I've already watched them both, season one when it came out. I remember season one being pretty crap in all honesty but season two seemed to get better as it went on and was quite enjoyable.
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I've already watched them both, season one when it came out. I remember season one being pretty crap in all honesty but season two seemed to get better as it went on and was quite enjoyable.
Yeah, I'm not sure if i would have given the same response if you asked last year but I just finished the second and was impressed by the writing. It's an easy show to watch, if you're looking for something to relax to in the evenings over dinner.
I love how Homeland wrote this entire season with the assumptions that (1) Hillary would win and (2) Trump/Alex Jones/Limbaugh/Deplorables would act evil in response.
Ben Stein is to intellectuals what a Mars Attacks alien in a wig is to women. What's going on with the finger? What a klutz.
Is Homeland any good? I remember I thought the first season was ok, but I have almost no recollection of it. I need something new to watch. All I can contribute to this thread is to say with confidence that The OA is shit.
Weird. I meant to post that in the shitposting thread. Oh well.
Ben Stein sucks, but truth is truth.
Homeland is good, but you have to get over some of how it sucks to like it.
Started watching freaks and geeks on netflix, first watched it years ago, and I can confirm it is awesome. I was slightly worried that I really fancy Linda Cardellini but she's 24 in it so happy days.
i lol'ed.Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
i rewatched Freaks and Geeks last December.. I would do things to Harris Trinsky and I don't feel bad about it. That show is really great. Jason Segal kind of seems like he's laughing at the script while performing it, but it works so well.
has anyone here watched Mozart in the Jungle? I think it's fucking fantastic.
also, new curb your enthusiasm is coming out this year. :)
wut?omg!Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
Rick and Morty Premier is out, Better Call Saul Season 3 started. GoT continues this summer. What a year to be alive!
But the season doesn't start till Summer? :/Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
It was too much for me. I just HATED the main character so much. What an annoying cunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qLcMmmtaEQuote:
Originally Posted by Savy
Enjoyed the finale of Line of Duty on the BBC this week. Also watched Prime Suspect 1973, which is a decent enough watch for Brits.
Has anybody else watched 13 Reasons Why on Netflix? It showed a lot of promise, but I'm now 4 episodes in and it seems to have run out of steam.
Fargo season 3 is already 3 episodes in!
How has this not been news?Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
Exactly the same experience. Probably not gonna finish it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
I managed to finish it but yeah, could and should have been half as long.
The Leftovers seems good.
It does pick up again and was decent enough, but the ending was a bit disappointing. Probably worth finishing, but I wouldn't rush to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
The show does do a good job of though is to make me miss being young again.
This sentence is so bad I can't really figure out what you intend to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by bean
^^ Must have changed my mind halfway through typing. I meant that it makes me miss the simplicity of being a teenager whose sole focus is a crush, yet I don't miss being a teen overall.
Is anyone watching Fargo? I can't care about anything in that show. The only relateable character is the police chief. Why is everyone so stupid? What's up with the comic book villain guy? I put off watching last weeks episode until today and I'm not sure if I'll continue. I liked the first two seasons and I normally like this type of stuff but this season isn't doing it for me. There's that scene in the precinct's bathroom where the police woman is taking a shit and then tries to shake the police chiefs hand, continues to loudly talk about her sex life and then leaves having served no purpose to the story... That's this season in a nutshell for me.
^I guess you didn't finish the episode, she comes up again in the end.
Anyway, definitely the weakest season so far, the first 2 were awesome. I guess the biggest reason is none of the characters are relatable, you just don't really care what happens to them.
I guess I zoned out when Ewan McGregor let comic book villain guy invite himself for dinner. McGregor's character makes William H Macy in the original Fargo look like an alpha male jock.
Vince Gilligan writes some over the top bullshit, but he makes it work. The wanna be criminal in Season 1 of Better Call Saul who drives a pimped out Hummer to the meet is not a believable character but he's not sold as one. He's just a plot device and the hummer is a punch line. In Fargo it's the car dealer who drives an H2 as a company vehicle but it's not presented as an obvious joke. It almost seems like the writers are trying to be clever making a car dealer drive the dumbest vehicle money can buy. For me this just breaks the 4th wall with a sledgehammer.
At least BCS is as good as it can possibly be. I don't have anything bad to say about that show, except that I'm going to be really upset about whatever plans the writers have for Kim.
I'm about halfway through the final season of Bloodline.
If every single member of this family doesn't end up dead, or in jail, then this entire show is a crime against television
I finished it. None of them diedQuote:
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Why would you spoil a show like that? I don't care because I intend on watching none of it but it's just bad etiquette.Quote:
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Master Of None season two is really good, got a slight Louie vibe to it but with a younger (more annoying less likeable) generation. I don't really like Aziz but still think it's very good.
This has really made me want to rewatch Louie.
Characters remaining alive at the end hardly qualifies as a spoiler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Savy
However, if I'm wrong about that, then I'm still not sorry. If anyone is discouraged from watching this show because of something I did, then I've done my duty.
This entire series is dog shit. Once in a while it would tease you with some compelling dramatic events. Like they would make you think that something is about to happen, and then it never does. It just drags on and on and on for like 40 episodes, and then everyone lives.
You're welcome.
Spoiler:Alternatively you could have just added spoiler tags to your post.
Spoiler:You idiot.
Jesus, you guys have some pretty liberal standards for what counts as a spoiler.
Saving Private Ryan
Mars Attacks
The Empire Strikes Back
Free Willy
Kill Bill
Death of a Salesman
I guess these should all be changed to
Some story about Private Ryan
Beings from Mars do something
The Empire has weighed its retaliation options; results pending
Willy
Bill
and Let's find out of this Salesman is mortal.
How about the Shawshank Redemption? With the word "Redemption" in the title, did you really think that Andy was just gonna hang out with Morgan Freeman for a while and then die?
Don't bother watching any of these movies now. Ruined by spoilers.
Is anyone else watching House of Cards? Season 5 started on Monday.
I just started watching season 5, but fully expect to see Francis Underwood jumping over a shark tank on water-skis any time now.
Not finishing Bloodline now.
All because I took one for the team. You're welcomeQuote:
Originally Posted by BankItDrew
Netflix's GLOW was good
Downward Dog - I had a little search for Wilfred before posting this which I watched years ago. This is kind of Wilfred but without the weird psychological element that was going on in that. I'd say Wilfred was better but then after reading Wufs comment about it not being that funny I think that is true but ti made me realise this isn't really funny either.
It's decent.
I also read some comments about newsroom, which was on around the same time, I quite enjoyed series one overall but it was really preachy and did become unbearable.
Suits I started watching really late, maybe around the starting point of the 2nd to last series and I dont get how a show that started out being so funny, nice witty dialogue with great characters, especially female characters become such a formulaic awful piece of shit with basically the whole female cast reverted from strong women to repetitive bitchy moaners. The biggest thing that annoyed me however was how well they developed the character of Louis only to bury him into a joke character.
Basically if you ever start watching it now it's really good for a bit, then season 2/3 goes pretty bad (the whole company angle bit) then it picks up for a bit and then it goes downhill.
Has anyone kept up with Adventure time? I was never a fan and the first couple of seasons are fairly meh but wow does that shit become great. I can't think of a better show that takes characters who start off being pretty meh (Ice King) and give them such a well developed back story to the point they become some of the best characters on TV.
It does peak a little around season 4/5 with the whole Lich King angle but that peak is so high it's amazing. Bar a fairly meh start my only real issue with it is there are slightly too many throw away episodes but this is probably only the case because some episodes are so good. And they are only 11 minutes long so not every episode can be gold.
Unfortunately I lost track of it during series 8 but knowing that 9 is the last I should put some effort into catching up.
edit - Apparently me getting drunk and saying how great adventure time is is a thing. Sorry.
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories is back on!
Mike Tyson Mysteries looks pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yxr0qvrp_g
Billy Bob Thornton was in a new Amazon series last year. Goliath. Looks like it didn't do too great, but a 2nd season is in production anyway.
Only two more episodes to go on Rick and Morty. I desperately need some new shit to get excited about.
Ken Burns documentary on The Vietnam War is airing on PBS right now. It's on par with all of Ken's other stuff, which means it's pretty good. It can get kinda long winded and drawn out at times but overall it does a good job of blending history, politics, and personal stories into a narrative that is really compelling.
The one he did on WW2 was better though
Mike Judge back on the TV again! (read in a southern accent)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-zL7aLbrI
mike does silicon valley, holmes. it's very goat
Narcos on Netflix is good if you're into gratuitous violence and T&A against a backdrop of almost historical events.
I thought there was too much drama between the DEA agent guy and his wife. It was totally unbelievable, and a pretty major distraction. It's not like they had kids and they were struggling to keep their family together. She hated being there, he was a total prick, all she had to do was leave. Instead, I think that they want us to feel bad for this woman who is supposedly "trapped", but could really buy a plane ticket and move on with her life at any time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
The final scene of season one was so far fetched and cheesy, that it ruined any interest I had in the show.
It's no reason to stick with the show if you didn't like it, but FWIW the wife does pick up and leave in the 2nd season.
I don't really remember that being such a big part of the show. I gave up during season two as my time to watch tv whilst doing nothing diminished so anything with subtitles went out of the window. I mostly enjoyed it though.
Rick & Morty season 3 was pretty great.
South parks new season is pretty good. Has Tweak going crazy over trumps tweets
Anyone watching MINDHUNTER?
"mike does silicon valley, holmes. it's very goat "
Marathoned the first season yesterday. That season alone contains enough movie pitches to keep Adam Sandler working for another hundred years. I love that something as simple as 'Jared is late' gets blown out into an epic adventure that gets about 45 seconds screentime. Every other show would have milked an idea like that for an entire season. And there's a couple dozen more of those. Tore my heart out that Christopher Evan Welch, the guy that played Peter Gregory died before the second season. That was such a great character. He had a small part in Synecdoche which I would say is my favorite movie if I had to pick one. There are some amazing character actors floating about hollywood.
Tales from the Tour Bus - is really a traditional interview centric documentary animated by Mike Judge. The editing and animation is outstanding. If I had one criticism I feel like the first episode should have been the last, and I'm pretty sure it was a studio decision to put it first. Watch the first one last.
Confession Tapes on Netflix is a must see imo. Watch people get tricked or buckle under the pressure and confess to horrible crimes they didn't commit, then get convicted with no other evidence. Juries are fucking retarded imo.
A couple of series I've watched some episodes from and found had potential:
Lady Dynamite - I love Maria Bamford. I'll probably keep watching this one.
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Great premise... pretty klischee writing, but still funny.
Nathan for you - If Tim and Eric isn't cringy enough for your taste, Jason for you might be for you.
Nathan.
Can we please get a working edit button. Holy shit.
Mr. Robot. He's The hacker beside himself.
Just onto the last episode of this and it's well worth the watch. I'm surprised it's such an unknown show, it's brilliant.Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
edit - That last episode, fuck it was awesome.
RE: Billions
My personal review....C
Granted I only got 6 episodes or so deep, but I just found the whole thing so unbelievable that I couldn't get invested in the story or the characters.
Why is this prosecutor guy going after the investor guy in teh first place? As near as I can tell, the prosecutor decided that he didn't like the guy, or that he didn't smell right, and then he unleashed all the power of law enforcement to try and fuck the guy over. Why??
Second, there seemed to be several episodes of hemming and hawing about a conflict of interest [the prosecutor's wife is the investor guy's therapist]. To me, it's open and shut.....that's a MASSIVE conflict of interest. It was still "unresolved" when I quit watching the show.
Third, I just don't think Damian Lewis is a very good actor. Add to that the fact that it's terrible casting. I mean look at the guy....does he look like a Brooklyn-er with the nickname "axe"? No. He looks like park ranger named Damian
Finally, that opening scene was pretty hot.
LOL, you are like a ball of hateQuote:
Originally Posted by BananaStand
How does it feel, hating everything?
Did I say anything inaccurate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
I didn't say I hated it....I gave it a "C"
I don't hate alot of TV. The problem is that there is so many over-the-top twists, and so much shark-jumping that by the end of most shows...I've lost patience.
House of Cards...the first two seasons were un-fucking-stoppable. Incredible stuff. Riveting. Then in season three he turned into a stupid cuck who let his wife muscle her way to a seat at the table even though she hadn't earned shit, already blew every opportunity she was given.
Bloodline....I have some very strong opinions on this one. Casting was superb. I don't know what the cinematic vocabulary for this is....but the depiction of the florida keys was spot on. I felt my living room get muggy whenever that show was on. I really can't comment further without giving spoilers, but let's just say that the show got predictably worse after the best and most interesting character dies.
Portlandia....2/3 is watchable...1/3 is extra fucking brilliant.
Game of Thrones....really good, but they could have done the whole show WITHOUT the zombies. Also, this sudden annulment from some namesless faceless, poop-watching maester seems a little contrived.
Homeland.....I just got tired of watching her beg for favors, always get them, and never do anything for anyone else. I would have liked the show if it was just CIA ops chasing terrorists. then she had a baby...and a stupid love affair....and all kinds of nonsense that was just....blech.
The Wire.....Fucking AWESOME. Just cops chasing bad guys....love it. Stringer Bell got taken out too soon, but that's forgivable. What's NOT forgivable....is the final season. McNulty planting fake news....for some measly overtime pay??...why am I watching this???
Oz....cool show. But there are only so many things you can do in prison. Fight...do drugs....and fuck. And there are only so many ways to arrange that into a new story. And this show ran out about 1/2 way through. Coincidentally, I have the exact same problem with Orange is the New Black. Prison is boring as fuck....stop making shows about it.
Also I have nothing bad to say about Arrested Development
I remember reading some megafan's breakdown of The Wire and it really did change how I saw the show. I wish I could find it now, but it even put Marlow as the aspect of Violent Power. He could axe people with minimal discretion and they simply disappeared. He was folded into the territory game because everyone recognized he was on another level and still he dominated fools. Even when it was over for him, he squared up and cracks some guy in the face because he's Marlow.Quote:
Originally Posted by BananaStand
The Wire is better after every viewing, until you view it so much that you notice Sydnor was pushing opposite directions on that desk.
Started watching Ozark
Jason Bateman is pretty good in it. But I'm not sure I'll make it the whole season.
Guy launders money for drug dealers and it goes bad. Now he's in real trouble and has to launder even more money in order to get himself off the hook.
The show seems to be about a man struggling to protect his family while living under the thumb of this oppressive drug lord. It's pretty much "breaking bad" without the "breaking". The show just starts with him already a criminal.
I'm not getting why this is a compelling story. the guy CHOSE to be a criminal, and now he's in a jam. Boo hoo.
If you really cared about your family, and wanted to keep everyone safe, you would have just worked an honest job in the first place.
I tried to find an honest job, but turns out they only exist in the Unicorn State.
Wake up, you nose-led ungulate.
The gov't is NOT an honest agency, nor is it in politicians' best interests to promote honesty.
Black market transactions are the only true free market we can express in America.
Conan's Haiti episode is fantastic. As are his previous specials on Cuba, Israel, Armenia. Judging by the youtube comments it's something american kids really need to see. One that stuck out was comment with a dozen upvotes ridiculing a man for mispronouncing the word "fool" they didn't realize he was said fou because he was speaking french. People were speaking french all around Conan for the entire episode and those kids thought that all those dumb brown people couldn't even speak proper english.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YL_6lCov0
Yeah especially when he was right beside where a huge child trafficking scandal happened. He's a fucking idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
Silicon Valley is in its strongest season yet.
Westworld S2 just started. It's worth it just for the cinematography and score. Not sure what to make of the plot yet. Looks like we're getting into some Hideo Kojima shit.
Glad to hear it's not just me who loves it. Some real belly laughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
I thought this was a really well written joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKf2o3PYN7E
first 40 seconds
The end of the f***ing world - Great start, dies off a little but definitely worth the watch.
Roseanne - New eps, really good. Starts of a little overly political but it's great.
Santa Clarita Diet - Best thing I've watched in a while, strangely gorey which will put some people off but at the same time has a really nice family dynamic to it.
Watched End of the fucking World
Love the main characters. The girl is awesome. She reminded me of that typecast actress from The Florida Project. I think I just love white trash. It would have worked better for me as a straight up coming of age story. The whole psychopath/rape/murder - subplot didn't work for me. Lose all the weight and make it all about the characters and their development and it could have been superb.
Do we even need to talk about the ending...
spoilers: https://youtu.be/vG0zJ89Fv8c?t=22m33s
Speaking of too much rape: The Handmaids Tale is basically 10 hours of Children of Men. It's that fucking good. HBO deserves a lot of credit for producing this. That universe is not an easy pitch.
YouTube keeps pushing something called "Cobra Kai" on me. I finally watched the 30 second trailer rather than skip it after four seconds like any sane person would do.
WTF??? Professional, creative people got in a room and decided to make this?? Someone spent actual money making this??
The guy got kicked in the face by Ralph Maccio when he was like, twelve. And now, 35 years later he's a face-down-on-the-floor alcoholic degenerate loser because of it? But somehow he's also stayed in shape and can still kick ass.
Killing Eve - Two episodes in and it looks like it may live up to the hype surrounding it.
The good place new season, the first two seasons were good. Third has started ok.
Better call saul - This season is really good.
Always Sunny new season, people I've spoke to have said they don't like it but seems like more of the same to me. I've enjoyed it.
South Park starting up again too.
Always Sunny has been on the air for 13 years now with no critical recognition. They don't give a fuck about upsetting people, and that's great.
I checked imdb to find out why Rob McElhenny got this ripped. I thought he might have been in some Marvel movie, but I guess he just did it as a goof. He looks good tho. I'd smash that and I don't even have teh gay.
Better Call Saul - every season, best season. I was so worried about Kim until last episode. I thought there's no way they break up... I thought they're killing her off before we enter Breaking Bad timeline, but it looks like they're just awkwardly writing her out. still a bit worried though. No idea why german guy broke out. There has to be something else, I really don't see sufficient character motivation to risk this much. How does he even get back to germany after breaking out? I'm very confused.
Watched the first episode of Killing Eve - looks very promising. I loved the bed scene so much. There's like 3 lines of exposition they have to get across and they cram in so much character development. It's a 2 min scene and you feel like you know the characters after that.
The only thing I don't like about it is "ON THE NEXT EPISODE" I hate when tv shows do that. Have a recap before an episode, sure but not that.
If you are watching episode 4 please pause before the end of the episode beause it literally fucking ruins the whole build up of tension in the "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!" part.
I hate "Last week on..."
Yeah I know, I watched it. Fuck off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45803343
This article cracked me up. Far too many women on TV there should be less and the ones that are on tv should only be in roles where they are sexually harassed consistently like all women are in real life. If they aren't a victim it's unrealistic because all women are victims.
Apart from this woman, she isn't a victim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45793242
She's right. These fictional stories are not realistic.
It's almost like fiction means not real.
Killing Eve is fucking great. Can't wait for the next season.
Haunting of Hill House is awesome. I love that it's basically just a 10h movie. What Stranger Things should have been. Don't make a second one. Finish the story and wrap it up!
Mike Judge's Tales from the Tour Bus is 2nd season starts off great. Highly recommended!
Oksar you seen the bodyguard yet? I've had a few people suggest it, will probably be the next thing I watch.
South Park - meh
Always Sunny - same old, good stuff. Last episode was so strangely beautiful.
The good place - watchable
The first episode of the new Louis Theroux documentary was funny and interesting, second episode I thought was good. First is on non-traditional relationships, second on the right to die.
Haven't heard of it. I was kind of meh on the last IASIP season. They redeemed themselves with the last episode. Clip Show was also pretty great. The super bowl double episode wasn't bad either... you know what, I take it back, that was a perfectly fine season for IASIP.
I spent yesterday driving 12 year olds around and now I have the ebola. Staying home with chicken soup marathoning The Good Place, which I submit is how it is meant to be watched. Ted Danson is the definition of delightful.
Ye but the bastards put like a 2-3 week gap between the episodes.
I started watching 12 monkeys and I can't put it down
I really don't want to spoil so be warned
Spoiler:but that's some straight up Revan shit wowowow :clap:
I started Empire Games on Netflix last night... first 2 episodes were documentaries about Rome and Greece.
It's not bad. It fails in the typical ways historians fail. They clearly embellish the story to add direct quotes where none exist in the historical record and describe how a person smiled or their emotional response to something... all made up BS. It's like they're too damn snooty to think that us plebes could possibly be as fascinated by the facts of history as much as they are, so they have to dress it up with their fabrications.
I've never found a historian that didn't fall into this pit. I just have to accept that it's all biased, even the written histories, and try to take it as a cool story.
I gotta get netflix but haven't gotten around to that yet. I have sooo much media to watch it would be overkill, simply paying for the sake fo paying.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
That said, Altered Carbon is a hard watch, but wholly recommended
Dude it's like £5 a month (at least where I am). If you watch at least two full-length movies/docs a month you're winning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
I know, but I already have way much more media to watch than I have the time forQuote:
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
I'm media saturated for lack of a better word
The Boys is really good. I watched it after I realized that I accidentally subscribed to amazon prime a couple of months ago. I'm really surprised Amazon signed off on this. In the first episode Aquaman sexually assaults Superwoman, The Flash disintegrates a girl and Superman murders a child. It's great!
Good Omens is amazing. I watched it with my brother, who has an Amazon account, and it's amazing.
If you're a fan of any of Neil Gaiman's writing, then this is absolutely for you. He not only co-wrote the book this is based on, but he's written the screenplay adaptation, too.
***
Mr. Iglesias on Netflix is a passable sitcom. I love his standup comedy, and his personality comes through just fine in the show, but it's not the same... and it is a sitcom.