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I seem to be many years behind most people on this, but I've been working my way through Avatar: the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, just started series 3 of Korra. And well, seems like the entire internet is already aware of how good Avatar is so there's not a whole lot to say  . But yeah, imaginative worldbuilding, great characters, phenomenal character arcs, you know the drill. It's clearly a childrens' show but it's a really well done one so I'm happy with that. Has a few weird spots, but as one of the show's messages goes, people make mistakes and nobody's perfect, and I guess that includes the writers. And the stuff they get right they get really right, so... yeah.Korra hasn't felt quite up to the same standard but it's still enjoyable - the nods back to the Avatar characters and their legacy are fun, there are still plenty of great characters around the place, and the expansion of the worldbuilding is good to see. And I'm told S3 is when it really hits its stride, so looking forward to seeing how things play out! Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 20:53 on May 23, 2022 |
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Golden Bee posted:Just watched the Debspringa episode of three busy debras, one it has one of the best reveals in TV history with Drew Tarver, and an extremely poignant ending for an 11 minute episode. Please watch it if you have HBO, each episode is only 11 minutes! I'm sorry, what the gently caress is this show??
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May 23, 2022 21:00
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Started watching Undone on Amazon. It's really good. Like Waking Life with a plot
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May 23, 2022 21:24
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mid-season finale of Better Call Saul - holy poo poo gently caress that ending
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May 24, 2022 09:46
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Golden Bee posted:Just watched the Debspringa episode of three busy debras, one it has one of the best reveals in TV history with Drew Tarver, and an extremely poignant ending for an 11 minute episode. Please watch it if you have HBO, each episode is only 11 minutes! A) I really like this show. and B) I didn't realize that there was a second season. It's not quite on the level of Joe Pera Talks With You....but another solid live action show from Adult Swim. Also....while I was never a fan of Tim and Eric (except for "Goes To The Mayor")....Beef House is really funny.
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Paul.Power posted:I seem to be many years behind most people on this, but I've been working my way through Avatar: the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, just started series 3 of Korra. Korra Season 4 Episode 2 is my favorite episode of anything in the Avatar Extended Universe. Season 3 is also a banger and probably the best season overall. Korra has a lot of good stuff, it's just mired in some consistency issues especially since Nickolodeon kept loving them over.
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:mid-season finale of Better Call Saul - holy poo poo gently caress that ending I kinda predicted it would happen, not how it did, but that it would happen. But it still made it hard for me to sleep last night. Chilling stuff.
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:mid-season finale of Better Call Saul - holy poo poo gently caress that ending Yeah that was brutal.
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Did not see that coming.
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Some goons had mentioned Banshee in one of these threads somewhere, I'm now on the final season. Show is ridiculous and over the top, but entertaining.
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May 25, 2022 18:51
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Check out Warrior next. Then Spartacus.
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Robobot posted:Check out Warrior next. Then Spartacus. Then Jett and Reacher (which is Banshee Lite).
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MightyJoe36 posted:Did not see that coming. Neither did he. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 26, 2022 |
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May 25, 2022 21:08
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I started watching workaholics by accident. It’s already very old, never heard of it back in the day, and I think I’m watching it as a form of escapism, because times are so loving poo poo right now. It’s very immature comedy (I noticed literally every episode has a dick joke), but I have to admit I like it.
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May 25, 2022 21:25
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Workaholics is a lot of fun, it’s one of my favorite background shows! I finally got around to watching Black Sails after suddenly realizing that I actually do have access to stuff from Starz. Good so far! It’s helping me get my pirate fix 🏴☠️
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Robobot posted:Check out Warrior next. Then Spartacus. Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Then Jett and Reacher (which is Banshee Lite). And if you're still on a roll after those, consider Strike Back from season 2 onwards, which is kinda Banshee with shooting instead of punching. Mu Zeta posted:Korra Season 4 Episode 2 is my favorite episode of anything in the Avatar Extended Universe. Season 3 is also a banger and probably the best season overall. Korra has a lot of good stuff, it's just mired in some consistency issues especially since Nickolodeon kept loving them over. Yeah, Korra feels all-around more ambitious than Last Airbender, but can't always pull it off. When it does land it's great and arguably better, but it's got relatively more parts that drag or just feel hokey. I'd also say Korra is a more interesting character than Aang, but her supporting cast isn't quite as entertaining as Last Airbender's.
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Robobot posted:Check out Warrior next. Then Spartacus. Spartacus season 1 ended up being one of my favorite seasons of television, ever. A quarter of the way thru the season it laid on the throttle and hit the finale at full loving speed. It also had some of the best insults. "Words fall from your mouth like poo poo from arse." 
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Could we not post Saul spoilers in this thread? And if you're posting one, could you put the whole sentence under tags? Context etc, it's just tough with spoilers on here. Stuff in unrelated threads, people posting stuff where you can infer a lot, etc. It's loosey-goosey quite frankly.
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Jimmy McGill is actually Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.
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Heavy Metal posted:Could we not post Saul spoilers in this thread? And if you're posting one, could you put the whole sentence under tags? Context etc, it's just tough with spoilers on here. Stuff in unrelated threads, people posting stuff where you can infer a lot, etc. if the incredibly vague non-spoilers people are posting here are bothering you, you should probably just stay out of internet discussions about TV shows
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Perestroika posted:And if you're still on a roll after those, consider Strike Back from season 2 onwards, which is kinda Banshee with shooting instead of punching. What is this strike back show? I just turned on the first EP and it's 1.5hrs drat!! These 60fps or however they film these british shows gently caress me up
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Google Butt posted:What is this strike back show? I just turned on the first EP and it's 1.5hrs drat!! Been ages since I started Strike Back but it's probably just one of those long pilot episodes. Pretty sure the rest are normal length eps.
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Google Butt posted:What is this strike back show? I just turned on the first EP and it's 1.5hrs drat!! Pretty much every Strike Back season is ten episodes long, divided into five two-parters. It's kinda like watching five action films in a single season. Sounds like you might have a version that edited a two part story together into a single episode.
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Ziwe My new favorite variety series Chet Hanks interview from show https://youtu.be/ERIk8qBnLJM
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Open Source Idiom posted:Pretty much every Strike Back season is ten episodes long, divided into five two-parters. It's kinda like watching five action films in a single season. The first season had Richard Armitage and is very different from what came later. That one has three 1,5 hour storylines, then it becomes a completely new series with Scott and Stobebridge after a tiny scene to connect season one and two.
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CeeJee posted:The first season had Richard Armitage and is very different from what came later. That one has three 1,5 hour storylines, then it becomes a completely new series with Scott and Stobebridge after a tiny scene to connect season one and two. Huh. I assumed Google Butt had started with the second season like recommended. I've never bothered with the first season. Fair enough.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Then [...] Reacher (which is Banshee Lite). I watched Reacher and laughed the whole time. It feels perfectly engineered as wish fulfillment relevance porn for angry white boomer men, which fully tracks from my guesswork about the dad fiction ambitions of the source text. Jack Reacher is a quiet genius in the body of a handsome giant, hyper-competent and cool under pressure despite a constant simmering rage that leads him to pound antagonists into the dirt 2-3 times an episode. His violence is always 100% justified though, because of the obvious low moral character of all the dog abusers, harassers of women, and (often non-white) criminals who for some reason instantly pick a fight with him so he doesn't have to be the one to instigate it. The bougie, fancy people in town are intimidated by him, except for the pro-violence cool girls in his life who are very down to bone. Intellectuals condescend to him, until he clowns them with his superior detective knowledge. He's also not vain and wears whatever he can find, but has a perfect physique and eats whatever he wants. And boy, is he cool; although most of the Black or brown characters on the show are in a criminal cartel or prison gang, this old Black barber he befriends lauds him for his insider Blues tastes. Of course, whenever Reacher isn't on screen, characters need to ask, "where's Reacher?" Total trash, 10/10.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Huh. I assumed Google Butt had started with the second season like recommended. I've never bothered with the first season. Fair enough. I saw you say that but didn't realize that season 2 is unrelated, I'll skip straight to there tonight.
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mrfart posted:I started watching workaholics by accident. It's surprisingly well-written for how much it might seem to be sophomoric. Great show to watch when smoking.
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Wafflecopper posted:if the incredibly vague non-spoilers people are posting here are bothering you, you should probably just stay out of internet discussions about TV shows I mean....they are vague....but there's a thread for BCS. I personally avoid that thread because I haven't gotten into the new season yet....and I'd prefer to avoid discussion. I just come into this thread to see what people are watching....and get ideas for things to add to my list.
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Reacher does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Reacher actually rules because Alan Ritchson rules.
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Yeah Alan Ritchson is a good dude and an outspoken critic of the toxic masculinity and gun fetishism that's pretty common among fans of the action genre. That's pretty loving awesome IMO.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I mean....they are vague....but there's a thread for BCS. There is yes, and I'm not even saying those vague spoilers have a place in this thread, but like, there's a point at which you have to accept that if you're reading a general TV show thread, you're going to run into posts like those from time to time. If "wow something really big happened in tonight's ep, that was some crazy poo poo" bothers you (and to be fair I can see why it might, if you're just about to watch that ep) then you might be better off just accepting that people are going to make those posts and either avoid threads like this until you're caught up or accept that you might not get a completely perfect virgin unspoiled watch of an ep now and again. If you haven't caught up on this show and are that concerned about spoilers then you know... you could catch up instead of looking for more recs for new shows to watch. Those recs will still be here later. Wafflecopper fucked around with this message at 12:14 on May 27, 2022 |
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Being upset about spoilers after an episode has aired is really just entitlement.
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Xealot posted:I watched Reacher and laughed the whole time. It feels perfectly engineered as wish fulfillment relevance porn for angry white boomer men, which fully tracks from my guesswork about the dad fiction ambitions of the source text. This is accurate
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Ducktales (2017). It is actually crazy how much they followed the Barks-Rosa-universe that is, what I understood, mostly unheard in US and mostly EU stuff. Even as an adult, this has been a wild ride into my youth, and even the stuff they smuggled in to the show "Yuppikay jay, Mr. Falcon" as an example, tells that this wasn't a purely for kids. It was for us all who grew up with Barks/Rosa comics.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Yeah Alan Ritchson is a good dude and an outspoken critic of the toxic masculinity and gun fetishism that's pretty common among fans of the action genre. That's pretty loving awesome IMO. https://twitter.com/cromfourwinds/status/1529794292776112129?s=21&t=4-uwwVjVBgskADnC9Oi5fA
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Slamhound posted:https://twitter.com/cromfourwinds/status/1529794292776112129?s=21&t=4-uwwVjVBgskADnC9Oi5fA I had no interest in Reacher. But I want to watch this now just to support him.
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Reacher isn't prestige tv by any means but I found it to be quite enjoyable. Kind of a less absurd Banshee with a Good Army Troop for a protagonist instead of an antihero like Anthony Starr's character. Def worth a watch IMO
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