What TV series are you watching at moment?

Big Mouth season 4 is out mutha fuckassssssss

 

would be nice to rewatch MILLENNIUM; loved that show back then but couldn't find it online yet. (not that i searched to hard tbh, i'm lazy.)

so right now it's succession, bojack, atlanta, curb your enthusiasm & better call saul i enjoy most.

 

Jon Bernthal in The Sopranos movie, 03/12/21 on HBO Max

of all the cults i've heard about, this one has to be one of the most bizarre and this is a great deep dive in who and what exactly these guys were all about.

depressingly good

This ranges from some decent writing and titillation, to Melrose Place quality melodrama with that bizarre Tyler Perry type Georgia drawl similar to Cardi B’s antics, and lots of tattooed asses. Ymmv

^^^ sounds fascinating.

this is a mess. firstly: terrible casting.  whoopi goldberg as mother abagail comes off like an even more useless guinan. second, the show jumps back and forth through the timeline that makes for an incredibly frustrating watch made even worse by the fact that they missed one of the most important parts: the spread of captain trips. 

imo- this is almost like a summary of the story done for a youtube audience with acting rather than narration.

So... a couple of days ago someone at my house had the brilliant idea to suggest to watch the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch / adaptation of the Archie comic book series)
Well, with great regret over the many painful horrible hours this thing cost me I can tell you:
DO NOT WATCH IT under any circumstances!
That's all.
Be warned.
<(T.T)>

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Been over 3 years since I last watched Breaking Bad so it's about time I give it yet another watch.

  On 12/19/2020 at 2:10 PM, milkface said:

Been over 3 years since I last watched Breaking Bad so it's about time I give it yet another watch.

this is a total FWP that I occasionally grapple with. should I re-watch show X, or dive in to new show Y. I probably end up spending way too much time thinking about this, as opposed to just pulling the trigger and doing one or the other.

but yeah, BB is definitely one of those shows that is on my "have yet to re-watch" list. 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  On 12/19/2020 at 2:01 PM, MaartenVC said:

So... a couple of days ago someone at my house had the brilliant idea to suggest to watch the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch / adaptation of the Archie comic book series)
Well, with great regret over the many painful horrible hours this thing cost me I can tell you:
DO NOT WATCH IT under any circumstances!
That's all.
Be warned.
<(T.T)>

Took one episode length equivalent of my life away forever but it has ended there.

Anyway, late to the party and watching raised by wolves now, seems all right and 4 episodes in, I will take a maniacal AI over religion 24/7.

Tried  mandalorian 2 but it seems it is more of the same: go to a planet, find a village, aww baby yoda, befriend a random character, kill a monster together, aww baby yoda, learn that it needs to be done again on a different planet, rinse and repeat. It is a for loop with variable skins really.

 

  On 12/2/2020 at 3:13 PM, Enthusiast said:

How did they manage to make Moonbase 8 so unfunny?

no idea. i made it like 2/3 of the way through the first ep, and was disappointed. all 3 of those guys are so funny....idk what happened. 

seems like they felt the need to make the make it more accessible than other heidecker, armisen, john c. type stuff.

Some standouts from what I've been watching:

Tales From the Loop

Servant

Kidding

Raised by Wolves

Limetown

  On 12/14/2020 at 12:00 AM, Nebraska said:

of all the cults i've heard about, this one has to be one of the most bizarre and this is a great deep dive in who and what exactly these guys were all about.

depressingly good

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yeah this one was always the most fascinating to me of all the famous cults. it seems like they weren't really forced to kill themselves a la Jonestown. you can watch some of the 'exit interviews' or whatever on youtube. they all seemed so happy just days before offing themselves, some of them even said "yeah we know you're all going to say we were loons, but we want to do this, this is our choice" etc. etc......brings up an interesting moral point. who's to say what they did was wrong? 

  On 12/14/2020 at 12:49 AM, Enthusiast said:

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hilarious show. solid "cringe" humor.

  On 12/28/2020 at 4:27 AM, mister miller said:

it seems like they weren't really forced to kill themselves a la Jonestown.

in that documentary, there is footage of them trying to recruit more members and when asked what exactly their belief is, they admit they're not sure.

applewhite, their leader, didn't have a problem if a member decided to leave. he merely thought they'd miss out on going "to the kingdom of heaven" which was more tailored to his own idea of what nirvana should be like

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great documentary about the yorkshire ripper whom i was mostly familiar with due to the track 'ripper territory'

any fans of nathan for you here? possibly the funniest show i've seen if you're into 'cringe' humor (i know many people arent)

 

 

Edited December 30, 2020 by mister miller

Started on Star Trek: DS9 again. Hadn't seen it in ages, but it mostly holds up so far. The interplay between characters' personalities is a lot more pronounced than on the other shows before it. Except for O'Brien, they're kind of stuck there for reasons beyond their control but try to make the best of it.

Maybe it was this episode I saw as a kid that gave me an appreciation for word salad.

https://youtu.be/XU-8Mh2iHEk

(doesn't want to embed for some reason...)

  On 12/30/2020 at 2:38 AM, mister miller said:

any fans of nathan for you here? possibly the funniest show i've seen if you're into 'cringe' humor (i know many people arent)

 

 

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Yeah I liked it. Some good stuff.

Too Old to Die Young

 

2 episodes in. 2 episodes of Nicolas Winding Refn huffing his own farts. Some really great cinematography and I'm curious to see where this is going, but there's no reason these 2 episodes couldn't have been condensed into the first 30 minutes of a movie. Many of his shots linger way too long and the dialogue is painfully slow.

 

 

  On 12/31/2020 at 3:48 AM, Frank Poole said:

Too Old to Die Young

 

2 episodes in. 2 episodes of Nicolas Winding Refn huffing his own farts. Some really great cinematography and I'm curious to see where this is going, but there's no reason these 2 episodes couldn't have been condensed into the first 30 minutes of a movie. Many of his shots linger way too long and the dialogue is painfully slow.

 

 

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it's very slow  but i couldn't not watch  it. it's so counter to current attention spans. it's compelling in many ways and super weird creepy and ultimately brutal.  it changes.. it has chapters. it turns.. but the turns are not any less slow.  he makes the world's he portrays foreign.. sometimes inhuman.

i watched all of it and i'm glad i did. his stuff, all of it that i've seen, is like a moving photoshoot.  that probably sounds stupid since we're talking about movies which are literally moving photos.. but the lighting and the details and wardrobe.. it's all kind of intense but muted. i don't know.. it's hard to explain. 

the neon demon is like that too in some ways though is more cohesive with its subterranean LA model world and fame etc. 

 

finished Fargo season 4 yesterday. loved the way it started out and some excellent acting overall (doctor senator), but as others have said - just too many characters that watered down the plot a bit too much. I binge watched it so was able to keep track of all the names, etc., but still. also, I couldn't buy into Chris Rock's performance 100%. and the tone of the last 3 episodes felt different, probably because these had to be filmed after they came back from a covid delay, and was shot when it wasn't winter outside.

  On 12/14/2020 at 12:00 AM, Nebraska said:

of all the cults i've heard about, this one has to be one of the most bizarre and this is a great deep dive in who and what exactly these guys were all about.

depressingly good

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I'd really like to watch this, need to just see how. Bloody HBOmax though. 

  On 12/30/2020 at 12:58 AM, Nebraska said:

great documentary about the yorkshire ripper whom i was mostly familiar with due to the track 'ripper territory'

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Good series, interesting take over the usual format. Woeful policing, pretty shocking how the police presented and treated the majority of the victims. 

Arrested Development

soz, can't connect