more dynamic. I guess it's intriguing because I'm not aware of what it's based on and I just want to see how it's going to unravel and end.

Chernobyl, hbo continues to deliver on its perfection. Other than the last season of GOT 

Finally finishing Legion S2 before the final season 3 begins next week.