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Happy new year, TVIV!!!! Here are some shows I’m looking forward to with confirmed premiere dates: - True Detective: Night Country (Jan 14) - Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (Jan 31) - Curb Your Enthusiasm final season!!!! (Feb 4) - Abbott Elementary season 3 (Feb 7) - Shōgun (Feb 27) - The Regime (Mar 3) - Girls5Eva season 3 (Mar 14) Plus very much looking forward to seeing the ends of the current seasons of Fargo, For All Mankind, and The Curse, especially cos then I can make my list for the 2023 poll which don’t forget is happening!!
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Teek posted:Reiterating for the new thread that the underrated (in the mainstream) pirate show Black Sails is coming to Netflix on January 1st. It’s a prequel to Treasure Island that mixes those characters with many real life pirates. Tells a complete narrative in four seasons with a great cast and story. Black Sails answers the question: “what if GoT’s writers cared about their show?”
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Jan 1, 2024 10:20
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Escobarbarian posted:- True Detective: Night Country (Jan 14) These all look awesome. Though lol at HBO Disco, having identified "True Detective" as a high awareness brand that fits their seriesdom-for-him rebranding strategy, just randomly shoving the True Detective name onto a completely unrelated show with no-one from the original involved. And also that True Detective: Green Lantern show. I'll be there for the winter photography though ngl. Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Black Sails answers the question: “what if GoT’s writers cared about their show?” Some of the action in the final two seasons is Banshee tier.
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Jan 1, 2024 10:22
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Chubby Henparty posted:Wasn't he the Good One that was going to save Dr Who after Davies? Turns out that writing a great episode once per season was very different from running a whole show. Open Source Idiom posted:He ran a ship of variable quality, but he's definitely only declined since then -- Sherlock, Dracula, Inside Man... I don't think I have ever seen a bigger decline in writing over a mini-series than what happened with Dracula
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Jan 1, 2024 10:52
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Moffat's run on Doctor Who was really loving good and ended strong, and it only looks better in retrospect after the bland mess that was Chris Chibnall's run that followed. That said, apart from the first two seasons of Sherlock, everything else he's touched since then has been progressively worse and got so bad that I never bothered with the one with the Hannibal Lecter rip-off (I think that was the premise?) that I believe was his last series? The final episode of Sherlock was atrociously bad but even that was nothing compared to how terrible his and Mark Gatiss's Dracula series turned out to be.
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Jan 1, 2024 12:12
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Is True Detective considered a comic book show?
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Jan 1, 2024 13:57
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Gonz posted:Happy 2024, everybody! Sol is just testing my faith.
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Jan 1, 2024 14:58
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I just finished Oz and it was very fun to watch and killed a five day hospital stay, but I expected something more like Sopranos and ended up with what might be one of the dumbest, silliest shows I've ever seen.
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Jan 1, 2024 15:56
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ruddiger posted:Is True Detective considered a comic book show? What does this mean? About as comic book as Fargo.
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Jan 1, 2024 16:36
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Detective Comics, duh
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Jan 1, 2024 16:42
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They can’t all be winners
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Jan 1, 2024 16:44
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Watching the ball drop last night and Rose Parade today I've learned my Comcast feed is just a minute delayed on literally every channel and that it's just A Comcast Thing now https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/x1/why-is-live-tv-delayed-45-seconds/6525fa12f8fcd3407e3c627a
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Jan 1, 2024 17:13
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Open Source Idiom posted:Though lol at HBO Disco, having identified "True Detective" as a high awareness brand that fits their seriesdom-for-him rebranding strategy, just randomly shoving the True Detective name onto a completely unrelated show with no-one from the original involved. I'll go to bat for this just for saying that True Detective Season 4 was in development (even if very early stages) prior to the merger, and it's not like the previous seasons had any sort of connectivity at all. I think the only example was the brief mention of the season 1 events in a single scene of season 3, which was all just a red herring anyways. Either way, looking forward to it a lot. ruddiger posted:Is True Detective considered a comic book show? On this topic, lol that the new season is set in a fictional town called Ennis. Jerusalem posted:Moffat's run on Doctor Who was really loving good and ended strong, and it only looks better in retrospect after the bland mess that was Chris Chibnall's run that followed. IMO, season 5 was really strong, and his run just got weaker as time went on, though with the occasional strong episode (sometimes even by Moffat!) along the way. He doubled down on making it a show about the Doctor rather than a show about the Doctor's adventures. I remember really loving the first two seasons of Sherlock but kind of reluctant to go back and watch them now as I suspect they might not be as good as I remember. In retrospect Dracula coming out the first day of 2020 was a sign of the year to come.
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Jan 1, 2024 22:50
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Oh no Dracula figured out our wifi password (it was Dracula) and got online with the tablet we gave him for reasons... He now has a lawyer and we a shadow government agency have no choice but to release him immediately.
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Jan 1, 2024 23:12
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Typical Dracula.
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Jan 1, 2024 23:17
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GreenNight posted:What does this mean? About as comic book as Fargo. The first season had entire sequences taken from various comics, most notably Top 10 by Alan Moore
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Jan 1, 2024 23:57
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I believe True Detective does deliberately share the name of an ancient comics series though i don’t think there’s any direct relation otherwise. It’s clear that Nick Pizzolatto is a massive comics nerd either way.
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Jan 2, 2024 00:18
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember really loving the first two seasons of Sherlock but kind of reluctant to go back and watch them now as I suspect they might not be as good as I remember. In retrospect Dracula coming out the first day of 2020 was a sign of the year to come. Yeah, every so often I think it might be fun to rewatch the first two and then get concerned that maybe all the flaws the initial newness (and Cumberbatch and Freeman's chemistry) papered over will be far too apparent. At least I'll always have my precious Jeremy Brett boxset!  socialsecurity posted:Oh no Dracula figured out our wifi password (it was Dracula) and got online with the tablet we gave him for reasons... He now has a lawyer and we a shadow government agency have no choice but to release him immediately. I was already extremely negative on the show but when they got to that part I just threw up my arms and decided to just treat the entire thing as a comedy. Just unfathomably awful.
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Jan 2, 2024 02:42
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I'm watching What If season 2 and that is not what Michael Douglas looked like at any point.
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Jan 2, 2024 03:10
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Happy New Year, thread! I deeply approve of the thread title and thank you for the reminder that Black Sails is going to be on Netflix!
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Jan 2, 2024 06:49
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Chairman Capone posted:I'll go to bat for this just for saying that True Detective Season 4 was in development (even if very early stages) prior to the merger, and it's not like the previous seasons had any sort of connectivity at all. I think the only example was the brief mention of the season 1 events in a single scene of season 3, which was all just a red herring anyways. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it -- some of that photography looks sick as. That said, I think there was slightly more narrative connectivity between seasons than you're making out. However, my point was more that there's no production crew in common. The first three seasons were all developed and written by Nic Pizzaman, but this fourth season is just the show using his title. So it's probably best approached as a completely new show, you know?
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Jan 2, 2024 07:57
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HOLY gently caress posted:Happy New Year, thread! I deeply approve of the thread title and thank you for the reminder that Black Sails is going to be on Netflix! The thread title is actually about being happy while doing animal abuse on Steamboat Willie. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 17:27
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Berlin is entertaining enough. Like the last seasons of Casa de Papel. But be ready to get angry at characters for making stupid decisions in the name of love. Nowhere near as good as seasons 1 or 2.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:14
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cant cook creole bream posted:The thread title is actually about being happy while doing animal a use on Steamboat Willie. multipurpose thread title
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Jan 2, 2024 19:33
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Jerusalem posted:At least I'll always have my precious Jeremy Brett boxset! I just finished The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and started The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Brett is fabulous as Holmes. He is Holmes. I'm sad that David Burke left cause his Watson was exactly what I liked. Not disliking Hardwicke as I only watched the first episode of his. What a wonderful show. It's so relaxing to watch. And frankly it's a relief from the modern shows with show much technology in it. I also started Agatha Christie's Poirot as well which is fantastic.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:11
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I started Reacher thanks to this thread, and while I am enjoying it, I have two observations: 1) all the comments here made it sound like this was an episodic show, when it is very much a serialized show. 2) this show is like an updated, slightly elevated/higher quality version of Walker Texas Ranger
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Jan 2, 2024 21:01
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OldSenileGuy posted:I started Reacher thanks to this thread, and while I am enjoying it, I have two observations: I haven't watched it, but the comments here didn't make me think it was episodic, but that the seasons were unconnected, each based on a different book.
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Jan 2, 2024 21:19
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Man, Obliterated is such terrible campy action bullshit. I kind of love it. Is this how people enjoy wrestling? This makes Reacher look like Hamlet. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 21:29
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https://x.com/variety/status/1742199068053348643?s=46
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Jan 2, 2024 21:46
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OldSenileGuy posted:
Strongly disagree with this assessment.
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Jan 2, 2024 21:49
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OldSenileGuy posted:I started Reacher thanks to this thread, and while I am enjoying it, I have two observations: I actually thought Reacher was episodic from reading this thread too, it also happened with The Last Kingdom. I think the comparisons like "it's 80s/90s show but X" are part of it.
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Jan 2, 2024 21:57
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Reacher lost me with the second season don't even care to finish and already forgot what it was even supposed to be about. he was fun on his own but in a group of Superfriends it just becomes a boring earnest military superhero show. He's also just not someone to root for anymore and the antics are too bombastic and unbelievable to get away with in these big cities in a way I could roll with in podunk town. Beating up or killing some street level drug dealers to rob them really was the turning point for putting up with him, that's just beating down and doing the same kind of crimes that play into the system of their being street level dealers as a problem. He did nothing to help the problem and giving the money to a church was also sketchy even if they were making it out to be a good act.
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Jan 2, 2024 23:59
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Reviews of the first few episodes of the new season of True Detective are in and most are saying it's one of the best, up there if not better than season 1.quote:With 15 reviews counted on Rotten Tomatoes, the show is pulling in a stellar 100% (8.7/10) compared to the 91% (9.0/10) of Season 1, 47% (6.3/10) of Season 2, and 84% (7.65/10) of Season 3. https://www.darkhorizons.com/true-detective-night-country-reviews-are-in/
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Jan 3, 2024 00:30
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GreenNight posted:Reviews of the first few episodes of the new season of True Detective are in and most are saying it's one of the best, up there if not better than season 1.
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Jan 3, 2024 00:33
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GreenNight posted:Reviews of the first few episodes of the new season of True Detective are in and most are saying it's one of the best, up there if not better than season 1.
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Jan 3, 2024 01:00
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I watch that British show Taskmaster on Youtube, so sometimes the algorithm recommends me other British game shows, like 8 out of 10 Cats Countdown or Would I Lie To You, and those are decent enough background sounds. But earlier today I watched an episode of this show called Only Connect. What the gently caress is wrong with Britain? That has run 19 seasons? How? Why? Why hasn't anyone told them to stop?
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Jan 3, 2024 04:42
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Whats your problem with it?
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Jan 3, 2024 05:10
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Gripweed posted:I watch that British show Taskmaster on Youtube, so sometimes the algorithm recommends me other British game shows, like 8 out of 10 Cats Countdown or Would I Lie To You, and those are decent enough background sounds. But earlier today I watched an episode of this show called Only Connect.
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Jan 3, 2024 05:24
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The greatest thing the NYT Connections game did was get me watching Only Connect again. Connections Puzzle #205 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Pocky In My Pocket posted:Whats your problem with it? It's insanely boring! It's the most boring TV show I've ever seen, it's like a joke from The Simpsons.
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