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Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Sling TV added Chrome compatibility on all platforms

# ? Aug 15, 2017 17:18

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:47

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

Chris James 2 posted:

Sling TV added Chrome compatibility on all platforms

If they get DVR functionality working on Chrome I'm not sure I have any reason to continue subscribing to Hulu. (Speaking of which, is the Hulu PS4 app being a piece of poo poo lately for anyone else?)

# ? Aug 15, 2017 17:50

Vincent: Nov 25, 2005

Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

Based on a few recommendations here, I watched the first two episodes of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency last night and liked them a lot. I read the book when I was in middle school, but didn't remember a single thing from it. Anyway, they were on BBC On Demand, but sadly, they were the ONLY two episodes available, and the show isn't on Netflix or Amazon Prime either. Shame. I would really like to finish the rest, but not enough to go out and buy the Blu-Ray.

It's on south american Netflix, for what it's worth.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 18:09

IRQ: Sep 9, 2001; SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

Chris James 2 posted:

Sling TV added Chrome compatibility on all platforms

Wait, you couldn't watch it on a browser before? What the heck?

I need to start looking at these again since PSVue is jacking up their pricing but I has just assumed that being able to use it on a pc was baseline.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 18:10

PriorMarcus: Oct 17, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

raditts posted:

I dunno, I think Rookie Blue probably gives it some good competition.

Is that still on? What's been happening in it?

Also, wasn't there a Canadian cop show that did an amazing single shot school shooting episode? Is that any good outside of that episode?

# ? Aug 15, 2017 19:03

WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

IRQ posted:

Wait, you couldn't watch it on a browser before? What the heck?

I need to start looking at these again since PSVue is jacking up their pricing but I has just assumed that being able to use it on a pc was baseline.

You could watch it on PC before, you just had to download a separate app instead of doing it in your browser.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 19:08

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Ozark got renewed for a second season.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 19:17

Snak: Oct 10, 2005; I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
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zoux posted:

Ozark got renewed for a second season.

Awesome. I managed to make watching it last most of a week, but the week after we finished it, my roommate and I kept saying "I want to watch more Ozark!"

# ? Aug 15, 2017 19:31

esperterra: Mar 24, 2010; SHINee's back

raditts posted:

I dunno, I think we've had enough shows / movies about how wacky and quirky Greek people are.

This Greek Canadian begs to differ

Nia Vardalos is obvs the only person who can clearly represent the Greek Canadian experience for me!

# ? Aug 15, 2017 19:53

Commander Jebus: Sep 9, 2001; You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought...

PriorMarcus posted:

Also, wasn't there a Canadian cop show that did an amazing single shot school shooting episode? Is that any good outside of that episode?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhplhhnvPQs

19-2, and yes it's fantastic overall, although it's a very different type of show than the school shooting episode would indicate. It's a much slower burn "life of beat cops" kind of show rather than your standard murder of the week cop show.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 20:23

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

PriorMarcus posted:

Is that still on? What's been happening in it?

Also, wasn't there a Canadian cop show that did an amazing single shot school shooting episode? Is that any good outside of that episode?

19-2. It's probably the best pure cop show I've seen since Homicide. It's in the last season right now and is still really drat great.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 20:32

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

esperterra posted:

This Greek Canadian begs to differ

Nia Vardalos is obvs the only person who can clearly represent the Greek Canadian experience for me!

Don't most greeks hate her for being a total fraud?

# ? Aug 15, 2017 20:32

IRQ: Sep 9, 2001; SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

Aphrodite posted:

Don't most greeks hate her for being a total fraud?

Hasn't stopped Ned Holness or Daniel Whitney.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 20:45

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

It completely stopped Mencia though? His career died in 2011.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 20:57

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Aphrodite posted:

It completely stopped Mencia though? His career died in 2011.

Ah, what a pleasant thought. I forgot about him.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:02

PriorMarcus: Oct 17, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

X-O posted:

19-2. It's probably the best pure cop show I've seen since Homicide. It's in the last season right now and is still really drat great.

Both this and the post before it sound exactly like what I'm looking for. I'll get on it as my next show to binge.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:03

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Aphrodite posted:

It completely stopped Mencia though? His career died in 2011.

Aww man, I wish he had died in 2011

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:06

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

PriorMarcus posted:

Both this and the post before it sound exactly like what I'm looking for. I'll get on it as my next show to binge.

There are two versions, the original French Canadian version and the English version. The only one I can vouch for is the English one. I hear the first two seasons of each are very similar but the English one goes off in a different direction after that.

It deals mostly with the smaller parts of being a cop and way more extensively with the toll the job takes on them mentally. It does have some bigger storylines about dirty cops and mob stuff too, but the meat of the show is the strain the job puts on the officers. For instance the school shooting episode is pretty action packed but it's mainly to set up how the different officers deal with what they've gone through afterwords and that's a theme through the rest of that season.

X-O fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Aug 15, 2017

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:08

PriorMarcus: Oct 17, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

X-O posted:

There are two versions, the original French Canadian version and the English version. The only one I can vouch for is the English one. I hear the first two seasons of each are very similar but the English one goes off in a different direction after that.

It deals mostly with the smaller parts of being a cop and way more extensively with the toll the job takes on them mentally. It does have some bigger storylines about dirty cops and mob stuff too, but the meat of the show is the strain the job puts on the officers. For instance the school shooting episode is pretty action packed but it's mainly to set up how the different officers deal with what they've gone through afterwords and that's a theme through the rest of that season.

Yeah. This sounds perfect. It's kind of what I wanted from Southland but felt like that show could never quite deliver for some reason.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:19

IRQ: Sep 9, 2001; SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

Aphrodite posted:

It completely stopped Mencia though? His career died in 2011.

Haven't I been seeing him on a commercial for something or on netflix? Maybe it was someone else terrible.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 21:45

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Thanks jerks, I literally had not thought about Carlos Mencia in years and now I can't get his dumb loving voice out of my head

# ? Aug 15, 2017 22:12

pentyne: Nov 7, 2012

X-O posted:

There are two versions, the original French Canadian version and the English version. The only one I can vouch for is the English one. I hear the first two seasons of each are very similar but the English one goes off in a different direction after that.

It deals mostly with the smaller parts of being a cop and way more extensively with the toll the job takes on them mentally. It does have some bigger storylines about dirty cops and mob stuff too, but the meat of the show is the strain the job puts on the officers. For instance the school shooting episode is pretty action packed but it's mainly to set up how the different officers deal with what they've gone through afterwords and that's a theme through the rest of that season.

This was a show I pretty much expected to be on Netflix and am disappointed to find out it isn't.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 22:16

Escobarbarian: Jun 18, 2004; Grimey Drawer

how dare they make it slightly less convenient for you to consume

# ? Aug 15, 2017 22:19

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

You rarely even have to pirate things anymore, you can find just about any TV show on YouTube (in a tiny window to escape automated takedowns)

# ? Aug 15, 2017 22:26

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

X-O posted:

There are two versions, the original French Canadian version and the English version. The only one I can vouch for is the English one. I hear the first two seasons of each are very similar but the English one goes off in a different direction after that.

It deals mostly with the smaller parts of being a cop and way more extensively with the toll the job takes on them mentally. It does have some bigger storylines about dirty cops and mob stuff too, but the meat of the show is the strain the job puts on the officers. For instance the school shooting episode is pretty action packed but it's mainly to set up how the different officers deal with what they've gone through afterwords and that's a theme through the rest of that season.

It takes place in Montreal and we had 23 homicides in 2016.

Law and Order it ain't.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 23:06

Arist: Feb 13, 2012; _{who, me?}

That reminds me of the guy who posted in the iZombie thread that Seattle has like a dozen murders a year and how funny it was that a single season might cover every single murder in the city.

# ? Aug 15, 2017 23:08

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

X-O posted:

There are two versions, the original French Canadian version and the English version. The only one I can vouch for is the English one. I hear the first two seasons of each are very similar but the English one goes off in a different direction after that.

It deals mostly with the smaller parts of being a cop and way more extensively with the toll the job takes on them mentally. It does have some bigger storylines about dirty cops and mob stuff too, but the meat of the show is the strain the job puts on the officers. For instance the school shooting episode is pretty action packed but it's mainly to set up how the different officers deal with what they've gone through afterwords and that's a theme through the rest of that season.

I haven't seen all of it but what I saw of the original is impressive as hell.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 00:18

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Since TOS is the only Star Trek I can stand (aside from the new remakes which I'm mostly ambivalent towards though I think Simon Pegg is good in them) I went to Netflix to see if there are any episodes I haven't ever seen (since I mostly watched it on late Sci Fi channel reruns) and apparently I missed a real corker: S1E21 "Court Martial". It's the least Star Trek-y episode of the TOS, it's entirely a courtroom drama and it... kind of is great.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 01:43

Snak: Oct 10, 2005; I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.; Grimey Drawer

Courtroom drama is one of the like, 4 star trek plots.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 02:04

esperterra: Mar 24, 2010; SHINee's back

Aphrodite posted:

Don't most greeks hate her for being a total fraud?

I honestly don't know, tbh. All I know is Big Fat Greek Wedding was scary accurate to my life growing up, and Connie and Carla is an A+ movie.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 02:15

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

precision posted:

Since TOS is the only Star Trek I can stand

Yo this is crazy talk

# ? Aug 16, 2017 02:25

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Snak posted:

Courtroom drama is one of the like, 4 star trek plots.

Yup, and the other 3 are good too:

- Basically Q (seriously how does Trek lore accomodate all these alien "gods" in TOS?)
- Weird thing is killing everyone
- Time travel

# ? Aug 16, 2017 02:57

Mu Zeta: Oct 17, 2002; Me crush ass to dust

Holosuite baseball and James Bond adventures

# ? Aug 16, 2017 02:59

Kingtheninja: Jul 29, 2004; "You're the best looking guy here."

Is the show dark matter any good? The plot sounds interesting but I'm not sure of the quality.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 03:07

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

After watching the second episode I think I can clearly state that Get Shorty is a GOOD SHOW.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 03:09

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Kingtheninja posted:

Is the show dark matter any good? The plot sounds interesting but I'm not sure of the quality.

Ehhh, it can be enjoyable and there are some fun episodes/characters but it mainly suffers from taking itself too seriously. The first season really hurts from having a crappy "main" character but then they rectify it in season 2 by unceremoniously killing him off.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 03:16

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Kingtheninja posted:

Is the show dark matter any good? The plot sounds interesting but I'm not sure of the quality.

It's okay, occasionally great, but far from must-see TV. Worth a shot if you think it sounds interesting though.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 04:41

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

Timby posted:

If they get DVR functionality working on Chrome I'm not sure I have any reason to continue subscribing to Hulu. (Speaking of which, is the Hulu PS4 app being a piece of poo poo lately for anyone else?)

Didn't Hulu roll out their own TV service? Anyone used it? I've been thinking of giving it a try, since it's supposed to include regular Hulu in the price.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 04:51

Josh Lyman: May 24, 2009

Kingtheninja posted:

Is the show dark matter any good? The plot sounds interesting but I'm not sure of the quality.

Just watch The Expanse.

# ? Aug 16, 2017 04:56

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:47

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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I remember when The Grand Tour came out, it was heralded as the 4K/UHD demo on Amazon... but I can only find it in 1080p for some reason.

I did a direct search for it and that's the only version that came up.

I also checked the specific 4K section and all the old stuff is in there plus a few new bits (including the Channing Tatum thing, even though it won't load in 4K) but no Grand Tour.

Amazon Video is the most pain in the rear end app ever. This is the LG TV version in case they're different. Can anyone else see it?

# ? Aug 16, 2017 05:00

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