What TV series are you watching at moment?

  On 8/23/2024 at 11:00 PM, beerwolf said:

Just wrapped up season 1 of The Shield. Wanted to watch it for years. Pretty good for a first season, it's a bit dated, a bit quirky and gives me a nostalgic fuzzy feeling. But the characters are really likeable. So it's all good. Investigations on IMDb tells me that it gets better and better so I'm in for the whole hog. 

Loved that real classic series. Top 5. 

one of the best tv shows i've seen in a while. 

Also kind of obsessed with Industry. Binged 2 seasons in a weekend. I have a feeling season 3 may go off the rails story wise, but will be highly entertaining.

Rings Of Power Season 2 coming this week. Three episodes dropping on the 29th. First season was very disappointing, but the trailers for this season looking much, much better. Fingers crossed then.

Just done the first two episodes of ROP. Trust me when Uncle Beerwolf tells you that it's fucking light years better than the first season! 

Hip hip hooray!

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Thank goodness. That first season was a complete waste of time.
The trailer looks like it’s finally getting to the meaty bits. Looking forward to having a show to watch, again. 
I’m not proud to say but I just finished the last episode of Donnie Wahlberg’s “Very Scary People” true crime show. 
Been scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find something creepy to watch on the reg for months now. 

… oh, I am also rewatching S2 of The Wire. Much better than I remembered it, actually. 

a few eps into S1 of the White Lotus. this show is like a mix of cringe, hate watch, and lol all at the same time. I normally give up on shows like this with all these pretentious detestable characters...must be the lush tropicalia cinematography and gorgeous soundtrack that has its hooks in me. 

  On 8/30/2024 at 6:09 PM, zero said:

a few eps into S1 of the White Lotus. this show is like a mix of cringe, hate watch, and lol all at the same time. I normally give up on shows like this with all these pretentious detestable characters...must be the lush tropicalia cinematography and gorgeous soundtrack that has its hooks in me. 

It’s pretty great. So is S2. 
 

@beerwolf

I started watching ep1 of ROP2 last night on your recommendation! It’s definitely better than s1.

The recap at the beginning was basically “shit… shit… shit… shit… more shit”. Then when the show actually started it was like “why the fuck did we need that first season at all??? This is where they should have started.”  I guess they really wanted to tease out the whole “Gandalf?” thing and then the whole Sauron thing but fuck me if a whole season of pure tease is just the dumbest shit I can imagine. 
Anyway, I’ll be checking the rest of this out, even if there’s still some wonky writing / character stuff, which there definitely is. At least we have more orcs, so far. 

  On 8/30/2024 at 6:09 PM, zero said:

a few eps into S1 of the White Lotus. this show is like a mix of cringe, hate watch, and lol all at the same time. I normally give up on shows like this with all these pretentious detestable characters...must be the lush tropicalia cinematography and gorgeous soundtrack that has its hooks in me. 

First season of White Lotus is fantastic! Second season I wasn't too keen.

  On 8/30/2024 at 6:19 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

It’s pretty great. So is S2. 
 

@beerwolf

I started watching ep1 of ROP2 last night on your recommendation! It’s definitely better than s1.

The recap at the beginning was basically “shit… shit… shit… shit… more shit”. Then when the show actually started it was like “why the fuck did we need that first season at all??? This is where they should have started.”  I guess they really wanted to tease out the whole “Gandalf?” thing and then the whole Sauron thing but fuck me if a whole season of pure tease is just the dumbest shit I can imagine. 
Anyway, I’ll be checking the rest of this out, even if there’s still some wonky writing / character stuff, which there definitely is. At least we have more orcs, so far. 

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Yeah agree, the first season seemed like a complete waste of time.

  On 8/29/2024 at 10:49 PM, beerwolf said:

Just done the first two episodes of ROP. Trust me when Uncle Beerwolf tells you that it's fucking light years better than the first season! 

Hip hip hooray!

I won't lie i'm enjoying this season too.  Even if they took Tolkien's world and transported it to uber progressive California (Lol, the underprivileged anti-war family of Orcs was fcking hilarious).  It's good enough for me to not mind it too much.

  On 9/1/2024 at 7:13 PM, lyst said:

I won't lie i'm enjoying this season too.  Even if they took Tolkien's world and transported it to uber progressive California (Lol, the underprivileged anti-war family of Orcs was fcking hilarious).  It's good enough for me to not mind it too much.

And not many Harfoots. Who were uber annoying last season. Thought the two girls were bearable with the Wizard. I also liked the mofo mercenaries in gold skull masks hunting them on horses. That was good.

  On 8/25/2024 at 10:42 AM, beerwolf said:

Rings Of Power Season 2 coming this week. Three episodes dropping on the 29th. First season was very disappointing, but the trailers for this season looking much, much better. 

i enjoy this show, although i have to admit i never read the book so i feel like i sometimes get lost eg. are harfoots the same as hobbits? 

  On 8/30/2024 at 6:58 PM, beerwolf said:

First season of White Lotus is fantastic! Second season I wasn't too keen.

finished both seasons. yeah S2 was a totally different show than S1. not just different cast, but the tone of it changed a lot. there were no laugh out loud moments like there were in the 1st, and not as much witty quick dialogue either. S2 was a very dark drama that kept getting darker as it progressed. I did like it, as I'm a fan of those sort of shows. but yeah, S1 was a bit more quirky, awkward humor stuff compared to how dark and depressing S2 felt.

  On 9/6/2024 at 5:54 PM, zero said:

finished both seasons. yeah S2 was a totally different show than S1. not just different cast, but the tone of it changed a lot. there were no laugh out loud moments like there were in the 1st, and not as much witty quick dialogue either. S2 was a very dark drama that kept getting darker as it progressed. I did like it, as I'm a fan of those sort of shows. but yeah, S1 was a bit more quirky, awkward humor stuff compared to how dark and depressing S2 felt.

Spot on. I also really had an issue with Ethan. Got to the point whenever he appeared on screen I'd want to turn the tv off. Really didn't like him. As you say the first season was very quirky and a bit bonkers and I liked that. A lot.

I recommend sacred games on netflix

Great indian gangster series. 

Very interesting political and religious commentary if I'm reading it right. 

  On 9/6/2024 at 5:54 PM, zero said:

finished both seasons. yeah S2 was a totally different show than S1. not just different cast, but the tone of it changed a lot. there were no laugh out loud moments like there were in the 1st, and not as much witty quick dialogue either. S2 was a very dark drama that kept getting darker as it progressed. I did like it, as I'm a fan of those sort of shows. but yeah, S1 was a bit more quirky, awkward humor stuff compared to how dark and depressing S2 felt.

Can we just give some props to Cristobal Tapia de Veer for consistently rewriting the rules of soundtracks. 

Some of the most entitled and ignorant idiots I’ve ever seen

  On 9/7/2024 at 4:23 PM, ARPA said:

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I’ve been thinking about rewatching this show lately

glad I wasn’t part of that family!!

I finished Special Ops: Lioness. It was cool. Started first episode of Full Circle, and it's pretty crazy.

A silly show called 'Evil' cus i can't stand anything right now and i miss slop.

Half way through Season 3 of The Shield. Love it!

Obviously watching Rings Of Power. And enjoying that. Last episode was pretty good. Wasn't so keen of the episode before, the Numenour arc isn't doing much for me. The characters are pretty awful. Quite like the development of Adar becoming allies with Galadriel. 

This looks really epic but has pretty mediocre reviews on rotten tomatoes so far: