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The direction in that first episode is amazing. Nick Hurran is absolute gold dust to everything he works on, often elevating lacklustre material, or finding odd ways of approaching interesting stuff (as he does here). I really liked Travelers, up until the last three or so episodes where it started dropping plotlines left and right. Really lost my faith in it. It also suffers really bad from arsehole syndrome -- wherein any antagonist that has a point is undermined by being a complete arsehole. On the other hand, it recognises how good an actress Jennifer Spence is, so it can't be that bad. Actually, there's quite a lot of good Canadian casting going on, including a guest appearance by the great Karen Konoval.
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Honestly I was blown away by the acting especially by Jared Abrahamson. Dude pulls off being a 100+ years old guy.
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Escobarbarian posted:Catching back up with American Gods and drat that ep 5 opening is a bit good isn't it Was that the animated sequence? I wasn't a big fan of that but that's just a matter of personal tastes. In general I've really enjoyed American Gods and its really patchwork style of storytelling. You can legitimately criticize the show for moving the plot along slowly and not getting near enough accomplished in S1 to make it feel "full" but I enjoy the show as a real kind of "mood" television less than an actual narrative. If that makes sense.
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I'm watching the last few episodes of a bunch of CW shows on Netflix and this looks way better than what my cable company shows on my TV. Fuckers. 
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GreenNight posted:I'm watching the last few episodes of a bunch of CW shows on Netflix and this looks way better than what my cable company shows on my TV. Fuckers. Yup. Cable TV sucks for more than just the bundling. It sucks for quality. I even have FiOS which was supposed to be the gold standard of quality, but it's just as terrible. It's seriously can barely be called HD anymore. Super muddy. Waxy skin tones. Compression artifacts running rampant. Cord cutting for me is going to be about quality more than it's going to be about price or choice. Most of my shows I'm buying on Vudu now, so much better that way. Other stuff, I'll wait on Netflix/Amazon.
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I don't even have a 4K TV, just a 2014 Vizio M series. I have around 50 items on my DVR list to record, so it would be hard to just quit that. I plan on quitting Dish when TDS brings their fiber TV later in the year, we'll give that a try for a year. After that we'll see if I can deal with not watching HGTV. I'm paying $100/mo for Dish, poo poo aint cheap.
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I pay $99 / month for 75mb fiber plus some TV. Don't count on fiber solving quality issues. A lot of the issue is in the distribution now. Turns out if cable companies are going to compress the poo poo out of everything anyways, might as well do it at the source too and cram more channels on a transponder. It's all a race downwards.
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Oh I pay another $70/mo for 250/250 internet too. Although when TDS comes it'll be $70/mo for gigabit so.
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Yeah theres no truly good source for high quality tv until it (if it) comes out on bluray. I must've compared about 6 different sources of Mr Robot for s2 to find something decent, but the dark scenes looked poo poo on everything. That being said, for cable I don't find the channels on xfinity are too bad for normal programming. NBC in particular has decent bitrate, and football looks good.
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OTA broadcasts are amazing compared to cable. Football is when I really notice it.
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OTA is one area that Verizon still leaves untouched. It's still crap.
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Man I am really impressed by the seasons long character arcs for side characters that The Americans have been able to pull off. I'm on season 4 and the 2-1 gut punch of Nina's redemption/death and what might as well be living death for Martha has me feeling hella depressed, but still impressed how the quality of the show just seems to have no ceiling. I'm honestly dreading the inevitability of Elizabeth manipulating Paige into joining the ranks, thinking that their whole schtick is some kind of peaceful spy poo poo.
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The Americans is amazing. That is all.
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hope and vaseline posted:I'm on season 4 and (...) still impressed how the quality of the show just seems to have no ceiling. And then season 5 happened.
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Snak posted:The Americans is amazing.
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I am fully caught up. Waiting for the final season. Edit: and because I rewatched it with my roomie, s5 is the only season I haven't seen twice.
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American Gods is really hit-or-miss for me. The good stuff is excellent, groundbreaking TV but I feel like there's a lot of moments that either don't translate well into live-action or just feel like excuses to say "hey we're on PREMIUM CABLE, look what we can do!"
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HorseRenoir posted:American Gods is really hit-or-miss for me. The good stuff is excellent, groundbreaking TV but I feel like there's a lot of moments that either don't translate well into live-action or just feel like excuses to say "hey we're on PREMIUM CABLE, look what we can do!" Every big budget show could do with having a smaller budget. Spartacus still remains the golden standard on pacing and that's because when it was spending money on weird shots and visual gimmicks it always had to serve a purpose. I mean there are exceptions like season 2 of Leftovers and Fargo but then there are also the shining case of 'just get on with it already' like Game of Thrones and Sherlock which waste everyone's time with pointless scenes so that they can jam yet another location shot, expensive set-dressing or visual effect into a season. A show being slow and artsy fartsy for the sake of it (Legion, Preacher, The Young Pope) can be fine, in fact it can be great, but there certainly is a saturation of that kind of show at the moment. Patriot earlier this year was so refreshing because it did all of this without having the pacing of a slug.
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It's still a little annoying to me that of all the people to break out from Spartacus it was Jai Courtney. I loved Varro but come on.
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I'm on episode 2 of The Leftovers and this is mostly boring and stupid, do the other seasons bother building on any of this stuff with the dumb cult or does it get retooled hard for season 2?
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Jun 13, 2017 07:35
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They effectively reboot the show in season 2. Season 1 gets better as it goes along though. But yeah if you think certain story lines are crap or characters are annoying, they are gone in season 2.
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HorseRenoir posted:I'm on episode 2 of The Leftovers and this is mostly boring and stupid, do the other seasons bother building on any of this stuff with the dumb cult or does it get retooled hard for season 2? They loving scrap almost everything except the main characters.
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I enjoyed season 1 of The Leftovers more than season 2, but just barely. And yeah they're so different it's a disservice to both to compare them. Is season 3 yet another tone shift or is it continuing the groove that season 2 found?
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precision posted:Is season 3 yet another tone shift or is it continuing the groove that season 2 found? The latter but with more Australian seasoning.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:It's still a little annoying to me that of all the people to break out from Spartacus it was Jai Courtney. I loved Varro but come on. Probably because he got to peace out just as it was getting big so he could leverage his popularity, while everyone else was still on the show until the end. The funniest fallout from Spartacus is definitely how for the 300 prequel/sequel they gave Peter Mensah a bigger part, even though in the original movie he was just some random guy who died memorably.
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I'm almost out of my current shows. So what should I check out next? Here are my next shows I wanna watch but I don't know which I should try first. (I'm currently trying to get more of Handmaid's Tale but the wife has to psych herself for it so I think that'll be for when she's not around) Better Call Saul S3 Americans S1 Leftovers S1 American Gods S1 The Expanse S2 Any opinions? Do any of these suck?
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The only one of those I've seen is Better Call Saul, but it's probably enjoying its best season thus far so I have no reservations recommending it anyway.
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I think The Expanse s2 an improvement on the expanse s1, so there's that. All those shows are good. American Gods is still in the first season (i think there are ljke 2 eps left? Maybe 1 now?) And it's a much shorter season than The Americans. The real answer is Patriot, on amazon prime.
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Croatoan posted:I'm almost out of my current shows. So what should I check out next? Here are my next shows I wanna watch but I don't know which I should try first. (I'm currently trying to get more of Handmaid's Tale but the wife has to psych herself for it so I think that'll be for when she's not around) Yes but everyone seems to disagree with me about it. They're wrong though. BCS S3 is very good, the Americans is amazing, American Gods I'm coming around on, and The Expanse S2 is solid but different from S1 for obvious reasons.
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Croatoan posted:I'm almost out of my current shows. So what should I check out next? Here are my next shows I wanna watch but I don't know which I should try first. (I'm currently trying to get more of Handmaid's Tale but the wife has to psych herself for it so I think that'll be for when she's not around) They're all good so whatever.
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muscles like this! posted:They're all good so whatever. Sweet. Thanks y'all! Also I'm halfway through Patriot and speaking of Amazon, I'm super ready for The Tick S1 to drop.
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Croatoan posted:Sweet. Thanks y'all! Also I'm halfway through Patriot and speaking of Amazon, I'm super ready for The Tick S1 to drop. You mean season 2? 1's up and it holds up.
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McSpanky posted:You mean season 2? 1's up and it holds up. Record scratch. Welp, I know my answer now. Edit: I only see episode 1 and that the rest will drop August 26th. Is that wrong? Croatoan fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Croatoan is talking about the 2017 show, McSpanky is talking about the 1994 show. 
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That said, this season of BCS has been insanely good. It seems like they realized that they shouldn't really drag things out too much longer so there is finally more forward motion on how Jimmy directly becomes Saul.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0PUkGbuto Anyone watching this? Is it good? MiddleOne posted:Patriot earlier this year was so refreshing because it did all of this without having the pacing of a slug. I loved Patriot, but c'mon, The pace this show moves at is on par with The Americans.
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The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. There are many copies. quote:Moore said this was, essentially, just something co-executive producer David Eick thought sounded cool, that audiences would love and that they could figure out later. They never did and, said Moore, “For the next 14 years of my life people have asked me ‘What was the plan?’” In short, “There was no… plan.” Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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Not saying this is bad at all, but new Twin Peaks feels more like Mulholland Drive than old Twin Peaks.
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Mu Zeta posted:The Cylons were created by man. The rebelled. They evolved. There are many copies. I liked that they even went as far as to call a spinoff thing THE PLAN.
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