What TV series are you watching at moment?

Only just started watching Fargo s01, three episodes in, and so far it's the best-written show I've seen in ages. Hobbit dude's a bit goofy, but I fucking love BB Thornton's character. Really looking forward to relishing the whole series after watching way too much mediocre stuff (last season of The Crown, A Murder at the End of the World ...) recently. It's been on my watchlist for years, so glad to finally have gotten around to it. Quality!

  On 1/20/2024 at 6:11 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

Jumped back into the new season of Fargo after taking a break after the second episode. Pretty good but I wish the writers made more of a meal of the black cop. He seems like the most interesting character and actor by far but he has the least amount of screen time and whatever time he has isn’t devoted to developing his own story. Hope that shifts. 

dont get your hopes up

  On 1/20/2024 at 7:18 PM, exitonly said:

dont get your hopes up

??? it only gets better in S2... S3 seemed similar to S1, but was still an excellent season. better then so much crap out there. quality dropped in S4, I still think Chris Rock was a bad casting decision. 

edit: nm. I see you were talking about S5, which I haven't watched yet.

  On 1/19/2024 at 11:01 PM, Rubin Farr said:

It was really a 10 hour movie, and binging is the way to go.

yeah I've switched to the binging method for just about any show I watch these days. it's so much easier to follow the whole story, remember character names, etc. especially with a show like Fargo that has a ton of characters and plot lines that all weave around and connect eventually. I'll be starting on S5 soon now all episodes are out there.

s04 gangsters least favorite here

  On 1/22/2024 at 6:10 PM, zero said:

edit: nm. I see you were talking about S5, which I haven't watched yet.

i was talking about the arc of a specific character in season five. 

season 4 sucked yeh. had potential but nope

pretty strong X-Files vibes so far

  On 1/23/2024 at 4:39 PM, Rubin Farr said:

pretty strong X-Files vibes so far

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I've been hearing mixed things about it. Gonna wait until it finishes so I can subscribe to Max and binge it. Love the X-Files, so this encouraging.

God damn, this dialogue (first 17 secs) is amazing, haha!

finished Fargo S5. was excellent. the final ending scene took a minute to sink in, but am glad that's how it went. this season was far more supernatural than I think some of the past ones were. a lot of really great cinematography and visual elements as usual, like those Tim Burton Halloween masks. yeah the MN accents were definitely over the top, but they were like that in the movie as well so

if I were to rank the seasons, would probably be something like 2, 1, 5, 3, 4

The Shoe People

S2...but nah. S1 was "ok"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10168312/

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Latest Fargo was great.

Black Summer is one of the most underrated shows around. 

  On 1/23/2024 at 4:39 PM, Rubin Farr said:

pretty strong X-Files vibes so far

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Loving this, but don't love having to wait a week for the next episode like I'm living in the olden days or something.

  On 1/17/2024 at 5:41 AM, auxien said:

yes and yes

Jodie Foster is great but the other one that played detective Navarro is starting out well too. but at this point i'm not worried about the actors, i'm worried about the story and the direction...

still worried tbh. this latest episode could breath a little better and the characters/story were better for it, but it really just showed how cramped the earlier episodes were. the jumpscare/horror movie aesthetic they keep leaning towards is very weak tho. there's a lot of heavy-handed plot point shit too just like in lots of modern horror that really grates after so many episodes (oh, show me the 23rd close up of the spiral tattoo image, i didn't quite catch it 5 minutes ago on that other thing. thanks for making sure i saw it again. can't wait to see it in 10 minutes somewhere else. cool. so creepy.)

honestly can't tell if i'm not impressed with Foster's acting in this or i'm just disliking her character. seems a bit of both tbh...i get she's not a hero-hero, okay cool but also like, maybe sell some bits of why i should be interested in her at all? if she disappeared at this point the story would probably be better for it and that's sad. maybe more to come on that but yeah.

and it's still crammed full. hard to keep up with what i'm supposed to even be clocking much less caring about any of it happening. idk idk i'm wanting to like it but

True Detective on Netflix 

yo anyone watched The Curse? Is it worth it¿

Yeah. The very worst people.

watching loki s02 - pretty enjoyable, playfull and lighthearted enough not to take it seriously... fun comic relief... the only throwoff are the drama bits, the acting on those is cringey af...

What is TD?

New curb episode was alright, now rewatchin from season 1

  On 2/6/2024 at 10:03 AM, Silent Member said:

What is TD?

True Detective 

I'm dumb. Sorry.

Watched Bodies. It was fairly entertaining and a bit shit.

Nathan Barley

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426654/

  On 2/6/2024 at 8:32 AM, cwmbrancity said:

 

Try & avoid trash but knew TD season 4 wasn’t going to rock. Jump scares & screaming dead-eyed dead peeling skin knock off Walking Dead fx. Absurd.

Season 1 was quite minimal, beautiful shots of a wilted Louisiana. Limited number of characters really well cast. A sound effect landscape missing from every series since. No real plot, relationships you can’t really care for & ooooh that logo again & oooh start asking the right questions. Again.

Pre-nursery run vent agh wasting a rare spare pre work hour with crap.

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Nic Pizzolatto seems to really be bagging on season 4 in public, I missed the spiral connection, but yeah it seems like the more boring cliche bits of TD and X-Files mashed up. 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/true-detective-creator-nic-pizzolatto-095639205.html