What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 3/25/2022 at 5:28 PM, beerwolf said:

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. 

 

my experience with season 1 was similar. IIRC it took until maybe ep 6 before I started figuring out what is going on the 1st time I saw it. like with most David Simon shows, there are just soooo many characters, and it always takes me a minute to remember names and figure out who they are talking about. I re-watched seasons 1-4 last year for the 1st time since seeing it originally back in the mid 00's, and it was much easier to get on 2nd viewing, as I remembered who's who pretty quickly, understood character motivations, etc.

season 2 gets a lot of hate, but I never thought it was that bad. yes it puts the Barksdale/Stringer Bell stuff on the back burner to focus more on the dock workers, but it is still super high quality TV. S2 also works as almost a stand alone season that you don't really need to be familiar with the entire police/drug dealing back story to make sense of it. but I wouldn't recommend starting there, as the police vs. dealers thing is of course the highlight of this show. not that I'm some expert on the Bmore streets, but the dialogue/slang used in the Wire is just so real, you forget that you are watching actors.  

  On 3/25/2022 at 9:28 PM, zero said:

not that I'm some expert on the Bmore streets, but the dialogue/slang used in the Wire is just so real, you forget that you are watching actors.  

Half of the time you actually aren’t watching actors. 
Like Snoop, for example.

  On 3/25/2022 at 9:28 PM, zero said:

my experience with season 1 was similar. IIRC it took until maybe ep 6 before I started figuring out what is going on the 1st time I saw it. like with most David Simon shows, there are just soooo many characters, and it always takes me a minute to remember names and figure out who they are talking about. I re-watched seasons 1-4 last year for the 1st time since seeing it originally back in the mid 00's, and it was much easier to get on 2nd viewing, as I remembered who's who pretty quickly, understood character motivations, etc.

season 2 gets a lot of hate, but I never thought it was that bad. yes it puts the Barksdale/Stringer Bell stuff on the back burner to focus more on the dock workers, but it is still super high quality TV. S2 also works as almost a stand alone season that you don't really need to be familiar with the entire police/drug dealing back story to make sense of it. but I wouldn't recommend starting there, as the police vs. dealers thing is of course the highlight of this show. not that I'm some expert on the Bmore streets, but the dialogue/slang used in the Wire is just so real, you forget that you are watching actors.  

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Great write up zero!

I’d admit, unlike sitting with music, sitting in front of the tv I don’t have much patience. If a show isn’t ticking all the right boxes I get restless and itchy feet. And think my time would be better spent elsewhere. I may stick with it.

Season 3 of Atlanta has begun and proves that it is the best fucking show. What I love about this series is that every scene is captivating and you have no idea where any of it is going.

HALO - take the worst bits of Mandalorian, Battlestar Galactica, and Starship Troopers and you have this. Some bad green screen work, terrible dialogue and dinner theater acting. We turned the sound off and just watched it with subtitles and put on some music, much better.

  On 3/25/2022 at 5:28 PM, beerwolf said:

McNulty

Thanks for the reminder, I started watching Brassic this week (just one ep so far) and spotted him in there. Made me wonder, is he American or English? Let's find out...he's English! I had no clue, always assumed he was American based on The Wire. Not sure I've seen him in much else.

  On 3/26/2022 at 11:47 PM, sidewinder said:

Thanks for the reminder, I started watching Brassic this week (just one ep so far) and spotted him in there. Made me wonder, is he American or English? Let's find out...he's English! I had no clue, always assumed he was American based on The Wire. Not sure I've seen him in much else.

  On 3/26/2022 at 11:47 PM, sidewinder said:

Thanks for the reminder, I started watching Brassic this week (just one ep so far) and spotted him in there. Made me wonder, is he American or English? Let's find out...he's English! I had no clue, always assumed he was American based on The Wire. Not sure I've seen him in much else.

Yeah he’s the doctor in Brassic. And he’s in one of the funniest sketches. Had me (almost) rolling on the floor. First season of that was 10/10 brilliant. Second season didn’t do much for me.

  On 3/27/2022 at 11:22 AM, beerwolf said:

Yeah he’s the doctor in Brassic. And he’s in one of the funniest sketches. Had me (almost) rolling on the floor. First season of that was 10/10 brilliant. Second season didn’t do much for me.

Seems alright but I got mega Lock Stock & Trainspotting rip-off vibes. Will continue to watch though, as I like that stuff.

  On 3/26/2022 at 7:56 AM, gnarlybog said:

Season 3 of Atlanta has begun and proves that it is the best fucking show. What I love about this series is that every scene is captivating and you have no idea where any of it is going.

That opening scene in the premiere was incredible. Such great dialogue and atmosphere, disorienting and mesmerizing.

Loved both episodes. So glad this show is back. There's nothing else quite like it.

Barry
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5348176/

Halo

Believes it is a new the expanse, but is unfortunately the new manure.

  On 3/29/2022 at 2:50 AM, Boxus said:

That opening scene in the premiere was incredible. Such great dialogue and atmosphere, disorienting and mesmerizing.

Loved both episodes. So glad this show is back. There's nothing else quite like it.

I like that every season takes a different tone, S1 "keepin it real", S2 absurdism and existentialism, S3 I'm not sure yet, fish out of water for sure. Glover definitely takes the approach that less is more, but sometimes he leaves gaps that are just too ambiguous. Is Paper Boi still coasting off that one single from 2016? That's highly unlikely in a genre as fast moving as hip hop. Did he ever produce an album after his mixtape, does he have a record label? Touring Europe, even if it's a small crew, isn't cheap. Also does he even have a DJ, or do some rap artists just laptop it now? who knows. 

it does seem to rely a little heavily on what kind of weirdo is around the next corner, like a David Lynch film.

on a yearly basis

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459159/

aussie journo gets a guy to go deep undercover to reveal a neo nazi movement and answer the who, what, why and how of the organization and it's members and use the incriminating footage as the basis of this show.

Gonna give Atlanta a go. I'm a bit disillusioned with tv shows at the moment, though I liked Succession it wasn't really a subject I was into, it was just so well made it was hard not to like. Again Atlanta on paper really shouldn't be my cup of tea. I think Better Call Saul and Ozark are wrapping up soon so looking forward to them. Thinking of watching Westworld or Fargo. I might just watch films for a while and give myself a break from tv series. First World problems heh.

Feel free to recommend me something, you think I might like.

Devs ? Fantastic mini-series IMO.

Fargo’s great btw.

Last season of Killing Eve. It all went downhill in season 3, so I don’t know why I bother. It’s like a parody of a parody now.

I'm re-watching a little show named The Office. Dunno if anyone has heard of it.

Finally started watching the Sopranos. Percent worth

  On 4/6/2022 at 8:24 AM, Berk said:

Finally started watching the Sopranos. Percent worth

That’s a good shout. I also have never watched it. Think you may of solved my problem! With the most obvious of solutions

  On 4/6/2022 at 7:43 AM, yekker said:

I'm re-watching a little show named The Office. Dunno if anyone has heard of it.

uk or us?

  On 4/7/2022 at 6:41 PM, cwmbrancity said:

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