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All 3 of those comedies are great. Choose whichever setting suits you the most.
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Veep and Vice Principals are great. Silicon Valley is meh. True blood is just bad though. It wants to be trashy campy bad, but it's just bad so good call on that.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:00
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Vice Principals is good but head's up, that is just the first part and it was designed to be a two season show.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:05
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Silicon Valley starts out really good and ends up okay. It's probably a little funnier to people who are in tech or know a lot of tech people and stuff, because lots of little things are super true. But only a little, it's still regular funny.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:07
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muscles like this! posted:Vice Principals is good but head's up, that is just the first part and it was designed to be a two season show. Well it's not like you've got much longer to wait for season 2!
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Its kind of weird because they filmed the seasons together but split it into two with the idea that it would only be two.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:32
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Snak posted:Silicon Valley starts out really good and ends up okay. It's probably a little funnier to people who are in tech or know a lot of tech people and stuff, because lots of little things are super true. But only a little, it's still regular funny.
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It gives them more room for editing and post, and also works better with the HBO subscription model. Edit: ^ I don't know that abreviation. "Suck my dick hard that you can't assume goons are tech nerds anymore"
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Ofecks posted:I signed up for HBO Now to watch GoT and it renewed right before the finale, so I still have it for a few weeks. Need recommendations for series to watch. So far I've seen: Veep is really funny and good. I also suggest carnivale and rome
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For what it's worth I liked them all in various degrees except the last two. Miniseries are fine.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:44
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Hey, I just noticed something missing from your list, watch Mr Show. Its a little older but still holds up really well.
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muscles like this! posted:Hey, I just noticed something missing from your list, watch Mr Show. Its a little older but still holds up really well. Mr. Show is fantastic. I mean, it's.actually kind of hitnor miss, but the hits are so good it's still fantastic over all. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a comedy sketch show starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. That should sell you on it.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:54
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And Eastbound and Down is just awesome too. One of the few shows that could come back from a 'we're only doing 3 seasons' plan, add on a fourth and it was a genuinely great idea. You might need another month...
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Sep 3, 2017 22:58
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HBO worked perfectly on me. I ended up never cancelling it.
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Snak posted:Mr. Show is fantastic. I mean, it's.actually kind of hitnor miss, but the hits are so good it's still fantastic over all. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a comedy sketch show starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. That should sell you on it. Also Tom Kenny, Paul F Tompkins, Brian Posehn and Scott Aukerman. With small appearances by Jack Black and Patton Oswalt. Basically a bunch of good rear end comedians were involved.
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Netflix just raised its prices again. I'm starting to wonder how far they're going to be able to push this. 
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IRQ posted:Hmm, would this fill the Strike Back shaped hole in my life? No.... best wait for Strike Back 3.0 btw Strike Back 3.0 is a thing. 
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MiddleOne posted:Netflix just raised its prices again. I'm starting to wonder how far they're going to be able to push this. What's the new pricing look like?
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MiddleOne posted:Netflix just raised its prices again. I'm starting to wonder how far they're going to be able to push this. We were gonna cancel in July but I held on til Defenders. The only thing I'm keeping it for right now is Supernatural and I have like 2 seasons left on that. Looks like Sept is our last month.
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I will keep all of them in mind. Watched the first ep + pop-up video extra of the Vice Principals pilot, seems pretty good. Looks like I'll get to see an episode or two of the next season before my sub is up. Also apparently Danny McBride went to one of the high schools where I grew up. Not mine, but the next one over. Our sports teams were rivals. Thought that was interesting given the subject matter of the show. EL BROMANCE posted:You might need another month... I have a lot of free time, so I'll probably be able to watch all of these. I bought a bunch of games during the Steam summer sale so I'll likely dive into those (or go back to WoW) afterwards.
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Rhyno posted:We were gonna cancel in July but I held on til Defenders. The only thing I'm keeping it for right now is Supernatural and I have like 2 seasons left on that. Looks like Sept is our last month. Not gonna watch season 2 of Stranger Things?
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GreenNight posted:Not gonna watch season 2 of Stranger Things? Maybe if I can score a free month or something.
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Sep 4, 2017 00:58
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Deadwood, Carnivale, and Rome. There's a decent mini series produced by HBO called Mildred Pierce with some big names behind it. It's directed/written by Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven) and stars Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:They have such a huge userbase that I'd assume they could push it at least a little bit without taking too much of a hit.
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Surely some tviv'r can give you a family log in for 12 hours.
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Rocksicles posted:No.... best wait for Strike Back 3.0 I know it's coming, but I need people to be shot noooooow. Maybe I'll just watch the original again.
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Sep 4, 2017 02:12
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The original series with Andrew Lincoln sucks. Strike Back 2.0 or nothing.
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Mu Zeta posted:The original series with Andrew Lincoln sucks. Strike Back 2.0 or nothing. Yeah I meant the American one.
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Mu Zeta posted:Andrew Lincoln sucks
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Y'all I don't know if you saw the marketing for Disjointed on Netflix that had a darkly lit smoky doorway with a scowling Kathy Bates and I don't know if you thought it would be a dark comedy drama about the unseemy underbelly of legalized recreational marijuana but it is not that. It is a multi cam sitcom complete with a laugh track created by Chuck Lorre and it is loving terrible. Go watch five minutes of it, it's so bad. E: this one. https://youtu.be/fQBpQBgfGK4
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While it looks like a terrible show, I'm pretty sure that getting my grandmother to laugh at stoners (she loves BBT) is going to help ease legal recreational marijuana into the national consciousness. Then again my grandmother is already pro-legalization and I talk to her about how great weed is already so.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:True blood is just bad though. It wants to be trashy campy bad, but it's just bad so good call on that. This is false, True Blood is actually Extremely Good. It is both Trashy Campy Bad and Regular Bad, but the former often/well enough to balance out poo poo like "Jason gets turned into a sex slave for a clan of white trash werepanthers" and "Terry is being hunted by an Ifrit from the Iraq War."
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Yeah, True Blood was terrifically entertaining. Around season 5/6 it just becomes a comic book and it's great
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precision posted:Yeah, True Blood was terrifically entertaining. Around season 5/6 it just becomes a comic book and it's great Seasons 3 and 5 are the best because they have Russell Edgington, Vampire King of Mississippi (NSFW; because it's True Blood there is both gore and incidental fleeting nipple,) everything else finishes in second place. Except the last season. Oh, brudder...
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JethroMcB posted:Except the last season. Oh, brudder... The final season has a single amazing detail in it as it averts a happy ending at all costs. Bill has Vampire AIDS! Not even being the God of all vamps will save him! But it's okay, fairy blood can cure it or something. But for him, it has to be THE STRONGEST to live. Cue Rutger Hauer being asked point blank if he will and going "What? No. I loving hate that guy." And then not only does he die, he doesn't even want to go with dignity, making Sookie stab him alone in a graveyard while she screams. That final season sucked but god were there some good moments in that plot line.
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True Blood also has straight up loving amazing characters like Pam, Andy, Jason, Lafeyette, Baby Vamp, etc.
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For the first few seasons True Blood danced a line between irredeemable trash I felt embarrassed I was wasting my time on and just tongue in cheek enough to keep me laughing with it. Also boobs. But eventually that line shifted pretty firmly in one direction and I couldn't take it anymore. I think True Blood was the first show I ever abandoned and never looked back from completely killing the "sunken cost" fallacy with TV for me. Its close with True Blood and Dexter but I kept looking back at Dexter for a long time but I've never looked back at True Blood nostalgic or curious about anything. Except boobs.
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I don't know, True Blood was never as bad as Dexter's second half of seasons or so. That show made serial killing boring
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STAC Goat posted:I think True Blood was the first show I ever abandoned and never looked back from completely killing the "sunken cost" fallacy with TV for me. Please tell me you got to the end of the death camps season for the funniest death scene on television. I will never forget "I love you..." (makes eye contact with ex-wife while screaming) "... JASON STACKHOOOOOOOOUSE"
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I'm a gay vampire American! Also True Blood is worth watching for many reasons, though I won't begrudge people for dropping it after Alan Ball left. Watch it for Deborah Ann Woll pls. Also Louisiana Hot Sauce. esperterra fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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