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Perestroika posted:For what it's worth, I was also a bit ambivalent on Andor for the first few episodes. But I stuck with it and I thought it improved dramatically from an already decent start around episodes 5-6 and onward. It's not just the best SW thing in a long while, it's also a genuinely good show on its own merits without having to grade on a curve. Same First episode disappointed me a bit, actually. I guess I had my expectations too high. It gets better by 3 but still nothing so special, I almost gave up From 4 on, though, it just gets better and better and by the end I was completely hooked
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Well, I thought Willow dropped all at once so I guess I may finish up Andor this weekend anyways. Still need to finish the last season of The Expanse too. Maybe I should emulate Wing Commander: Privateer and just make it an entire sci-fi weekend.
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I've been watching and rewatching Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, both seasons. It is so dark, ghoulish, absurd and absolutely hilarious, also layered and packed with hidden meaning. Also canceled all my subscriptions to switch to Disney so I can hop on the SW bandwagon. Any recommendations for what to start with? I've seen every movie. I've watched the first episode or two of most of them and I can't decide.
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I rewatched s01/02 of Mythic Quest, which was pretty funny throughout with some of the "standalones" being close to god tier. Then I switched on season 3 and it's......not very funny at all? I'm only halfway into the second episode but I haven't laughed a single time. Guess I need a t break edit: 2nd half got funny just had to bitch into the ether hell ya shirunei fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Dec 3, 2022 |
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Three episodes into Goliath. Yeah...it rules. I'm digging the poo poo out of it.
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One episode into Three Pines, the new series starring Alfred Molina on Amazon Prime and this looks like my jam. Slow burn police procedural in a small town with quirky townsfolk, snowy landscape porn, historical injustices rising to the surface, and a hint of the surreal. This one is set somewhere in rural Quebec. We're also finally getting into Midsomer Murders, the long (long!) running episodic detective show. We're definitely enjoying it although something about the pacing and length means it doesn't fully capture our attention for a whole episode and there's usually one of the dead bodies we can't remember whodunit. Barnaby chewing scenery with Troy is definitely the best part. We're still on the first Barnaby.
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For 2-3 years my wife had Midsommer running in the background. She called it the dog babysitter. She'd tell the dog "go watch Uncle John" (Nettles, the Barnaby actor) and he'd go to the other room and get comfortable on the couch in front of tv while she left to do school stuff. I WFH so I'd hear all this in the background. She refused to watch the seasons after Barnaby retired. Still 14 seasons I think? At 90 mins an episode. The dog is now 15, went deaf last year. Now he sleeps in my office while I work. I don't expect him to be around much longer, and after I'll never be able to listen to that whistling theme song again, I'm sure.
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Dec 3, 2022 04:34
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Three episodes into Goliath. Yeah...it rules. I'm digging the poo poo out of it. Yeah, the first season is pretty decent. The second, on the other hand...
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pumped up for school posted:For 2-3 years my wife had Midsommer running in the background. She called it the dog babysitter. She'd tell the dog "go watch Uncle John" (Nettles, the Barnaby actor) and he'd go to the other room and get comfortable on the couch in front of tv while she left to do school stuff. I WFH so I'd hear all this in the background. That's adorable and heartbreaking.
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Huggybear posted:Also canceled all my subscriptions to switch to Disney so I can hop on the SW bandwagon. Any recommendations for what to start with? I've seen every movie. I've watched the first episode or two of most of them and I can't decide.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, the first season is pretty decent. The second, on the other hand...
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Klaaz posted:I can't really watch shows in which I dislike the main character like in Girls. Same goes for Vikings. Ragnar is such a lousy selfobsessed oval office which make me lose the will to watch the entire show untill the end, eventhough it's an overall good show Never watch Gomorrah. I just watched the first season, and that has to be some kind of record for least sympathetic protagonists ever. Extremely well made but hard to watch when I am yearning for everyone to die horribly.
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SimonChris posted:Never watch Gomorrah. I just watched the first season, and that has to be some kind of record for least sympathetic protagonists ever. Extremely well made but hard to watch when I am yearning for everyone to die horribly. Seconded. I kept watching long past the point of good sense, but eventually turned it off after a character murders a teacher and no reason is given other than they were told to. Agreed that it's a very well-made show and the acting / casting is outstanding, but it's just so loving bleak.
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Dec 3, 2022 17:40
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I always thought Hannah was satirical in Girls, like she was supposed to be the awful nexus around which the other silly characters revolve. I didn't finish the series, and Lena Dunham has her negative reputation now for whatever the reasons are, so I'm not sure if it was, but I enjoyed it at the time.
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Hannah is very satirical but Lena Dunham is also a huge idiot a lot of the time separately from that
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SimonChris posted:Never watch Gomorrah. I just watched the first season, and that has to be some kind of record for least sympathetic protagonists ever. Extremely well made but hard to watch when I am yearning for everyone to die horribly. I loving loved Gomorrah but it was a good thing about everyone dies. Last season wasn't as good as the previous ones, with these silly Russian dudes and their prison camp..still need to watch that movie about Ciro, but I still haven't as his character was always quite boring to me.
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I'm stuck in a hotel trying a second time to get through Sparticus. First time, 6-7 years ago, I began s2 and quit. This trip i have completed s2. Even though it's just fightin & fuckin, I'm burning out again. Some of the fights I've just wandered off because it feels like a re-tread. The graphical design, i get that it is inspired by 300 which was more recent at the time of the show, but feels very dated now. The music for S1 and most of 2 is so very bad. And sound cues: I swear I heard a sound effect that I call "jaguar_scream.wav" and there's a whipping sound effect that used to be used for every fire ignited on 90s cable tv. These are just mixed into the middle of fight scenes, no appropriate context. Still, the actor for S1 was a legend. The replacement has about as much charisma as a bowl of cheerios. I liked S1 Asher but 2 was too cartoony. Lucy Lawless is the only lady character written with any depth at all and she was fun to watch. I hope there's a new interesting character thrown into S3 and 4 because the show needs it.
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Dec 3, 2022 23:37
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You should watch Gods of the Arena before going to the final season. The mini series was actually released before season 2.
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pumped up for school posted:I'm stuck in a hotel trying a second time to get through Sparticus. First time, 6-7 years ago, I began s2 and quit. This trip i have completed s2. This actually sounds good and hilarious. Like the showrunners are just loving off. 'Banshee'-like. Which reminds me....I need to rewatch 'Banshee'.
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I’m a couple more episodes into Andor and I’m digging it. It’s basically what Firefly could have been. No wonder goons like it so much.
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pumped up for school posted:Spartacus
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The new Spartacus actor felt a bit weird in season 2 but feels a bit more at home in season 3. Has a bit more of an older, world-weary of the battle quality which fits. They also decided not to pad it out and go for all killer no filler when they ended on 3, the opening episode has some romans discussing a series of battles and events in flashback between the seasons that could have been one on its own. The mini prequel series also owns, more Batiatus to enjoy.
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Finished the first season of Riget (The Kingdom). It's loving hilarious. There's this arsehole neurosurgeon who's such an amazing liar and fraud that it becomes absolutely hilarious. e.g. a scene late in the season where he's passing at the trough with another dude, glances at the man's (implied to be far more considerable) cock and then reacts by slapping his neighbour across the face. And the saga of the man's obsession with his private parking space, and its Swedish traffic cones, is very very funny. Also every episode ends with Lars Von Trier popping up to troll the audience with increasingly silly commentary on the episode. Despite all this, it manages to be legitimately creepy. Also working my way through the third season of Babylon Berlin, which contains an extremely extravagant, peak TV subplot about a serial killer stalking a film set for a Weimar era musical that is extremely my poo poo.
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I loving love Babylon berlin and it’s driving me up a wall that season 4, which has finished airing in Europe, still doesn’t have a release date from Netflix
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Dave Angel posted:The new Spartacus actor felt a bit weird in season 2 but feels a bit more at home in season 3. Has a bit more of an older, world-weary of the battle quality which fits. They also decided not to pad it out and go for all killer no filler when they ended on 3, the opening episode has some romans discussing a series of battles and events in flashback between the seasons that could have been one on its own. The mini prequel series also owns, more Batiatus to enjoy. Gods of the arena was really good. When watching on netflix it inserted itself between seasons 1 and 2 because of when it came out and I was very confused.
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Getting caught back up on Handmaid's Tale and it's 5 seasons of misery and Elizabeth Moss staring into my soul. Looks pretty, good cast, still not sold on it keeping going past the end of the book but I guess time will tell
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Getting caught back up on Handmaid's Tale and it's 5 seasons of misery and Elizabeth Moss staring into my soul. Looks pretty, good cast, still not sold on it keeping going past the end of the book but I guess time will tell How is Yvonne Strahovski in Handmaid's Tale? The only thing I've really seen her in is Chuck, where I thought her and Zachary Levi were terrific together.
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Hughmoris posted:How is Yvonne Strahovski in Handmaid's Tale? The only thing I've really seen her in is Chuck, where I thought her and Zachary Levi were terrific together. She plays a cruel lady very well. Has this tight-lipped performance where it seems like she is holding back anger. Good stuff
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Hughmoris posted:How is Yvonne Strahovski in Handmaid's Tale? The only thing I've really seen her in is Chuck, where I thought her and Zachary Levi were terrific together. She's also awesome on the one season of 24 she was on. The best female counterpart to Jack Bauer.
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She’s great but it’s a bad show
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Handmaids Tale was great for one season Then every other season after that retreads the same ground and repeats itself without going anywhere
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clown shoes posted:She's also awesome on the one season of 24 she was on. The best female counterpart to Jack Bauer. She also was one of the few bright spots in the later seasons of Dexter.
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nate fisher posted:She also was one of the few bright spots in the later seasons of Dexter. Won't stand for this treadmill erasure
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Oh my god, I just binged Severance and it’s as good as everyone said.
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gently caress yeah it is. What a show
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Hell yeah Severance rules. Love John Turturro and Christopher Walken together
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, the first season is pretty decent. The second, on the other hand... The second season was going so well....and then the last two/three episodes turned into a cliched action flick. What the hell happened? Did they accidentally pick up some fanfic or something?
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clown shoes posted:She's also awesome on the one season of 24 she was on. The best female counterpart to Jack Bauer. Yvonne Strahovski should have immediately gotten 5 years as Jack Bauer's replacement.
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Finished Andor. It was really good but was starting to lose me a bit by the end. Spoilers for the show: Not a big fan of Luthen probably being a Jedi. That Maarva funeral speech was nearing eye-roll levels of heavy handedness and it leading to the But those pretty minor nitpicks are basically the only issues I had and I’d say episodes 3-10 could stand up to any other major show I’ve seen in the last several years. Color me pleasantly surprised. I figured I’d like it well enough because it’s a spy/espionage tale but it really exceeded my expectations and the character work and dialogue were way ahead of anything I’d expect from Star Wars. Hopefully it won’t follow every other Star Wars franchise since the original and start sucking immediately with the second installment.
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