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Finishing up Ozark right now, this show is a real sleeper hit from last year. Great acting across the board and Jason Bateman really playing against type.
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If anyone is looking for an incredible comedy series that is one continual story, The Detour is loving fantastic. I have been binging it tonight and I am loving it.
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Ulio posted:Just finished Castlevania on Netflix. It is very short but I actually liked it a lot and excited for season 2. sweetmercifulcrap posted:Yeah, Season 4 of Black Mirror has been out for a month now and I have only watched three of the six episodes despite it being one of my top shows. Definitely take it slow. On the subject of sci-fi anthologies though, how's Electric Dreams?
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sticklefifer posted:
Well worth the watch. Very much infused with the man's paranoia and views on SF. Not too gritty, not too self aware. Easy to blow through in one sitting.
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I really liked Dirk Gently season 2 even though I dont like Dirk himself. I found him somewhat annoying on S1 and its like they doubled on it on season 2, he is the worst part of the show. Too whinny and repetitive The rest of the characters are mostly fun and interesting, though, which makes up for it. The plot is again amazingly absurd and very entertaining, although not as much as S1. Still pretty good, and Im sad to hear it got cancelled sticklefifer posted:I get that people love it, but it's been extremely hit-or-miss for me, and often seems to think it's way deeper than it is. Most often I just feel like the tech-gone-wrong that's so commonplace in the worlds they present could never realistically exist in any society other than an absolute technocratic dictatorship, so it's difficult to suspend disbelief a lot of the time let alone get a super deep moral lesson from it. That, and some of the tech is too outlandish - the memory stuff in Crocodile for example is not at all how memory work I feel the same. That why my favorites from the new season are the ones that dont take itself very serioulsy, namely US Callister and Hang the DJ Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Ok, now that I'm all the way through The Patriot, I really recommend it. It's on Amazon Prime. It's shot and acted beautifully. It's sad, funny, and odd. Just really good.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:If anyone is looking for an incredible comedy series that is one continual story, The Detour is loving fantastic. I have been binging it tonight and I am loving it. Both seasons of this show are absolutely fantastic.
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There's a new Anne of Green Gables series on Canadian Netflix, called (surprisingly) Anne. It's cute and harmless and takes my mind off of the horrors of the world for a time.
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angerbeet posted:There's a new Anne of Green Gables series on Canadian Netflix, called (surprisingly) Anne. It's cute and harmless and takes my mind off of the horrors of the world for a time. You live in Canada? What horrors do you have to worry about? Besides moose, bear, Canucks fans, running out of maple syrup, and falling out of favor of the queen's love I mean.
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Eastbound and Down is on Amazon Prime binging the first 4 seasons.
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Solice Kirsk posted:You live in Canada? What horrors do you have to worry about? Besides moose, bear, Canucks fans, running out of maple syrup, and falling out of favor of the queen's love I mean. ur president thinks we're snow mexicans and our lumber trade dealssssssssssss
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Do you like action sci-fi thrillers? Do you like British accents, great cinematography, and government conspiracies? Then you should watch Hard Sun. Just finished episode one, and hot drat  is this show good. It's a little far fetched, but has an interesting premise at it's core. I'm genuinely excited to see where this one goes.
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:Do you like action sci-fi thrillers? Bruv, i was down for that show. I loved that they figured out the big thing, and just went to work like it was nothing.
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I mean, what the gently caress else are they going to do. The male half of the duo was about to go full-on prepper until he got socked in the mouth with brass knuckles.   It's either go nutty and say gently caress everything, or just die on the inside until nothing else matters. 
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I started watching Hard Sun and I have to strongly disagree with everyone who has said that it's good. It's like if you took some particularly insipid BBC conspiracy show like The Last Enemy and just randomly had characters mention "oh yeah, by the way the world's going to end" every 15 minutes but the world ending part doesn't even matter and none of the characters particularly seem to care that covering up the end of the world happens to be the specific conspiracy they are busy conspiring about. I honestly think it's lazy writing, because focusing on the conspiracy allows them to completely avoid having to deal with any of the implications entirely.
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As an unapologetic fan of the 2007 movie adaptation, I felt compelled to watch the 2017 Netflix series The Mist. I punished myself with all 10 episodes. It was the worst production I've ever watched. It utterly failed in every possible aspect, and I hope everyone involved with the writing and direction is blackballed from TV work forever. From now all it will be the ruler against which all poo poo series are measured.
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:I mean, what the gently caress else are they going to do. The male half of the duo was about to go full-on prepper until he got socked in the mouth with brass knuckles. Option 2 all the way, baby! Been doing it for almost 8 years now! mystes posted:I started watching Hard Sun and I have to strongly disagree with everyone who has said that it's good. It's like if you took some particularly insipid BBC conspiracy show like The Last Enemy and just randomly had characters mention "oh yeah, by the way the world's going to end" every 15 minutes but the world ending part doesn't even matter and none of the characters particularly seem to care that covering up the end of the world happens to be the specific conspiracy they are busy conspiring about. I honestly think it's lazy writing, because focusing on the conspiracy allows them to completely avoid having to deal with any of the implications entirely. All the more reason for me not to watch it. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Snowman Crossing posted:As an unapologetic fan of the 2007 movie adaptation, I felt compelled to watch the 2017 Netflix series The Mist. thanks to Under the Dome, I don't think it's even the worst series adaptation of King
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Snowman Crossing posted:As an unapologetic fan of the 2007 movie adaptation, I felt compelled to watch the 2017 Netflix series The Mist. I think it's the biggest example of missed the point entirely
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I get bored a few times a year, I watch few random anime series for shows that only have a few seasons. I watch stuff that seems like it will be sort of low-investment of time. I keep putting this off and deleting everything, and I probably have a lot more to say about them in general. Triage X Plot: Teens working with a super rich doctor moonlight as sexy assassins to kill criminals in their city. Thoughts: It's not good. This feels like extremely 'generic anime' in a modern way that something of this same sort some 25-30 years ago would not have felt like and would have probably been executed better back then. The action scenes are more like reaction scenes. The choreography and geography of action scenes feels extremely hard to believe or follow. Every female character is bustier and more tightly dressed and panty-shotted than the last (I don't think I've ever seen a show that goes this far in that regard) and the male characters all look like they're out of a 15 year old "Learn to Draw Manga" book you'd would grab at Barnes and Noble. The only thing that salvages it for me is a CONCEPT (that I think is just handled wrong) and occasional hints of some Nolan Batman themes to it. At about the halfway point it seems like the show is actually trying to build to something and it never really delivers, which I think was the ONLY reason I kept going. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Strike Back, season 2. The ISI guy turned out to be a terrorist traitor, what a loving surprise lol. But it's definitely pretty fun so far and scratches the itch of having something fun that isn't trying to crawl up its own rear end but not entirely dumb either.
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mobby_6kl posted:Strike Back, season 2. The ISI guy turned out to be a terrorist traitor, what a loving surprise lol. But it's definitely pretty fun so far and scratches the itch of having something fun that isn't trying to crawl up its own rear end but not entirely dumb either. Scott/Stonebridge Strike Back gets better every season too.
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Rocksicles posted:Scott/Stonebridge Strike Back gets better every season too. Yes! I've been binging Altered Carbon. Sci-fi film noir(ish)? Yes please.
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The most recent series I've watched is a British crime/spy drama from the 70s called The XYY Man. It's adapted from a series of novels about a former cat burglar who's just gotten out of jail determined to go straight, but discovers he has XYY syndrome (an extra Y chromosome) which makes him genetically predisposed to crime. One interesting feature - which is pretty unusual for this kind of series from this decade - is that it's pretty heavily serialised. The first season was three episodes, which were a three part story, then the second season has 10 episodes with a four episode arc and two three episode arcs which all follow on from one another. A consequence of being adapted from novels, I imagine. I'm going to watch either Miami Vice or The Equalizer next but I have a lot on over the next couple of weeks and probably won't be able to find the time.
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Just started watching Altered Carbon a couple of days ago and it's really good. Despite being a big sci fi nerd, I'd somehow never read the books before. It's nice going into it blind unlike The Expanse where I'd read the books ahead of time. The production values on it are top notch too.
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 Almost finished Altered Carbon and yeah, enjoying it a lot. There's stuff to nitpick, and plenty of people doing so in it's own thread, but overall really solid. In general it's just really good to see SciFi like this (along with the Expanse) getting made. Holy crap that elevator fight was brutal though. I mean it's show is pretty brutal in general, but that in particular. The production quality and fight choreography are top notch.
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Mindhunter - This show is like going in a fancy restaurant, ordering an exotic dish, and realizing you really like it. Enjoyed this a lot, can't wait for the next season. 5/5 Peaky Blinders - Watched the first season. Low budget, a bit iffy supporting cast, but Cillian Murphy is good and the plot is OK. Not great, but not bad, might continue watching. 3/5 iZombie - Only watched the pilot. This might be a guilty pleasure kind of thing. Might continue one day. Dark - Still only halfway through the season, but this show is fantastic. Kind of reminds me what the new Twin Peaks could've/should've been like, if David Lynch wasn't busy sucking his own cock. 5/5 so far.
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pigdog posted:iZombie - Only watched the pilot. This might be a guilty pleasure kind of thing. Might continue one day. iZombie is such a guilty pleasure  Love Dark. If you can find it, the original French-subtitled The Returned was phenomenal. It's no longer on Netflix Canada 
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:iZombie is such a guilty pleasure
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:Love Dark. If you can find it, the original French-subtitled The Returned was phenomenal. It's no longer on Netflix Canada Yeah The Returned is fantastic. In that same direction I really like the British show In The Flesh.
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Gravy Jones posted:Holy crap that elevator fight was brutal though. I mean it's show is pretty brutal in general, but that in particular. The production quality and fight choreography are top notch. Holy poo poo, you weren't kidding about that elevator scene............
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EvidenceBasedQuack posted:iZombie is such a guilty pleasure Both shows are on my to watch, and I don't want to google in case I spoil anything for myself.
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Binged through Big Mouth since I got sick this weekend. It would have been pretty good if the monsters weren't in it at all.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Binged through Big Mouth since I got sick this weekend. It would have been pretty good if the monsters weren't in it at all. I thought it was hilarious and true, but the monsters were the worst parts by far.
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Vibrating Top Hat posted:Is Dark somehow related to Les Revenants, or does it just have a similar tone? One show is German, the other is French, and the dramatic elements are different. I think it's safe to say they merely share a tone.
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Dark is about kids disappearing whereas Les Revenants (the Returned) is about kids and adults reappearing.. There are similarities in tone. Both riveting high production value series. Dark has an English dub. I really don't want to spoil these shows.
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Revenants was pretty interesting for the first half of the first season but got really dull after that. I was hoping things would be getting better in the second season but I couldn't even sit out the first ep
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Has anyone seen La Mante? My friend keeps trying to get me to watch it but I don't exactly know if I want to watch it.
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I haven't seen much chat on here about The Handmaid's Tale. I've just binged the first few eps and it's really drat good but my god is it dark. Game of Thrones is some happytime Disney poo poo in comparison.
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