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I started watching Northern Exposure recently as well. It's got a good vibe and there seems to be a bit of depth to the characters. Interesting pairing with the new True Detective.
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I watched Northern Exposure with my mom while it was airing. Maybe I could convince her to do a rewatch with me over Zoom or something once a week. Almost done with season 6 of Community, and while season 5 and 6 have been a touch better than season 4, it's not by much. Are they gonna make a movie ever? I hope they do, just for completions sake.
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CarlosTheDwarf posted:People say season 6 is good because Dan Harmon returned. I thought it was the worst season of all. 3>4>5>6 Season 4 was the only bad season of Community.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Season 4 was the only bad season of Community. Yeah agreed. Lotta classic episodes in the last two seasons.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah agreed. Lotta classic episodes in the last two seasons. Definitely. There is a lot to like about the last couple seasons. For example....Frankie being worried that Jeff Winger was an alcoholic made me laugh every time it came up.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Definitely. There is a lot to like about the last couple seasons. For example....Frankie being worried that Jeff Winger was an alcoholic made me laugh every time it came up. I really love Chang's whole thing where he starts dabbling in acting (which also results in one of the best episodes of the show, the film one). Plus the Lava ep, Miaow Miaow Beans, Polygraphy, the Zodiac ep, the finale, a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Really great stuff throughout.
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The wedding episode is one of the best in the series. Also the rv episode a BETTER daddy with a BIGGER HAND e: not season 6 but WHO WANTS TO SEE THE LADDERS PROFESSOR GO HIGHER?! is just amazing comedy ONE YEAR LATER fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Just finished the first season of Am I Being Unreasonable , it’s only 6 episodes so was a quick watch. But oh man - I LOVED it, it’s a BBC show so I hope the States get season 2 ASAP. It’s dark, hilarious, surreal, grounded, has a couple of solid twists and all the actors nail their parts. Really can’t say enough good things about this show, very pleased that Hulu recommended it to me.
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matureaudiencesonly posted:Just finished the first season of Am I Being Unreasonable , it’s only 6 episodes so was a quick watch. But oh man - I LOVED it, it’s a BBC show so I hope the States get season 2 ASAP. It’s dark, hilarious, surreal, grounded, has a couple of solid twists and all the actors nail their parts. Really can’t say enough good things about this show, very pleased that Hulu recommended it to me. Yeah it really owns. I wanna know where the second season is, it's been ages since the renewal announcement and still no news. :/
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Feb 1, 2024 02:53
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I have started rewatching 'Ash vs. Evil Dead'. Not one of the best shows ever made....but certainly one of the most fun. That’s the spirit!
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RestingB1tchFace posted:lol It's fun to guess which character will get splattered first.
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Watched The Nevers - the back six episodes aired against all odds a year ago or so and I missed it, and it'd been a while so I watched all of it. It gets a little wobbly towards the end, perhaps they knew they were getting shut down or there was no real editing done to the last few episodes, but up to those it was a cool show and it's a shame it got cancelled. Watched The Fall Of The House Of Usher. I sat through all of it and it is insane how boring they made this. Despite the cast and cinematography and source material it has maybe a handful of truly spectacular moments and the rest is just so, so slow and painfully boring. Mark Hamill only has a very small part but he shines in every scene he is in, and the girl playing Leonore is pretty good, and the rest of the cast is trying their hardest to work with the mismanaged script but holy poo poo this is just some idiot's gore fetish dressed up in the names of Poe's stories and characters with zero pacing. Tried Paul T Goldman and A Murder At The End Of The World. The first is definitely not for me, it exudes cringe and reality TV. Even as a satire, I would never watch something like that. The latter started strong but I'm afraid it's going to be run-of-the-mill murder mystery. I'll still probably end up watching all of it. Started The Diplomat and absolutely loved it from the very start. Like a slower version of The Thick Of It with a great cast with great chemistry, I can't see this going wrong.
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Meatgrinder posted:Watched The Nevers - the back six episodes aired against all odds a year ago or so and I missed it, and it'd been a while so I watched all of it. It gets a little wobbly towards the end, perhaps they knew they were getting shut down or there was no real editing done to the last few episodes, but up to those it was a cool show and it's a shame it got cancelled.
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Watched the first season of Party Down. It holds up aside from a few lazy gay jokes. The cast has chemistry and the premise is so good for a sitcom.
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Dipping into Hannibal. Bedelia's character is such a wonderful curlicue of a character. She's absolutely some sort of a sociopath, but gently caress knows what's actually going on beneath all of her layers. She probably doesn't know herself. I love the popular, but unintended read of the very last scene of the entire show. That she's cut off her own leg in a wildly miscalculated romantic gesture and has then effectively been stood up. It'd have been an excellent pun.
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Finished The Curse and uh what the poo poo Asher flies out into space and dies? are you going with that, The Curse? really? Other than that, solid show, made me hate everyone involved and it was certainly an experience
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Finished The Curse and uh what the poo poo Asher flies out into space and dies? are you going with that, The Curse? really? I thought the ending was beautiful in its absurdity.
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Finished The Curse and uh what the poo poo Asher flies out into space and dies? are you going with that, The Curse? really? I wasn't a huge fan of the ending either. Seemed kind of like a cop out to go with some supernatural ending to wrap things up. I started rewatching 'Silicon Valley'. What a brilliant show.
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MiddleOne posted:I thought the ending was beautiful in its absurdity. Certainly is that, I just thought the rest was so grounded and real that the final choice was out of step with the rest
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Since it was dumping buckets here all weekend we binged a couple of shows. Murder at the End of the World I thought it was pretty good, I really liked the premise of a winter scandinavia Agatha Christie type mystery, along with the flashbacks to the mystery in Darby's book. I thought the finale was well done too, both with the killer reveal and how they were taken down. The coarse-level lesson about modern life was decent, but I feel like I'd need to watch it again to pull out the nuance that was probably there. If I had a complaint, I was hoping it would be a little more like the OA, which is not really a fair complaint since it was a totally different show. My other complaint would be that Joan Chen didn't get to do more. The other show we watched was Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Prime. I haven't seen the movie, or if I did I've completely forgotten any details from it aside from the basic premise. The new show has two recruits to a covert ops company (Donald Glover and Maya Erskine) become fake married in their cover, and they quickly develop a real relationship as they are shacked up and trusting each other in dangerous missions. Each episode has something to do with an op they are working, although the strong through line is how their relationship develops and changes as they get to know each other and deal with their differing life goals etc. When the relationship is new or good the show is really funny and fun to watch but it has more serious episodes when they are at odds. I don't think this is too spoily but there's an episode in couples counseling where of course they can't talk about their real job so there's lots of euphemisms and such which initially are pretty funny but by the third session the body language of the pair has totally shifted and it's mostly sad in a Before Midnight kind of way. Great cameos throughout (e.g. Ron Pearlman, Sarah Paulson, Parker Posey). I'd recommend it although I expect people expecting ha ha shoot em up and wifey/hubby jokes for all 10 episodes are going to find it maybe too slow and boring.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:The other show we watched was Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Prime. I haven't seen the movie, or if I did I've completely forgotten any details from it aside from the basic premise. The new show has two recruits to a covert ops company (Donald Glover and Maya Erskine) become fake married in their cover, and they quickly develop a real relationship as they are shacked up and trusting each other in dangerous missions. Each episode has something to do with an op they are working, although the strong through line is how their relationship develops and changes as they get to know each other and deal with their differing life goals etc. When the relationship is new or good the show is really funny and fun to watch but it has more serious episodes when they are at odds. I don't think this is too spoily but there's an episode in couples counseling where of course they can't talk about their real job so there's lots of euphemisms and such which initially are pretty funny but by the third session the body language of the pair has totally shifted and it's mostly sad in a Before Midnight kind of way. Great cameos throughout (e.g. Ron Pearlman, Sarah Paulson, Parker Posey). I'd recommend it although I expect people expecting ha ha shoot em up and wifey/hubby jokes for all 10 episodes are going to find it maybe too slow and boring. I'm only three episodes in, but the most jarring thing is watching Donald Glover actively repress being charming. You can see it crack through once or twice per episode and then it just sort of gets shoved back down. Also what a crazy waste of Sharon Horgan.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Since it was dumping buckets here all weekend we binged a couple of shows. Murder at the End of the World I thought it was pretty good, I really liked the premise of a winter scandinavia Agatha Christie type mystery, along with the flashbacks to the mystery in Darby's book. I thought the finale was well done too, both with the killer reveal and how they were taken down. The coarse-level lesson about modern life was decent, but I feel like I'd need to watch it again to pull out the nuance that was probably there. If I had a complaint, I was hoping it would be a little more like the OA, which is not really a fair complaint since it was a totally different show. My other complaint would be that Joan Chen didn't get to do more. I really enjoyed this, though the last episode really suffered from the really lazy writing tendency to have two people never loving just SAY whatever obvious thing people would actually say that would defuse the situation. Really? Really? At no point do you think pre-drugged Jane would have told him that he was an rear end in a top hat and he was going to die because he killed Max, or that pre-drugged John would have told her that trying to blow up his mother was out of bounds? But regardless, Glover and Erskine have incredible chemistry together. I'm really on the fence as to whether I want a second season -- I want to watch more, but the point is that they decided they loved each other, not whether they were going to make it out alive.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I really enjoyed this, though the last episode really suffered from the really lazy writing tendency to have two people never loving just SAY whatever obvious thing people would actually say that would defuse the situation. Really? Really? At no point do you think pre-drugged Jane would have told him that he was an rear end in a top hat and he was going to die because he killed Max, or that pre-drugged John would have told her that trying to blow up his mother was out of bounds? But regardless, Glover and Erskine have incredible chemistry together. I'm really on the fence as to whether I want a second season -- I want to watch more, but the point is that they decided they loved each other, not whether they were going to make it out alive. Agree with all of this. Regarding the ending it felt to me like we loop back to the very first scene. Although the actors are different, they would be facing the same dilemma as our Smiths on the run assuming they made it out... I think there's a lot of options for another season but yeah I don't think it needs one
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Slow Horses season 2 was absolutely atrocious. Awful even by the low standards of British thrillers. It’s put me off the series even though I thought season 1 was moderately well made and entertaining.
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Rollie Fingers posted:Slow Horses season 2 was absolutely atrocious. Awful even by the low standards of British thrillers. It’s put me off the series even though I thought season 1 was moderately well made and entertaining.
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mystes posted:I hated season 2 but season 3 is better, maybe even better than season 1 unless you're really bothered by unrealistic firearms stuff. I thought the opposite. 3 was really bad. Just a bunch of action with no intrigue and Gary Oldman was barely in it.
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I’m nonplussed about Oldman’s character anyway. “George Smiley, but a Belgravia cockney slob”
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mystes posted:I hated season 2 but season 3 is better, maybe even better than season 1 unless you're really bothered by unrealistic firearms stuff. Season 2 is another in the strange collection of UK spy thrillers where Russia is executing these convoluted plots straight out of 24 full of false flags, moles and misdirections the brass falls completely for. Recently I've seen Russia conquer newly independent Scotland in a day (Red Election), the UK completely isolated from the US and NATO and at Russia's mercy (The Undeclared War) and the government being overthrown through deep fakes (The Capture). And these are very well made shows full of great actors, not cheap network schlock. It's just so weirdly written to have everybody be a clown with the ARMED POLICE squads always being too late and in the wrong place.
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The Bear : or, a series of panic attacks in TV form. They really love showing you that it takes place in Chicago over and over again. All the characters except the sister and Syd and Marcus are awful people. Despite all this, a very enjoyable food porn dark comedy. I still want to know how they got out of that one disaster day that was the end of season 1 but they just cut away and moved on
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I thought The Bear was a horror show so I was wondering if an actual bear was going to show up. It was a good show though.
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phosdex posted:I thought The Bear was a horror show so I was wondering if an actual bear was going to show up. It was a good show though.
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phosdex posted:I thought The Bear was a horror show so I was wondering if an actual bear was going to show up. It was a good show though. The Thanksgiving dinner episode is one of the most brutal pieces of horror I've seen in the last couple of years.
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I crushed through the entire run of 'Silicon Valley' in about two weeks. Awesome show. Considering that it ended only about four years ago....I had forgotten basically the entire final season. Another show that totally stuck the ending. The entire final episode was a well executed concept.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I crushed through the entire run of 'Silicon Valley' in about two weeks. Awesome show. Considering that it ended only about four years ago....I had forgotten basically the entire final season. Another show that totally stuck the ending. The entire final episode was a well executed concept. Yeah I love that show. Its a real shame about Thomas Middleditch, he was also a hilarious guest on comedy bang bang back during those times but now he's persona non grata.
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Ccs posted:Yeah I love that show. Its a real shame about Thomas Middleditch, he was also a hilarious guest on comedy bang bang back during those times but now he's persona non grata. drat. I hadn't heard about that and just looked it up. Sounds like he got handsy with women at a club, more than once. It's a shame. I'd enjoyed his stuff, especially the improv shows with Ben Schwartz.
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Silicon Valley never resonated with me past the first season, but I kept watching hoping it would hit those highs again. It just seemed like a regular ol' sitcom only they said "gently caress" in it. I did like Gabe though.
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Shrimpy posted:I'm only three episodes in, but the most jarring thing is watching Donald Glover actively repress being charming. You can see it crack through once or twice per episode and then it just sort of gets shoved back down. Finally finished it and am surprised by all the praise its received. The last handful of episodes were better, but it felt like it was constantly trying not be "spy romp" when that was what it was best at. Meanwhile The Brothers Sun was great.
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Shrimpy posted:Meanwhile The Brothers Sun was great. Absolutely agree. This will be my number one spot for "series I'll forget to include in my yearly top ten because it aired all the way back in January."
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