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Watched Dark and most of Travelers in a week and my brain is starting to melt from all the time fuckery. One of them will be in my 2017 top 10 but I'm still not quite sure. Dark has the superior cinematography, acting and writing but there are just way too many characters and they're all assholes. Less is indeed more here.
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The one thing that makes me iffy about Travelers is the memory loss. Both one of main characters having no memory of the season and the wife being wiped of an episode. I generally don't like memory loss in fiction, since it means character development loss. But I'll still watch Season 2.
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That's an ongoing story thread in season 2.
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Binged through Future Man, it was great. The first couple episodes before it goes full on time travel insanity are a little dry but after that it's fantastic fun. I agree with the theory that the biotics are actually the good guys and the Resistance really are sewer-dwelling terrorists.
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Pellisworth posted:Binged through Future Man, it was great. The first couple episodes before it goes full on time travel insanity are a little dry but after that it's fantastic fun. But they put people's heads on pikes.
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Rocksicles posted:But they put people's heads on pikes. And also force-sterilized people. But it is a bit ambiguous given that the resistance are basically rabid anti-vaxxers.
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Trig Discipline posted:And also force-sterilized people. But it is a bit ambiguous given that the resistance are basically rabid anti-vaxxers. I fully support removing anti-vaxxers heads without a court order. But the pike is a bridge to far.
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One of my favorite parts of Future Man was how they kind of left that matter unresolved and ambiguous. Like... I THINK the resistance are the good guys but I'm not going to pretend I feel confident about that.
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I watch a couple of episodes of Father Ted from time to time to cleanse my mind, and since it is the season I recently watched the Christmas episode again. It occurs to me that, should there be anyone who's not familiar with the show, this clip sums up the basic premise and main characters perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3c2UcB1zQo Meatgrinder fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Dec 25, 2017 |
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Peaky Blinders Season 4 is up on Netflix! Much better than last season, but still had some late season issues. Enjoyed it all the same.
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Meatgrinder posted:I watch a couple of episodes of Father Ted from time to time to cleanse my mind, and since it is the season I recently watched the Christmas episode again. It occurs to me that, should there be anyone who's not familiar with the show, this clip sums up the basic premise and main characters perfectly: The Father Ted Christmas Special is the single greatest Christmas episode of anything ever. The entire show is the most honest representation of early 90s Ireland imaginable. The perfect comedy show.
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Dec 26, 2017 00:37
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Finished binge-watching Future Man and what a ride! It's a bit of a cliched concept, but the execution makes it be one of the best comedies of the year. The pilot is the weakest part of the episode, but episode 2 starts out strong and it keeps getting better as it goes along.
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Dec 26, 2017 04:17
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I rewatching Lost. Goddamn do I hate most of these characters.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I rewatching Lost. Goddamn do I hate most of these characters.
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Finally finished Arrested Development's run on FOX and tried watching the first episode of the Netflix run but stopped partway through. Is it worth sticking around for?
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I didn't mind Netflix Arrested Development, but I don't think you'd really miss anything by not finishing it.
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I personally think it’s worth watching for sheer ambition and how some of the long-form stuff plays out but there’s no doubt it’s weaker than the previous stuff and kind of a drag a lot of the time
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TV Zombie posted:Finally finished Arrested Development's run on FOX and tried watching the first episode of the Netflix run but stopped partway through. Is it worth sticking around for? It's basically all or nothing. A lot of the jokes don't pay off until you have watched the entire thing through.
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That's an interesting tactic for comedy television
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Yeah its p. good.
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I didn't laugh at all until like episode 4 of the Netflix Arrested Development. We had a watch party for it and everything and we basically gave up on it and started drinking and watching bad horror movies instead.
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Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to call Season 4 bad but I kind of wish it didn't happen and if there's a Season 5 I might just avoid it.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I rewatching Lost. Goddamn do I hate most of these characters. Weird. I think they're some of the best characters of television and the main reason to watch Lost.
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Dec 26, 2017 18:44
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I liked Season 4 of AD as a whole, but it's hit or miss because of the season's structure. Some characters' stories are boring and some are hilarious.
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I can appreciate that the season was disjointed and uneven because of scheduling issues and how hard it was to make it happen. But since there's not really any great joke or anything I remember from it its hard for me to not come out of it thinking if it was so hard maybe you shouldn't force things. Especially if you're sacrificing something as important as "cast chemistry." But like I also think there's something to be said for capturing magic in a moment and then chasing it repeatedly for a decade is kind of a mistake.
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I dunno how media didn’t pick up on this but Tony Hale posted a pic from the AD season 5 wrap party on Instagram about a month ago. So that poo poo’s happening.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I rewatching Lost. Goddamn do I hate most of these characters. If you aren't watching for the characters, there's not a lot of reason to watch. I enjoyed the ending a lot more than most people because I cared way more about how everyone's stories wrapped up rather than solving every mystery.
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:Weird. I think they're some of the best characters of television and the main reason to watch Lost. The portrayals themselves are excellent. The way the characters are written however. Good god nerdman42 posted:If you aren't watching for the characters, there's not a lot of reason to watch. I enjoyed the ending a lot more than most people because I cared way more about how everyone's stories wrapped up rather than solving every mystery. I might change my tune as I go along. I may have felt the same way towards the end because I remember actually liking the ending. But these people are just loving assholes.
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Can any of you in the US just check to see if the the bridge is on your netflix version please. I searched for it on mine and it comes up in the list of shows at the top but not is a clickable thumbnail so I'm guessing it's region locked for me?
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Jippa posted:Can any of you in the US just check to see if the the bridge is on your netflix version please. I searched for it on mine and it comes up in the list of shows at the top but not is a clickable thumbnail so I'm guessing it's region locked for me? Not at this moment, it isn't
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Much better than last season, but still had some late season issues. Enjoyed it all the same. I found the ending a little underwhelming but good lord Adrian Brody just killed it every time he was on camera.
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I've been working my way through an old favorite of mine, Burn Notice. Interesting show, it's basically the lovechild of Miami Vice, The A-Team and MacGyver. It's also a product of that era where serialized television was the hot new thing, but binge watching wasn't really a thing yet. Some things stand up to binge watching better than they did in the original run. Detective Paxson, for anybody who remembers her. She was annoying and worthless originally, binge watching somehow renders her both less annoying and more worthless, because she's actually gone pretty quickly.
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I've been tempted to watch that ever since I realized the psycho Gerhardt son from Fargo S2 was the main character, but I have a feeling he plays a very different kind of character, which is most of what I loved about the guy.
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I've not watched Fargo, but he's really drat good in Burn Notice. He's a spy with a soft spot and some big red buttons you really, really don't want to loving push. Plus, he narrates the show and it actually adds a lot to some of scenes. You should check it out.
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It's bad
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I hate Burn Notice except for the bank robbery episode.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I might change my tune as I go along. I may have felt the same way towards the end because I remember actually liking the ending. But these people are just loving assholes. Well that’s kind of the point of season one of Lost - they start out as a group of strangers who are suspicious of each other and gradually become friends.
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Burn Notice absolutely hits an event horizon where it's not worth continuing (I can't remember which season), but it's definitely a fun little show for a while.
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It's kind of a weird show, in that the less it deals with the background story arc and the more it leans on the episodic "case of the week" formula the better it is.
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Binging Killjoys! Fukkin love this series! It's the perfect mix of futuristic cyberpunk with gorgeous people shooting really big guns. But, and this is important, it has a really strong heart in the central trio. And a fukkin crazy beautiful doc badass character. In fact it's a pretty much a comic book come to life (we're bad, beautiful babes with really big guns! Claremont Xmen)
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