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Volume posted:First episode is complete poo poo but gets better at episode 2, masters it at 3, and stays good. If you're not hooked by episode 3 then you won't like it This is completely true. I think a lot of Netflix shows are similar - they kind of front load a lot of exposition so the first episode or two seems really weak, but then things start coming together fast. Bojack Horseman was the same way (and in that case it went so far as to kind of disguise the show's genre as a lovely sitcom instead of the bizarre dramedy it is by the end).
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The Big Lebowski is (back?) up on Netflix Instant now.
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Apr 1, 2015 23:19
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Captain Lavender posted:Re-watching 3rd Rock from the Sun. It reminds me how impressed I was at how long they could run with that gimmicky premise. I always hated the show when it was on but my fiancé put it on while we were playing some board game and I got kind of hooked. It's weird that it is simultaneously 90s as hell but still has aged well.
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Apr 8, 2015 02:57
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The first time my fiance watched Big Trouble in Little China she was convinced that it wasn't meant to be comedic and it was just all around bad. It wasn't until the giant neon skull lair and Kurt Russell facing down the big bad with a streak of kissed-on lipstick that she conceded that indeed, the camp was intentional.
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May 23, 2015 18:02
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John Big Booty posted:It has its moments, but god drat if they have both let it drag on waaaaay too long and totally suck balls in everything else they've done. Yeah it starts bad, gets funny, then just overstays it's welcome in a serious, serious way. And the Live in Dublin thing was actively painful to watch.
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Jun 2, 2015 05:36
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Turtlicious posted:All 12 seasons of red vs blue is on netflix and it is still funny / great. Really really good. I started this while my fiancé (who to my knowledge has never played Halo in her life) was busy with something, kind of expecting it to be unwatchable except for nostalgia. She caught the end of one episode, laughed a ton, and threw it on when we were looking for something funny to watch. I think without my idiot high school friends quoting entire episodes day in and day out it kinda feels fresh again.
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Jun 18, 2015 03:13
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Watrick posted:I know goons have love for Danganronpa. It's up on Hulu. There's a show? The games are a guilty pleasure but only because they scratch a murder mystery itch I didn't realize I had.
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Aug 13, 2015 23:29
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I finally finished Bojack Season 2 and man that show is just incredible. It has such ridiculous highs and lows in every single episode.
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Aug 17, 2015 17:43
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syscall girl posted:I rewatched bojack s2 and I can't find any faults in it. If anyone is on the fence about it look up the cast list on imdb. Lots of talented people threw their hats in and did very subtle voice work. If you're like me and tend to try to identify people by voice it's distracting but amazing who's on that show. I chuckled about the Character Actress Margo Martindale bit right before seeing her in another movie and trying to figure out who she was - "oh, she's that woman from Justified, and..." Then I looked up her IMDB and yep, character actress Margo Martindale. Never forgetting her name again.
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Sep 9, 2015 03:04
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Crow Jane posted:Aziz Ansari's new Netflix series, Master of None, is pretty great so far. Is this good even if you've grown to hate Ansari's whole persona? Watching his stand up has made me retroactively dislike him in Parks and Rec.
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Nov 10, 2015 17:06
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Bussamove posted:Its got some great stuff going on later, but I felt the finale was a bit weak. Overall a fantastic ride though, and David Tennant plays a crazy villain well. Knowing absolutely gently caress-nothing about Jessica Jones I still went "holy poo poo is that Luke Cage" the second you see him behind the bar for the first time. Marvel's casting for the Netflix series' is incredible.
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Nov 24, 2015 20:00
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Man are new Rick and Morty eps ever going to come to Hulu or what the gently caress?
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Dec 12, 2015 07:39
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Rolo posted:Heck I'm thinking of cancelling all of my streaming stuff for 6 months to give this poo poo some time to repopulate. It's been like four months since something came on that made me say "oh, cool." For what it's worth Jessica Jones on Netflix is really good. I was kinda psyched for Daredevil but walked away completely underwhelmed (other than the casting which was incredible). Jessica Jones I had never heard of and went in expecting the worst after DD and ended up binging it with my fiancé over a week - and it would have been a lot less if not for the heavy overtones of abuse that made it uncomfortable to just plow through at times.
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Dec 13, 2015 04:15
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Inzombiac posted:Everyone should watch One Punch Man on hulu. Is this hilarious? It looks hilarious from what little I've learned about it through Internet osmosis.
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Dec 19, 2015 04:32
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Ok Fella posted:Also highly recommending F is for Family, really funny and the writing is excellent. It's the most genuine portrayal of a family I've seen in a long time. Daredevil had incredible casting and just bizarrely weak pacing and writing. Like who the hell thought the priest episode was worth a solid hour? Anyone watching a tv show about Daredevil of all freaking superheroes is going to have endured that whole "should I kill this guy? I mean, killing is wrong, but this guy is SUPER MEAN" debate in literally every other piece of superhero media in the past three decades. It added nothing new to the characters or the debate itself and was just an hour of handwringing over something that was a foregone conclusion anyway.
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Jan 15, 2016 00:34
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Rolo posted:I never was a comic book person, but I grew up watching the animated Batman and Superman cartoons (because they ruled) and I gotta say that The Flashpoint Paradox was a lot more hosed up than I was expecting. That poo poo is dark. I mean geez. I just found out this was on Netflix. The original comic event was great, I can't wait to watch this.
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Mar 11, 2016 18:01
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned the new season of Todd Margaret, which is fantastic and a little surreal.
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Jul 28, 2016 22:10
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wormil posted:I'll watch it. The 2001 Tick had an awesome pilot but the series sucked. Fight me you honorless whoreson.
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Aug 30, 2016 20:24
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Inzombiac posted:Oh god no. I'm on episode two of this and it is surprisingly good. I kind of just threw it on so my wife wouldn't burn through Parks and Rec for a ninth time but it's making me laugh out loud a few times an episode. Plus it has Timothy Omundson, who owns fake edit: holy crap the training montage scene is hilarious.
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Oct 4, 2016 06:09
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BioEnchanted posted:A Series of Unfortunate Events went live and I thought the first season was pretty great. This has pretty decent production values for a kids show, too - the casting is impeccable but the art direction is also great. It reminds me a lot of Pushing Daisies.
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Jan 16, 2017 15:18
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I've been watching Haters Back Off recently and it's really hilarious while also being abrasive enough that its 2 star rating on Netflix is completely understandable. If you could stomach Napoleon Dynamite, give it a try. It also stars the guy who plays Todd in the Grinder, which is a decently funny sitcom, also available on Netflix.
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Jan 30, 2017 22:45
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Speaking of shows that people didn't give a chance because the name was dumb, Don't Trust The B in Apartment 23 is fantastic. It's one of the best sitcoms of the last decade but I feel like it really was already losing steam by the second season. What's available is still incredible and I recommend it to everyone, but it's not a show where I feel it needed a lot more seasons.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:21
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I just finished Haters Back Off and the final episode made it even better than it was before in my eyes. It's like a punch to the gut that you know is coming but it still manages to catch you off guard.
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Feb 4, 2017 16:15
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syscall girl posted:"I have soft orphan lips" The whole Annie scene had me laughing so hard it hurt. Seriously though, the line "Why do you think it's funny that someone could love me?!" in the last episode was pretty devastating even though she obviously made her own bed and screwed everything up. The art school scene in the penultimate episode was heavy, too. All the characters (except Emily obviously) are so zany and dumb that the drama really can catch you off guard.
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Feb 5, 2017 16:04
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wormil posted:I wish there was less swearing in Santa Clarita Diet, not because swearing bothers me but because they don't do it naturally. Every time they say, "gently caress!" it feels like someone held up a sign with that word on it. Show is otherwise awesome. I feel like...the complete opposite of this. It's jarring because it's Oliphant's character waayyyyy out of his element, and he's trying to roll with it as best he can, but sometimes he just comes up short and shouts "FUUUUUCK" as he realizes the mess his life has become. It's the only time I've ever thought that excessive swearing in a show has been funny, the delivery is just perfect. Plus, Abby's line at the beginning ("I think I'm going to be swearing in front of you guys a lot more," "Yeah, that's fair") sets it up as a sort of running gag. The only bad part (other than one thing I'm going to take to the IIMM thread) is how abruptly it ended.
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Feb 9, 2017 20:36
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Not a spoiler, no - but of course I can't really talk about that without actually discussing the ending, which would be a spoiler. The IIMM thread is Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments.: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3631122
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Feb 9, 2017 21:52
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Finished Travelers last night. Awesome show, although I feel like it fell victim to that Netflix Original curse where there was one episode where nothing happened that could have been completely cut from the season and improved it overall. A question for those who have seen it, since I'm not sure if I missed something: in episode 8 (I think), Bishop, what was up with that senator who got killed by his wife in the beginning? She didn't seem to be a Traveler and I don't think it got touched on again. Len posted:It's the only good Scooby Doo that doesn't have Wrestlemania in the title. There was some Scooby Doo episode I saw when I was hungover/possibly still drunk where they were running around with Johnny Bravo, it was pretty funny but now that I'm typing that out I'm not convinced it exists.
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Feb 11, 2017 21:38
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I just finished up the first season of The Magicians on Netflix and I am really jonesing for more. It's campy at times and the main character and his love interest are both wet farts but everything else about it is so fun it more than makes up for its few shortcomings.
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Feb 24, 2017 21:45
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Kung Fury is really great. It's a lot of lolrandom style humor but it's well-done enough to be entertaining and short enough to not overstay its welcome.
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Mar 14, 2017 05:28
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Bob's Burgers is leaving Netflix on April 1st.
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Mar 15, 2017 15:42
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As a counter opinion, I'm like three or four episodes in and I like it so far. After how heavy JJ and Luke Cage were, it's nice to have a goofier story about billionaire dickheads loving with each other and a smelly hobo guy throwing them all off their game. Even episode two, which was really stupidly dark and tried to make the viewer think some things that were obviously not true, still was lighter in tone than most episodes of any of the other Marvel shows.
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Mar 20, 2017 18:26
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Captain Lavender posted:I feel like I got pretty quick what Haters Back Off was going for with so many absurd characters, and I was totally down for it. But it just didn't really hit the mark for me. Did you watch to the end of the first season? Because all of the "wacky" characters get hit with the drama hammer super hard. It's emotionally draining to watch but I thought it did what it was trying to do very well.
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Apr 14, 2017 18:19
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Hulu has always been a garbage fire of an app, though. Their search on consoles is just unforgivable.
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May 23, 2017 18:34
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A lot of the dialogue on Riverdale, the noir-ish crime story set in a gritty Archie reboot, is really bad. Some of the acting is just astoundingly wooden. ...And yet, I can't stop watching. It's like a virus.
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Jun 1, 2017 20:59
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Turtlicious posted:I like Castlevania, it's a very funny show with competent writing and excellent fight scenes. The over the top gore, somewhat dark (BUT EXTREMELY CAMPY) characters balance out well with what the series is trying to do. They're also trying their best with the source material, and I enjoy it so much. My girlfriend and I got back into anime after this one, because it was just that good. I know a lot of you guys are down on it, but I think the first 4 episodes are just a taste of what's to come, and it's just so perfectly executed that I'm ecstatic with it. Yeah - the whole series was written by Warren Ellis, and it really shows. I like it.
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Jul 13, 2017 16:32
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Orange is the New Black: Season 5 (U.S. Netflix but probably elsewhere) I'm like halfway through this season and it's kind of jarring. I liked the setup and I like that they're changing things up but it seems like they've completely tossed subtlety out the window, not that OitNB was ever really understated. It just keeps bashing the viewer over the head with stuff. "HEY LOOK!! Alex is trying to avoid being a leader but she's giving her speech in front of a big bold sign calling her a king! Let's linger on that shot for a full minute, to make sure that people see it! Oh hey, the Muslim woman and the blonde white power woman are both dealing with nearly identical relationship woes, but they can't commiserate because of their racism and prejudice! Do you know what we haven't done on this show? A hamfisted rooftop Pieta!"
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Aug 14, 2017 16:48
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Iron Crowned posted:
They were thinking "how can we make this actively poo poo to use" because it's run by a bunch of cable and network TV companies with an active stake in people not streaming poo poo all the time. Genuinely curious how you didn't know that.
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Sep 15, 2017 14:21
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Stranger Things is a fun show but it's not super-ultra-lifechangingly brilliant or anything. If you're not feeling the first couple episodes, you probably won't enjoy the rest, even if the characters do get a lot more fun as things go on.
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Sep 18, 2017 17:36
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I'm not done with it yet but I can second/third American Vandal. I also just burned through The Good Place in like two or three days and I think it might be one of my favorite sitcoms ever.
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syscall girl posted:That show owns. NO ONE SPOIL IT The Good Place is very possibly my all time favorite show just from the first two seasons.
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