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On the recommendation of a friend I ended up binge-watching Orphan Black . Holy poo poo, what a cool show. Tatiana Maslany is an amazing actress and I can't wait for the next season. With that said, anyone have any recommendations for what to watch next? I'm not even sure what I'm looking for really but I'm open to any suggestions. 
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The Americans if you want a great spy drama mixed with modern arranged marriage.
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Jul 11, 2016 06:48
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The Americans is seriously one of the best-made dramas I've ever seen. Not as flashy as something like Breaking Bad, but if you want to see how much suspense and weight can be stuffed into a single subtle gesture or choice of phrasing, The Americans is basically a master class.
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Jul 11, 2016 08:35
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Also if you just loving love a good wig.
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Jul 11, 2016 08:36
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Has anyone seen the 1980's Britcom, "Yes, Minister?"  It's full of the best British dry wit, and very well-acted. The humor and references are rather sophisticated, and will go over the heads of most Americans. PBS used to show an episode of it each week in the late 1990's; Saturday nights here in Atlanta. There's an equally enjoyable sequel series with the same characters, "Yes, Prime Minister." Both series are available on DVD.
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Jul 11, 2016 08:46
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Yes, Minister (and its sequel) is an essential watch for anybody who likes political humour. Some of the specifics are from Cold War /Thatcher-era Britain but a lot of it is timeless (for better or worse).
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Jul 12, 2016 15:07
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I'm watching the first season of Once Upon A Time. It's silly fun.
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Jul 12, 2016 23:27
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Just binged season 1 of The Americans and holy crap is this good TV. Heard it just keeps getting better and better so I am really looking forward to the next seasons.
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Jul 13, 2016 03:34
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm watching the first season of Once Upon A Time. It's silly fun.
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Jul 13, 2016 06:35
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coyo7e posted:I originally thought it was a dumb premise but it's really well-done. That's pretty much how I felt about Penny Dreadful. I heard what it was about and was like "well that sounds loving ridiculous and awful", but the storytelling and the acting (particularly Eva Green, holy loving poo poo) sold me on it completely. I mean episode two and she's already doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWtK6cdnYE It is all so insanely over the top and yet it somehow works because everyone is so utterly committed to its insanity. Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jul 13, 2016 06:40
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King Possum III posted:Has anyone seen the 1980's Britcom, "Yes, Minister?" Doctor Spaceman posted:Yes, Minister (and its sequel) is an essential watch for anybody who likes political humour. Some of the specifics are from Cold War /Thatcher-era Britain but a lot of it is timeless (for better or worse). Going along with these recommendations, particularly in light of the carnival sideshow British politics has recently become.  In recent weeks, I've binged through both Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, along with Father Ted, The Prisoner, Game of Thrones, and (currently working on) The Sweeney.
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Jul 13, 2016 06:56
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coyo7e posted:I originally thought it was a dumb premise but it's really well-done. Robert Carlyle is a lot of fun in it.
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Jul 13, 2016 23:57
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Yesterday, I finished binging through the first 2 seasons of The 100 on Netflix. I liked parts of the show and after the first 2 episodes it became very different and much better than what I had expected from a CW show with a premise like this. Unfortunately, the Season 2 finale pretty much killed my interest in the show. It reeked of the writers trying too hard to be grimdark and "serious" at the expense of watchability, characterization, and even just having the story make any sense at all. From what I've read about Season 3, problems like that continued after the S2 finale, so I won't be watching the next season on Amazon/Hulu/DVD or any other place where I have to pay per episode/season. One of the few bright spots by the end of it was Richard Harmon as John Murphy, who over the course of 2 seasons managed to turn an initially unlikeable character into my favorite part of the show. It got to the point where one of the only scenes in the Season 2 finale that I enjoyed was one where he just walks into a house and starts eating some food without saying anything. If at some point Season 3 ends up Netflix so I can watch it without paying any more money, I might check it out just for that one character.
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Jul 14, 2016 04:32
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Still watching The Wire for the first time, watching the last episode of season 3 tonight. Just saw the scene where Omar kills Stringer and even when it happened I didn't believe it would actually happen. Jesus christ I'm hyped to see where this is going! I don't know what it is, but everything that happens just has so much meaning and punch to it. No overly dramatic story lines, no cheap gut punches, everything is just so perfectly grounded and balanced, yet thrilling. Amazing.
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Jul 14, 2016 17:44
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So I ended up binging all of Banshee in about a week, week and a half? It had some pretty rough bits and I feel like Proctor kinda lost all nuance in the last season (and ughhhhhhh the serial killer/white supremacist plot threads and Burton's fuckin murdereunuch dolldungeon), and it got kinda wacky sometimes, but overall I was surprised at how much I liked it and how expressive and vulnerable Hood was. also holy poo poo Ana pretty great
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Jul 14, 2016 20:11
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Watched Flowers at the weekend. It's only 6 hours long and it had me laughing and crying by the end. It's incredibly weird, and the humour is very dark, but I would definitely recommend it. It's on channel 4 for British people and Seeso for anyone else I assume.
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Jul 18, 2016 12:06
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Marathoned through a bunch of stuff, like the new Voltron and Terriers. Watching the Wire with my parents as well, but everyone else has said enough on it already. Terriers is pretty solid but I think one season was about the time it needed. It wrapped up all its plots nicely and even the "cliffhanger" feels like another moment of the characters always being on the cusp of making a stupid mistake. Which is kind of the point of the whole thing to me. Voltron could probably use a few more episodes, but its a Netflix series so it'll get more seasons to develop the story and characters. Its a good funny show and I'm glad to see that people from Korra are getting work.
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Jul 19, 2016 02:25
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Just finished Stranger Things. It was pretty good... but not great. Nice atmosphere. I liked the kid actors, some of them a lot. But the filmmaking was also stuck in the 80ies at times. Characters were often acting like yelling retards for no apparent reason, flashing lights are okay occasionally but got irritating if used for several minutes in a row, and the montage of teen couple having sex juxtaposed with a monster eating a girl was just terrible, don't know what they were going for there. edit: That's not to say it didn't keep my interest; it really did. Just a bit frustrated at some of the smaller choices by the filmmakers. pigdog fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Jul 20, 2016 23:23
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pigdog posted:Just finished Stranger Things. It was pretty good... but not great. Nice atmosphere. I liked the kid actors, some of them a lot. But the filmmaking was also stuck in the 80ies at times. Characters were often acting like yelling retards for no apparent reason, flashing lights are okay occasionally but got irritating if used for several minutes in a row, and the montage of teen couple having sex juxtaposed with a monster eating a girl was just terrible, don't know what they were going for there. I agree that it was pretty good but not great. The thickness of the 80s aesthetic really made it worth it for me. Good vibes from that show, and even though there were weak plot points, it was super entertaining. I liked all the actors pretty much.
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Jul 20, 2016 23:51
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INH5 posted:Yesterday, I finished binging through the first 2 seasons of The 100 on Netflix. I liked parts of the show and after the first 2 episodes it became very different and much better than what I had expected from a CW show with a premise like this. Unfortunately, the Season 2 finale pretty much killed my interest in the show. It reeked of the writers trying too hard to be grimdark and "serious" at the expense of watchability, characterization, and even just having the story make any sense at all. From what I've read about Season 3, problems like that continued after the S2 finale, so I won't be watching the next season on Amazon/Hulu/DVD or any other place where I have to pay per episode/season. Some good news. Murphy is still the best part of the 100 in season 3. He's also a bit of a Cassandra, trying to warn people on how to stop the big bad, but nobody listens to him. Mostly because the 100 remember him as rear end in a top hat that tried to kill a little girl.
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pigdog posted:Just finished Stranger Things. It was pretty good... but not great. Nice atmosphere. I liked the kid actors, some of them a lot. But the filmmaking was also stuck in the 80ies at times. Characters were often acting like yelling retards for no apparent reason, flashing lights are okay occasionally but got irritating if used for several minutes in a row, and the montage of teen couple having sex juxtaposed with a monster eating a girl was just terrible, don't know what they were going for there.
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Jul 21, 2016 10:10
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Just finished The Night Manager. I thought it was pretty fleshed out character and story wise, and engaging enough for a binge watch. Think it is a one time series but wouldn't mind seeing Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston work together again.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:01
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They are making another season
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Mu Zeta posted:They are making another season Even so, based on the ending I doubt Hugh Laurie is going to play much of a part.
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Jul 22, 2016 06:56
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Is Voltron worth catching if you have never seen nor have any attachment to the original?
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Jul 22, 2016 10:27
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Yes, i watched the other series as a youngun. But i remembered nothin.
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Jul 22, 2016 10:49
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I'm halfway through the second (last? I need to check) season of Legend of the Seeker and I think I really need to track down the Sword of Truth books it's based on... They really doubled down on the 'leather-clad lesbo dominatrixes weilding magical pain-causing dildos' stuff after the first season. 
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WarLocke posted:I'm halfway through the second (last? I need to check) season of Legend of the Seeker and I think I really need to track down the Sword of Truth books it's based on... They really doubled down on the 'leather-clad lesbo dominatrixes weilding magical pain-causing dildos' stuff after the first season. The books are incredibly loving awful, but they make for a great Let's Read.
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ShakeZula posted:Even so, based on the ending I doubt Hugh Laurie is going to play much of a part. TV writers, like nature, always find a way.
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Jul 23, 2016 08:19
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The books are incredibly loving awful, but they make for a great Let's Read. I actually liked the first 4, maybe 5 of them. Then they got really boring and preachy. I was a teenager when I read them though so I've no idea how well or how badly they'd hold up now.
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Cactus posted:I actually liked the first 4, maybe 5 of them. Then they got really boring and preachy. I was a teenager when I read them though so I've no idea how well or how badly they'd hold up now.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The books are incredibly loving awful, but they make for a great Let's Read. Holy mother of god, I can't stop reading that thread.  And now I want to know what this evil chicken thing is about.
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Jul 24, 2016 00:40
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I've seen it posted here before it's pretty funny but I don't remember it at all so I must have either blocked it or not read that far.
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Jul 24, 2016 01:48
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Hungover as hell yesterday I binged the first 2 seasons of Bad Education. Pretty great show. The back and forth between him and his students is amazing and the rediculous principle is great in how terrible he is. One of my mates reccomended toast of london when Im through the last 6 eps. I also heard the movie was pretty average and kind of ruins the end of the show can anyone confirm?
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Jul 25, 2016 00:26
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They're not making another season of The Night Manager. Ignore that bullshit.
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Jul 25, 2016 06:52
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BlindSite posted:Hungover as hell yesterday I binged the first 2 seasons of Bad Education. Pretty great show. The back and forth between him and his students is amazing and the rediculous principle is great in how terrible he is. Bad Education movie? IIRC it's more like a side story. It's supposed to be a senior school trip but I think it takes place before the show ends. Jack Whitehall's other show Fresh Meat is much better.
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Jul 25, 2016 07:05
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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. it's part garbage part good world-building for the MCU. it's cheesy on the level that shows like Alphas only hoped for. and yet, here i am cruising thru season 2
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I finally started watching Person of Interest (first four seasons are on Netflix). Holy poo poo. Generally speaking, I find that shows that mix up plot-of-the-week with an overarching plot tend to screw up the latter to the point that it wrecks the show. This is completely the opposite, and it makes me sad to see that as this show got better, and better, and better, the ratings declined until it was canceled. I guess people just wanted Burn Notice in New York instead of modern-day cyberpunk dystopia as two omniscient, invisible AIs battle and humanity's fate rides on the outcome. Fantastic, can't recommend enough.
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Just got around to binging through all of Generation Kill which I had previously somehow never heard of. Checked it out after some goons referenced it in another thread, and loved it. Pretty much Band of Brothers or The Pacific for modern war, in Iraq. The action was all really well done, the uniforms and guns and humvees were great and everything felt appropriately real. (Because it was based on journalism) Really liked seeing all the characters, especially having some incompetent guys in charge and watching people kinda struggle with the chain of command in a war where bad decisions get people killed.
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I love Generation Kill, and in some ways it's hard to go back to something like Band of Brothers after it because you can tell that something like BoB is a super hollywood-ized, romanticized, almost saccharine take on its war story. We have a whole bunch of clear cut heroes in BoB, whereas GK there are huge swaths of grey with everyone and it really doesn't glorify anything about the war or why they are there, like it's just a loving job for them. This isn't to say I don't love BoB, and yeah it's kind of an apples/oranges sort of thing, but that was my immediate thought after finishing GK for the first time.
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