What TV series are you watching at moment?

I’m nearing the end of Fargo S3 and I will admit that this season is WAY better than the others. S1 was ok but I honestly still don’t really understand what anyone liked about S2 except maybe Patrick Wilson and Ted Danson. 
Still, the comparison to breaking bad isn’t exactly balanced. I wasn’t even the biggest BB fan (I actually turned it off either near the end of S1 or the beginning of S2 and had friends nearly beg me to keep going, and I’m glad I did) but the formats are obviously totally different. 
BB is one storyline with the same characters and Fargo is more of an anthology with essentially unrelated chapters (save for a few characters that coincidentally happened to drift through, here and there). 
The main reason I’m liking Fargo S3 better is because there is more time committed to genuinely likable characters  (as in the characters in the world of the story are written as being likable people). For me, that really holds a lot of weight over just about anything else in any show. BB started grabbing me more when Jesse started becoming the protagonist. Up until then, I was like “why should I want to turn on a show to watch a bunch of assholes?” That sort of thing is why I can’t make it too far in most shows. For example, I couldn’t get past the first episode of Succession because I was like “everyone in this show is a rich asshole, why should I care?”  But that’s just me!

On Season 9 of Walking Dead. If you remember a few of us were talking about it not so long ago. I guess I became a fan of this show (seeing as I'm almost done!). Glad I have spin offs too watch.

I tried watching Mindhunter which on paper ticks all the boxes but in reality was so fucking dull. Can't work out the mountain of rave reviews about it. I think I made it to episode 6 before pulling the plug on it. So, so, so dull. It's about serial killers! Why is it so fucking dull! 

Perry Mason finished and it was indeed a great piece of television. Hopefully they can keep it up for the second season. Recommended if you haven't yet watched it.

Rick just blew himself up. Now he's dead.

  On 8/11/2020 at 6:32 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

I’m nearing the end of Fargo S3 and I will admit that this season is WAY better than the others. S1 was ok but I honestly still don’t really understand what anyone liked about S2 except maybe Patrick Wilson and Ted Danson. 
Still, the comparison to breaking bad isn’t exactly balanced. I wasn’t even the biggest BB fan (I actually turned it off either near the end of S1 or the beginning of S2 and had friends nearly beg me to keep going, and I’m glad I did) but the formats are obviously totally different. 
BB is one storyline with the same characters and Fargo is more of an anthology with essentially unrelated chapters (save for a few characters that coincidentally happened to drift through, here and there). 
The main reason I’m liking Fargo S3 better is because there is more time committed to genuinely likable characters  (as in the characters in the world of the story are written as being likable people). For me, that really holds a lot of weight over just about anything else in any show. BB started grabbing me more when Jesse started becoming the protagonist. Up until then, I was like “why should I want to turn on a show to watch a bunch of assholes?” That sort of thing is why I can’t make it too far in most shows. For example, I couldn’t get past the first episode of Succession because I was like “everyone in this show is a rich asshole, why should I care?”  But that’s just me!

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Season 3 was my favorite. Lots of stupendously amazing scenes in that. Season 2 was just a great season of TV, I’m not sure what’s so objectionable about it. 
 

When I started season 1 I expected to hate it because of the quirkiness and then Billy Bob shows up and just slays. Overall, the series has a tone and attention to detail, humour, characters that I don’t see matched by many other shows. I should do a rewatch at some point. 

  On 8/11/2020 at 7:24 PM, azatoth said:

Perry Mason finished and it was indeed a great piece of television. Hopefully they can keep it up for the second season. Recommended if you haven't yet watched it.

There's something about this that's keeping me away. Seems kind of cheesy? I don't know. I liked the main actor, Matthew Rhys, in The Americans, he seemed like not the best actor but it fit the role and the style of the show quite well. Not sure what to make of him in Perry Mason. Maybe I'll give it a shot someday. 

Continuing with season 3 of Narcos: Mexico and season 10 of Shameless as time permits (watching these alone). Started Snowfall on Hulu with the girlfriend, and it's good. Bit more violent than we expected, but we're enjoying it.

Just binged The Umbrella Academy.  Had an enjoyable time watching it but the tropes involved with time-travel based shows / film are mind-numbingly annoying, repetitive, and predictable.

This November, The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, — which premieres on Life Day, November 17, 2020 on Disney+

I'm gonna start watching Vikings pretty soon. Looks like my cup of chai. Think I might also start running with Fargo (I usually have 2 programs running simultaneously) as watmm speaks highly of it.

x-files

The unreleased episode of Black-ish is actually pretty good

https://celebritypage.com/unreleased-black-ish-episode-please-baby-please-comes-to-hulu

  On 8/12/2020 at 3:13 AM, sidewinder said:

There's something about this that's keeping me away. Seems kind of cheesy? I don't know. I liked the main actor, Matthew Rhys, in The Americans, he seemed like not the best actor but it fit the role and the style of the show quite well. Not sure what to make of him in Perry Mason. Maybe I'll give it a shot someday. 

Continuing with season 3 of Narcos: Mexico and season 10 of Shameless as time permits (watching these alone). Started Snowfall on Hulu with the girlfriend, and it's good. Bit more violent than we expected, but we're enjoying it.

After watching The Americans, I watched some interviews with the actors and thought Matthew Rhys seemed more believable on the show than as a whimsical Welsh guy in real life. So I’m going to watch Perry Mason next. 

Really enjoying Brave New World with the gf, about half way thru currently.

  On 8/16/2020 at 3:10 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Really enjoying Brave New World with the gf, about half way thru currently.

Tried but couldn't get past episode 1.

Binged stranger things and loved it. Any modern shows on netflix that I'd like if I liked stranger things?

  On 8/17/2020 at 12:33 AM, yekker said:

Binged stranger things and loved it. Any modern shows on netflix that I'd like if I liked stranger things?

Locke and Key.  

  On 8/17/2020 at 5:36 PM, lyst said:

Locke and Key.  

And i guess also DARK to some extent? 

Just watched the first episode of Years and Years. Deeply offended by this insult to my intelligence.

  On 8/17/2020 at 12:33 AM, yekker said:

Binged stranger things and loved it. Any modern shows on netflix that I'd like if I liked stranger things?

Have you seen all the 80s films that inspired it? Should take you less time to watch than a couple of mediocre shows, and probably a lot more rewarding.

Dark is good though, but not very stranger things like at all.

  On 8/17/2020 at 5:36 PM, lyst said:

Locke and Key.  

Awesome thanks.

  On 8/17/2020 at 7:25 PM, Tim_J said:

And i guess also DARK to some extent? 

I'll check that out too.

  On 8/17/2020 at 9:04 PM, Gocab said:

Have you seen all the 80s films that inspired it? Should take you less time to watch than a couple of mediocre shows, and probably a lot more rewarding.

Dark is good though, but not very stranger things like at all.

That's an idea.. 

Anyone start Lovecraft Country yet?

dark is only good for 1 and a half season... the rest is pure rubbish...

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  On 8/17/2020 at 9:04 PM, Gocab said:

Have you seen all the 80s films that inspired it? Should take you less time to watch than a couple of mediocre shows, and probably a lot more rewarding.

Dark is good though, but not very stranger things like at all.

Shut up tec! 

Oh, it's you Gocab...

I thought about making a thread about this not long ago:

• E.T. 
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Goonies??? 
• Short Circuit??? 
• D.A.R.Y.L.
• The NeverEnding Story

I think I'm missing the target here...

what's that one where they experiment on apes and a scientist wants to save one of them? not planet of the apes obvs...

edit: ahhh found it... it's Project X...

Started watching Gangs of London. Nobody does people beating the shit out of each other like Gareth Evans. So far so good.