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alexandriao posted:

oops! sorry fellow goons and goonettes, this series is in fact called Counterpart

I'll just add that it's a very, very clever way to use science-fiction to keep the "cold-war era spycraft" vibes, and it just works super duper well.

Can confirm it's very good, but I haven't watched all of S2.

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dookieblunt

shoot the core!
I've been a fan of the Lupin the 3rd Part 2 english dub for a long time and its basically just what i watch whenever im bored now. The performances from the english cast are great and the music never fails

Scuba Trooper

where can I watch Lupin the third?????????

barclayed

"I just saved your ass... with MONOPOLY!"
Dad and I have been watching Fringe lately! I've watched up to season 4 of The X-Files and it has a very similar vibe in terms of 'monster of the week'-type stuff, but I find I'm actually enjoying it a lot more than X-Files-- the setup for a larger arc feels more clean and prominent here-- but that may be because I've already read a tiny bit about the alternate dimension stuff.

I don't know why, but I love love love Olivia Dunham as a character. Her voice is nice lol. Walter is also a joy.

Apparently my parents watched it together when it was first coming out, and it was 'their' show, so it's nice sharing a part of that with my dad.

I don't remember if I've already mentioned it ITT, but we've also been watching the new Quantum Leap, and I enjoy it immensely. Never watched the original, so my dad has had to fill me in a bit, but I think it's pretty strong all things considered.

"What I wouldn't give to return to those halcyon days."



dookieblunt

shoot the core!

Scuba Trooper posted:

where can I watch Lupin the third?????????

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj2Ugc-vxcWEvomV4nRhXY9ESB3XRLFiw

Most of the dub is on youtube, but theyre missing about 40 episodes or so. Still, 56 episodes will keep you busy. Enjoy! :D

Scuba Trooper

HELL YES SON HLEL YES

alexandriao


I'm still kinda pissed because I deliberately got All of lupin the 3rd on my Plex... like... hundreds of gigabytes of it... for a friend I know who loves the show, but he's ghosted me since he moved to London so it was basically a wasted effort as far as I can tell.

Too much is always not enough!

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Finger Prince


Cunk on Earth is a work of art.

Areola Grande

it's a free country u pervs

Finger Prince posted:

Cunk on Earth is a work of art.

looks tempting I'll check it out

Saoshyant

:hmmorks: :orks:


Areola Grande posted:

looks tempting I'll check it out

I have been following that lady over a decade. She's a treasure. So much to learn about the world, too.



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Areola Grande

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Finger Prince posted:

Cunk on Earth is a work of art.

I got hooked in like 5 minutes. lmaoing rn

kinda reminds me of Look Around You





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Heather Papps

hello friend


Areola Grande posted:

I got hooked in like 5 minutes. lmaoing rn

kinda reminds me of Look Around You

maybe don't watch this if you hate being spoiled but this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zabCBnUHLA i can't spoil a youtube video jeffrey fix this



thanks Dumb Sex-Parrot and deep dish peat moss for this winter bounty!

Areola Grande

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Heather Papps posted:

maybe don't watch this if you hate being spoiled but this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zabCBnUHLA i can't spoil a youtube video jeffrey fix this

lol good poo poo I can't believe this is all new to me

Areola Grande

it's a free country u pervs

Saoshyant posted:

I have been following that lady over a decade. She's a treasure. So much to learn about the world, too.

I assumed this was a new IP I guess b/c I'm just an ignorant American living under a rock!

Areola Grande

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I'm on episode 3 and fully prepared 2 binge this

watho


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

i’ve watched a fair bit of gangs of london recently and it’s mostly good but it really doubles down on a lot of the stuff about the raid 2 that i wasn’t big on. a bit more misery porn than i’m into but when it’s good it’s good



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watho posted:

i’ve watched a fair bit of gangs of london recently and it’s mostly good but it really doubles down on a lot of the stuff about the raid 2 that i wasn’t big on. a bit more misery porn than i’m into but when it’s good it’s good

wait um did the guy who made the raids make a show or something cuz i think his stuff is p dece

i havent seen it yet but im trying to watch new mutants since i heard it was a spin off legion


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watho


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

baka fwocka fwame posted:

wait um did the guy who made the raids make a show or something cuz i think his stuff is p dece

i havent seen it yet but im trying to watch new mutants since i heard it was a spin off legion

yeah it’s by gareth evans who made the raid films. if you like the crime thriller aspects of the sequel i’d recommend giving the show a watch it’s got similar vibes but way less and less good fighting. that said if you haven’t seen timo tjahjanto’s action films i’d recommend them over it. they share a lot of the principal cast and go harder than you can imagine. the night comes for us being the standout but headshot and the big 4 are great as well



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Happy Hippo

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > BSS Derailed Thread: Spider-Island

ive seen the odd star trek episode here and there but i just started watching both tos and tng recently and so far i am only in season one of each

watho


The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

tng’s first season is p rough but it’s a great show



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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > BSS Derailed Thread: Spider-Island

its well made at least i mean i think i counted two times in the first "real" tos episode (the first one with kirk not pike) where an actor flubbed his line and they just kept it in

Twenty Four


Heather Papps posted:

maybe don't watch this if you hate being spoiled but this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zabCBnUHLA i can't spoil a youtube video jeffrey fix this

Areola Grande posted:

lol good poo poo I can't believe this is all new to me

:same: Also, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuVOYDnQKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0ztwqCt4c

Barco Fiesta




a fantasy of olives
cowboy beebop

Ass-penny

Barco Fiesta posted:

cowboy beebop

the live action or the anime


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Ass-penny

I'm watching Attorney Woo Young Woo on my sister's recommendation and I've been very s l o w l y watching it, but I got to say I'm feeling this episode about the children's liberation army.


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alexandriao posted:

oops! sorry fellow goons and goonettes, this series is in fact called Counterpart

I'll just add that it's a very, very clever way to use science-fiction to keep the "cold-war era spycraft" vibes, and it just works super duper well.

my local library has it on DVD so i have started season one- i really like it so far! and yeah, jk simmons is great. i can't wait for invincible to come back.

"What I wouldn't give to return to those halcyon days."



deep dish peat moss

I haven't been able to do much except lay in bed and watch TV for a lot of the last month, some things I've watched:

The Sandman - it was good, pretty accurate to the comic as far as I remember. I don't like Morpheus but also I don't think he could have been played any better? Like, I guess Robert Smith was channeling the king of dreams all along, you know? Good visuals and it's a neat story if you like Neil Gaiman urban fantasy stuff

Guillermo Del Toro's The Cabinet of Curiosities - it's a "horror" anthology on Netflix, each one by a different director. I would say they are "horror" in the same way that e.g. Hellboy is "horror" and a lot of the tropes were very predictable but!! What I liked about this series was specifically that it's all centered around cosmic horror. Not Lovecraftian cosmic horror, just cosmic horror.

All 3 Riddick movies back to back - Riddick is like the dumbest, goofiest antihero ever and it's incredibly hard to take the character seriously but there's a lot of neat world building, I would really love more out of the setting preferably not directly involving Riddick because it's also very clear that they had no idea where the character was headed as they wrote each movie.

All 3 John Wick movies back to back - they were fun and everything but there's an incredibly strong undercurrent in literal infantilism throughout them that stood out as bizarre to me. It's like, you know that game that kids play while riding in a car where they imagine there's a little ninja man running alongside the car? It's sort of like John Wick is intended to be a manifestation of that, there's a lot of really overt symbolism to childhood like a large part of the series being about contention for the "Highchair" and this entire society of assassins which is cartoonishly dedicated to schoolyard rules, and john wick himself having dialog that consists almost entirely of something exactly like a baby babbling back at its parents. Anyway I think it was interesting to watch under this pretense as a sort of social commentary but it just feels weird that no one talks about that aspect of it.

House of the Dragon - it was pretty middling I thought, it felt like fairly generic fantasy fare

We Own This City - was very good I thought

Todd McFarlane's Spawn seasons 1-3 - very 90s, but it was fun if you're into that.

The Rehersal with Nathan Felder - it's not as good as Nathan For You and it turned into a whole lot of empathetic cringing but I still liked it

The New Barbarians - an incredibly bad post-apocalyptic (set in 2019!) movie from 1984 that has definite so-bad-it's-good quality and it's worth watching if you're into modern post-apocalyptic media.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - good as hell and way ahead of its time

Saoshyant

:hmmorks: :orks:


deep dish peat moss posted:

I haven't been able to do much except lay in bed and watch TV for a lot of the last month

Sorry to hear that. Hope your situation improves soon.

deep dish peat moss posted:

We Own This City - was very good I thought

Oh, I have been meaning to watch this one for a while! It's from the same creative team as The Wire, I think. I should move it up on the queue.

And Sandman, too. I was worried this adaptation had turned out bad. Glad to hear it isn't the case.



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baka of lathspell

i really like the 2nd season of true detective and watched it for the third time i think


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Chill la Chill

Don't lose your gay


Columbo is really good

Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan


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Chill la Chill

Don't lose your gay


I’m on season 2 now

Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan


thank you matoi and vanisher for the sigs, lovely dad for the cool av

Leraika

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.
columbo is indeed very good. I streamed some with my friends last night

dookieblunt

shoot the core!
started watching suits and i discovered well dressed men arguing with each other is something i never knew i needed in my life right now

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped

dlrry posted:

started watching suits and i discovered well dressed men arguing with each other is something i never knew i needed in my life right now

It's odd for a legal drama because they practice corporate law.

Scuba Trooper

my new favorite show is the osbournes want to believe

its jack osbourne showing his parents ghost/ufo videos that they clearly have no interest in and its like watching television with my in-laws, down to them getting distracted by their dogs and ozzy falling asleep

Scuba Trooper

the first season is clearly pandemic-era quarantine content and it looks like it has a budget of three hundred dollars

Saoshyant

:hmmorks: :orks:


I'm back to passive entertainment again. For the past month or so, I have watched a bunch of stuff and can recommend the following:


Columbo

This is a classic I had never managed to sit down and watch and the reason why is the drat length. Each episode is basically a whole movie!

Turns out, regardless of length, no moment is wasted and everything is plotted just right. By the end of the first episode I was completely in awe. It's so expertly done that your very first introduction to Columbo as a character only came more than 30 minutes in, which in any other series would be a completely baffling thing to do.

If you have never seen any of it, give the first episode a try at least. Think of it as a small stakes film.




We Own This City

A recent HBO series and basically a continuation of The Wire (same writing crew and everything), except this time it's real. Life in Baltimore continues to be hell and this mini-series tells the real-life story of a decade of massive corruption in the plain clothes / gun crime police department. It's astounding, leaves you angry at every new bit of information you learn, and the actor known best for his role as The Punisher (you know, every cop's favorite hero) is the one here playing the extremely narcissist villain, Jenkins, and his body language is phenomenal.

It's just six episodes and very much worth your time, though I wouldn't call it "fun".




Let's Go Luna!

So, at some point, it came to my attention that Joe Murray (creator of Rocco's Modern Life) is still out there making cartoons. This is a PBS* show for kids to learn about the world out there, and is also the kind of the thing you can just leave playing in the background while you unwind after an awful/heavy day. Kind of wholesome, cleverly written, not too patronizing for kids, nothing revolutionary -- just what it says in the tin.

* if you're outside the US like I am, this series is also available on Archive.org




Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling

But speaking of Joe Murray and Rocco, did you know that a couple of years ago there was a new Rocco made? Basically an extended episode / small film, but a continuation. And after two decades, what could it be about? Why, it's an amazing meta-commentary about change, how things don't stay the same, and that you shouldn't be stuck to past nostalgia and instead move on, because change is good. Serious master class. It's not preachy, it's just more Rocco, but updated for a different society with twenty years of changes.

Chuds were pissed off, of course. And that's a good thing too.




Oddtaxi

This one is weird to describe. It's an "anime", but not really. A crime/mystery thriller with talking animals, like a Japanese take on Zootopia, centered around a nihilistic taxi driver and the different people he meets in his line of work. I had watched it about two years ago, rewatched it again now, and it still holds up amazingly.

There's a very large cast and they are all interconnected in one way or another, to the point I realized half way that if these weren't talking animals and instead normal humans it would be very hard to tell who's who quickly, and sometimes you need to do so with just a quick glance. Very fun series, especially if you are into piecing together different moments to figure out what's really going on behind the scenes.

barclayed

"I just saved your ass... with MONOPOLY!"
My brother and some friends have been pushing me to keep watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure after my hesitations based on part one. Gotta say, parts 2 and 3 are knocking it out of the park so far. Such a weird show and I'm loving it.

"What I wouldn't give to return to those halcyon days."



Areola Grande

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barclayed posted:

My brother and some friends have been pushing me to keep watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure after my hesitations based on part one. Gotta say, parts 2 and 3 are knocking it out of the park so far. Such a weird show and I'm loving it.

I love weird shows but the art style the me a bit. should I power thru season 1 or what





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I don't know why but I've been watching Survivor recently and it's pretty entertaining. I am watching Season 17 (Gabon) right now and this old science teacher keeps making counterfeit immunity idols and trading them to people who then get laughed at when they try to claim immunity at the tribal council. One of the other competitors is/was the #1 ranked Super Smash Bros player in the world. It's a very BYOB season of Survivor.

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