What TV series are you watching at moment?

Hyped for this, hopefully giving different directors a chance will produce some good stuff

  On 6/16/2021 at 1:35 PM, usagi said:

 

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Doooope. He's an odd duck isn't he? 

Rather them take their time and get this right. One of my first introductions to manga and still a classic. Short clip looks on point. 

  On 6/16/2021 at 2:33 PM, Rubin Farr said:

I think it just got canceled 

good.

  On 6/16/2021 at 2:39 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Hyped for this, hopefully giving different directors a chance will produce some good stuff

 

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doubtful. my wife and i watched pose. the first season was pretty good despite the fact that it was a dramatized version of paris is burning. season 2 gave up a big portion of the storyline they established and turned it into a semi-musical. season 3 went into a fantasy musical stage play and the final season was the remaining 20% cast re-enacting their favorite scenes from 80s films and sex and the city. 

not sure i mentioned this before, but i've been slowly watching this lately. someone mentioned it here a while back (i'm sorry, i forget who), and it's finally on vicetv. 

highly recommended 

This is pretty great

Harley Quinn (animated TV series on HBO Max) - Just finished binging the first two seasons. It's fucking great. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking and inspiring - a passing familiarity with the tropes of DC Comics helps deepen the enjoyment, but not necessary by any means. Very adult (in all ways - language, gore, etc. but also in themes). A great show about broken people trying to find their place in the world, viewed through the lens of Adult Swim-style humor. A+

Tried watching some of this, it plods along extremely slowly

just finished fargo s4. took a bit longer for me to get into this one compared to previous seasons, but by half way i was properly hooked.

aside from that, i'm currently working my way through the final season of the trip. also great!

Hopefully this doesn’t suck

Fingers crossed I guess it will be the usual bullshit though.

I totally forgot a Foundation show was coming. Read it as part of a lockdown reading group last year. While I struggled with the book, I liked the concept. Will give the show a go.  

  On 6/28/2021 at 4:30 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Hopefully this doesn’t suck

one of the creators wrote a bunch of superhero movies and the other one did terminator dark flop and the black dahlia. and it's on apple+ so....

  On 6/28/2021 at 7:26 PM, Shimon_Shimon said:

I totally forgot a Foundation show was coming. Read it as part of a lockdown reading group last year. While I struggled with the book, I liked the concept. Will give the show a go.  

The books are challenging, especially  if you try to read them in childhood

I watched the Craig of the Creek 5-part season finale Capture the Flag today. It was amazing!!!! Completely exceeded my expectations I adored every second of it. I cannot wait for Season 4.

Supernatural - Really needed a new show so went through this entire series.  It's pretty campy at times, but overall i enjoyed it.  You really fall in love with the characters.

Happy Endings - Reminded me of How I Met Your Mother, just with less plot and storyline.  It wasn't great and wasn't horrible.  I wonder if they could've fleshed it out more if it hadn't been canceled.

Game of Thrones - Been waiting for the right time to get into this, i figure it's so out of pop culture by now that it was that time.  Onto Season 3 and I've liked it so far.  I can see why it got so much hype, it keeps you on the edge of your seat most of the time.  Only question is why do all of Ned Stark's kids look like they have some kind of down syndrome?  Or is that just how British people all look.

  On 7/6/2021 at 1:34 AM, lyst said:

Supernatural - Really needed a new show so went through this entire series.  It's pretty campy at times, but overall i enjoyed it.  You really fall in love with the characters.

Happy Endings - Reminded me of How I Met Your Mother, just with less plot and storyline.  It wasn't great and wasn't horrible.  I wonder if they could've fleshed it out more if it hadn't been canceled.

Game of Thrones - Been waiting for the right time to get into this, i figure it's so out of pop culture by now that it was that time.  Onto Season 3 and I've liked it so far.  I can see why it got so much hype, it keeps you on the edge of your seat most of the time.  Only question is why do all of Ned Stark's kids look like they have some kind of down syndrome?  Or is that just how British people all look.

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We used to watch Happy Endings, my girlfriend at the time loved it, and HIMYM. After Happy Endings got canceled, Damon Wayans Jr. went back to New Girl, and they even referenced it. A cute show for its time.

GameCenter CX (Japanese) - currently plowing through all 25 seasons of it to catch up. Way ahead of its time, considering how many people watch people play games these days...

this was very entertaining if you can ignore the fact that the story has been rehashed about 10 billion times. the producers however knew this and have added a new element for assist the talking heads with their rehash of the story: a lie detector AI. 

^ looks interesting. I googled it and then read the first 1/8th of this article that's behind a stupid paywall but the first few paragraphs raise an interesting question which is: what if the same technology was applied retrospectively to things like videos of court testimony (or, I suppose, even prospectively). Seems totally unlikely in the near term... but in the long term? Who knows, we've got fucking Amazon AI firing contract workers at will ....

Back OT: Loki. GD I'm loving it. Thought Ep 3 was a bit of a let down but 4+5 have been nonstop awesome, and suspect on rewatch 3 just provides a nice, contemplative, character building bridge for the rest of the whole. Also really enjoying the week to week suspense - usually avoid that shit like the plague but it's been fantastic fun. If they stick the landing, this may end up taking up the next to top spot in favorite Marvel things ever (#1 goes to Legion, forever and always)

  On 7/8/2021 at 8:08 PM, T3551ER said:

^ looks interesting. I googled it and then read the first 1/8th of this article that's behind a stupid paywall but the first few paragraphs raise an interesting question which is: what if the same technology was applied retrospectively to things like videos of court testimony (or, I suppose, even prospectively). Seems totally unlikely in the near term... but in the long term? Who knows, we've got fucking Amazon AI firing contract workers at will ....

that's why concerned "innocent" people have already started working on AI lawyers to circumvent this intrusion to privacy

  On 7/8/2021 at 8:19 PM, Nebraska said:

that's why concerned "innocent" people have already started working on AI lawyers to circumvent this intrusion to privacy

Thnx for the link that's... I don't know. Fascinating? Disturbing? We had a similar presentation provided by the folks at IBM a couple of years back w/ the aim of using AI to parse information in the medical record to increase efficiency/predict patterns/etc. .. ..same ideas, just overlaid onto different datasets. .. 

I hope someday there will be an AI that will create IDM for me that will be distributed to a demographic determined by an AI that ends up being a bunch of AI bots having a rave inside a computer. Also: 

  On 7/8/2021 at 8:08 PM, T3551ER said:

^ looks interesting. I googled it and then read the first 1/8th of this article that's behind a stupid paywall but the first few paragraphs raise an interesting question which is: what if the same technology was applied retrospectively to things like videos of court testimony (or, I suppose, even prospectively). Seems totally unlikely in the near term... but in the long term? Who knows, we've got fucking Amazon AI firing contract workers at will ....

Back OT: Loki. GD I'm loving it. Thought Ep 3 was a bit of a let down but 4+5 have been nonstop awesome, and suspect on rewatch 3 just provides a nice, contemplative, character building bridge for the rest of the whole. Also really enjoying the week to week suspense - usually avoid that shit like the plague but it's been fantastic fun. If they stick the landing, this may end up taking up the next to top spot in favorite Marvel things ever (#1 goes to Legion, forever and always)

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If Loki all leads to the baddie we’re expecting, then great. If not, a wasted opportunity for world building. 

  On 7/8/2021 at 9:40 PM, Rubin Farr said:

If Loki all leads to the baddie we’re expecting, then great. If not, a wasted opportunity for world building. 

IKR?!!

Just started season 2

Loki season finale. Fantastic. I feel like it's getting a fair amount of hate in the press for serving a setup for the rest of the Marvel Phase IV stuff instead of being a definitive season end but I totally disagree. Given that there is a promised S2 it's a perfect, cliffhanger episode that still brings main narrative themes, character arcs, and plots to a natural feeling conclusion, while setting up where things go next. 

It's also incredibly exciting (to me) to see the caliber of thing that Marvel is pushing forward with this - this was an incredibly well acted, nuanced, fascinating series that entertained but still managed to be contemplative about its characters, had bombast but also felt incredibly personal. It's also an argument for why a tight six hours is a better format than a feature film - it allows room for development and a story to breathe, while also remaining taut. 

In a way, it feels like what Feige is (amazingly) doing is providing the sort of depth, interweaving, and coherence that existed in the comics for a long time into the medium of film/tv - something that seems like it'd be easy but is as much an art as anything. The ending frankly makes me super excited for all the "next things" - it's got that "oh, crap, now I need to buy the spider man comics 'cause I just gotta know how that's all going to fit in" sort of feeling I've not felt outside of the comic genre. 

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