What TV series are you watching at moment?

Just wrapped up season 3 with Tony and the boys. Best season for me so far. Good pacing, exciting episodes (and much more Bada Bing! ) Got to finally see the episode again with them in the woods hunting the Russian (what if he’s out there stalking US?. What with? his cock?!!) Glad Tony’s mother has died, she was getting on my nerves, (not just his). I was skipping tiny bits with her in it tbh, didn’t like the creepy depressing vibe. Gonna have a break with mafia stuff, Devs is on iPlayer. Sounds like my kind of thing.

Beerwolf over and out

  On 4/24/2022 at 2:12 PM, beerwolf said:

Just wrapped up season 3 with Tony and the boys. Best season for me so far. Good pacing, exciting episodes (and much more Bada Bing! ) Got to finally see the episode again with them in the woods hunting the Russian (what if he’s out there stalking US?. What with? his cock?!!) Glad Tony’s mother has died, she was getting on my nerves, (not just his). I was skipping tiny bits with her in it tbh, didn’t like the creepy depressing vibe. Gonna have a break with mafia stuff, Devs is on iPlayer. Sounds like my kind of thing.

Beerwolf over and out

Skip Devs and continue watching the best damn show ever made. Also, make sure not to skip anything in The Sopranos from now on. 

Any Amazon Prime originals that are any good? The Expanse looks interesting.

  On 4/25/2022 at 9:44 AM, Hail Sagan said:

Any Amazon Prime originals that are any good? The Expanse looks interesting.

Expanse is great, not as good as and not actually faithful to the books, but do watch. I've watched The Wheel of Time, Reacher, The Boys (highly recommended), Vox Machina, Hanna, Carnival Row, Invincible, Good Omens (HR), American Gods (HR), As We See It, Electric Dreams, Utopia, The Tick, Upload, and some of The Man in the High Castle; none of these are IMHO an absolute waste of time, but YMMV. Oh, and Picard (HR).

First season of Homecoming was excellent too.

  On 4/25/2022 at 9:44 AM, Hail Sagan said:

Any Amazon Prime originals that are any good? The Expanse looks interesting.

I've watched one episode of Outer Range and that was pretty intriguing

  On 4/24/2022 at 11:59 PM, Squee said:

Skip Devs and continue watching the best damn show ever made. Also, make sure not to skip anything in The Sopranos from now on. 

I think I may take your advice and keep on track. No skipping either (I just had enough of his mum )

  On 4/24/2022 at 11:59 PM, Squee said:

Skip Devs 

I second this. Never seen the sopranos but devs was a letdown. 
 

just started season 2 of the righteous gemstones and it doesn’t have the shine that s1 had. I’m almost considering stopping but will keep going if someone can say I should continue. 
it just feels like the knots were all tied in a bow at the end of s1 and now they are trying to start from scratch without a strong premise (kinda like s2 of Ted lasso, which fell super flat for me). The characters are great but are they great enough to watch them go through any old thing? Not sure. 
 

  On 4/25/2022 at 4:20 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

Just started season 2 of the righteous gemstones and it doesn’t have the shine that s1 had. I’m almost considering stopping but will keep going if someone can say I should continue. 

it just feels like the knots were all tied in a bow at the end of s1 and now they are trying to start from scratch without a strong premise (kinda like s2 of Ted lasso, which fell super flat for me). The characters are great but are they great enough to watch them go through any old thing? Not sure. 
 

Russian Doll

  On 4/25/2022 at 4:20 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

I second this. Never seen the sopranos but devs was a letdown. 
 

just started season 2 of the righteous gemstones and it doesn’t have the shine that s1 had. I’m almost considering stopping but will keep going if someone can say I should continue. 
it just feels like the knots were all tied in a bow at the end of s1 and now they are trying to start from scratch without a strong premise (kinda like s2 of Ted lasso, which fell super flat for me). The characters are great but are they great enough to watch them go through any old thing? Not sure. 
 

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Season 2 starts out a bit weak, but it gets there... just wait.

  On 4/25/2022 at 3:11 PM, beerwolf said:

I think I may take your advice and keep on track. No skipping either (I just had enough of his mum )

Well, she's a key element to what happens next. But as long as you got the gist then you're good to go

Seriously, The Sopranos is the best show ever made. Nothing comes close to even reaching its peaks. There's one episode that isn't memorable. The rest is just MUAH!

  On 4/22/2022 at 2:32 AM, sidewinder said:

Jerry is the worst character on Seinfeld, I'll give you that. But the show is awesome, and of course it wouldn't be the same without him.

Jerry is indeed the worst, sometimes it seems as if he is the same IRL which is even worse. I get the feeling that Costanza and Kramer are the schadefreude of Elaine and Jerry, when all the characters are supposed to be these silly caricatures with various social disfunctions. I tend to think that IRL Jerry influenced David to write him as the better person who always knows better and gets the hottest women just to satisfy his ego and that his vanity got the better part of his show character. There are not many scenes where Jerry is the flawed guy when all others are.

Beside Costanza and Kramer, the side characters are also hillarious, like Newman, Peterman, Frank Costanza, and uncle Leo. Pure comedy gold.

I thought Jerry was supposed to be an unlikeable douchebag but what do I know.

  On 4/25/2022 at 7:58 PM, Silent Member said:

I thought Jerry was supposed to be an unlikeable douchebag but what do I know.

he was, it's just that his IRL vanity influences his show character i guess, idk maybe i'm wrong

He’s hard to watch in that coffee in cars thing, keeps banging on about how he can only relate to other funny people, while not being particularly funny

  On 4/25/2022 at 7:58 PM, Silent Member said:

I thought Jerry was supposed to be an unlikeable douchebag but what do I know.

Maybe, but his character just feels like he's the only one on the show not really acting, or seeming too similar to his stand-up/real-life self. Like he's just a prop and people are acting around him. And he can't keep a straight face. 

  On 4/24/2022 at 11:59 PM, Squee said:

Also, make sure not to skip anything in The Sopranos from now on. 

Even the end credits it would seem. They just rolled on the last episode of season 3 and I just got this unexpected surprise. And it worked.

  On 4/26/2022 at 1:59 AM, sidewinder said:

Maybe, but his character just feels like he's the only one on the show not really acting, or seeming too similar to his stand-up/real-life self. Like he's just a prop and people are acting around him. And he can't keep a straight face. 

I read in an AMA on Reddit that this was basically the setup 

He's the only 'normal' guy in the show, while the rest are goofballs. That makes it extra funny. Of course he's a douchebag though which makes it even better (more cynical).

And yeah the Sopranos.. im almost into the last season:( 

Au-delà des murs (Beyond the Walls) 

So... not sure if this is a tv series or should count as movie, but I just posted in the films thread sooooo

A three part miniseries (or, maybe just a longish movie), french surrealist horror. I was doing a search for visual stuffs that had a House of Leaves vibe/Backrooms feel and this came up. 

Its great. Best to go in not knowing much, but the use of liminal spaces is both well done and ends up going into unexpected places. One of those things where there is an underlying set pf philosophical principles that use the space as metaphor for internal, human things, not just "oh cool that's soooon weird." There's more than horror here, there is examination of loss, the human condition, love, etc. 

Its not perfect. Some parts feel rushed and underdeveloped while others feel, perhaps, too languid. The visuals are not the best, but they do carry with them shades of Lynch, and (thank GOD) understand they are working within budgetary limits that shouldn't be exceeded. What that means is the .... things you see may feel slightly theatrical, but will age incredibly well, as the horrors are less about how things look as much as they are about the ideas about why they do. 

On that topic, there are things that are left unexplained, in thr best way possible. Not that there isn't a conclusion (a very, very good one imop), more that the way things are presented are left up to you to think on/intepret. Less is more, show don't tell done right. 

8 tesseracts / 5 and a half minute hallways 

Russian Doll S2 - actually liked it better than S1

Moon Knight - jeez what a train wreck, Marvel shows keep getting worse and more incoherent 

Picard S2 - really wanted to like this, but it also went off the rails. Maybe they can salvage S3 with the entire Enterprise-D crew?

Atlanta S3 - not sure where Glover is going with this 

  On 4/30/2022 at 4:16 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Russian Doll S2 - actually liked it better than S1

s01 was horrendous, s02 was indeed actually pretty good !

Atlanta season 3 is awesome, wtf. Not quite up to speed, but everything has been super duper so far.

Edit: it's been more of an Afro-American Black Mirror than the previous seasons though. It's like he took the Teddy Perkins episode and ran with it. More interesting take anyway imo.