What TV series are you watching at moment?

Mr Robot. Quite enjoying it.

episode 8 of mr robot disappointed me. 7 too. i feel like they started filming before having the season written and they're just hacking now. er, like literary hacks.

 

reminder that john oliver's writing team crushes almost every time

Edited August 17, 2015 by very honest

gave up on true detective s02 and replaced it with brooklyn nine nine. no regrets.

  On 8/17/2015 at 5:52 PM, data said:

gave up on true detective s02 and replaced it with brooklyn nine nine. no regrets ragrets.

 

fix'd

Rick and Morty is sooo good. I wonder if the South Park boys ever watch it and think to themselves 'wow why couldn't we ever write shit this good?' . It has a similar irreverence, but what makes rick and Morty so goddam good is that all the gags are written into a story thats actually really good and not some stupid gimmick like 'hey lets make a whole episode about Oprah's asshole, that will be hilarious (by the way im a dumb repetitive douche)' - trey parker

Edited August 17, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

  On 8/17/2015 at 5:45 PM, very honest said:

episode 8 of mr robot disappointed me. 7 too. i feel like they started filming before having the season written and they're just hacking now. er, like literary hacks.

 

reminder that john oliver's writing team crushes almost every time

very quickly wiping away the memory of Jon Stewart. no advertisers to deal with, he just goes for it.

Caught up with Mr. Robot. Interesting show, impressed that they at least made a good effort to make the hacking somewhat accurate. The unreliable narrator spin works well with the general paranoia.

New season of Review with Forrest MacNeil has started, remembered I never finished watching the first season, so been finishing that off. It's good stuff, Andy Daly is great.

Mr. Robot might be the first visual/cinematic piece of entertainment I've ever seen that actually has a desire to portray computer technology accurately. There's no absurdly extravagant GUIs to add visual flare to what, in reality, is just a dude typing various lines into Linux and running password crackers.

They added Samurai Jack on Netflix and I remember that I use to enjoy it but somehow I forgot how good it really was, bloody fantastic, Aku is stupidly funny.

  On 8/17/2015 at 9:29 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

'hey lets make a whole episode about Oprah's asshole' - trey parker

 

That's what makes it funny.

Season 2 of The Knick starts in October. Really looking forward to it because the first season took me by surprise.

 

 

By the way, does anyone actually like American Horror Story? I've watched all of it so far and it's so bad. The acting is atrocious and the music... oh gawd!

I'm a horror nerd and couldn't get past the first episode, someone here was raving about it awhile ago, maybe kaen, but I didn't get it.

  On 8/19/2015 at 12:57 PM, tec said:

I'm a horror nerd and couldn't get past the first episode

 

It gets worst. The other seasons have been absolutely terrible. I don't know why I keep watching it? It's not entertaining like The Walking Dead which I also hate.

  On 8/19/2015 at 12:53 PM, Squee said:

Season 2 of The Knick starts in October. Really looking forward to it because the first season took me by surprise.

 

 

By the way, does anyone actually like American Horror Story? I've watched all of it so far and it's so bad. The acting is atrocious and the music... oh gawd!

 

It's a show I hate watch unfortunately. I want to punch that evan peters guy in the face repeatedly & unrepentantly. seriously, screw that guy.

I tend to like their title sequences though.

  On 8/19/2015 at 1:46 PM, olo said:

 

  On 8/19/2015 at 12:53 PM, Squee said:

Season 2 of The Knick starts in October. Really looking forward to it because the first season took me by surprise.

 

 

By the way, does anyone actually like American Horror Story? I've watched all of it so far and it's so bad. The acting is atrocious and the music... oh gawd!

 

It's a show I hate watch unfortunately. I want to punch that evan peters guy in the face repeatedly & unrepentantly. seriously, screw that guy.

 

I'll hold him while you beat him up.

 

And what on Earth was up with him in the last season? The only thing he did was finger house wives

 

EDIT: also

 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2015 by olo

Urgh...

Seems most people I know who've watched American Horror Story didn't really enjoy it while they were watching, me included, but carried on to the bitter end.

  On 8/19/2015 at 12:53 PM, Squee said:

Season 2 of The Knick starts in October. Really looking forward to it because the first season took me by surprise.

 

 

By the way, does anyone actually like American Horror Story? I've watched all of it so far and it's so bad. The acting is atrocious and the music... oh gawd!

 

The Knick is really something. Soderbergh + Martinez score + ridiculously gory 1900 medical practices = hell yea.

 

I saw about half of AHS season 3 (the witch coven) because my old roommate was all about that show, and it was fucking terrible.

I really wanted to like Deadwood. I should have started watching it with subtitles I guess.

 

The dialogue is overly stylized and awkward and it doesn't make up for the plodding vibes.

wut? the dialog makes the show.

Thanks to whoever recommended Rectify, been binging on it the last couple weeks, nearly done with season two now. Great acting, great score, they make Georgia look like a beautiful place (much better without all the zombies), love the lethargic pace, like the fact the whodunit aspect has been relegated to the background. Some of the dialog gets a bit waffley at times, especially all the conversations with Daniel and Mrs Jesus-loves-you, and the prison flashbacks... but a minor quibble.

Edited August 20, 2015 by caze

  On 8/20/2015 at 3:28 AM, caze said:

wut? the dialog makes the show.

It wears out it's welcome pretty quickly. I don't like a single character and saying cocksucker 80 times an episode is just a tragically weird decision.

 

I'm not sure how people put it in the same league as The Sopranos and The Wire.

 

Edit: I like Doc Cochran and that's it

Edited August 20, 2015 by Candiru

  On 8/20/2015 at 3:31 AM, caze said:

Thanks to whoever recommended Rectify, been binging on it the last couple weeks, nearly done with season two now. Great acting, great score, they make Georgia look like a beautiful place (much better without all the zombies), love the lethargic pace, like the fact the whodunit aspect has been relegated to the background. Some of the dialog gets a bit waffley at times, especially all the conversations with Daniel and Mrs Jesus-loves-you, and the prison flashbacks... but a minor quibble.

definitely, rectify is my favorite active show and one of the most beautiful series Ive ever listened to!