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After a few attempts to stop/start watching The Americans I've finally given it some decent time and it's excellent. Coming up to the final straight now (back half of season 4). 
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Elias_Maluco posted:Binged through Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency this weekend and is freaking hilarious Not being faithful to [previous iteration] is being faithful to an Adams property. I loved this version as well. There's a second season planned too.
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Jan 31, 2017 22:37
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Search Party. Really enjoyed it. Feels like a mash up between Broad City, Stranger Things and Nancy Drew.
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Feb 3, 2017 12:39
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Rocksicles posted:I was just saying this today. Drew Barrymore is hysterically funny all the time, But Tim Olyphant is doing a shitload of work there and he's crushing it, his delivery is amazing, I'm loving this, the episodes are the perfect length for 'just one more', and it's like kimmy schmidt became a zombie sometimes.
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Feb 12, 2017 00:31
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Without sounding like a 'you had to be there' arsehole, White Bear works much better with a full understanding of british tabloid culture. It's absolutely a plausible extrapolation of what we saw with the Soham murders, Bulger murder and others. The vitriol and bile spewed up by the tabloids and a non-insignificant part of the population could easily manifest in the audience at the end, and you only have to look at the cases of people taking photos outside of murder victims houses to get the bystanders with their cell phones.
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Feb 26, 2017 00:25
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As far as keeping track of non-netflix shows, I've found a TV tracking app really useful - there are several ranging for free to paid. You put in the series you are watching and it'll show you what's airing soon and allow you to mark an episode as watched.
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Mar 11, 2017 13:27
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I use TV Show Tracker, which does the job. There are probably better options out there, but it's not like it needs to be complex.
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Mar 12, 2017 11:27
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Adding another vote in for Patriot - a couple of episodes to go and it's alllllll coming together in an excellent way.
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Apr 9, 2017 17:18
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Orphan Black is fantastic, mostly because of Tatiana's performances.
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Jun 7, 2017 09:01
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mobby_6kl posted:
There it is, that's censorship.jpg right there.
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Jul 20, 2017 20:30
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I’ve just binged the final season of The Americans after a slightly below par season five. Absolutely incredible show, and the two leads absolutely deserved their Emmy nominations/wins.
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Aug 6, 2019 23:00
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Gravy Jones posted:Happy to report the second half of The Expanse S3 was a massive improvement over the first. Looking forward to 4 now. Patriot is absolutely fantastic, you've made a solid choice.
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Sep 25, 2019 15:14
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Mu Zeta posted:Season 1 ends with a gut punch. It's a short season so might as well finish it. Sort of - she put on a limited run of the one-woman show earlier this year and recordings are being distributed through the NTLive program, so you can see it at certain cinemas. I went and enjoyed it - it’s also interesting to see the parts which were brought back years later for the show. Tickets are still pretty hard to come by, but if you’re flexible on cinema it’s possible. National Theatre Live.
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Oct 14, 2019 07:57
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Is this a remake then? I’m sure there was something else with the same concept. Had Tim Minchin.
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Nov 24, 2019 15:36
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Mu Zeta posted:Really surprised by the downer ending of Silicon Valley. Really like that they did that. Same with Veep. It was a great ended, but man, what they did to Bighead. That was just heart wrenching. Laurie’s ending was hilarious though. ”Yes, we have rats here also. They are..... dealt with.”
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Jan 14, 2020 10:21
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Elias_Maluco posted:Body switching, yeah I think they’ve said it’s their intention to switch the lead every season
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Mar 6, 2020 17:18
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the returned is filmed in Annecy where I go a lot for holiday. They dragged a lot of bodies out of the lake when they were looking for a man who drowned a few years back.
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Mar 13, 2020 15:57
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Going through The Good Place. I am very pleasantly surprised how much I like it. I had heard very little about it up until now. I'm in the beginning of the 3rd season. The Good Place is absolutely wonderful. I’m going to pick up Ozark s3 now, I’ve enjoyed the others and this one is getting great reviews.
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Mar 30, 2020 07:57
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Rat posted:Tonight I asked one of my favorite questions: "do you know who Nathan Fielder is?" 
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Apr 1, 2020 10:32
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Disharmony posted:Yeah, finished it 6 hours straight. I had no idea what it was about coming in but kept seeing it on Amazon for years and I got time to kill because of the quarantine. He’s still morally grey in that one. Check him out in the second episode of the latest Black Mirror series too.
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Apr 22, 2020 17:10
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showbiz_liz posted:I'm almost to the end of Peep Show. If you like the kind of comedy where the main characters are terrible people and the source of all their own problems, it's a must-see. The episode with the canal boat (Holiday, season 5) is absolutely a masterclass in comedy writing. Take a ridiculous concept like Jeremy eats a woman's dog in front of her, and work backwards through all the steps to make this not only plausible, but absolutely unavoidable, given who the characters are. Excellent.
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Apr 29, 2020 16:46
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Travelers was way more engaging and intelligent than I would have expected from a random Netflix show. Travelers was really good. The skydiving episode in particular - reminded me of playing a video game over and over learning from each failure.
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May 17, 2020 10:16
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Dicty Bojangles posted:I liked that half the actors in Travelers were in Continuum (is there a designated Canadian time travel acting troupe?), which made it feel a bit like an alternate universe spin-off at times. These shows are all filmed in Vancouver so there’s always a good chance of seeing familiar faces pop up!
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May 23, 2020 14:46
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Dollhouse was one of the ones that got quite hosed by the network as well. The original script for the first episode has the client wanting company for a medieval themed ball or the like but the network decided no how about a motorbike race and a club instead. So generic.
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Jun 20, 2020 11:12
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I'm starting Gypsy - just seen a couple of episodes and it's really really interesting me. It's the first show in a long while where I really have no idea what's going on, or where it's going.
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Jul 14, 2020 22:11
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Der Kyhe posted:I've been watching Snowpiercer. I’m on the second last episode and all this holds. It’s ridiculous, it’s charming (and the two mains plus the 1st class girl are all so much fun)
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Jul 18, 2020 22:29
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phosdex posted:I am closing in on the end of s2 of Ozark. Really enjoying this, I like seeing Jason Bateman in a more serious role. I recognized Julia Garner from her part on The Americans, and she is killing it here. Every episode is pretty intense, kinda wish they dialed it down for an episode. Just had some boating time or something. I’m watching the most recent season and it is just so, so good. Bateman as a competent Bluth is excellent and Garner is absolutely amazing.
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Aug 5, 2020 08:57
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Line of Duty is a great show, there's usually a live-ish watch of it in one of the UK TV threads when the series airs. Bent coppas. major Ozark spoilers I've just finished Ozark and ho-boy, second to last episode I found annoying despite some amazing acting Ben's actor plays his breakdown so well, while I'm also constantly getting annoyed at the character just being so stupid but the finale was incredible, new lines being drawn and turns out Helen should probably not have assumed that Nelson would let her know if he got 'the call' just because he said he would
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Aug 29, 2020 22:49
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Fartbox posted:To be honest I feel Bens stupidity was almost over the top. It felt like the writers taking too many measures to make sure it seemed like our protagonists had no choice but to try to get rid of him. Like cmon the man is calling cartel operatives directly and trying to say "im sorry" Honestly, felt exactly the same, it felt frustrating to watch. It was obvious as soon as he just kept trying to get in touch with people to apologise that this was only going to end one way.
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Aug 29, 2020 23:43
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Slothful Bong posted:
I need to get back to it and finish it - but I'm almost 100% sure you mean Reese, right? I couldn't stand him at first, so wooden....
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Sep 1, 2020 15:45
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Red Oktober posted:Line of Duty is a great show, there's usually a live-ish watch of it in one of the UK TV threads when the series airs. Bent coppas. 
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Sep 1, 2020 16:31
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In a similar vein, Party Down and Happy Endings are well worth a watch.
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Sep 9, 2020 16:45
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I loved izombie but it always bugged me that they never once turned the bone saw on but played the sound effect. Not to mention a pre-Frozen/The Good Place Kristen Bell!
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Sep 27, 2020 23:48
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FPyat posted:I've been watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix and find myself gripped. It's in that space that BoJack Horseman got into, but the levity comes from songs in every episode rather than the animal humor. I love CEX - and like Bojack it hides a very, very serious message under everything else. Managed to catch a live show last year, it was fantastic. 
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Oct 16, 2020 16:01
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devmd01 posted:Been going through The Feed on Netflix and enjoying it. The review that sold me on it called it a black mirror episode stretched to a season length. It’s more of a slow burn thriller at first as it fleshes out the world and main characters, then things start going sideways and poo poo gets crazy. I love a bit of Black Mirror so will be checking this out. Looks like it's on Prime rather than Netflix - is that the same show?
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Oct 21, 2020 12:07
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kanonvandekempen posted:According to historians in the British press the Crown has taken more liberties with being an actual representation of things as they happened with each season, so maybe be careful what you're reading into things. The bar for the royals to take action for libel/slander is very high and the producers of the show know it.
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Nov 20, 2020 10:22
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Yes, it’s a lot of fun. I think I used to mix it up with sex and the city so never bothered with it but it’s a good black comedy.
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Dec 24, 2020 09:10
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It’s also a very good podcast which I would heartily recommend! And they did a good making of where they talked about changes they needed to make. For instance the first scene with Bobby’s character (David Schwimmer in the podcast) going through the factory and warehouse is set in an airport, which is easy enough to fake for a podcast - but far too expensive for a filmed show.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:53
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Haven’t seen the second season yet.
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These shows are huge but the problem for me with the on-demand (rather than for instance WandaVision) is that the conversations often go along the lines of: "Have you seen X" "No, not yet" "Yes! Where are you up to? Oh, I'm 5 episodes ahead/behind" at which point it becomes hard to discuss again.
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