T.V. shows you've been watching

[manu80]

Started Citadel yesterday. Fun watch but i can understand how you can spend 230 millions dollars without shooting on location and therefore have not so good SFX, like red notice....like everything seem fake....
and gotta watch the last episode of rabbit hole !!!! Fun ride here.

As the True detective debate, yeah S2 wasn't great, and the Third was average. A bit more like the first, but Dorff was trying to hard here, but Ali was perfect. Not very hyped about S4 with Jodie Foster....
S1 is one of the greatest moment of Tv series, for sure.

 

[Seabeast2000]

Watching FROM S2......I don't know guys. This could be a "look at all these new open plot points we are presenting, only we know if we'll ever close them for the viewer, tee hee". Its starting to slog with long, extra melodramatic dialog scenes. It might get the boot. I really don't give a shit about your personal arc issues, you are in an inexplicable world that is the centerpiece of this project. Get to it.

 

[gabito]

Just finished watching The Expanse. I didn’t know anything about the series except that it had something to do with people doing stuff in space. And I love space and I’ll watch almost anything about people doing things in space since I discovered Star Trek TNG in the 90s…

Anyway: The Expanse. It was amazing. Really amazing. And totally unexpected. I don’t think I’ll ever get to see a show like this one ever again.

It’s a shame it was canceled, but I guess I’ll have to read the books then.

Also: From (season 2). It’s an cool little show with heavy Lost vibes. I still have hopes that they won’t fuck this one up.

 

[nightflameauto]

God, this new episode of Barry is fucking painful to watch. "Oh boy, Barry moved to the Midwest and had a kid he sheltered from everything because he's too scared to let him see the world," that's just what people want to see!

Guess there's nowhere to go but up from this episode

Barry did two things that Hollywood absolutely loves to do here.
1. Everybody from the midwest is a dirt farmer and the entire midwest looks like a desert.
2. Everybody from the midwest is a backwoods idiot, and there's never anything to do in the midwest, and all we can do is watch our evangelicals on TV and teach our children to fear everything.

I seriously told the wife about fifteen minutes in, when literally NOTHING had happened, "If nothing else happens this episode, we're done."

They could have wrapped that subject in about five minutes, but drug it out for a whole episode? They're out of ideas.

Why does finishing shows now feel like a grudge match? "I made it this far. You lazy fucks are trying to throw me off, but I'll hang on. Bastards." Felt the same way about Goldbergs finally calling it. There's a show that's five seasons too long in the tooth.

Just finished watching The Expanse. I didn’t know anything about the series except that it had something to do with people doing stuff in space. And I love space and I’ll watch almost anything about people doing things in space since I discovered Star Trek TNG in the 90s…

Anyway: The Expanse. It was amazing. Really amazing. And totally unexpected. I don’t think I’ll ever get to see a show like this one ever again.

It’s a shame it was canceled, but I guess I’ll have to read the books then.

Also: From (season 2). It’s an cool little show with heavy Lost vibes. I still have hopes that they won’t fuck this one up.

They've started talks to restart the Expanse further down the timeline. Hopefully it gets the green light.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Yep, the Midwest is definitely a desert with evangelical zealots. Lol

 

[nightflameauto]

Yep, the Midwest is definitely a desert with evangelical zealots. Lol

On the bright side, that image keeps the California fools away, for the most part. But man are they loud when they decide to move here. Oi.

 

[MFB]

Finished all of Metalocalypse minus the Doomstar Requiem, made it like 1/4 of the way in and said "fuck it." I have nothing against musicals but it's tough as shit to follow with their voices, and none of them being trained singers. Overall, I'd say this got a little over ambitious with itself, and it seems like every time they were going to finally start revealing stuff it was a "gotcha!" moment. Musically it maintains course which is probably the most surprising, Dethalbum II might even be better than the original.

 

[Seabeast2000]

Fired On Mars - had no idea what to expect but its surprisingly good.

 

[Seabeast2000]

Too Old to Die Young

If you want a heavy dose of Winding Refn, this is a must watch.

 

[Shawn]

Me and my girl have been really into this show, Friday Night Lights, which is quite old but really good.

 

[nightflameauto]

Whitehouse Plumbers
I'm kinda digging it's sarcastic overtone on what's actually a fairly dark story. Even the disclaimers are on the end of the episodes are hilarious. "She definitely died in a mysterious plane crash" had me dying with the way they just casually tossed it in at the end of a long "we sometimes massage details for entertainment, but" statement.

The way they have Harrelson's counterpart acting is hysterical.

Harrelson coming unglued on his wife about her saying he needed to get rid of all his racists friends. "Do you know how many people that was?"

Who know you could turn the Watergate scandal into a dark comedy?

 

[manu80]

Started SILO yesterday. Intriguing, will keep watching.
Finished Rabbit hole. Liked it but , as the ending show, you can do 10 seasons like that if you want to....

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

Just finished all episodes of American Born Chinese. It's fine and harmless fun.

I'm not too familiar with the source material but for what the adaptation was I enjoyed it. Though I have the same problems with it as I have with Shang Chi (also directed by Destin Daniel Cretton) and how most of the topics that it boldly lays bare still ends up as an all bark and little to no bite result. Ke Huy Quan's character being the biggest example, where they really want to push the ramifications of... what it was like being Ke Huy Quan incidentally enough but didn't push it all the way through as much as it should have. Odd when Disney pats itself on the back for addressing the issues, they had help create but doesn't fully commit to it. The other issue is the theme of self-loathing and cultural identity, which is common for an Asian who grew up in Western conditions, and a personal hit close to home for me. It was apparently explored in the source material, but in Disney's case, again holds back by quickly and makes it a smooch rather than a big bite and chew.

I still enjoyed it to a degree, since I love the Journey To The West story and usually game on whenever it gets adapted. The cast is fantastic, and I did find that one left turn episode that apes the old Monkey TV show (complete with the Godiego-esque theme songs) rather charming, which shows my double standards that despite my disdain for pop culture's current overreliance on nostalgia, I'm not immune to it. It does do better than Shang Chi on the issues mentioned, though having about 8 episodes to let it breathe helps a bit. If this was a 7 out of 10, I'd be asking why the show didn't get those extra 3 points.

Having all episodes available on premier for Disney+ is not just unusual, but I think it's rather grim. Considering the channel success with going the traditional weekly releases, it tells me that D+ has little confidence in the series. I heard MCU's Echo is getting the same treatment, while Loki season 2 is remaining weekly, which speaks volumes.

 

[Seabeast2000]

Copenhagen Cowboy and follow up to to Too Old To Die Young

CC - I'm really not sure who the CC is, but there is a main protagonist and many antagonists. I hope there is a Season 2? Lots of build up to another big arc. Allusions to big interesting things in that world that are just around the bend.
Anyway, its half Refn acid trip, half fascinating cinematography. Its like David Lynch was born later and used Wild At Heart as his founding thesis and expounded and stylized heavily from there. Something like that but that is 2013- present NWR output I guess now that I think about it. Even Drive was pretty 'normal' compared to what he's done since.

Too Old to Die Young- Never got renewed for a 2nd season/series. Big themes, fantastic cinematography. Ultilmately, IMO, its highly artful and valid commentary on many human conditions. Modern times heavily not excluded.

 

[Mathemagician]

Have I said Severance yet? I finished Ted Lasso (or caught up actually) and started on Severance. It’s a really good show with a unique trope/idea. I’m liking the casting too. Everything’s just a little uncomfortable and the director lets it sit that way. Hope it stays good.

Also for the expanse, never seen the show but read the first book and man it was awesome. The WHOLE time I was like “this would make a great show, every scene is described how I’d picture cameras over the scene. Really enjoyed it and I should finish the series.

 

[Wiltonauer]

As the True detective debate, yeah S2 wasn't great, and the Third was average. A bit more like the first, but Dorff was trying to hard here, but Ali was perfect. Not very hyped about S4 with Jodie Foster....
S1 is one of the greatest moment of Tv series, for sure.

Isn’t Jodie Foster on the short side?

 

[ShredmasterD]

Vikings: Valhalla

 

[zappatton2]

Just finished Barry. Yeah, the show was kind of a slog at points, and though it had funny bits, I wouldn't be inclined to classify it as a comedy. That said, that final episode kept me on my toes, didn't see any of that coming. For all the complaints of shows being too predictable, this was not that.

 

[nightflameauto]

We finished Barry too. I would say the only point we saw coming was Barry's finale. Though I was surprised by what means.

The shootout in the lobby was the most ridiculously silly shootout I have ever seen put to film. The grenade toss took it from, "WTF?" to "HOLY SHIT!"

I didn't love that Hollywood had to Hollywood and celebrate its own stupidity even while subtly poking fun at it with the last scene, but that is sorta in the show's DNA from the get-go so I suppose we have to let it slide.

While it had its moments, I probably won't ever feel the need to revisit it. Seems like it was mostly potential, potential that was wasted.

We also managed to finish Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Amazon being a shit-show, our AppleTV refused to play the episode at all. Which was a real bummer since we saw every other episode of the show just fine.

Midge Midged, Suzy Suzied, The boss bossed, the writers acted like dorks, her parents were her parents, her ex was her ex, it was pretty much a summary of what the show had become. I did get a giggle out of the joke about trauma.

My son was circumsized when he was one week old. My daughter will have to wait for her trauma until she's old enough to go shopping for clothes with my mother.

Mom, to herself, "That's fair."

Lots and lots and lots of what I refer to as story droppings throughout this last season. Threads that seemed extremely interesting, but were just little tidbits that were never developed. I have a feeling there's several dangling plots they could use to kick it back off either as the same show, or as a spin-off.

I do wish they had spent more time on Midge's stand-up routines over the last season. The way they played with her ability to grab a crowd and just shove their faces in it relentlessly, while they loved every second of it, was part of the magic of the show, and it seemed barely touched this last season.

 

[BlackMastodon]

Skipping the Barry posts for now as we just started season 4 yesterday and are about halfway through, and I wanna k ow as little as possible about the finale.

I can really understand the comments about how fucking bleak this one is and that it is barely considered comedy anymore, but I think it's appropriate for the story they wanted to tell. A few dark comedy bits sprinkled in but yeah it is much darker than previous seasons. I remember reading an interview with Bill Hader when the show started and he was pretty adament that the character should be considered a monster and the audience isn't meant to celebrate the fact that he murders people left and right. I also love the bits thrown in throughout the series of people telling Barry that he's a good person and not a monster, which was especially clear in episode 1 or 2 of this season when he had that interaction with the prison guard. It's good and I still love it, but goddamn.