What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 7/3/2022 at 1:39 AM, cruising for burgers said:

castlevania - thanks to whomever recommended this on this thread, it's pretty fun/funny indeed... kind of a space dandy meets metalocalypse... 2nd season and going... the animation style is pretty cool as well, like those old french cartoons or even anime...

fighting scenes are amazeballs... so much attention given to detail... =0

F stranger things S4, nothing but content filler designed to make way to fit yet another season and hopefully drive  retention of some Netflix subs.

Streaming wars are producing a bunch of shows that are ads for themselves, the incentive is for stories with no closure and cliffhanger endings are a must.

not that before shows didn't live beyond their natural story life but I don't see a place for, say, a grey's anatomy or a traditional procedural that can afford to go on forever in the streaming model. They have to pretend to have a story arc to get people binging while at the same time they can't risk ending a story, and even when a good idea comes along it gets axed if it doesn't instantly become a viral hit.

Stranger things is, and always has been, dogshit. If you watch it and enjoy it, then you are probably an idiot

  On 7/6/2022 at 3:23 AM, perunamuusi said:

Stranger things is, and always has been, dogshit. If you watch it and enjoy it, then you are probably an idiot

S1 good, very good even. S2. Good. S3 wtf. S4 good so far. But I am a confirmed idiot.

  On 7/6/2022 at 3:23 AM, perunamuusi said:

Stranger things is, and always has been, dogshit. If you watch it and enjoy it, then you are probably an idiot

Just curious, what are all of the tv shows that confirm your superior intellect? 
 

  On 7/6/2022 at 5:17 AM, J3FF3R00 said:

Just curious, what are all of the tv shows that confirm your superior intellect? 
 

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WTF is it wit people being complete dicks around here? 

 

He's not a complete dick, he's just Finnish.

btw he wanted to say retard but he used the adjective idiot instead because he doesn't want to sound like a complete dick...

retard

I just started "For All Mankind". Heard good things, so hope I'm not too disappointed.

Just binged all three seasons of "The Leftovers".

Holy fugg that show was depressing.  Of course i watched it during a low point in my own personal life so it made me feel even shittier lolol.  Not a bad show i'd recommend it to any fans of sci-fi or Lost - just get ready to feel overcome with sadness and emptiness for a while.

  On 7/12/2022 at 1:57 AM, lyst said:

Just binged all three seasons of "The Leftovers".

Holy fugg that show was depressing.  Of course i watched it during a low point in my own personal life so it made me feel even shittier lolol.  Not a bad show i'd recommend it to any fans of sci-fi or Lost - just get ready to feel overcome with sadness and emptiness for a while.

This is why I never even finished season 1. 

Severance good

Finished Ozark. Brilliant. And they didn’t fluff the ending! Probably a 9/10 for the whole thing. Maybe even a 10. 
 

  On 7/12/2022 at 1:57 AM, lyst said:

Just binged all three seasons of "The Leftovers".

Holy fugg that show was depressing.  Of course i watched it during a low point in my own personal life so it made me feel even shittier lolol.  Not a bad show i'd recommend it to any fans of sci-fi or Lost - just get ready to feel overcome with sadness and emptiness for a while.

It became to depressing for me to watch. I quite liked it tho 

  On 7/12/2022 at 11:08 AM, beerwolf said:

Finished Ozark. Brilliant. And they didn’t fluff the ending! Probably a 9/10 for the whole thing. Maybe even a 10. 
 

 

Agreed but I could have used one more season. That last episode was a bit of a cliffhanger. 

 

Better call Saul showing how it's done, holy shit was that good. 

  On 7/12/2022 at 4:59 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

Agreed but I could have used one more season. That last episode was a bit of a cliffhanger. 

 

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It would have been good to see Wendy really collect some karma or to see the kids completely jump ship on their parents. Also, that final shot-in-the-dark moment definitely begged for some resolution for me. Still, quality tv

 

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recently finished Ozark too. Great stuff. Wendy was so ... arghh! a Karen stretched to nightmarish extremes. As the series moved on I found myself warming much more to Marty than at first I found him annoying, like Jefferoo said along the lines of "a smug well to do upper middle class ex jock type" he really does becomes the calm center of the rising storm of "fuckin insane shit" (in Ruthie's accent) that starts goin down around them. The build up (down?) towards the end was nicely paced, if a tad boring (my interest sagged a little there in season 4 due to over binging i think)

I know everything ‘Narco’ has been done to death but Navarro was a legend. Could quite happily see him carry a spin off mini series about his life as a drug Lord and and growing up into that life. His sister was also really good for the limited time she was on screen. Omar was definitely one of the best characters of a mountain of great characters.

yeh done to death, but very watchable still. I thought the Langmores were great, especially Ruth and Wyatt. The kid who played Wyatt needs to play Steve Zahn's kid in something. There's some familiarity there. 

  On 7/12/2022 at 1:57 AM, lyst said:

Just binged all three seasons of "The Leftovers".

Holy fugg that show was depressing.  Of course i watched it during a low point in my own personal life so it made me feel even shittier lolol.  Not a bad show i'd recommend it to any fans of sci-fi or Lost - just get ready to feel overcome with sadness and emptiness for a while.

It can be brutal at times (especially the first season, from memory) but it's a fav of mine. Still, I don't know when I'll watch it again (it's been years).

Just watched the first 5 episodes of The Old Man. Glad to see Jeff Bridges back in good health! First 2 eps were excellent, then it kind of goes downhill. The dialogue is very pretentious, mamma mia. It probably works on the page but definitely not when spoken.

Enjoying Irma Vep, as a big fan of the 1996 movie. Not sure where its going, but it's entertaining. Not a huge fan of meta cleverness but it's tolerable here. 

The Boys season 3 - Never have I fast forwarded through more of a show to get to the crazy bits. Any cultural depiction is painfully surface level and bordering on caricature. Any scene with the french guy is an instant fast forward. Huey is one of those useless quippy Joss Whedon-style main characters that has no actual grasp of humour. Butcher has like one mode of delivery and makes me curious how painful his accent is to people in the UK?

does this look like it has too much digital smear in it?

  On 7/14/2022 at 3:07 PM, Rubin Farr said:

does this look like it has too much digital smear in it?

 

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Is there a word for "feels like it's trying to mimic something rather than being authentic"?

Maybe in German?

Obviously I’m not getting my expectations up (so I can’t be disappointed) but I do hope I get to see lots of a middle aged Sauron (and his top henchmen) being total badass and attempting to lay waste to everything
 
I’m extremely curious how they will create him, the same level as The Space Jockey (and look how that turned out…)

(J.R.R. Tolkiens sketch of Sauron)