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precision posted:Yeah I just started and it is very good and definitely has a Life is Strange vibe Just watched episode 7 and it's getting much darker. The earlier episodes had a ton of light dialogue that made it easy to get into the show, those are gone now and everything is sad all the time. Still a great show but I'm starting to really understand what Sepinwall meant when he described the show as a melancholy desert.
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It's like a more restrained Donnie Darko and I'm curious where the mystery aspects are going.
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wormil posted:But if you really want to watch the best interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, find The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes from the 80's with Jeremy Brett. I didn't buy into the hype for a long time until it came on Netflix several years ago and now I understand why people say Brett is the best Sherlock. I watched those all the time as a kid and he's simply wonderful.
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bull3964 posted:I'm sitting here, watching Will Arnette give commentary on toast making on Netflix. This is some Space Ghost Coast to Coast poo poo. There's nothing that directly reminds me of it, but somehow I get that vibe. EDIT: Confused? You won't be if you go check Netflix tonight before they take this down. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Apr 2, 2017 01:02
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Adult Swim's April Fools joke had a part two Holy poo poo
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Just a head's up, Adultswim.com is currently running the first episode of the new season of Rick & Morty over and over again until midnight. Also apparently just regular Adult Swim is doing it too. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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God drat this is a good Rick & Morty premiere
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Hughmoris posted:What the hell? Yeah, she's like Kilgrave from Jessica Jones or some poo poo, but they don't even attempt to explain how it's supposed to work or be possible. By the midpoint of the episode the writers seem to have forgotten about it anyway since it never comes into play again. precision posted:Oh gently caress yes it was. It had one good episode and one so bad it's good one though. Wait, which one was the "good" episode Baronash posted:I'll never understand this forum's willingness to accept absurdity in the plots of some shows but not others. duuhhhhh guys what is this "internal consistency" thing
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I genuinely think Sherlock s4 did not make a single good decision outside of "let's bring Toby Jones in and let him devour the fuckin scenery" although I did chuckle at some of the badass Mrs. Hudson bits, cheap as they were
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If you missed the Rick & Morty premiere they're going to be airing it every night the rest of the week.
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OK, 13 Reasons Why is really good. And I kind of feel like Clay in the show in that I really want to know more and go to the next episode/tape but it's rough at times, as the subject matter should be, so I kind of want to watch it slowly even more. Dylan Minnette is great and so is the lead actress who I've never seen before. She has a real tough job too as the logistics of the part really give her a number of different kinds of situations and tones to pull off in addition to the semi narration stuff she has to do as well.
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Hughmoris posted:Anyone currently watching The Detour? Worth getting into? It's very vulgar and often disgusting, but it's one of the funniest shows on TV right now.
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13 Reasons Why stumbles a bit in the first few episodes but I'm on episode 5 now and I can't sleep or stop watching, send help
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I was worried after the first episode that the show would focus to much on the relationship drama between Hannah and Justin, I am glad I stuck with it as it really opened up and there are some great supporting characters. Starting ep 12 now, sleep soon.
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Hakkesshu posted:After I saw that last Sherlock episode I came to terms with the fact that it's actually just a superhero show. Even that's been done better. 
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McSpanky posted:Even that's been done better. Jared Harris was so great as full-on Bond villain Moriarty in the second one.  I think Holmes has always been a bit of a superhero. Some versions just emphasise it a bit more. The original stories were mysteries but they weren't exactly whodunnits in the sense that you could follow the clues as reader and work it out for yourself; Holmes would use his superhuman deductive skills to work out the solution and explain it to Watson so everyone would be impressed. Of course, there's also a link between Holmes and Batman by way of the pulp heroes (the Shadow etc.).
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Those guy ritchie movies are so forgettable. I've seen both and can't remember anything except for the patented guy ritchie shirtless men fighting scene.
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Mu Zeta posted:Those guy ritchie movies are so forgettable. I've seen both and can't remember anything except for the patented guy ritchie shirtless men fighting scene. The first move had like one really great Zimmer-track™ ah uh yeah that's about it. Second movie was extremely forgettable.
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Finally finished Review. Easily one of the greatest TV comedies of this decade.
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Both RDJ Holmes movies are great actually É: just finished episode 7 of 13 and drat. I might make a thread for this precision fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Sorry everyone, I went with Timeless. I'm 2 episodes in and so far it's extremely my poo poo. It's like a Timecop tv show if JCVD was very bad at his job. Plus it's got Johnson from Peep Show playing the Elon Musk-esque super genius that invented time travel and hid it from the government and is vaguely evil, so it's got that going for it. I have no doubts that 12 Monkeys is probably a better show, but it looked very serious and grimdark and like I probably need to pay full attention to it. For a show I can put on and only like pay 75% attention to while I do other things, Timeless is getting the job done right now. Plus, I was thinking I'd like to see a time travel show where they really tear the space time continuum to shreds, and this seems to be that show. I'll keep you guys updated as to the point where it gets too stupid, repetitive, or formulaic for me to keep watching.
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Yes 12 Monkeys is something you're going to want to pay attention to because it's easy to miss stuff.
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Timeless is a fun show, but ultimately it does the exact trope that every other time travel show does where their mission either directly involves them interacting with a famous event/person (Hindenburg) or them conveniently running into someone (Harry Houdini). It also constantly does the "I'm a huge fan of your work, we studied it in school!" "Oh? It just came out last week...". I get it, that's the point of a time travel show, but it does get repetitive. I actually haven't watched 12 Monkeys but based on the movie I'm guessing it's not quite as guilty of that trope.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Sorry everyone, I went with Timeless. I'm 2 episodes in and so far it's extremely my poo poo. I think that point hit at like episode 3 for me. Did the production quality ever get better on that show? The thing that stuck out most to me is how cheap the show looked for something they advertised for months and had in primetime. It looked like something made for Syfy.
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Escobarbarian posted:Finally finished Review. Easily one of the greatest TV comedies of this decade. I love how every veto he does causes nothing but misery
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Based on recommendations here... I'm now about halfway through Patriot and liking it quite a bit. Started 13 Reasons and the whole tape schtick comes off a bit eye-rollingly self-obsessive, but otherwise it's pretty good. I'll give it unitl episode 5 at least based on what I've read here. Looking forward to Legion and Imposters.
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Yeah you have to get over the hump of the core conceit of 13 Reasons seeming pretentious and dumb, but I promise it is way worth it. Show gets very dark and real. e: here a thread for it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3815678 precision fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Medullah posted:Timeless is a fun show, but ultimately it does the exact trope that every other time travel show does where their mission either directly involves them interacting with a famous event/person (Hindenburg) or them conveniently running into someone (Harry Houdini). It also constantly does the "I'm a huge fan of your work, we studied it in school!" "Oh? It just came out last week...". Its not a factor since 12 Monkeys isn't some "bounce around history having antics" time travel show, its a "we have to change fictional history" time travel show.
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Finished Patriot and yeah last couple eps totally took me from "this show is pretty great, I like it a lot" to "gently caress gently caress THIS SHOW IS loving FANTASTIC OH MY GOD". If this had come out 10 years ago it would be massively acclaimed event television but peak TV has made it a little-watched show on a streaming network getting mediocre reviews for having "old ideas" (that Verge review is still so goddamn bizarre to me). Glad it's getting the love it deserves here, at least.
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Escobarbarian posted:Finished Patriot and yeah last couple eps totally took me from "this show is pretty great, I like it a lot" to "gently caress gently caress THIS SHOW IS loving FANTASTIC OH MY GOD". If this had come out 10 years ago it would be massively acclaimed event television but peak TV has made it a little-watched show on a streaming network getting mediocre reviews for having "old ideas" (that Verge review is still so goddamn bizarre to me). Glad it's getting the love it deserves here, at least. Yeah, it's a beautifully shot show with great music and characters. I really hope they go for a season 2.
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Decided to give Banshee a shot, just finished the pilot. Pretty solid. Does it keep up the pace?
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Hughmoris posted:Decided to give Banshee a shot, just finished the pilot. Pretty solid. Does it keep up the pace? It's over the top, he sleeps with every girl he meets, and the subplots are generally trashy. I enjoyed it as popcorn TV, but the ending disappointed me. If you like seeing boobs it's A+ in that regard.
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Medullah posted:It's over the top, he sleeps with every girl he meets, and the subplots are generally trashy. I enjoyed it as popcorn TV, but the ending disappointed me. I am a fan of boobs and excess...
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Banshee is good, but like Strike Back I feel there was too much network mandated sex and nudity to the point where it actually hindered the show at times. I mean it's Cinemax we get it, but I mean sometimes it was like I just want to watch the show I don't need a five minute sex scene here.
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Banshee is great until the final season where they decided that the flashbacks were more important than the present day story.
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Hughmoris posted:Decided to give Banshee a shot, just finished the pilot. Pretty solid. Does it keep up the pace? I binged all of Banshee a couple months ago, and boy, I never expected to end up loving all of it as much as I did. The action choreography alone is enough, but it ended up having actual emotional resonance, great characterization and characters, and good humor. And the amount/length of sex scenes is nowhere near as bad as like Spartacus, which I just binged all of as well. Edit: And the ending and how everything shakes out was pretty much perfect. Sometimes that's rare these days. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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There is almost nothing like Banshee on TV. I don't even get the same vibe from Strike Back.
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