What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 10/1/2022 at 7:28 PM, iococoi said:

incidentally

 

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there's no such thing as a coincidence...

She-Hulk is like the movie they make you watch while waiting in line for a theme park ride 

Currently addicted to true crime doc series. I just finished Sons of Sam and before that I watched the Paradise Lost trilogy, the Night Stalker doc series, Crime Series: Hotel Cecil, Crime Scene: Times Square Killer, the Adnan Syed series, Murder Among Mormons, American Muder:The Family Next Door, the Jimmy Savile series, the R Kelly series, Sins of Our Mother, the Nilsen Tapes, Running With The Devil, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, The most dangerous animal of all, DB Cooper Where Are You? and like 10 other series. I’ve been on a tear
They were all pretty good too!

American Horror Stories season 2  - leagues better than last season’s anthology series. About half way thru, and they have a more Rod Serling vibe and approach to episodes.

  On 9/29/2022 at 7:01 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

Started the new GBBO! Fuck the haterz. 

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OH FUCK YES!
I watched the junior version a couple of weeks ago. It was amazing.

  On 10/2/2022 at 5:56 PM, beerwolf said:

Adar character acting is brilliant. No doubt. Twisted between elf and Orc. Light and dark. All of his scenes with the main characters were interesting. The one with Galadriel when I felt sorry for him and she was the one who was borderline fascist evil (wanting to wipe out an entire race). And agree with you about the dwarven geezer. Him and the Harfoots is like watching some fucking pantomime.

Every scene with Adar I have gone back to and rewatched at least twice. 

I think RoP is terrible, but the chap playing Adar, and the character, has the most potential of the show. More focus on Adar would be welcome, it could have made a good series on it's own - based on what they seem to be hinting at with his backstory, view of Sauron and his relationships with the orcs - without the need for a grand plot with the creation of the rings blah blah blah. 

While I have a massive crush on Morfydd Clark, Galadriel is written poorly, it's really hard for me to not detest the character. Even if the show runners are going to have her arc run the course from brash emotional hot head, to the lady Galadriel in the books/films, the character is a maniac. She crossed the line in ep6, and is "borderline fascist evil".  Wouldn't be surprised to see her teaching the Númenoreans how to goose step in ep 7.

Reminds me what the show runners did to Captain Janeway in Voyager, they made her seem utterly insane by the end of the series. Though the signs were there with her murder of Tuvix in season 2.  #justice4tuvix

I'm not a Tolkien mega fan, it's an adaptation, so I am not upset or let down by my reaction, or the quality of the show. You sound like you've enjoyed it.

Bosch season 5 - Unexpectedly Harry and company move into 8/10 territory. A very strong season, pretty much all killer and no filler. Glad Coltrane his adopted dog came home   Everything about this show keeps on improving.

  On 10/3/2022 at 10:14 PM, beerwolf said:

Bosch season 5 - Unexpectedly Harry and company move into 8/10 territory. A very strong season, pretty much all killer and no filler. Glad Coltrane his adopted dog came home   Everything about this show keeps on improving.

seen you mention Bosch several times now in this thread... so it has the b wolf seal of approval then? I watched season 1 a long time ago and gave up. the guy who played Marlo in the Wire was horrifically bad, and the main bad guy in season 1 was a joke. I was actually mad for wasting my time on it. I do have a soft spot for L.A. cop shows, and may give it a whirl again if it's not a total miss?

  On 10/3/2022 at 11:19 PM, zero said:

seen you mention Bosch several times now in this thread... so it has the b wolf seal of approval then? I watched season 1 a long time ago and gave up. the guy who played Marlo in the Wire was horrifically bad, and the main bad guy in season 1 was a joke. I was actually mad for wasting my time on it. I do have a soft spot for L.A. cop shows, and may give it a whirl again if it's not a total miss?

Season 1 is pretty terrible. I also didn’t finish it and skipped to Season 2. It slowly gets better. Not sure I would recommend it because theres a lot of time involved before it really hits it stride. Which is season 4 into 5. So tricky for me to say. 

padre ted

  On 10/2/2022 at 10:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

She-Hulk is like the movie they make you watch while waiting in line for a theme park ride 

savage!

don't know what to think of this show anymore. i have no idea what's going on. is there anyone familiar enough with the source material to answer any of the below questions?

  On 10/4/2022 at 8:36 PM, Nebraska said:

savage!

don't know what to think of this show anymore. i have no idea what's going on. is there anyone familiar enough with the source material to answer any of the below questions?

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who's the elf telling those orcs where to go. and why did that guy jam that sword into that "hole" that caused water to escape that flooded the volcano that caused havoc? 

giant walking around with hobbits is sauron right? how many tribes/sects of elves are there? why is everyone always acting like they haven't seen one another in 1 billion years. what were the events before current events supposedly unfolding that everyone seems to have been in such limbo?

there's also a lot of questions regarding "mordor" and "sauron" and either another dude involved or a war that had at least those two parties. i know sauron. who's the other dude and when does he show up. and where are these dudes? like where do they go that everyone has to keep looking. i'm so sick of people asking and getting these "not answer" answers. like can we finally just chain someone and get some straight answers. is sauron around or no?

also: did anyone notice the orc march music in this show has a chorus of orcs chanting? i know the films (mainly the 2nd film had orcs chanting even during the war) but this show's execution of this one is weird.

and salute to my boy puerto rico for not only getting a bea by last episode, but getting some serious action on screen. that's a come up!

and is it just me or does the girl playing galadriel just not work for anyone else? doesn't for me. 

 

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As far as the source material goes, a lot of it is straight up invented for the Amazon series. They only had rights to the LOTR trilogy and it’s appendices and maybe one other text and there really wasn’t a ton of detail on the “second age”.
This series feels loose as fuk because it just is. Don’t get me started or I’ll waste my whole day complaining about why it doesn’t work for me… tho I keep watching 

  On 9/29/2022 at 7:01 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

Started the new GBBO! Fuck the haterz. 

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I'm re-watching Netflix's Mindhunter, and it's even better than I remember; I also forgot to mention that it's David Fincher's, and he's directed some of the episodes himself, starting with the first two. Highly recommended.

  On 9/24/2022 at 9:38 PM, perunamuusi said:

I expect  a lot more than this from a so called idm forum...

No true Scotsman?

  On 10/2/2022 at 2:53 PM, beerwolf said:

Not really a fan of Rolling Stone or Best Of All Time lists but thought this was a good resource. There’s a few I’ve ticked for the near future. Seeing as I seem to prefer tv series nowadays to films it was worth a read.
 

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-shows-of-all-time-1234598313/

I like this, as I'm honestly pretty tired of new shows and the overabundance of new shows that may or may not be good. 

Wish it was easier to search things by decade on streaming platforms. Or just find deep cuts & classic series more easily rather than always being recommended new/trending stuff.

resident alien is so candid and light-hearted and that's what makes it so fun and endearing... going trough second part of s02 and there's several genuine lol moments... the drama parts don't really ruin it... I can understand the h8 if you just watch 2 or 3 eps, it happened to me as well...

  On 10/4/2022 at 8:36 PM, Nebraska said:

savage!

don't know what to think of this show anymore. i have no idea what's going on. is there anyone familiar enough with the source material to answer any of the below questions?

  Reveal hidden contents

who's the elf telling those orcs where to go. and why did that guy jam that sword into that "hole" that caused water to escape that flooded the volcano that caused havoc? 

giant walking around with hobbits is sauron right? how many tribes/sects of elves are there? why is everyone always acting like they haven't seen one another in 1 billion years. what were the events before current events supposedly unfolding that everyone seems to have been in such limbo?

there's also a lot of questions regarding "mordor" and "sauron" and either another dude involved or a war that had at least those two parties. i know sauron. who's the other dude and when does he show up. and where are these dudes? like where do they go that everyone has to keep looking. i'm so sick of people asking and getting these "not answer" answers. like can we finally just chain someone and get some straight answers. is sauron around or no?

also: did anyone notice the orc march music in this show has a chorus of orcs chanting? i know the films (mainly the 2nd film had orcs chanting even during the war) but this show's execution of this one is weird.

and salute to my boy puerto rico for not only getting a bea by last episode, but getting some serious action on screen. that's a come up!

and is it just me or does the girl playing galadriel just not work for anyone else? doesn't for me. 

 

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Everything is suppose to be extremely ambiguous.  Nobody really knows what's going and who is actually who, so you are not alone.  Honestly the last episode I freaking loved, so I don't care either way - excited to see if the remaining episodes are as good.

As far as Galadriel I really really dislike the casting.  They honestly could've dressed up a piece of drift-wood and CGI'd a mouth on it and it would've given a better acting performance than her.  Luckily there are some other good actors / characters so I just focus my attention on them.

4th season of Westworld was a mess as expected... lots of Devs and Matrix vibes... you could see most of the twists miles away and even if you didn't they were not really that surprising... basically they just digged a little bit deeper in the concepts already explored in the previous seasons... lots of fights and explosions though...

I started that Dahmer series but got no joy from it so stopped. I was 3 episodes in

Quite enjoying Louis C.K's Horace & Pete show. Hadn't heard of this at all until it recently cropped up on imdb recommendations, dam glad it did!

@ Nebraska 

Check Nerd of the Rings (can’t believe I just wrote that…) on YouTube. Every week he breaks down the show and explains a lot of shit which makes sense and also puts out some interesting theories about stuff. Makes each episode a bit more interesting and entertaining. I think his second language is probably Elfish. Not joking….

Edit.. It's In Deep Geek (not Nerd of the Rings)

  On 10/7/2022 at 4:47 AM, yekker said:

I started that Dahmer series but got no joy from it so stopped. I was 3 episodes in

I just saw that episode 8 about the father, Lionel, was directed by gregg araki , interesting 

First Trailer for Disney+ Korea Series 'Connect' Dir. by Takashi Miike

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22002370/

Sprung. This is pretty cool! Easy going, small time criminal comedy with a vibe similar to that of Brassic.