What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 3/14/2022 at 8:43 AM, iococoi said:

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Naked News

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249044

 

nice. did you enjoy their take on the "russia/ukraine conflict"?

anyone ever watch this? i watched the 95 version with jemima rooper but really curious about this version as i grew up reading enid blyton

  On 3/14/2022 at 5:39 PM, zero said:

I wasn't a fan of her either really in the beginning of BCS. but the actress playing her really stepped up in the last season of the show and absolutely killed it IMO. I became a much bigger Kim fan after that.

and I hate these long gaps between seasons of shows. I know covid delays and everything, but still. hard to remember where this show left off exactly. 

What worse is when they don't give you a recap! Or you accidentally skip it and it's difficult to get back to it. Ugh FWP

Several youtubers offer recaps of the different seasons from well known series.

-For some reason I fell off house of cards after two seasons, and a few months ago I decided to give it another shot. The first four seasons are relly good, but it falls really flat the last two. I wish someone could tell Kevin Spacy to behave like a decent guy back in the 80s, because I really would like to see how the show was supposed to end.

-Pieces of Her: Toni Collette is good as always, but the whole plot gets messy and almost laughable pretty fast. Do not recommend. 

Can we talk about how everything on Netflix seems to be based on a story by Harlan Coben and how it's all the worst lowest common denominator shit of all time. Thank you. Great talk.

I guess Netflix' goalpost is lowest common denominator across the board for maximum revenue. Bad talk. My apologies.

new succesion season kinda suck compared to the 2 previous seasons

  On 3/13/2022 at 5:49 PM, milkface said:

Watching Ted Lasso at the moment. Not amazing but but awful either.

its ayt. second season is too cheesy for me though. 

  On 3/15/2022 at 5:44 PM, Ayya Khema said:

its ayt. second season is too cheesy for me though. 

Shit, I thought the first season was insanely cheesy already. I thought the show was going to be a lot more serious with a bigger emphasis on football rather than the players themselves

  On 3/15/2022 at 6:06 PM, milkface said:

Shit, I thought the first season was insanely cheesy already. I thought the show was going to be a lot more serious with a bigger emphasis on football rather than the players themselves

it goes from cheesy to near unbearable agenda driven garbage netflix

  On 3/15/2022 at 5:40 PM, Ayya Khema said:

new succesion season kinda suck compared to the 2 previous seasons

I agree and disagree. Somehow it was tangible it was the Covid season. Maybe it'll turn out to be something like The Wire's s02 : boring on first vision but pretty great and narratively useful in the context of the whole series ?

first season of Severance was interesting, can't believe Ben Stiller directed lol

That Taboo series on NF with Tom Hardy is quite good. It's from 5 years ago, had never heard of it.

The Last days of Ptolemy Grey is pretty good

I'm fed up with everything so lately I've been watching Guruguru Medaman on YouTube when I want to chill out. It's a 70s Japanese kids show about ghosts and such. Very spoopy. Stronk.

I can't explain why this clicked so hard, I guess I am a manchild at heart.

  On 3/16/2022 at 3:32 PM, ooqpoo said:

first season of Severance was interesting, can't believe Ben Stiller directed lol

Not finished yet is it?

Aye, looks like there's at least another season in the works https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl

  On 3/16/2022 at 5:07 PM, Enthusiast said:

That Taboo series on NF with Tom Hardy is quite good. It's from 5 years ago, had never heard of it.

I watched this when it came out. I agree it's pretty cool. Didn't appreciate them flirting with another season, but never committing.

  On 3/17/2022 at 8:04 AM, ooqpoo said:

Aye, looks like there's at least another season in the works https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl

I mean season 1 isn't finished yet - there's a new episode out today, with 3 more in the queue to wrap up S.1.

Ben Stiller has directed a lot of interesting projects - not all of them great, but some notable standouts include "Reality Bites", "Tropic Thunder", "Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Cable Guy", "Heat Vision & Jack" and of course, "Zoolander".

I think Aoife McArdle as the other director has to be given a lot of credit - "The You You Are (S.1E.4)" is a tremendous piece of film making. I haven't seen anything else she's done, but she's made three of the best episodes of the series so far.

  On 3/18/2022 at 9:16 PM, chenGOD said:

I mean season 1 isn't finished yet - there's a new episode out today, with 3 more in the queue to wrap up S.1.

Ben Stiller has directed a lot of interesting projects - not all of them great, but some notable standouts include "Reality Bites", "Tropic Thunder", "Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Cable Guy", "Heat Vision & Jack" and of course, "Zoolander".

I think Aoife McArdle as the other director has to be given a lot of credit - "The You You Are (S.1E.4)" is a tremendous piece of film making. I haven't seen anything else she's done, but she's made three of the best episodes of the series so far.

Dam, so there is! nice )

Yeah Ben Stiller's good for sure, but it's hard to trace his influence (as we know it) in Severance. Maybe his dark side is on full show here, which makes me hope he'll let that side out more often in the future. On closer inspection though, imdb only lists him as executive producer on the season 1 episodes, so yeah maybe it's mainly the work of this Aoife McArdie/Dan Erickson.

  On 3/19/2022 at 9:00 AM, ooqpoo said:

On closer inspection though, imdb only lists him as executive producer on the season 1 episodes

I thought he directed like the first four or something? 
Show is getting weird as fuck now, it’s balancing on either being great or being “lost”

Atlanta season 3 is on tomorrow! 

Doom Patrol - First season is bonkers, and bonkers good. A truly weird, fun, emotional and bizarro show that legit made me lol multiple times (and that almost never happens). Alan Tuydyk friggin owns in the first season. 

2nd season was a bit truncated (presumably due to pandemic), in middle of third season now. 

Sometimes pacing feels.. well, ok, pacing feels like the show is meant to be watched episodically with a week break in between and I've been binging it. Over reliance on flashback a little off putting, but WAY more awesomeness here than not.

7 Cliff "fuck yous" / 64 different personalities each with their own superpower

Recommendation: watch the first two episodes (and don't skip the recap in the 2nd) and you'll know if this is for you or not

  On 3/19/2022 at 1:55 PM, chenGOD said:

I thought he directed like the first four or something? 
Show is getting weird as fuck now, it’s balancing on either being great or being “lost”

Yeah I'm enjoying it, haven't seen Lost though. Think I'll wait with watching more till the whole thing's released then binge it up. 

Started watching Mare Of Easttown which is pretty good too, mainly the gritty, autumny small town American atmosphere and Kate Winslet who's rocking it as a surly cop who likes to vape. 

Gave up with Season 1 of The Wire. I was sat there (like a potato) thinking ‘do I really care about these crack heads in their depressing Baltimore housing project and their homeboy drug dealers?’ Answer? A resounding No

Not so fast wise guy! I will however take Lord Farr’s advice and try Season 3 and 4 because I liked the cops, especially McNulty, Cedric and Lester. 

had never heard of this church before but- see this guy next to the biebs? he's a pastor. and he ab-so-lute-ly doesn't want to bang a bunch of random babes. except this documentary is about exactly that. shocking huh?