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Mulva posted:It's lady Batman and Robin fighting sexual assault on a college campus, and it has a body count by the end of the first episode so they aren't afraid for poo poo to get very real quickly. Are the sexual assaults shown? My wife was interested in the show from the description, but she has real trouble watching graphic rape scenes in anything.
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Mu Zeta posted:It's only like GoT in that it has a large cast of characters. People who compare unrelated shows are the worst type of idiots.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Are the sexual assaults shown? My wife was interested in the show from the description, but she has real trouble watching graphic rape scenes in anything. Boy is that a hierarchy I don't want to think about, but I wouldn't say graphic. They don't show every assault, nor is it just rapes [One episode focuses on a sorority brutalizing it's pledges], but they do sometimes show a bit of the assaults. I would say watch the first episode, which is about as graphic as it gets on that front, and you'd know your wife better than anyone.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Are the sexual assaults shown? My wife was interested in the show from the description, but she has real trouble watching graphic rape scenes in anything. I haven't gone past episode 3, but episode one is the most graphic, if you could call it that. The act isn't shown, if I'm remembering right, it's her being held down and remembering the vulnerability she felt as physically, she's being held down too.
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Good Behavior is superb tv. Michelle Dockery is crushing it. This is why I can't do TV lists anymore, last min gems throw a metric spanner in the whole thing.
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wormil posted:I've been recording Falling Water but have forgotten why and no one talks about it. Is anyone watching it? I am. One of my favorite shows of the year.
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Josh Lyman posted:Is Dirk Gently any good? Here's the discussion from the last page. MiddleOne posted:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency looks like a milquetoast police procedural when you browse over it on Netflix but it turns out is is anything but. How have I never heard about this show before, Elijah Wood is really killing it as the audience stand-in here. Shageletic posted:The author is a genius so I've been hesitant to watch the show, considering I've only heard disappointed takes. You like it though? MiddleOne posted:Literally never heard of the books, show is great though. It's just one long 8-episode crazy ride. Escobarbarian posted:The Dirk Gently adaptation is by Max Landis so keep that in mind before diving in bring back old gbs posted:Yeah I assumed it was about some hippie guy solving crimes with nature, I don't know why. It's pretty drat good, enjoyed it a lot. The plot is not AT ALL what I expected it to be. bull3964 posted:The events of the books were referenced in the first episode. So, if Norse Gods and ghosts with time travel agendas are in continuity, I assume nothing is off limits for the show.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Here's the discussion from the last page. 
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precision posted:Fleabag is on Prime. Watch it. It's basically what if Sweet Dee from Always Sunny were British and had her own show. And even more funny than that sounds now that I type it out.
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Ep2 of shut eye: WHAT THE gently caress!? I think I'm gonna have to keep watching this.
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Mu Zeta posted:The OA . gif So loving bad.
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Vanderdeath posted:Is the OA like Sense8 through the lens of insanity? Rocksicles posted:People who compare unrelated shows are the worst type of idiots.
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OA and Sense8 are both terrible so it's a valid comparison.
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The OA was kind of cool at first. Like the title card and credits appearing almost an hour into the first episode.
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Snak posted:Sense8 is great though. Agreed. The xmas special is tomorrow!
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The S2 premiere of Man in the High Castle played with my emotions. Haha, are they kicking off this season by killing off Juliana? Now Joe's dying? This season is going to be great. drat, Joe's not gonna die. And now Juliana's not dead.
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Snak posted:Ep2 of shut eye: WHAT THE gently caress!? It's good stuff. Might have to make a thread about it for the five posters interested in it.
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Mu Zeta posted:The OA . gif The low frame rate and compression make this look like a clip from a 90s FMV game.
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Some dude kept pming me for mod approval for a Survivor thread yesterday. I barely post on this board any more so I guess they got me confused with OldSenileGuy :V
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Isn't there already a Survivor thread running anyway? For the GenX/Millennial thing.
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Zaggitz posted:Some dude kept pming me for mod approval for a Survivor thread yesterday. I barely post on this board any more so I guess they got me confused with OldSenileGuy :V It sounds like the person PMing you was the old senile guy!
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Shageletic posted:It's good stuff. Is there a Hulu thread? I feel like the two Hulu originals I've watched are both very good and worth discussing, but I don't think they could support their own threads. Between being short shows, and the limited number of people here who pay for hulu.
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I was going to make a thread for Shut Eye but you're welcome to it if you want, Shag.
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Yeah, Shut Eye's fab. It always worries me when streaming services, or basic cable, release shows really late in the year, generally after all the best-of lists have been finalised, since they inevitably get overlooked by nearly everybody. Shut Eye's one, Good Behavior's another, and then there's The Man In The High Castle and Falling Water, which were both really good shows this year.
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Lycus posted:The S2 premiere of Man in the High Castle played with my emotions. This season's real good. You're in for a treat.
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Snak posted:Sense8 is great though.
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I finished watching Search Party today, and man that has gotta be the most aggressively unpleasant show I've watched this year. By the end I just loathed every single person in the show, which I guess was maybe the point? For some reason? I was a bit amused at how the show came out around the same time as Dirk Gently and also manages to be its thematic antithesis.
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raditts posted:I finished watching Search Party today, and man that has gotta be the most aggressively unpleasant show I've watched this year. By the end I just loathed every single person in the show, which I guess was maybe the point? For some reason? Have you seen a little show called The OA yet?
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I recently finished watching through The OA and actually thought it was pretty good. It managed to have some really intense and memorable scenes despite being based around a rather depressing story of mental illness. The places the story goes are quite insane but then again you have to consider that almost the entire thing is framed through the mind of an actual insane person and the viewer is interpreting through their vision. It's not something you can watch and take literally, which is not going to appeal to quite a few people I will admit.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Have you seen a little show called The OA yet?
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Josh Lyman posted:Dude you don't joke about stuff like that Hey Josh Lyman, tonight my wife and I watched the pilot of The West Wing, introducing us to your namesake. I've seen a few bits and pieces over the years, but it's one of those shows I've never sat down to watch. Man, I needed that. It felt like a feel-good fantasy, like The Flash (season 1) or The Force Awakens or something. Just about as unrealistic these days, but so cathartic and uplifting and joyous.
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Flayer posted:I recently finished watching through The OA and actually thought it was pretty good. It managed to have some really intense and memorable scenes despite being based around a rather depressing story of mental illness. The places the story goes are quite insane but then again you have to consider that almost the entire thing is framed through the mind of an actual insane person and the viewer is interpreting through their vision. It's not something you can watch and take literally, which is not going to appeal to quite a few people I will admit. I want to watch the OA that you watched.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Hey Josh Lyman, tonight my wife and I watched the pilot of The West Wing, introducing us to your namesake. I've seen a few bits and pieces over the years, but it's one of those shows I've never sat down to watch. It's really good and you should keep going and maybe also listen to The West Wing Weekly podcast for each episode. For all of Sorkins faults, the first 3 seasons of TWW is good TV.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Hey Josh Lyman, tonight my wife and I watched the pilot of The West Wing, introducing us to your namesake. I've seen a few bits and pieces over the years, but it's one of those shows I've never sat down to watch.
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Josh Lyman posted:Lady, the god that you pray to is too busy being indicted for tax fraud! We absolutely marked out during the climax of that, when POTUS showed up.
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Flayer posted:I recently finished watching through The OA and actually thought it was pretty good. It managed to have some really intense and memorable scenes despite being based around a rather depressing story of mental illness. The places the story goes are quite insane but then again you have to consider that almost the entire thing is framed through the mind of an actual insane person and the viewer is interpreting through their vision. It's not something you can watch and take literally, which is not going to appeal to quite a few people I will admit. I don't agree at all that she's mentally ill. e: The West Wing starts out so energetic and positive but by season 3 it's the same grimdark drama of every other show.
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