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Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

GreenNight posted:

The Magicians is a lot loving darker than I imagined going in.

Works a hell of a lot better on a binge than it did week to week.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 06:14

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:53

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

All of those things you mentioned and Cilla Black, are terrible in every way. Just terrible.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 10:53

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Josh Lyman posted:

Based on your rec I'm watching the episode with the DJ and it's hilarious for so many reasons including only presenting white women to the black contestant.

ROFLMAO "There's all sorts of labia... I call it the cheeseburger. You know, when the cheese just comes out over the edge of the cheeseburger a little bit. So the bit of the corner, just sort of flips over the side of the bun, slightly." The hand motions make this epic.

3rd girl rejected, only shook hands with the DJ whereas the others hugged him. In the exit interview she says, "Also he wasn't my type" AKA BLACK

Let's just focus on his BIG BLACK COCK. "It's just staring at me in the face!" Host points and says "Take. A good. Look."

In the second segment with a female contestant, they seem to get on really well but 2 months later and they haven't gone on a second date because they live too far away. There's 14 million people in metro London wtf Channel 4, you're telling me you can't cast your stupid show from that population?

All in all, it's a fun novelty that I wouldn't watch more than a couple times. I didn't find it titillating, but maybe that's because I was regularly pausing to look stuff up.

At least it's better than this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzG9BNHcDrE

They want nice girls not those east end, black country or scouse baby replicators. Was bossman from Berminhmm?

Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Jan 3, 2017

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 13:02

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Yep... Birmingham.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 13:14

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Lycus posted:

I take it that Magicians is: we want to do Hogwarts, but with sexy grad students instead of children.

Sort of, they don't spend a great deal of time actually in school doing school stuff.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 04:35

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Hogwarts is as much a character as everyone else. This it's just a place where they learn magic.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 06:56

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

OK guys, the Librabarbarian has an opinion on a book

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 11:42

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

DivisionPost posted:

Holy loving poo poo, tonight's Sweet/Vicious.

The show just keeps getting better.

It literally has the lowest rating on Kodi.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 01:04

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Batman brutally assaults everyone.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 15:16

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Yes, it's not bad. Ryan Phillippe is killing it as the main guy.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 03:14

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

X-O posted:

That's interesting. The first time I ever liked him was on the first season of Secrets and Lies. I was thinking maybe his performance in that was an anomaly since I'd never liked him in anything else.

Dunno man. I've really paid attention to him much in anything. Put it this way, I thought I would hate it and I don't.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 03:34

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

The Tick was pretty good. I laughed my arse off.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 14:08

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Spergatory posted:

The first season of PoI is a bit too focused on Reese and Finch, to it's detriment. Jim Caveziel, bless his ridiculously tall heart, is not the best actor or the most charismatic screen presence. Season 2 has more of a team dynamic, opening up the Reese and Finch show to other players and allowing them more people to bounce off of, and it does wonders for their likability.

I skipped almost the entire first season. Just watched the first couple and the last 4 episodes.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 02:20

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

I'm not a fan of being treated like an idiot. Being walked through a story like a child doesn't work for me.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 03:44

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Opinions are like cocks. Everyone wants to jam it down your throat..

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 04:36

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Watched the first episode of MacGuyver for research purposes. It's alright. But Tristan may is the sexiest woman on TV... always sweaty and that drat hair!

Gonna have to deepen the research.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 10:31

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Baz Luhrmann turns 1970's Spanish Harlem into a musical wonderland.

Grandmaster Flash is Yoda.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 14:14

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

I won't watch anything with a laugh track/studio audience these days, I don't give a gently caress how funny it is.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 17:49

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Snak posted:

That specific thing is actually explained.

In general, they basically googled people who lived a hundreds of years ago.

What I don't understand is why they give so little of a poo poo about maintaining cover. There are a lot of things that just plain don't make any sense at all and feel like they were written because someone thought a specific scene was cool and wanted to set it up.

One thing they never address is how it would be possible to fake being an FBI agent for even a few days with no knowledge whatsoever about it. He'd get flagged almost immediately as acting suspicious. Missing meetings, no loving clue what cases he was working on, not filling out paperwork correctly. Right away they would think he was compromised.

The writers never address this. They never show him figuring out how fake it or learning how to be an agent. They show him loving up a bunch, like not knowing how to log in to his computer, but they never do an episode about it or anything. It's just kind of "he's the FBI guy" with no explanation of how he's pulling it off. There's literally more drama about the brain damaged woman maintaining her cover than how difficult it would be for the FBI guy. The season ends strong, but there are just so many missed opportunities in the first half.

I never thought I would complain that a show didn't have enough relationship drama. Most shows shoehorn relationship drama into a premise that doesn't need it. This is a show where people in relationships die and are replaced by dopplegangers, and the conflict that this creates makes up almost 1.5 episodes out of the entire season. It should be central platform for the writers to show us what the characters are like.

It was hard to follow in the first 4 episodes. Didn't make any sense. But the kitchen sink cast pulled it through.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 03:02

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

You obviously know nothing about vaping there...

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 07:19

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Snak posted:

Just started S2 of Person of Interest. It's officially good now.

Amy Acker eases the pain. Sarah Shahi completes the circle

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 10:53

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

GreenNight posted:

You'll be the first to have Fedora 2.0

Second, no prizes for second.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 04:18

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Dead Snoopy posted:

Also, I should feel shame because it comes from the MTV assembly line but Sweet Viscous has completely come out of left field to win me over. Love the casting, love tthat they've managed to stretch the premise further than it deserves to be and it still works, love the characterization and even love the music selection - especially this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twpQTna_9w

I watched it all in one day, it's a good show.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 05:44

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

It not even overly melodramatic, it's just the subject matter really, everyone else is just being your average run of the mill tv college student

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 07:14

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Tahmoh Penikett just added to the all-star Incorporated cast.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 10:43

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Unfortunate Events is boss. Watch it. NPH chews scenery like a beaver.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 14:15

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

whowhatwhere posted:

It's the dumbest possible show in the best way.

Subtitled babies are always a winner.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 18:34

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Escobarbarian posted:

End of episode 1 is 5 stars

loving hell, 3 & 4. Deserve every award NPH.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 00:28

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Cool your jets, hot shot. Did someone put the Batman comics in the Man-Bat box again?

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 03:57

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Coronation Street

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 06:13

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

precision posted:

Sneaky Pete is fantastic

I like it too, just watching the 3rd episode.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 02:32

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

I didn't even notice it was a cgi baby.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 03:06

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

it's on FX in the states? i figured it'd be a bbc america thing/

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 06:33

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

The Mick is great.

I still can't get over the teenage girl is 25.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 03:13

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Bryan Cranston... playing a stone badass. Don't forget that.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 03:44

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Looten Plunder posted:

I've only seen the first 1.5 episodes but Detective Tim is another Justified Alumn.

It's also a bit of a "The Wire" love fest as well with plenty of familiar faces appearing in this as well.

It was also awesome to see Martha again.

Wasn't aware Cranston was in Justified

Thanks Captain Literal. I'd moved on from that.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 07:51