What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 2/23/2024 at 7:15 AM, exitonly said:

yah but i spent most of season 2 and all that i saw of season 3 yelling at the show as it happened. it was so dumb. like these astronauts all hiring their immediate friends and family to be astronauts and then all competing with each other and then they are out of resources on mars but then someone shows up with vodka and then it’s a big party and then astronauts are getting into fist fights on mars. and then that first gentleman guy and his stupid bald cap that makes him look like a klingon. omg what a dumb show 

I strongly agree!

edit: lol m9 u gotta see this...

  On 2/20/2024 at 4:12 PM, EdamAnchorman said:

Yeah they totally needed to hone their focus a bit and choose one or perhaps 1.5 main struggles, but instead we got like 4 protagonist / antagonist struggles, all half-baked and ALL revealed in the final episode.

Calling back to S1, sometimes less is more.

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And I guess we're now OK with murder / manslaughter of those 6-ish scientists?  I mean they did kill that one lady and were complicit in poisoning the town, but the group of native ladies is guilty of at least manslaughter or perhaps murder 2.

 

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I liked it apart from the song choices. 

Did 6 episodes of The Americans, found it utterly boring and slow. I think if you watch 6 hours of something and you are forcing yourself to keep going its best to quit. It has extremely high ratings and maybe season 3 and 4 are really good but hey ho. 

Friend recommended Slow Horses on Apple+ and I've had more fun watching 10 minutes of that than I did in 6 hours of The Americans. First episode was brilliant. Looking forward to the rest. Excellent story, acting and cast and moves at pace with not a hint of dullness. 

Finally finished True Detective season 4. Absolute dogshit.

Yeah I've heard from many sources that TD4 isn't much good.

Just finished re-watching Breaking Bad. Such an incredible show in every way. Onto Better Call Saul now.

  On 2/26/2024 at 10:20 PM, beerwolf said:

Slow Horses

Great fun, a bit silly at times in Season 2 and 3, but Gary Oldman innit.

  On 2/27/2024 at 7:25 PM, chenGOD said:

Just finished re-watching Breaking Bad. Such an incredible show in every way. Onto Better Call Saul now.

Great fun, a bit silly at times in Season 2 and 3, but Gary Oldman innit.

I also rewatched Breaking Bad not so long ago, and indeed it is incredible. However Better Call Saul, could be even better. It's perhaps not obvious at the time but on reflection I think it might take the crown.

  On 2/27/2024 at 10:28 PM, beerwolf said:

I also rewatched Breaking Bad not so long ago, and indeed it is incredible. However Better Call Saul, could be even better. It's perhaps not obvious at the time but on reflection I think it might take the crown.

Damn, I gotta watch Breaking Bad. There’s lots of episodes, no? The commitment is the only thing stopping me. 

  On 2/27/2024 at 10:57 PM, YEK said:

Damn, I gotta watch Breaking Bad. There’s lots of episodes, no? The commitment is the only thing stopping me. 

It’s very engaging, as are the spin-offs 

The pilot for this was good, nice visual fx and it's cool to see Andrew Lincoln again. This is set in Philly, where the largest populated city seems to be, maybe? Haven't kept up with the Daryl spin-off.

  On 2/27/2024 at 10:28 PM, beerwolf said:

I also rewatched Breaking Bad not so long ago, and indeed it is incredible. However Better Call Saul, could be even better. It's perhaps not obvious at the time but on reflection I think it might take the crown.

Very different shows and both excellent - but looking forward to the re-watch of Better Call Saul. Just gave myself a teaser and watched episode 1 last night. So good.

  On 2/27/2024 at 10:57 PM, YEK said:

Damn, I gotta watch Breaking Bad. There’s lots of episodes, no? The commitment is the only thing stopping me. 

Just jump in. Totally worth it.

  On 2/28/2024 at 4:12 AM, chenGOD said:

 

Just jump in. Totally worth it.

Think I will  

  On 2/27/2024 at 10:57 PM, YEK said:

Damn, I gotta watch Breaking Bad. There’s lots of episodes, no? The commitment is the only thing stopping me. 

The funny thing is once you start getting over half way you will wish there was more! There's only one dull episode (the fly in the lab) so it's no chore to watch so it doesn't feel like a commitment. I don't actually watch that much tv and I zoomed through BB both times without breaking into a sweat over it. Whereas if I had to rewatch GOT I'd think it would be very hard work as if I remember correctly there were plenty of dull episodes, even some seasons were hard work (the ones with High Sparrow and when Arya is learning to be an assassin in that temple thing). 

(And of course the final season of GOT is a epic failure and BB is a triumph)

  On 2/28/2024 at 4:39 AM, YEK said:

Think I will  

I’d recommend watching them in this order:

1. Breaking Bad

2. El Camino

3. Better Call Saul

I'm watching Black Lagoon, very interesting and I really like how each episodes ends with the same dark song.

As well as Slow Horses I've started to watch Kin. The first two and a half episodes are real slow (to the point of boredom) but once it gets going it accelerates pretty fast. I would have finished Season 1 off last night but it got late and my concentration was fading. Very good and Season 2 is even better (so I'm told)

Shōgun (2024) - I was expecting to hate it, but found myself really getting into it by the end of Ep 2. 

I don't like the colour grading and cgi/tracking shots look a meh to me. Some early parts of ep 1 felt like I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean, had the vibe of a generic big budget fantasy. Was half expecting Captain Barbossa or Bootstrap-Anjin-san to emerge for the thick mists during the first 10 minutes. 

However, the casting is solid:

• Anna Sawai - She still jars for me still, but improving.
• Cosmo Jarvis - my initial misgivings have fallen away now. 
• Hiroyuki Sanada - excellent as Toranaga
• Tadanobu Asano - excellent. He's good a playing slightly tapped people. 
• ...

I think they've made some improvements to the pacing/plotting too. Looking forward to Ep 3 tomorrow.

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:30 AM, beerwolf said:

As well as Slow Horses I've started to watch Kin. The first two and a half episodes are real slow (to the point of boredom) but once it gets going it accelerates pretty fast. I would have finished Season 1 off last night but it got late and my concentration was fading. Very good and Season 2 is even better (so I'm told)

I've heard good things about Slow Horses, they've renewed for a 4th season. It's on my maybe list. 

Apple+ producing 10 episode adaptation of Neuromancer:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/forget-3-body-problem-apple-110948632.html

  On 3/4/2024 at 2:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Apple+ producing 10 episode adaptation of Neuromancer:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/forget-3-body-problem-apple-110948632.html

Awesome. They should do Hyperion as well

Started watching Snowpiercer but I'm not really feeling it, does it get better?

yes, it gets better as it's getting worse...

Fargo s04 - 4 eps in and loving it... great fucking cast, violent af, funny as well but probably a bit too home alone'ish? but I don't mind...

finished last season of "for all mankind"...

  On 3/4/2024 at 1:09 PM, Scaramouche said:

Shōgun (2024) - I was expecting to hate it, but found myself really getting into it by the end of Ep 2. 

 

• Tadanobu Asano - excellent. He's good a playing slightly tapped people.

i used to really like asano. believe even he is perplexed at how he managed to act as he once did - almost completely blank and emotionless, when he’s now quite relaxed and a little bit hollywood. 

Started watching the new Rick Grimes walking dead show. I lasted about 15 minutes and decided it wasn’t for me.