What TV series are you watching at moment?

Started watching handmaid's tale, no idea why anyone would watch this, its like torture porn? The acting is good but how many shades of deadpan do you want? Will finish season I but i dont get all the praise so far.

it's lame af... it tries so hard it's not even shocking... well, maybe for my parents I dunno... nevermind I said I wouldn't talk about it... 

  On 1/21/2025 at 9:58 PM, cruising for burgers said:

it's lame af... it tries so hard it's not even shocking... well, maybe for my parents I dunno... nevermind I said I wouldn't talk about it... 

I hear what you're saying but don't you love how they end every other episode with a violent/tragic scene juxtaposed with some uppity pop song?

Anyone doing a Twin Peaks re-watch soon?

  On 1/22/2025 at 12:27 AM, GORDO said:

I hear what you're saying but don't you love how they end every other episode with a violent/tragic scene juxtaposed with some uppity pop song?

yes I love it it's hilarious...

  On 1/22/2025 at 12:44 AM, joshuatxuk said:

Anyone doing a Twin Peaks re-watch soon?

gonna start s03 tonite after nosferatu

zatoichi

probably the best film series i've ever seen, with two dozen plus made during the sixties and early seventies mostly by daiei (a studio defunct by 1971), with a handful of attempts to revive it in the years after elsewhere with other studios - note rutger hauer's 'blind fury' for a remake of sorts. i thought i'd take advantage of the appearance of the four tv series made during the seventies now that they've appeared on youtube. the toughest part of this (for me) has been getting used to the production values, which are more modest than i'm used to. some of these retell the film stories, but i've only seen one that's obviously doing so.

the most interesting things are the character traits that are there in zatoichi himself. as a blind man, working a typical job as a masseur, and as a yakuza member, he finds his way into the lives of people of all social levels as his skills with a sword are not immediately apparent and he's usually underestimated. his reputation precedes him though, the rumours of his exploits make it to some people and not others, and he gets involved with helping out the personal struggles of people whose lives intersect with his. often meeting beautiful women, sometimes with them falling for him, he will abandon them knowing he must struggle alone because of the yakuza lifestyle being incompatible with most people's standards when dealt with up close. there's an astonishing amount of violence in here each time, usually a couple of major sword fights, lost limbs, and a whole heap of justice.

i've watched probably about half of the 100 episodes in the last few months, starting (oddly) with the later ones and moving back; i'm saving the last episode though. lots of famous actors and actresses of the period are in here : tetsuro tamba, renji ishibashi and so on ... and lots of notable directors that had lengthy or important careers in film too, such as kenji misumi, kazuo mori, kihachi okamoto and hiroshi teshigahara. 

  On 1/22/2025 at 12:44 AM, joshuatxuk said:

Anyone doing a Twin Peaks re-watch soon?

Yes! Last night finished Black Doves, was really good actually.  6 tight episodes and Keira Knightley was excellent.  Im going to finish Squid Games S2 this week, then start on Twin Peaks +FWWM

Decided to cut all my subscriptions down. Kill them all in one fail swoop. No netflix, no NOW tv, no Amazon prime etc. NOW TV told me I had 9 days to watch until my subscription expired. So I decided to watch this for a second time. Fucking genius idea.

So im an asshole and watched the second season of the handmaid's tale because they sure know how to keep you there rooting for some wins. Fortunately s2 actually delivers some (not before an outrageous rug pull) and the season ending was so dumb that idc about season 3, phew.

twin peaks s03 for the 3rd time - what ultimately gives me solace is the fact that in the end even Coop feels exactly the same way as I do...

COM-PLETE-LY fucking clueless!

The Kings Of Tupelo

Very funny 3 part doc about an Elvis impersonator janitor conspiracy theorist, if you like those docs that show off the mad side of America you might dig it, it doesn't get much madder

  On 1/27/2025 at 4:46 AM, GORDO said:

So im an asshole and watched the second season of the handmaid's tale because they sure know how to keep you there rooting for some wins. Fortunately s2 actually delivers some (not before an outrageous rug pull) and the season ending was so dumb that idc about season 3, phew.

If it makes u feel better I made it until almost the end of the turd season... 

  On 1/18/2025 at 5:56 AM, GORDO said:

Still a decent watch but man, Silo S2 could've been a movie, particularly irritating given how predictable the ending was and that the season cliffhanger isn't even good, on that note: WTF is up 

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with that forced iran scaremongering psyop inserted in the ending. I guess we know who's the West's next season villain.

 

a third season doesn't seem appetizing if they'll keep stretching things out going nowhere.

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Have you read the books at all? The first two seasons cover pretty much all of the first act Wool.. well, everything up to last couple pages that resolve that 'cliffhanger'. Gotta keep the fans edging for another year I guess

I liked Penny Dreadful when it came out 12 years ago or something.

Todd and the Book of Complete Evil (something like that) is pretty hilarious if you're into metal, cameo from Jay from kevin smith shits.

Mike Tyson's Murder Mysteries from adult swim is hilarious if you're drunk or high as fuck

  On 1/30/2025 at 11:37 PM, roasty said:

Have you read the books at all? The first two seasons cover pretty much all of the first act Wool.. well, everything up to last couple pages that resolve that 'cliffhanger'. Gotta keep the fans edging for another year I guess

I haven't, do you recommend them? How many there are?

@GORDO Sure, read em if you're a big enough fan or just impatient to know what happens next. The show does a fair share of the heavy lifting for you in the world building dept; so much so it's been hard to imagine it any differently while reading. Would've liked to have read the books before seeing the show but oh well. It's largely the same plot, but it's been interesting to see where the story has changed. While the characters seem more fleshed out in the show, the book will connect the dots in a way that's satisfying to read. I'd recommend them but the adaptation is also pretty decent too

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Severance-S02

What we do in the shadows-last season

Mythic quest s03

Re watching silicon valley

Recently I finished all 4 seasons of slow horses

Currently waiting on invincible s03

Been re 'watching' House MD. Perfect show to play while you half do something else.

pop culture jeopardy

I'm watching this show called The Resort which is obviously a rip-off of The White Lotus... well at least aesthetically... there's something off with it, like, all the perfect ingredients, looks amazing, but it's tasteless most of the times... they aimed at quirky but they hit irritating instead... I dunno why, it's a show that makes me sad not liking it very much, maybe because it has so much wasted potential... Sam Esmail is involved so that's probs why there's something good in its roots... 

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Severance became boring really quickly in season 02.
Now they just trow random things at the protagonists for the sake of being weird. It feels like the script is laking real substance. 

watched 5 episodes of Drawn Together which where really funny but I wonder if there is more. 

The Pitt on max, it was clearly pitched as an ER reboot until they were forced to change the name of Noah Wyle’s character.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for medical dramas, hits the nostalgia button of watching ER with my mom (a nurse) in the ‘90s. This one has pretty good verisimilitude (not that I really know), definitely HBO/Max levels of gore but appropriate for the show.  It’s doing the old 24 real time trick of breaking an hour of the day into one episode, but it seems less gimmicky covering a shift in a busy trauma center that way. Character development gets compressed a bit this way, of course, but it’s less soapy than ER etc.

Noah Wyle is a good fake doctor. 

Pittsburgh looks really pretty in aerial shots, I had no idea. 

  On 2/13/2025 at 3:41 PM, o00o said:

Severance became boring really quickly in season 02.
Now they just trow random things at the protagonists for the sake of being weird. It feels like the script is laking real substance. 

you're right....:( 

im watching Mythic Quest, pretty cool... :^)