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So where are we talking about Titans? Titans was really fun and the villain lady was cool.
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Season 3 of The Leftovers led up to a bunch of scenes that take place today. I mostly remember because it was fun having a show where the world was freaking out over my 30th birthday. Especially a show that did a lot of filming in places where I used to work during the first season. I was rewatching it and god the last three episodes of that tear me apart emotionally. It got me right in the long-simmering regrets. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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Finally saw the female Dr Who premiere and I really like her in the role. That anyone is mad about the casting is ridiculous
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I just finished The Haunting of Hill House and I ended up really, really enjoying it. Its much more of a sad ghost story than a scary one, but its got some of both. A lot of my pacing concerns early on kind of worked themselves out or felt more or less vindicated by some slow reveals. Like I still kind of think it might have worked better as a 2-3 part mini instead of 10 episodes but it turned out pretty good so its just nitpicky and my desire to make it into an old Stephen King mini. I did a long rear end review over in the Horror Challenge thread if you care. But mostly I'd recommend it as long as you don't mind a story that is way more about human feelings than jump scares and monsters.
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The finale was unexpected. The show is definitely more about the family's trauma than the scary ghosts. So know that going in.
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Lycus posted:The finale was unexpected. The show is definitely more about the family's trauma than the scary ghosts. So know that going in. That fits with the movie as well, as you are not sure if there were ghosts or the main character is just batshit.
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Is there a thread about Kidding on Showtime? loving fantastic show and I'm curious what others think of it. I couldn't find one.
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STAC Goat posted:I just finished The Haunting of Hill House and I ended up really, really enjoying it. Its much more of a sad ghost story than a scary one, but its got some of both. A lot of my pacing concerns early on kind of worked themselves out or felt more or less vindicated by some slow reveals. Like I still kind of think it might have worked better as a 2-3 part mini instead of 10 episodes but it turned out pretty good so its just nitpicky and my desire to make it into an old Stephen King mini. I'm pretty sure you could start at the fourth episode and only miss out that Theo has a power. It was pretty funny that a lot of it was the work of one crazy ghost. to sum it up I think the show was okay.
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Jesus, ABC is pimping the everloving hell out of their new Alec Baldwin show
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Gaunab posted:I'm pretty sure you could start at the fourth episode and only miss out that Theo has a power. It was pretty funny that a lot of it was the work of one crazy ghost. to sum it up I think the show was okay. But like if you did that you'd be bypassing a ton of the family's trauma and suffering, which is the entire point of the show. Streamlining it down for "plot" or scares is just changing what it is. There's some rehashing of stuff in the early episodes but that's all done in the name of personalizing it for each character so you definitely shouldn't skip half the cast's character center episodes. Its not going to be for everyone but its a very old school "haunting" ghost story in that regard.
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AllisonByProxy posted:Is there a thread about Kidding on Showtime? loving fantastic show and I'm curious what others think of it. I couldn't find one. I've only watched the first few episodes but yeah it's fantastic. Like, up there with Patriot and Barry.
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I spent the whole day binging the two seasons of Queer Eye on a come down. I cried a whole bunch and now I want Karamo to move in with me and be my supportive best flatmate.
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Timby posted:Jesus, ABC is pimping the everloving hell out of their new Alec Baldwin show Not knowing anything about the show I'm assuming this is a Michael J Fox Paul Reiser kind of misfire. Omg it's a talk show. Never mind. SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Oct 15, 2018 00:54
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Alec Baldwin played one of, IMO, the funniest characters I can remember in Jack Donaghey. I loved 30 Rock to death. He was great on it and so was everyone else. But an Alec Baldin talk shot? Yeah, no. That's not gonna work out.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Not knowing anything about the show I'm assuming this is a Michael J Fox Paul Reiser kind of misfire. I mean, they've bought ad time on USA, ION (although I can't imagine that's expensive, 90 percent of their ad breaks are self-promos or commercials for medications), TNT, TBS, AMC and Comet. Like, holy hell.
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STAC Goat posted:I just finished The Haunting of Hill House and I ended up really, really enjoying it. Its much more of a sad ghost story than a scary one, but its got some of both. A lot of my pacing concerns early on kind of worked themselves out or felt more or less vindicated by some slow reveals. Like I still kind of think it might have worked better as a 2-3 part mini instead of 10 episodes but it turned out pretty good so its just nitpicky and my desire to make it into an old Stephen King mini. Admittedly I tend to stay away from horror, and I can't actually think of a horror tv show I've watched, but Im finding this show extremely unnerving to watch. Much scarier than dumb jump scares I've seen in horror films. But honestly the last few horror films I've watched were all the fairly recent decent Japanese horror films that I could find being recommended somewhere. Is this show not considered "scary" compared to most horror offerings? edit: The only thing that takes me away from the show is that the house, mansion or whatever you want to call it is stereotypical horror house to a fault.
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Me and the fiancee watched through Haunting of Hill House and enjoyed it. I was looking for a thread about it to see what other people had to say but there doesn't appear to be one. I liked how it wasn't in your face jump scares but was instead a more subdued spooky with ghosts in the backgrounds of a lot of shots. Theo was the best
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Dessel posted:Admittedly I tend to stay away from horror, and I can't actually think of a horror tv show I've watched, but Im finding this show extremely unnerving to watch. Much scarier than dumb jump scares I've seen in horror films. But honestly the last few horror films I've watched were all the fairly recent decent Japanese horror films that I could find being recommended somewhere. I think it is a very good moody haunted house gothic scary piece, but not everyone gets into that stuff. Some people like more overt scares and less "things in the shadows" and general feeling of unease and danger. Its just a question of taste, really. Dessel posted:edit: The only thing that takes me away from the show is that the house, mansion or whatever you want to call it is stereotypical horror house to a fault. In fairness Hill House is arguably THE haunted house that like 70 years of haunted house stories have been inspired by.
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Dessel posted:Admittedly I tend to stay away from horror, and I can't actually think of a horror tv show I've watched, but Im finding this show extremely unnerving to watch. Much scarier than dumb jump scares I've seen in horror films. But honestly the last few horror films I've watched were all the fairly recent decent Japanese horror films that I could find being recommended somewhere. There aren't many jump scares here besides the occasional delusion, and to me, the character having the delusion is more unnerving than the character depicted in the delusion.
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Interesting thing going on with the Fox shows tonight. The commercials have a countdown counter in the upper left just like ad breaks on streaming.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I'm almost halfway through the season (on episode 5) and so far it's much more psychological horror than anything. It's all about how things that happened to these characters as children ruined them forever in one way or another. I just finished episode 5, and man it ended pretty much exactly how I was expecting it to but I'm still not getting any sleep tonight. The show reminds me of the 2nd and 4th Silent Hill games.
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Medullah posted:I just finished episode 5, and man it ended pretty much exactly how I was expecting it to but I'm still not getting any sleep tonight. I'm just now nearing the end of episode 5 and I can see where it's going and oh god this is gonna be creepy as hell 
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STAC Goat posted:But like if you did that you'd be bypassing a ton of the family's trauma and suffering, which is the entire point of the show. Streamlining it down for "plot" or scares is just changing what it is. There's some rehashing of stuff in the early episodes but that's all done in the name of personalizing it for each character so you definitely shouldn't skip half the cast's character center episodes. The family trauma and suffering didn't hit me right. By the time I got to the end the only living character I had any empathy for was Luke. The family still were dicks to me except they were in a better place mentally and I felt like three people were sacrificed in order to get to that conclusion. I'm just one of the few people the show might not have clicked for I guess and I'm fine with that. Like I said before I thought the show was okay. I'm going to bite the bullet and make a thread for this show.
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Gaunab posted:The family trauma and suffering didn't hit me right. By the time I got to the end the only living character I had any empathy for was Luke. The family still were dicks to me except they were in a better place mentally and I felt like three people were sacrificed in order to get to that conclusion. I'm just one of the few people the show might not have clicked for I guess and I'm fine with that. Like I said before I thought the show was okay. I think the big thing I realized is that the house won. It got fed, just like it wanted. It got 3/7 of the Crains (like Steven even said earlier in the season). It got all the Dudleys. The last part of the last episode had an uplifting tone but the house totally won.
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Piell posted:I think the big thing I realized is that the house won. It got fed, just like it wanted. It got 3/7 of the Crains (like Steven even said earlier in the season). It got all the Dudleys. The last part of the last episode had an uplifting tone but the house totally won. Totally. That's kind of the huge moral conflict that Hugh and Steven deal with. They want to kill Hill House but doing so would "kill" the people they love and these innocent victims. Its an insidious and heartbreaking ending. Most of the Crain family get out alive with perspective and a chance to improve their lives and get close to each other again, but they lost half their family and all they were doing was undoing some of the damage Hill House had already done. That's, I think, an old school "haunting" ghost story. The haunting isn't the actual supernatural ghosts, its the loss and pain the survivors have to live with.
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Watched the first couple episodes of Curious Creations of Christine McConnell on Netflix, and it's so tonally bizarre I'm not fully sure what to make of it. Like it's ostensibly a cooking show with a charming gothic theme, but there's also a narrative to it with puppets? The cooking portion is worthless from an educational standpoint, since the majority of the stuff being made is pretty high level with fairly specialized tools required. Large portions of the procedures are skipped entirely glossed over like that "rest of the loving owl" comic. The puppets kind of remind me of Jim Henson productions or kid's shows from the 80s/90s like Under the Umbrella Tree, but the puppets are all complete sex and murder fiends.
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30 minutes into the The Romanoffs and I find no discernable plot or possible development whatsoever. We get a stereotypically bigoted old white lady that hates muslims or something and it's France so it's charming or something. I hate this show.
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Mu Zeta posted:30 minutes into the The Romanoffs and I find no discernable plot or possible development whatsoever. We get a stereotypically bigoted old white lady that hates muslims or something and it's France so it's charming or something. I hate this show. Dude, it's a fairytale. She has (slightly) more depth that this comparison suggests, but the episode's essentially just Cinderella.
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Oct 15, 2018 10:26
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Out of nowhere I have an immense desire to rewatch all of Misfits
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Oct 15, 2018 10:49
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precision posted:Out of nowhere I have an immense desire to rewatch all of Misfits Mistfits is a great show as long as you only watch the first season.
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I feel like there's at least a handful of great episodes every season (the hypnotic tits episode is great). But, yeah, the first season is the only one that's consistently great. (Third season's the worst. I only really like the Hitler one, and maybe the zombie one too).
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precision posted:Out of nowhere I have an immense desire to rewatch all of Misfits
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The trailers weren't doing anything for me, but the Charmed reboot was pretty okay, coming from someone who wasn't the biggest fan of the original. The showrunner is Jenny Snyder Urman, who runs Jane the Virgin, so she's earned herself a lot of goodwill and trust from me towards this show. I appreciated that they explicitly avoided the memory wipe trope that I hate so much in shows and films about strange things living among our midst, but I don't know if they'll keep that up for everyone or just for this one case. I also liked that the first demon they encountered was defeated with science instead of magic; I was really worried they were gonna go the route of "haha science is nothing compared to magic", or do what the old show did every week and just pull a spell out of nowhere that specifically defeats the demon--which, granted, they did end up doing with the last demon. Hopefully not all episodes will have climaxes that consist of the three of them just reciting random words for two minutes. Also this show is gonna make the whiny gamergaters real mad because based on the first episode it looks like it's gonna go all in on social issues, even moreso than with JtV; it might have been a bit on the nose but I don't care, at this point it's probably important to be.
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Counterpart Season 2, December Ninth. Woo!*~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CAtcP9Z6MI
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Open Source Idiom posted:Counterpart Season 2, December Ninth. Woo!*~ Not working for me, but drat the last quarter of 2018 is really strong.
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