What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 10/23/2021 at 12:15 PM, Rubin Farr said:

There’s a lot of Biblical ambiguity that makes for a good discussion afterward.

Just finished up, agreed def good fodder for thought/discussion. It's an incredibly clever premise that holds a mirror up to religion/humanity an in interesting way - still feel like it wasn't quite as well executed as it could have been, but ultimately very well done. In particular:

8.5 Stephen Kings/9.56 Shirley Jacksons

Just finished Midnight Mass, 9/10

Tbh I wasn’t expecting much, just another similar kind of supernatural, spooky horror which I’ve seen over and over again (because I’m a fan of this particular genre). Though there are some parts that go at a snail pace, this was good, very good indeed. 

  On 10/17/2021 at 12:18 PM, MaartenVC said:

I watched these over the past months before sleeping:

Friday Night Dinner (2011-...)
Comedy with Tamsin Greig (Green Wing, Black Books)
"Two siblings share their Friday-night dinners at their parents' home and, somehow, something always goes wrong."
Pretty funny. About family-life. Less surreal.
 

this shows got some serious game. Perfect casting/writing and energy between the actors and every scene with Mark Heap is pure joy to witness since he's basically the same character as he was in Green Wing

Getting to the last couple episodes of Locke and Key Season 2.  Just as good if not better than season 1.  My brother didn’t like it as much because of the acting but I can overlook it.  The good acting makes up for the crappy kid / teen acting.    But other than that, tons of good storylines twisting around into a well crafted show.   Would recommend if you are a Stranger Things fan.  

this was impressively bad. i guess it's to be expected that everything star trek nowadays is basically just a rebranded version of star wars. not sure why they didn't make something like TAS but i guess that would require them to come up with something a little more original and less like 'lower decks'

curb goes S11

  On 10/29/2021 at 7:00 PM, Nebraska said:

this was impressively bad. i guess it's to be expected that everything star trek nowadays is basically just a rebranded version of star wars. not sure why they didn't make something like TAS but i guess that would require them to come up with something a little more original and less like 'lower decks'

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Yeah, I had to scrub almost all the way to the end, to get like 10 seconds of Janeway. insipid.

Anyone into foundation?

I tried watching the first episode but the combination of it being boring AF and not immediately relatable to the books made me quit it, is it worth powering through?

  On 11/2/2021 at 11:28 PM, GORDO said:

Anyone into foundation?

 

I tried watching the first episode but the combination of it being boring AF and not immediately relatable to the books made me quit it, is it worth powering through?

yea. foundation is excellent. but it sounds like you will find ways to not like it. 

  On 11/3/2021 at 12:11 AM, species8472 said:

yea. foundation is excellent. but it sounds like you will find ways to not like it. 

lot of people complaining it is not in the spirit of the books at all. i havent read them. i think its ok but there are definitely some goofy bits that remind me of late 90s scifi on tv.

Finished watching The Serpent last week so I was in need of a new drama series to watch on the two nights each week that my girlfriend and I watch our own shows. I have a few 20-30min shows going as well, but I need that one 45-60min show as something to really sink my teeth into. So I spent 15 minutes browsing my lists on the various streaming platforms — HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon. 

Animal Kingdom - This was in my Amazon list since a while back and I decided to try this first. Super douchey characters, bad acting, came off as a Point Break knockoff and I turned it off after 20 minutes. I love Point Break though but fuck these douchebags.  

Kevin Can Go F**k Himself - This was a recent addition to my Amazon queue, don't recall where I heard of it but decided to give it a go. Lead actor looked familiar, then I realized she (Annie Murphy) plays Alexis Rose on Schitt's Creek. Quite a different role here. Anyway this seems interesting, mixing a sitcom style complete with laugh track with a drama outside the house. I planned to continue watching, until I realized only the first episode is "free" on Amazon Prime and I'd have to pay for the rest or watch on AMC. So I guess that's that. 

Now I'm back to searching for something else to watch Wednesday night. Or not, actually, we're going to a show that night. So it'll be Sunday night. The browsing shall resume.

  On 11/3/2021 at 12:50 AM, sidewinder said:

Animal Kingdom - This was in my Amazon list since a while back and I decided to try this first. Super douchey characters, bad acting, came off as a Point Break knockoff and I turned it off after 20 minutes. I love Point Break though but fuck these douchebags.  

fuck this shit. just watch the movie and leave this cheap bastardisation of it out.

I tried watching the movies that made us, because, honestly it's a good concept. Started with the Aliens episode, but the editing, music and obnoxious voice over is the worst fucking shit of all time. This show seems to be targeting an audience without a functioning brain, not movie buffs as it should.

It made me want to kill someone. Probably the editor.

  On 11/3/2021 at 9:56 AM, Silent Member said:

I tried watching the movies that made us, because, honestly it's a good concept. Started with the Aliens episode, but the editing, music and obnoxious voice over is the worst fucking shit of all time. This show seems to be targeting an audience without a functioning brain, not movie buffs as it should.

 

It made me want to kill someone. Probably the editor.

You obviously haven’t seen this

https://www.netflix.com/title/81440982

Nope, thanks for the warning!

  On 11/3/2021 at 9:56 AM, Silent Member said:

I tried watching the movies that made us, because, honestly it's a good concept. Started with the Aliens episode, but the editing, music and obnoxious voice over is the worst fucking shit of all time. This show seems to be targeting an audience without a functioning brain, not movie buffs as it should.

 

It made me want to kill someone. Probably the editor.

Yip. I started the Halloween one, that lasted approximately 3 mins, then tried the Aliens one hoping the delivery would be different, and it wasn’t so that lasted approximately 1 minute. Dreadful job. Burn the editor at the stake!

  On 11/3/2021 at 12:11 AM, species8472 said:

yea. foundation is excellent. but it sounds like you will find ways to not like it. 

It just didn't grab my attention in the first episode, slow paced with no indication on where it's going, and the fact that I couldn't relate much of what was going on with the original story (of which I'm a huge fan) didn't help, I'm sure if I were more patient I could get into it, but it may not be worth it 

Brassic. It’s funny. My kind of humour. Plus Michelle Keegan is hot, but not hotter than Richard James who keeps appearing with his ‘dying slowly in the corner of a rave’ anthem from Drukqs. 

I recently read the first foundation book - I haven’t watched the new series but frankly I don’t think it would be hard to improve on the dialogue at the very least (the chapter with lord dorwin is almost unreadable)

maybe some of the concepts are fleshed out better in the subsequent books but “psychohistory” also feels like a very handwavey plot device

Motherland on Netflix. Good parenting humour and partially relatable

Rewatching The Sopranos and cumming stupoid hard IMO

On the 4th episode of the new season of Narcos:Mexico. Just fucking brilliant. Watch it.

  On 11/6/2021 at 8:43 PM, beerwolf said:

On the 4th episode of the new season of Narcos:Mexico. Just fucking brilliant. Watch it.

Stormed through the 10 episodes this weekend, it's good. Too bad there won't be more, S3 is confirmed to be the series finale - but there are several choices to get into the Sinaloa/El Chapo side of things.